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Chapter Three – Waking up
*Can you hear me?* a male voice said. It didn't really sound normal. There was something strange about it, but what? I tried to answer but my throat was dry as a desert.
'My head. It hurts like hell' I thought. My head has pounding and I hadn't opened my eyes yet, fearing that the light would make the headache even worse.
*You hit your head on a tree root when you passed out.*
'What?! You mean that really happened?'
*Yes, it did.*
'Hey, I have a question. Why does your voice sound so weird? And how came I'm talking with you without moving my mouth?'
*That's because I'm talking with you telepathically.*
I thought about it for a second. Oddly enough it made sense. My eyes were still closed, and it felt like they weight a ton each. I decided to open them. I was met with the sight of a bald man sitting beside me. I once again tried to speak, and now I managed to say one word.
"Water" I said in a hoarse voice.
"Ororo, can you get a glass of water for the young girl."
Had my mind worked properly I would have recognized the woman much quicker. Ororo, also called Storm, came over to the bed with a water jug and a glass. Then she helped me sit up and drink the water. At that moment nothing tasted as good as water.
"Thanks" I said after finishing my second glass. I looked up at the woman. She looked like an African American and had white hair and blue eyes. My mind was really slow at that time so it took me a long while before I put two and two together. But at least I was making some progress.
"You're welcome, child" she said. "I'm Ororo Monroe and this is Charles Xavier. Who are you?" I looked at her and thought:
'Not again! Why do these people insist on pretending to be X-Men? Don't they ever give up? What's next, Beast popping up from nowhere?' Just as I thought that Beast came in to the room.
"I see that our sleeping beauty has finally awakened. How are we feeling today?" he said. I couldn't believe my eyes. In front of me stood someone… something that looked very like the X-man Beast.
"It can't be… You're not… You're not real. I'm dreaming. Yeah, that's right. Dreaming, just dreaming. Nothing else but a dream. Now I'll just pinch myself and I'll wake up and everything will be normal again." I kept shaking my head, got off the bed and started backing away from the three people who claimed to be X-men. They exchanged some looks amongst themselves before I felt my body go numb. Before I fell to the floor Beast had caught me and put me back on the bed.
"What the hell happened? How came I can't move my body? What did you bastards do to me? You drugged me, didn't you?" I said, well actually I was kind of screaming. I was just about to continue screaming, but the anaesthetics that Beast gave me right after he put me on the bed kicked in. My vision started getting blurry and everything went dark.
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When I came to again there was someone lying on the bad beside mine. She had golden-brown, nearly blond hair. She wore desert combats and a black tank top. Her hair was loose and it looked like it had a life of it own. The reason for this is that the girl had woken up, strapped to the bed. What was worse was that they had strapped me in too.
'Those bastards! Oh, I will make them pay for this. They are the ones who are crazy, yet they strap me in.' I heard the girl growl and then she tried to free herself. Of course it didn't work, but she just kept on trying.
"That won't help, you know" I said. She glared at me. I looked back at her with an amused look on my face. This only pissed her off even more.
"Who asked you anyway?! I don't need your help. And why are you smirking like that?"
Oh, I was getting a kick out of this. It was hilarious to look at her. She thought she was giving me a death-glare? HA! That glare was nothing compared to my death-glares. And what was up with the attitude? I was so amused by the way I made her slightly squirm. God knows I love to provoke people.
She was just about to say something when a bunch of people entered the room. In came Logan, Kurt and Beast. As soon as the other girl saw Kurt she started to threaten him to death.
"YOU!!! You are so going to die, you bloody wanker! You just wait till I get my hands on you, you giant blue fur ball" she said with a mad gleam in her eye. She raised an eyebrow and glared like there was no tomorrow, for him that is…
'If we met under different circumstances we could probably get along" I thought to myself as I watched her giving Kurt a death-glare. Lucky for her that this one was better than she had tried to give me. But she still had a lot to learn.
"Now, now, let's all play nice shall we?" Beast said as he moved away from the girl and came closer to me. I guess that he though it was safer to approach me than her. And I have to admit, she did look like she would bite you if you came too close. She did look like she had been bitten by a rabid dog or something.
"And how are you feeling? I hope that you weren't offended by what happened earlier. You gave me no choice" he said as he checked the monitor that I was hooked up to.
"No, no hard feelings at all. I meet a lot of people who pretend to be X-men, all the time actually. And the sedative was just a lovely bonus, just like the strapping" I said sarcastically as I smiled.
"Looks like we've got ourselves a smart-mouth here" Logan said leading against the wall.
"Kiss my ass, jerk!" I wasn't really in the mood for this. All I wanted was for them to free my hands and feet and to go home.
"No need t' get your knickers in a knot, kid" he said coming over to my bed.
"Who you calling a kid, fur ball?" I have no idea why I kept doing this. It couldn't possibly be good for my health. Wolverine growled and was getting very angry. It looked like the vein on in his neck was about to burst.
"Logan, take it easy. She's just a little girl" Kurt said trying to calm Wolverine down.
"Hey, who you calling 'little', you big blue freak?" I said. Yup, I really should learn to shut the hell up! But instead of yelling at me they ignored me.
'What the hell... Why aren't they yelling at me? They must be planning something. That's properly why they're talking so quietly...' I decided to provoke them so that they would slip and make some sort of mistake.
"Hey short, dark and hairy! What's the matter? Afraid of little o' me? Is that why you're picking a fight with someone who can't defend themselves?" That really got him attention. He turned and he did not look happy. He looked really pissed off. I was REALLY starting to regret my decision when I saw the mad look in his eyes. There was only one thing that went thru my mind at that time:
'Oh Crap!'
