Inter-LOAFERS: Dance-Dance-Feva!
By Xenomorph666
Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.
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Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.
Universe: Misfit-Verse
A night of odd happenings
That night the Scions and Misfits were all at the Xavier Institute for dinner. They hadn't been invited as usual, but they did not seem to be bothering the X-Men and the Misfits were strangely sedate. In fact the only person, who could be described as misbehaving, was Shipwreck as he was completely drunk. No one was surprised by this happening.
The night was also filled with an odd sense of calm revelry and unity. The two teams were at a small loss of words to explain the calmness and the Scions did not seem to notice the strange serene sense that pervaded the night, in fact they were only aware that the night had been going slow when a portal opened in the center of their gathering.
"Ok, that's not normal." Perfection said as he watched the portal chuck out a young woman and slam her into the institute's brick walls.
"Betrayer!" the voice of Atropos echoed from the portal.
"The Fates?" Wraith looked confused. "Turning on each other?"
"Yes, turning on each other." Clotho popped up from the rose bush she had fallen into. She was now dressed in a long black dress and heels. Her blonde hair was streaked with black and here eyes were covered in eye-shadow. "Atropos didn't like my latest suggestion."
"Well considering her attitude towards, oh everything. I'm not surprised." Karma said as she walked over.
"Uh, guys, Scion of Evil…" Wanda looked terrified.
"Technically, Atropos is the Scion of Evil; she just finds it fun to share her power with her sisters, when it suits her of course." Wraith explained. "Although I still don't like that they dropped her off here."
"So if she's not a Scion, what is she?" Scott asked as he let a death glare fall on Clotho.
"I'm a god, so don't try anything buddy or I'll share some 'interesting facts' that Lach, shared with me." Clotho threatened and Scott backed down.
"So you guys aren't going to do anything about her being here?" Wanda shrieked. "She tried to kill me."
"Technically, that was Lacheiss and Atropos." Clotho said, "I just play along with those crazies for the most part.
"Oh, that makes me feel much more inclined to like you." Wanda sneered.
"If you knew them you would be." Clotho snapped.
"So what were they planning?" Wraith asked as he hovered near her.
"Ugh, they wanted to team up with Maven's lunatic brother." Clotho groaned. "They wanted to do something to make the last Chaos Spark blow this universe up."
"Whoa…" Perfection was speechless.
"And you stopped it." Wanda scoffed, "Yeah right."
"You know you may be dating a Scion, but I'll be damned if I let you keep talking down to me like that. I'm not like my sisters, and the fact that I saved this world of yours should be some indication of that!" Clotho yelled. "Oh god, do I hate not being immune to pain…" CLotho gripped her head in pain.
"Hey, uh, Wanda…" Perfection crept over to his love. "I think it'd be best if you not piss off Clotho. She really isn't all that bad, and her sisters are really, really domineering."
"No joke Wanda." Astral walked in from the kitchen, "The last time princess-slutty-god 'fell in love' her sister turned the guy into stone, dropped him from Mt. Everest and liquefied his dog."
"Thanks for the reminder, you raven winged bastard." Clotho gave a mock smile.
"Not a problem, O' purist of the three." Astral gave his own searing crack.
"So now the question is, what do we do with her?" Maven pointed out. "We can't leave her to wander this world and we can't let her into the Verge now."
"Why can't she stay here? The Inn has enough room." Perfection said.
"Well for one her sisters will come back for her." Wraith pointed out. "And two, I think you're the only one who actually trusts her."
"What?" Perfection laughed. "Come on that's not true, right DM?"
"Well…" DM was scratching his head. "She has been a major bitch in the past."
"Karma?" Perfection looked to his friend.
"I have to say its way to convenient." Karma winced.
"Oh come on!" Perfection yelled, "Even Astral knows those two practically used her as a puppet."
"You know you didn't seem to care when that 'puppet' hurt me last time." Wanda growled.
"I was just generally angry…" Perfection defended himself. "But I've know Clotho, she is a good person, extremely slutty, but a good person."
Clotho didn't know whether or not to be insulted or happy that Perfection was defending her so her response came out as this; "Gee, thanks Perfection… I think…"
"He is correct." The sudden appearance of the single oddest Scion made everyone jump. Raptor had come to speak on Clotho's behalf.
"Jeez, man!" Astral grabbed his chest. "Nearly giving the Scion of health a heart-attack is not a good thing!"
"Clotho has never once whispered words of evil into the hearts of men." Raptor stated in his monotone voice. "Only the words of lust and romance."
"What is this bash Clotho day?" Clotho shook her head.
"Actually, its bash the sluts day." Kitty cracked her own joke.
"Look who's talking." Wanda scoffed, Kitty just shot Wanda a nasty glare.
Then Pietro zoomed over to Clotho, "You know the others may think you're a sleazy no good whore, but I think you're hot."
"By Zeus' robe you had better back away you little pervert." Clotho threatened.
"Well she can't be all bad if she threatens my brother like that." Wanda smiled.
"Hey…" Pietro said in a hurt voice.
"I can't believe I'm hearing this from Raptor." Maven was in shock.
