Title : "An eventful trip"

Author : Shado-Fox

E-Mail : Shadowfox@mutant-x-fr.com

Rating : PG

Summary : Adam send Shalimar and Brennan to save two young new mutants but something happens before they reach their destination.

Gender : Action/ Romance

Disclaimer : Not mine.

Thanks to Ferae Naturae for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.

Author note : Thanks for the review!

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Suddenly Shalimar's developed hearing perceived a rumbling, distant but which was approaching their position.

- « Brennan! I think help is arriving! » She exclaimed.

- « How do you know that? I don't hear anything. » He answered.

- « It is the advantage of my condition. » She answered, smiling.

She closed the bag and stood up, helping her friend to get up.

- « Wait for me here, I am going warn whoever they are that we are here. » She said, going away.

- « Mind yourself Shal! » He shouted.

- « Always! » She threw back to him over her shoulder, moving towards the source of the noise that only her hearing could reach.

The snow slowed her progress but her enthusiasm to find her friends gave her wings. At the end of some minutes, she was a way away from Brennan but had not found their rescuers yet. Not managing to pinpoint with exactness the origin of the humming that she had heard, she retraced her steps and the noise increased.

- « Bravo, I romp around in the snow to find them and they go right past me » she said aloud. It's lucky that Brennan stayed where he was . » And she got back on the road with high spirits.

Arriving near the place where she had left her friend, she saw two skidoos and two people dressed in big jackets with hoods, she couldn't see their faces because they had their backs to her. Brennan is also invisible to her eyes.

- « Hey! » She shouted, rushing to the strangers. « I'm so happy to see you! » She said, reaching their position. But her smile fell again immediately at seeing Brennan's lowered head, his hands behind his back. She didn't understand at first what was

happening, but stopped dead. She had no time to react before one of the two men encircled her, the other one catching Brennan and pulling him back onto his feet.

Shalimar struggled violently, over the surprise, her instinct got her over it and her force, which had left her for a moment, returned all at once. She succeeded in striking her aggressor with her elbow in his stomach, which made him release his grip a little. She took advantage of it to turn around and send her fist into the figure, whose face she had not yet seen. The man received the blow to the face without stumbling, he looked at her fixedly, a grin deforming the bottom of his face, a depraved smile playing on his lips. Before she had the time to repeat her action, the fist of the man collided with her hard, faster than the flash of lighting. The blow sends her flying three meters away, against an old tree. At the time of the impact against the tree, she felt the pain in all her left-hand side waking up, a pain much more intense than previously. ' Ouch! This time my shoulder is broken ' she thought to herself.

Although shaken by the power of the blow, she tried to get back up, but something held her, an invisible force that stuck her the tree. With her right hand she lifted her left arm to her chest so that it didn't hang and to relieve the more and more lively pain

which spread through her chest. Doing this she felt something warm trickle through her fingers, lowering eyes she saw the snow reddened by her blood, her blood that was draining from her belly. She couldn't see exactly where she was bleeding from, but she felt her strength draining from her.

Brennan wouldn't have been able to be taken so easily if it weren't for his handicap. He had heard both men arrive but thought plainly that Shalimar had joined them and that they came to help them and not to hurt them.

- « Shal? » He asked nervously. He knew that she had resisted, he had heard her fight against the second man, but he heard nothing more. « Shalimar! Are you OK? What did he do to you? » He became enraged, trying to push aside the man who stood in front of him. He felt the crackling of sparks in his hands, but tied so behind his back, he could not use them.

Both men remained silent, the one who held Brennan firmed up his grip and draged him up to the skidoo, and his colleague approached Shalimar, still leaned up against the tree. He saw then the red dark trail that surrounded the young lady and smiled, a devilish smile that froze Shalimar's blood. She was still trying to get up but the weakness which invaded her and the omnipresent pain didn't even allow her to stand up to face her aggressor.

He saw what she could not see, her wound. Knowing that it would keep her in check, he stepped forward.

Silent, he stood in front of her, measuring her as about his height. Then he bent to take her chin and made her look him in the eye. She tried to divert her gaze but his hand was too strong and she couldn't keep her face averted.

- « There my beautiful, a little less malicious now 'eh? You know that you have amazing strength. I did not expect it but as you see, you can't match my strength. I advise you to be docile and to let me do what I want, otherwise, I should use the strong way and I do not think that you would appreciate it in your position. » He said with a hoarse voice, smiling.

She wanted to answer him, just for appearances sake, but the light in the eyes of this man made her back down. She knew that he could carry out his threats and that in her state she could not resist for long.

TBC.

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