Chapter 7
Serpent tossed and turned in her bed as nightmares of her past plagued her mind. Lisa's tail looked over at Serpent's tossing form and pocked her cautiously. Serpent's eyes opened quickly and she bolted upright fast with her claws extended.
"Serpy? Serpent are you alright?" Lisa asked as her tail jerked back and hid behind her. Serpent retracted her claws and tried to calm her racing heart.
"I had a dream, I was back in Germany and there was fire all around me… they were trying to burn me at the stake again." Tears fell down Serpent's face as all the strength and toughness that the voices gave her was demolished and her old, weak and scared seal was in it's place. Lisa started to panic, knowing that Blaze would probably try and use Serpent's weakened self to try and take over again, that voice really wanted out.
"Serpy it's alright. I'm here for you, you're like my really older sister." Lisa walked over to Serpent and hugged her best friend. "You're strong, don't let Blaze take over. You were the only one who didn't care about my scales or tail and took me in when I had no other place to go. You're like the mother I never had, you're my mum"
"It's alright, Blaze isn't going to get me this time Lisa." Serpent smiled and hugged her friend back and Kiya even came over too and joined in on the group hug. "We should get up anyway, it's almost six and we start school today."
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I keep thinking I'm back at the mall still, oh do you think that Dr. McCoy would let me use his lab for experiments?" Lisa asked, getting a pillow thrown at her head.
"Oh come on, get dressed and – no that doesn't mean using the watch as a cover for your scales. I thought you liked them."
"I do, it's just that, well, other people aren't that comfortable around me with them. I will keep my tail out though." Serpent sighed and let her tail push the covers back as she got out of bed.
Shouldn't Lisa be comfortable around others in her own self? Kiya asked, looking at her master confused.
"Yeah, she should Kiya. But it's her own choice, not ours." Serpent replied, stretching her cramped muscles. "I call the shower first!"
Lisa pouted as Serpent ran into their bathroom, they lucked out and got one of the special rooms with its own shower and other things that normal rooms don't.
"Fine, I'll have one after you your highness." Lisa grumbled as she started to unpack her bolts of material and stuff, letting her tail put it away neatly in drawers. "This is going to be a long day."
She didn't know how long…
Lisa's schedule went like this:
Per. 1: Grade twelve science (Dr. McCoy moved her up to the highest level) with Dr.
McCoy
2: Grade eleven math (she was quite good at that too) with Scott
3: Lunch, everyone had it then
4: History with Ororo
5: Danger Room with Logan
Serpent's went like this:
Per 1: Grade twelve science (she was telling everyone that she was 17 almost 18) with
Dr. McCoy
2: Danger Room with Logan
3: Lunch
4: History with Ororo
5: Grade twelve math with Scott
Period 1…"Lisa, Serpent! What a pleasure to have you both in my class, take whichever seat you feel like." Dr. McCoy stated as the two mutants arrived at class that morning. "I see you've tuned up your watch again Lisa."
"I just want people to accept me for now, I'll tell them later." Lisa defended herself, taking a seat near the middle of the class next to Serpent. Lisa had on a long and loose jeans skirt because tight clothing felt really uncomfortable against her scales, and a loose green T-shirt with her tail sticking out of her skirt where her tail bone should have ended. Serpent was content with a pair of baggy black jeans, a multi-coloured T-shirt under a black hoodie with the hood up (no one had seen her hair yet with an exception of a few people) and her black leather 'thieves gloves'.
"Hey, y'all take this class too?" Rogue asked, sitting down on the left of Lisa, who was on the left of Serpent.
"Yup, I can't wait! What're we learning about this term?" Lisa asked excitedly.
"Chemicals and stuff like that." Rogue replied, looking at Lisa odd. The reptilian's still golden eyes grew large with happiness.
"Good morning class." Dr. McCoy said, earning a few murmurs in response. "I would like to start odd by introducing three new students, one of which is not here at the moment. Lisa Mackenzie and Serpent…"
"Schlange, my last name is Schlange, Dr. McCoy." Serpent interrupted, knowing that he had no clue what her last name was.
"Thank you Serpent, you and Lisa can just take it easy for the next two days because the rest of you have projects to present." Groans were heard all throughout the classroom.
Twenty minutes and about five presentations later, Rogue nudged Serpent in the side, mostly because she hadn't clapped for all the presentations.
"Clap for them, they'll feel bad otherwise." Serpent snorted, but began to clap, gloved palm on gloved palm, as the last presentation ended.
Uh-oh, not good… Tele stated, a bit too late though. Somehow, seeing as Serpent's teleportation mutation works by clapping her hands, the clap had triggered the portal and since her gloves were very strong and wouldn't let anything through them… the portal bounced back and Serpent disappeared!
"This can't be good." Lisa said, rubbing her temples. Her tail nodded too, making Lisa shoot a deadly look at it and it dropped down behind her again.
Serpent ended up at the front of the class, looking at Dr. McCoy with wide eyes.
