Chapter 7

A group of mutants sat watching Storm pacing the room. Logan rolled his eyes.

"Storm, calm down," Cyclops sighed.

"Yeah miss, I sure Nina can take care of herself," Rogue offered.

"Yes, she probably can," Storm sighed, "But she's been gone for almost an hour."

"Yo, woman, chill out," Meta snapped, "Its Nina, the girls got 'touch me and I kill you' written all over her!"

"Lolly's right-" Stacy said

"What you call me?"

"Look, mum Nina doesn't like confined places," Matthew said.

"She's claustrophobic?" Kurt asked.

"That's the second in the family," Charles noted.

"But this isn't a closed in space," Kitty said. Many people agreed with her.

"No. Not like that," Matthew sighed. "She doesn't like to be surrounded by people."

"She has this stupid 'no touchy' thing," Spider said, while knitting her self a leather jacket with her powers. "Look, lets just say if she was stuck in a small room with say, Theresa, Kitty, Marie and Jubilee, she'd be a little uncomfortable."

"More like mental," Meta said. "So it's less claustrophobic and more too-many-people-in-one-room-phobic."

"Brilliant name, Meat," Matthew snorted.

"Think you can come up with something better, Einstein,"

"Matthew, Lolita, shut the hell up!" Helen snapped. Both sneered at her.

"The three of you, shut it," Logan growled.

"Like that's gonna work," Nina said, walking into the room, Spot, Sam and Remy followed after her.

"Young lady were have you been?!" Storm snapped. Nina raised a brow, her brothers and her friends started laughing. "It's been almost three hours! I've been worried sick."

"Okay one, my name is Nina, not young lady, two, I don't care if it's been a stinking year," Nina snapped, "When I go for a walk I only come back Spot wants to come back, three, what the hell are you on!?"

"Excuse me!" Storm asked in a soft deadly voice, Warren and Scott, who were standing closest to her moved away. "I've been waiting, worried something has happened to you, and even your brothers were worried about you."

Nina looked over to her brothers, Julius was drawing in his sketch book, Matthew was on the floor rolling around in laughter and Tobias was shaking his head. "Um, sure they were."

Logan laughed, but was silence by a glare from Storm.

"Nina, we need to talk privately," Storm said pulling her daughter out of the room.

"Come on Spot," Nina said, the cat followed.

"Spot can stay here," Storm snapped.

"Alright, Spot," Nina said, "Stay, try not to kill anyone, even if they are annoying."

The cat walked back into the room and sat besides Tobias.

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"Okay make this short and simple," Nina growled, sitting on the bed,

"Nina, what's wrong with you?" Storm asked as she sat besides Nina

"Nothing," Nina answered.

"No, there is something wrong I can feel it,"

"Fine, I just a little annoyed by Succubus," Nina sighed, "You know, when I got out of that I'd be free of all that garbage, no rules, no stupid power stealing chains, no worrying about Jules every two minutes, no stopping Meta from tearing the place apart. But now, I got to stop Succubus before she hurts any one else, she's already killed seven different animalistic mutants, God knows how many other mutants."

"Nina you're not alone in this-"

"I know there's Toby, I track her, he kills her," Nina added.

"No, Nina I mean I'll be there, so will the X-men,"

"No," Nina shook her head, "You won't be able to take her out. Only Toby can, using her greatest fear."

"Oh, but we will still be there," Storm smiled, "So what exactly are Tobias's powers?"

"He can find your deepest fear and use it against you," Nina said, "He creates an illusion that can only be turned of by him. Which is why he doesn't sleep in the same room as anyone else, it's easier for him to kill a person in their sleep. Oh and he can cause people to sleep when he talks too much or sings."

"Scary powers."

"Yeah, but they are quite useful," Nina said.

"Nina, if you ever need anyone to talk to," Ororo said, "I'm here, alright."

"I know, I ain't blind," Nina said. Ororo rolled her eyes. "What?"

"You really have got an attitude," Storm sighed.

"You haven't spoken to Tobias yet have you?" Nina asked, "If you think I've got the attitude you're gonna get a major wake up call when you hear him on a daily basis."

"Something tells me I don't want to hear him," Storm muttered, Nina nodded.

"I've got to go; Spot's probably attacking someone as we speak," Nina said standing up.

"How exactly did you get Spot?"

"One of the workers stole it from the zoo," Nina said, "Gave him to me."

"Oh, how old is he?"

"Only two years, so he is still a cub in my eyes," Nina said walking to the door, Storm followed her. "Oh by the way, that boy we saved this morning, Sunshine is it?"

"Sunspot,"

"Yeah, he is a little pissed, something about a soccer game?"

"Oh crap!" Storm cursed, "I'll go talk to him."

"Good luck," Nina smirked.

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Roberto sat up catching the sun's rays as they flew into his room. He sighed, the match had ten minutes left, the door swung open, and Ray Crisp walked in.

"Hey Sunny,"

"What?!" snapped Roberto.

"Chill man, Brazil is winning," Ray said, "Score is five-three, it's a pretty boring game though, oh and Ronaldo's injured, he sprained his leg."