Lucky for me that Beast and Kurt choose to interfere with our little tête-e tête just then. They held him away from me while I grinned wickedly. The other girl had watched the whole thing and found it very amusing. She was laughing so hard her side was starting to hurt. To think that a strapped in girl could agitate a man like Logan so much. What made it funnier was the fact that Logan had to be calmed down by his two blue buddies.
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Short, dark and hairy, oh that was a classic! I was almost peeing myself laughing. I was starting to like this girl; she definitely had a gift when it came to annoying people. I still wanted to maim the blue fuzzy elf, usually I had an extremely soft spot for elves, but this one was just annoying. It was amusing seeing him and the chunky blue Sugarpuffs monster try to hold back the short-arse; he was a good six inches taller but was still having trouble with the dwarf. I looked over to the girl who was grinning evilly; this just made me crack up more. Little did I know that my laughter was going to be cut VERY short.
During the fighting to hold the short bugger back, he grabbed the fuzzy elf by the collar and threw him across the room. Unfortunately for me, it happened to be in my direction. As you can guess I was not happy when the great blue lump landed on me. I was already pissed off with him and this just made it worse. His furry nose was almost touching mine as he lay on top of me for a second. I was mentally trying to calm myself down, but it wasn't working.
'Don't maim the elf, don't maim the elf…' I kept telling myself, a fat lot of good that did. What can I say? I have a violent disposition. My anger was roused and I felt the usual tightness in my muscles as I tensed like a bowstring, but something else was happening. A tingling feeling ran through my body and I shook slightly. The fuzzy elf frowned, knowing as much about the situation as I did. I clenched my fists and pulled hard against the metal restraints that were holding me down. Usually I would have seen no point in doing this but as my blood boiled I didn't seem to care much for logic.
I felt the restraint on my right wrist bend and twist, metal was not supposed to do that. With one last wrench of my arm the clasp was ripped out of the hard metal table I was currently on and with one arm free I proceeded to try and strangle the fuzzy blue… uh… thing.
"Holy crap!" the girl next to me gasped as my left arm came free. Maybe I was stronger than I thought. Before I could do anything to him, fuzz-boy made a quick exit off of me and he ran back over to where shorty and honeymonster were standing looking slightly shocked. The understatement of the year!
I sat up, now free from my restraints and blinked slowly. What had happened to me? My arms felt lighter than usual, then again so did my whole body and this strength that had just 'appeared' out of nowhere. With my hands I tore open the metal strap over my waist and for that moment I was free… plus every person in the room was staring me at. Not that I blame them, I'd be staring at me too.
'Hey, instead of just sitting there, how about you help me out of these too?' I heard the girls voice not through my ears, but in my head. I shook my head and looked at her strangely.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah… just give me a minute okay?" I answered aloud, causing confusion in the ranks.
"So my hypothesis was correct," the honeymonster said to himself. I looked up at him and frowned.
"You hypothesis being…?" I asked, still trying to figure out this mess.
"I believe you both think you're human, yes?"
"Yeah, what else would we be?" the girl snapped.
"You never know, we could be aliens," I joked. She raised an eyebrow at me.
"Well it could be worse, we could be supermodels, they sure as hell ain't human…"
"So what are we then, Oh Great Ball of Fur?" I smirked, looking back to the well-spoken walking bear rug.
"Have you heard the term 'homo sapiens superior'?"
"I know I'm superior, what of it?" I remarked, not actually knowing what the hell he was going on about.
"Yeah. That's mutants. Wait a minute. You're not trying to tell us that we're mutants, are you?" the girl asked. How did she know all this stuff?
"Actually that IS what I'm trying to tell you," the big blue furry one said. Wow, everyone is blue and hairy, maybe it's a cult.
"Well…um…that explains a lot…" was all I could think of to say. "Well, I'd love to stick around and chat, but I have places to go and people to annoy beyond mortal reasoning."
I slid off the table and began to walk towards the door. The two blue dudes and the hairy dwarf blocked my way.
"Would you care to move?" I asked, shooting the cat a death glare.
"No" he answered. Jeez, this bloke was annoying. My temper soon flared up again, it doesn't take a lot.
"Move you ignorant little piece of horse shit!" I yelled. My bad language had once again reared its head.
"Where will you go? Do you even know where you are?" the beastie thing asked.
"No and I don't give a fuck, move cat-boy!" I glared once again at the fuzzy elf
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After she had glared at the blue elf-like one she threw him across the room.
'Man, she must really dislike him…' I thought.
He hit the wall and fell to the ground in a lump. She must have come to her senses because she ran over to him saying:
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry. Please be okay. Please!"
Man I felt sorry for her. But then it hit me. Not the blue thing or the girl, but what the big blue thing had said. He had mentioned the term 'Homo Sapiens Superior'. I repeated it slowly to my self. Then it all clicked. But I still couldn't believe this was for real.
"Homo Sapiens Superior, in other words mutants. If what you are saying is true, and you are who I think you are then that means that we are in the US. Westchester if I remember correctly, a little bit outside of Manhattan" I said thoughtfully to my self.
"That is correct. So you do know where you are after all."
"Not me. I still haven't got a clue" the other girl said looking over to us.
"Surprise, surprise" I said. She must have heard me because she gave me another one of her 'glares'. I simply rolled my eyes as an answer. I turned back to the one I guessed was Beast. He was big, blue, had glasses on and had a chart-thing in his had.
"So, you were saying something. Something about you hypothesis…"
"Ah yes, I ran some blood tests while you were sedated and according to it you both have the X-gene."
"Okay, let's say that you are telling the truth. Then you must be Beast, the blue thing over there by the girl must be Kurt Wagner, or Nightcrawler. That leaves the one I insulted like hell and who tried to slice and dice me, which is none other than the one and only Logan, or should I say Wolverine" I said pointing out everyone in the room.
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