Author's note: Took me long time, yeh I'm working on that. Well here's the next chapter, have fun reading it and all. Standard claim, I own nothing, minus the twins.
A Madman's Heart
Part 7
Granted that the X-men were generally the last people to start a fight, but unfortunately for the young Asian woman, who wanted nothing more then to relax for a while, they ran into Wolverine. Sabretooth instantly let out a threatening growl followed by a smirk. Jubilee stood beside him watching the new stranger, which Creed seemed to know well.
"What do you want Creed?" Wolverine asked keeping a close eye on both of them.
"Oh nothing much, thought I might crash a few parties, perhaps even run my claws through that pretty little kitten of yours." Creed told wolverine with a smirk as the Canadian stiffened. Jubilee took a step back not wanting to be caught up in a fight still unsure of how her powers would react, 'Great, just peachy, Creed meet's Logan, Creed attacks Logan man my life sucks.' "What's wrong runt, caged life making you soft?"
"Get lost Sabretooth before I put my claws through your skull." Wolverine snapped back and Creed's stance went into fighter mode. Jubilee took a few more steps knowing that this could get ugly.
"Creed, come on man, this guys fish bait, let's just get checked in." Jubilee stated and Creed looked over at her. Jubilee screamed out a warning as wolverine smacked into Sabretooth sending him flying through the air and into a tree. Sabretooth got to his feet and rushed at wolverine in a blind rage set on tearing the man to shreds. Jubilee took a step back and watched the fight ready to protect her friend if he would ever need it.
Both men through punches and slashed their claws at each other in furry one trying to get the upper hand on the other. Jubilee watched in fascination knowing that the fight was more one-sided. Creed, being larger and leaner with his cat like agility seemed to have the upper hand though wolverine's size gave him a faster movement and easier defending space. Wolverine sent a slash at Sabretooths stomach which left three deep gashes that began to heal almost as quickly as they started while Sabretooth had dug his claws into Wolverine's facial flesh leaving a glob of flesh missing. To jubilee's surprise the wounds healed almost as quickly as Sabertooth's. She had only met three people before who had the ability to heal and two of them healed rather slowly compared to the two in front of her.
With Jubilee's attention on the two fighting figures she barely noticed the hands grip her from behind. Thousands of images of different situations of Sinister and his workers grabbing her from behind played in her head, some real and some not, as she was pulled away from the fighting area. Jubilee let out a half scream, half yelp that distracted the enraged Sabretooth and gave wolverine enough time to smash the larger man into the tree. Jubilee screamed and felt her pafs build up like a wave in her body. She tried her hardest to control the pafs but unfortunately the medical chemicals Sinister but in her body had made it nearly impossible for her to control the power she held. The person holding onto her was thrown into a tree behind her with burns all over her front while hundreds of pafs flung themselves in Wolverine's direction as she yelled
"Leave him alone you asshole." And then the pafs connected with Wolverine and threw him into the car she and Creed and came in. Jubilee ran over to Sabretooth wiry of the new people while trying to hold onto the power that was flying through her body at a growing rate. When she caught sight of Creed the energy swell calmed down and she felt a bit of relief as he got up and shook his head looking towards the unconsciense Wolverine.
"Not to bad pup." Sabretooth told her and she smiled a shaken smile as she looked towards the people she guessed were the X-men. A man with a ruby visor on and dressed in strange spandex clothing caught her attention first due to the fact that his visor was glowing greatly with his hand placed close beside it. Next came a woman whom had just landed on the ground. The woman had a skunk tail in her long curly brown hair as well as a super model figure. Next came another lady who also had the same super model figure only with long flaming red hair. A blue hared monster stood a few yards from the rest looking over the white hared African whom Jubilee had exploded mostly at. Near by stood a lanky man in a trench coat, which Jubilee knew from the looks.
