Dark Light
Author's Note: I don't know how this chapter will work, but I hope you'll like it!
Chapter 2
"We'll leave bright and early tomorrow," Kitty didn't look too happy about getting up early, but didn't complain, "Good night Kitty," Logan said and turned into the room he'd gotten for himself. Kitty went to bed and they both slept, until a dark character knocked on Logan's door. Logan jumped out of bed and extended both claws from the noise. He looked out of the little eyehole to see the girl standing outside his room. Logan opened the door,
"What're you doing here?" he growled, just a little agitated from being woke up from his sleep,
"Sorry for being so snappy in the bar. Please, tell me more about this Xavier's school for the gifted. It sounds like a good place to go to," Logan did a double take. This seemed to be a different person from the one he talked to in the bar, but it was because of the smell of her,
"How'd you know we were here?" Logan asked,
"My uh… Mutation isn't only limited to good reflexes," Logan noticed she used the word mutation as a harsh word,
"Well, let's talk this over outside; I could use some fresh air," the girl left to wait in the hall for Logan to get dressed. As they left, Logan noticed that her vehicle of choice was a nice motorcycle. As they walked, Logan described the school to the girl, she seemed to like the idea of it, as he finished talking about it, she asked a question,
"Does this Professor Xavier help people contain their mutation?"
"Yes he helps mutants whose powers are a bit too much to control for them with that sort of thing. If that's a problem for you, I'm sure that he'd be willing to help," Logan said, but Keita snapped back,
"I didn't say it was me who couldn't control their powers. I control my powers just fine,"
"Whatever you say, kid," she seemed angry with Logan response. She started to walk away, "Hold on Keita," she kept walking, "Keita!" with that she walked back and punched Logan in the stomach. Logan thought it wasn't a half bad punch, so he didn't retaliate,
"Why do you think I can't control my powers?"
"I didn't say that! Not every mutant can control their powers. Sometimes I couldn't when I was a younger man," that shut her up,
"What's your mutation?" she asked quietly,
"Heightened healing factor, among other things," she didn't say another word, but helped him up. We walked back to the hotel,
"Thanks for talking to me tonight, I'll consider going to the school. But I better get home before my parents find out. Good night, Mr.… uhh…"
"Just call me Logan,"
"Right, thanks Logan," and with that she left on her motorcycle,
The next night Kitty and Logan were back at the mansion, and Logan told Xavier what had gone on during his conversation with Keita,
"Charles, I think the girl could be a good addition to the team,"
"Yes, but we need to let her decide on that, I'm sure she'll turn up here soon for a tour. I'll go see her file to see what we have on our hands,"
"I'll go have a training session, I'm sure they've been missed," Xavier went to research, and Logan grabbed some dodge balls. As Logan's training session progressed, Xavier went to talk to him,
"Here's the results of Keita, which isn't much. She hasn't been to a doctor since her mutation, so we don't know anything really about her mutation. But we found out where she lives, and a little background information. She lives in a village close to Bloomington Normal. The only other thing is that she attends a consolidated school with another town,"
"That's not much, but it's enough. Are we going to speak with her parents?"
"I suspect that this will be more Keita's decision than her parents. Like I said, she'll contact us when she's ready," Xavier watched the end of the training session, and they all went inside the mansion for dinner.
The next Saturday Logan was having a morning training session much to the kid's displeasure, when they heard a motorcycle roar down the road to the mansion. Logan had to smile to see black hair flying behind the motorcycle. He went ahead and let them continue the game. Logan walked over to Keita,
"Nice to see ya again, kid," Keita took off the helmet and put the goggles as a head band, and then shook Logan's hand,
"Never been to the Atlantic coast, this is a little different from home," some of the students came up to her, and she was nice to all of them,
"I bet it's different. Professor Xavier will give you a tour, so let's go find him," Logan walked Keita into the house, and everyone greeted her without showing their mutations. She was very excited about the house, but when she met Xavier, she was very apprehensive,
"Hello, Keita, I've heard much about you. It's good to see you here,"
"Yeah, my mom and dad thought it would be cool to check out, but they were busy with work, so I drove here myself. It was a fun trip to take,"
"Oh, well, anyhow, let's give you the tour," Xavier showed the whole mansion to Keita. Keita met some more people and liked the place, but was pretty quiet throughout the whole trip. She was very polite to the professor, and listened to everything she needed to know about the mansion. (except for the underground, of course) At the very end, she asked,
"Logan mentioned that you help with learning how to use your powers. How's that possible?" Xavier made a few assumptions about Keita, but didn't say anything,
"Yes we do help with that. Usually we have our teachers teach different techniques, and you usually have a personal session, when you first start, or if you want or need the extra help. The last thing is we play mutant games,"
"What's that?"
