Warning: Violence begins here.
The other X-Men were gone. Only the four of them remained. It was them against the demons. Evan took a step towards the hideous creatures, and formed spikes out of his arms. He was prepared to fight these things with all his strength.
One of the demons smiled at him. It then blasted a green flaming substance at him from its mouth. Evan quickly moved out of the way as the substance hit a stone. The stone then melted as if it were hit by molten lava.
All of the mutants looked in disbelief. Evan slid the spikes back into his skin and all of them ran away. They couldn't face these things, what ever they were. They seemed too powerful.
The creatures ran after them. The four remaining X-men could hear the creatures behind them yelling, "your blood will be spilled, and Amoonie will drink it with pleasure!"
As they ran Kitty tripped over a loose root. Rogue was the only one who saw her fall. She ran to help her. Kurt and Evan then saw what had happened. They ran to the girls. Rogue looked at the creatures running at them she helped Kitty up and said to the other, "run. I'll lead them away."
The others looked at her knowing she probably wouldn't stand a chance. She looked back at them and yelled, "move it," she turned to the creatures and began to wave her arms as she moved in the other direction. "Hey, over here! Come and get me!"
One of the demons looked at her and then at the other three as they ran away. He said, "Get those three, I'll get the pale one."
Then it lounged at her she dodged him and ran as quick as she could through the woods, with the creature right behind her.
Kurt, Kitty, and Evan ran through the woods. They stopped at a large rock that blocked their path. Kurt looked at it panting and said, "great, dead end."
The three looked behind them and saw two of the demons. They suddenly were afraid for Rogue. Was she captured by one of those things?
Kurt prepared to grab hold of the other two and teleport his friends away from these things, but he knew they couldn't leave without knowing if Rogue was all right.
The demons ran at them. The three mutants readied themselves for the battle with these inhuman things.
But then something happened that none of them expected. As one of the demons leapt into the air two dark figures in hooded black cloaks sprang out from the shadows. They tackled the demon and wrestled it to the ground.
Kitty tried to adjust her eyes to the darkness. She could clearly see the figures take knives out of their cloaks.
The other demon gawked at the quarrel. The two figures began to stab the demon. Blood flew out in every direction. Even though the creature wasn't human, its blood was red as any mans. Kitty covered her eyes at the ghastly sight.
The second demon ran to help the other, but was stopped by a third cloaked figure. The attack was so fast that the demon didn't have time to react. The third cloaked figure took out its knife and slit the demon's throat. The blood dripped from his neck as he fell to the ground.
The three X-men watched in fear. The two bodies sank into the earth, blood and all. Then the three mutants looked at the cloaked figures. They did not know whether to thank them, or run away from them.
Rogue ran as fast as she could. The creature was still right behind her. She was getting very tired and couldn't run much longer. The demon jumped on her. They both fell to the ground and hit it hard.
The demon grabbed hold of her uniform. She quickly took off one of her gloves and grabbed the demon's head. She soon felt her powers surge through her and the demon.
It quickly slipped off of her. Strangely Rogue got no memories from the thing, but she didn't worry about that. When she tried to run away the demon spit out a blue substance.
It splashed onto Rogue's feet. She tried to run away, but the liquid made her feet frozen to the ground.
The demon looked at her with eyes full of anger. "You dare not do that." It walked closer to her. "I don't care what lord Morganist says. You are dead bitch."
Rogue tried to free her feet. The demon began to blow the green flames at her. She closed her eyes tightly. Then she heard the demon scream. She opened her eyes and saw the creature holding his arm. There was a knife in his shoulder, and standing in front of him was a person in a black cloak.
The figure broke of a branch of a near by tree and tackled the demon. They both fell behind a rock. Rogue saw the branch come up and then slam down. A blood-curdling scream was heard. The stick came back up dripping with blood. It slammed back down again, and then there was silence.
The cloaked figure stood back up. The cloak was covered in blood. It walked over to Rogue. She looked at the person with fear. Then the person put his hood down.
Rogue saw his face. "Robert?"
The boy said nothing. He knelt down and began to smash the blue substance with the branch. It shattered like glass after the third hit. Robert stood up and said, "are you all right?"
Rogue said, "yeah I'm fine." She then remembered the other X-Men. "Come on we've got to help the others."
Robert stopped her and said, "don't worry its taken care of."
