Hello agian! I am sorry it has been so long. With the process of moving and then getting used to the new town I haven't been writing as much. I am truly sorry for that and I promise I will get better. I should have the next chapter up in a week or so. If I don't go a head and e-mail me to get my butt off of the couch and get the chapter posted.
Anyway, about this chapter. This will bring the X-Men more into the story and may be a little confusing. I promise to try better next chapter! And I am sorry, I am really bad at accents, so if you have any corrections in my southern drawl, please do so!
By the way, my email is This is just incase you have any corrections or want to know a little more...
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I only own Cassandra, the plot, and the two unknown mutants. Marvel comics owns The Xmen, DC Comics own the Teen Titans, JRR Tolken came up with Lord of the Rings, Wren belongs to my friend, Rachel.
"Kitty, calm down!" Professor Charles Xavier pleaded to the young girl in front of him.
"Okay… I can't find Cat. I haven't seen her since last night when she left for the comic shop. She wasn't in combat practice this morning." Kitty concluded, running a hand nervously through her straight chestnut brown hair. Cassandra never missed a single combat session, even if she was sick.
"Come with me." Xavier said as he wheeled his wheelchair out from behind his wooden desk. He was headed to the concealed elevator behind one of his bookcases, holding some of his beloved books. 'Jean, could you meet me by Cerebro?' The telepath called silently to one of his first students; fellow telepath Jean Grey.
'Of course, Professor.' Jean replied obediently like a dog called to it's master's side. She did this out of gratitude for her mentor. Without him she would probably be in a psych ward somewhere instead of out in the open, like any normal person.
"Do you know where she was before she.. Disappeared?" Xavier asked Kitty as the elevator neared it's destination.
"All she mentioned to me was that she was taking her routine trip to the comic book shop in town." Kitty replied as they made their way down metal lined hallways. After a few turns they reached a long hallway that led to a pair of circular sliding metal doors. Standing in front of these doors was none other than Jean Grey.
"Hello, Professor. Kitty." Jean greeted them, a smile on her face. "What's wrong?" She asked suddenly when she noticed the worried look on Xavier's face.
"Miss Cassandra Cheney has apparently gone missing…Kitty has brought this to my attention and I was wondering if you could help me find her." Xavier explained as he wheeled to become parallel to the doors. A small beam came from the center of the circular doors in front of him, taking a scan of the professor's retina.
The doors slid open with a soft snickt, allowing the three to enter. They quickly entered the room, allowing the doors to slide shut once more. They found themselves in a large circular room and they were standing on a long, unsupported runway. The professor wheeled his wheelchair up to a small desk-like structure and slid a metal helmet on his shiny bald head.
Cassandra closed her eyes as she thought about how to phrase her answer to her Defense Against the Dark Arts homework. She sat bolt upright, a shiver quickly passed over he spine. 'Is that what I think that was?' She thought to herself. She could have sworn she had felt someone try to break through the psychic barriers that Professor Xavier had helped her build in her mind. It was some sort of a… tickling sensation.
Cassandra turned around quickly. There was a quill floating behind her, rubbing up against the back of her neck. She glared at a boy named James Potter, who was laughing hysterically at her reaction along with three of his tagalong friends; Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
Cassandra snatched the quill out of the air as everyone in the common room watched, waiting for what would happen next. She smirked wildly as she stood, grabbing her ink bottle as she did so.
"Kori, Wren? Could you please come over and help me?" Cassandra asked in a polite voice. Kori and Wren smiled at each other before standing up, bringing their own quills with them. The three stood in a formation in front of the four, not so joyous boys.
"Hmm…" Wren said, a mischievous smile playing on her lips. "What should we write?" She asked as she muttered a spell to the ink bottle that resided in Cassandra's open palm. Cassandra smiled wide as she inserted her quill into the ink bottle before leaning over Sirius. Her quill soon made contact with Sirius' forehead as she wrote: 'Loser' in large letters. The others followed suit and they stood back to take in their handy work. Peter was now inscribed with the word 'Stupid'; James with 'I'm with the Loser'; and last but not least, poor Remus with 'I'm the Loser who is with the other Losers'.
The four got up, growling and glaring at the girls before stalking off in the direction of the portrait hole.
"Oh… And don't think you can just go and wash it off. Do you think we are that stupid?" Kori said, holding back laughter, "No matter how hard you scrub, the ink won't come off for another few days." The boys silently went off to their room, followed by the laughter of the students in the room.
Lily wandered out of her hiding place in the corner, hand on her hips. "What did you just do?" She asked in a serious voice… well as serious as she could get it since she was trying not to laugh too hard.
"Professor has been in there for like, all day." Kitty commented to two of her best friends.
"Ah was thinkin', what if she doesn't want to be found?" Rogue suggested in her heavy southern accent.
