He Doesn't Make Friends Well
By V.Valentine
A/N: Gomen nasai everyone about not updating sooner. The man, also known as my job has been keeping me very occupied. But here's a new chapter for everyone's favorite demon. And what's this? A possible love interest? Stay Tuned. I'd like to thank all my reviewers and I promise to try and get these chapters out faster. Onto the story!
Vincent had to give whoever decorated this place great credit. All the walls and ceilings were lined with best paintings and furnishings fit for a king. He mused this Professor Xavier was like a king to these people, with how highly they all spoke of him. Still, he had his doubts. Every doctor that he could remember going to was less than favorable in his mind. Why should this one be any different?
Several other children passed him by as he looked to them all, wondering what each of their abilities were. It was a strange fascination sure, but he couldn't help but feel it. Maybe to assuage a possible threat to him, though he didn't know why he should feel threatened by them. But the typical hairs on the back of his neck were standing on end, he knew that for sure. The mansion was humongous, and everywhere he looked he saw at least two children running off to be somewhere in a hurry.
Coming to the end of the hallway, he looked around to what he decided was probably the rec. room. Several of the other students were there, some watching TV, some playing pool. Some of them looking to him as he walked in the room. It dawned on him that he was now "the new kid" and that these looks he was greeting was going to be the first of many. And then the feeling hit him again, that he should be on guard for something, but against what still wasn't answered.
It was then when Jean caught his eyes, she was obviously waiting for him since leaving him in his room. "Vincent, over here!" She called, motioning him over, as he nodded and strolled over to her. "Glad you found your way here. " She said with a soft smile, as he nodded once more.
"Don't give me too much praise. I got lost several times." Vincent said, procuring a laugh from Jean, and he didn't even realize that he had said something funny. It didn't sound humorous to him, anyways.
"Well, since you're here, I can introduce you to some of the other students. Come on." She said, taking his arm, with a widened-eyed look from Vincent to her for such an abrupt action. "You already met Bobby, Kitty and Kurt earlier. They have other names but let's take things slow for right now." She said, beginning to talk. Vincent sighed slightly, wondering if he just volunteered himself to be shown off like some new pet to all the others.
Pulling him to a group of girls setting on a couch in the back of the room, she and him stopped in front of them. "Hey ladies, I want to introduce the newest student. This is Vincent Valentine." Jean said, looking to Vincent who looked back to the girls and gave a small wave to them all, unsure of what to do. "Um, hello." Vincent simply said as Jean looks back to the girls.
"Starting on the left, that's Amara, Tabitha, Rahne, Jubilee, and Emma. She's new here too." She says as he looks to all of them and gives a small nod, and ends up looking to Emma, who meets his gaze with a stone cold ice glare. As if he was unworthy to be in her presence. He looked back to all the other girls, who he could see had a slight tinge of blush in their cheeks as they looked to him, but that didn't last long as Jean pulled him off to go meet some of the others.
Once they were out of earshot, the group of girls started giggling to each other, save for Emma. "Ach, did ye see the butt on that one?" Rahne said with a content sigh as the group of girls, save for Emma again, laughed. "Wrap him up and put a ribbon around him, I'll take him home with me!" Jubilee exclaimed as that procured more laughs, as Emma sighed, looking to them all.
"I don't know what the big fuss is. He was mildly attractive. Nothing to write home about." She said, with a no nonsense kind of tone. Still, she found herself looking to the back of Vincent's frame, and maybe for just a split second, the ice glare broke. But even if it did, no one was paying attention to notice it.
As Jean continued to drag Vincent around, she rambled on about other happenings in the mansion. "You'll probably meet the grown-ups tomorrow. Ororo and Logan are out for the day, and Beast and the Professor are coming back later tonight with Scott." She said, a small smile appearing on her lips as she thought about her boyfriend. "A friend with benefits, I take it?" Vincent questioned with a raised eyebrow as that made Jean blush. "No, Scott and I are purely...well we're definitely...We'll figure it out later." Jean ended lamely, as that made Vincent smirk as he was lead around the rec. room.
Stopping in front of the TV, Jean and Vincent looked to the boys on the other couch. "Guys, we just got a new recruit. This is Vincent." Jean said, pointing to Vincent, who just nodded again, but all the other guys did the same. A mutual sign of non commitment of deciding on what to make of the other person at that time. From the right, that's Sam, Roberto and Jamie." Jean said, as she looked around the rest of the room to look for anyone else.
