Disclaimer: Chapter 1 holds the secret. (I no, I'm lazy and don't change
this part).
A/N: Okay! Well, yeah, I have started a bunch of other stories and also have a lot of homework so I haven't really been doing much writing. No, that's a lie; I've been doing plenty of writing, just not on the computer. They're all in notebooks though. So, yeah, here, don't shoot me! E-mail with ideas and any other comments at jupitergurl02@hotmail.com are STILL appreciated! (I haven't had anyone respond to this yet. sobs)
Chapter 24, Lights Out
The somewhat tipsy party walked into the kitchen to get snacks. "I want Ramen!" Angela said happily, going to the cupboard. "Vhat? Are you nuts? Ve can't cook. Ve'll vake up Logan," said Kurt, shocked at Angela's absent-mindedness. She pouted, glaring at him, and glomed onto Pietro's arm. Pietro nearly fell. "Well, what else do you rich boys have to eat here, then?" demanded Fay. "Hey, it's not our fault dat you guys don' have money," said Remy defensively. "Yes," said Fay with an evil grin, "that's Mystique's fault." Everyone looked at her and took a wary step back. Mikey sighed, being used to Fay's evilness, and got a couple bags of chips, some pretzels, and a bowl for the snacks. He poured about half of each bag into the bowl and set it on the counter. Angela was standing next to him. She waited for him to turn around and put the bags away before grabbing the bowl and running into the living room, laughing maniacally. Pietro was dragged with her as she was still holding his arm. Everyone went silent and stared after her. "Vhat. just happened?" asked Kurt, baffled. "Oh, don't worry, she does that a lot," said Lisa reassuringly. "I see." said Lance. "I'll have to watch out for that." "Let's go rescue our snacks, then," said Bobby, leading the way into the living room. Everyone else followed. "Muahaha! Snacks o torimasu!" shouted Angela. "Torimasen!" shouted Lisa. "Or else!" added Fay. "Eep!" cried Angela, not about to relinquish the bowl. "Come on, Angela," said Mikey. Angela looked around at all her friends, and then back at Mikey, then pouted, handing the bowl to Ray. "Thanks," he said, sitting on the couch next to her. She threw her arms around his neck and hugged tightly. "Oh, it's so great having family here at the mansion!" she exclaimed happily. Ray looked very dismayed. "Angela, I think you're hurting him," said Lisa. "No I'm not!" Angela insisted, hugging tighter. Lisa sighed, leaning in to whisper something in her ear. "Pietro looks jealous." "Eep!" Angela yelped, nearly pushing Ray off the couch as she hugged Pietro instead. Ray rubbed his neck and Pietro blushed as he was forced onto his back by the hug. "What the- what brought this on?" he asked, not sure what to do. "Don't be jealous! Ray's my cousin, but you're my boyfriend!" she insisted. Everyone sweatdropped. "Come on, let's go up t' m' room 'fore we wake someone up," said Remy, standing. "Yeah, I don' wanna get caught by claws, yo," said Todd, following Remy.
"Sissy," said Blob.
"Hey, how d'you know dat those claws ain't the one think ya skin won' stand up to?" said Toad angrily. Blob shivered. As Remy mounted the first stair, there was a flicker, then the lights went out.
"Hey, vait until I at least get up ze stairs first!" he shouted back, thinking that someone had shut off the lights.
"Um, it wasn't us," said Angela. She was in the back with Pietro. They had their hands in each other's back pockets, on her insistence.
"Yeah, they were too busy cuddling," accused Fred.
"Shut up, lard-boy!" said Pietro angrily.
"I can't see anything," said Lisa complacently. She reached for the fuzzy hand beside her, grasping it in hopes that Kurt could steady her. "Hey. since when does Kurt have five fingers?"
"Since he turned into Hank McCoy," came the voice of Mr. McCoy from the dark. Everyone jumped.
"Uh, hey, M-mr. McCoy, how long have you been standing there?" asked Berserker.
"Not too long, Ray. Don't worry, I won't need to tell the Professor what you've done."
"Awe, man, is it that obvious?" complained Bobbie.
