And here we are. I know this is the longest i've gone without updating. But i wanted to post this on Christmas eve, as a gift, in a way. -large grin-

I saw ORDER forms in our Email for a Toad Action figure. My mother, is now a godess.

I saw the chronicles of Narnia for my birthday, the 19th, and last night, and damnit if Mr.Tumnus aint hot. -shiftyeyes-
the guy who plays mr.tumnus is scottish. just like Ray Park. He was born in Glascow. what is it with me and the scottish ones? -thinks-

Cooper: Maybe its because you are part Scottish?
Me: YOU COULD BE RIGHT...

Anyhoo... Merry Christmas/Hannuka/Kwanza/WHATEVER THE HECK YOU ALL CELEBRATE!

SD Freek: yes yes! I SHALL! really? ya think? How can I even compete with all the great Toad/Kid writers out there? I am but a humble novice...

Jennmel: YAY FOR PSYCHOSIS INDUCED GENIUS! -beams-

The Left Hand Of God: I LOVE YOUR NAME. And yes, Toad is absent from X3. Bastard Brett Ratner took out all the good characters!

Lin wadell: I'll see what I can do...

Gremblin: Ah my friend! Juggernaut is AMAZINGLY smexay... :3 its almost SCARY. I must have watched about a million times in the past week alone...

And so, this is the end, and the beginning...

Serah

I rounded a corner, smiling. Tomorrow we had a mission. Magneto was keeping it a secret and I was starting to get annoyed with him. He did say that the X-Men would most likely be there. So I had something to look forward too. I think in a way, all of the Brotherhood had someone on Xaviers team that they completely hated. For Sabretooth, it was Wolverine. For Magneto it was Xavier. For Pyro, it was Iceman. For Mort it was Storm, and for me it was Cyclops. I hadn't known Kailen long enough, and I had seen Mystique show the same hatred for all of them. So for them, I couldn't know. So I was looking forward to getting a chance to see how Cyke looked when he saw me. Gone for three years and popping up quite randomly with her full mutation under control. BOUND to be fun.

I caught site of Mort, and a rather fun idea popped into my head. I crept up behind him, and jumped on his back. "Hello!" "WHOA!" he staggered partway down the hall as I brought my legs up to his stomach. "Piggy back!" He steadied himself. "Warn me next time love!" "Okay! Now, MARCH." I kissed his neck. He chuckled, but started marching down the hall.

He stopped, quite suddenly. I looked up, Sabretooth stood over us, cause he is ALOT taller then the both of us, laughing. "What?" "You two are pathetic. S'pecially YOU Toad. Can't beleive you, an assasin, has gone SOFT on us." Mort turned his head away, his face burning. I stared up at Victor. "At least he can get a girlfriend, Pussycat." Sabretooth growled, but moved off, grumbling. "Now, MUSH." I pointed ahead, Mort laughed. "Gladly my pet."

I looked down at him as we wandered aimlessly through the lair. Even though we had the same mutation, we did look different. For example, on my green skin, there were no warts. My toes and fingers weren't webbed, and my teeth weren't tiny, like his. Or, for that matter, tinted green. My were just yellowish from not brushing. But hell if I cared about dental hygeine. I brushed them maybe, once a week when I was younger. Now it just seemed like once a month...

"Mort?" "Yeah?" "I know i've been here before, and it's actually sorta been a while. But what do you guys do here for, well, fun?" He stopped mid step and looked up at me, tilting his head back. "Well... Uh... well..." "You don't have like, a pool or something?" "...Well, I think we do..." "You think?" "Never really thought 'bout it 'afore." "How long have you lived at the Brotherhood?" "Lost count of th' years I guess. Since I wos lit'le." "And you don't know if there's a pool?" "... No. No I don'"

"How do you not know that?" He shrugged. "I dunno." I rolled my eyes.

I said he was slow once, i'll say it again...

"I think there's a lake somewhere on th' other side of th' island."

NOW were gettin' somewhere! Thankyou.

