The Uncanny R-Man: Well you were half right at least. Oh and you bet Mystique will know about this.
NctrnlBst: Oh yeah, let's just say that those two will be rivals from this point on.
yae yang: I know what you mean about Jillian, but she made her choice. (PS Pam said you're forgiven)
Red Witch: Well kind of, but it might not be what you expected. Plus he's not just there for Azazel either.
DemonRogue13: I'm happy you enjoyed the fight.
Supergirlhv: Yeah I know, but then again you never saw anyone try and steal Kurt from her either, plus she did have it coming.
Ruby: I'll try and think of something in fact I'm planning on him dropping in on her. That should be fun.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 10: DARKNESS RISING
Jillian stood among the others of Neyaphem. They were currently based in an abandoned cathedral near the New York area. It was condemned but the basement had been modified for their purposes.
Now she stood Captain Exposition, the right hand of Azazel. "So you got what our Lord and Master needs?" He tried to keep the impatience out of his voice. He knew this was the day they had all hoped for, the day of His return to them.
Jillian stepped forward with the device of Forge's. "Yes, with this He can return."
Capt. Exposition turned to a purple skinned demon mutant. "Do it." He ordered. The purple mutant nodded and waved his hands and arms in a grand gestures and a vortex appeared. Jillian didn't hesitate and walked through.
BAYVILLE
Gale was sitting in her room looking at the empty bed across from her. 'How could I have been so fooled? I may not be a telepath but I should have FELT something.' She thought.
She ran a hand through her hair. The bandages gone since she was able to heal her own injuries after her headache left long enough to concentrate.
There was a nock on the door then. She sighed, she wasn't sure if she wanted to face anyone just yet. Everyone had been giving her pitied looks and everything. Being her roommate and friend and then had gotten the crapped kicked out of her.
She figured it couldn't hurt so she decided to left whoever it was in. "It's open."
The door opened and she saw Blink enter. She tried a force little smile but failed. She sat down next to Gale. "So...how are you holding up?"
"Not sure, well of course there's hurt, and anger and then there's the despair so...I guess thinking about not well." Gale told her.
"I guess her betrayal hit all of us, but I guess you most of all." Blink said sadly.
"That transparent huh? The worst thing is I was starting to like her too." Gale said slightly depressed.
"I think we all were starting to like her." Blink said trying to comfort her.
Gale looked a little restless. "Uh...no Blink I mean I was starting to like her." She said trying to stress out the like she said.
Blink wasn't sure what she meant then it clicked. "OH! You mean like, like. As in...so that...but wouldn't that make you..."
"Gay?" Gale said. "Yeah I am."
Blink just sat there staring for a few seconds. "Wow...I didn't know. Does anyone else know?"
"I don't think so." Then she thought back to the time when she first saw Jillian. "Actually...I think the professor picked up a few thoughts." She said blushing. Blink couldn't help but smile. "You don't have a problem with this do you?"
Blink could tell she was a little worried about her answer. "Well I know first hand you shouldn't judge a person on what they look like or what they are, it's who they are that matters."
Gale smiled for the first time in a while. "Thanks Blink. You mind keeping this between us for know? I mean when I came out back home I lost a few friends and well...I just want everyone to get to know me before I drop the bombshell on them."
Blink smiled kindly at her. "Sure thing, although does your dad know?"
Gale burst out laughing. "Of course. I knew I was gay at fourteen and when I told him...well he took it well considering, why do you think he was so understanding of me being a mutant or not too shocked? It wasn't just because my mom was a mutant too after that first shock this wasn't so much for him."
ELSE WARE IN BAYVILLE
Kitty and Lance were walking with each other in the park. So far it had been a few days since they had a fight and Kitty was once again thinking maybe it could work out between them.
"So lance anything like interesting going on?" Kitty asked him.
"No not really it's been a little quiet...well...Wanda has been acting a little weird lately." He admitted.
She looked up at him with a curious expression. "Weird how?"