"I think that's everyone. But there will be more people tomorrow to meet. I don't know if you're hungry-but I'm gonna grab something to-" Jean began, but stopped as soon as the Mansion's alarms kicked up, sirens and red lights kicking up all over the house. Vincent immediately was on alert, and if anybody was looking at his right hand at the time, they would have seen his skin change from it's pale ivory, to a deep purple, replacing the layers of skin, with hard, lizard like scales.
"Cerebro, what's wrong?" Jean questioned aloud as she thought it was perfect timing for someone to attack, without Scott or anybody else being here. "Scanners detect a single Sentinel unit on the ground." Cerebro responds, the logical and flat tone of the computer's voice evident to them all.
Everyone in the room looked to each other, then raced out to the front. They remembered how much damage the first Sentinel they encountered did to their team. They were sure not to let it happen again. Jean was leading the charge outside, but all of them stopped looking up to Sentinel, it's glowing yellow eyes hummed with electricity as it looked down to them. This unit was bigger than the last, by at least ten feet. ~A improved model. Perfect.~ Jean mused but watched in horror as Vincent walked out in front of them all, a strange reddish glow filling his eyes.
"Vincent, what are you doing?!?!? Get back here!" Jean cried, but Vincent continued on, as if in a deep trance that would cost him his life. And as she reached out with her psychic powers to pull him back, her eyes widened to the size of diner plates as she saw a rather mean looking demon creature standing there in his mind. The demon looked back to her, then roared, and she was forced to get out of his mind.
The Sentinel looked down to Vincent, its files not recognizing anything on him. An unregistered or un-filed mutant meant death via its directives. "Termination Commencing." The Sentinel Announced as it's chest plate opened to reveal a rather imposing looking cannon, charging with a green energy. Vincent stood there, looking on to it as if it were nothing, and didn't even wince as the green light enveloped him, incinerating anything with it's range.
And as the light faded, and the rest of the students uncovered their eyes. Vincent was still standing in the middle of the blast zone, his clothes tattered from the blast, but that seemed to be the only thing he took damage from. The same eerie red glow filled his eyes, as he removed his jacket and tossed it to the side. As soon as that was done, Vincent was surrounded by a brilliant orange reddish light, as he braced his fee tin the ground.
His shirt and pants were ripped from his body, as his muscles expanded outwards, his skin joining his right hand in being covered with the same hard, purple lizard-like sales. He teeth lengthen out to form a gaping maw, venom dripping from his fangs as a long tail shot out from his tail bone, swishing along the ground lightly. Claws and Talons appeared on his hands and feet as razor sharp horns erupted from his forehead, sticking out towards the heavens. His hair lengthened and turned a wild crimson, flaring out in all directions. And as a finishing touch, bat like wings, spanning twenty feet across split out from his back flapping a couple of times once they were out to lift him into the air.
Jean looked to this transformation of his, which couldn't have lasted past thirty seconds, and pondered that this is what met up with the Friends of Humanity. And this is why they lost. Chaos raised himself up to be eye level with the Sentinel, as the Sentinel's hand lashed out at him, trying to grab him and prevent him from flying. But within an instant, Chaos disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the Sentinels arm. Gripping his claws and talons into the metal, he pulled back, eventually ripping the arm right from the socket.
The Sentinel stumbled as it lost the arm, sparks flying everywhere from the ripped and torn wiring. Chaos floated in the air, looking to the air like it was a wooden club, and moved to pull back, winding up for a big swing. With a giant whoosh, that almost broke the sound barrier, Chaos swung at the sentinel and knocked it into the air, like it was a foul ball. Chaos watched for a moment, and then saw it drop into the bay, content to see it sink like a rock. A toothy grin appeared on his face, as he moved to chuck the Sentinel arm into the bay as well, then slowly descend to the ground.
As he landed, he looked to all the students, some hiding behind things to avoid being seen. What was clearly evident from all of them, was that they were afraid. Shaking his head lightly, he wrapped his massive wings around himself and the slowly started to change back to Vincent. Once the change was down, Vincent collapsed to the ground, nude as the day he was born, as the students eventually rushed over to him. Jean grabbed his trench coat and was about to drape it over him, but took a moment to enjoy the view, as did most of the other girls, while the guys turned away immediately.
Realizing what she was doing, she draped the coat over Vincent's unconscious body, and looked to Bobby. "We need to get him into the Ed-lab, now. We'll the Professor handle this when he gets home. Hopefully, Vincent will wake up by then." Jean said, as Bobby nodded, and created an ice slide under Vincent all the way into the house and into the med-bay.