"He's psychic you idiot," said Lance.
"Who's touching me!?" came Fay's surprised and angry voice.
"Ah- s-sorry! I sot it vas Lisa!" said Kurt, moving his hand from Fay's shoulder.
"OW!"
"What happened, Lisa?" asked Angela.
"I hit the wall," she muttered.
"Don't expect zat to change just because ze lights are off," said Kurt. If Kurt could see anything, he would see that Lisa was glaring at him.
"This sucks. flashlight!" said Mikey. They heard a loud thump. "Great. another anvil."
"Don't worry, Mikey, I'll just turn on the lights!" said Angela. Click. Click, click, click, click.
"Who's closest to Angela?" said Lisa.
"Me," came Pietro's voice.
"Figures," mumbled Lisa. "Well, that's no good. Who's next?"
"I think I am," said Fay.
"Hit her for me." Thwap!
"Ow! Whined Ray. "Watch it!"
"Sorry," said Fay.
"This is stupid," said Sabretooth.
"Quiet, kitty," said Fay.
"Bad neko!" said Angela.
"Don't yell at my Kitty!" yelled Fay. Angela eeped.
"Please, be quiet. We don't want to wake the other students," said Professor McCoy.
"Why not?" asked Angela.
"Mainly because we'll get in trouble," said Bobby. Angela pouted a moment, then started to hum.
"Don't you dare," said Toni.
"But I love them!" said Angela.
"No! Bocca Musica is too easy to get stuck in your head!"
"Well. Johnny be there, and Johnny be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Johnny but me father up and said," sang Angela. Toni sighed and joined in.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Johnny is a son of mine and so is kin to you," sang Toni. Everyone giggled.
"Well. Billy be there, and Billy be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Billy but me father up and said," sang Angela.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Billy is a son of mine and so is kin to you," Toni continued.
"Well. Jimmy be there, and Jimmy be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Jimmy but me father up and said," sang Angela.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Jimmy is a son of mine and so is kin to you," sang Toni.
"Well, you've never seen a girl so sad or sorry as I was," they sang together. "The boys in town were all me kin and father was the cause. If life should thus continue I should die a single miss, and so I'll go to mother and complain to her of this.
"Now, daughter, haven't I taught you to forgive and to forget? And if your father so desotes well still you needn't fret. Your father may be father to all the boys in town but still. He's not the one who sired you, so marry whom you will!" They giggled and everyone else did, too.
"Hey, I gotta idea," said Pietro happily. He picked up Angela and began to run in the direction in which he thought he had remembered the couch being, but instead tripped over the table, landing on top of Angela.
"Eep! Pietro! Just because it's dark doesn't mean we can-"
"Sorry!" he said, quickly, helping her up. "Thatwasn'twhatImeant! Really! Iswear!"
"Oh? Then what was what you meant?" asked Todd acidly.
"Yeah, we've heard you two sneak into each other's rooms at night," said Lance. Fay giggled.
"You guys are evil!" cried Angela.
"Hey!" said Pietro indignantly. "My idea was to sit around and tell scary stories and wait for the lights to come back on."
"I suppose that that would be okay, as long as you're quiet," said Mr. McCoy. They all made their way carefully to the couch and chairs and sat around together.
"Todd, you go first," said Freddie.
"Sure," said Todd. He cleared his throat and then began. "I heard this one on da discovery channel or somethin', so it's probably true. You know, durin' exams week how it's all stressful an' stuff? Well da kids had dis thing where they'd go out every night at exam week at midnight and just scream and scream and keep scremin', just to relieve the stress, right? Well, this one night, while they were screamin', this girl was walkin' back to her dorm and this guy was there. He grabbed her and she screamed and stuff but nobody heard cuzza all the other screamin'. The guy twisted her neck and killed her, right there, and nobody knew about it till they found her body the next day, covered in flies." At this, Todd snapped his tongue as if to eat one of the flies hovering around the corpse.
"That's stupid!" said Fay angrily. Everyone else mumbled in agreement.
"Yeah, I already heard that one," said Mikey.
"Who goes next?" asked Angela.
