Ok I'm back from a little break sorry it took me a while to write this
chapter but I get distracted very easily. I was listening to EvenEscence
and just started to randomly sing every song on the C.D. to make a long
story short it got stuck in my head and I started singing and I can't sing
and write at the same time I guess. Um. just to clear some things up when I
said "fruit brownies" when I was describing the picnic, I was really trying
to say "fruit (comma) brownies" just one of my many spelling mistakes.
sorry. Oh well thanx for my very nice reviews.
RedLion2: You just became my favorite reviewer. You are sooo right, horses are most definitely, the best animals ever. I ride mostly English but every so often I ride western at school. It's a lot of fun. Glad to hear my grammar and spelling were better (except for the fruit brownies ^_^) but then the homophones come in. Ugh. sometimes I wish Chinese were my first language. Jk. Also glad to hear you liked the Kurtty fluff. I have a big thing for fluff. Can't wait for your new chapter on Monday. "SHADOWS OF CONFUSION" ROKS!
Pyro-Babe: my other number one reviewer. Horseback ridding roks you should try it some time. In my opinion it is the best sport ever thought of by mankind, but that's just me ^_^. I live in C.T. Cross-country is like riding in a big field and jumping over jumps like big logs and trees and things of the like. Anyway glad you like the fic and glad that I kick ass, you do to. By the way did you like Hershey park? I went there a couple of weeks ago for the first time and loved it. My friend and I did the great bear roller coaster like ten times in two days. The racing one was really cool too.
Everyone else thanks for reviewing my fic I really appreciate it. Without further or do
CHAPTER FIVE
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When Xavier woke, up he found himself out of his wheelchair and sitting on the floor of a strange room. His hands and arms were shackled to a steel post sticking out of the carpeting, and his ankles were chained together. He recognized the round room as the office of Vampira, he had been here once before and it had not been a pleasant experience. Memories of his previous encounter with the mutant leach came back quickly. Selene, her daughter Vampira, the Hellfire group, and a request for Charles to join them; he had declined and Selene hadn't been happy. He had escaped, though not unscathed. His hand trailed up to his neck where it found the two puncture marks left there years ago, forever hidden from his students. He let the chains pull his arm back down as the room's only door opened and Vampira walked into the room.
"Well it seems my guest is finally awake." She smiled as she strode up to him.
"Why have you brought me here Vampira?"
"Isn't it obvious, Charles?" She purred, bending down to stroke his cheek. "You slipped through my mothers fingers, I wasn't about to let you slip through mine."
She stood up and walked over to her desk hopped onto it and crossed her legs, looking back at the man chained on the ground.
"Besides," She licked her lips. "Your blood was just so delicious, I've been dying for the rest of it.
"If you wanted to kill me why haven't you done it yet?" He looked up at her and scowled.
"Now, now Charles, I don't want to kill you. Not yet anyway. No, no, I need to use you for bait to get the rest of your little goody goodies to come to me. Then I can take out the X-men, and get my revenge on you all in one stroke. Everyone wins.oh except you; you'll be dead, for now we just wait. But. I think I'll take one little taste to pass the time." She smiled, bearing her fangs, and walked towards her cringing victim.
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"Don'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanic." Kitty had been pacing back and forth for the past hour since it was confirmed that the professor was missing. "Everything'sfineit'sallgoodeverything'sgood."
"Keety." Kurt tried to get her attention but got no answer. "KEETY!"
"Huh?" She looked up.
"Breathe."
"Oh.ok." She started taking deep rasping breaths. Kurt sighed and walked over to Jean who had just come back from cerebro.
"Any luck?" She looked up at him and shook her head.
"No, I keep getting a clearer reading every time, but then at the last second I loose it. I'm new at cerebro."
Ororo walked into the room at that moment. She was holding a piece of tattered cloth.
"I think I know where the Professor is being held." She announced triumphantly.
Everyone in the room looked up at her, shock on their faces.
"Well?" They all said as one. "Tell us!"
"I found this scrap of material in Charles' office." She held up the cloth
"So?" Scott shrugged.