"Do you really think she could hide from the professor for this long? I mean she is pretty strong mentally, but professor is like, the best telepath in the world…" Jubilee remarked.
"Well… maybe she turned into a cat. It would be harder to sense her that way, right?" Kitty asked.
"Ah'm sure professor has already thought 'a that." Rogue pointed out. "Ah guess where ah'm stuck is why would she want to run away?"
"I don't think any of us know that much about her to know exactly." Jubilee said as they walked into the large bedroom the three girls shared with Cassandra.
"Well, there is always a way to find out…" Rogue said as she walked over to Cassandra's dresser and grabbed a small purple book with a large black cat on the front.
Cassandra sat in between Sirius and Wren in detention the next day. She silently ripped off a small piece of the parchment she was supposed to be writing lines on and separated that in half, writing the same note on each piece of paper. 'Sorry I got you guys in trouble… they just bug me so much…' She passed one to Kori and Wren.
'It's okay. It is way worth it!' They wrote back, putting a smile on Cassandra's face.
'Jeez, their good… I never would have thought of jinxing the ink like that. Maybe we should try it on Snivilus tomorrow.' Sirius wrote to James, who was seated in front of him.
'I could think of better ways to get revenge on someone. The ink think wasn't half bad though.' James commented back.
"She was the one that did that!" Rogue screamed. "Ah thought that was Logan tryin' to be funny. I smelled like crap fah two weeks."
"Yes, well, you have to admit. It was kind of funny." Kitty said, holding back laughter.
"I don't see anything that would support our running away theory." Jubilee said, moving the book slightly so that Kitty could see. "Actually I am finding more proof against it. Here listen to this:
'That new kid, um… John I think, ran away today. I don't really know why anyone would want to run away from here.
'If it weren't for the professor I would still be in that excuse of a home. I'm not saying I had a bad life or anything.. It's just my mom and dad were never home and my brother and sister got most of the attention. They got whatever they wanted.'"
'X-Men, please meet me in the War room.' Professor interrupted telepathically.
After the whole team had gathered, Xavier put a few images up on the screen behind him. They consisted of one being Cassandra, the others being Pyro, a mutant with the control over fire, Avalanche, a mutant with the control over the ground, and Quicksilver, a mutant with the power of speed.
"As you probably already know, there have been a number of disappearances as of late. One including our own, Cassandra Cheney. "The others include Pyro, Avalanche, Quicksilver, and two other mutants I have been searching for.
" I have tried my best to try and locate them, but I have failed to do so thus far. It is almost as if they fell off the map entirely. I am asking you now for any ideas you may have to help us find them." Xavier said. His face looked a little warn out and tired from all of this, yet he still shoves on.
"Could they have, like, run away and joined Magneto? I mean, he already has the technology to block cerebro, right?" Kitty offered.
"That is a possibility, but something like that will have drawn people's attention." Professor said, smiling in a thankful manner to Kitty,
Silence. Terrible Silence.
"Maybe it's not where they are, but when…?" A soft voice said from the back. "I mean, what if they have gone back or forward in time? We've done it before." Gambit said, moving his head slightly out of the shadows. He was leaning against the wall comfortably.
"Good idea, Remy. But now the question is, how?" Professor looked at each of the members of his team, hoping someone would say something.
"Well, Professor, what were the other mutant's powers?" Jean asked, thoughtfully.
"One could turn into a fire entity and the other's powers are unknown to me."
"Maybe they contributed… I mean if you don't know what his powers are, then how are we to know?"
"I think there is a way we could reconfigure cerebro to search through different time periods to find them." Kitty said, remembering one of her computer projects she had done.
"We could deffinetly try it." Professor said, a smile on his face. He was happy someone had thought of something. "Jean, Hank, could you assist Kitty with the reconfiguration?"
Three girls sat in the corner of the crowded gryffindor common room, huddled together over a piece of parchment.
"So, what shall we call ourselves? We don't really want people finding out who we are. We don't want to be stuck in as many detentions as the Marauders." Kori said, her quill readied against the parchment in her lap.
"How about we use our initials." Wren suggested. "Like 'WKC'?"
"That sounds too much like KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken." Cassandra sighed after she saw the confused looks on her friends faces. "Forget it… How about we do it in alphabetical order?" The other two nodded as Kori wrote it down on the parchment.
"And what shall our first 'act' be?" Kori asked, scanning Wren and Cat's faces.
"Well, the marauders are always doing things to that Snape kid… maybe we could outdo them using their own victim." Wren suggested. She felt kind of sorry for Snape, but she still didn't like him… the evil, greasy, slime ball that he was.
Cassandra smiled evilly before rummaging through her school bag. "How about we (Crack! Came the sound of silver duct tape coming off it's roll) duct tape him to a wall? I mean, it's totally harmless…"
The next chapter should include a little more on the Teen Titans and Lord of the Rings side of the story... It might only be a little of that though.
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