Lance didn't know what to say. The X-Men didn't know about Wanda's memories being messed with, and he didn't want to tell her, she might go to Xavier and he might step in. "Who knows with that girl." Lance covered and shrugged.
Kitty seemed to him to buy it. They continued walking alone and Lance was thinking how perfect this day was going, then of course as he would curse his bad luck in life later, it was ruined.
"Well, well, well look what we got here." Said a voice off to their left. "Two mutie freaks on a date." It was from Duncan Mathews and he wasn't alone. He had several of his friends with him.
"Just ignore them Lance." Kitty said with obvious distain in her voice. "They're not worth it."
"Yeah Lance we're not worth it." One of them said mockingly Kitty's words. This of course only angered Lance.
"You want a piece of me preppy trash?" Lance challenged him.
Duncan and his buddies moved forward, with menacing grins and smiles. "Alright Alvers, maybe after you're laying in a pool of your own blood me and you're girlfriend might have a good time after."
That pushed Lance over the edge, his eyes rolled back and the ground started to violently shake. Duncan and his friends were off their feet, but Lance didn't stop in fact he increased it.
Kitty was off her feet along with them. "Lance stop it." She yelled to him, but he didn't. She looked around and saw a couple of kids were taking shelter under a jungle gym set, thinking it was an earthquake.
Lance's powers however were shaking the foundations of it and Kitty saw it was about to collapse. "LANCE! YOU HAVE TO STOP!" But he couldn't hear her or was ignoring her.
Kitty scramble to her feet and did her best to get to the two kids. She wasn't sure how but she managed to get close to them, then the structure began to collapse she heard the kids scream in terror.
Kitty leaped to them and phased through the falling metal parts and reached them. Lance stopped his quaking for a moment to see the terrified looks on Duncan and his friends. "Here's a little something for you. Don't mess with mutants! And if you do this again I'll make the ground swallow you assholes you got it?" He yelled at them.
They didn't answer only got up and ran as fast as they could. Lance looked over proudly to Kitty but found she wasn't there then he noticed the ruined playground equipment of several things. Then suddenly he saw Kitty phase through the wreckage of one with two kids.
Lance looked as the kids ran to their parents as soon as Kitty freed them. Then he saw the look Kitty was giving him. She stormed over to him. "Like what the Hell were you thinking? Those kids were nearly wither hurt or worse killed! Didn't you hear me to stop?"
"Kitty...I...I'm sorry I was only trying to protect you." Lance said. He didn't want her to be made at him. He thought she would be grateful for what he did. "Look I didn't mean to do that."
"That's your problem you never mean to but you never think of what will happen after you do something. You didn't look around and see if you would damage or hurt anyone else, and I said they weren't worth it, but what did you do? You fought them and nearly got others hurt."
Kitty was completely furious with him. She had hoped that he had changed but she guessed he was still the same person she had met. Sure he had a nice side to him, but he had so much anger, too much actually. She couldn't live with it any more.
"What was I supposed to do, let those human punks walk all over us?" Lance said angrily to her.
Kitty shook her head. "Lance I can't do this anymore. All we do is end up fighting and we never see eye to eye on anything. You keep blaming others, you keep picking fights and you always let your temper get the better of you."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" He nearly screamed at her while grabbing her arms.
"Lance let go, you're hurting me." But he didn't so she phased through. Lance stared at her for a moment as she rubbed her arms.
"Kitty I-"He began wanting to apologize, but Kitty cut him off.
"No that's it. Lance this can't go on." She said tears starting to fill her eyes. "Lance...we're through."
"What do you mean we're through?" He yelled.
"Just that Lance." Kitty told them. "I can't keep doing this, and I'm ending this, and it's not like we're taking a break then getting back together again."
"Lance...we're just too different, face it." Kitty turned away from him so he couldn't see the tears going down her face. "I can't keep thinking we'll find a way to work through all of this while all we do is fight."