"I'll go," said Lisa. "This one actually happened to me."
"Be afraid!" shrieked Angela. There was a loud thump and she jumped, clinging to Pietro. However, she was wrong and clung to Todd. "Ewe!" she shrieked, pushing him away and hugging Pietro instead.
"O..kay." said Mikey.
"What was that?" asked Toni?
"Sorry, I bumped m' knee on de table," said Remy.
"Anyway." said Lisa. "When I was like four, my bed was really close to the wall in my room. I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw this pale blue hand reach out of the wall and grab my leg. Then it went back into the wall. I started screaming, it was freaky. It might have been a dream, but I really don't know."
"No, if you're telling a scary story, you should say it was real," said Bobby.
"Creepy," said Pietro.
"I've already heard that one," complained Angela.
"I'll tell y' one dat y' ain't heard b'fore, den," said Remy. "I heard dis one back home in N' Orleans. Dere was dese guys who was takin' da land from de Natives in Sout' America. Dere was four guys, all o' 'em promised t' get some land when dey was done. S' one o' 'em get's real sick. He walks outta his ten' an' goes t' 'is hommes. He's irrational an' dey try t' calm 'im down, but whenever dey touch 'im, he starts t' bleed. Tryin' t' make 'em understan', he slams 'is fist on de table, makin' it explode wit' blood. He falls t'is knees an' dey bleed, too. He dies an' de reamainin' guys decide t' split up 'is share o' de land.
"So de next day, dey go an' scope out what dey got outta de deal. Dey meet dis tribe o' de natives and one o' de guys shoots one o' 'em fer not list'nin'. So dey go back to dere tents an' one o' 'em goes t' de bar. While dere, he's taken by a kid t' de hospital where he finds 'is friend, locked up in a room. 'Is frien' says he keeps seein' de kid dat dey shot an' de village chief standin' dere b'fore 'im. De guy breaks de glass an' 'is frien' starts t'bleed. The particles o' dust in de air cuts 'is skin.
"De man goes t' find 'is last homme, goes t' dere land. He says dey gotta apologize t' de Indians fo' de killin'. He demanded t' see de chief, but 'is buddy said not t' worry. Said he took care o' 'em. He takes 'im t' dis big hole wi' all de Indians layin' in it, all got bullets in dere heads. He goes t' shake 'is homme's hand on a job well done, an' dere han's is covered in blood."
Everyone sat silently for a moment, looking at each other in silence. "That was creepy," said Toni at length. Everyone nodded.
"Naw, that ain't nothin'!" said Lance.
"Yeah, it wasn't so bad!" said Angela, clinging onto Pietro's arm.
"C'mon! You're hurting!" said Pietro.
"Oh, and I suppose you gotta better one, Lance?" demanded Fred.
"As a matter of fact, I do! Okay, well, there were these two guys who go to work on a plantation."
"Were their names George and Lenny?" asked Angela. Lisa started laughing.
"Hey, quit it!" Lance whined. "Okay, so anyway. They go to work on this plantation and there are two beds. One of them's by the window, the other's by the door. The guy who sleeps in the bed by the window tells the other guy how at night, a witch came and put a magic bridle on him and turned him into a horse. Then she rode him around the yard so he was really tired.
"So the other guy, feelin' sorry for his buddy, says he'll take that bed tonight. So the witch comes and puts the bridle on him. She rides him around and he's all tired, but when she takes it off, he grabs it and slips it on her. The guy rides her over to the barn and gives her to the owner. Says she needs new horseshoes. The owner puts shoes on her and then goes to bed. The next morning, the owner's daughter comes outta the barn, screaming. The owner runs out to the barn to find the witch with the bridle off, her hands and feet bloody with horseshoes nailed through them."
"That was stupid! I oughtta pound you!" yelled Fred.
"Now Fred, be courteous. I know that there are no such rules at the boarding house, but here, we have rules and regulations," said Beast.
"Ja, but ze story sucked," said Kurt, smirking.
"Watch it, blue boy," growled Lance.
