Disclaimer: Once again, I own nothing! Well, just Laughing Water and the other characters my weird little mind came up with.
Author's Note: Finally, I'm putting some X-Men in!!! I didn't know when I would get to it. Oh, and this is two years after the whole Alkalia Lake event. Eh, two sounds like a good number. Oh, and in this story Jean Grey is still alive. I know, I know. I think she's annoying sometimes myself, but she's too nice to die. And about the whole Phoenix thing...yea, I couldn't work that out. I admire anyone who can. Well, here's the third chapter.
Chapter 3
Laughing Water knew it was time to leave her grandmother. She was eighteen now and she had to start getting a sense of who she was. She knew she was a healer, but that was the only thing she knew for sure. She couldn't be content with just helping and healing anyone that came to her for the rest of her life. She would of course be a healer for the rest of her life, but she didn't want it to be her life.
"It's time for me to go, Abuelita," Laughing Water said, holding her suitcase in one hand, with her back pack on her back, and a book bag over her shoulder. "The money I have is suficiénte; it's enough."
"I know, chiquíta. Take care, little one, and may the gods guide you," Estella told her granddaughter and kissed her forehead.
Estella followed Laughing Water out to the porch, and when they embraced one last time Estella slipped her tough, worn medicine bag around her little granddaughter's neck. "And no babies until you're married, eh cabróna!" Estella sent Laughing Water off with a sharp slap to her bottom.
"You know, Abuelita," Laughing Water began, walking to her car, "I've been thinking about the whole baby thing. I don't think I'm gonna have any. I'm just gonna make war!" And with a whoop Laughing Water loaded the rest of her things into her car and drove off, never looking back. She knew her Abuelita would be all right. The gods favored their family and would never let anything bad happen to her. She rolled down her window, whispered a message, and sent the message back to her Abuelita on the wind, one of her many talents thanks to her mutation.
As Estella turned to go back into her little house, she heard something being repeated over and over, and it was getting closer. She smiled as the words finally reached her...
"Te amo, Abuelita. Love you."
Back at Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Charles Xavier saw Laughing Water leaving home, and knew that now was the time for her to join them. Although he didn't know how to handle an eighteen-year-old girl's whose life-long dream was to be an Aztec warlord...and he thought Logan was bad!