Chapter nine: Controle at last, but at what price?
It was getting dark. The hazey purples and oranges of the sky came surgeing through the few clouds as the sun wen't down. Rogue had been at the lake all day, half with Remy, and the rest with Mystique. Mystique had been teaching her how to controle her power, like she said she would, and she managed to keep her skin in controle for 20 minuets, before compleatley passing out, she woke up an houre later. 9pm. Mystique had walked her to the road, and left her there. Rogue found herself begining to trust Mystique, so she shook off the thought and frowned all the way to the bus stop.
By the time the bus roled into town, it was compleatley dark, and Rogue was beginning to get hungrey, she haddn't eaten all day. So she looked across to the diner and thought for a second, but then decided to get something when she got home. Thats when she noticed the familiar blue truck in a motel parking-lot across the road. She smiled and kept walking.
Rogue listend to the sound of her boots tapping on the cooling concreat, trying to block out the sounds of the the drunken gang of men that were following her, shouting and cussing, throwing cans and empty bottles to the ground as they laghed crudley. They were keeping thair distance, or so Rogue thought untill they all wen't quiet so she turned and saw them all right behind her. A gang of 7 men.
Rogue turned back, feeling slightley uneasy, and a man with short spikey blond hair grabbed her covoured arm and spun her to face his sickening smile. Rogue snatched back her arm, and began walking backwards into another man, who was huge, a biker with long brown hair and a beerd. Rogue gasped and looked at the man, noticeing that the others were surrounding her slowley.
Rogue glaired at the man with blond hair, who seemed to be the one in controle....controle ha!
"Back off!" Rogue yelled as she reached to pull of her glove, but two men grabbed her covoured wrists and held her arms out beside her.
"Youre one of those freek kids from that mutant school arnt ya girlie." He said with a snorting lagh, as he spat out some gum at her feet and stepped a litle closer.
Rogue kicked out her heavy boot and hit the man between the legs, watching him fall down, his face flushed, she brought her other boot up to meet his face, and he was sen't to the ground with a crack as his head came in contact with the concreat.
The biker who was stood behind her grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, and she let out a yelp at the cold slashing pain of her auburn hair being torn from the routs. She went to kick back, but another man grabbed her foot, pulling her into the air, as they began to drag her into an alley screaming, and rammed her into a wall, placeing a fist in her abdomen, winding her, and she folded down to the ground.
They all stood around laghing at her as she gasped on the floor. They were waiting for her to catch her breath, so she faked the gasping and viewed the situation as she clutched at her abdomen, then she juped up and sent a spinning kick into the bikers stomach, knocking him and 3 others down. She didn't nitice 2 of the other 4 come up behind her and grab her arms again. Thats when a voice stopped everything. It could even have stopped time for all she knew, her eyes were clenched tightley closed as the arms let go of her and she fell to her knees.
"I'd leave the girl alone if I were you man." Said the young mans voice.
Rogue turned and saw the man standing at the end of the alley way, and then he began to walk closer, it was the man from eirlyer that day. The 3 recuperating men, stood up, and joined the other 4 as they stood up to Alistor.
"And I suppose that youre gonna stop us huh kid?" One of the men said mocking him.
"I'll do more than just stop you if you raise youre hand to her again Curtus." Alistor said.
"Oh will you. Your nothing freek, just because your'e a friend of my kids don't give you immunity." The man called Curtus replied.
"I would have thought you'd have sympathy for the girl, being as though your daughter is also a mutant." Alistor said, as his eyebrows began to meet in the middle, the intensity of his frown makeing one man more than a litle edgey.
Curtus ran at Alistor, and a sudden caseing of black crystal coverd Alistor's body, and a white light rose and swurled around him, as his crystal; blue eyes shone out, so pure. ((A/N by the way, if youv'e ever watched dragonball z, the swurling white light is the same as Goku's when he powers up.))
He bagan to step closer to the, now retreating, Curtus, he grabbed his shirt and threw him into a wall as he leaned in close with a growl.
"You make me sick, all you people who consider youreself supirior, when it's us who have the power, and we could destroy all of you if we wan'ted! I f I ever see you again, I will rip youre tong out, and let you starve to death, after tourchering you every day. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!" He yelld at Curtus as he quiverd underneath the black crystal of Alistors hand. He nodded, and Alistor threw him into the others who hadn't moved. "And if you ever hurt Kate for being what she is, I will hunt you down." He looked the men over, and some ran, leaving Curtus and the biker alone with Rogue standing behind them. The sight alone was intimidateing so he ran with Curtis following.
Rogue glaired at Alistor.
"Ah could av' handled that mahself!!"
"ugh, no you couldn't." He sighed out with a lagh.
"What do you know!!!" She yelled again, as the crystal on Alistors body retracted into his feet, as if it just melted, and his eyes stopped glowing, but were still outstanding blue. He picked up her bag and dusted it befor handing it to her. She snatched it, loseing her glair and seeing the angar still on Alistors face.
"Pisses you off huh?" She said quietley.
"Yea! Thats a total understatemeant. What the hell was that, do they go around following young girls or what!" He said yelling at the nurve of them.
"Actually, ah think its the fact that ahm a mutant that made them follow me."
"Yea, but just because you have the x gene, dosen't mean that your any less human than they are." He said, so strongley, this was his week point, but his week point made him react so much.
"Thanx." She forced herself to say.
"Just payin' ya back for the work you did on my truck.....Marie? isn't it?"
"Yea." She smiled. She onley told him her real name because she thought she'd never see him again.
"You hungrey?" He suddenley said with a smile.
Rogue looked at him. For some reason she trusted him, so she nodded and followed him to the diner across the street. 'This trusting people is happening allot lateley, too much.' She thought as she followed him across the road.
