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Two

"Gaia! Gaia!"

"Where the bloody hell has that girl gotten to now?"

"Have you checked the hay loft?"

"She's not there."

"Where the fuck is she?"

"David's gonna be pissed."

The floorboards squeaked above her head, showering dust and dirt down on her head as she hugged her knees. Actions such as this had long since stopped being a game to those who owned her but in her six-year-old mind it was still a game to her.

This was the only world that Gaia Blake had ever known, the world of farm houses and scripture, sacrifice and heartache. She didn't know why she lived in a house with many women, many children but only one man, she didn't know why even she was different than everyone else but she did know that there was a world beyond their fences…the trees whispered, the wind carried sounds of people outside and it was nothing like they said it was…people were happy and laughing…it was not like they said it was…a dead wasteland.

Laying beside her with his tongue hanging out was the only gift Gaia's mother had given her, a lanky wolf pup by the name of Chaos because of the chaos he made in the house the first night.

Gaia didn't remember but she'd heard the story a dozen times how Father David had come courtin' on her mumma when she was only a baby. The date that she was born on was a special date and because of that everyone called her their Goddess. Gaia didn't want to be their goddess…she wanted to be outside where the fun was.

"Get out from underneath the fucking house!" someone screamed.

Gaia's head shot up so fast she cracked it on the floorboards above her head. "Koby!" Koby was her step-brother, she'd heard him say he was her step-brother even though his father preached that they were all brothers and sisters under the skin. Reluctantly she started crawling back out and the moment she was in reach, Koby grabbed a chunk of her ebony curls and pulled them.

Gaia screamed in pain and Chaos launched himself at the boy, ripping a chunk of skin out of his arm.

He struggled to his feet, anger written all over his face. "I will shoot that fucking wolf!" Koby shouted, gun raised.

"Don't hurt him, Koby!" Gaia screamed. She latched onto his hand with her teeth and bit down hard. Her step-brother raised his hand and backhanded her, splitting her lip.

"You little bitch!" he hissed. "I don't fucking care how special you fucking are! I'll teach you a lesson in respect. He grabbed her by her hair again and raised his hand to hit her only…

"Get your hands off Sally, estupido."

BANG!

Gaia squealed as Koby's head was blown right off his shoulders, she didn't seem to mind the fact she was covered in blood nor the man wearing some kind of red and black leather suit but the sound of the gunshot. "My name's not Sally," she told him, rubbing blood out of her eyes. "It's Gaia."

"Can you not blow someone's head off in front of the child?" A woman marched in splattered with blood and holding a pair of guns in her hands, shaking her head. "Honey, you're okay," the woman smiled, kneeling to Gaia's level so that she could clear the blood off her face. "Don't be scared."

"I'm not scared," she told her in a matter-of-fact tone. "Who are you?"

"My name's Shelby," she told her, "and this here is Deadpool."

Gaia wrinkled up her nose. "That's a stupid name."

"Well Gaia's a stupid name," he argued back. "Deadpool is awesome! So much better than Gaia or Wade."

Shelby shook her head, typical of him-fighting a child over something so trivial. Shelby picked the girl up and went to carry her out the back door but Chaos stood there, tongue sticking out the corner of his mouth. "Ah-"

"That's Chaos," Gaia whispered in her ear. "He's my bestest friend."

"Puppy!" Wade whooped.

Shelby muttered under her breath as she walked out the door.

"Give us the girl and you'll live." There was at least twenty men holding assault rifles on them.

Gaia buried her face in Shelby's neck. "Please don't give me back. David's a bad man."

Shelby raised her gun, aiming it directly at David. "You heard the girl. Gaia has spoken."

"Hey babe? I think you can go green now. Hulk smash!"

"I asked you to stop calling me that," she muttered.

"Give us the girl and you can go peacefully into this glorious day," David smiled, his smile so sweet Shelby gagged a little. "Her mother is concerned that a bride cannot be late to her own wedding day."

"YOU'RE ALL DEAD! EVERY. LAST. SICK. FUCKER!" Shelby screamed at the top of her lungs. She dropped Shelby gently to the ground and dove straight into the crowd.

Gaia and Chaos used the panelling on the ledge of the veranda to hide as bullets whizzed all around her. She risked taking a look around the corner to see a great big mangy lion ripping into people, the man in the red suit was using swords to do cleanly what the lion was doing savagely. Her eyes widened in terror as Shelby the Lion's skin seemed to shimmer before her whole body turned into some kind of overgrown snake. "Woah," she muttered. "She's like me, Chaos…"

"Come on, Sally." Wade grabbed her by the back of her dress and tossed her onto his shoulder like she was a sack of potatoes.

"It's Gaia," she reminded him.

"Come on babe!" Wade called out. "Drop the guy's intestines and lets go."

The six-year-old girl's eyes widened as she watched Shelby strangle someone with their own guts. Now in human form, Shelby was losing hold of even that, a slight green tinge to her skin.

"That's so hot…don't you agree Sally?" Wade smirked underneath his mask.

"I'm upside down," Gaia giggled. "Weeeeeeee!"

"Weeeeeeee!" Wade shouted, slicing off some woman's head.

"That's disgusting," Gaia giggled.

"It's beautiful, Sally!" he laughed, running through the trees. One good thing about the compound Gaia lived on, plenty of trees for cover.

Shelby came up beside them running like the devil himself. She was covered in blood but didn't seem to really care. A few miles down the road there was a black van parked in the tree line near the road waiting for them.

Wade put Gaia down and she walked into the middle of the road. Narrowing her eyes, she did what she always did when she wanted something to burn…Gaia imagined it burning.

Shelby went to get into the van but noticed Gaia standing in the middle of the road watching the compound. "Fuck!" she hissed. "Come on kid." She reached out to grab Gaia bit stopped at the sounds of exploding glass.

The place in the compound that was their gathering place-the tall, church-like structure was on fire. Violet flames roared through the building, consuming it and growing larger with each passing second.

Gaia stood there clutching the rope collar around Chaos' neck, on her face was the sweet smile of a child who enjoyed what she was looking at.

"Should've brought the smores," Wade muttered.

Shelby almost forehead slapped herself. "Lover, drive please. We need to get away before the cops get here."

"My mumma's in that place," Gaia spoke. "Am I safe now?"

Shelby honestly didn't know how to answer her. She had her doubts about the plan, ever since Mr B had announced that she was to go to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Sure they trained mutant children how to harness their abilities and live their lives, what Shelby had issue with was the amount of save the world bullshit Charles Xavier shoved down their throats. She didn't like him and he had mixed feelings about her-especially because she took to the murder for hire business so quickly the moment she met one Wade Wilson.

The mercenary/journalist had at least ten hours to decide what they were going to do with Gaia and she was leaning towards not handing such a powerful mutant to wheels and his freaks in the castle.

++++++ Google translate says that estupido is Spanish for asshole ++++++