JD: This IS IN the series, THIS IS CHAPTER 6 AND THE SPECIAL! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! Enjoy the craziness!
Brains!
Stretching as far up as I could, I heard it. The so needed popping sounds of my shoulders. After this heck-tic week I need a good hot shower then a week long of nothing but sleep.
"Is she still sick?" A worried voice asked. I looked to Ray and nod my head. "Han is taking good care of her?" She's extra worried. Amber has never gotten sick and she's been sick for about two weeks now.
"Yeah." I answer pulling my sweatshirt off then laid in my bed. Ray sat on the edge. "I'm worried about her too." I comfort her. A part of me honestly thinks her body made her sick this long to be around the blue man downstairs. She's getting a lot better but still sick and I will admit to that from my own eyes. They really care about each other. I don't believe it's romantic but sure can turn that way given long enough time.
We heard a certain knock on the door and then it open to show Alina sticking her red-brown hair covering half of her face and sunglasses on. She has black streaks in her hair and a gun on her hip, the gun is fake, I hope. "We are on kid watch remember?" She asked us and I groan. I forgot. Getting up and got dress in to my custom with Ray's help. She went as Princess Laya, of course, and I am going as Little Red Riding Hood. I got an old fashion, really old fashion, off red dress with brown design into it and the strings across my chest like a corset. This is an one that's slightly different than the normal ones. I love this one. It's off red with brown corset and a bright red cape and hood. I got a basket empty for the younger ones' bags.
We went out the door and FINALLY Alina explain her costume. "I'm a badass cop!" She laugh like a lunatic. "Emma is going to be my Robber." She grin. "How much extra candy do you think she'll be able to get for me?" She start to jump slightly. Ray and I laugh at her walking away. Still slightly worried the gun is real I decided not to disappoint her.
We got to the front of the mansion and waiting for us was the kids. Logan was walking pass and glancing to Ray who was the most innocent looking person in the world she knew what I wanted to do. "Logan!" I scream running over to him. We are suppose to take the early bus but no way in hell I'm doing that. He stop glancing back to me as I slowed down to a stop. "Logan, can you do us a BIG favor?" I asked in the most innocent voice I can muster.
"Ya still gonna rip me a new one?" He asked me with a grin. I laugh remembering that.
"You know I was talking about Scott right?" I asked with a grin.
"Ah, yes, the man with the adamantium pole up his ass." He wink at me.
"Yeah, I wanted to go as that but Xavier wouldn't let me." I said pouting slightly. He laugh cause of that one.
"Ya wanted to go as Scott?" He asked. He then start to laugh as he he said the next part. "Ya wanted to tape a plastic silver pole to ya ass didn't ya?" I nod and he wrap his arm around me as he pulled us to a direction. "What ya want, kiddo?"
"Drive us so we don't have to take the bus?" I asked and he nod waving it off. He agreed, good enough for me. I ran forward and the others laugh.
"A silver plastic pole?" Alina asked. I nod and she laugh harder.
We got to the area we were suppose to be after a while and he watched us all load out. As we went around the block a few times they all got tired pretty fast. after our third block Ray, Kitty, Rogue, and I had our arms fill with the younger kids. Alina had a lot of candy and the older ones was helping her carry the younger ones bags. We start to walk off and put the kids in to the back of the van as Logan sip his Dr Pepper, Rogue won't let him drink anything else besides that and Tea. Rogue and Kitty got here by a small car with only two front seats. I walked with Rogue as we talked some before we all went back to the mansion. "We were like thinking about like going to the club before like heading home." Kitty told us and I just nod my head. Still annoying when she talks like that. Tina does talk like that too but when she does it, it's cute.
"I think I should head home." I told them looking over my shoulder to the van of sleeping kids. I smile and start to walk back but then stop when I heard a strange noise. Turning around I stopped real fast. Something's really wrong. "Hey Ray?" I called looking around. Spinning around fast I looked for Alina.
"Yeah?" She asked running back to me. "Where's Alina?" I asked. She slightly freaked out too.
