Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I do not own the X-men! I own any charaters that are new to this story.

Authers note: This chapter is heaps better than the 1st one, thanks to my friend! Anyway, please reveiw! I haven't gotten any reveiws so Please reveiw. This is my first story, so I need critisim (but helpful, not bad!)

We've been riding for about 20 minutes now. It's so much fun, riding in the snow. "Oi! Crystal!" I called out (I was leading.) "What?" She called back. "Watch out, theres a pot hole or something there, Simba almost tripped!" It was almost too late! Crystal pulled out just at the last moment. "Wow, Chase, calm down! Thanks S.J! That was too close!" Crystal sounded a little shaken. "It's ok, Simba almost freaked. We have to be really careful, we can't see the pot holes now!"

I was laughing at that, when something ran straight across the path. Simba spooked big time! He took off in the opposite direction, into the trees. I could hear Crystal and Cherie, calling after me and trying to control their own horses. Simba's the youngest of the three, so he spooks a lot easier than the other two, plus, the other two didn't really see the 'thing', it was right in front of Simba. I don't know what it was, it looked like a human, but it was really big, HUGE! It blended in well with the trees, it seemed to be wearing a white/grey coat.

Simba had bolted so far before he stopped that I was in a complete daze. I didn't even know where I was and I know these forests like my sister, which is pretty damn well. Simba finally slowed down in a fairly large clearing. In the middle of the clearing, was a jet. How weird is that! It's just like the one they talked about on the news, flown by mutants. I have nothing against mutants, I think it's cool what they can do, but not all people do. There was a few people in the clearing, but none of them had seen me yet, I thought I'd just back away slowly and quietly. It was the perfect plan, until Simba decided to throw me off. "Ouch!" I exclaimed, landing with a thump on my backside. As I said before, Simba's the mischievous one.
That got the people's attention! A girl, not much older than me came rushing over. "Oh my gosh! Are you alright?" She mustn't have been much of a horse rider, because even if I had a sore arse, it wasn't a bad fall, it just took me by surprise when Simba reared up, that's all. "Yeah, I'm fine. How clumsy of me! I'm sorry to disturb you, I'll just get going now," I was blushing, but the thought just hit me, how was I supposed to get back on Simba, I'm way too short, and she's too tall to climb onto. "Wait, would you like a drink or something?" asked the girl. I could tell she was American by her
accent. "Um, no thank you, I left my friends in the forest and they don't really know their way around," Right then as if on cue, Crystal and Cherie came bursting out of the under growth. "S.J. Thank GOD we found you, are you OK?" Crystal asked, a look of worry on her face I hardly ever see.

"Are these your friends?" asked the girl, I hate to say 'The girl' but she hasn't introduced herself yet! "Yeah, that's them," I sighed, rolling my eyes, how did they follow me? "This is Crystal and Cherie," I said, pointing them out in turn. "Hi, I'm Rogue," The girl said, turning to me. "Oh, I'm S.J," I said, after Cherie gave me a kick in the back. "Oh!" said Rogue, a look of understanding coming over her face. "Your Storm's sister, aren't you?"

How did she know that? Rouge didn't even give me a chance to reply, because she turned around and hurried over to the Jet. I let out a sigh, as if suddenly realizing I'd been holding my breath the whole time. "One of you two get down here and gime me a booster up, so we can get going again. Did either of you see the thing that ran across the path?" I had guessed it was a wolf, but it was way to big for any normal wolf. "What thing?" Cherie asked, hoping down of Tiger Lilly to help me up (She's the tallest out of us three.) "The thing," I said, "The thing that spooked Simba." "What are you talking about, S.J, there was nothing there, we just saw Simba spook and take off, so we followed you" Crystal said, in a gentle tone, before adding, "Are you saw you didn't hit your head, you don't look to good." I hate it when you know your fine, but you just can't convince the others to belive you. "I'm fine. I just wanna get going so I can get outta here, how did she know Storm, or that I was her sister?" I said, in a tone that I hoped had sounded firm, but at the end I kinda lost the firmness. Crystal and Cherie both knew at that, that there was no way they were going to talk me out of getting back up and riding, so without another word, Cherie gave me a lift up onto Simba and we were off. I looked back, and saw Rouge and some other people, who looked a little older, standing with her, and I saw Rouge look straight at me an point as if I had done somthing wrong. I speed Simba up and disapprared into the safty of the forest, or so I thought.