It was getting dark. The hazey purples and oranges of the sky came surgeing through the few clouds as the sun wen't down. Rogue had been at the lake all day, half with Remy, and the rest with Mystique. Mystique had been teaching her how to controle her power, like she said she would, and she managed to keep her skin in controle for 20 minuets, before compleatley passing out, she woke up an houre later. 9pm. Mystique had walked her to the road, and left her there. Rogue found herself begining to trust Mystique, so she shook off the thought and frowned all the way to the bus stop.
By the time the bus roled into town, it was compleatley dark, and Rogue was beginning to get hungrey, she haddn't eaten all day. So she looked across to the diner and thought for a second, but then decided to get something when she got home. Thats when she noticed the familiar blue truck in a motel parking-lot across the road. She smiled and kept walking.
Rogue listend to the sound of her boots tapping on the cooling concreat, trying to block out the sounds of the the drunken gang of men that were following her, shouting and cussing, throwing cans and empty bottles to the ground as they laghed crudley. They were keeping thair distance, or so Rogue thought untill they all wen't quiet so she turned and saw them all right behind her. A gang of 7 men.
Rogue turned back, feeling slightley uneasy, and a man with short spikey blond hair grabbed her covoured arm and spun her to face his sickening smile. Rogue snatched back her arm, and began walking backwards into another man, who was huge, a biker with long brown hair and a beerd. Rogue gasped and looked at the man, noticeing that the others were surrounding her slowley.
Rogue glaired at the man with blond hair, who seemed to be the one in controle....controle ha!
"Back off!" Rogue yelled as she reached to pull of her glove, but two men grabbed her covoured wrists and held her arms out beside her.
"Youre one of those freek kids from that mutant school arnt ya girlie." He said with a snorting lagh, as he spat out some gum at her feet and stepped a litle closer.
Rogue kicked out her heavy boot and hit the man between the legs, watching him fall down, his face flushed, she brought her other boot up to meet his face, and he was sen't to the ground with a crack as his head came in contact with the concreat.
The biker who was stood behind her grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, and she let out a yelp at the cold slashing pain of her auburn hair being torn from the routs. She went to kick back, but another man grabbed her foot, pulling her into the air, as they began to drag her into an alley screaming, and rammed her into a wall, placeing a fist in her abdomen, winding her, and she folded down to the ground.
They all stood around laghing at her as she gasped on the floor. They were waiting for her to catch her breath, so she faked the gasping and viewed the situation as she clutched at her abdomen, then she juped up and sent a spinning kick into the bikers stomach, knocking him and 3 others down. She didn't nitice 2 of the other 4 come up behind her and grab her arms again. Thats when a voice stopped everything. It could even have stopped time for all she knew, her eyes were clenched tightley closed as the arms let go of her and she fell to her knees.
"I'd leave the girl alone if I were you man." Said the young mans voice.
Rogue turned and saw the man standing at the end of the alley way, and then he began to walk closer, it was the man from eirlyer that day. The 3 recuperating men, stood up, and joined the other 4 as they stood up to Alistor.
"And I suppose that youre gonna stop us huh kid?" One of the men said mocking him.
"I'll do more than just stop you if you raise youre hand to her again Curtus." Alistor said.
"Oh will you. Your nothing freek, just because your'e a friend of my kids don't give you immunity." The man called Curtus replied.
"I would have thought you'd have sympathy for the girl, being as though your daughter is also a mutant." Alistor said, as his eyebrows began to meet in the middle, the intensity of his frown makeing one man more than a litle edgey.
Curtus ran at Alistor, and a sudden caseing of black crystal coverd Alistor's body, and a white light rose and swurled around him, as his crystal; blue eyes shone out, so pure. ((A/N by the way, if youv'e ever watched dragonball z, the swurling white light is the same as Goku's when he powers up.))
He bagan to step closer to the, now retreating, Curtus, he grabbed his shirt and threw him into a wall as he leaned in close with a growl.
"You make me sick, all you people who consider youreself supirior, when it's us who have the power, and we could destroy all of you if we wan'ted! I f I ever see you again, I will rip youre tong out, and let you starve to death, after tourchering you every day. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!" He yelld at Curtus as he quiverd underneath the black crystal of Alistors hand. He nodded, and Alistor threw him into the others who hadn't moved. "And if you ever hurt Kate for being what she is, I will hunt you down." He looked the men over, and some ran, leaving Curtus and the biker alone with Rogue standing behind them. The sight alone was intimidateing so he ran with Curtis following.
Rogue glaired at Alistor.
"Ah could av' handled that mahself!!"
"ugh, no you couldn't." He sighed out with a lagh.
"What do you know!!!" She yelled again, as the crystal on Alistors body retracted into his feet, as if it just melted, and his eyes stopped glowing, but were still outstanding blue. He picked up her bag and dusted it befor handing it to her. She snatched it, loseing her glair and seeing the angar still on Alistors face.
"Pisses you off huh?" She said quietley.
"Yea! Thats a total understatemeant. What the hell was that, do they go around following young girls or what!" He said yelling at the nurve of them.
"Actually, ah think its the fact that ahm a mutant that made them follow me."
"Yea, but just because you have the x gene, dosen't mean that your any less human than they are." He said, so strongley, this was his week point, but his week point made him react so much.
"Thanx." She forced herself to say.
"Just payin' ya back for the work you did on my truck.....Marie? isn't it?"
"Yea." She smiled. She onley told him her real name because she thought she'd never see him again.
"You hungrey?" He suddenley said with a smile.
Rogue looked at him. For some reason she trusted him, so she nodded and followed him to the diner across the street. 'This trusting people is happening allot lateley, too much.' She thought as she followed him across the road.