Then the other three X-men came out of the woods with Robert's brothers.
Rogue looked at them. "What are you guys doing here?"
John said, "saving your asses what does it look like?"
Robert then added, "it's a shame we didn't get here in time to save the others. Don't worry they're not dead well not yet."
Kurt walked up to him. "They're still alive? Where are they?"
Robert looked over to his brothers and then at Kurt. "Well maybe I should start at the beginning. I bet you want to know about those demon things."
Rogue walked over and stood next to Kurt. "What were they?"
Robert said, "you mean what are they, they're not dead." The four mutants looked at him. How could those things not be dead? Robert continued, "They are the knoksoon. They are not living or dead, they're kind of in between."
The other two X-men walked next to Rogue and Kurt. Kitty asked, "Do you know who that Morganist thing is?"
Robert said, "that thing you saw is the reason mutants are were not known of by humans until now." The X-men looked as if they didn't understand. Robert began the story. "There was a time long ago when humans and mutants lived in harmony, during medieval times or something. Mutants and humans worked side by side but there were few mutants who were against the humans."
Rogue listened to this. She didn't believe that humans once lived in peace with mutants. Robert continued, "There was a society of mutants that worshiped an evil god that had no name. They believed that one day the evil god would choose one mutant and give him a gift. And with that gift he would be able to rid the world of all humans. The one that was chosen was an evil mutant sorcerer named Amoonie."
Evan said, "yeah, Morganist said something about him."
Robert said, "I'm not surprised, Morganist was his most loyal subject. After Amoonie was given his gift of monstrous form he assembled all of his followers together and gave them all the same gift. That's why Morganist and his men look like monsters. And after that Amoonie and Morganist both found a spell that made them immortal. They could still be killed, but they never would die of old age.
One by one they began burning down villages and kidnapping mutant babies in order to make their army grow. Until finally an army of humans and mutants went up against Amoonie's army. The battle was long and about half of the good army was lost. Finally Amoonie was defeated and banished into a cave that was unknown to the rest of the world where he would remain forever. And because of Amoonie humans didn't trust mutants any more. They feared that one would become just like Amoonie and they would have another great war. They hunted them down and killed them, until there was so few left hiding in the world. Unfortunately Morganist escaped with some of Amoonie's followers. They walk the Earth, finding humans and mutants to sacrifice to both Amoonie and the dark one that has no name."
The four mutants were speechless. After a few minutes Evan finally asked, "but if this whole thing happened how come nobody remembers?"
Robert said, "because all records of the battle with Amoonie were destroyed. Eventually people just forgot about it."
Then Kitty asked, "then how come you guy's know about Morganist and other mutants?"
Troy answered for Robert. "We've had a few encounters with him all ready."
Rogue stood astonished by this story. Then she finally said, "are they going to kill our friends?"
Robert said, "no not until they get you four. They haven't sacrificed mutants in a long time, so they figure a mass sacrifice is in order."
Evan then began to walk towards the woods. "All right then lets go. We've got to help them."
Robert's brothers stopped him from leaving. Robert said, "you don't even know where to look. We know where they are, but you can't get in."
Kurt asked demandingly, "why not?"
"Because the entire castle is hidden by a spell that covers it with an invisible wall. There is a door that only Morganist knows the location of. The only other way it can be seen by other people is when the sun sets. Also we can't go there now. Pretty soon Morganist will have this place crawling with his men to find you. Come with us. We know a place that they don't know about. We won't let them find you."
The four boys began to walk in a different direction. Kitty looked at her friends and said, "what should we do? Should we go try to find the others ourselves, or go with them?"
They all thought. Rogue then said, "we might as well go with them. They seem to know a lot about this guy."
The other X- Men looked at her. She shook her head and walked towards Robert and his brother. "Hey guys wait up."
The other three X-men soon followed her.
Jean woke up very uneasily. She had no memory of what had happened. When she opened her eyes she noticed she was in some strange tube of some kind, and surrounded by a strange transparent liquid. She found it unusual that she could breath in the substance.
When she looked at her surroundings she saw Scott in a similar tube, and next to him was Ororo and Logan. She then remembered Morganist and their encounter with him in the woods.
The other three woke up and noticed where they were. Scott panicked and yelled, "what's going on here, where are we?"
They all soon heard Morganist's voice. "You are in my palace." They turned and saw the dark mutant. "I trust your trip here wasn't to pleasant."
