X-Men 3: A Crystal Revealed
A/N: Sorry this chapter got a little late, lol, I've been working on the other fanfics and trying to improve my writing skills! I hope this chapter will make it up for my awful lateness habit:) Well enough of me talking! Enjoy! Please read and review! ;)
Umm... if any of you are wondering, Jean will not be coming back in this fanfic. But maybe, maybe if I happen to write Xmen 4, I'll put Jean in:) For now, she is not in the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men so I don't own the characters as well! But I do own Crystal and any other characters I created!
A Breakfast Surprise
"Hey Crystal! Crystal! Wake up!" Rogue shouted and shook Crystal, who slept on her bed sleepily, groaning. Then her hand slowly brushed Rogue's hand and she opened her eyes. The room was bright from the sunlight in coming from the window nearby and a shadow was forming under Rogue's feet.
"Come on, Crystal, we're gonna be late for breakfast!" she shouted. Crystal nodded with a sleepy smile and got up. Rogue helped her up a bit, because when Crystal stood on her feet, it wobbled and she almost fell over.
"What were you doing, drinking?" Rogue teased. Crystal laughed and told her the reason why she was so sleepy. Rogue nodded with acknowledgement. Crystal left out the part about Logan though. Something about that made her feel uneasy.
"Ok, let's go!" Rogue shouted as soon as Crystal finally got her clothes on. Rogue grabbed her hand and ran out, dragging Crystal's hand along with her. "Rogue, slow down!" she shouted but Crystal was smiling.
Soon enough, they were right in front of the cafeteria area and Rogue opened the door. Inside there were long tables where kids sat and picked out their breakfast. There were many foods, mostly cornflakes with milk, bread with butter or jam, porridge, etc.
Crystal was gaping at the entire cafeteria area and at all the food. Her eyes were darting hungrily at every food on the table.
"Hey, let's sit over at Bobby's!" she cried and Crystal nodded, following her towards the table Bobby and his friends sat. Rogue took a seat beside Bobby and Crystal took a seat near a girl, whose blonde hair floated like clouds on her shoulder. The girl glanced quickly at Crystal's direction and then looked back at her friend in front of her.
"Hey!" Rogue and Crystal said as Bobby and another guy who was playing with he's lighter. The guy next to Bobby was looking at Crystal with a curious look.
"Hey, had a nice sleep?" Bobby asked teasingly at Rogue as she grinned and started to chat with him.
"Hey, who are you?" the guy beside said as he still played with his lighter. "My name's Crystal, nice to meet you," Crystal started but the guy interrupted. "So you don't have, like, any code names or anything? Like Rogue?" he pointed and Bobby and Rogue turned.
"No," Crystal said with a confused look. The guy was raising his eyebrows.
"Well, your actual name sounds like a code name anyway. Name's John but everyone around here calls me Pyro," the guy called Pyro spoke. Crystal was eyeing the lighter a bit irritably. Pyro, strange name! she thought.
"What's your powers?" Pyro continued to question Crystal. The lighter was flickering a small flame back and forth, shutting and then bursting open and then shutting. Then Crystal's lips curled into a smile.
"Like this!" she said as Crystal let her fingers go through the flame. It didn't hurt her, and she could hear some people who were looking gasp with surprise. Pyro seemed to be a bit surprised as well.
"Huh! Cool powers! Can you do anything else?" Pyro said with an amused grin, yet again fiddling with his lighter.
Rogue, who was listening to this conversation, came in, saying, "She can read other people's minds, can't you, Crystal?" Crystal nodded with a grin.
"Then show me!" Pyro said. It was more of a command then a suggestion.
"I don't know, I mean, I don't think I should-"Crystal started to say. "Why?" Pyro snapped. Bobby was now looking at them with concern.
"Crystal you shouldn't do it, people's minds are private!" Bobby said. Pyro was ignoring Bobby and he was eyeing Crystal. "Prove it you can do it! Read Logan's, his an interesting one to read, wouldn't it?"
"Pyro!" Rogue shouted. "You can't force her to do it, it's Crystal's decision! And Bobby's right! People's minds are private!"
