Hey everybody, it's Wednesday again and do you know what the means? Yep, it is another chapter in life of Corina. I hope you enjoy it. It is kind of short because I have huge art history test tomorrow. Please remember to REVIEW.
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Aisling3
Chapter 11
Corina entered the park that night and waited in the trees for her company. She had her knife at her side and just bided her time. She knew she could transform within a matter of seconds but reserved that option for later. Corina told her grandmother everything before she went out that evening. Her grandmother could scry for her is anything happened and Corina was confident that her grams would be able to get her out of anything. As her thoughts lingered, she looked up at the stars and began to think about her parents, which slowly lead to thoughts about Wanda's parents. They were similar enough a mutant father and a mother witch. What a strange combination but that is how it had worked out for them. Before she could continue on with her thoughts, Corina looked up as she heard the gravel crunching as footsteps came closer. She was greeted with the sight of the thief, the fire starter, the impatient cat, the metal covered one, and Magneto. However, she was surprised that there was an addition to the team that evening as she saw Pietro sip up past the rest of the team. Corina replied with a little snort and she sat on her tree branch. "Can I help you?" Corina asked in her most sickeningly sweet tone with a strong hint of sarcasm.
"What are you up to?" questioned Magneto he floated above the rest of the group.
Corina looked down on the tree branch she was reclining on then looked him straight in the eyes before her simple she gave a simple reply. "Sitting"
"You know what I mean," which caused eyes narrowing in anger.
"Do I, now? Why don't you be a little more specific?" Corina adjusted from her reclining position on the tree and sat upright to face him more directly.
"Why have you been interfering with everything?" Magneto began to get irritated with her but he tried to remain calm.
"Like I said before, it is nothing personal. I just have a job to do. I protect the innocent when I am required to do so. Trust me; I want nothing to do with your personal war with humanity or Xavier. I have enough to worry about in my life then the pity party you are throwing yourself."
"Don't you understand that humanity can never accept us for what we are? I proved that when mutants were revealed for what they are. You say I'm having a pity party but are you going to do when the mutant hunters come for you? When they take you away from your home and hate you for what you are? Do you think humanity will ever accept us?"
"Don't know and I don't care. That is really their problem." Corina jumped down from the tree branch and leaned against the trunk. "Personally, I don't agree with either you or Xavier. I think you are both wrong. You are bitter old man that has a grudge against the world, although you have a reason to be so but you have crossed the line as a victim when you began to hurt others. Xavier is just being ideal but he has the right to do so. I still don't see why both of you have your little teams to fight your own personal battle. Personally, I think that you are both wrong for using young students to fight for whatever cause you think is important but hey that is just me. Actually, in answer to your question, I am a mutant second in this lifetime. I was something else first and will always be that before I am a mutant. But before we continue this philosophizing, I would like to know the names of those on your team." Corina had remained calm throughout her entire speech and it was clear that she meant every word.
Magneto was fuming with anger at Corina's calm accusation of him and his beliefs. "How do you not see that human kind will turn against us and kill us if we do not something now? The ends justify the means here. It is a matter of survival and we should dominate, no matter what the cost."
Corina's face turned into a hard mask as she prepared her answer. "How can you even say that? How can you justify anything you have done as right? You abandoned your daughter, you attacked those young girls, you have kidnapped others, and twisted the minds of others, and god only knows what else you have done in the past. For someone with a tragic past, you have turned into what you hate the most in this world and that is pathetic. You have the right to protect yourself but to eliminate another type of human beings to benefit yourself is wrong. Don't you see that? Someone when you were a kid decided that he wanted to play god and that the ends justified his means and you suffered for it as did so many others. Now, you want to play god and make others suffer. Don't you see that is wrong?" Corina, despite the anger in her voice, kept her voice perfectly even which enrage her enemy even further.
Before an enraged Magneto could respond with an angry response, the thief stepped forward from behind him. "My name is Gambit." Immediately, all eyes turned to him as he made a low bow to Corina and the tension in the air was slightly relaxed. "She said she wanted to know our names, so I gave it to her." He shrugged and crossed his arms across chest and relaxed. "He is Pyro, Sabertooth, Colossus, and Quicksilver, who you already know. There and now you know." He turned around after he pointed to each of his companions and named them for the fox mutant. "So, who exactly are you?"
With a slight smirk at Gambit's ease of the situation she began her own introduction. "Corina Silvanus, or Kitsu, who you seem to know a little bit better."
"What group are you from?"