"Cool. Let's go there. Hut hut!" He marched off, heading for the door.

We spent the rest of the day having a splash fight at the pond. Even as a twenty year old mutant, I still act like a child.

I had NO idea Mort was Tickleish...

Morty!

You know, in all my years at th' Brotherhood, I questioned myself as to why I never learned if we had a pool or not. But th' next day, th' weird thought had disapeared. Because now, I sat in th' cockpit of th' helicopter, listening in to Magneto's plan.

"...There is a new document about to be signed for Mutant Registration. And a very important official is in Washington D.C. for the signing. His name is Richard Wynn, and he is staying at the Hyatt hotel. Tonight is the signing. And our mission is," I heard him take a dramatic pause. "is to get him, before he get's there." "And stop the Signing." I heard Mystique say. "Exactly." Magneto answered. "Also, I said that the X-Men could possibly be there." "No problem!" I heard Kailen interject. "We'll beat 'em, no problem!" "Dude you can't even beat one of your own." Pyro muttered I glanced back and saw Kailen cross his legs, Serah an' John erupted in laughter. I snorted from my seat.

It wos 'bout, I dunno, round 6 o'clock. But it wos heading into December, so night came quicker. But as we landed and started to head our way to th' Hyatt hotel, which had an amazing veiw of the Washington Monument. We snuck in behind the building, Magneto began to hover up and away from us, heading to what wos th' floor tha' this Rich guy wos staying on. He should be just about ready to leave. kailen cracked his knuckles. "Let's go already!"

We were supposed to stand gaurd. Magneto felt he could handle killing this guy alone. Probably wanted to go off on one of those tangents about fear he liked so much. Kinda weirded me out though.

We headed into the lobby, which was rather large. It had a cafe on one side where people could eat breakfast or dinner, a small souvenier shop, and of course, the counter where people checked in and out. No one was there. And it was rather dark. But each of stationed ourselves in a different corner of the lobby. Mystique sat near th' lightswitch, in case we needed to see wot wos going on.

There wos a pause. Then, a wild screaming wind kicked open the doors into th' Hotel.

Time to party...

I waited, in th' dark I saw six shadows make there way across th' lobby. After a few seconds I heard a voice.

"...Split up..."

Now!

I kicked off from th' ground as th' lights flicked on.

Serah

I hopped in front of Cyclops. I kissed the air. "Miss me?" "How did-" "Yes yes, i'm back. Surprised to see me?" he gaped. "Oh come on cyke, I missed you." I grinned. "Didn't you miss me?" he grunted. "Not one bit." His hand went to his visor, my mouth opened, sliming his hand. It closed shut in a permanant fist. He growled and launched himself at me. I blocked a punch to my head. "Now your getting into the spirit!" I kicked out at him, hitting his thigh, he fell sideways. "Come on! I know your better then that!" I hunched down near him. "How would Jeanie feel if she saw you now?"

He growled, and rolled sideways, grabbing my shoulders. "Don't talk about her! You don't even KNOW how I felt about her..." I pushed him back. "Oh really?" I panted, trying to keep him back. "Think I don't know what 'love' is?" I glanced at Mort. Who was stuck in a feirce battle with Storm. He glanced as well. "Just cause were on different teams, doesn't mean we can't feel." I lifted my foot, kicking him in the stomach, he fell backwards a few feet, knocking the breath out of him. I took my chance to look around.

Mystique was trying desperatly to lock on to Nightcrawler, who seemed to have the upper hand as he Bamf!ed around her, leaving a large cloud of smelly blue smoke in his wake. She seemed almost, reluctant though.

Sabretooth was, like anyone could have guessed, grappling with Wolverine. Pyro was tossing flames at Iceman, who had a large ice wall in between them.

For the first time I saw Kailen in battle. He was picking up anything heavy he could find and chucking them at Collosus, who was dodging and simply smacking them away.