"Shut up, you guys, I got one!" said Angela. Everyone looked at where they saw the black form of Angela stand up. Their eyes had all adjusted to the darkness well enough to see each other's forms, but not features. Angela sat down again, leaning forward on her seat as if to tell something very important.
"Okay, well this one was told to me a long time ago by my step dad. It really happened! I can't tell it as well as he can, but I'll try," said Angela, excited.
"I want lights!" said Mikey.
"Why, ya scared?" asked Avalanche.
"Shut up!" yelled Mikey. He yelled out. "Spotlights!" Three huge lights appeared, turned on and pointed toward the ceiling.
"There!" said Angela, happy. Everyone else seemed satisfied and Angela began her story. "Well, my step-dad used to live far up north and they had a farm and stuff and-" she was cut off by the lights coming back on. "Awe!" she wined.
"Don't worry," said Pietro, hugging her.
"Time for bed, for you," said Beast. Everyone whined and Angela stuck her tongue out.
"I wouldn't be too pleased with yourself," said Lisa.
"Ja," added Kurt, "Logan can get pretty mad vhen his sleep is disturbed." Almost before Kurt was done speaking, Pietro and Angela were safely back at the boarding house.
"Uh, I guess we'll just walk or somethin'," said Blog. He sighed, not looking forward to the exercise. Everyone bid their friends (and enemies) farewell and the brotherhood members left.
"Mikey, I suggest you get rid of these. somehow," said Hank.
"Yeah, I guess. should I make a black hole?"
"We'll just. wait until tomorrow." Hank sighed. "Toni, I guess you can spend the night. You can stay in Lisa's room. Goodnight," Hank grumbled, going upstairs to see what could be done about the lights so that someone could at least get some sleep.
A/N: Yay! How do you like it? I liked it. I think I liked it anyway. Maybe. Hn. I should go confer with myself about weather I really liked this chapter, or weather it was too rushed and just filler crap. Granted, it took me a few months, but I was working on other stuff! But in any case, WE HAVE A PLOT!! Thank you Mikey! W00t! Plot-ho! All right, then, onward and, er, forward! Yeah! BWAHAHA!!
A/N: Okay! Well, yeah, I have started a bunch of other stories and also have a lot of homework so I haven't really been doing much writing. No, that's a lie; I've been doing plenty of writing, just not on the computer. They're all in notebooks though. So, yeah, here, don't shoot me! E-mail with ideas and any other comments at jupitergurl02@hotmail.com are STILL appreciated! (I haven't had anyone respond to this yet. sobs)
Chapter 24, Lights Out
The somewhat tipsy party walked into the kitchen to get snacks. "I want Ramen!" Angela said happily, going to the cupboard. "Vhat? Are you nuts? Ve can't cook. Ve'll vake up Logan," said Kurt, shocked at Angela's absent-mindedness. She pouted, glaring at him, and glomed onto Pietro's arm. Pietro nearly fell. "Well, what else do you rich boys have to eat here, then?" demanded Fay. "Hey, it's not our fault dat you guys don' have money," said Remy defensively. "Yes," said Fay with an evil grin, "that's Mystique's fault." Everyone looked at her and took a wary step back. Mikey sighed, being used to Fay's evilness, and got a couple bags of chips, some pretzels, and a bowl for the snacks. He poured about half of each bag into the bowl and set it on the counter. Angela was standing next to him. She waited for him to turn around and put the bags away before grabbing the bowl and running into the living room, laughing maniacally. Pietro was dragged with her as she was still holding his arm. Everyone went silent and stared after her. "Vhat. just happened?" asked Kurt, baffled. "Oh, don't worry, she does that a lot," said Lisa reassuringly. "I see." said Lance. "I'll have to watch out for that." "Let's go rescue our snacks, then," said Bobby, leading the way into the living room. Everyone else followed. "Muahaha! Snacks o torimasu!" shouted Angela. "Torimasen!" shouted Lisa. "Or else!" added Fay. "Eep!" cried Angela, not about to relinquish the bowl. "Come on, Angela," said Mikey. Angela looked around at all her friends, and then back at Mikey, then pouted, handing the bowl to Ray. "Thanks," he said, sitting on the couch next to her. She threw her arms around his neck and hugged tightly. "Oh, it's so great having family here at the mansion!" she exclaimed happily. Ray looked very dismayed. "Angela, I think you're hurting him," said Lisa. "No I'm not!" Angela insisted, hugging tighter. Lisa sighed, leaning in to whisper something in her ear. "Pietro looks jealous." "Eep!" Angela yelped, nearly pushing Ray off the couch as she hugged Pietro instead. Ray rubbed his neck and Pietro blushed as he was forced onto his back by the hug. "What the- what brought this on?" he asked, not sure what to do. "Don't be jealous! Ray's my cousin, but you're my boyfriend!" she insisted. Everyone sweatdropped. "Come on, let's go up t' m' room 'fore we wake someone up," said Remy, standing. "Yeah, I don' wanna get caught by claws, yo," said Todd, following Remy.
