--May I please ask for a moment of silence for the death of my faithful 11 yr old dog, Shadow. She shall be missed.--
Chapter 9 – A New World
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-Funky Stargate SG-1 Wormhole cut scene-
Cobal and Rogue appear in mid air and fall amid the other mutants. Slowly they all get up and get their bearings. The Group has arrived in a large clearing, in a dark forest, scattered beams of light filter in though the branches and leaves.
"Ok that was fun except for the fall," states Lance as he helps Kitty to her feet.
"Yea, like where are we?" asks Kitty as she looks around.
"Well it would look like we are in a forest clearing, and it is roughly noon," states Pyro stating the obvious. Colossus hits Pyro on the back of the head. "I was only saying what I knew."
"Did you hear that?" questions Logan, turning he looks at the edge of the forest, snarls begin to echo from all around.
Cobal, and Logan reveal their respective blades, "What are they?" questions Toad as he edges up to Logan.
"Sounds like wolves but it is way too loud for any I have ever heard," states Sam from were he is standing next to the rest of the new mutants.
From the edges of the clearing step a pack of wolves, but these wolves are nearly the size of horses.
"My God," whispers Blob.
The wolves snarl, then one lets out an ear piercing howl. The howl cuts off suddenly as all the massive beasts spring forward. Logan and Cobal charge toward the charging beasts and begin to slash at them. Lance reaches his hand out and the ground begins to shake causing the wolves to loose their balance just long enough for Sam and Peitro to slam into them. Gambit, lights up his cards and throws them at the wolves as they get near the other mutants.
"I think we are going to need some help here, Logan," yells Cobal a he grabs a Wolf by the front legs and throws it into another.
"Good to see your thinking of me," Rogue jumps and lands behind a wolf, grabbing the tail Rogue flings it back into the forest.
"Let me see that is three down, three to go," huffs Pyro, after roasting a Wolf with fire.
Slowly a normal wolf walks from the trees, letting out a howl it charges forward. Reaching a wolf it leaps and in midair changes into a werewolf, landing it claws and bites the massive beast until it falls, dead on the ground. Suddenly a fiery beast erupts from the forest and lifts a wolf into the air and pitches its charred remains into the forest with a crash.
As the Mutants regroup the werewolf walks around them. "What do you think it wants?" questions Scott as he helps support Cobal, who is sporting a broken arm.
The werewolf stops and stares at Scott, "What I want is none of your concern, mutant," slowly the werewolf walks up through the group and steps up to Rahne. "You are like me," gently the werewolf places a hand on Rahne's shoulder, "perhaps you would like me to show you the full moon tonight,"
Rahne looks up into the creatures eyes, "I would like that."
From the edge of the woods walks a young man his long blue hair flowing lightly in the breeze. Walking up to the group the man appears to walks bent over a bit, his clothes appear to be made of leather, a pair of fingerless gloves cover his hands, "I see you have meet my friend Rabid, I trust that you are all quite friendly with him he doesn't like people thinking that he is a stupid animal. Ah but where are my manners, my name is Michael or you may call me Kraken if you wish." Michael looks over at Cobal, "you might want to get some blood soon, I imagine that has to hurt a great deal."
"Why do you think I need blood?" questions Cobal.
"I know because I know you are in some way a vampire," turning Michael begins to walk away, "your teeth give you away."
"Are you two mutants?" asks Rahne, still looking into Rabid's eyes.
"Yup, Magneto sent us eight months ago and out of thirty mutants sent through only six have survived," states Rabid looking up from Rahne for the first time.
"Wait why did only six survive?" inquires Scott.
"We survived because we are strong," states a voice from behind Scott, causing him to spin around to see nothing behind him. "A bit slow you know that," this time the voice is next to Michael, suddenly a rippling liquid seems to appear and flow away revealing a blond haired boy, "name's Chris but you can call me Chameleon."
"Pleasure to meet you, comrade," Colossus makes to shake Chris' hand but is distracted by a object flying directly over his head.
Looking up everyone sees a beautiful woman with large angelic wings. Landing softly the angel walks up to Michael and salutes. The woman's entire body shimmers and the angel, is replaced by a woman with a long black hair. Turning the woman looks at the group of mutants that are staring at her blankly. "What, haven't you ever seen a shape shifter before?" inquires the woman, "my name is Ridley,"
"Are you related to Mystique?" questions Jean.
"Mystique is my aunt," states Ridley, her body changes into the blue woman then changes back. "She doesn't like me much," states Ridley, slowly her hair shortens into short pink hair that is gelled into spikes.
Lance walks up to Michael, and punches him in the nose, Michael staggers back a few steps.