Logan tried to unleash his blades so he could break through the glass, but he didn't seem to have enough strength in his hands. He even had trouble lifting his arms.
Morganist saw him struggling. "Don't bother trying, you are weak as long as you're in that tube."
Logan looked up at him. "What did you do to us?"
Morganist gave an evil smile. "That liquid you are in will render your powers helpless and drain you of your strength. You will be held until I command other wise. As soon as the Knoksoon brings me your young friends your death will come."
He walked up to Jeans tube. Her body shook as Morganist put his face up to the glass. "Are you afraid?" He asked.
Jean choked out, "what are you?"
Morganist backed away from her tube. "I told you. I am a mutant like you. But yet I am more."
The four mutants didn't understand what he meant by this, and Morganist knew this. "You are curious of my remark." He slowly smiled. "I am a member of the Shadow Lords. A race of mutants that lived long ago. We were given our gift of the form that you see me as by our leader Amoonie."
He stopped and looked as if he were remembering pleasant memories. "He was a great leader. He could crush any foe that crossed him. He was a god among all." He then turned back to the four X-Men. "Your blood will be spilt in his honor, and the honor of the dark one that has no name."
Morganist then saw Logan's face. He had a look of hatred and disbelief. Morganist became angry and walked up to Logan's tube. "You disagree with me. You do not believe in Amoonie's greatness."
Lagon just stared at him and said, "no I don't."
Then Ororo spoke up, "how could you worship such a terrible man?"
Morganist became even angrier. He quickly moved to Ororo's tube. "Never say that again. He is not a man, none of us are. We are beyond that."
"Look what he did to you," Ororo added. "How can you worship some one who changes his followers into monsters."
Morganist roared out, "this form you see me as is the way I have always been. This was always my form. My men have always had this form. It was hidden beneath our human flesh, as it is with all mutants. Amoonie brought it out as our gift from the dark one that has no name. Mutants like you have betrayed and destroyed your true form, which is why your blood must be spilt in the honor of Amoonie and the dark one."
The four X-Men were silent. It was obvious that this Amoonie character had driven Morganist and all of his followers mad with this thought of all mutants looking like monsters.
Ganshy came in the room with one of Morganist's captains. The captain looked like a green and scaly man. His head looked almost like an ape skull, but just a little more reptile like.
Ganshy said to the captain, "tell Morganist what you told me."
The captain walked up nervously as Morganist said, "what is it?"
The captain said, "well, Lord Morganist We sent a few men into the woods earlier to see what was keeping the knoksoon, and all we found was a message on a tree."
The captain gave Morganist a piece of folded paper. Morganist read the message out loud. "Now the mutants are safe with us HA HA."
He was still for a while. Scott gave a look of relief at this massage. This meant that the other X-Men were unharmed.
Morganist then gave an angry roar. He grabbed the captain and began squeezing the sides of his head. Blood soon began to drip from the captain's mouth. Morganist dropped the dead body to the floor.
Ganshy came up to Morganist and asked, "do you want me to send the men out to look for them?"
Morganist said, "no, they will be here soon." And Ganshy left.
Scott then said, "it looks like our friends are tougher than you think."
Morganist looked over to him. He said, "your friends are not capable of defeating the knoksoon. A much more worthy opponent saved them."
Jean asked, "who are you talking about?"
Morganist said, "you might already know them, we came here around their arrival."
Jean's eyes turned wide. "Robert, that harmless kid and his brothers?"
Morganist smiled and said, "poor foolish bitch. You do not know the secrets of those boys. We know them as the worriers doused in blood."
Jean asked, "what secrets are you talking about?"
Morganist's smile faded. He said, "I can not say. We have had a few encounters with those boys. During one I learned of the boy's secrets. They fought with me for a long time that night. When they finally had me on the ground and bleeding to death, they stool my magic book. The one that was given to me by Amoonie himself and they cast a spell on me. And because of that spell I can not udder one word of they're secret to anyone. For if I do I will become engulfed in flame They left my book and me in the woods. Ever since that day I promised that I would kill all four of them."
He looked over to the four X-Men. They all had a look of shock upon their faces. Then Morganist said, "don't worry, they will come here to try and save you. And when they do, I'll have them torn apart. But trust me, that will be nothing compared to what you and your friends will experience."