"Please take your seat again, Serpent. And don't clap with those gloves on again either." He said, looking at her straight in the eye. Serpent scanned through his mind and realized that he still wanted to study her mutations. She nodded and sat down at her desk and didn't say anything to anyone for the rest of the class.
"What the heck was that about?" Rogue asked as she, Lisa and Serpent walked out of the classroom.
"I think it has something with those chemicals I used on your gloves, they must have caused your teleportal mutation to bounce back and consume you… fascinating." Lisa replied for her friend. She began chewing on the end of her pencil, causing Serpent to look at her with a raised eyebrow. Lisa only ever chewed on the end of her pen or pencil when she was nervous or thinking about another experiment and in this case, it was probably the latter.
"I'll catch ya guys at lunch, I've got Danger Room now." Serpent said, shaking her head at her reptilian friend as she headed down the hall with her backpack slung over her shoulder.
Period Two…Second period wasn't too interesting for Lisa, just numbers and equations… nothing really fascinating to write down, Serpent on the other hand had an interesting class of scrimmage with the rest of her class. Turned out that Rogue was in that class too.
"Okay, today I just want you to divide into two teams and go wild with your powers, just don't kill each other, alright?" Logan instructed, earning a few 'sures' and 'yes sirs' here and there.
CAN YOU PLEASE LET US JOIN IN? Elect shouted at the top of her lungs, causing Serpent to flinch a bit.
"Hey Logan, can I talk to ya a sec?" Serpent asked as everyone else argued about whom would be on which team.
"What can I do for you?" he asked, stopping himself from bombarding her with questions. Serpent laughed.
"I'll answer your questions, after last period, if you let a few of my friends join in on the scrimmage." Logan looked at her sternly with hazel eyes into her steely gray eyes.
"Deal," he shook her hand and the door to the room opened.
"Who are they?" Bobby asked his friend, Peter (better known as Colossus), who shook his head and watched as four girls entered the room.
There was Tele, with bellbottom blue jeans and a tight dark blue T-shirt and blue running shoes with her dark blue hair up in its usual braid-bun. Dark blue nail polish, eyeshadow and mascara were her choices of make-up for that day.
Then there was Frost, in a knee length, light blue dress with icy blue leggings and pale blue sneakers, her icy hair was up in a French braid too. Her make-up was composed of icy blue eyeshadow, mascara and nail polish… she wasn't as crazy as Elect.
Elect made her grand entrance next, she wore tight, bright purple jean shorts that fit her small frame perfectly and the darker purple halter top with little bolts of embroidered lightning and purple sandals with straps that went up to her knees, her hair was spiked up with electricity (again) too. Her make-up consisted of purple mascara, eyeshadow, lip gloss and nail polish… the girl was obsessed.
Last, but certainly not least, was Blaze, she was wearing loose red jeans that went over her knee high red boots, a quarter length, tight red sweater and red silk gloves that went up a bit past her elbows. Her long hair was done up in a high ponytail, then a braid, then a bun with a fake red rose pin holding it in place (every piece of clothing was fire resistant because Blaze still didn't have any control over her body temperature with her fire mutation). She had blood red lipstick on as her only make-up because it was the only fire resistant thing that Lisa had invented at the moment.
"Everyone, this is Tele, Frost, Elect and Blaze, they're friends from – er – where I used to live. Their mutations are teleportation, ice, electricity and fire." Serpent said, motioning to her little voices. Hope and Ty had stayed back because they looked too much like Serpent and it would make people suspicious. Visi had stayed behind because she wasn't a skilled fighter and Ani had because she didn't have a useful mutation to play with.
Ty had put up a second telepathic shield around Serpent to hide her multi-coloured hair and eyes, to make them seem black and gray again. The first shield was to hide all of her scars on her body, they were wherever her claws or spikes were, and were very visible against her tanned skin. She also had one long scar from her 13th birthday that her father had given her, it went from her right temple, across her eye and all the way down to her jaw line and was very contrasting with her skin.
"Peter and Carol are going to be captains and choose the teams." Logan announced, choosing two people at random. Serpent looked at Carol oddly, she was the one who was glaring at her and Lisa during science.
Soon the teams were chosen and they looked like this:
Peter's
Bobby
Rogue
Serpent
Elect
Frost
&
Carol's
Ramses
Kitty
Blaze
Tele
Syrin
It was a small class, but it would work.
"Okay, just don't kill each other and I'll be happy." Logan said, going into the simulation control center and watching the events play out in front of him.
"You guys are going down." Tele said with a smirk, cracking her knuckles. Elect, who had been jumping up and down before, stopped and stuck her tongue out at her fellow voice.
"Nu-uh. We're gonna win!" she stated.
"Don't use a high voltage of electricity, Elect." Serpent muttered. Elect sighed and blew a stay piece of hair out of the way.
"Fine, I'll use half a bolt, just enough to shock them but not enough to kill them." She replied, getting into fighting stance with electricity running through her entire body. Blaze smiled for the first time in… well… a long time because she didn't get picked last.