"We play baseball and other games with mutant powers, it's always interesting to see how it unfolds,"
"Sounds interesting," she tried to picture it in her head, but couldn't do so, because she hadn't seen many other mutants before,
"Actually, I believe Logan has a round of mutant dodge ball going on. Would you like to join in?" Xavier asked to Keita. She seemed to not really wanting to do it but she answered with,
"Sure, why not. Sounds okay to me," Xavier brought her over to Logan,
"One more for the game, Logan?" Logan took a second to realize what was going on,
"The kid? Well, I guess so. Just play dodge ball then, just don't killed by a fast ball," Keita took her jacket off, and Logan notified that Keita was playing, she joined a team, and Logan let the game begin. Keita just played it safe, and since none of the mutants knew her, they didn't throw the balls at her, "Charles would it be all right if I make it more interesting for Keita?"
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Tell Keita she's invited to lunch," Xavier left, knowing what was to happen, but didn't want to be responsible. Logan smiled,
"EXTRA CREDIT IF YOU HIT THE NEW KID!" Keita's eyes popped out and stared at Logan. He was smirking. After the initial shock she gave a long, dark stare at Logan. After the long stare she began to dodge the balls being thrown at her.
She had dodged every ball with not too much effort. The opposing team was still hopeful they would get extra credit, so they kept hoping they would hit her, in any way necessary. However, Bobby went for the other teammates knowing how bad it was when you were targeted.
She made a few impressive catches, and then would chuck it back at the thrower. It was more difficult than at school, but it was just because she wasn't used to flying ice bolts and electricity. There was one last person on the other team, and it was a little kid,
"Do I really have to hit a little kid with a dodge ball?" Logan laughed,
"Actually he's the best at this game. Don't forget it's mutant dodge ball," when she looked back and there were six of the same kid. For some reason, this really ticked her off; she didn't know why,
"Enough of this game!" and within a minute the game was over. Wait… she had one more target left. She chucked a ball at Logan. Thinking it would hit, she smiled evilly. Unfortunately, she hadn't known about his claws, so he popped it with those. She crossed her arms and pouted at the inconvenience, but figured she would go home anyway,
"Luckily I was on my toes, right?" Keita glared, "That was mean, but I got good insight on what you can do when you took out Jamie. By the way, the Professor has invited you to lunch,"
"Nah, I want to get home by tomorrow morning," Keita picked up her jacket, "I'll call you if my parents are sure they're willing to get rid of me," she put her goggles back in the correct position,
"Wait, if you've just driven here from Friday night, and you're going to leave so you're home tomorrow early, that just doesn't seem ethical in the sleep department, Logan said suspiciously,
"Truth is, I slept throughout my classes all Friday, and after I get home from church, I'll go home and sleep, like I never came here," she started to grab her motorcycle,
"That's quite rude to the Professor's hospitality," Logan said. Keita had the feeling he was pushing her into staying, which was just a little too much at the moment. This was something a little outside of her personal comfort bubble,
"I really need to go. Just please tell the Professor that I thank him for the tour and for the offer, but I just need to get home," She put the helmet on, and Logan put his hand down on the handlebars, and he stared into the girl's eyes,
"Well, all I see is fear in your eyes. You may not be ready for us, but we're ready for you. Just call us when you're ready, okay?" Keita sighed in relief,
"Thanks for understanding. I promise to call when I'm ready, but it might be awhile…" she started the motorcycle, and Logan backed off,
"You sure you're not hungry?"
"Positive, see you later,"
"No more drinking, it's bad for you,"
"Making no promises," but she smiled as she said it,
"Later kid," Logan watched as the kid left, and smiled. He at least knew she had some good potential, and that she obviously wanted to join, but had one thing on her mind keeping her at her own home. Whatever it was, he figured she'd get over it eventually…
Think it was ok? At first I thought this chapter was going to be short, but when I finished it was uber long! Sorry bout' that! Please send comments, because if there's not enough response, the story's staying in my head, and not typed, but there's a huge twist, I promise!