ayu: Yes Jessica has now officially run into the brotherhood, as you can tell some of the other Warriors already have, like Chris, and it doesn't look like any of them are going to get a long very well with them.
weirdochelle: Thank you.
ldypbsaby: Well Chris isn't big on fighting, but Lance seems to insist so… you'll just have to read on and find out.
TheLegendaryManHimself: Don't worry, Jessica won't become a cheerleader, she was just poking around with the idea because it was given to her.
Mark C: Actually I was thinking about writing a separate fic and calling it 'First Day of School' and basically having the chapters of that fic being the warriors first day of school from their different perspectives. Excluding of course James and Rebecca who don't go to school. Do you think that's a good idea? Would anyone here even read it if I wrote it?
animejunkie1008: Ha! I have writing powers! I shall now use them to… to… take over the world!!!!!!!!! Oh… no, wait… those aren't very useful for that… I'll just write the next chapter of the story.
waytoevil: Heh, sorry if it seems like these updates are taking too long, fact of the matter is I try to update every week, and you don't need to worry about me stopping halfway through.
jp3711nc: Michael won't meet Wanda until later when the rest of the X-Men meet her, and his powers won't be having the same problem as Jean's because he's not telekinetic, he only has limited telepathic abilities. But no, I don't think he's going to loose control of his powers, although someone else might.
Chapter 9: After School
"You gonna fight him?" Will asked looking over to Chris as he, Chris, and Elise walked down the hall towards the lunchroom.
"No." Chris answered stubbornly. "I'm not even going to show up."
"But he'll think you're a coward." Will countered.
"William Howlett." Elise said as she slapped his arm. "You are not going to try and convince Chris to get into a fight."
"I'm not, I'm just trying to get him to look at the big picture, if he doesn't fight, he has to at least show up and turn down the challenge." Will said looking back to Chris. "What's Kitty doing about this anyway?"
Chris shrugged. "She got ticked at Lance, and then left. I have a feeling she actually likes the attention thinking that two guys are fighting over her."
"You're not fighting over her?" Elise asked for confirmation.
"Not on my part." Chris answered honestly. "I just hung out with her on the weekend for a bit, no flirting, nothing of that kind even, you know me, I'd sooner work up the courage to put my head in the lion's mouth than flirt with a girl or try something." He explained. "I just talked with Kitty cause it was like she was the only one that wanted to listen. I even showed her some of my photography, specifically my shots of London; she was like a little sister or something. Now everything has gotten blown out of proportion and her boyfriend thinks that I got to close to her. Well that's fine, but I'm not going to let him sit there and try and intimidate me and beat me up. I don't fight, it's pure and simple, I don't like violence."
"Well if you were gonna fight him, what form would you do it in?" Will asked. "Normal, half, or full?"
Chris smirked. "Full I suppose, just to scare the crap out of him."
Elise smiled. "Maybe that's what you should do then. Show up in full form maybe he'll be too scared to fight you."
"Maybe…" Chris pondered. "Maybe."
VVVV
Danielle and Megan were eating lunch at a table a little bit away from where Jessica was sitting with people that they didn't recognize. "Looks like she made some new friends." Danielle said with a smile.
"Well good for her, I mean if you think about she hasn't really been able to socialize much for years." Megan said with a nod as she ate some of her food.
"What about you? You meat anyone new today?" Danielle asked Megan.
"Well kind of. I met the reason why Jean and Scott aren't actually together, she's dating some football jock called Duncan." Megan said with a smile. "Mike met him too, wasn't that fond of him, that little psychic shield the professor made for him didn't last very long, it faded mid-morning. Mike's fine though, he's just kind of avoiding people as much as he can." Megan said with a slight laugh. "No more than he did in the city though, I guess he's gotten used to it."
Danielle smirked. "Well did you hear about Chris? He met Kitty's boyfriend."
"Yeah I heard. It true that they're supposed to fight after school?" Megan asked curiously.
"Yeah, the boyfriend flew off the handle and basically challenged Chris, but you know Chris, ain't no way he's going to fight." Danielle said with a smile.
"Yeah, I never got why he was so pacifist on everything." Megan said with a shrug.
"Well he didn't use to be, but you remember when he tried that vigilante thing? Trying to catch creeps and stuff? Well turns out he ended up accidentally killing one of them while fighting, or something, knocked them off a roof top and didn't catch them in time, something like that, so now he won't do anything violent." Danielle said before eating some of her meal.