"I don't know that's why I called you." I stated spinning again. "Alina!?" I called for her. She didn't reply. Something is really wrong. I can't even feel her any more. "Logan?" I said running to the van.
"What?" He growl at me and I roll my eyes. "Is red in here?" I asked calling her his nickname for her.
"No she followed you and Kit." He stated rolling his eyes.
"Okay, we will take the bus home, go ahead get the kids back now." I said walking away. "Come on lets go find her." We went back to Rogue and Kitty who were waiting for us. "Alina is missing. Help us find her?" I asked as we got closer to them.
"Of course." Kitty said after sharing a looking with Rogue.
We ran forward looking for her, calling her every now and then. By time we got around the corner we saw her walking around like a zombie? She's in a small alley. "Hey, Alina?" Rogue said waving her hand in front of her face. I close my eyes and tried to concentrate on her but I got nothing from her feelings.
"Alina?" I asked slowly going up to her. Rogue stopped me when Alina start to go at me like a beast. "Alina, what's wrong?!" I screamed at her but she hiss and was going at me still. Looking at her now I notice her skin is sicking looking and she looks so different. "Rogue?" I asked turning to my friend. She took off her gloves and walked around Alina. Alina was concentrating on me not the other girl. She went up from behind and put her hand on Alina's neck. Only a few seconds pass and Rogue was screaming pulling away. Alina was fine! She should have fell since she's a normal human.
"She's ain't our gal." Rogue said as she picked herself up from the ground. She's worn out by that contact.
"What we do?" Ray asked and we ran to the street from that small alley. "What did you mean she's not ours?" Ray asked turning to Rogue. Rogue looks so worn out from just that single touch.
"I mean, Myra, that she isn't our gal. She would have flop out like a normal human and we could bring her back to Hank to find out what's wrong!" She screamed at Ray who flinch at her real name. I stop looking back at the alley where Alina is and I took a deep breath looking around. They are all worried and slightly panic.
"What if it's a mutant power that's done this?" I asked and they all looked at me like I'm crazy.
"Like possible." Kitty finally said. "I like remember like the Professor saying something like about a dangerous like mutant with very little data on like him running around close by like here." She said looking back to Alina. "This like might be his work. All like the professor like knows about him is not long like after this mutant's contact like with most others they turn like in to these zombie like, like creatures. They are neither like dead or like alive." She said shaking slightly. "So she's like a zombie? Will she like be going like after our like brains?!" She start to freak out now. She starts to say the word 'like' about five times more when she's freaking out.
"Is that's all the Professor knew of him?" Ray asked scared now. What if's running through my and her minds and I want to cry now. Alina got close to my sisters and I fast. She became one of us basically. I look to Kitty who looked really worried.
"Yeah." She said shaking. "His like powers are like never active like long like enough to track like him and find like more information like on him." The like thing is starting to get annoying again but I ignored it as I looked back to where Alina is.
"Powers not active long enough?" I thought about that. Something about that seems familiar then it hits me. "Professor says your powers Ray wasn't active long enough for them to find you when we found you." I stated turning around to her. "All he knew you were a girl in the general area as the park!" I realize what was nagging at me for this.
"Yeah?" Ray asked slightly not following and I roll my eyes.
"Your powers activate when?" I asked and she realized what I was going on about.
"When I was scared!" She stated. "He's only able to activate his powers when he's scared and that means tonight of all nights he would be scared more then should be." She stated. We all agreed to go different directions and no touching anyone. We are looking for the population of the zombies.
We have to find this kid and make everything way it should be! We have to fix this! Kitty went with Ray and I went with Rogue. They would be faster on their own like how Rogue and me would be faster with each other. We can't run through walls or go invisible, even if it's completely gross looking when she does. It'll be better like this. Kitty will run through a wall while Ray goes invisible and they can sneak up on him. With Rogue and me we could do something like talk the boy down. I am hoping this is a kid in truth.
