Authors Note: Yeah, gonna add someone else I think...so now the title isn't relevant anymore lol! Yeah there are gonna be FOUR new faces. Bite me ) Oh and I think I'll change the rating to R so whatever 0 heh heh heh heh!
Sabretooth crashed through the dense forest outside of the X Mansion. He had a Redtailed hawk in his right hand, it's wings and beak broken and bald spots where feathers had been torn out in clumps. The bird was bleeding all over his hand, giving up its life.
"I do nae understand!" a wispy voice said, "She should have come forth with the hawk's screams. She probably heard your loud crashing in here! I mean seriously, can you possibly be any louder?"
Sabretooth growled and said, "You wanna catch her yourself?"
"Knowing her, it should nae be too hard. She's non violent or something. She's a healer, not a pain inflictor. I probably could catch her myself." the wispy voice replied. A young man, in his early twenties, walked over to Sabretooth as silently as a shadow. He was covered up entirely, only his eyes showing like a ninja, "Besides, I do nae think we're s'posed to hurt her."
Sabretooth sniffed the air and said, "You're gonna need me, Mange. Logan's with her."
"Logan? Ha! What's so special about him?"
Sabretooth growled a little bit. He shook his head, threw the hawk down on the forest floor, and stepped on it, a loud squishing noise coming from the dying bird.
"That was sick," Mange said.
Sabretooth smirked and sat down in the forest, "So what else can you tell me about her?"
"Well, she's probably going tae sleep outside, even if she has a bed. She's a funny lass, doesn't trust buildings. She'll most likely be sleepin' wi' a bunch o' animals around her."
"Is she pretty?"
Mange gave the wild man a strange look and said, "She's m' sister. She's isn't pretty at all."
Sabretooth roared at him.
"I...s'pose she is. I mean, I do nae check her out, but she's pretty I guess. She's sorta average, not too pretty, but not too homely," he said nervously.
A smile spread across Sabretooth's face like molasses, "Good. We're gonna be here for awhile. You should make yourself comfortable."
Cassidy clawed at Logan's hands. He refused to let her go.
"I'm serious Cassidy! You would never survive up against him! He almost killed me!"
Cassidy glared at him. He cared about her and she liked it, but she wanted him to stop. People weren't supposed to care about her or anything that happened to her. She was an animal, an experiment gone totally wrong. She wasn't supposed to have feelings or thoughts.
"You really messed up bad this time!" a man yelled.
Once again Cassidy was five, strapped to a cold metal table. She thrashed back and forth, trying to free herself.
"You were supposed to give her a labotomy before her mind completely developed!"
"You can't give a five year old a labotomy!" Dr.Hank McCoy yelled. He placed himself in front of Cassidy.
She looked at him with love for a father burning in her body. Beast had been a father to her, taking care of her.
"You've really messed up, Hank. You're fired!"
"You can't fire me! Who'll take care of her! She's just a child! She won't let anyone else near her anyway!"
"Who said anything about taking care of her?"
Cassidy felt a tear crawl down her cheek.
"You alright?" Logan whispered in his deep, sexy voice.
Why had this memory come back now? "Mmph!"
Logan chuckled and moved his hand.
"Aye, I'm alright." she whispered back, "Is it safe now?"
"I dunno. Hang on, I'll check." he stood up and looked around.
Cassidy watched him from the mulch with intrest. Suddenly, she didn't feel so alone. He was risking his life for the sake of hers.
"I think we're alright to get back to the inside. I just wouldn't stay out here any longer than you have to or without someone with you," he said, helping her up out of the dirt, "Where are your friends?"
"Aedus and Maj? I don't know...I think they wandered off somewhere. I wouldn't worry though, they're capable of taking care of themselves," she said, still holding onto his hand.
It's nice isn't it?
Aye.
He's really a good guy huh?
Aye, that he is.
Do you love him?
Maybe.
That's good, Earthdancer.
Wait who are you? How do you know my name?
"What's wrong? You look confused."
Cassidy snapped back to reality, "I'm fine. Just thinking about things. Your hand has healed quite nicely." she let go of his hand.
"Yeah, it has hasn't it? Are you sure you're okay?"
"Uh huh. Just a little tired I s'pose."
Logan put his hand on her forehead, a worried frown on his face, " I don't think I know anyone that sleeps as much as you."
Cassidy laughed softly as they entered the mansion, "It's what you call 'jet lag' I think."
"Ah, makes sense. You've never been out of Scandinavia before have you?"