By V.Valentine
A/N: Gomen nasai everyone about not updating sooner. The man, also known as my job has been keeping me very occupied. But here's a new chapter for everyone's favorite demon. And what's this? A possible love interest? Stay Tuned. I'd like to thank all my reviewers and I promise to try and get these chapters out faster. Onto the story!
Vincent had to give whoever decorated this place great credit. All the walls and ceilings were lined with best paintings and furnishings fit for a king. He mused this Professor Xavier was like a king to these people, with how highly they all spoke of him. Still, he had his doubts. Every doctor that he could remember going to was less than favorable in his mind. Why should this one be any different?
Several other children passed him by as he looked to them all, wondering what each of their abilities were. It was a strange fascination sure, but he couldn't help but feel it. Maybe to assuage a possible threat to him, though he didn't know why he should feel threatened by them. But the typical hairs on the back of his neck were standing on end, he knew that for sure. The mansion was humongous, and everywhere he looked he saw at least two children running off to be somewhere in a hurry.
Coming to the end of the hallway, he looked around to what he decided was probably the rec. room. Several of the other students were there, some watching TV, some playing pool. Some of them looking to him as he walked in the room. It dawned on him that he was now "the new kid" and that these looks he was greeting was going to be the first of many. And then the feeling hit him again, that he should be on guard for something, but against what still wasn't answered.
It was then when Jean caught his eyes, she was obviously waiting for him since leaving him in his room. "Vincent, over here!" She called, motioning him over, as he nodded and strolled over to her. "Glad you found your way here. " She said with a soft smile, as he nodded once more.
"Don't give me too much praise. I got lost several times." Vincent said, procuring a laugh from Jean, and he didn't even realize that he had said something funny. It didn't sound humorous to him, anyways.
"Well, since you're here, I can introduce you to some of the other students. Come on." She said, taking his arm, with a widened-eyed look from Vincent to her for such an abrupt action. "You already met Bobby, Kitty and Kurt earlier. They have other names but let's take things slow for right now." She said, beginning to talk. Vincent sighed slightly, wondering if he just volunteered himself to be shown off like some new pet to all the others.
Pulling him to a group of girls setting on a couch in the back of the room, she and him stopped in front of them. "Hey ladies, I want to introduce the newest student. This is Vincent Valentine." Jean said, looking to Vincent who looked back to the girls and gave a small wave to them all, unsure of what to do. "Um, hello." Vincent simply said as Jean looks back to the girls.
"Starting on the left, that's Amara, Tabitha, Rahne, Jubilee, and Emma. She's new here too." She says as he looks to all of them and gives a small nod, and ends up looking to Emma, who meets his gaze with a stone cold ice glare. As if he was unworthy to be in her presence. He looked back to all the other girls, who he could see had a slight tinge of blush in their cheeks as they looked to him, but that didn't last long as Jean pulled him off to go meet some of the others.
Once they were out of earshot, the group of girls started giggling to each other, save for Emma. "Ach, did ye see the butt on that one?" Rahne said with a content sigh as the group of girls, save for Emma again, laughed. "Wrap him up and put a ribbon around him, I'll take him home with me!" Jubilee exclaimed as that procured more laughs, as Emma sighed, looking to them all.
"I don't know what the big fuss is. He was mildly attractive. Nothing to write home about." She said, with a no nonsense kind of tone. Still, she found herself looking to the back of Vincent's frame, and maybe for just a split second, the ice glare broke. But even if it did, no one was paying attention to notice it.
As Jean continued to drag Vincent around, she rambled on about other happenings in the mansion. "You'll probably meet the grown-ups tomorrow. Ororo and Logan are out for the day, and Beast and the Professor are coming back later tonight with Scott." She said, a small smile appearing on her lips as she thought about her boyfriend. "A friend with benefits, I take it?" Vincent questioned with a raised eyebrow as that made Jean blush. "No, Scott and I are purely...well we're definitely...We'll figure it out later." Jean ended lamely, as that made Vincent smirk as he was lead around the rec. room.
Stopping in front of the TV, Jean and Vincent looked to the boys on the other couch. "Guys, we just got a new recruit. This is Vincent." Jean said, pointing to Vincent, who just nodded again, but all the other guys did the same. A mutual sign of non commitment of deciding on what to make of the other person at that time. From the right, that's Sam, Roberto and Jamie." Jean said, as she looked around the rest of the room to look for anyone else.