"Well, I guess if one of us kept an eye on her it would be ok to let her stay at the inn." Astral reluctantly agreed.
"Oh, I could do that!" Karma was ecstatic. "We could go shopping and other fun stuff."
"Well…" DM sighed, "If Karma wants to keep an eye on her then I'm okay with it."
Wraith remained silent, but gave a nodding approval.
"Could you guys tell me something though?" Clotho asked.
"Yes, you really do look like a slut." Rogue spoke up. "It's the mascara."
"Ugh…" Clotho groaned. "When can we go shopping?" She looked to Karma.
"Tomorrow dear." Karma patted Clotho's hand, "Until then feel free to respond to Pietro however you please."
"What?" Pietro's voice went high with fear.
"Relax, speedy." Clotho snapped, "If I wanted to hurt you I would have."
The gathering soon regained its former atmosphere, but most of the X-Men and Misfits avoided Clotho out of spite and fear. However, Pietro did attempt his usual methods of being 'smooth' once more and was promptly turned into a frog and back again. After that most of the Misfits and X-Men began to lessen their view of the god, but still kept their distance.
"So, why does my idiot boyfriend say nice things about you?" Wanda asked as she sat across from Clotho.
"Well, it's a long story." Clotho rolled her eyes upward and saw Todd sitting in the tree branches above with a highly sensitive listening device. "But considering where I am I guess I can give you the condensed version."
"Hey everybody its story time!" Todd yelled as he jumped to the ground and sat down next to Wanda with an evil grin as the Misfits gathered around Clotho.
"Ok, you're strange little man, that's all I have to say…" Clotho grumbled. "Anyway, before my loving sister decided to "bring us into the fold" Lach and I just hung out in the Verge or traveled the mortal worlds looking for hot guys. Then one day I found this real nice hottie, oh was he a dream boat, but my sister didn't approve and she vaporized him."
"What a loving and compassionate sister." Althea said as she hugged Todd closer and cast a concerned glare at her sisters.
Clotho gave a light chuckle before continuing. "Any way, I rebelled and completely got myself into the punk/Goth scene and she vaporized like twenty of my boyfriends before she wrangled Lach and I into her service as some sort of lackeys, but really she was just keeping us in her control."
"So basically your sister enslaved you into her power and completely dominated your life with no concern for your feelings. That about cover it?" Angelica blinked in astonishment.
"That about covers it." Clotho smiled.
"I think I understand why she's the Scion of Evil now." Wanda was completely shocked.
"So, what now?" Lina asked. "I mean, I doubt the JOEs will let you stick around for long."
"They really don't have a choice." Perfection interrupted. "She's kind of trapped here unless she suddenly becomes a Scion or a Greek cult suddenly pops up."
"Yeah that about sums it up." Clotho grumbled.
"I'm confused." Fred scratched his head.
"Long and the short of it, unless a god is worshipped they have jack squat in the area of power unless they're from certain pantheons." Clotho explained. "The Greek or Roman pantheons which ever you want to go by, the Ancient Egyptians and the Atlantian gods usually have some vestige of lasting power in any universe."
"So gods are multi-dimensional too?" Lance was just as confused as the gathering X-Men.
"Some are." Clotho sighed, "For the most part though they tend to split off with the different universes, but they know of each other. My sisters and I just never did that."
"So, you're like a powerful mutant or witch now?" Bobby asked and just received a death glare from the god. "Shutting up now."
Over on the other side of the yard DM, Wraith and Perfection were planning for something quite amazing. L.B. was just commenting.
"Oh this is so gonna twist Atropos' panties in a bunch." L.B. laughed.
"I have to admit, it is an intelligent idea and Mosious has been telling us we need to branch out more so we don't confuse people with all aspects of the universe we encompass." Wraith said.
"So what exactly would this new place draw its power from?" DM thought aloud.
"Well Charisma for one…" Perfection rubbed his chin. "Maybe parts of Life as well and possibly just possibly… Light."
At the mention of the last ingredient Wraith groaned aloud, "Maven is just going to love this."
"Shouldn't we be more worried about Ragnis though?" DM pointed out. "I mean Maven will complain, but he'll do it."
"Yeah, probably." Wraith sighed. "I'll go kick his ass and bring him back here to work on it."
"I'll get Maven!" Perfection perked up as he disappeared.
"Right…" DM sighed, "Which leaves me to getting Moe."
"What do I do?" L.B. asked.
"Keep your mouth shut." DM warned, "I still have that mason jar after all."
"Okay, okay, okay." L.B. panicked. "No problem, I'll just solve this Stryker problem."
"I sense a 'but' coming up." DM cast a glare at the small ghost.
"But, I need a bit of a helping hand, if you get my drift." L.B. smiled.
"Right…" DM said. "K2."
"Yo!" The mechanically inclined friend of DM said from DM's pocket.
"Help out the evil one." DM said as he tossed K2 out and transformed it into the small helicopter.
"All right, I get to have some fun now!" K2 laughed.
"Keep the world in one piece, we'll be back tomorrow." DM groaned as he left, somehow he knew things would only get worse.