"I went to Ayrland once," she admitted, "I was sent there 'cose I got real sick.They brought me back as soon as I got better."
"C'mon, I'll take you to your room," Logan said, walking up the stairs to the dormitories.
Cassidy followed closely behind him, wondering all the while who's voice that had been in her head. It wasn't the Professor, the voice had been too powerful. Sure, Charles was a powerful man, but this voice was almost mericless. She had felt a sense of safety when the voice was around her, despite the gruffness of it. It was almost like Logan's voice; behind it a tormented soul, tired and hard hearted. She looked at Logan who was walking ahead of her. He was so kind and Cassidy felt like she could love him.
Aye, but would he love you back? the tiny, self-doubting Cassidy said from within.
Logan stopped in front of a door and grinned, "This'll be your room. Mine's right next door so if you need anything, I might be in there."
"You might?" she asked.
"Meh. I don't spend too much time in my room. I'm usually in the Danger Room. You do know where that is right?"
"Aye, the Professor showed me. He said I'll most likely need that room." she said opening the door. She gasped when she saw the large room that was to be hers. She had been used to a huge room full of needles and machines, with only a cold metal table to sleep on.
The curtains, floral print, were pulled over the windows, so only tiny rays of morning light could reach their fingers through. She walked slowly through the room, frightened that if she moved to quick, it would all disappear and she'd wake up, back on the cold metal table, facing her impending doom. She quietly knelt down next to the bed and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and exhaled, smiling. Safe at last.
"Guinevere? Are you alright?" Dr.McCoy asked from the door way.
"Aye, I'm fine. where's Logan?"
"I can see you've taken a liking to him. I am not sure where he has gone. But come, have someone for you to meet."
She followed Beast down the hallway to the library. A younger female stood in the middle, looking through a huge book on Egypt.
"Reaganne? This is Cassidy." Beast said, introducing them.
Reaganne snapped the book shut and turned to look at them. She had long, dark brown hair and earth colored eyes that seemed to hold back so much power. Cassidy sensed the awesome power Reaganne was holding within and her arm and neck hair stood on end. She had a tattoo on her left temple. It stretched from the end of her left eye to the start of her left temple. It was almost like ivy vines.
Cassidy smiled at her. Reaganne stared, not smiling. Cassidy bit her bottom lip and gave a frustrated sigh.
"MARF!" Aedus yipped, bounding into the library. He ran up Cassidy's back, jumped off of her shoulder, and landed in front of Reaganne. He grinned at her and yipped happily.
Reaganne couldn't help but smile. Foxes were just so adoreable.
"Hi, I'm Cassidy!" Cassidy said, bowing to Reaganne.
"I'm Reaganne," she said in a quiet voice.
"C'mon, I'll introduce you to everybody!" Cassidy said, grabbing Reaganne's hand and running out of the library.
"But I don't like people," she said softly.
Cassidy looked at Reaganne and frowned, "But these people are cool! They're like us!"
Reaganne gave Cassidy a skeptical look. She watched as Cassidy wander around the mansion as if she was clueless.
"Aye, we're lost now. I'm new here too," Cassidy said with an embarassed smile.
Reaganne smiled again. Cassidy didn't seem to let too much bother her.
"Ah there you are Cassidy!" Professor X said from behind them, "I see you've met Reaganne." Two younger females stood behind him.
"Hullo! I was showing Reaganne around, but I got lost." She admitted.
"I suppose it is a bit easy to get lost in here the first couple of weeks, but it's like anything new, you have to get used to it." he smiled, "Oh! I want you to meet the newest additions to the team, Elliea and Kara."
Elliea was young, but not as young as Kara. Elliea had reddish brown hair and dark blue eyes that hid too many emotions behind them. Kara had light brown hair and green eyes that flashed with the personality of a joker.
Loud shouting came from the next room over and out came Gambit, a book flying after him.
"Damn," he said, turning around. He took one look at Elliea and said, "Damn!"
"Troubles with Rouge again, Gambit?" Professor X asked.
"Oui, and Gambit thinks it may be the end for him and Rouge." he said grinning wolfishly at Elliea.
Elliea smiled and looked at her feet, blushing slightly. Kara gave a dazed look at Cassidy and asked, "What just happened?"
"Dunno, but whatever it was, it was amusing, aye?" Cassidy said.
Kara smiled and poked Reaganne. Reaganne gave a confused look at Kara.
"I was playing," Kara said, with a sigh.