"If I'm not mistaken this is the same material used in the costumes of the Hellfire group." She paused as the teens looked at her, shock and confusion on their faces.
"Who?"
Ororo sighed and explained.
"The Hellfire group is a worldwide group of humans and mutants alike, who use their political and physical power to get what they want in life. There is only one branch I would think would have enough power to take the Professor, and that would be the New York branch. Selene used to be the Black queen of that branch, but now I think her daughter Vampira took over. What she would want with the Professor I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past her to kidnap him. And I would just about bet that that is where we could find him."
"That's great." Kitty squealed. "Lets go and kick some Hellfire ass."
"But we're not even sure if the Professor is really there." Scott looked up and the group's happiness fell a little. Ororo took care of that again.
"I believe that if Jean runs a quick scan of the New York Hellfire branches address with cerebro, we will find more promising results."
The team disbanded for an hour or so until Jean came back with a very large grin.
"It worked, he's there. The Professor is in New York, at the Hellfire club mansion."
An hour later the X-jet could be seen flying over the horizon.
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"They're here." Vampira purred from behind her desk as the sound off battle came from the upper levels of the Hellfire building.
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"Scott watch it!" Bobby yelled and iced the agent that was coming up from behind Scott.
"Whoa, thanks Bobby." Scott waved and blasted another agent coming at him.
Jean came to stand by his side and sent three more agents flying with a telekinetic blast.
"I can sense the Professor." She said, as she blocked a laser shot with a telekinetic shield. "He's on the floor below us."
"Good." Scott sent out another optic blast and two more agents went down. "We have to get down there."
The X-men ran down the hall when they reached a group of twenty agents with swords, all ready to attack.
"Come on ass holes." Evan sent out a barrage of spikes at several agents trapping two of them against the wall.
Chaos ensued. Bobby made a cage of ice and trapped a group of five agents, they tried to hack it to pieces with their swords but Jean quickly used her telekinesis to take the weapons from them and deposited them near the wall. Scott sent an optic blast at an agent trying to attack Evan from behind, Evan waved him a thank you as he took out a spike and used it as a sword to fight off another one. Rogue had her hands full with one agent who was trying to hack her to pieces with two katanas (traditional Japanese swords). With the full body suit and facemask there was not an ounce of flesh for her to touch.
"Damn it." She shouted as dodged a swing to her midsection. "Evan, a little help."
Evan looked up at her and shot out a spike that grazed the agent's arm and tore a piece of his costume away. Rogue took her chance. She dodged a swing to her head by jumping to the side and brought her hand up to his now slightly exposed skin. The agent let out a cry and collapsed as Rogue got a rush of memories, emotions, and feelings. She stopped a moment as the agent's thoughts flooded her head. Rogue fought for control but stopped as she found a thought that interested her.
"Guys we have to get out of here NOW!" Rogue shouted and grabbed Evan's hand.
"What? What to you mean? We have to help the Professor." Evan fought against her hold but Rogue turned to face him, her gloved hand still firmly clamped around his.
"That guy, the one I drained, he had a thought."
"Well yeah, most people do."
"No, he had a thought about that Vampira person. She took the Professor to lure us here. It's a trap, we have to go."
"You don't need to tell me twice."
Evan and Rogue rounded up the other X-men. They had the team together and were ready to leave, but two members were missing.
"Where are Kurt and Kitty?" Scott looked around.
"There!"
The group turned to look at where Bobby was pointing. Kitty had her sais out and was taking on three agents at once. The Team made to help her when another group of agents came upon them. Kitty however didn't need their help at all. She blocked one swing from an agent's sword with her sais and gave the attacker a side kick in the stomach, which sent him to the ground unconscious. She gave another one two blows to the torso with the hilt of her sais and stomped on his instep, making him cry out in pain before becoming silent from a stepstool kick to the head. Kitty turned to face the third attacker and was extremely thankful that her power was the ability to phase as the sword sliced through her waist but harmed nothing. The agent looked at the weapon, confused, and looked back up to see a fist coming towards him. He was on the ground before he could make a sound.
"Bastard." Kitty spat on his unconscious body. "Try to slice me will you."