"Oh, damn," Sunspot sighed, "At least they are winning."

Someone knocked on the door, it swung open and Storm walked in. Sunspot rolled his eyes.

"Ray, do you mind?" Storm asked. He shock his head and left. "Roberto?"

"What?"

"I owe you an apology, I'm sorry we left with out giving you an answer," Storm sighed, "Warren Worthington was being attacked by some mutant, so we left quickly to help him."

"Oh, but he's fine right?" Sunspot asked, anger subsiding and concern growing. All the students saw Warren like a big brother.

"Yes, Julius healed him,"

"Who's Julius?"

"Oh, you weren't here when they were introduced," Storm said, "We have a few new students."

"Oh yeah, I saw Stacy, Lolita, Matthew and Nina, who is your daughter right?" Roberto said, "How?"

"Yeah, it's along story, but Matthew, Julius, and Tobias, are my sons,"

"What? How?"

"The four a test tube babies; never you mind the long details of their birth,"

"Okay, that's just weird man," Roberto mused, Storm nodded.

"Okay, I have to go, forgiven?"

"Yeah," Sunspot smiled, "Say hi to Warren."

"Alright," Storm said, "Get some rest, I sure Mr McCoy will let you out of your room tomorrow."

"Okay," Roberto said, his stomach grumbling.

"When was the last time you ate?"

"Yesterday, at dinner,"

"Alright, I'll send the boys up with some food," Storm smiled leaving the room.

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"Toad, are you going to clean that room of yours?" Mystique snapped walking into the TV room, inside Toad sat with the boys watching the footy. Toad looked up and shrugged, "Yes you will, now! The boys' room is cleaner then yours!"

"Does that include Frog's side?" Pietro smirked.

"Shut up," Toad snapped, Blob, Avalanche and Quicksilver looked at Toad in surprise, "I'll clean it later, and where the hell is Sabertooth?"

"In his room," Mystique said as Todd stood up and began to leave the room.

"Where the hell are you going?" Mortimer asked.

"Outside," Todd answered.

"Okay," Mortimer said walking to Sabertooth's room.

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A group of students sat watching the TV, when suddenly Kitty screeched and jumped over the couch they were sitting on. She was pointing frantically at the wall behind the TV, many of the students looked at her in annoyance for the disturbance, but Siryn, and Jubilee also saw it. Spot looked up from were he was resting.

"Oh my God!" Jubilee screeched "Look at the size of that spider!"

Many other students also screamed and jumped over the couches looking terrified from the large, black hairy arachnid. All the girls were squealing except for Rogue, while all the boys were trying to play macho man but were also scared by the large spider. Sam Guthrie ran out of the room screaming at the top of his lungs. Remy and Warren walked in looking behind them in surprise as Sam bolted off. Cyclops, Wolverine and Nightcrawler also ran in.

"What the hell the matter?" Wolverine asked. Everyone pointed at the spider, both Kurt and Scott jumped in surprise. "Alright, some one, give me a shoe."

Warren pulled his shoe of and threw it at Wolverine; it hit him across the head and fell to the floor. Wolverine growled and picked the shoe up. He stalked over to the spider ready to strike it when suddenly he was pounced on by Spot.

"What the hell!?" He pushed the cat of him, and got back to the spider. "What's wrong with the cheetah?"

"Its warning you to leave the spider alone," Nina said walking over to the cat, "and it isn't a cheetah, it's a leopard, cheetahs have spots, leopards have designed marks, go on and type it up, the two are extremely different."

"Anyway, why exactly did it stop me from killing it?" Logan asked as Nina walked towards the spider which reared up showing its fangs.

"Because, this here," Nina said placing her hand against the wall just under the spider, many gasped, "is Fang, my Huntsman spider, please refrain from killing it."

"Ewww, how can you have a pet spider?" Kitty asked.

"Easy," Nina said, as the spider crawled onto her hand, "the same way I have Spot. I use my powers to control them."

"Well why do you call Spot, Spot if he is a leopard," Rogue asked.

"See his tail, its just orange with out the patterns," Nina said kneeling besides Spot pulling the tail into her hand, the spider now perched it self on Nina's shoulder. She pulled the tail up to reveal a single black spot on the leopard's tail, "tad-da."

The students laughed at the tad-da.

"Where's Toby?" Nina asked, facing Matthew.

"Down at their pool, with Jules, Josh, Meta, Stacy and some other kids," Matthew said, "They got an indoor pool."

"Cool, you gonna go down?" Nina asked.

"Of course I am, I am after all the master of liquid!" Matthew grinned.

"That and the master of morons," Nina sighed, "Let's go. Any one wanna join us?"

"Yeah," many students said following the pair out of the room.

"Great, now we gotta baby-sit them swim," Wolverine growled throwing Warren his shoe.

"Well then, let's go swim as well," Warren suggested wearing his shoe.

"Might as well," Cyclops said.

"But its winter," Remy pointed out, "It's too cold."

"Its okay, Remy they have a large indoor pool, it's heated," Warren laughed. "Remy and I will meet you there."

"Alright," Cyclops said, as he, Kurt and Logan turned the corner opposite of the other pair.

