Did I mention that it was Stephen who coerced Dri into doing that weird soul swap thing with enigma's avatar? Er well yes that was his fault. We really aren't supposed to like him much, if you haven't caught on yet.
deep breath okay. Driani. Didn't really want to be a vampire. Stephen was influencing her telepathically her whole life to get her to stay with him. Then he dies. So she's really confused, but doesn't tell anyone for fear of disturbing her tough vampire image.
THEN Archema comes into the picture. He's an evil dark wizard; named after the company my dad works for. I kid you not; it was just a good scary sounding name. His girlfriend was a vampiress named Calabrina (one of the demons from Dante's inferno which I read because of one of the x-men annuals in which Margali banishes Kurt there…it was a good book, right Angela? Moving on) who was killed. So he's getting ready to bring her back to life and then thinks, hey, why not bring back ALL dead vampires everywhere? So he does. Including Stephen, who seeks out Driani. This is really bad because now vampires are running amuck everywhere, do you have any idea how many have been killed since the beginning of time? A lot. And they're everywhere now. By forming a tense working relationship Stephen, Wolverine, and Vampira join together to seek out Archema and kill him, which would in turn kill all vampires everywhere forever. Because Stephen and Dri know that this would be for the best. Guess who helps them kill him? Enigma. Told you she solved all my problems. But first there's a couple of edgy moments where it's unsure which guy Dri wants to be with and, in one of her signature cruel and unfathomable parting gifts, Enigma manipulates Dri into saying some rather hurtful things to Logan. Why? So that I can have my cutsie 'I'm-so-sorry-I-love-you-so-much-etc.' scene. Aww. Yes, I alternate between 'thrilling' action sequences and semi-sheer fluff, no it's not intentional, and yes I like it this way. More questions? For god's sake review. Moving on. So NOW what? The whole vampire saga was really cool by the way. So we've got out real team consisting of Logan and Driani, Kurt and Sariceia, Kitty and Piotr, Storm, Rogue, and Rachel. Then you have the little fake team of wannabe- I mean, the New Mutant-esque group aptly codenamed Division 2. Clever, no? And this team has Caroline/Mystere, Sita/Serpentine, Mark/Poision (yes it's spelled that way and I like it), Kyle/as of yet no codename, Zap/as of yet has no real name, Jubilee/er Jubilee (who had a Kitty-esque 'Professor X is a jerk (1)' type whatdaya mean you're putting me with the X babies? Until she found out Zap was there… no complaints after that wink win.), Akiko/Solar Blaze, and Maria/Lady Laser. Have you met Maria? She was actually the first mutant I came up with and ironically one of the last you're going to meet. Her power is the ability to produce all manner of light forms, basically everything found in the electromagnetic spectrum. She's from Spain and speaks only Spanish, to the vast annoyance of everyone, for quite sometime. That would be because Rachel doesn't possess the finesse necessary to teach someone a language without transferring all of her own word associations. So eventually she and Maria go to Muir Island to learn that with Professor X, and then all is well. Anyone read Ranama ½? No? It's not that great though kind of funny, but there's this girl named, bizarrely, Shampoo. She doesn't speak, er, well for them its Chinese but for us American readers it's English, so she just skips around singing poorly phrased things like 'you I love!' This is what Maria does to Kyle for a while. It's amusing at first, until it isn't. Yeah. If I end up doing a fic on the Division 2 kids and their exploits that will definitely make it in. saaay…would you want me to do that? Want to let me know via review? Thanks. The other thing that would be there would be the Cari/Mark/Sita love triangle and its resolve, because that was just fun. Darlings what have I left out? Something is surely unexplained. Don't know what it is though. Sigh. So this is good bye to Redefinition…until I take it down for editings and fixings!
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(1) It's a back-issue thing. X-men essentials volume 3 I think. Could have been 4. anyway it was the time Professor X tried to bump Kitty down to the New Mutants and she got mad.
