Chapter 8: Title not announced
Disclaimer: Own nothing. But Chi, Chu and Dil belong to their respective fanatic. Yay.
So, this is chapter was not long awaited. It must be spring break or something. ^_^
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Still, there ended up being plenty of food to go around, even though we were holding back the tastiest stuff for ourselves. So eventually, the important people were seated around a fire that I had started, trying to discuss important things.
However, I was right there to obstruct progress, with one of my prized marshmallows on a stick over the fire.
"Chi, go somewhere else." Jean commanded once we were all seated.
"I think not." I replied, turning my marshmallow to keep it from burning.
"Kid, do what she says." Wolverine looked at me warningly.
"I think not, and if anything bad happens to me or my marshmallow, we will know that you were being spiteful and mean and trying to get revenge on me, and you know what will happen then." I declared pompously, trying to sound big and important, even though there was nothing to back up my threat. "You're not in charge of me."
"Brat..." I could have sworn I hear Mystique mutter this, and I knew it was true, but it was true. I had completely and utterly abandoned the X-men to join Magneto, and I was gong to be mean about it.
Jean noticed that I was only taking orders from Magneto, and looked at him pleadingly as though begging him to tell me to go away.
This glance was ignored, and the official meeting-type-thing begun.
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I was bored out of my proverbial gourd as Magneto told about the capture of Xavier, so I kept trying to jump in with fun bits of misinformation.
"Then Xavier started acting like a senile old fool and set an apple bomb in Saruman's lap!!" I declared. "Oh wait, wrong fanfic."
These constant interjections seemed to bother the others, so Magneto finally looked over to where I was sitting.
"Chi, please restrain yourself from speaking unless called upon." He said in a tone that seemed to be just to show he could boss me around when others couldn't.
"Okay." I agreed, and was surprisingly quiet. The X-people weren't exactly pleased that I ignored their orders and listened to Magneto, but there wasn't a whole lot they could do about it.
"Our adversity is William Stryker." Magneto declared. "He invaded your home with one purpose in mind: to take Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own."
"But he would need the professor to operate it." Jean commented, seeming to try and make sense of this.
"Which is probably the only reason Xavier is still alive." Mystique said, looking at me clearly bragging that she had not been silenced. I ignored her.
"Why would he want Cerebro?" Wolverine asked "Unless he's looking for his lost dog or something."
A smile pulled at the edge of my mouth, but I reminded myself that laughing could be interpreted as speaking, and since I didn't want to be booted from the council, I was quiet.
"When Cerebro is working, Charles has the potential to connect with every mind on this planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group—mutants for example—" He paused dramatically. "He could kill all of us!"
"You have got to be kidding." Logan said as we shifted uncomfortable. I raised my hand.
"Yes, Chi?" Magneto asked, thereby allowing me to speak.
"Is this why it was bad for you to tell him everything?" I asked, shocking the X-men with the information the Magneto was the one who had told.
"You told him?!" Storm demanded.
"Yes." Magneto nodded regretfully. "Stryker has... Powerful methods of persuasion."
"...Powerful enough to make the professor do something like that?" Jean asked.
"Yes, undoubtedly." Magneto answered, and the continued their dramatic dialogue. I was beginning to get bored, and started looking up in the trees. To my surprise, I saw someone up in the tree.
"Magneto-sama." I tugged on his care like a little kid trying to get the attention of their parent.
"What is it, Chi?" He asked wearily.
"There's a creepy thing in the tree. I think it's Batman." I pointed up at the shape. Everyone looked up to see Kurt hanging upsidedown in the tree.
"Ah... Hello..." He said slowly, evidently feeling bad about being caught snooping.
"Hey there Kurt! Come on down and join us!" I shouted. "I still have some marshmallows if you want to roast them with me!"
Quietly, he came down from the tree and sat beside me.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snoop." Kurt apologized fanatically.
"It's okay!" I patted him on the back. "As long as you don't get caught, so try not to get caught next time, okay?"
I noticed that the faces around the campfire were getting increasingly unfriendly, and even Magneto was starting to look annoyed.
"Magneto-sama, is it okay if I go now? I'm bored." I asked. He nodded, and I took off running with my half-eaten bag of marshmallows.
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Wow! I really irritate people! ^_^ Of course, that's my own fault for bad behavior! Isn't life just great! ^_^
