From The Author: I am soooooo sorry about not doing any updates in a loooong time. My muse vanished from me, but returned. Well I hope you like it, but it probably isn't as goos as the others since the only Leo related thing is him fighting with himself, but there is some Rouge Asher in here.
Chapter 8
'I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh'
'I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away'
'I keep your photograph; I know it serves me well'
'I wanna hold you high and steal your pain'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome'
'And I don't feel right when you're gone away'
'You've gone away, you don't feel me anymore'
'The worst is over now and we can breathe again'
'I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away'
'There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight'
'I wanna hold you high and steal your pain'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open'
'And I don't feel like I am strong enough'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome'
'And I don't feel right when you're gone away'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open'
'And I don't feel like I am strong enough'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome'
'And I don't feel right when you're gone away'
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome'
'And I don't feel right when you're gone'
'You've gone away, you don't feel me anymore'
-Seether & Amy Lee-Broken Feat-
"What would you call an odd creature that lives on Earth?"
Kathy and Kurt were in biology class. She managed to sneak in her headphones, and since they were the type that went behind her head, the teacher Mr. Larson didn't notice.
"Ms. Hunter, would you like to participate?"
"What?" She snuck her headphones off.
"Could you name what you would think is an odd creature on Earth."
"Does it have to be scientifically possible to be real?" She asked
"Real, or extinct."
"Well, the thylacine is odd, since it is a marsupial that looks like a canid, but so is the giant ground sloth, or the present day frog fish."
"I know what else is weird, mutants." A student said
"Oh yeah, human beings, the only creature on this planet that kills for sport, polluted the planet, and picks on others that are different." Kathy got out of her seat. "Human being are a mistake of evolution! That is why quantum evolution is occurring, mutants are a way that mother nature is trying to fix her flaw." She looked the student strait in the eye. "Hello inferior." Her eyes switched from normal to catlike, then went back to normal.
"Ms. Hunter, go to Principal Kelly's office now."
"Yeah, I go but what does this jackass get? Nothing he gets away for the fucking incident." She got her stuff and walked out the door. "Oh yeah, fuck you America."
Everyone turned and stared at Kurt. He sunk low in his seat.
"Well, well, well. Would this be the eighth time this month Ms. Hunter?" Principal Kelly sneered at her.
"Yes it would." She smiled sarcastically.
"What is it this time?"
"What was the other times?"
"You have had an argument with all of the normal students."
"Yep." She tilted her head back and blew a bubble gum bubble. "One question? Why do you despise us so?"
"What are you talking about."
"Don't play innocent you mediocre excuse for a Principal, you just like to pick on us because we are different. Well get used to it. When we are gone from this school, there will be more each year as nature corrects her mistake."
"Are threatening me Ms. Hunter?"
"No, I'm just forewarning you."
"I hope you like serving detention with me Ms. Hunter."
"Kath come back yet?" Tobius asked Kurt.
"Nien."
"Why is she gone anyways?" Kitty asked. It was lunch time.
"I told you, she got in trouble during biology." Kurt said.
"Sorry." Kitty rolled her eyes.
"Hidy-ho guys." Kathy said as she sat down.
"Hey Kath, what did Kelly do to you?"
"Detention. The usual. Anyone care to share their lunch? Principal Bastard kept me too long and I didn't have time to buy one at Dog and Suds."
Scott gave her a bag of chips. "Kat, ever think of not getting in trouble?"
"I have the right of free speech, but I guess in democracy was only an idea, not an action."
"Kat, your only 16, when your that age you shouldn't care about the government. You can't even vote yet."
"So? I have to care about the government. They do all theses weird things, like Area 51, or Pine Gap in Australia, or research facilities for mutants."
"Kat, have you been hacking again?" Scott glared at her under his shades.
"Yes."
"Stop that, you'll get thrown in prison for that."
"Why should I stop? The people need a right to know what our government is doing."
"They'll tell us when their good and ready."
"What about Roswell? It's been 57 years since the crash, an only five documents have been released, and most of the information was marked out, leaving you with nothing."
"You care too much about this." Scott snatched his chips back. "Why can't you act like a normal person. Your just freaky, even by mutant standards. Just give up on all this crap."
"Give up on it? I might waste away to normal."
"What a loss."
"Your mean." Kathy snatched his bag of chips. "Why do you care about what I'm doing anyways? And don't say because you're my friend, because I want a better excuse." She put her headphones on and turned her CD player on.
"Kat. Kathy. Raptor!"
