Heey! I'm back with another chapter everyone! Aren't you happy!? So in this
chapter, there's some humor, and romance and some angst. There's also
different POVs. Mostly narrator and Pyro. Oh and for you people that didn't
catch the thing about Remy buying Sabertooth and Pietro catnip for X-Mas,
think about it. Pietro LOVES sugar or something sweet. When cats manage to
get their hands on catnip, they just freak out like there's no tomorrow.
Chapter Two: Poppy Seed Comments
In the morning, I saw Rikki go out of the base. I couldn't think of anywhere she would go besides the mall, knowing her. She's really similar to Remy I guess. Their hair color, their fighting styles, and their personality. She has that mysterious affect to her whenever I try and talk to her. Or maybe. nah, it can't be that.
I walked through the hall with my hair slightly damp. My dark blue baggy jeans scuffed against my black shoes as my black shirt was somewhat baggy and held on loosely onto me. Surprisingly, I didn't see Sabes anywhere to be found since the accident last night when he started messin' with Rikki. Now I know what not ta do around that sheila.
"Oh Johnny, you're up." Said a familiar voice. It was Piotr. He was in his usual uniform as he examined me strangely. "And you're not in uniform."
I arched an eyebrow. "So? I don't have duty today."
He sighed. "But I do."
I started walking along the halls with Piotr, trying to keep up with the conversation he had started. Finally, I cut in with a question.
"Hey, where'd Rikki go?"
Piotr glanced down at me. I stared straight ahead as we headed into the elevator. "Out."
I leaned against the metal bar as he pressed the up button. "Out where?"
"Over to the Brotherhood boarding house."
It was hard to believe someone like her could go to such a trashy place. Well, at least that's what Remy would call it. "Why there?"
Piotr paused and continued on with a sigh. "Remy introduced her to them last night. She's now friends with Avalanche."
My mouth dropped a little. Rikki. friends with Avalanche? He has a short fuse AND is in love with a valley girl princess. To me, that sounds like a horrible couple. Then Piotr cut off my thinking.
"Why are you wondering?" he said with a curious sly smirk.
I arched an eyebrow. "I saw her leave. Is there something on yer mind?"
Piotr snickered as the elevator doors opened to the breakfast room. "Oh nothing."
~*~
"Two eggs, a cup of milk.."
Rikki's voice dragged off when Freddy Dukes handed her the two eggs she had listed. She turned to Todd and handed him one of them.
"Okay Todd, you lightly tap the egg several times on the bowl and open it." As she said it, she did it. Egg yolk slipped out of its shell slimily, and then slid down to the bottom of the bowl that had the devil's food cake mix. Todd did the same and surprisingly succeeded.
"Okay then. Now I need a cup of milk." She announced.
Lance then stepped into the kitchen. He had a strange out-casted look on his face that made Rikki frown a bit.
"What's wrong, Lance?"
He gestured her to come into the living room, following him. Rikki grew even more curious each time Lance sighed. Which was quite a lot.
"So what's wrong?"
"Kitty, Kitty hates me." He mumbled.
She sat next to him. "Will the chocolate devil's cake help?"
Lance shook his head, giving Rikki's hopes up of cheering him up with some small kitchen humor. She stood up and thought for a moment.
"How about you. meet up with her somewhere? Apologize for whatever you did."
"Meet her somewhere?" he paused and looked at her strangely. "I guess. But where would I meet her?"
Rikki smiled. "The park would be nice."
"That's a pretty good idea." Lance stood up and grabbed his keys. "Wanna come with me?"
She smiled again and followed, hoping everything would turn out alright.
~*~
"You DO realize that Rikki's conference is today right?" asked Piotr to Remy.
Remy nodded as he placed a card down in a deck before Pyro and him. "Oui."
Pyro looked at him and arched an eyebrow as he laid pulled the laid down card to him. "And that she's over at the Brotherhood Boarding house?"
The Cajun remained silent until his fingers rubbed against a card in his hand. "Gotta' eight?"
"Go fish." Responded the Aussie. "Her conference is in an hour. She's been there for almost four hours too."
"She's just helpin' those losers with their cookin' habits. It's your turn." Remy shrugged.
"What that blob guy needs is a diet." Said Piotr with disgust. He reached into the freezer and pulled out a grape popsicle.
Pyro snickered. "Right. Ya' gotta' queen?"