"I think that's everyone. But there will be more people tomorrow to meet. I don't know if you're hungry-but I'm gonna grab something to-" Jean began, but stopped as soon as the Mansion's alarms kicked up, sirens and red lights kicking up all over the house. Vincent immediately was on alert, and if anybody was looking at his right hand at the time, they would have seen his skin change from it's pale ivory, to a deep purple, replacing the layers of skin, with hard, lizard like scales.
"Cerebro, what's wrong?" Jean questioned aloud as she thought it was perfect timing for someone to attack, without Scott or anybody else being here. "Scanners detect a single Sentinel unit on the ground." Cerebro responds, the logical and flat tone of the computer's voice evident to them all.
Everyone in the room looked to each other, then raced out to the front. They remembered how much damage the first Sentinel they encountered did to their team. They were sure not to let it happen again. Jean was leading the charge outside, but all of them stopped looking up to Sentinel, it's glowing yellow eyes hummed with electricity as it looked down to them. This unit was bigger than the last, by at least ten feet. ~A improved model. Perfect.~ Jean mused but watched in horror as Vincent walked out in front of them all, a strange reddish glow filling his eyes.
"Vincent, what are you doing?!?!? Get back here!" Jean cried, but Vincent continued on, as if in a deep trance that would cost him his life. And as she reached out with her psychic powers to pull him back, her eyes widened to the size of diner plates as she saw a rather mean looking demon creature standing there in his mind. The demon looked back to her, then roared, and she was forced to get out of his mind.
The Sentinel looked down to Vincent, its files not recognizing anything on him. An unregistered or un-filed mutant meant death via its directives. "Termination Commencing." The Sentinel Announced as it's chest plate opened to reveal a rather imposing looking cannon, charging with a green energy. Vincent stood there, looking on to it as if it were nothing, and didn't even wince as the green light enveloped him, incinerating anything with it's range.
And as the light faded, and the rest of the students uncovered their eyes. Vincent was still standing in the middle of the blast zone, his clothes tattered from the blast, but that seemed to be the only thing he took damage from. The same eerie red glow filled his eyes, as he removed his jacket and tossed it to the side. As soon as that was done, Vincent was surrounded by a brilliant orange reddish light, as he braced his fee tin the ground.
His shirt and pants were ripped from his body, as his muscles expanded outwards, his skin joining his right hand in being covered with the same hard, purple lizard-like sales. He teeth lengthen out to form a gaping maw, venom dripping from his fangs as a long tail shot out from his tail bone, swishing along the ground lightly. Claws and Talons appeared on his hands and feet as razor sharp horns erupted from his forehead, sticking out towards the heavens. His hair lengthened and turned a wild crimson, flaring out in all directions. And as a finishing touch, bat like wings, spanning twenty feet across split out from his back flapping a couple of times once they were out to lift him into the air.
Jean looked to this transformation of his, which couldn't have lasted past thirty seconds, and pondered that this is what met up with the Friends of Humanity. And this is why they lost. Chaos raised himself up to be eye level with the Sentinel, as the Sentinel's hand lashed out at him, trying to grab him and prevent him from flying. But within an instant, Chaos disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the Sentinels arm. Gripping his claws and talons into the metal, he pulled back, eventually ripping the arm right from the socket.
The Sentinel stumbled as it lost the arm, sparks flying everywhere from the ripped and torn wiring. Chaos floated in the air, looking to the air like it was a wooden club, and moved to pull back, winding up for a big swing. With a giant whoosh, that almost broke the sound barrier, Chaos swung at the sentinel and knocked it into the air, like it was a foul ball. Chaos watched for a moment, and then saw it drop into the bay, content to see it sink like a rock. A toothy grin appeared on his face, as he moved to chuck the Sentinel arm into the bay as well, then slowly descend to the ground.
As he landed, he looked to all the students, some hiding behind things to avoid being seen. What was clearly evident from all of them, was that they were afraid. Shaking his head lightly, he wrapped his massive wings around himself and the slowly started to change back to Vincent. Once the change was down, Vincent collapsed to the ground, nude as the day he was born, as the students eventually rushed over to him. Jean grabbed his trench coat and was about to drape it over him, but took a moment to enjoy the view, as did most of the other girls, while the guys turned away immediately.
Realizing what she was doing, she draped the coat over Vincent's unconscious body, and looked to Bobby. "We need to get him into the Ed-lab, now. We'll the Professor handle this when he gets home. Hopefully, Vincent will wake up by then." Jean said, as Bobby nodded, and created an ice slide under Vincent all the way into the house and into the med-bay.