Since it's chappie 5 i thought i'd say that i don't own anything about this story except the plot and the character Nightshade once more because i can
now, on with the story
Deadly Nightshade
Chapter 5 - Welcome to the Abyss
It took the teams an our to reach their destination and by that time they were all suffering from cabin fever and a little to much togetherness.
Marching of the ship the group looked at their unfamiliar surroundings.
"I don't think we're in Bayville anymore, Toto."
Reaching out a hand blindly Tabitha patted the first head she came in contact with. As luck would have it the head belonged to Jean who had stooped down to tie her shoe up.
At Tabitha's words, her head jerked up and she glared at the younger girl while those who had heard Tabitha's remark laughed.
"Alright now that we're here I'll tell ya who yer partners are gonna be."
Hearing Logan's shout the group gathered around him.
"Amara, yer with Jubilee."
The two girl's shared a high-five at these words, glad they hadn't been paired with Jean.
"Jean, yer paired with Tabitha. And no practical jokes from you Tabitha."
Grumbling under her breath about evil badgers Tabitha scuffed a foot in the dirt.
"Kitty yer working with Wanda."
"That's, like, cool." Kitty said as she shrugged her shoulders in an uncaring way while Wanda visibly shuddered at the thought of sharing with the hyper-active valley-girl.
"Rahne yer gonna be with Storm."
Nodding her head, the young girl felt a frisson of relief that she would be with the calm weather goddess as opposed to one of the more out-going older girls.
"Colossus yer with Pyro, so make sure ya keep him away from any sugar for the trip."
"I vill try my best Comrade."
"Scott yer with Lan-"
"What! You can't put me with our enemy!"
"Scott, the professor has already explained this to you. The Brotherhood and the Acolytes were never our enemy. We fought them because circumstances dictated that we would."
"But Storm-"
"That's enough Scott, there will be no more talk of them being our enemies. It is important that you all learn to work together as a team, now more than ever."
The professor's tone was sharp and his words clipped, indicating to the students that he was serious, more so than usual.
"Kurt, yer bunkin' with Evan."
"Totally awesome."
Who the exclamation came from no one was sure but both boys were happy so it didn't really matter.
"Sam, you and Ray. Toad and Pietro, yer together."
"What? No-way-are-you-sticking-me-with-the-stink-boy."
"I can still break yer legs if ya want Speedy."
Gulping audibly Pietro quieted down allowing Logan to continue.
"Bobby and Roberto."
Snickers were heard at that pair, mainly because of the fact that their powers were polar opposites, so to speak.
The next two name seemed to stick in Logan's throat but he managed to choke them out on a growl.
"Stripes yer with Gumbo."
"Whaht! Logan ya can't pair meh up with him."
Folding the paper back up Logan stuffed it into the back pocket of his jeans as he looked at the group around him.
"If ya've got any complaints Stripes take 'em up with Nightshade."
"Gee Logan, I never realized you were such a sweet guy."
At the sound of Nightshade's sarcastic voice the group turned in time to see her step out of the shadows of the Blackbird.
She was wearing black cargo's, a black singlet and hiking boots. She had somehow managed to tie her short hair back into a high ponytail and had her dark sunglasses firmly in place.
"Nightshade, where are we?"
"You guys haven't guessed?"
Shaking their heads the teenage mutants looked at her with blank expressions.
Sighing, Nightshade threw up her hands before letting them fall back to her sides.
"Don't they teach you anything about Geography at school? X-Men, Brotherhood and Acolytes, I'd like to welcome you to Hades' Abyss."
With a sweeping gesture reminiscent of a game show hostess, Nightshade gestured to the surrounding forest.
"There's no such place."
"How do you know that, Jean?"
Stepping forward to defend his girlfriend, Scott spoke up, "Easy, it's nowhere on any maps."
"Sure, you could use that argument, but I could rebuff that by pointing out that the maps you buy only show the known parts of the world. This happens to be an unknown part of the world."
Any further conversation about their surroundings was cut off by the sounds of the jet taking off.
Jumping back even more the group of teenagers and their four supervisors watched as the professor took off in the jet to head back to the mansion.
"He's going to, like, just leave us here, in the middle of, like, nowhere?"
"Yes Kitty. But the Professor will return in a week to pick us up."
"But Storm wh-"
Once again Scott was cut of, only this time it was by Nightshade.
"Since we're not going anywhere soon why don't you all grab your bags and we'll get moving. There's a clearing not far from here where we can set up a temporary campsite. The rest of the gear's already there."
Hoisting her backpack onto her shoulders Nightshade began walking down a nearby path not waiting to see if the others would follow her. For a moment the students stood frozen watching her move off before the too headed down the same path Nightshade had taken.
Ten minutes later the path opened out into a large circular clearing. In the centre was a fire pit and camping gear.
"Get yer gear and set up yer tents. Make sure that the tent is facing towards the fire unless ya want ta freeze yer extremities off. Boys over that side of the fire," he pointed to one side of the camp before continuing, "girls over there." He pointed to the opposite side of the camp.
Grabbing the gear he and Nightshade would share he began setting the tent up. Following suit everyone grabbed their gear and began setting up their tents with their partners. Surprisingly there was very little verbal argument, mainly because they resorted to petty jabs using the various tent poles.
Over with Logan and Nightshade things were quiet until they had finished putting up the tent. Turning to look at her Logan growled, "What are ya thinking' puttin' them together?"
"I'm doing what I have to Logan. When the time comes they need to be together in every way possible."
"What! If ya thi-"
Logan's shout was cut of abruptly when Nightshade slapped her hand across his mouth.
"Get your mind out of the gutter Logan." She said as she removed her hand from over his mouth.
"Damn it Nightshade, people's emotions are fragile and that girl's had too much hurt in her life."
"I'm not messing with anyone's emotions. It's already been foretold, I'm just giving it a helping hand."
"That prophecy was written thousands of years ago by some dead guy no one can remember."
Instead of answering Nightshade stood up and walked over to where Tabitha had just been hit with a tent pole flung by Jean's telepathy.
Watching her, Logan released another low growl before stalking over to where Scott and Lance had begun arguing over the proper way to set up a tent. He knew the tentative peace between the teams wouldn't last for long.
Finally all the tents had been set up and everyone had gathered in the centre of the circle formed.
"Jean, Pietro, you're going to go and dig the toilets. Hank wi-"
"What! No way am I going to be digging any toilets."
Nightshade stood looking at the telepath for a moment, a thoughtful expression on her face before she continued speaking as if Jean hadn't said anything.
"Hank will go with you to supervise and make sure you don't use your powers to help you dig the holes."
Stepping forward Logan handed them the two shovels he held as they followed Hank away from the camp. Their grumbling could be heard as they disappeared amongst the trees.
"As for the rest of you, your first lesson in survival is going to start."
The remaining teens looked at the two teachers nd Nightshade with varying degrees of trepidation.
A/N: Another chapter finished, good thing I've got a fairly good memory and I think this chappie was a lot better then the way it originally read in the notes
As always review please, tell me what ya think 'bout it and if there are any problems that i need ta fix
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