She took one speaker off her ear, while the other was still on. "I'm sorry, do you have an appointment?"
"What? No."
"Then I can't let you talk to without an appointment. If I let you talk to me without an appointment, then I would have to let everyone else talk to me." She put her headphones on her ear again.
"12:30, Thursday, May 16th." He said to her.
"Hello there Mr. Summers." She smiled devilishly.
"You say I'm mean? Your evil."
"Maybe so, but you have five more seconds to talk to me. Five, four…"
"Kathy, no, wait stop."
"Two, one. Talking time is over, KoRn time is beginning." She put her feet on the table top, and tilted her chair back.
"Woink." Tobius took Kathy's headphone off her head.
"Toby! Woa." Her chair fell backward, her with it.
"Ha, ha." Tobius said.
She got back up. The whole cafeteria stared at her. "What? Never saw a person fall off a chair before?! Go back to your pathetic lives.! NOW!"
"You know, I think they have a drug to cure that." Tobius said.
"I'll get you fag."
"Sure sis."
"Like now." She pulled his chair from him.
He fell to the ground. "Ow."
"You know Tobius, OJ can kill." she poured orange juice on his head.
He staggered to his feet, orange juice dripping fom his hair. Two student walked behind him giggling. "What? You think this is funny?! Tell me what's so funny?" He shook his head, hair messed up. "Is it my hair? Or is my sister, like the Niagara falls, eroding the bedrock of my life!"
The two students stared at him, then walked away. The group at the lunch table burst out laughing.
"You think it's funny that I have an orange pulpy liquid dripping from my hair!?"
"I could have svorn it vas called orange juice." Kurt said in between laughs.
"He, he, he, he. Funny." Tobius said mockingly. Tobius turned and stared at Kathy. "What did I ever do to-" He thought. "Scratch that."
"Yeah." she smiled.
"Just zink of it zis vay Tob, now you have a reason to shover after gym." Kurt smiled big.
"Nnnn." He smiled fakely. then left.
"That was mean Kathy, but funny." Kitty smiled, wiping away tears of laughter.
Rouge walked home alone.
"Hey Rouge." Asher flew up to her.
"Asher! Are ya crazy? Someone could see ya."
"I don't care, unless you want me to leave." He said sadly.
"No, I just don't want anyone to see ya here, looking the way ya do."
"So your ashamed to be around me?"
"No, stop that."
"But if I don't care, then why do you care?" He hovered beside her.
"Because yer maw friend."
"That's nice to know." Rouge continued to walk. "Wait up." He flew after her.
"Asher, I'm just worried for ya."
"I can take of myself. I have since I was ten, it doesn't take much."
"Well, maybe ya need a friend to take care of ya."
"Who, like you?"
"yeah."
Asher stopped. "Well, I guess I'll do what you want." He vanished in a mist of black and purple smoke.
"Asher, I didn't mean for ya to go away." She stopped.
He reappeared silently. "So you want me to stay?"
"What? I thought you vanished from 'ere."
"I did, just behind those trees." He pointed.
She shook her head and laughed. "Asher, I do want ya to stay. Stay at the institute with us, with me"
"Gee, I would love to, but the open skies call out my name."
"Stay at the institute, and get a warm bed. Food, and ya can fly around the outside as long as yer like."
"I don't think so. My home is outside of four walls, and inside nature." He was about to put his hand on the side of her face, until she pulled away.
"I don't want to hurt ya."
"You won't." He put his hand an inch from her cheek, then his hand touched her skin. Nothing happened.
"I don't get it. People are hurt if they touch maw skin."
"I can temporally cancel out your powers." He said softly.
"Tha's a hell of a gift Asher."
"Yeah, but not all my powers can make a person happy." he put his hand away. "Some can kill."
"Asher."
"No, I have to go." He bent his knees ready to push off the ground, his wings spread open, and with one great flap, he was gone.
Kathy sat on her bed, her head in her hands. Pain surged through her skull. The pain was horrible, and she didn't know what to do. 'Why can't you leave me alone? Get away from me!' she screamed in her head
'Because you are my prey.' Leo answered back.
Kathy stopped. She froze stiff. Leo could hear her. 'Get away, get away, go away from me! Why me? Why do you have to go after me? What importance do I have to you?'
'Because you stared into my eyes, and now you shall suffer.'
"NO!" Kathy screamed out.
BAMF
"Kathy, vat's wrong?"
"He won't leave, he'll stay, he'll kill, he'll destroy."
"Kathy?"
"Something horrible will happen." She looked up at him.