Lance was gritting his teeth. "Fine! Who needs a bitchy princess like you anyways?" Then he stormed off. Kitty had turned an astonished face to Lance at what he said. She felt her heart breaking and ran off home.
She didn't want to break down crying here in public, she wanted to get home, to her room.
Memerso hiding in the shadows looked on from the trees. 'Good, that went just as planned. Now that Lance no longer has any ties to the X-Men and his hatred for humanity is now increased I believe it's time for Mr. Mathews and his friends to meet some like minded fools.'
BRIMSTONE DIMENSION
Jillian was helping her Lord Azazel with the device she stole from the institute. "If this works Jillian you will be rewarded for not only your loyalty but your success."
Jillian's face brightened. "Thank you Lord." She said happily. She was overjoyed that Azazel would think so highly of her. 'Maybe one day I will be his right hand.' She wished.
She finished helping him and went to his front where the controls were. "Now once I activated this it should take you to the human world once again."
"Then let it be done." He said evenly.
She presses a few buttons and soon they were transported to the human world. They arrived in what looked like a cemetery at night. Azazel looked around and grinned. It was the same place he was banished by that sorcerer all those years ago.
"Well this is fitting." He took off the equipment and handed it to Jillian. Then he noticed a rustling near by. They both looked to see three teenagers in punk gear, tattoos and one with dyed green hair, and all three had major piercing.
"Are...are you Satan?" A tall and slim one said.
Azazel had to grin. 'Some things never change.' He thought. "Yes I am and are you loyal followers?" They all went to their knees and bowed. "Well that's a start, so why don't you I don't know go kill your pets or something."
"Can I kill my parents too?" The one with the green hair asked.
Azazel shrugged. "Sure why not, whatever floats your boat." He turned to Jillian. "Now my dear I believe I have a few matters to attend too, shall we?" He extended his hand and she took it. They both disappeared in red smoke with a sent of sulfur in the air.
One of the three looked to his friends. "And you said this was all a waste of time, and that we should get a life."
SAVAGE LAND
Several of the Acolytes were lounging around in a giant Rec. room. It basically had everything they needed. It was a huge steel domed room, with no windows. There was a rack of books to one side. A huge TV set put into a wall, a few arcade games, a double door fridge, two pool tables, and a dartboard.
There was also a stereo system and the floors were carpeted in a dull red like magneto's armor. There were also a few tables, chairs and couches.
Currently there was Psi-co all decked out in black and a dark leather coat sitting in one of the chairs flicking through the channels. Morbius was also there reading a medical journal on a couch. Pyro was making a little fire-figurines on one of the tables.
The figurines were of the X-Men and the Acolytes who were of course winning, while he was making voices of the characters.
Lucas was playing with a rubix cube while sitting on a lazy-boy. He was floating the cube in the air and turning it with his powers. "Is it just me or are you guys are bored as me?"
"Tell me about it." Psi-co said. "I haven't maimed, hurt or mentally drained someone in weeks."
"Hey I know this pub we could go to in London, anyone thinking of going there for a drink?" Lucas asked.
"Are any of us old to drink there?" Psi-co asked. Then he saw the look Lucas was giving him. "Oh right sorry, what the hell was I thinking? If we want to drink we either wammy the bartender or just maim him really bad and take the drinks."
"Do ye get to burn something?" Pyro spoke up with hope in his voice.
"Sure why not, we could always burn the place to the ground after, I'm sure they got fire insurance." Psi-co told the flame-obsessed boy.
"And if they don't, well tough on them." Lucas said with a grin. They got up to leave and then noticed Morbius was still reading. "Hey, you coming?"
"I only drink one thing remember?" He said evenly not looking up from his book.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of cute girls with pretty necks." Psi-co said grinning. "Besides you could get that holo generator that make you look human so people won't freak seeing your Vamp face."