"Uh, so Kara! Where're ye from?" Cassidy asked, changing the subject.
"Germany," she said softly.
"And you Reaganne?"
"I don't know. They found me in London, but I have no clue where I'm really from. Just woke up one day on the street," Reganne explained.
"Elliea?"
"Me? I'm from..." she trailed off, drowning in Gambit's eyes.
Cassidy punched her lightly in the arm.
"Romaina!" she said, waking up.
"Well, that takes care of that," Cassidy said, grinning.
"Wait a minnit! We don't know where you're from!" Kara pointed out.
"Me? Scandinavia I think."
"You think?" Reaganne asked.
"Aye, I seem more Ayrish, but I don't know."
"What happened? How'd you get to Scandinavia if you're really Irish?" Elliea asked.
Cassidy shook her head, "My story isn't one to be told. It's depressing enough as it is to even think of it."
Everyone looked at each other and shrugged.
"What about your mutant powers?" Reaganne asked.
Cassidy smiled, "Half human half dragon! I can speak with, for and give the ability of speech to any animal. I can also shapeshift to their form."
Kara said, "Magnetism."
"I make plants grow," Elliea said, poking Gambit in the arm, a flower growing out of his jacket.
He spazzed and shook his arm. He plucked the flower off and handed it to Elliea, "For you mon chere."
"What's yours Reaganne?"
She smiled and said quietly, "I raise the dead."
"DUDE!" Kara yelled, "No way! That is so freakin' awesome!"
"Like skeletons and stuff?" Elliea asked, not noticing that Gambit had slipped away.
Reaganne nodded.
"I'd say her power beats all of ours by far!" Cassidy said.
They gazed at Reaganne in awe.
"Don't stare at me!" she said and they all laughed with each other.
In that short time, the four of them grew close. None of them knew what the future had in store for them, good or bad, but they didn't care. They were friends, and that's all any of them had really wanted.
"So now what?" Kara asked, looking around.
"Well, I'm pretty much on grounds with everyone here, I suppose I could find them and introduce you all," Cassidy said, smiling.
"You're not going to get us lost again are you?" Reaganne said.
"Uh, no. I know what I'm doing."
"No you don't. You've only been here a few hours!" Elliea pointed out.
Cassidy growled and wrinkled her nose at Elliea in a wolf laugh. She opened a door and walked in.
"Hey, I think this leads to the main foyer!" she called from inside.
The other three follwed her in and they explored the mansion, poking in and out of rooms. They ran into a few of the X-Men and Cassidy introduced them the best she could. She even met a few people she hadn't seen before. One such was Kurt Wagner.
"Guten Tag! Ich heisse Kurt Wagner. Ich bin auch Nightcrawler," he said.
"Tag, Kurt! Ich bin Kara Schiller. Wie gehts?"
"Gut danke! Und du?"
"Auch gut danke!" Kara said with a smile.
"Waitaminnit! Hold up here! I don't know what you're saying!" Elliea said.
"Oh nothing. I was just saying hello and asked how he was," Kara explained.
Reaganne stared at Kurt with intrest. He was so different. Kurt stared back with the same intrest.
Kara elbowed Cassidy and said, "Reaganne! This is Kurt Wagner."
"Hi..."
"Hallo."
Cassidy grabbed Elliea and Kara and took them away saying, "You two get to know each other better okay?"
She dragged them out of the room and into the hallway, saying, "C'mon, you haven't met everyone yet!" She led them down the hallway, turning corners and trying her hardest not to let them know she had no clue where she was going.
"Cassidy...you're lost aren't you?" Kara asked for the seventh time.
"No! Of course not. It's just a bit farther!"
Elliea and Kara exchanged glances and continued to follow Cassidy.
"Need some help there?" Jean asked from behind.
Cassidy smiled and said, "Aye! If you could tell us where we can find everyone else?"
"Oh sure! They're all in the War Room! The elevator is down this hallway and to the right. It's in the subbasement and it should be right down that hallway on your left. You can't miss it." Jean said.
They're coming! She said telepathically to Rouge.
Cassidy thanked Jean and led the other two down the hallway. As Jean had promised, there was the elevator to the subbasement. They got on and rode the elevator down. They walked down the hallway, joking with each other and laughing loudly. They hung a left and opened the door. It was oddly dark in the room and the door shut behind them. Cassidy turned around, her green split pupil eyes glowing and she pushed on the metal door.
"Locked," she said, "Someone wants us in here for a long time."
