Jeez, WRITER'S BLOCK SUCKS BIG TIME. But at last, the next chapter! Haha!
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Sunday was a very hectic day for the poor albino mutant. Mystique had made an unexpected visit to the boarding house and had judged Sunshine like a piece of meat as she circled around her, instantly disliking what she saw.
She didn't like the shape-shifter very much either, growling softly whenever the woman glanced her way. The two then got into a very heated argument over Toad, Mystique calling him and Sunshine 'worthless, dirty, pitiful excuses for mutants', and the smaller female mutant countered her with how not to judge people, and that Toad had saved her and brought her in.
When Mystique ordered her leave the Brotherhood at once, she gave the scaly woman the bird. Mystique backhanded her and stormed out of the boarding house, muttering death threats as she morphed into a crow and flew away.
It was half past noon by the time Sunshine had snuck out and made her way over to " Xavier's Mansion of Cool Stuff " she called it.
The students there were kind and polite to her, and openly showed off their mutant abilities, each more stunning than the last. The most interesting mutant there, to her accord, was a goofy German boy who they called Nightcrawler.
He had elfish ears and blue fur covering his whole body, and even a prehensile tail; he could even teleport! There was also a girl who could walk through walls, a boy who shot beams from his eyes, and a very intimidating man that had retractable metal claws, who just snarled at her when she introduced herself.
They had shown her the whole mansion, including the very lavish bedrooms, where she had politely dived headfirst into the pillows, and afterwards showed her the training room.
After much cajoling, Xavier finally let her try it out, and with the help of the Jean woman and Scott guy, made it out alive, though feeling very small and weak, considering her skills were dwarfed by their awesome powers.
Of course, she did feel better when she remembered she broke several machines with her mutant abilities.
And then she was introduced to Cerebro, which intrigued her quite a bit. Cerebro could locate any mutant on earth? Did he locate her when she used her powers while at the mall? Is that why they let her just waltz in here with their full trust?
At the end of the tour, Xavier walked—er, wheeled her to the gate and asked if she wanted to join them, catching her off-guard, where she just babbled incoherently. He told her to think about it, and Sunshine said her goodbye and gave him a hug.
She then remembered it was nearly Christmas and she didn't have anything for Toad! She searched her pockets. Ten dollars, mostly in change. She had to get something cheap, and went to an overcrowded store and bought a small gift that was just perfect! She'll hide it when she gets home.
While walking back to the boarding house, she ran into several thugs who tried to mug her, but she didn't have any cash on her and fighting was the last thing she wanted to do, so she ran and scrambled up a tree in the park.
It was nearly dark by the time she got home, and was now quietly snoozing on Blob's belly while he lay on his back watching TV. "Yes-sir-ee, Santa's coming tomorrow night!" the man on the tube blared, awakening Sunshine who rolled over onto the floor.
"Thanks Freddy," she mumbled sleepily as she rolled off him and dragged herself into the kitchen, getting a drink from the sink faucet, not noticing that Todd, Lance and Pietro were at the table playing cards. "Jeez Street Rat, what is that lump in your pants?"
Pietro asked, laughing slightly. "Yeah really, you not toilet-trained or something?" Lance joined in, the two of them chortling while Toad growled under his breath. "None of yer business chuckle-heads," she scoffed, trying to reach the upper cabinets.
"Oh I'm sooo scared," the speedster sneered. A silver blur whooshed past her, followed by the sound of tape ripping. Everyone's eyes widened to the size of saucers at the long pink tail sticking out of Sunshine's pants.
Lance cursed loudly in surprise while Pietro laughed rather evilly and called Freddy in so everyone can gawk at it. "So that's why you had the duct-tape…" one of them mused, but the albino teen was red from head to toe, sweat beading on her forehead from the intensity of her blush as she futilely tried to hide her extra appendage with her hands.
Her embarrassment quickly dissipated though, and in its place was anger. Vein-popping, blood-boiling anger. She faced the silver-headed menace, which was still in fits of giggles, and backhanded him with all her might. "You dare you!!" she spat, kicking him in the groin, then bashing him in the back of the head with her elbow when he doubled over in pain.
He groaned in agony as he hit the floor, curling into a fetal position, cupping his wounded jewels. "Urgh…. sorry…or ….something…." "You know, dude, it's really not that big of a deal," Sunshine mumbled to him, her anger dying completely as she dragged him into the living room and onto the couch, saying rather sarcastically, "Oh my god! I have a tail!" she went monotone. "Ugh, whoop-de-frikken-do."
"It's just you don't see many people with tails, yo" Toad said from behind her, patting her back. She nodded in agreement. "I also have fur, if ya haven't noticed…" the girl extended her arm so he could look closely, and sure enough, she did!
"Thing is, it's so short that it looks and feels like normal skin, just uh….lighter," she paused for a moment, "…I'm pink in the places that don't have fur."
"Is that an invitation?" Lance cackled as he shoved Sunshine and Toad into each other, making their foreheads smack together and clutched onto one another to avoid losing balance. The two of them blushed at the close contact and the taunting of the other three Brotherhood members.
"A Rat and a Toad," Freddy chortled.
"A match made in heaven!" Lance exclaimed as Pietro joined in, "Or hell!"
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I had NO motivation whatsoever for this chapter. Sorry if it's boring, but I'm running low on inspiration Xx