"It's a shame that some people have to learn things through such tragic ways." Megan said with a frown.
"Call it a trend." Danielle said with a shrug. "Anyway, who do you think those people are that Jessica's sitting with?"
"I have no idea." Megan said with a shake of her head. "Probably just some random table she picked knowing her."
Danielle laughed. "Yeah, probably."
VVVV
"You guys are mutants?" Jessica asked curiously.
"Duh." The green guy, Toad, said arrogantly.
"What're your powers?" Jessica asked with widening eyes.
"Jessica." Her train of thought was broken by her name being rather harshly spoken by Nathan who now stood next to the table. "Megan and Danielle are right over there, why don't you go sit with them?"
"But I was-."
"Now." Nathan said looking to Jessica, who could barely stand to look at his face, the piercing just looked uncomfortable and he really creeped her out sometimes.
"Alright." Jessica said resignedly, knowing that Nathan had his reasons, probably, and she wanted to say hello to Danielle and Megan anyway.
As soon as she was gone Nathan turned and looked back at the Brotherhood with a glare to kill. "And who are you supposed to be? Her half-brother?" Tabby quipped.
Nathan looked down at his arm and smirked. The half brother comment was kind of funny, Jessica's hologram showed her as being Caucasian, whereas Nathan was half African, half Irish. "I'm not even related to her. I'm just a friend." Nathan said looking up.
"Don't I know you?" Pietro said standing up and getting a closer look at him.
"Sit down Pietro. And leave Jessica alone, leave us all alone." Nathan commanded.
"Hey, we do what we want, when we want, and you just try to stop us." Toad quipped.
Nathan looked to Pietro and smirked. "He one of yours? You need to tell your father that he needs to find better help."
"Hey what's that supposed to mean?!?" Toad yelled.
"It means that if you want me to try and stop you, I will. I'll stop you dead in your tracks." Nathan said gravely. "By the way Quicksilver, tell Eric that your sister says 'hi'." Nathan said before walking away.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up. You know him?" Tabby asked looking to quicksilver.
"Knew him is more like it. He was one of the first mutants my dad ever found. I remember he and my dad had this argument, he wanted help with his powers to get rid of them, my dad wanted to use them on people, humans specifically." Pietro explained it all rather quickly as was his style.
"What exactly are his powers?" Lance asked, speaking up for the first time in a while.
"If I remember correctly…. He kills things."
VVVV
"You need to stay away from them. They're trouble." Nathan said to Jessica as he came up to where she, Megan, and Danielle were sitting.
"Well you didn't have to be so rude about it to them." Jessica said with a correcting tone in her voice.
"Well sometimes rudeness is the only way to get through to some people." Nathan said with a shrug. "I'll see ya'll later, I'm going to get some homework done with Mike."
"Aren't you going to eat lunch with us?" Jessica asked curiously.
"I don't eat food remember?" Nathan asked with a slight smirk. "Besides, cafeteria food is horrible."
"Oh…" Jessica said a little disappointed.
Nathan made his way out of the cafeteria, and started down the halls, he turned the corner to see Rogue and Joe walking towards him, or more likely the lunchroom. Rogue seemed to pause when she saw him, but he didn't even say hi to them, he had somewhere to be.
"Why is he always so rude like that?" Rogue asked looking to Joe.
"He's not. You just have to get to know him." Joe said with a slight smile. "I heard you two had a tender moment in the garden this morning."
"A what? Ah fell, and he caught me was all." Rogue said defensively.
"Not what I heard." Joe said raising up a hand passively.
"Well you think what you want." Rogue said irritated.
"Oh come on, you know I was just kidding. I would've paid anything though to see it with my own eyes, you fall, Nathan actually does something nice for you by catching you so you don't break your head on the concrete, Wolverine picks that moment to come walking up and clears his throat thinking something else was going on. I mean you have to admit it does sound funny." Joe said with a smile.
"Why don't you think something else was going on?" Rogue asked now slightly offended.
"Cause I know Nathan. And you might walk in to his room naked and he wouldn't even pay it any notice." Joe said with a laugh.
"Why? He isn't…. Is he?" Rogue asked now disappointed if he was.
"What? No. No. I told you, after what happened to his last girlfriend, he promised that he'd never have those feelings again." Joe said. "It's kind of tragic if you think about it. I know Mike wrote a story based on it, or what Nathan told him of it, maybe he'll let you read it later."
