Disclaimer: A whole host of new characters are mine. Please don't use them. Of course, the X-Men and other such characters involved in the comic, books and the movie belong to Marvel, and new ones are mine. Also the plot is my own.
Throughout story:
" " = Speech
' ' = Thoughts
^ ^ = Telepath
Ironic: Thank you! I'm glad you're back with me!
Blix: Of you course you have him on your desktop! :D
Jenny: Ooh, I'm sorry for using your name. I hope you don't feel violated! *offers a hug from wolvie?* and I hope you like the new story! (:
Sketty: Wait.. damnit..
Scott: Cool, we're back!
Sketty: Oh no..
Rogue: You'd think she'd be pleased to see us..
Sketty: I am..
Logan: She's pleased to see me! ME!!
Kurt: He's got serious issues..
Logan: *unleashes claws*
Scott: It doesn't take much does it?
Aurora: *pulls Logan back* Come on big guy.. you're needed in this chapter.
Logan: *grins smugly* I'm needed in every chapter.
Sketty: *taps her foot impatiently*
Storm: Oh.. we're still owned aren't we..
Sketty: *points to lower sentences* Yup.
Charles: Come.. my fellow mutants..
Sketty: *kicks them down* Hah! And stay down there!
Chapter 45Distant city life could be heard from the small street that Logan and Aurora currently tread down. They passed immaculate houses that sat in neat rows with matching front doors and wrought iron railings. The habituated streets of houses were deserted, for it was well in the early hours of the morning, but it didn't stop the city being hectic. The metal mutants still travelled side by side, both of them using unmatchable senses to listen out for any danger.
"So.. we need to find where this virus is being stored now?" Asked Logan quietly as they walked.
"Yes.."
"Isn't this going to hurt you Aurora? This virus? Your healing isn't as strong as mine."
"Probably.. but I'll be alright." She gave a small smile; trying to reassure the worried look Logan gave her.
Logan gave a small nod to her. He looked up from the woman beside him to see that their road was now leading into the busy areas of the city. Black cabs noisily drove up and down the main road ahead, screeching cars blared music and horns constantly blasted at another's wrongdoings. Music from nightclubs could be heard drumming into the atmosphere and the stench of alcohol and smoke was apparent.
They turned off down a little back street alley in order to avoid the mass of people on the busy roads of London. The last thing they needed was for Logan to be recognized again. Aurora kept close to Logan's side as they stepped through the deep puddles that were scattered around this derelict alley. Large bins sat screwed again walls with lifted lids that various pests had managed to push open. They just managed to reach the end of the alley on onto another quiet street when a rustle from the shadows made them freeze.
Both Logan and Aurora trained their incredible senses and slowly moved to scan the area around them. The pair stepped slightly onto the lit street for the safety of it. Logan's ears flinched slightly when he heard a stifled sound behind him and spun on his heel to see a man grabbing onto Aurora, a hand at her mouth and a knife outstretched viciously at Logan.
Logan's insides merely shattered.
"Oh my God!" A man screamed from the other side of the street.
The man holding onto Aurora muttered darkly to Logan, "Give us ya cash or I'll slice up ya lil' bitch." He growled, thrusting the knife back to Aurora who glared upwards at the head beside her.
Logan's brow dipped sharply at his words, and his warm eyes were devoured by a cold and dark glare. His chest slowly heaved and his fists tightened. His eyes slowly narrowed under his shapely held brow.
"Aagh!" A woman's voice joined in from the road side, "Oh my God! He's got a knife!"
Logan's eyes flashed gently, "Only one?" He said with a growl to his words. Out of his knuckles his blades erupted with a hiss of relief.
The man who held onto Aurora froze; his eyes drained of their menacing glare and were filled with a rare fear as he watched the man in front of him turn into a weapon-wielding beast.
Screams echoed from the standing witnesses who watched this scene with interest and fear.
Logan was ready to pounce and rip the man from limb to limb and spill every bit of blood he contained. But Aurora was ready. Her hands had automatically gone to the man's wrist when he stifled her screams, and she now flipped him over her head with a shapely kick. She pirouetted in the air before she landed lightly on the man's grounded form. Her eyes narrowed down at the figure beneath her, her hands were in tight fists and they clutched at the man's shirt. She breathed heavily through her mouth, snarls being heard under her breath as the animal within her was awakened in a spectacular style.
"Bitch?" She repeated under her jagged breath, "I'll assume you mean that.. literally."
The man's eyes widened in horror as the woman in front of him melted away as grey fur grew out of her cheeks and neck and devoured over her soft flesh. The clothes that she wore strained under the muscles that replaced her limbs and fell away from her changed body and fell to land gently in the stony ground beneath.
Logan straightened from his readying stance and his jaw lightly fell open at the fresh rage he had never seen before.