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Todd hopped onto a rock, and watched as the water fell into the river. He sighed, it was relaxing and calming. He began to wonder if Nina would return. He had a good chat with her before Toad came and scared her off.

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"Hey Warren, Remy's got an idea," Remy said standing behind his lover, kissing his neck, "Lets not go right now, but go tonight, we can skinny-dip!"

"Remy, not here, we could get caught," Warren said turning around and pushing Remy gently away from him.

"Sorry," Remy said, looking away sadly.

"Don't be," Warren assured kissing him gently on the lips. "Come on lets go. You ready?"

"Oiu," Remy smiled. The two left their room.

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"Julius!" Storm cried as Julius went screaming cheerfully into the large heated pool. Joshua was using his body as a catapult and many of the students were lining up to follow the healer. Stacy, Kitty, and Jubilee followed, all cheering as they hit the water. Rogue was next, dress in a body suit that divers would wear; she even had water proof gloves on. Hank McCoy walked in and up to Storm who was lazing on a chair. Nina was laying besides her, and Spot laying on Nina, while Fang lay above her head.

"Hello Hank," Storm smiled sitting up, Nina opened an eye.

"Hello Ororo, I presume that is your daughter?"

"Yes, that's Nina," Storm smiled, she turned to face Nina then screamed falling of the chair in the process. Hank pulled her up, Nina raised a brow. "Nina, don't move there is this huge ugly spider on your head."

"I know, mum, it's Fang," Nina sighed, "He won't hurt me, cool it."

"Um okay," Storm said, still unsettled that there was a large spider sitting on her daughter's head. "Hank, do you think it will be okay for Roberto to come down here?"

"Yes why not? Seeing as his friends are also down here," Hank smiled cheerfully. Sam and Ray were both sling shotted into the pool.

"I'll go get him," Storm said smiling back; Nina sat up suddenly knocking Spot to the ground. Fang slide of her hair and fell to the chair. Spot growled angrily as Fang raised his fangs.

"I'll go," Nina said, tilting her head to one side. Storm nodded.

"Storm just make sure he takes it easy," Hank smiled walking off. Nina also left. "No sling shot for him!"

"Spot stay there, mum don't kill my Fangie," The spider raised its fangs in annoyance as though it didn't like the nickname. Storm shock her head.

"Something tells me there is more of your kind to come," Storm said to the two animals.

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Roberto sat staring out the window this time with the Ipod he borrowed of Sam, he had a song playing that Sam liked. He had no idea who sang it but there was an Arabic singer in it, and also an English man who was singing about a desert rose, he looked down at the Ipod, Sting

'I dream of fire

Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire

And in the flames

Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire'

A knock on the door caught his attention.

"Come in," His door opened and Nina walked in.

"Hey babe," he said, grinning at the eyeful, she only had a black bikini and a purple sarong wrapped around her delicate curved body.

"My name is Nina," Nina grinned, "Please refrain from calling me a pig."

Sunspot grinned and patted his bed motioning for Nina to sit next to him. She complied.

"So what are you listening to?" Nina asked. He handed her an earphone. She wore it and began to listen.

'This desert rose

Each of her veils, a secret promise

This desert flower

No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this'

"Desert Rise by Sting," Nina smiled, handing the earphone back to Roberto, he turned it off "You've got a good taste in music."

"Thank you," Roberto grinned. "So what's up?"

"The roof," Nina said casually, "actually, that doctor guy says it's cool for you to come down and swim."

"Oh good, I'll get changed," Roberto said, "I was getting sick of this stinking room."

He disappeared into the bath room with a pair of shorts. Moments later he exited.

"Ready to go ba- um cat girl?"

"Yeah, but I prefer Anima, you can't define me with just one animal," Nina said, kissing him on the cheek. Roberto swallowed. "Let's go, before your pants rip."

He blushed furiously, "Are you always like this?"

Nina thought for a minute, "No, only to the boys I like."

Roberto blushed more as she walked out of the room.

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Frog sighed contently as he lay across the rock catching the suns rays warmed him, it was a little chilly because of the snow around him, but it still wasn't could enough to freeze the river, the sound of the water flowing only relaxed him more.

"Excuse me?" he jumped and turned to face the voice. A girl stood in the shadows, or it appeared more like the sun had stopped shining on her completely. He stared at her for a minute; her hair looked like she used an entire bottle of hair gel. What scared him the most were her red eyes. "But do you know a Nina Creed?"

"Yeah," he answered softly. The girl smirked. "She's my friend."

"My name's Carmella and I also use to be a friend of Nina's," she grinned, "But now I'm Succubus, and you dear boy are going to send a message."

"What?" He asked confused. Succubus smiled at him wickedly before kicking him hard in the stomach causing him to fall into the cold water. He tried to stand up but was pushed down by Succubus strong arms. He struggled aimlessly as the cold water froze him, slowly he felt his life being taken away from him

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Hehehe, What a Nina! She got Sunspot then! Hahahaha.

Next Chapter: The Brotherhood try to help to Frog but fail, slowly his life slips away, can Nina get there in time, even with the help of Sunspot.

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