Remy smirked and handed over a queen of spades. "Damn. Y' lucky-"
Sabertooth stepped out of the elevator and into the kitchen room where they were. His hair was slightly poofed out still, and his clothes smelt like electrical smoke and cinnamon.
"Well, I guess puffball's up." Said Pyro as he laid down his new pairs.
Sabertooth yawned and sat himself on the couch restlessly. "Shut up."
He sat down and grabbed a poppy seed muffin and began sniffing it suspiciously. He then glared them evilly.
"What did you do to this muffin?" he growled.
They all shrugged. "Nuthin'."
Sabertooth took a bite and started chewing until he saw Piotr snickering along with the others. It was obvious to him that they were hiding something.
"So you DID put something in this!!?" he tossed the muffin into the wall and climbed onto the table, growling in anger at the three acolytes.
"Oh no Sabes, we didn't." admitted Pyro with a smirk.
"Yeah, but what drugs ARE you on?" asked Remy.
Sabertooth looked at them puzzlingly. "What in the world are you talking about?"
"Poppy seed muffins have opium in them." Said Piotr with a smart like accent.
Sabertooth gritted his teeth and clenched his hands together. Soon he picked up a chair and tossed it towards Remy, until he ducked and pushed Piotr and Pyro towards the front door.
"Pyro, I need y' ta go find Rikki!"
Another chair smacked against the wall next to Piotr. Pyro looked at Remy strangely.
"But what 'bout you and Piotr? Sabes' gonna massacre ya'!"
"Non, we can take care of things here. Now get goin' before Magz has a cow!"
Piotr shot Remy a strange look that made it seem like something went terribly wrong.
"Magneto's gonna have a cow!!? Hurry! Go get the warm water!!"
Remy shoved Pyro out and slapped a card across Piotr's face. "Non tu salope! Now start moving!"
~*~
It was now dark. Pyro had given up looking for Rikki now. She wasn't at the institute or the boarding house either. She wasn't anywhere to be found. He had sat himself down on a bench in the park, wondering where someone like Rikki would go with Lance Alvers. He shivered. Just the thought of Remy freak out about Lance and Rikki going out would be devastating. It's true he's very protective of his little sister whom is only a year younger than him. His green eyes glanced around then stopped at the window of a holiday shop. There was Rikki at the window. Pyro wasn't sure why, but he knew he had to get her to the conference. He got up and started walking over to the shop.
"Rikki."
Rikki twirled a strand of her auburn hair then turned to him with her olive green eyes. "Hmm?"
He just looked at her as she turned back to the gifts. The dimmed lights and the gold and green surrounding her made her look.. Cute. Maybe even beautiful. Pyro shook his thoughts away and snatched her basket from her that had all the gifts she wanted.
"You're missin' out on the conference! We gotta' get goin'!"
Rikki's happy smile had suddenly changed into a worrisome look. She dropped everything she had in hand and ran out of the store.
"We've got to go! We've got to go!" she yelled as she ran out.
Pyro followed behind, also dropping everything. They ran along the sidewalk and hopped into Pyro's firebird, driving off, leaving nothing but dust behind.
~*~
"Next time, I'm bringing a watch." She reminded herself.
The street lamps were brighter than usual as the cold winds blew against them. Pyro steered the wheel with one hand, the other on the side of the car. Rikki turned to him then looked up at the stars.
"Do you think.. Never mind."
He looked to her. "Think what?"
"Never mind." Her voice grew silent. "It's not important."
"Is it something bad?" he asked.
She gazed over to him, seeing he was serious, she started to explain.
"I'm not sure. But it has to do with Remy."
Pyro nodded. He was willing to hear anything at the moment. Just to keep him busy rather than just listening to the pass by cars and loud breezes.
"Remy and I were separated when I was nine. He was ten. I still have no idea why we were separated."
"Yeah..?" Pyro suddenly became hooked.
"Everytime I would ask, he would always change the subject to something else. It would always work. Whenever I came close, something had happened. Like a mission. Or he had to go somewhere."
"Seems lady luck's on his side."
"Yeah. It sure seems like it. But I want to know. What do you think I should...." Rikki paused and looked ahead. Suddenly, she backed into the seat with her eyes widened in fear.
"Pyro!! Get out of the way!"