Morbius raised an eyebrow. "Let me get my shades." He told them and put the book down and went for his shades.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 11: MEET THE DOCTOR
NctrnlBst: Oh yeah, let's just say that those two will be rivals from this point on.
yae yang: I know what you mean about Jillian, but she made her choice. (PS Pam said you're forgiven)
Red Witch: Well kind of, but it might not be what you expected. Plus he's not just there for Azazel either.
DemonRogue13: I'm happy you enjoyed the fight.
Supergirlhv: Yeah I know, but then again you never saw anyone try and steal Kurt from her either, plus she did have it coming.
Ruby: I'll try and think of something in fact I'm planning on him dropping in on her. That should be fun.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 10: DARKNESS RISING
Jillian stood among the others of Neyaphem. They were currently based in an abandoned cathedral near the New York area. It was condemned but the basement had been modified for their purposes.
Now she stood Captain Exposition, the right hand of Azazel. "So you got what our Lord and Master needs?" He tried to keep the impatience out of his voice. He knew this was the day they had all hoped for, the day of His return to them.
Jillian stepped forward with the device of Forge's. "Yes, with this He can return."
Capt. Exposition turned to a purple skinned demon mutant. "Do it." He ordered. The purple mutant nodded and waved his hands and arms in a grand gestures and a vortex appeared. Jillian didn't hesitate and walked through.
BAYVILLE
Gale was sitting in her room looking at the empty bed across from her. 'How could I have been so fooled? I may not be a telepath but I should have FELT something.' She thought.
She ran a hand through her hair. The bandages gone since she was able to heal her own injuries after her headache left long enough to concentrate.
There was a nock on the door then. She sighed, she wasn't sure if she wanted to face anyone just yet. Everyone had been giving her pitied looks and everything. Being her roommate and friend and then had gotten the crapped kicked out of her.
She figured it couldn't hurt so she decided to left whoever it was in. "It's open."
The door opened and she saw Blink enter. She tried a force little smile but failed. She sat down next to Gale. "So...how are you holding up?"
"Not sure, well of course there's hurt, and anger and then there's the despair so...I guess thinking about not well." Gale told her.
"I guess her betrayal hit all of us, but I guess you most of all." Blink said sadly.
"That transparent huh? The worst thing is I was starting to like her too." Gale said slightly depressed.
"I think we all were starting to like her." Blink said trying to comfort her.
Gale looked a little restless. "Uh...no Blink I mean I was starting to like her." She said trying to stress out the like she said.
Blink wasn't sure what she meant then it clicked. "OH! You mean like, like. As in...so that...but wouldn't that make you..."
"Gay?" Gale said. "Yeah I am."
Blink just sat there staring for a few seconds. "Wow...I didn't know. Does anyone else know?"
"I don't think so." Then she thought back to the time when she first saw Jillian. "Actually...I think the professor picked up a few thoughts." She said blushing. Blink couldn't help but smile. "You don't have a problem with this do you?"
Blink could tell she was a little worried about her answer. "Well I know first hand you shouldn't judge a person on what they look like or what they are, it's who they are that matters."
Gale smiled for the first time in a while. "Thanks Blink. You mind keeping this between us for know? I mean when I came out back home I lost a few friends and well...I just want everyone to get to know me before I drop the bombshell on them."
Blink smiled kindly at her. "Sure thing, although does your dad know?"
Gale burst out laughing. "Of course. I knew I was gay at fourteen and when I told him...well he took it well considering, why do you think he was so understanding of me being a mutant or not too shocked? It wasn't just because my mom was a mutant too after that first shock this wasn't so much for him."
ELSE WARE IN BAYVILLE
Kitty and Lance were walking with each other in the park. So far it had been a few days since they had a fight and Kitty was once again thinking maybe it could work out between them.
"So lance anything like interesting going on?" Kitty asked him.
"No not really it's been a little quiet...well...Wanda has been acting a little weird lately." He admitted.
She looked up at him with a curious expression. "Weird how?"