"Who cares? It's just for fun. Come on!" Pyro said and laughed, sending a little chill down Crystal's spine. Then Pyro looked at Crystal with a grin and hissed, "I dare you!"
Crystal, biting her lips furiously, didn't want to read anyone's minds. But Crystal had never really lost to a dare, and she wasn't going to start now.
"Alright! I'll do it," Crystal shot at Pyro and sighed. Rogue opened her mouth and started to argue but Crystal was already shutting her eyes and concentrating on her ability, shutting the noises outside her mind. Within a few seconds, Crystal had entered Logan's mind. She could hear Logan's thoughts in her mind and she started see some of what Logan's been through.
She began to explain it briefly to Pyro, to prove that she can actually do it when she suddenly she started to lose control. Quick flashes of Logan's life started to flash uncontrollably in her mind and she screamed as she saw horrifying pictures of people being killed. She could hear the screams of the injured people in her head and also a strange whirring sound, metal scraping on metal. She tried to open her eyes but couldn't and she could hear shouts, faint and small, coming from near her. Before long she started to slip away and darkness enveloped her, the screaming of the injured and dying people from Logan's memory lingering in her mind's ear.
There was a roar of panic as all the mutant kids crowded around Crystal. All the teacher's were running towards the scene, shouting, "Eat up! Almost class! Come on! Go!"
Ororo was gathering up the kids, who were crowding around Crystal's unconscious body, shouting, blocking the path for the teachers to pass. Many of the kids seemed to stare confusedly.
"Crystal!" Rogue was shouting as she joined the teachers, ignoring the shouts from the other teachers. Bobby and Pyro joined her as well.
"Professor!" Scott shouted and Charles nodded, a concerned look on his face. Logan was just staring at Crystal's unconscious body before saying, "She sure does faint a lot."
Scott shot a frown at Logan, since he couldn't glare at him because of his eyes. He scooped Crystal in he's hands and felt Crystal shiver in his grasp. He also felt like Crystal was slipping from he's grasp but that was only for a moment.
"What happened to her, Professor?" Ororo spoke, joining the X-Men crew again. This time Kurt was along side her. "Vhat is this?" he asked, he's eyes falling on Crystal. Charles sighed.
"I do not know, but I think that she was using her powers. She probably lost control and she fell unconscious," Charles spoke.
"It's not her fault! She was using her powers"- Pyro groaned irritably –"because Pyro was pushing her to use it!" Rogue shouted.
All the teachers turned to Pyro, who looked a bit guiltily at the teachers. "Sorry."
"You're getting detention!" Scott barked.
"What was she using her powers for?" Ororo asked Rogue.
"To…"-Rogue glanced at Logan's direction-"read Logan's mind…" Rogue finished quickly. All of the X-Men turned towards Logan, who now seemed like he could kill a bear. But he also felt secretly surprised.
"Go to your next class, Rogue and Bobby. Scott, will you please take Crystal to her room? She will be alright there," Charles announced. Rogue started to argue, but seeing that she might as well lose the argument, she walked away with a huff, Bobby following her, looking back at the X-Men.
Ororo looked worriedly at Crystal's pale face as Kurt held her hand comfortingly. "Is she going to be alright?"
"She will be alright by the time she wakes up," Charles spoke.
"If Crystal is ok…" Ororo whispered and then with a weak smile went back to her class, Kurt going with her.
Scott nodded at Charles's request and walked away from the X-Men, carrying Crystal. Logan turned sharply at Charles and said, "I want to talk to her."
Charles looked up at Logan. "Not today, Logan."
"But she may have seen something, something… about me!" Logan argued but he could hear Charles's voice in his head. Crystal is still unconscious, Logan, we cannot disturb her now.
Logan started t argue but thought better of it. He nodded irritably and the stalked off, pulling out a cigar from his pocket and lighting it.
A/N: So how was it? I hope you liked it! I couldn't really imagine how it would be like to have breakfast at Mutant High but I tried my best, lol! I'm sorry to Pyro fans if I made Pyro very evil, I'm sorrrryyyy! Thank you for the reviews!