"Wha.? What da'..?!" It seemed Sabertooth had ran into the way of the road, making Pyro jerk the steering wheel. The car swerved over to the side safely as they jumped out. Pyro examined the area, his vision darkened by the night sky. Remy had quickly came into the scene to stop Sabertooth as Piotr picked up several signs, trying his best to hit Sabertooth with them. The beast like mutant leaped into the air and tackled Remy down, clenching his grip down hard on his wrists. A small cry came from him as Piotr backed off, knowing if he was to hit Sabertooth, he would injure Remy. Rikki stepped up a bit.
"Stop, Sabertooth!" she screamed.
Right then, Rikki had regretted who she had just yelled to. Sabertooth's attention moved from Remy to the Cajun girl. She stared with fear at the tall man as he picked up her motionless brother and tossed him to the side, knocking Piotr over. She had quite enough.
"What was that for!?? What'd he do to you!?"
Sabertooth started walking to her, slowly but surely. Pyro looked around then stepped in front of Rikki, hoping he could knock some sense into Sabertooth.
"Look Sabes, whatever we said, we didn't mean ta! Can't ya' take a small joke?!" Pyro laughed a little until he realized Sabertooth had kept a straight face.
The mutant raised his large clawed hand towards Pyro. "Get out of my WAY!!"
Rikki felt electricity surging through her entire body as Pyro was smacked by Sabertooth, and knocked against an oak tree with large scratches from Sabertooth's claws. She stepped up a little and held her hand out. Gusts of wind started around as Sabertooth started walking closer, his hands out towards her.
"If you even touch me.. You'll get the shock of your life!"
Her threat did no good when she saw Sabertooth right in front of her. Rikki gasped then slowly blacked out, falling straight into Sabertooth's arms. His eyes were fierce as he tossed her onto his shoulder and carried her off into the forest.
Exciting, wasn't it? Okay, the next chapter you're gonna think is funky. Here's the summary.
After Remy, Piotr, and Johnny wake up, they start to track down the whereabouts of Sabertooth and Rikki. They soon find a place in the forest were mutants of different elements are captive by (dramatic music) Sabertooth himself!! Why you ask? You'll find out on the next chapter; Embezzlement of the Jolt Mage!
That was corny huh? Well, I've been thinking of a codename for Rikki and I've come up with "Jolt Mage". Because she somewhat of an electricity mage, since she can control the density, shape, size, and etc. of the electricity. Heey, that sounds like Pyro!! Hah, lol, I never noticed that till now! Gawd I'm dumb. But if you can come up with some codenames for Rikki, I'd really appreciate it! Reviews and comments plz!!
Chapter Two: Poppy Seed Comments
In the morning, I saw Rikki go out of the base. I couldn't think of anywhere she would go besides the mall, knowing her. She's really similar to Remy I guess. Their hair color, their fighting styles, and their personality. She has that mysterious affect to her whenever I try and talk to her. Or maybe. nah, it can't be that.
I walked through the hall with my hair slightly damp. My dark blue baggy jeans scuffed against my black shoes as my black shirt was somewhat baggy and held on loosely onto me. Surprisingly, I didn't see Sabes anywhere to be found since the accident last night when he started messin' with Rikki. Now I know what not ta do around that sheila.
"Oh Johnny, you're up." Said a familiar voice. It was Piotr. He was in his usual uniform as he examined me strangely. "And you're not in uniform."
I arched an eyebrow. "So? I don't have duty today."
He sighed. "But I do."
I started walking along the halls with Piotr, trying to keep up with the conversation he had started. Finally, I cut in with a question.
"Hey, where'd Rikki go?"
Piotr glanced down at me. I stared straight ahead as we headed into the elevator. "Out."
I leaned against the metal bar as he pressed the up button. "Out where?"
"Over to the Brotherhood boarding house."
It was hard to believe someone like her could go to such a trashy place. Well, at least that's what Remy would call it. "Why there?"
Piotr paused and continued on with a sigh. "Remy introduced her to them last night. She's now friends with Avalanche."
My mouth dropped a little. Rikki. friends with Avalanche? He has a short fuse AND is in love with a valley girl princess. To me, that sounds like a horrible couple. Then Piotr cut off my thinking.
"Why are you wondering?" he said with a curious sly smirk.
I arched an eyebrow. "I saw her leave. Is there something on yer mind?"
Piotr snickered as the elevator doors opened to the breakfast room. "Oh nothing."
~*~
"Two eggs, a cup of milk.."
Rikki's voice dragged off when Freddy Dukes handed her the two eggs she had listed. She turned to Todd and handed him one of them.