Lance didn't know what to say. The X-Men didn't know about Wanda's memories being messed with, and he didn't want to tell her, she might go to Xavier and he might step in. "Who knows with that girl." Lance covered and shrugged.
Kitty seemed to him to buy it. They continued walking alone and Lance was thinking how perfect this day was going, then of course as he would curse his bad luck in life later, it was ruined.
"Well, well, well look what we got here." Said a voice off to their left. "Two mutie freaks on a date." It was from Duncan Mathews and he wasn't alone. He had several of his friends with him.
"Just ignore them Lance." Kitty said with obvious distain in her voice. "They're not worth it."
"Yeah Lance we're not worth it." One of them said mockingly Kitty's words. This of course only angered Lance.
"You want a piece of me preppy trash?" Lance challenged him.
Duncan and his buddies moved forward, with menacing grins and smiles. "Alright Alvers, maybe after you're laying in a pool of your own blood me and you're girlfriend might have a good time after."
That pushed Lance over the edge, his eyes rolled back and the ground started to violently shake. Duncan and his friends were off their feet, but Lance didn't stop in fact he increased it.
Kitty was off her feet along with them. "Lance stop it." She yelled to him, but he didn't. She looked around and saw a couple of kids were taking shelter under a jungle gym set, thinking it was an earthquake.
Lance's powers however were shaking the foundations of it and Kitty saw it was about to collapse. "LANCE! YOU HAVE TO STOP!" But he couldn't hear her or was ignoring her.
Kitty scramble to her feet and did her best to get to the two kids. She wasn't sure how but she managed to get close to them, then the structure began to collapse she heard the kids scream in terror.
Kitty leaped to them and phased through the falling metal parts and reached them. Lance stopped his quaking for a moment to see the terrified looks on Duncan and his friends. "Here's a little something for you. Don't mess with mutants! And if you do this again I'll make the ground swallow you assholes you got it?" He yelled at them.
They didn't answer only got up and ran as fast as they could. Lance looked over proudly to Kitty but found she wasn't there then he noticed the ruined playground equipment of several things. Then suddenly he saw Kitty phase through the wreckage of one with two kids.
Lance looked as the kids ran to their parents as soon as Kitty freed them. Then he saw the look Kitty was giving him. She stormed over to him. "Like what the Hell were you thinking? Those kids were nearly wither hurt or worse killed! Didn't you hear me to stop?"
"Kitty...I...I'm sorry I was only trying to protect you." Lance said. He didn't want her to be made at him. He thought she would be grateful for what he did. "Look I didn't mean to do that."
"That's your problem you never mean to but you never think of what will happen after you do something. You didn't look around and see if you would damage or hurt anyone else, and I said they weren't worth it, but what did you do? You fought them and nearly got others hurt."
Kitty was completely furious with him. She had hoped that he had changed but she guessed he was still the same person she had met. Sure he had a nice side to him, but he had so much anger, too much actually. She couldn't live with it any more.
"What was I supposed to do, let those human punks walk all over us?" Lance said angrily to her.
Kitty shook her head. "Lance I can't do this anymore. All we do is end up fighting and we never see eye to eye on anything. You keep blaming others, you keep picking fights and you always let your temper get the better of you."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" He nearly screamed at her while grabbing her arms.
"Lance let go, you're hurting me." But he didn't so she phased through. Lance stared at her for a moment as she rubbed her arms.
"Kitty I-"He began wanting to apologize, but Kitty cut him off.
"No that's it. Lance this can't go on." She said tears starting to fill her eyes. "Lance...we're through."
"What do you mean we're through?" He yelled.
"Just that Lance." Kitty told them. "I can't keep doing this, and I'm ending this, and it's not like we're taking a break then getting back together again."
"Lance...we're just too different, face it." Kitty turned away from him so he couldn't see the tears going down her face. "I can't keep thinking we'll find a way to work through all of this while all we do is fight."
