Disclaimer: Happy New Year!
Quote: "How come you and Kagome spend so much time together and yet you never seem to bathe at the same time? Think of all the fun you can have when there's two of you!" - Shippo to Inuyasha
A week has gone by since Marc asked Des to marry him. He was taking her out to dinner to their favorite restaurant. The night had only begun and Marc made plans for them, besides dinner, was to take her to a movie. They would decide once at the Bayville theatre. Des had turned on the radio awhile back and has started singing along with a Rasmus song.
Marc chuckled, finding her singing to be wonderful. "You know after seeing my brother with Wanda the past few times. They seem to be a perfect match and good thing he asked her to marry him. Before I had to bug him about it." Des said as she stopped singing. "Yeah you would have been evil about that." Marc then stopped at a red light. "It's going to be weird to have Magneto as a father-in-law now."
With the waxing moon over head the light helped a cloaked figure jump from rooftop to rooftop with quick swiftness and stopped. The person gazed over the ledge down at the black truck, at the sight of Des, who was talking and laughing with her fiancé, a smirk crossed the person's face.
A slow chant started emitting from the figure's mouth, high above them. Marc's hearing caught the faint sound but he ignored it though. "So, should we set Delano up with someone?" He asked, seeing as he was the lone brother still not taken yet. After the light turned green, he took off and the figure began to chant louder in Latin and kept up after them.
"Of course we should set him up." Des said with a smile, wondering whom his type was for in a woman. The chanting sound got to Marc and he pulled over to the side of the curb, which worried Des to what, he was hearing. "What is it?" She asked but he held up a hand to silence her.
He got out of the vehicle and scanned the tops of the buildings. The dark, black cloak covered the figure's face when he saw someone move into the shadows. Marc dashed off to the alley as Des opened the door. "Stay there I'll be right back Des." He called back to her and she stayed in the truck. The figure had stopped chanting but it wasn't going to stop him to find out who it was.
Soon he was climbing up the escape ladder on the side of a building the person is on. Once up there he noticed the cloaked figure staring at him from over at the other side. " Take tutela of vestri diligo. Tunc vicis is ero mei." He said then leaped off the building. Marc growled not liking the sound of that and looked over the edge but he had disappeared.
Marc jumped down the last few steps on the ladder and looked ahead to the truck. Des was holding her head as if in pain, her face contorted and breathing heavily. Marc raced over to the truck and pulled the door open. He held her face in his hands and saw in her eyes, pain and fear.
"What happened?" He said, very concerned about her. "I don't know but what I do know is that I don't feel like myself." She replied, shakily. Feeling worn out for some odd reason and having the urge to sleep. Marc closed the door and ran to his side and hoped in. After checking to make sure no traffic was coming from either direction. He then made a big U-turn and headed back to the mansion. Having to drop all the plans he made too.
"Did you see anyone up there?" Des asked, curious about his trip up on top of the building. "The person spoke Latin which makes him sound familiar," replied Marc. Des's brows pinched together in thought. No one came to mind just the thinking was messing with her head. Marc didn't care if he had to speed to get back to the mansion. He just knew he had to find out what's going on with Des and quick.
A block away from the mansion, Des blacked out. Once there he carried her up to Xavier's study and laid her down on the couch. The others were curious to what happened to Des and some followed. "Like, what did you do?" Kitty asked, accusingly from the doorway.
"I didn't do anything." He snapped at her. Knowing that she should have known better than to say that. Ceres walked over from the shadows and sat down. "What happened?" She asked, looking Des over. Seemingly asked the same question Xavier was going to ask. He wheeled over and Marc faced him. "You have to help her."
"I can't help her until I know what had happened." Xavier said. Marc explained to him about the mysterious chanting he heard, about the cloaked figure and how he seemed familiar in some way. Then, went on to mention how Des was acting up until just about ten minutes ago. Xavier took the knowledge into mind and thought about how the figure mysteriously appeared and sought out Des right away.
Another thing came to mind was the deal with the chanting and how it could relate to Des's current situation. He placed his hands on either side of her temples to see what's what. Ceres, Marc and Delano were waiting nervously to what the professor would find. Seeing as Logan shooed the other on-lookers away. Charles's eyebrows pinched together from concentration as he was searching around Des's mind.
So much memories were blocked from him, which made him wonder what she was hiding. Other memories he came upon were from the past and present. Most were from her childhood when she was happy with her mother, father and two brothers. The most gruesome image of what her father did to them, especially what he did to Delano. Before her mother could get them away.
Xavier wished that he would have found out and had had helped them out so it wouldn't have gotten this bad. But the past has been written and played out so he didn't have any power over that. Suddenly, darkness engulfed him and gave him a wary approach. Whatever it was pushed him out of her mind with a great force was able to push him back in his wheel chair as well.