"Lance why did you like do that?" demands Kitty running over, her voice angry.
Slowly a blue liquid trickles from Michael's nose, "nice to see you again too, cousin," reaching up Michael wipes the liquid from his face.
Suddenly a large wolf bounds out from the trees, grabs Michael's arm with its mouth and drags him across the field towards the trees.
"Let go of me," Michael's voice echoes throughout the clearing, his eyes begin to glow a fierce ice blue. Michael reaches up and grips the beast's throat, causing the creature gives a pained whine. The Wolf appears to shrink in size for a moment, while Michael seems to grow larger, then hair begins to fall from its body, Michael releases the wolf, the body falls limply to the ground, then disappears into a pile of dust. Michael stands the scratches on his face and arms seem to disappear from his body. Michael sways for a moment then falls unconscious; Ridley rushes over and catches Michael right before he hits the ground. Ripley hefts him up onto her shoulder, revealing to the group that Michael is about half as big as he was a moment ago. Partially dragging Michael Ripley sets him down on the soft grass near the group and then stands. "He'll be out for a few minutes nothing to worry about," states Ridley more to herself then to anyone else.
"What just happened?" inquires Remy.
"Michael's mutation originally allowed him to move through water effortlessly, when we came here our powers evolved, mostly healing abilities. Rabid is instantly healed when he stands in the light of a full moon, Chris heals faster when he goes invisible, Michael heals himself by using the water from his body. When he grabbed the wolf he absorbed all the water the wolf had in its body and used it to heal himself, unfortunately it knocks him out every time he heals himself," explains Ridley, quickly.
The branches above the group noisily spread apart, as the fiery creature from before returns, landing on the ground it disappears and a woman with bright red, and orange hair appears. "You started without me, you guys are no fun you know that," states the girl, pouting slightly, "I see Mike had to heal himself." Reaching down The red head places her hands on either side of Michael's face, steam billows from their touch. Kraken's eyes snap open, "Ok, ok I'm up, I'm up," Michael swats the woman's hands away, "What did I miss?" Standing Michael looks at the Red head for a moment, "You finally got here," he turns to the group, "this is Keri, aka Cerebus"
Keri creates a ball of fire in one hand, dropping it the ball uncoils into a large snake that crawls up Keri's body till it is wrapped around her neck, then appears to squeeze. Keri looks at Pyro, "Don't even try to compare your abilities to mine," the snake lashes out and wraps around Pyro's neck as well and drags him to her.
"Perhaps you would like to test that, hmm?" questions Pyro as he blasts Keri with his flamethrowers, at point blank range. All of the fire spreads out, but stops before it reaches any one else. The Fire engulfs Pyro and Keri, until neither can be seen within the inferno.
"I think you are tiring, Sparky," laughs Keri from within the fire storm.
"I think this has gone on long enough," Michael mutters, with a fast gate he walks into the raging fire, without looking back. From inside the fire the sound of someone getting punched rings out, almost instantly the fire dissipates to reveal Michael standing over both Pyro, and Keri, steam billowing off of his body. "Chill out both of you or I will give you a reason to use your powers," Michael helps both of the mutants to their feet and then looks deeply into Keri's eyes, "Go and make sure there will be enough beds for everyone. Giving a slight nod, Keri becomes enveloped with fire once again, the fire forms into the flying creature again. Giving what appears to be a roar the creature flies through the leaves once again.
"Um...ok now I am confused," states Toad.
"Your friend didn't like the fact that Keri could create and manipulate fire," states Ridley from behind the group turning they see her transform into an angel again. She also takes off into the air slowly circling the edge of the woods.
"Michael it would seem that more dire wolves are approaching from the woods I suggest that we move back to camp," states Rabid as he walks up to Michael.
"You're right," Michael turns from Rabid and looks at the other mutants, "I recommend that you come with us to our camp there you will have a safe home, but if you desire you can stay here in the wilderness. If you can fly follow Ridley, the rest of you come with Chris, Rabid and me, but you must keep quiet so as to not alert the wolves of our presence." Cannonball takes off and follows Ridley up through the trees, while the rest of the mutants follow Michael, into the dark and forbidding forest.
Where are the X-men, Brotherhood, and Acolytes being taken? What will they meet in the forest? And what is the story behind the mutants they have met? Why the heck am I typing like this? I don't really know, anyway I guess I didn't get to the Cobal/Rogue explanation I said I would do. PLZ don't flame me about it, the next chapter will have explanations for it. Ok now that I put that off for another chapter, I would like some ideas for things for them to meet in the forest. Plz send those to me, one last bit of info I am using the Dungeon&Dragons Monster Manual for monsters and some other characters so if you are confused plz refer there.