"Cre, I'm not feeling so well now." Jubilee said as her body was trying to catch up with her energy level. The man with the Ruby visor stepped froward along with the lanky man with devil eyes who was holding out a glowing card. Creed growled threateningly at the advancement which allowed Jubilee to catch her breath. She felt like she was drowning in so many ways. Her body felt like it was on fire while her insides twisted and turned demanding rest. This pain and uncomfort, plus the act the wolverine woke up and leapt at Sabretooth was all Jubilee could handle. Her new powers expanded and thousands pafs flew out of every opening in her small body towards everything save Creed, which by some weird chance she had blocked away was relatively unharmed by the onslaught of pafs.
When the dust calmed Jubilee could see thankfully that the team in front of her was relatively unharmed due to what she guesses was the Red head's power. Jubilee felt her knees buckle due to her lack of energy and creed caught her easily.
"Why?" Was all she said as Creed snarled at the downed wolverine again. Scott held his hand close to his visor watching Creed carefully ready to protect their resident feral.
"Because that is how he is." Creed said and picked her up carefully while watching the X-men. "We come in peace."
"You have a funny way of showing it." Gambit said taking the charge out of the card in his left hand, but kept one charged just in case. Storm pushed away Gambit and Beast's arms standing on her own with all the dignity and strength she had.
Let them in. For now they mean us no harm. A voice whispered into each of their heads. Creed's mouth twisted into a nasty grin and he walked towards the mansion holding the semi-passed out firecracker.
"Goddess only knows what that child must have been through during her time with Sabretooth. Do you think it wise professor to let them in here?" Storm asked as Beast finished wrapping bandages around her major burns. Professor Xavier nodded leaning his chin into his hands in thought.
"The young lady has been through a good deal. Some one has altered her powers from what I can pick up from Creed and what Hank have told me. For now she is welcome." Xavier stated and rested his hands on his lap.
"But professor, she attacked us, and could have killed Storm while seriously injuring the rest of us." Scott stated slamming his fist on the table in front of him. Jean rested a hand on his shoulder and the Professor looked towards the man.
"From what I have understood, Storm frightened her and she reacted. This Jubilation is in need of help towards her powers and maybe even more towards her soul. She will stay for the time being." Xavior stated and rubbed his eyes. He left the room towards his study leaving four of his X-men in silence.
"Gambit not gonna be de one to tell de wolverine dat Creed and his peitit' one be staying." Remy Lebeau stated and walked out grinning. Scott sat down in the seat and took a deep breath.
"Tell Lebeau that he doesn't have to worry about it, I'll be gone in the morning. But she will be staying, for now." Creed stated and walked towards the Medical labs where Hank McCoy worked at a computer. Victor Creed ignored the blue hair beast and looked over to the small Asian girl in one of the beds. She shifted slightly and opened her sparkling blue eyes to him.
"You're leaving, huh." She whispered and Creed nodded. "I understand, after all you got to. Just promise me you're gonna come back and soon. I don't want to be around these people to long, the visor one already doesn't like me enough."
Creed laughed slightly catching the attention of Beast. "Don't worry Pup, he ain't the one you need be careful of. Stay clear of the runt and the Cajun." He told her and she grinned nodding. Creed left the room not bothering with goodbyes; he was never much of that kind of person. Jubilee sighed and fell back into the sweet bliss of sleep.
Jubilee was running, why she didn't know. Always running, running as fast as her legs could carry her. But right before she made it to where she was running something set her off track till finally her hunter caught up with her. His pale skin and black eyes haunted her every movement, daring her to go left or right, back or forth. Just as Jubilee felt she had made it free of him he would only pop up before her leaving her in the same place as moments before.
"What do you want from me." She screamed out and blasted everything she could with her hands till she felt nothing inside her.
"You shall defeat the X-men and bring Cyclops and Jean to me. You are mine, Jubilation, now and forever." He whispered sinisterly to her and laughed.
That laughter followed her to the waking world where she heard shuffling around and fire extinguishers being sprayed. Her eyes flew open to find a good deal of the lab with burn marks and those X-men with powers using them to rid the flames while the rest used fire extinguishers. She pulled the covers closer to her body and frowned.