"Sissy," said Blob.
"Hey, how d'you know dat those claws ain't the one think ya skin won' stand up to?" said Toad angrily. Blob shivered. As Remy mounted the first stair, there was a flicker, then the lights went out.
"Hey, vait until I at least get up ze stairs first!" he shouted back, thinking that someone had shut off the lights.
"Um, it wasn't us," said Angela. She was in the back with Pietro. They had their hands in each other's back pockets, on her insistence.
"Yeah, they were too busy cuddling," accused Fred.
"Shut up, lard-boy!" said Pietro angrily.
"I can't see anything," said Lisa complacently. She reached for the fuzzy hand beside her, grasping it in hopes that Kurt could steady her. "Hey. since when does Kurt have five fingers?"
"Since he turned into Hank McCoy," came the voice of Mr. McCoy from the dark. Everyone jumped.
"Uh, hey, M-mr. McCoy, how long have you been standing there?" asked Berserker.
"Not too long, Ray. Don't worry, I won't need to tell the Professor what you've done."
"Awe, man, is it that obvious?" complained Bobbie.
"He's psychic you idiot," said Lance.
"Who's touching me!?" came Fay's surprised and angry voice.
"Ah- s-sorry! I sot it vas Lisa!" said Kurt, moving his hand from Fay's shoulder.
"OW!"
"What happened, Lisa?" asked Angela.
"I hit the wall," she muttered.
"Don't expect zat to change just because ze lights are off," said Kurt. If Kurt could see anything, he would see that Lisa was glaring at him.
"This sucks. flashlight!" said Mikey. They heard a loud thump. "Great. another anvil."
"Don't worry, Mikey, I'll just turn on the lights!" said Angela. Click. Click, click, click, click.
"Who's closest to Angela?" said Lisa.
"Me," came Pietro's voice.
"Figures," mumbled Lisa. "Well, that's no good. Who's next?"
"I think I am," said Fay.
"Hit her for me." Thwap!
"Ow! Whined Ray. "Watch it!"
"Sorry," said Fay.
"This is stupid," said Sabretooth.
"Quiet, kitty," said Fay.
"Bad neko!" said Angela.
"Don't yell at my Kitty!" yelled Fay. Angela eeped.
"Please, be quiet. We don't want to wake the other students," said Professor McCoy.
"Why not?" asked Angela.
"Mainly because we'll get in trouble," said Bobby. Angela pouted a moment, then started to hum.
"Don't you dare," said Toni.
"But I love them!" said Angela.
"No! Bocca Musica is too easy to get stuck in your head!"
"Well. Johnny be there, and Johnny be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Johnny but me father up and said," sang Angela. Toni sighed and joined in.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Johnny is a son of mine and so is kin to you," sang Toni. Everyone giggled.
"Well. Billy be there, and Billy be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Billy but me father up and said," sang Angela.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Billy is a son of mine and so is kin to you," Toni continued.
"Well. Jimmy be there, and Jimmy be fine, and wants for me to wed. And I would marry Jimmy but me father up and said," sang Angela.
"I'm sad to tell you daughter what your mother never knew, for Jimmy is a son of mine and so is kin to you," sang Toni.