"Okay Todd, you lightly tap the egg several times on the bowl and open it." As she said it, she did it. Egg yolk slipped out of its shell slimily, and then slid down to the bottom of the bowl that had the devil's food cake mix. Todd did the same and surprisingly succeeded.
"Okay then. Now I need a cup of milk." She announced.
Lance then stepped into the kitchen. He had a strange out-casted look on his face that made Rikki frown a bit.
"What's wrong, Lance?"
He gestured her to come into the living room, following him. Rikki grew even more curious each time Lance sighed. Which was quite a lot.
"So what's wrong?"
"Kitty, Kitty hates me." He mumbled.
She sat next to him. "Will the chocolate devil's cake help?"
Lance shook his head, giving Rikki's hopes up of cheering him up with some small kitchen humor. She stood up and thought for a moment.
"How about you. meet up with her somewhere? Apologize for whatever you did."
"Meet her somewhere?" he paused and looked at her strangely. "I guess. But where would I meet her?"
Rikki smiled. "The park would be nice."
"That's a pretty good idea." Lance stood up and grabbed his keys. "Wanna come with me?"
She smiled again and followed, hoping everything would turn out alright.
~*~
"You DO realize that Rikki's conference is today right?" asked Piotr to Remy.
Remy nodded as he placed a card down in a deck before Pyro and him. "Oui."
Pyro looked at him and arched an eyebrow as he laid pulled the laid down card to him. "And that she's over at the Brotherhood Boarding house?"
The Cajun remained silent until his fingers rubbed against a card in his hand. "Gotta' eight?"
"Go fish." Responded the Aussie. "Her conference is in an hour. She's been there for almost four hours too."
"She's just helpin' those losers with their cookin' habits. It's your turn." Remy shrugged.
"What that blob guy needs is a diet." Said Piotr with disgust. He reached into the freezer and pulled out a grape popsicle.
Pyro snickered. "Right. Ya' gotta' queen?"
Remy smirked and handed over a queen of spades. "Damn. Y' lucky-"
Sabertooth stepped out of the elevator and into the kitchen room where they were. His hair was slightly poofed out still, and his clothes smelt like electrical smoke and cinnamon.
"Well, I guess puffball's up." Said Pyro as he laid down his new pairs.
Sabertooth yawned and sat himself on the couch restlessly. "Shut up."
He sat down and grabbed a poppy seed muffin and began sniffing it suspiciously. He then glared them evilly.
"What did you do to this muffin?" he growled.
They all shrugged. "Nuthin'."
Sabertooth took a bite and started chewing until he saw Piotr snickering along with the others. It was obvious to him that they were hiding something.
"So you DID put something in this!!?" he tossed the muffin into the wall and climbed onto the table, growling in anger at the three acolytes.
"Oh no Sabes, we didn't." admitted Pyro with a smirk.
"Yeah, but what drugs ARE you on?" asked Remy.
Sabertooth looked at them puzzlingly. "What in the world are you talking about?"
"Poppy seed muffins have opium in them." Said Piotr with a smart like accent.
Sabertooth gritted his teeth and clenched his hands together. Soon he picked up a chair and tossed it towards Remy, until he ducked and pushed Piotr and Pyro towards the front door.
"Pyro, I need y' ta go find Rikki!"
Another chair smacked against the wall next to Piotr. Pyro looked at Remy strangely.
"But what 'bout you and Piotr? Sabes' gonna massacre ya'!"
"Non, we can take care of things here. Now get goin' before Magz has a cow!"
Piotr shot Remy a strange look that made it seem like something went terribly wrong.
"Magneto's gonna have a cow!!? Hurry! Go get the warm water!!"
Remy shoved Pyro out and slapped a card across Piotr's face. "Non tu salope! Now start moving!"
~*~
It was now dark. Pyro had given up looking for Rikki now. She wasn't at the institute or the boarding house either. She wasn't anywhere to be found. He had sat himself down on a bench in the park, wondering where someone like Rikki would go with Lance Alvers. He shivered. Just the thought of Remy freak out about Lance and Rikki going out would be devastating. It's true he's very protective of his little sister whom is only a year younger than him. His green eyes glanced around then stopped at the window of a holiday shop. There was Rikki at the window. Pyro wasn't sure why, but he knew he had to get her to the conference. He got up and started walking over to the shop.
"Rikki."
Rikki twirled a strand of her auburn hair then turned to him with her olive green eyes. "Hmm?"