"Ahhhhh."
Kitty turned to the direction the scream came from. She saw Kurt lying on the ground, a large gash across his cheek, an agent was poised above him a sword raised over his head ready to impale his furry victim.
"KURT!"
Suddenly impulse took over and before Kitty knew what was happening she grabbed one of her sais and hurled it at the agent. It landed dead center, right in his heart. Suddenly it was as if the world was in slow motion. Kitty watched as the agent's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He looked down at the weapon sticking out of his chest and his hands trailed up to the hilt. A stream of blood dripped from his mouth as he fell backward onto the floor, never to move again.
"Kitty." Kurt stood up as the rest of the X-men, having defeated their previous distraction, hurried over to them. " You killed him."
"Oh my God." Kitty whispered, looking at her hands, and then to the man now dead on the ground. "Oh my God."
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Vampira smiled as she looked at the monitor. The X-men were ushering the one called Kitty, out of the building. The girl was in shock.
"Well Charles your little students might have been able to figure out my little plan, but maybe the day wasn't a total waste after all. It seems as though your little Kitty Cat might just have the killer instinct of a perfect agent. I'll have to remember to keep her alive."
Xavier looked up at the woman starring at him.
"You will never get the X-men you bitch."
The smile faded from the Vampires lips. She walked over to him and brought back her hand. The Professor crumbled under the force of her blow but looked back up at her, anger bubbling up inside him.
"Don't make me angry Charles or I might just not be able to control my lust for your blood."
She kicked him in the stomach before leaving the room.
'The X-men will fall.' She thought as she walked down the hallway. 'And I will be in control once and for all.'
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Notes. Okay so finally done with chapter 5. I am very happy with the way this chapter turned out. I didn't get any fluff in this one, which I am a little sad about, but I am pleased with the action so it evens out. I decided that I really wanted the Hellfire club to become part of this fic. As far as I know Selene never had a daughter, Vampira is still all mine. I left a little bit of a cliffhanger. I have become everything I hate. DOWN WITH CLIFFHANGERS. Jk if you like em far be it from me to tell you otherwise. Ok I am just going to reread this quickly and then post it for all my wonderful fans (I hope your fans). Have a great life guys and keep reviewing. It builds my confidence. LOL. Bye for now
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RedLion2: You just became my favorite reviewer. You are sooo right, horses are most definitely, the best animals ever. I ride mostly English but every so often I ride western at school. It's a lot of fun. Glad to hear my grammar and spelling were better (except for the fruit brownies ^_^) but then the homophones come in. Ugh. sometimes I wish Chinese were my first language. Jk. Also glad to hear you liked the Kurtty fluff. I have a big thing for fluff. Can't wait for your new chapter on Monday. "SHADOWS OF CONFUSION" ROKS!
Pyro-Babe: my other number one reviewer. Horseback ridding roks you should try it some time. In my opinion it is the best sport ever thought of by mankind, but that's just me ^_^. I live in C.T. Cross-country is like riding in a big field and jumping over jumps like big logs and trees and things of the like. Anyway glad you like the fic and glad that I kick ass, you do to. By the way did you like Hershey park? I went there a couple of weeks ago for the first time and loved it. My friend and I did the great bear roller coaster like ten times in two days. The racing one was really cool too.
Everyone else thanks for reviewing my fic I really appreciate it. Without further or do
CHAPTER FIVE
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When Xavier woke, up he found himself out of his wheelchair and sitting on the floor of a strange room. His hands and arms were shackled to a steel post sticking out of the carpeting, and his ankles were chained together. He recognized the round room as the office of Vampira, he had been here once before and it had not been a pleasant experience. Memories of his previous encounter with the mutant leach came back quickly. Selene, her daughter Vampira, the Hellfire group, and a request for Charles to join them; he had declined and Selene hadn't been happy. He had escaped, though not unscathed. His hand trailed up to his neck where it found the two puncture marks left there years ago, forever hidden from his students. He let the chains pull his arm back down as the room's only door opened and Vampira walked into the room.
"Well it seems my guest is finally awake." She smiled as she strode up to him.