"Well, you've never seen a girl so sad or sorry as I was," they sang together. "The boys in town were all me kin and father was the cause. If life should thus continue I should die a single miss, and so I'll go to mother and complain to her of this.
"Now, daughter, haven't I taught you to forgive and to forget? And if your father so desotes well still you needn't fret. Your father may be father to all the boys in town but still. He's not the one who sired you, so marry whom you will!" They giggled and everyone else did, too.
"Hey, I gotta idea," said Pietro happily. He picked up Angela and began to run in the direction in which he thought he had remembered the couch being, but instead tripped over the table, landing on top of Angela.
"Eep! Pietro! Just because it's dark doesn't mean we can-"
"Sorry!" he said, quickly, helping her up. "Thatwasn'twhatImeant! Really! Iswear!"
"Oh? Then what was what you meant?" asked Todd acidly.
"Yeah, we've heard you two sneak into each other's rooms at night," said Lance. Fay giggled.
"You guys are evil!" cried Angela.
"Hey!" said Pietro indignantly. "My idea was to sit around and tell scary stories and wait for the lights to come back on."
"I suppose that that would be okay, as long as you're quiet," said Mr. McCoy. They all made their way carefully to the couch and chairs and sat around together.
"Todd, you go first," said Freddie.
"Sure," said Todd. He cleared his throat and then began. "I heard this one on da discovery channel or somethin', so it's probably true. You know, durin' exams week how it's all stressful an' stuff? Well da kids had dis thing where they'd go out every night at exam week at midnight and just scream and scream and keep scremin', just to relieve the stress, right? Well, this one night, while they were screamin', this girl was walkin' back to her dorm and this guy was there. He grabbed her and she screamed and stuff but nobody heard cuzza all the other screamin'. The guy twisted her neck and killed her, right there, and nobody knew about it till they found her body the next day, covered in flies." At this, Todd snapped his tongue as if to eat one of the flies hovering around the corpse.
"That's stupid!" said Fay angrily. Everyone else mumbled in agreement.
"Yeah, I already heard that one," said Mikey.
"Who goes next?" asked Angela.
"I'll go," said Lisa. "This one actually happened to me."
"Be afraid!" shrieked Angela. There was a loud thump and she jumped, clinging to Pietro. However, she was wrong and clung to Todd. "Ewe!" she shrieked, pushing him away and hugging Pietro instead.
"O..kay." said Mikey.
"What was that?" asked Toni?
"Sorry, I bumped m' knee on de table," said Remy.
"Anyway." said Lisa. "When I was like four, my bed was really close to the wall in my room. I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw this pale blue hand reach out of the wall and grab my leg. Then it went back into the wall. I started screaming, it was freaky. It might have been a dream, but I really don't know."
"No, if you're telling a scary story, you should say it was real," said Bobby.
"Creepy," said Pietro.
"I've already heard that one," complained Angela.
"I'll tell y' one dat y' ain't heard b'fore, den," said Remy. "I heard dis one back home in N' Orleans. Dere was dese guys who was takin' da land from de Natives in Sout' America. Dere was four guys, all o' 'em promised t' get some land when dey was done. S' one o' 'em get's real sick. He walks outta his ten' an' goes t' 'is hommes. He's irrational an' dey try t' calm 'im down, but whenever dey touch 'im, he starts t' bleed. Tryin' t' make 'em understan', he slams 'is fist on de table, makin' it explode wit' blood. He falls t'is knees an' dey bleed, too. He dies an' de reamainin' guys decide t' split up 'is share o' de land.
"So de next day, dey go an' scope out what dey got outta de deal. Dey meet dis tribe o' de natives and one o' de guys shoots one o' 'em fer not list'nin'. So dey go back to dere tents an' one o' 'em goes t' de bar. While dere, he's taken by a kid t' de hospital where he finds 'is friend, locked up in a room. 'Is frien' says he keeps seein' de kid dat dey shot an' de village chief standin' dere b'fore 'im. De guy breaks de glass an' 'is frien' starts t'bleed. The particles o' dust in de air cuts 'is skin.