Lance was gritting his teeth. "Fine! Who needs a bitchy princess like you anyways?" Then he stormed off. Kitty had turned an astonished face to Lance at what he said. She felt her heart breaking and ran off home.
She didn't want to break down crying here in public, she wanted to get home, to her room.
Memerso hiding in the shadows looked on from the trees. 'Good, that went just as planned. Now that Lance no longer has any ties to the X-Men and his hatred for humanity is now increased I believe it's time for Mr. Mathews and his friends to meet some like minded fools.'
BRIMSTONE DIMENSION
Jillian was helping her Lord Azazel with the device she stole from the institute. "If this works Jillian you will be rewarded for not only your loyalty but your success."
Jillian's face brightened. "Thank you Lord." She said happily. She was overjoyed that Azazel would think so highly of her. 'Maybe one day I will be his right hand.' She wished.
She finished helping him and went to his front where the controls were. "Now once I activated this it should take you to the human world once again."
"Then let it be done." He said evenly.
She presses a few buttons and soon they were transported to the human world. They arrived in what looked like a cemetery at night. Azazel looked around and grinned. It was the same place he was banished by that sorcerer all those years ago.
"Well this is fitting." He took off the equipment and handed it to Jillian. Then he noticed a rustling near by. They both looked to see three teenagers in punk gear, tattoos and one with dyed green hair, and all three had major piercing.
"Are...are you Satan?" A tall and slim one said.
Azazel had to grin. 'Some things never change.' He thought. "Yes I am and are you loyal followers?" They all went to their knees and bowed. "Well that's a start, so why don't you I don't know go kill your pets or something."
"Can I kill my parents too?" The one with the green hair asked.
Azazel shrugged. "Sure why not, whatever floats your boat." He turned to Jillian. "Now my dear I believe I have a few matters to attend too, shall we?" He extended his hand and she took it. They both disappeared in red smoke with a sent of sulfur in the air.
One of the three looked to his friends. "And you said this was all a waste of time, and that we should get a life."
SAVAGE LAND
Several of the Acolytes were lounging around in a giant Rec. room. It basically had everything they needed. It was a huge steel domed room, with no windows. There was a rack of books to one side. A huge TV set put into a wall, a few arcade games, a double door fridge, two pool tables, and a dartboard.
There was also a stereo system and the floors were carpeted in a dull red like magneto's armor. There were also a few tables, chairs and couches.
Currently there was Psi-co all decked out in black and a dark leather coat sitting in one of the chairs flicking through the channels. Morbius was also there reading a medical journal on a couch. Pyro was making a little fire-figurines on one of the tables.
The figurines were of the X-Men and the Acolytes who were of course winning, while he was making voices of the characters.
Lucas was playing with a rubix cube while sitting on a lazy-boy. He was floating the cube in the air and turning it with his powers. "Is it just me or are you guys are bored as me?"
"Tell me about it." Psi-co said. "I haven't maimed, hurt or mentally drained someone in weeks."
"Hey I know this pub we could go to in London, anyone thinking of going there for a drink?" Lucas asked.
"Are any of us old to drink there?" Psi-co asked. Then he saw the look Lucas was giving him. "Oh right sorry, what the hell was I thinking? If we want to drink we either wammy the bartender or just maim him really bad and take the drinks."
"Do ye get to burn something?" Pyro spoke up with hope in his voice.
"Sure why not, we could always burn the place to the ground after, I'm sure they got fire insurance." Psi-co told the flame-obsessed boy.
"And if they don't, well tough on them." Lucas said with a grin. They got up to leave and then noticed Morbius was still reading. "Hey, you coming?"
"I only drink one thing remember?" He said evenly not looking up from his book.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of cute girls with pretty necks." Psi-co said grinning. "Besides you could get that holo generator that make you look human so people won't freak seeing your Vamp face."
Morbius raised an eyebrow. "Let me get my shades." He told them and put the book down and went for his shades.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 11: MEET THE DOCTOR