"What do you mean Leo is the ultimate evil? We fought off Apocalypse, he was the evil, Leo is just some messed up guy." Logan said
"I'm afraid not Logan. Leo can kill anybody. He can kill everything on the planet if he wanted to, that's an apocalypse." The Professor said.
"So that means he can kill us at any moment." Jean said
"I honestly think the reason he didn't kill us already, is because he can't. Every person he has killed was non-mutant, leading me to think that he can't kill mutants, only in a fight, but not concentrating on them."
"That doesn't explain me." Kathy said
"True, Leo is a mysterious mutant. There are no records of him, which is making me think Tigris purposely got rid of his records so he would basically never have existed."
"He doesn't anyway." Asher said. "Only the dragon is alive, Leo is dead. He is literally a ghost, but if you keep him in dragon form too long he will stay like that, and be mortal once again."
"So he can't kill us? That's good." Tobius said.
"Yeah right." Kathy said
"So Leo is the undead?" Bobby asked
"No, he's alive, but he's dead." Asher explained to him.
"So he is the undead." Bobby repeated.
"Fine, whatever." Asher said irritantly.
Leo flew out into the city. He stared down at all the people. To him they were small and worthless, nothing more than a waste of nature. 'All the people yet to die. All the people who should be killed now, for they shall all perish one day, and I'm just making it quicker.'
Leo blew out a puff of smoke. His handicap of being blind in one eye didn't help him. His head searched back and forth, like a monitor lizard's, forked tongue hanging out the side of his mouth like a dog's. His black eyes scanned the ground. His right paw hung, throbbing from the sword that went through it. Leo searched for new prey, another person to torment, to play with.
Kathy was only for mild thrills. She was strong, too strong to break, and Kurt snapped too easily, his shadowed past always sneaking up on him, and Leo found no amusement in that. He wanted a toy that was strong, but could break. A person that was cold, but at the same time kind.
Leo snorted. 'To have all this power, and no where to spend it. No one to care for a black dragon, but a dragon doesn't need love, a dragon needs treasure, and an occasional maiden to torture.' Leo snorted again, this time in amusement. He never remembered being so enveloped like he was with his dragon form. The feeling of being a dragon never crossed his mind. He never felt so dependent on his dragon form as he was now.
Leo scanned the ground, looking for the right person. 'Many people in the world. Many cities and towns to look, and so little time.' He yawned. Killing was starting to bore him. And he hated the empty feeling he had inside. The feeling he got sickened him. 'But how am I to feel pity? I don't, I'm a dragon and dragon's feel no emotion.'
'No, I'm not a dragon, I'm a human.'
'But you like to think that. Think that there is some speck of caring in this soul of mine, the only soul you have left, and your lifeline.'
'I can live without being in dragon form.'
'No you can't. You need me, you need the body of a dragon, because you are a worthless little human. A weak one at that. What are you without me? The dragon. No, your just a little white haired boy that was hated by his daddy.'
'I won't let you take over me.'
'Succumb to the dragon, fall to your knees, and kill the people.'
'No, no, NO!'
Leo roared in frustration. He flapped in the air manically, he shook his head. The dragon had a mind of it's own. It wasn't just another body to Leo, not anymore, now it was a living thinking creature.
'You will fall. You will kill everybody. You will even kill yourself, then the world will be left as a hell.'
Leo roared and plummeted to the ground, falling into a forest, branches scraping at him.
Thud.
Leo hit the ground, cracking many of his ribs. His long tail lashed out in pain. He let out a horrible moan, that sounded like a dying lion.
His wings shrank into his back, long tail vanished, the scales melted into soft human flesh. He stood up, weak and disoriented. He took the sunglasses out of his pocket and put them on, hiding his black eyes.
Tobius sat on the couch, flipping through channels.
"Hey Toby, how about not flip the channels every five seconds." Kathy said
"There's nothing on."
"Zere's over 700 channels, choose one!" Kurt shouted at him.
"You know Toby, there is a guide, so you don't have to do that. That's one of the many perks about digital cable." Kathy said
Tobius looked down at the remote. "Oh, I didn't know that."
"Now you do." Kurt said.
Tobius flipped through the guide at hyper speed.
"Vill you stop zat! Look for somezing, zen choose vat is interesting to you."
"Fine, fine." Tobius picked Saturday Night Live.
"That's better." Kathy said. Kurt stared at her. He worried about her. "What?" Kathy said, she noticed him staring at her.
"Nothing."
"Hey Tobius." Kitty called to him.
