*hides behind Apocalypse* If you're gonna throw anything at me, it can hit him too cause he's been helping, that he has. He totally thought it was a good idea and so did I so put that in your pipe and smoke it. Write your own freaking story if you have problems!!!

*crouches behind Apocalypse as tomatoes come flying* FINE FINE FINE!!! But I'm not bringing them back!

*more tomatoes* Ahhhhh!!!!

*whimpers* Please don't hurt me.

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Scott ground his teeth as the team of mutants ran at Ronin. Ronin yawned so obviously and dramatically it took every fiber of Scott's being not to blast the boy to pieces then and there. But they were on a mission to defend their home and perhaps save the boy, if that were possible anymore. But Xavier had hope and so would Scott. Donning a glare no one could see, he ran harder.

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Logan had an impassive look on his face but he was in turmoil inside. For some reason he felt a connection with Ronin. He felt like a father, well perhaps not father, but a big brother or cool uncle. He wanted to help Ronin, but that pesky voice in everyone's head that somehow is always right, told him he was far from saving and Logan refused to accept it.

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Taryn fought back tears as she ran. Blade and Griffin were gone. God, that sounded awful to her ears. She didn't cry. She didn't even react. Xavier was worried but she didn't let him in her mind. She would bear this burden alone. Owen had become very reluctant to talk to anyone or even leave the dark room he had been given. She became painfully aware of his absence again. He was the only one left of the family she held dear for so long.

She looked at Ronin sitting on that wall and felt the spines grow on her arms. He had made her madder than she had ever been at anyone before in her life. He had given in to that- that- demon inside of him. He had it under control for as long as she had known him and he let it go and killed her friends. That was inexcusable. All feeling for him was dead to her. Every one.

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In the Mansion...

The Assassin reclined in a big chair in the Library. She picked at her nails with a knife absently as the Cleric stormed in.

"Do you realize what they are doing!?!" he demanded.

"Yeah," she said nonchalantly.

"And you are going to let them?!?" he yelled again.

She shrugged. "Didn't like them anyway,"

"SO YOU'RE LETTING THEM RUN TO THEIR DEATHS?!?" he roared.

"Looks that way," she said examining her nails.

"YOU ARE JUST GOING TO SIT HERE AND LET THEM DO THIS?!?"

The knife disappeared up her sleeve and she stood with the grace of an agitated tiger. Her shifting hazel eyes rested on him in a glare. Her body language screamed violence in the near future and heaven help the person it fell upon.

"You don't think I care about this do you? You think that I'm going to let some foolish mortals ruin what we've been planning all along? You honestly think I don't know what I am doing, I would have thought you knew me better, my friend Dacius." He winced. She hadn't used his birth name since they were teenagers. And that was long ago.

"You must realize this also, Amys," he put extra emphasis on her birth name, "that he's going to obliterate this entire premises when they collide with him and we're on it. You wouldn't wanna wait to be reincarnated another fifty or a hundred years would you?"

Her face held no emotion but her eyes shone with the struggle to prove him wrong. He smirked as she sighed hard.

"Fine. Just- Argh! Fine. Let's go. I hate it when you're right," she said stalking into a shadow.

"And I love it when I am and you are wrong and have to admit it," he said happily as he stepped lightly into the shadow after her.

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O.O oro. Please don't hurt me.. I'm only a innocent rurouni. really! I know its another shortie but I can't help it! Cael's still missing! Any author that'd let me borrow their muse would make my "Loves forever" list. It's pretty short now. Actually there aren't any names on it.

Also, don't kill me for next chapter too. I would write it now but I'm sleepy. It'll be up ASAP tho. I promise.

^. ^x = follow the happy rurouni to the review button. Come on, don't make him go all Battousai on ya....