"Come on, don't they teach you anything in the Guild any more? You know just as well as I do that the first thing we all learn is how to identify members of other 'underworld' or 'secret' groups. You have to know what I am and if not, then I must be more talented than I thought or you are just not that bright."
"Hey, I know the other groups but I can't pinpoint where you are from. You ain't a thief, you ain't an assassin, you ain't a street fighter or anything like that. You are too righteous to be part of anything to start any…questionable activity. There ain't many groups like that left in this world. I have an idea but not a specific idea." Gambit looked seriously at the human form of the fox mutant as he tried to put the pieces together to try and decided her origin.
"I'll give you a clue thief. Not all of my powers stem from my mutant powers. Come on think about it, you are smarter than that, although, I'm starting to doubt that?" Corina had a hint of amusement in her eyes as she watched the thief struggle with this information. She finally felt that she had some control over the situation and that made her feel more comfortable with this whole mess.
Gambit thought hard for a minute as his teammates watch him with questionable looks except for Quicksilver who was extremely bored. However, his face turned from one of confusion to shock. "Oh…you can't be. They ain't around anymore. They died out a long time. Everyone though you to be gone."
"Spit it out already Gambit." Quicksilver yelled at his stuttering teammate.
"She is…a witch."
"Give the man a prize. What do you know he actually knows his stuff and I started to doubt him. Oh, I feel so bad." Corina just smirked as she oozed her sarcastic remarks at the opposite team. She looked at each other their faces to see mixed reaction about her true self. Gambit was still shocked, while Pyro just looked at her like she was crazy, Colossus and Sabertooth didn't show any emotions. Pietro took a step back as he remembered his encounter with Agatha's power and was afraid that she might be able to harm him. Magneto, however, just looked at her with disbelief in his eyes but kept up his mask to hide his emotions.
"Witch, why do interfering with my plans?"
"Did you not get it the first time? I have a duty to protect the innocent and I will do so. It really is nothing personal and I really don't care really what you do with yourself but if you hurt those kids again, then we are going to have a problem." Corina just repeated slowly as if she was talking the a petulant child just so she could get to him.
"Why are you interfering with my daughter?"
"Wanda is not your daughter. You may share blood but that is all you share. You left her and then, when she was freed, you had some moron mess with her thoughts despite the fact that you knew what damage that could have done to her. We all have choices to make in this lifetime but, apparently, you have made poor choice when it came to your children. I have broken the hold that physic had over her and I'm helping her to get through her anger. Unlike you, I would not leave her." Before Corina could continue Sabertooth lifted his head and began to sniff the air. "Someone is coming this way." Slowly a dark figure left the cover of the forest and stepped out into the open air. She came to stand by Corina with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Wanda, what are you doing here?" Corina asked as she turned her head slightly to look at her student but kept a watchful eye on the other group. Pietro took another step backward as he became nervous around her presence. The rest of the fighter tensed and prepared for a possible erratic attack from the Scarlet Witch.
"I came to show him that I have control. I could no longer stand the fact that he dared question you about interfering with me." She turned and faced her father to glare at him as she spoke. "You left me, you left him…you just left us without a care as to anyone but yourself. How dare you question Corina! After all she has done for me and helped me get over the damage you have done. Stay out of my life and leave her alone for she has done nothing. I am no longer your concern; you gave up that right when you left me to rot. Stay out of my life you monster. As far as I'm concerned, she is more my family than you will even be." Wanda just stood there and tried to keep her growing anger under control. She was keeping good control except for a few street lights that began to flicker.
"Wanda, you have to see this from my point. You were out of control and there as nothing I could do. I didn't want you to get hurt. I wanted to give you peace."
"You have NO point of view. How dare you pretend like you cared about me! I never want to see you again. Let's go Corina, this meeting is over."
"Go ahead child. I will see you tomorrow and we will talk. Go, get some sleep." Wanda walked past the Acolytes and headed toward the Brotherhood house. When she was out of voice ranger, Corina spoke again but the calm face she had displayed for Wanda was replaced by the mask she wore once again.
"Listen, you have done enough damage. I don't personally care what your whole story is or what happened all those years ago. I have a duty to protect the innocent be it one of the X-Men, one of the Brotherhood, or just some normal human on the street. I have a duty so I will continue to interfere anytime I have to. Just know that I will do my job no matter what and no matter whom I have to face. Do yourself a favor and just leave. So now you know and I am going." Corina carefully faded into the forest and made her way back to her house before she the conversation went any further. As she left, Corina saw some metal spheres leaving the area. 'Glad that is over for now. However, I still don't think he got the idea.'
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