Disclaimer: I own not the X-men nor marvel. I do however own Julian, Cassius, Brutus, and Doggy. I also own other characters of my own creation associated with these beings.
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A side story to the Morphos Effect! While Danny is traipsing around in South America, Julian is having his own fun with a camping trip! I hope you all like it!
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"Can you teach me how to fly? Mom said that I could fly when I'm older!"
"I don't think so. I'm afraid of what'll happen when you actually do learn to fly."
"AWW!" The little mutant pouted. He quickly stopped when he saw Jamie, however, and leaped over towards him.
"Let's set up our tent!" Multiple said excitedly waving one of the poles. Warren Worthington III began massaging his temple. How, how did the Professor manage to convince him to take these kids out camping?
"How do you set up a tent? Do we need the instructions?"
"Bobby said that instructions are for wusses." Jamie said confidently. "We're not wusses."
"Yeah!"
Warren covered his eyes with one hand. This, no doubt, would end up badly, but on the trip over the two boys insisted on putting up their own tent.
Kurt bamphed in, scaring Warren, who still wasn't quite used to it.
"This should be fun, Ja? Hey, do you two need help?" He bamphed over to them, or rather above them, he was hanging from the tree they were building their tent under.
"Nah, we're going to make it ourselves!"
"Have you read the instructions?"
"Bobby doesn't use instructions!"
"…Maybe I should help you two."
"Don't worry about it! You gotta make your own tent!" The little furry one shooed him away. Kurt shrugged and bamphed away to go pick his spot.
The spot they were all in was far away from civilization, which was why he came along. There was no place to stretch his wings in the city without either being labeled as a mutant freak or being fallen upon by the religious hopefuls because he looked like some sort of savior. And he had been longing to fly up and away into the sky.
If only for a short while. And at the time, when Xavier had offered him the chance to go on a secluded camping trip, he had jumped at the opportunity.
What was he thinking?!
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"Is the tent supposed to be in the tree?"
"Uh…yeah! It'll be a tree tent house!" Jamie said quickly and logically. Julian glanced up at the hanging tent and decided that his friend must be right.
"Wanna go explore?" Julian asked him excitedly. The only place where there was any woods was near the Institute, but they weren't as big as these. And these were new!
"Sure! If we go fast, we don't have to wait for Kurt and that winged guy!"
That 'winged guy' and Kurt were struggling with Kurt's tent, trying to stop the tent from collapsing in on itself. Apparently Kurt wasn't the master of engineering he had hoped himself to be.
The two friends snuck off into the forest and went down one of the hiking trails.
Julian kept his ears up just in case. Mother had always told him that animals can be really grumpy, and relying on hearing their voices wouldn't always help. He had some ability t hear voices of the animals, but his Mother's was much more potent. She heard them all the time. He could only hear if he concentrated.
"Woof!" A disapproving bark sounded from the tree line.
"Aww man, forgot about them." Julian squinted at the trees when the three dogs started loping after them. Jamie shrugged.
"So let them come with us! What's gonna happen? We're supposed to be learning about nature, right? We can just say we were curious."
"The Professor always gets upset with my Mom when she says that."
"Oh yeah….Oh well. We can just say we learned from example, like Bobby's tent-building."
"Okay." They immediately started walking again. The dogs went into a trot to catch up with them.
Whaddaya think we're doing, kid?
Your mom wants us to take care of you, can't do that if you wander off all the time.
Cassius and Brutus always made sure that those who could hear them did. He had never had trouble hearing their voices, probably because they were convinced that everyone should listen to them.
"I can take care of myself."
"Hunh?"
"Not you, the dogs."
"Oh. Hey, Julian, what's it like speaking to animals?"
"Uh…I can't really explain it. They all talk different. Some talk in pictures, some like them," he pointed a claw towards Cassius and Brutus, " talk like humans, sort of, and others talk in like, body language."
"Like when Jubilee is trying to catch Bobby's eye, or when Tabby is making the moves on Ray?"
"Sort of."
"What about Doggy?" Jamie asked, pointing at the massive gray dog.
"He doesn't talk. He barks, but he doesn't talk."
"Why?"
"I dunno." Julian shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh." A few minutes passed by, then Jamie started grinning.
He lightly shoved Julian in the shoulder. "You're it! Catch me if you can!" He tore off into the trees, tripped, and then the six of him got back up and went in different directions. Julian picked one and gave chase.
"I'm gonna get you!"
"No way, you're a slowpoke!" Jamies yelled back.
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"Finally!"
The two mutants stepped back to survey their masterpiece. It was a …tent. And it was a massive accomplishment.
Angel turned to see how the two boys were doing, only to see a tent hanging half in, half out of the tree.
And the two boys nowhere in sight.
"Oh no."
What was he thinking?!
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