"De man goes t' find 'is last homme, goes t' dere land. He says dey gotta apologize t' de Indians fo' de killin'. He demanded t' see de chief, but 'is buddy said not t' worry. Said he took care o' 'em. He takes 'im t' dis big hole wi' all de Indians layin' in it, all got bullets in dere heads. He goes t' shake 'is homme's hand on a job well done, an' dere han's is covered in blood."
Everyone sat silently for a moment, looking at each other in silence. "That was creepy," said Toni at length. Everyone nodded.
"Naw, that ain't nothin'!" said Lance.
"Yeah, it wasn't so bad!" said Angela, clinging onto Pietro's arm.
"C'mon! You're hurting!" said Pietro.
"Oh, and I suppose you gotta better one, Lance?" demanded Fred.
"As a matter of fact, I do! Okay, well, there were these two guys who go to work on a plantation."
"Were their names George and Lenny?" asked Angela. Lisa started laughing.
"Hey, quit it!" Lance whined. "Okay, so anyway. They go to work on this plantation and there are two beds. One of them's by the window, the other's by the door. The guy who sleeps in the bed by the window tells the other guy how at night, a witch came and put a magic bridle on him and turned him into a horse. Then she rode him around the yard so he was really tired.
"So the other guy, feelin' sorry for his buddy, says he'll take that bed tonight. So the witch comes and puts the bridle on him. She rides him around and he's all tired, but when she takes it off, he grabs it and slips it on her. The guy rides her over to the barn and gives her to the owner. Says she needs new horseshoes. The owner puts shoes on her and then goes to bed. The next morning, the owner's daughter comes outta the barn, screaming. The owner runs out to the barn to find the witch with the bridle off, her hands and feet bloody with horseshoes nailed through them."
"That was stupid! I oughtta pound you!" yelled Fred.
"Now Fred, be courteous. I know that there are no such rules at the boarding house, but here, we have rules and regulations," said Beast.
"Ja, but ze story sucked," said Kurt, smirking.
"Watch it, blue boy," growled Lance.
"Shut up, you guys, I got one!" said Angela. Everyone looked at where they saw the black form of Angela stand up. Their eyes had all adjusted to the darkness well enough to see each other's forms, but not features. Angela sat down again, leaning forward on her seat as if to tell something very important.
"Okay, well this one was told to me a long time ago by my step dad. It really happened! I can't tell it as well as he can, but I'll try," said Angela, excited.
"I want lights!" said Mikey.
"Why, ya scared?" asked Avalanche.
"Shut up!" yelled Mikey. He yelled out. "Spotlights!" Three huge lights appeared, turned on and pointed toward the ceiling.
"There!" said Angela, happy. Everyone else seemed satisfied and Angela began her story. "Well, my step-dad used to live far up north and they had a farm and stuff and-" she was cut off by the lights coming back on. "Awe!" she wined.
"Don't worry," said Pietro, hugging her.
"Time for bed, for you," said Beast. Everyone whined and Angela stuck her tongue out.
"I wouldn't be too pleased with yourself," said Lisa.
"Ja," added Kurt, "Logan can get pretty mad vhen his sleep is disturbed." Almost before Kurt was done speaking, Pietro and Angela were safely back at the boarding house.
"Uh, I guess we'll just walk or somethin'," said Blog. He sighed, not looking forward to the exercise. Everyone bid their friends (and enemies) farewell and the brotherhood members left.
"Mikey, I suggest you get rid of these. somehow," said Hank.
"Yeah, I guess. should I make a black hole?"
"We'll just. wait until tomorrow." Hank sighed. "Toni, I guess you can spend the night. You can stay in Lisa's room. Goodnight," Hank grumbled, going upstairs to see what could be done about the lights so that someone could at least get some sleep.
A/N: Yay! How do you like it? I liked it. I think I liked it anyway. Maybe. Hn. I should go confer with myself about weather I really liked this chapter, or weather it was too rushed and just filler crap. Granted, it took me a few months, but I was working on other stuff! But in any case, WE HAVE A PLOT!! Thank you Mikey! W00t! Plot-ho! All right, then, onward and, er, forward! Yeah! BWAHAHA!!