"Guys! Another thing is that when you get knocked to the floor, you're out. Last team with someone standing wins. Go!" Bobby yelled. It was quite amusing to watch, twelve mutants try and beat each other with their powers. Rogue was against Blaze, Bobby against Syrin, Frost against Tele, Elect against Kitty, Peter against Carol and Serpent against Ramses.
Let's show fairy boy what we're really made of, not including the four lucky ones. Ani stated, her green eyes sparkling wildly. Serpent smirked as she and Ramses circled each other.
"There is no way you can beat me, Serpent." Ramses stated.
"Oh really, let's find out." Serpent lunged at him and tried to knock him down with a kick in his chest, but he moved out of the way and hit her foot away, nearly causing her to land on the floor, but she managed to save herself. Ramses laughed and flew up into the air, beckoning her to follow him. Serpent growled in frustration and unleashed her wings of metal, flying up there too. Ramses smiled as Serpent got closer to him, when she got close enough he controlled water to consume her, knocking her into the wall.
Cheater! Visi yelled, jumping into her own bubble and getting ready to unleash her mutation into Serpent.
Frost, freeze the water or I will end up drowning in mid-air. Frost looked up at Serpent as she said that inside her mind. It was a good thing that Serpent had worn the new clothes Lisa made for her, the ones that would turn invisible as she did.
"What the –" Ramses started to say as his water was frozen in the middle of the air. Frost gave him a smug look and went back to try and beat Tele. Serpent turned invisible and flew around behind Ramses.
"When did she get that?" Rogue asked, more herself than to anyone else before continuing to fight Blaze.
Serpent became visible just in time to grab onto Ramses's wings and begin to force him down the ground again.
"When the heck are you doing?" Ramses demanded, trying to get Serpent's hands off his wings.
"Winning…" Serpent started to reply when a stream of water hit her and sent her flying to the wall, which she stuck to thanks to the spikes on her back.
"You got everything under control Ramses?" Carol asked, pushing Peter back in his metallic form with her super strength. The Brit nodded and flew over to where Serpent was trying to make her spikes go back in.
"I hate these things!" Serpent yelled, finally getting them unstuck and grabbing onto the wall with the claw part of her wings when yet another stream of water hit her and she went flying down to the ground.
"We win!" Blaze exclaimed, knocking Rogue to the floor. Everyone on Peter's team was on the floor, even Peter. She gave Tele a high-five and started laughing, something she hadn't done in a really long time either. "This was so… much… Serpent? Are you alright?"
Serpent didn't answer, she lay face down on the ground near the wall, not moving. Her wings were still unleashed and all four voices quickly ran over as her telepathic shields stopped, revealing her multi-coloured hair and the scars that ran all over her body... or at least it would if she hadn't worn her gloves, long pants and a sweater with a hood.
"I'm alright, really, I am. Stop fretting Frost." Serpent said, pushing herself up off the ground and glaring at her voice as she tried to help her. Frost backed away.
"You're bleeding," Rogue stated. Serpent looked down at her right hand where blood was seeping through the palm of her gloved hand, it was on the floor too.
"Go downstairs to the medical wing, Dr. McCoy shouldn't have any classes right now." Logan said, glaring at Ramses for doing that to her in the first place. Truth was, though, Ramses looked crestfallen that Serpent was all right.
"You guys go with her, I'm gonna stay back here, K?" Blaze asked, looking pleadingly into Serpent's eyes (which were still multi, though no one could see). She nodded and smiled painfully at her.
"So… why do you have to wear all the clothing?" Rogue asked, making small talk as Logan left the room for a few minutes to make sure that Serpent was all right and the three voices followed them out. Blaze shifted her weight from one foot to the other uncomfortably.
"I don't have control over my mutation very well. My body temperature is so high that anything that comes in contact with my skin will probably burst into flames right away, this outfit here has chemicals that counteracts it. It's really hard not to touch someone or something with your bare hands, I really miss doing that." Blaze replied, looking at Rogue with tears in her red eyes. Rogue smiled weakly.
"I know how you feel, I can't touch anyone without putting them in a coma usually."
"Well, at least you didn't find out about your mutation by burning an entire school down and killing nearly everyone inside of it… it's not a pleasant memory in my mind. And at least you can touch plants and water and peoples clothes without burning them, I'm hoping here that I soon won't either. Serpent's hoping to learn how to swim while she's here too, she can't right now and is really quite afraid of it, her father tried to drown her when he found out that she was a mutant." Blaze and Rogue continued to talk about… well… everything. Becoming friends fast.
Ramses looked over at the two untouchables with an evil smirk on his face… he had more to him that met the eye, that's for sure…
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Okay… first off, I know that Colossus' real name isn't spelt like Peter, but it was just easier to read and for me to spell.
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Okay guys, I'm just warning you that I do have chapter 8 done and ready to be posted… next week of course, but the things is. I usually send files home to my e-mail address from school from a floppy because my computer doesn't take floppies and I write everything on my laptop. So don't be too disappointed that I won't be updating every week, I will do my best to get them to y'all though! REVIEW!