"Yes'm Kitty-cat."
"Your cell phones been, like ringing for the past five minutes."
Tobius stopped to think. "Gotta go." He got off the couch and ran up stairs.
"Who would call Tobius?" Kathy said
"Himself." Kurt replied.
BAMF
He snatched the controls off the couch.
"No, wait." Kathy got off the chair and tried to take the remote control away from him.
"Nein." Kurt struggled with the hold on the controls.
"Fine then. Keep your spooty controls." Kathy got up and strolled off.
Kurt watched as she walked away. "Hum." Kurt shrugged. He flipped to Rocko's Modern Life.
"Give me that!" Kathy charged him. She struggled to get the remote away from him. "Let go!"
"Never!" He said.
"Alright then." Kathy said. She rubbed him on his ticklish belly. He burst out laughing, his hold on the remote loosened. "Ha, ha success." She took the controls out of his hand, and got off of him.
"Zat- vas- not- nice." Kurt managed to say in between laughs.
"Oh well." Kathy flipped to the History channel to watch a show on UFO's and aliens.
"No." Kurt moaned.
"Oh please knock it off, you saw the episode last week."
"So. I happen to like zat one."
"You say that for every rerun you see."
"Nein, not all of zem."
"Oh I'm sorry, I meant 99.9% of the time." She said nastily.
"Vhy don't you just buy za stupid show on DVD?"
"Because it's $34.95. I'm not paying all that money for a lousy 40 minutes of alien time."
"If it's so lousy, zen vhy vatch it?"
"Because my elven friend, this intrigues me."
"Ooo, it intrigues you, and vatching Rocko's Modern Life intrigues my too, so let's vatch it." Kurt sneered at her.
"Let's not. I like that show as much as you do, but I like Mysteries in History better."
"Zat's vhy zere is history class."
"You take European history, I take history on the Americas."
"Okay zen lazy American."
"Who are you calling an American?, I'm at least seven different European nations."
Kurt thought for a moment. "But your citizen, you vere born in Chicago."
"And I will die there too."
"Vat a great outlook on life."
"After I'm done with high school, I'm going to apply for UIC, and I'm going to go there, and I'm going to stay there."
Kurt froze. "Your going to leave me? Leave here? Vhy?"
"Because Chicago is my home."
"Germany is my home, but you don't see me hopping a plane to go back, now do you?"
"So, I don't like here. I like the big city, the people. I just feel home there, besides I was born in Southside."
"So?"
"You don't know the rivalry or the slums of there?"
Kurt shook his head.
"You do know there are two baseball teams right?"
"Ja of course. Vat other city has two baseball teams?"
"Good, well the Southside is White Sox, Northside is Cubs. I'm a Southsider, so I love the Sox, but the Southside is like the ghetto, slums, messy, not the best place to live. I grew up there, and look what became of me."
"Still, your going to leave?"
"Blue boy, still two years."
"So, only two years of knowing you, zen kaput."
"You know a wonderful thing called email came a few years back."
"I can't just email you, I need to talk physically to you."
"You are now."
"Vhy do you alvays have a point?"
"I dunno." Kathy stopped talking and watched TV.
Kurt stared at the remote as it just sat on the armrest. He smiled devilishly.
BAMF
"Ha, ha. Mine."
"Give me that back." Kathy got up.
"Vhy should I?"
"Because I said so."
Kurt shrugged. "Oh vell."
"Come here you." She lunged at him.
Kurt yelped.
BAMF
He teleported onto the top of a bookshelf.
Kathy looked around. "Where are you, you little blue beast?" Kathy said. She noticed his tail hanging down. She walked over to the bookshelf. "Ah, this must be one of those things you pull for service." She pulled on his tail hard. Kurt fell to the ground. "I would like a bubbly with some soda crackers with a can of cheese wiz." She snatched the controls from his hand.
"Ow, zat hurt." he complained.
"Aaawwwwwwwwwww, to bad." she still held his tail.
"You mind letting go of mein tail?"
"No." she let go. She sat on the chair, controls in hand.
Zeke walked by and plucked them from her hand. "What the? Zeke! Give me those back!"
"Give me a good reason?"
"I got ten of 'em." She raised her clawed hands.
"Yeah, and I got two fans loaded with venom." He ran his tongue across them.
"I hope you envenomate yourself." She said with her arms crossed.
Kurt was laughing on the floor.
"What's so funny blue boy? Tell me."
"Was funny is zat you fight this whole time for za damn zing, but in za end you don't even get zem."
