Chapter Twenty-two
The sun was slowly coming up, well not slowly. Everyone was up already. No one had went to sleep that night, except Rogue, who cryed herself to sleep. Scott stood up and everyone looked at him.
"It is time to go,'' Scott said.
"But,'' Rogue said,'' Not right now. Can't we go tomorrow?"
"No,'' Jean said and stood up.'' Logan should be at that the place right now.''
"And I think Kurt would of wanted us to go on,'' Kitty added.
Just then there was black smoke came out of the top of the mountain and went into the sky. It slowly spread, blocking the sun and making it dark.
"What just happened?" Pietro asked.
"I don't know,'' Jean said,'' This wasn't in the book.''
There was an evil laugh coming from somewhere. It sounded like Laylas voice. Jeans face went pale.
"I just remebered,'' Jean said,'' The thing we took was not something to be taken off the mountain. It controls all the strange stuff. Who ever has it, controls the whole island.''
"We must go now,'' Lance said.
"But,'' Todd said,'' It's too dark.''
Just then there was a blinding light. Everyone closed there eyes, then opened them again. There in front of them was Kathy. She was floating a few inches off the ground and she was completely white. You could see through her too. Everyone stood there in shock.
"I come with a message, then I must go,'' Kathy said,'' You need to get the inscription from Layla and take it back to the top of the mountain. You are at the buttom of the mountain, just get to the tunnel.''
"But,'' Scott said,'' How are we going to do that? It's too dark.''
Kathy put out her hand, which carryed a ball of glowing orbs. She handed it to Rogue, who looked at it then at her.
"You are the only one who can touch it,'' Kathy said,'' If they touch it, they die. You must go and follow Rogue.''
"Before you go,'' Jean said,'' Is Kurt with you?"
Kathy smiled and said,'' He is with me. He is waitting for me. I must go, I've stayed too long in this world.''
In a blink of an eye, Kathy was gone. Everyone turned to Rogue, who had been staring at the ball.
"Rogue,'' Gambit said,'' Time to go.''
"Right,'' Rogue said.
Everyone followed close to Rogue, who kept her eyes on the ground.
"So,'' Pietro said,'' What are we going to do?"
"Get there, take the thing, find out what happened to Fred and Logan, then run back up the mountain and put it back,'' Scott said,'' Not that hard.''
"That was so cool,'' Lance said and everyone looked at him.'' I mean the way she looked and Kurt is with her.''
"I see the tunnel enterance,'' Rogue said.
The tunnel had lanterns hanging on the walls. Rogue put the ball in her poctet as they walked down the tunnel. They heard an evil laugh again. They slowed down and peeked into the room. There was Layla in the middle of the room. She was holding the inscription in her right hand.
"What now?" Lance whispered.
"I'm thinking,'' Scott whispered back.
"I know you are there,'' Layla laughed.
Something pushed them out of there spots and up aganst the wall. They saw nothing, but Layla laughed harder.
"What have you done to the others?" Lance yelled.
"The others,'' Layla laughed,'' They are gone.''
"YOU ARE EVIL,'' Rogue shouted.
"Yes I am,'' Layla said after she stoped laughing.'' That is why I live here. You like what I've done to the place? Nothing, but darkness. No light, none of those creatures running around and I wiped out all the spirits, but one or two got away from me. They were new so that don't matter.''
"I didn't like it then,'' Pietro said,'' And I don't like it now.''
"That's too bad,'' Layla said,'' Since it will be where you die. Let go of them.''
The thing holding them to the wall disapeared and they all fell down. They quickly got to their feet and Layla laughed.
"Give it up,'' Scott said.
"I own the island,'' layla laughed,'' You have no power here. This is my world now.''
"Um... you don't own the world,'' Todd said.
"Oh,'' Layla said,'' Got a little carryed away there, but the world will be mine.''
"Just give us the thing and no one will get hurt,'' Pietro said.
Layla began to laugh again.
"Okay,'' Lance said,'' That's getting really annoying.''
Rogue took out the ball of orbs.
"Now,'' Layla said,'' You'll die.''
"Hey,'' Rogue said.
Rogue through the ball at Layla, which she caught with her left hand. Her smile fadded as she felt the ball shake. It went brighter, then stoped glowing. Layla fell to the ground and the ball rolled over to Rogue. She picked it up and put it back in her pocket. Scott grabbed the inscription and they ran out of the tunnel, but the enterance was blocked.
"Now what?" Lance asked.
"We will have to wait until tomorrow,'' Scott said,'' There is nothing we can do right now.''
"Ya,'' Todd said,'' It's only a few hours. What harm can it do?"
Everyone sat down and went to sleeping, thinking about how they were going to get out of the tunnel.