"Why have you brought me here Vampira?"
"Isn't it obvious, Charles?" She purred, bending down to stroke his cheek. "You slipped through my mothers fingers, I wasn't about to let you slip through mine."
She stood up and walked over to her desk hopped onto it and crossed her legs, looking back at the man chained on the ground.
"Besides," She licked her lips. "Your blood was just so delicious, I've been dying for the rest of it.
"If you wanted to kill me why haven't you done it yet?" He looked up at her and scowled.
"Now, now Charles, I don't want to kill you. Not yet anyway. No, no, I need to use you for bait to get the rest of your little goody goodies to come to me. Then I can take out the X-men, and get my revenge on you all in one stroke. Everyone wins.oh except you; you'll be dead, for now we just wait. But. I think I'll take one little taste to pass the time." She smiled, bearing her fangs, and walked towards her cringing victim.
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"Don'tpanicDon'tpanicDon'tpanic." Kitty had been pacing back and forth for the past hour since it was confirmed that the professor was missing. "Everything'sfineit'sallgoodeverything'sgood."
"Keety." Kurt tried to get her attention but got no answer. "KEETY!"
"Huh?" She looked up.
"Breathe."
"Oh.ok." She started taking deep rasping breaths. Kurt sighed and walked over to Jean who had just come back from cerebro.
"Any luck?" She looked up at him and shook her head.
"No, I keep getting a clearer reading every time, but then at the last second I loose it. I'm new at cerebro."
Ororo walked into the room at that moment. She was holding a piece of tattered cloth.
"I think I know where the Professor is being held." She announced triumphantly.
Everyone in the room looked up at her, shock on their faces.
"Well?" They all said as one. "Tell us!"
"I found this scrap of material in Charles' office." She held up the cloth
"So?" Scott shrugged.
"If I'm not mistaken this is the same material used in the costumes of the Hellfire group." She paused as the teens looked at her, shock and confusion on their faces.
"Who?"
Ororo sighed and explained.
"The Hellfire group is a worldwide group of humans and mutants alike, who use their political and physical power to get what they want in life. There is only one branch I would think would have enough power to take the Professor, and that would be the New York branch. Selene used to be the Black queen of that branch, but now I think her daughter Vampira took over. What she would want with the Professor I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past her to kidnap him. And I would just about bet that that is where we could find him."
"That's great." Kitty squealed. "Lets go and kick some Hellfire ass."
"But we're not even sure if the Professor is really there." Scott looked up and the group's happiness fell a little. Ororo took care of that again.
"I believe that if Jean runs a quick scan of the New York Hellfire branches address with cerebro, we will find more promising results."
The team disbanded for an hour or so until Jean came back with a very large grin.
"It worked, he's there. The Professor is in New York, at the Hellfire club mansion."
An hour later the X-jet could be seen flying over the horizon.
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"They're here." Vampira purred from behind her desk as the sound off battle came from the upper levels of the Hellfire building.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Scott watch it!" Bobby yelled and iced the agent that was coming up from behind Scott.
"Whoa, thanks Bobby." Scott waved and blasted another agent coming at him.
Jean came to stand by his side and sent three more agents flying with a telekinetic blast.
"I can sense the Professor." She said, as she blocked a laser shot with a telekinetic shield. "He's on the floor below us."
"Good." Scott sent out another optic blast and two more agents went down. "We have to get down there."
The X-men ran down the hall when they reached a group of twenty agents with swords, all ready to attack.
"Come on ass holes." Evan sent out a barrage of spikes at several agents trapping two of them against the wall.
Chaos ensued. Bobby made a cage of ice and trapped a group of five agents, they tried to hack it to pieces with their swords but Jean quickly used her telekinesis to take the weapons from them and deposited them near the wall. Scott sent an optic blast at an agent trying to attack Evan from behind, Evan waved him a thank you as he took out a spike and used it as a sword to fight off another one. Rogue had her hands full with one agent who was trying to hack her to pieces with two katanas (traditional Japanese swords). With the full body suit and facemask there was not an ounce of flesh for her to touch.