"Like oops." She stated softly letting her Californian attitude and mask slip fully into place. Scott shot her a glance that screamed murder and she shrugged grinning.
"You know my young Cajun friend, generally one would not smoke in a building let alone if the building was on fire." Hank told Remy as he put down the extinguisher. Scott turned his eyes off of Jubilee and towards Remy. Jubilee got the impression that if she could see his eyes then they would be narrowed at the sleek man before him. Remy smirked and shrugged while dropping the cigarette onto the burnt floor and grinds it out with the heel of his shoe.
"We are trying to clean this up gambit, not ruin it more by putting out cigarettes." Scott said and Remy again shrugged pulling out a pair of cards while Jubilee held down a laugh.
"Totally busted dude. Sorry 'bout the mess, it happens once and a while." Jubilee stated off hand while finding the sources of some of the fires. A radio near the door and a computer monitor near her bed had exploded leaving burn scorches behind them. "Electronics were never such a good idea around me."
Remy laughed and walked out of the room smiling towards Jubilee. Jubilee smiled back thinking she may have at least one friend in this house once Creed left.
"It's okay Child, we have put out the fires and we shall clean up in the morning. For now I believe it is late and sleep is calling to a good deal of us." Ororo stated looking over to the sleeping form of Bobby Drake on one of the lab tables. Jubilee laughed while Kitty Pride, at least that's what Jubilee thought her name was, slammed a large book down right by Bobby's head. Bobby jumped off the table and frowned at Kitty, but underneath Jubilee could see the wheels twisting to make some unfortunate plan.
'Bobby tends to be our prankster of the group.' Jubilee heard the voice in her head and slammed up all the walls she could muster. Her mind flew to the memory of David telling her about how his brother became insane. She felt tears in the back of her eyes at the mention of her friend, but they were brushed away just as quickly as they came. Jean gave her a shocked look at the sudden blockade. Jubilee frowned at her and took a calming breath.
"Don't go in my head, It's like totally uncool." Jubilee stated and Jean nodded.
"Forgive me, it becomes a small habit." Jean told her and smiled. Jubilee paused for a moment and then smiled back to the older women, but mentally logged away the information for later study. Soon one by one the X-men filled out of the room and Jubilee, finally alone, fell back into her hard bed sighed letting the last bits of sleep wash over her.
Sabretooth grabbed a few things from the room he was in and packed them back into the old army bag he had brought with him. Slowly he edged open the door not wanting the awaken anyone. He walked into a room where he was told Jubilee was going to be staying and sat down a phone number and credit card with an Emergency only note attacked. He smirked while thinking of what jubilee might consider an emergency, only a few of the reasons would work for him. He closed the door behind him and turned down the hall to reach the front door. A scent past his nose, one of cigar smoke, engine oil, and old leather. Wolverine, he thought quietly to himself with a twisted smile.
"Where ya hiding runt?" Sabretooth asked and sat down his bag. Wolverine walked out from behind the kitchen door, one set of his claws extended but held in a none threatening position. Both men knew that picking a fight right now would be a bad idea, only one of them truly cared.
"Hiding has never been either of our things." Logan told him taking a long breath of his cigar. Victor let out a cruel laugh before leaning against the wall. Anyone who saw the two at this moment would think that they were old partners, maybe even friends. At one point in both their lives it had been true, but for now they were foes.
"Maybe for you, I never been much of a coward." Victor stated and grinned slightly as Logan sent out a warning growl.
"Ya leaving that kid here? This ain't the best place for kids Creed, you know that." Logan stated taking another puff of his cigar and let it out easily while waiting for Victor to make some retort.
"She ain't no kid. The pup's been trough enough." Was all Victor said before picking up his bag and taking of in the old jeep they brought. His entire stance screamed for Logan to be wary of him and Jubilee, but Logan just smiled. For once he had found Creed's weak spot and to his surprise the taller man was leaving her in his own care. Fate has been left to decide wither or not Logan will take advantage of this situation.