He just looked at her as she turned back to the gifts. The dimmed lights and the gold and green surrounding her made her look.. Cute. Maybe even beautiful. Pyro shook his thoughts away and snatched her basket from her that had all the gifts she wanted.
"You're missin' out on the conference! We gotta' get goin'!"
Rikki's happy smile had suddenly changed into a worrisome look. She dropped everything she had in hand and ran out of the store.
"We've got to go! We've got to go!" she yelled as she ran out.
Pyro followed behind, also dropping everything. They ran along the sidewalk and hopped into Pyro's firebird, driving off, leaving nothing but dust behind.
~*~
"Next time, I'm bringing a watch." She reminded herself.
The street lamps were brighter than usual as the cold winds blew against them. Pyro steered the wheel with one hand, the other on the side of the car. Rikki turned to him then looked up at the stars.
"Do you think.. Never mind."
He looked to her. "Think what?"
"Never mind." Her voice grew silent. "It's not important."
"Is it something bad?" he asked.
She gazed over to him, seeing he was serious, she started to explain.
"I'm not sure. But it has to do with Remy."
Pyro nodded. He was willing to hear anything at the moment. Just to keep him busy rather than just listening to the pass by cars and loud breezes.
"Remy and I were separated when I was nine. He was ten. I still have no idea why we were separated."
"Yeah..?" Pyro suddenly became hooked.
"Everytime I would ask, he would always change the subject to something else. It would always work. Whenever I came close, something had happened. Like a mission. Or he had to go somewhere."
"Seems lady luck's on his side."
"Yeah. It sure seems like it. But I want to know. What do you think I should...." Rikki paused and looked ahead. Suddenly, she backed into the seat with her eyes widened in fear.
"Pyro!! Get out of the way!"
"Wha.? What da'..?!" It seemed Sabertooth had ran into the way of the road, making Pyro jerk the steering wheel. The car swerved over to the side safely as they jumped out. Pyro examined the area, his vision darkened by the night sky. Remy had quickly came into the scene to stop Sabertooth as Piotr picked up several signs, trying his best to hit Sabertooth with them. The beast like mutant leaped into the air and tackled Remy down, clenching his grip down hard on his wrists. A small cry came from him as Piotr backed off, knowing if he was to hit Sabertooth, he would injure Remy. Rikki stepped up a bit.
"Stop, Sabertooth!" she screamed.
Right then, Rikki had regretted who she had just yelled to. Sabertooth's attention moved from Remy to the Cajun girl. She stared with fear at the tall man as he picked up her motionless brother and tossed him to the side, knocking Piotr over. She had quite enough.
"What was that for!?? What'd he do to you!?"
Sabertooth started walking to her, slowly but surely. Pyro looked around then stepped in front of Rikki, hoping he could knock some sense into Sabertooth.
"Look Sabes, whatever we said, we didn't mean ta! Can't ya' take a small joke?!" Pyro laughed a little until he realized Sabertooth had kept a straight face.
The mutant raised his large clawed hand towards Pyro. "Get out of my WAY!!"
Rikki felt electricity surging through her entire body as Pyro was smacked by Sabertooth, and knocked against an oak tree with large scratches from Sabertooth's claws. She stepped up a little and held her hand out. Gusts of wind started around as Sabertooth started walking closer, his hands out towards her.
"If you even touch me.. You'll get the shock of your life!"
Her threat did no good when she saw Sabertooth right in front of her. Rikki gasped then slowly blacked out, falling straight into Sabertooth's arms. His eyes were fierce as he tossed her onto his shoulder and carried her off into the forest.
Exciting, wasn't it? Okay, the next chapter you're gonna think is funky. Here's the summary.
After Remy, Piotr, and Johnny wake up, they start to track down the whereabouts of Sabertooth and Rikki. They soon find a place in the forest were mutants of different elements are captive by (dramatic music) Sabertooth himself!! Why you ask? You'll find out on the next chapter; Embezzlement of the Jolt Mage!
That was corny huh? Well, I've been thinking of a codename for Rikki and I've come up with "Jolt Mage". Because she somewhat of an electricity mage, since she can control the density, shape, size, and etc. of the electricity. Heey, that sounds like Pyro!! Hah, lol, I never noticed that till now! Gawd I'm dumb. But if you can come up with some codenames for Rikki, I'd really appreciate it! Reviews and comments plz!!