Aurora lowered her wolf head close to the man's and growled softly. The man heartedly screamed as she snapped up the collar of his clothes and stepped up off him, dragging him by the neck of his clothes in her closed maw of stunning teeth. She threw her head to the side and sent the man's body flying towards the wall of the building beside them in the alley.
The man hit the wall with a cry of pain and staggered as he landed on the floor. Aurora was in front of him sharpish; her wolf paws pinning him to the wall. She growled still, her eyes no more gentle, but narrowed and fuelled by animalistic rage. An ear suddenly perked as a wailing police car was heard, and her moment distraction allowed the man to scramble from her paws and stagger down in the alley as fast as he could, almost falling to the floor from shock.
Aurora raised her magnificent head and roared a fresh howl of victory down the alley. The sound rebounded across the grimy walls and chased the man till he was no more. She let out a loud snort at the retreating man before she lightly turned to face Logan and the gathered crowd.
Logan's claws slowly slid back into his fists. He bent lightly to pick up Aurora's clothes off the stony floor and he turned to eye the crowd, "Let's go Aurora." He softly said. She didn't need telling, the police sirens were coming closer and so was the returning blades of the helicopter.. it appeared one of the witnesses had contacted the police.. The pair burst into incredible runs down the small street. Logan's adamantium thighs pounded against the concrete of the pavement, and Aurora's four muscled limbs sending her on a silent and graceful run.
Logan and Aurora wheeled round the next alley they came across in order to try and hide from the growing sounds of their chasers. Their chosen alley was in complete shadow, and they masked themselves into it brilliantly. They couldn't see each other, but that meant that no one else could either.
Logan's ears flinched gently as he heard a shuffling sound behind him. He only knew what had happened when he heard Aurora's human voice speak up, "Jesus.." Logan smirked to himself, his eyes strained to see his companion, but it was no use, even with his senses. No doubt Aurora's full animal genes allowed her to see him.
Logan cleared his throat quietly, "Looks like we gotta hide for a while.."
Aurora let out a sigh, "Yeah.. oh… Logan, you didn't by any chance pick up my clothes did you?"
Logan blinked and looked to the bundle he was holding in his hands, "Yeah, I did actually."
A relieved voice then sounded from the blackness, "Oh.. good.. give them here."
Logan didn't get chance to pass them over, she had dragged them out of his hands in a hurry.
"Don't look at me.. please." She muttered as he heard rustling as she returned into her clothes.
Logan raised a brow, "I would if I could." He made a wolfish smirk at her through the darkness, "But I can't see a damn thing. Too dark."
Aurora lightly hit him on the arm at his comment and scowled, "Shut up.." She straightened as she was once more clothed, "How long do you think we got to hide for?"
Logan's brow rose gently as he saw the helicopter suddenly heading right their way, "Not long!" He cried as the roaring blades of the helicopter began to shudder the environment as it descended towards them.
Aurora stared at the monstrous beast above them and made a gasp as she turned to run with Logan down the alley, the helicopter flew on across the buildings, but couldn't manage to get any closer.
Aurora and Logan dived round alley after alley to drive themselves as far as possible from the wailings sirens and the shattering hum of the helicopter. Aurora let out a sharp gasp as the pair threw themselves in a dark alley. No light was present. They cautiously tread forward, breaths heavy from their run.
A mocking voice suddenly spoke up from the darkness. It was cold and sharp, it sneered at the oncoming mutants, "Run.. run.. run.. as fast as you can.. you can't catch me.. for I am an X-Man."
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Oooh, who's that I wonder?
Scott: You know who it is.
Sketty: I know.
Logan: She's weird..
Sketty: Hey! Want me to send you to the police? I can easily do that in the next chapter.
Logan: *stumbles over words* Wha- I uh.. no.. I.. . .. .. . . . I'm sorry.
Rogue: Cool, Logan apologized.
Charles: Incredible!
Logan: Shut up..
Kurt: Be careful.. the claws vill be out and 'BOOM!' ve're in trouble.
Aurora: *wanders in with a smug grin* Hey guys, I kicked some ass in this chapter!
Bobby: Totally!
Rogue: *stares daggers at Bobby*
Bobby: *chants* I love Rogue, I love Rogue.
Rogue: That's better.
Logan: *whines* Why did it have to be dark in the alley, and why did you make me pick up Aurora's clothes?
All: *shocked silence*
Logan: Whaaat?
Aurora: Thanks Logan.. just go and humiliate me why don't you?
Logan: I can make you feel better.
Storm: Is it just me, or is his brain down below?
Scott: No, it's not just you.
Kurt: Be careful Ororo he'll be after you next.
Storm: *steps away from Logan* Erk.. I thought he hadn't got over Jean.
Jean: Hello everybody!
All: AARGH!!!
Jean: I feel welcome.. hum..
Logan: *whispers* It's all about me.. *yelps when someone throws a shoe at him*
Sketty: Uh.. see you all in Chapter 46 folks..
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