"Damn it." She shouted as dodged a swing to her midsection. "Evan, a little help."
Evan looked up at her and shot out a spike that grazed the agent's arm and tore a piece of his costume away. Rogue took her chance. She dodged a swing to her head by jumping to the side and brought her hand up to his now slightly exposed skin. The agent let out a cry and collapsed as Rogue got a rush of memories, emotions, and feelings. She stopped a moment as the agent's thoughts flooded her head. Rogue fought for control but stopped as she found a thought that interested her.
"Guys we have to get out of here NOW!" Rogue shouted and grabbed Evan's hand.
"What? What to you mean? We have to help the Professor." Evan fought against her hold but Rogue turned to face him, her gloved hand still firmly clamped around his.
"That guy, the one I drained, he had a thought."
"Well yeah, most people do."
"No, he had a thought about that Vampira person. She took the Professor to lure us here. It's a trap, we have to go."
"You don't need to tell me twice."
Evan and Rogue rounded up the other X-men. They had the team together and were ready to leave, but two members were missing.
"Where are Kurt and Kitty?" Scott looked around.
"There!"
The group turned to look at where Bobby was pointing. Kitty had her sais out and was taking on three agents at once. The Team made to help her when another group of agents came upon them. Kitty however didn't need their help at all. She blocked one swing from an agent's sword with her sais and gave the attacker a side kick in the stomach, which sent him to the ground unconscious. She gave another one two blows to the torso with the hilt of her sais and stomped on his instep, making him cry out in pain before becoming silent from a stepstool kick to the head. Kitty turned to face the third attacker and was extremely thankful that her power was the ability to phase as the sword sliced through her waist but harmed nothing. The agent looked at the weapon, confused, and looked back up to see a fist coming towards him. He was on the ground before he could make a sound.
"Bastard." Kitty spat on his unconscious body. "Try to slice me will you."
"Ahhhhh."
Kitty turned to the direction the scream came from. She saw Kurt lying on the ground, a large gash across his cheek, an agent was poised above him a sword raised over his head ready to impale his furry victim.
"KURT!"
Suddenly impulse took over and before Kitty knew what was happening she grabbed one of her sais and hurled it at the agent. It landed dead center, right in his heart. Suddenly it was as if the world was in slow motion. Kitty watched as the agent's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He looked down at the weapon sticking out of his chest and his hands trailed up to the hilt. A stream of blood dripped from his mouth as he fell backward onto the floor, never to move again.
"Kitty." Kurt stood up as the rest of the X-men, having defeated their previous distraction, hurried over to them. " You killed him."
"Oh my God." Kitty whispered, looking at her hands, and then to the man now dead on the ground. "Oh my God."
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Vampira smiled as she looked at the monitor. The X-men were ushering the one called Kitty, out of the building. The girl was in shock.
"Well Charles your little students might have been able to figure out my little plan, but maybe the day wasn't a total waste after all. It seems as though your little Kitty Cat might just have the killer instinct of a perfect agent. I'll have to remember to keep her alive."
Xavier looked up at the woman starring at him.
"You will never get the X-men you bitch."
The smile faded from the Vampires lips. She walked over to him and brought back her hand. The Professor crumbled under the force of her blow but looked back up at her, anger bubbling up inside him.
"Don't make me angry Charles or I might just not be able to control my lust for your blood."
She kicked him in the stomach before leaving the room.
'The X-men will fall.' She thought as she walked down the hallway. 'And I will be in control once and for all.'
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Notes. Okay so finally done with chapter 5. I am very happy with the way this chapter turned out. I didn't get any fluff in this one, which I am a little sad about, but I am pleased with the action so it evens out. I decided that I really wanted the Hellfire club to become part of this fic. As far as I know Selene never had a daughter, Vampira is still all mine. I left a little bit of a cliffhanger. I have become everything I hate. DOWN WITH CLIFFHANGERS. Jk if you like em far be it from me to tell you otherwise. Ok I am just going to reread this quickly and then post it for all my wonderful fans (I hope your fans). Have a great life guys and keep reviewing. It builds my confidence. LOL. Bye for now
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