Toad leapt in my direction. "Having a good time?" "It's interesting! Wanna switch?" "Sure!" he jumped over to Cyclops, and I started over to Storm.

She launched at me, I jumped over her, sending her rolling over her head. She got back up, and her eyes started to glow white, and I felt a freezing wind blow over me. I shuddered. It was so COLD all of a sudden. I shivered. "What are you-" It hit me when the snow started to fall. She knew I was part amphibian. She knew I was sensitive to cold. She was sick of me, and Mort. She was trying to KILL me.

I shook my head. "I-I thought the X-Men weren't allowed to k-kill..." "I'll make an exception."

I fell to my knees, hugging my sides. It was so cold. I felt the snow that swirled around me bite at my face and fingers. Like tiny bees. My hair whipped across my face, I felt it glaze over with frost, like a hard metal cap had frozen to my head.

I shuddered, all around me was whiteness. No color. Just a single dark shadow in front of me where I knew Storm was, controlling the blizzard. I leaned over, coughing, trying to breath. It was too cold. Then, I looked up weakly. I saw one thing, another shadow flew in front of the other shadow, and the storm stopped.

I sat there, shivering in the snow, for what seemed like forever. When I felt warm enough, or at least less numb, I stood up, still shivering. It was darker in the place, and in a corner I saw the roaring fire Pyro had made to fight with Iceman. I heard growling and snarling in another corner, Sabretooth and Wolverine, no doubt, the many Bamf's gave away who was in the other corner, and lots of crashes from another turned the vision of Kailen in my head. But where was...

There!

A red beam lanced through the gloom, and an icky sounding sqeulching noise meant that Mort was handling Cyclops. But, where was Storm? I glanced around, there, on the floor by the small mound of snow, which was starting to melt, she lay sprawled on her back, a small line of blood trickling from her forehead. I glanced around. What had happened? I paused, the elevator door flew open, and Magneto hovered through, a grim smile on his face. I heard someone call retreat, I think it might have been Mystique, the battle was over. We'd won. Everyone but me and Magneto attempted to break off from the other fighter, and race to the door, Mystique was first to just, race off. Like she really didn't want to fight the teleporter.

I'd have to ask her about that someday.

I ran out, catching up to Mort. We ran to the helicopter in silence. I wasn't sure why. But he looked kinda freaked. When we reached the Helicopter and piled in, not very, well... Professional. But, hey, whatever. I hopped into the other pilot seat next to Mort as we began to rise.

I stared at him as we moved through the air silently. Kailen had taken up a conversation with Magneto about how the X-Men were pansies... And i'm pretty sure that Erik was just putting up with him. "Are you ok?" "Fine." He said that a bit too quickly. "... You knocked Storm out didn't you?" "... Yeah." "You were worried about me?" "... Course I wos." "Thanks." I put my hand over his, which was on the controller. "You saved my butt." "You'd do th' same for me... Right?" "Of course."

"Thanks."

"No problem."

I know I know. I'm an old cornball. But hey, I was really touched. No boy had ever looked at me without thinking: 'Weirdo' and I knew that. So when I say, we lived happily ever after, i'm not saying we settled down to a nice house in the country with about three kids and an old grandparent who liked cookies and played with the kids so we could do parental stuff. I'm saying we were pretty much like an other couple.

Except we fight in a war. And i'm fine with that. If it means being stuck with him forever.

Fin

Cough... I AM A CORNBALL!

So behold. What do you all think? -waits for anything--cricketcricket-

... Hello?

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

And Happy Hanukkah, Krazy Kwanza, a Tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan.

This is my gift to you all, probably a ver Cornball old-school Romance, but hey, It's what I do.

I AM SO SORRY THIS IS LATE! -sobs- I GOT SO LAZY! I AM SORRY!

oh and happy B-Day to me about... A week ago. On the 19th... -.-;;;

Well... Because mostly everyone said doing a Child story for Mort/Serah would be good.. I'm gonna take a crack at it k? I hope i don't screw up dismally...

TTFN!

-Blitzy