"Eh, shut-up." She threw a pillow at him.
"Your still the same." Zeke said.
"Let's spread the wealth." She threw a pillow at him.
"Hey! Bitch."
"I'm not a dog, I'm Raptor."
"What the hell do you call a female dinosaur?" Zeke asked her.
"A female dinosaur." she said.
"Don't get smart with me."
"Already am."
Kurt stared at the two of them fight. "I don't know if I vant to know your as long as he does. You tend to fight a lot."
"Blue boy, I hate the guy, and you're my best friend."
"Gee feather head, I'm so glad you care, but remember, if it wasn't for me Trex would have killed you."
"Okay then thank you."
"Scaly." Logan looked down at her.
Kathy tilted her head back and looked up at him. "Yes'm?"
"Your crocodile." He gave her Lock-Jaw. "Stop leaving it in the tub full of water."
"Okay one: Lock-Jaw is a he, not an it. Two: He is an American Alligator, not a crocodile. Three: I leave him in there because he needs water. And four: Why can't you just put him back in my room?"
"Um."
"I thought so." She took Lock-Jaw in her hands. The little beast nipped her finger. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." She pulled her finger away from his jaws.
"At least he likes you." Kurt said.
"Ha, ha funny." Kathy sneered. Kathy looked over at Zeke. "Are you sleeping?"
"Not anymore." He grumbled.
"Vow, I didn't know a person could fall asleep zat fast, vell not someone in zeir zirty's."
"Sorry!" Tobius yelled. Kathy and Kurt stared at him. "Sara dumped me."
"Vat a surprise." Kurt said plainly.
"Oh well, other fish in the sea. Women can't leave me alone." Tobius ran his hand through his blue dyed hair.
"cough yeah right cough." Zeke said.
Tobius glared at him.
"Nice." Kathy said.
"Tob, are you sure your no za influence for System Of A Down's Ego Brain?" Kurt asked him.
"Maybe, that'd be cool because then I could get money. Lot's of money. Lot's and lot's of it. I'll by a pool and fill it with gold coins." Tobius rubbed his hands together in greed
"Can you svim in gold coins?" Kurt asked his greedy friend
"Noooo, but I don't care. I will have more money than… um than… Bill Gates! I will become famous. I will become rich, I will become happy. I will wake up in the morning and sing the Monty Python Money song!"
"Oh please no." Kathy said
"You don't the money song?"
"I do, but in the wrong hands it becomes a weapon of little destruction." Kathy said.
"Not really a weapon now is it?" Zeke said as he got up and walked away. He felt awkward in the situation he was in. Just then Pietro sped by him. "You little SOB, get back here!" Zeke yelled.
Pietro came back. "What up lizard?"
"This." He conked Pietro on the head.
"Owyoulittlebastardhowthehelldidyoudothatwithoutmeknowing?" Pietro said in his fast voice.
"I'll pretend I didn't know what you just said." Tobius said.
"How za hell did you understand him?" Kurt asked.
"I don't know." Tobius said fearfully.
"Oh please." Kathy said
"Vat?"
"What?"
"You said 'oh please'."
"So?"
"Vat vas at about?"
"I don't know, just felt like saying something. I could have said give me gravy or give me death, but oh please got you attention." Kathy put Lock-Jaw on the seat of the chair as she got up.
"What's with crocodile?" Pietro asked.
"God damn it you people. Lock-Jaw is an alligator, and American alligator from the Florida Everglades you dim wit. They are two different reptiles! A crocodile can survive in saltwater, and a an alligator can't! Alligator's are fatter, crocodiles are slender. Crocodiles are the biggest reptiles on earth, and alligator's are second biggest."
"Down girl." Pietro said backing away.
"Yeah you better be afraid of me you fleet footed freak."
"Look who's calling me a freak, freak."
Kathy's eyes flickered with hate. Only three words ran through her mind; maim, maul, kill. She leapt, grabbing him by the shoulders. "I'm going slice you head off and put it on a stake and slow cook it."
"Get off me bitch!" Pietro screamed at her. Kathy made an odd metallic hawk like screech at him.
BAMF
Kurt grabbed Kathy.
"Are you crazy?" Kurt said to her.
"I want him dead!" She tried to get at Pietro, but Kurt held her back.
"Nein, lassen Sie ihn ist!" (Leave him be.)
Kathy made a deep throated growl, then stopped struggling. She sighed. Kurt let go of her. She picked up Lock-Jaw and went to her room.
Tobius and Kurt glared at Pietro. "Bastard." Tobius said.