"Maybe Ah will." Rogue said with a nod as they made it into the lunch room.
Lot behind School, 4:00 P.M.
"Well where is he?" Toad asked hopping over to Lance who stood a bit a way.
"Told you he wasn't coming." Pietro said with a smirk. "Probably too much of a coward."
"I ain't a coward." Chris said as he came up behind Pietro, startling him a little. "I just couldn't make up my mind what to do." He said as he walked closer, and Will, John, and Joe walked in behind him. Scott, Kurt, Rogue, Jean, and Kitty were already on their way to try and break up the fight, but Mike was holding them at bay for a bit, promising them, that there was no way Chris would fight. "Well, it's your challenge, so you make the rules. Powers? Or no Powers?" Chris asked as he stood up.
Lance smirked looking to the rest of the Brotherhood. "Powers." He stated calmly.
"Fine." Chris said with a strong nod. "One second then." He said with a smirk as he stepped back a bit. "Oh, and if blood grosses you out, you might want to look away." Before anyone could say another word Chris' wings began to form under his skin, slowly at first. He fell to the ground; this was the part that hurt the most, going into full form hurt like hell. He clutched the ground and the brotherhood backed up a little not knowing what was happening, but the other Warriors stayed where they were.
Suddenly the two ten-foot bat-like wings shot from his back squirting blood over the ground on onto him, the blood that hit his skin seemed to spread, turning from a red to a gray, and spreading rapidly changing his skin to the same color gray as the outer side of his wings, the inside was a black. His feet and hands became claws, and his teeth were now fangs. Instead of six foot he stood at seven with two red tipped horns atop his head, and his blonde hair turned to a dark, dark green.
He stood now facing the Brotherhood, with wings outstretched as Kitty, Scott and the other X-Men made it to the scene. "Oh my God…" Jean started as the rest were stunned to silence.
Chris now looked like a demon that one would only face in the darkest nightmares of their dreams, something truly and utterly horrible. And suddenly he started to speak. "Ready?" He asked looking to Lance, who was now like a piece of straw compared to him.
"Forget this." Lance said blowing it off. "We have stuff to do."
They watched as the brotherhood left. Chris had a smile on his face. Which wasn't even recognizable as Chris' face. "My only regret is when I think of how much pain it's going to cause to change back, and how exhausted I'm going to be just from doing it."
"You've got to be kidding me." Kitty said coming into the lot. "Since when could you do all of this?"
"I've always been able to do this, it just takes more energy, and hurts a hell of a lot more." Chris answered with a smile. "I can do this too." He said before lifting up his head and breathing out a large tongue of flame. "I didn't just pick the codename 'Dragon' because of the wings." He said with a laugh. "But uh… you're not going to want to see me change back, it's not going to be pretty."
"I can handle it." Kitty said bravely.
Chris looked awkwardly to the guys and then to Scott before looking back at Kitty and Jean. "Okay, but uh… no one will blame you if you avert your eyes." It didn't take very long to change back, but he yelled because of the pain when he did, and Kitty actually ended up throwing up. Jean couldn't even watch, and even Scott admitted to averting his eyes halfway through.
The guys from the Warriors were used to it though, and just gave Chris a new shirt when he was finished changing back, because he had ripped the old one when he had grown the wings. "Man, let's get you back to the institute and cleaned up. Hope the professor doesn't die of a heart attack when he sees all that blood on you." Will said as he helped Joe take John to Scott's car.
"Mike will explain it to him I'm sure. Wouldn't surprise me if Mike's already at the institute explaining everything to Logan and the Professor." Joe said with a nod as they hefted the limp Chris into Scott's car. Changing back from full form took so much out of him that he could barely move afterward, and the extra help was appreciated.
"You think we'll get in trouble?" John asked.
"Nah… I sure hope not." Will said with a smirk.
"We probably will." Joe said with a smile. "You guys go, I'll see to it the girls get home alright."
"Chivalrous of you." Scott commented as he started his car.
Joe smirked. "I know they can get home fine by themselves, truth is all that blood makes me nauseous, and I don't want to throw up in your car." He laughed as he waved goodbye and Scott's convertible took off. "I wonder where Nathan was for all of this…" He mumbled to himself as he and the girls started walking back to the Institute.
END
Author's Note: Well? What'd you think? REVIEW!!!!! Please?