"What happened?" Delano asked, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. Sensing something wasn't right with the problem at hand. "It was like someone else has been harboring inside of her unnoticed until now." He managed to collect. "Something evil and not of this world."
"Ok now what you just said scared me." Marc said, kneeling beside Des. The word evil and harboring were never good to hear together. "It can be possible seeing as everyone has their own demons inside of them. That hers manifested with the chant you heard but also there has to be a purpose for doing so." Ceres said.
The jaguar did have a good point the others had to admit. Which then left to whom it was that wanted this to happen and why. After a good amount of racking his brain, Marc suddenly realized who it was. "That bastard wanted her dead before." He broke out with venom oozing from his voice. "Wait I'm confused." Delano said with a confused expression.
"You're always confused besides you have no idea who I'm thinking about. Seeing as none of you have fought him before." Marc said while running his fingers through his hair. "So, who is this person?' The professor asked with a raised brow.
"It makes no sense on how he can still be alive. Seeing as he was torched along with the rest of the mall from almost five months ago." He rambled on, not getting to the name mentioning. "Oh I've heard something about that." Delano spoke up. He may have been isolated from society but that still doesn't mean that his dad used to talk about things that have happened though. Except that one time he did escape from his father.
Xavier left them to be alone with Des. Finding that Volt would need to be notified of what has happened with his baby sister. Delano, Ceres and Marc just sat in silence while Des slept. "What was the person's name you were thinking of?" She asked while staring at the fire mutant. Marc let an awkward silence go by before replying. "Tyrece." He said in an evil tone as if the name burned his tongue just by mentioning it.
Slowly the night got late and Ceres headed off into the shadows to go sleep in the jungle or some where's of that sort. Marc though it best if Des stayed in the study and ordered Delano to stay and keep watch. Of course, the wolf wasn't going to object to that. Seeing if Tyrece was really after her he'd maim him. Marc retired to his room for the night to sleep an uneasy sleep.
The next morning, Marc awoke and quickly went to check on Des. Once in the study, he noticed Des was gone, the window open slightly and Delano still asleep in his wolf form on the floor near the couch. He walked over and shook Delano roughly. Causing him to jump up and transform back. "What?" He said in a sleepy haze. Marc simply pointed to the empty couch. "What the fuck?" He yelled in shock and surprise. Taking in the fact he could have heard anyone walk around and would have woken up if he fell asleep. "How… this makes no sense." He came to the conclusion.
Marc slammed a fist into the side of Delano's face. "It's you fucking fault she's gone!" This shocked the wolf even though he knew it was his fault but was sure to get Des back. Ceres slipped out of the shadow in the corner of the room. "Would you two stop!" She sat down by them both. "Fighting will get you nowhere and won't bring Des back. Besides, there's a hint of magic in the air. So, that can be the reason why the mutt slept through the night without waking up."
Marc raised a brow. "How can you tell?" He asked with curiousness. "I've been around." She replied with a mental smirk. "If we want to hurry and find Desdemona. We must move now. I do have some knowledge of where Tyrece could have possibly taken her." Delano and Marc nodded in agreement. "Volt and Wanda would want to find her. I know Cally would too but she's not a mutant and can get hurt." Marc said, forming a plan.
"Well let's go call them up and leave." Delano said, running out the door. He stopped halfway down the hall as Xavier wheeled towards them. "No need to I have already took the liberty to call them and they're on their way as we speak." "Thank you professor." Marc said with a smile. "How'd you know anyways?"
"Mainly because I woke up before you did and checked." Xavier replied, courteously and wheeled off. "Also, you two need to learn not to curse." He mentally told them and they sweat dropped. They then went downstairs to wait for Volt and Wanda to arrive. After a half an hour of patiently waiting that was making them jittery, they showed up. Volt looked pissed but then how can you really tell when he looks it with those piercings.
Wanda looked equally ticked off. "Whoa! Before you two start going on a rampage Ceres knows where to find Dizzy." Delano said while holding up his hands in defense. Wanda raised a brow in disbelief. "Really?" Ceres nodded. "All you four have to do is to keep a hand touching me while I help you travel through the shadows to the destination."
Volt nodded in understanding. "Well we should get going and waste no more time." The other nodded in agreement. "Good call, bro. Let's go kick Tyrece's ass." Delano said with a grin. "That fucker again? He's going to stay dead this time." Wanda said with agitation. Volt pounded a fist against his palm ready to take him down again.
They went to an area with shadows in the mansion where the sunlight didn't reach yet. Logan wished them luck for whatever laid ahead. Marc, Delano, Volt and Wanda all placed their hands on Ceres's back and they all melted into the shadow.
A/N: Muahaha! I didn't anyone would have suspected him to come back. Now what's next for them and what's going to happen to Des.
"Take care of your love. Next time she will be mine." - translation to what Tyrece said