We went around another corner and I saw someone on top of a house. I tap Rogue on her shoulder. She glance to me, so happy she's wearing Logan's leather jacket right now. I motion to the roof of the house and she looked up. "Sabertooth. What is he doing here?" She asked low. I didn't ask what she meant instead we just kept looking. From way she's acting this Sabertooth guy was bad news. I slip around the building and found the zombie galore. Kitty and Ray showed up and met up with us at the center of it.
"What's the plan?" Ray asked turning to Rogue and I. Kitty was looking our way too. I sigh and had to really think about it before I climb up on top of a truck. Up there I can see most around us. There is a boy who looks though horrible isn't zombie like. I told them as I climb down. We got closer to the boy and as we did I felt his fear. "Um, Harp?" Ray called me. I walked around her and got low to speak to the boy carefully.
"Hey there, buddy." I said and he looked up to me and glare hatefully at me. His fear and hatred went up a lot. By this time it starts to seep in to me. I gulp and pushed it back. "We aren't here to hurt you. I'm Harper. These are my friends. We are like you."
"Lies." He said pulling his legs up to him. He can't be even eight yet.
"No, she's ain't lyin' boy." Rogue said stepping in. "I'm Rogue. My first kiss the boy was in a coma for a month." She said and the little boy laugh but fear was still running high.
"That just shows you are a horrible kisser." He growled. The more scared he is the more the zombies seem to notice us. We have to get him calm and trust us.
"That's very mean." I stated softly. "Hey, what's your name?" I asked sweetly.
"Blake." He said not looking up at us. I smiled, that's something to work on.
"Well, Blake, this is Rogue." I motion to the tough city girl with country accent. "Right there is Ray as Princess Laya." I motion to Ray who did a slight wave and stiffen up when she notice that a group of the zombies are heading our way. They were ignoring us or not seeing us before and now they are heading our way! "The really preppy girl is Kitty, but she's not a prep just talks like one. She's really smart and sweet." I stated.
"Like hi." Kitty said walking over to us. "Can you like control them?" She asked motioning to the enclosing Zombies.
"N-no." he stutter and cling to my arm as we got up.
"Hey listen to me." I said slowly in a steady voice. He's getting scared more now. "Hey now, pay attention." he look to me and tried to hide behind me, some. "You are what created them, you need to just calm down and if you do they won't attack us." Before I could finish saying us a zombie ran at Kitty and Ray who, fazed through him and he fell. It took him a few minutes to get up and I pick up the kid and start to run with the others to safety.
We ran over behind a building and closed the gate and I put him back down on his feet. He wrap his arms around my waist tightly and I sigh. "How are they changing?" Ray asked looking over to me.
"They get scary after I touch them." Blake said burying his dirty face into my dress corset, it was my side so I didn't think much of it.
"Why isn't Harper changing then?" Rogue asked holding the fence closed, they are trying to get in and moaning really loudly. Normally zombies don't scare me but these are unpredictable. Then again they are following his fear of them so they are connected to him in a way. I heard laughing? I glance up to the roof of the house we are hiding in the back yard of. There sat the man that kind of look like a beast in his own way. His pure black eyes watching us as he laugh.
"Why don't you do something!?" I screamed at him with my hands up and ran forward to help them hold the gate close. The next thing I hear roaring and the gate was getting less force on other side. Rogue and I climb up on the edge of the gate and saw that Sabertooth was picking them up and throwing them making multi of them land on each other and tumble away from us. He roar and made a few stumble back but they mostly stayed at trying to get us. I jump down and got down to the kid's level.
"He's probably doing that for fun." Rogue grumble as I got level with the little boy.
"Blake, sweets, think of it this way. They are fake. They are not real." I said softly and he nods his head. "Now listen to me carefully, very carefully." I told him softly trying to keep my voice level. "You can control them you just need to calm down and remember that they are not real." I told him and he took a few deep breathes. He listen to me carefully and before long he was calm and the roaring was the only thing scaring him but I've convince him that the man out there that was protecting us wasn't scary, well he is but he's not going to hurt us so not be scared of him.
After a while the roaring stop and we open the gates to see that they zombies though many as are start to lose interest in us. We start to walk slowly and Sabertooth follow us slowly. He didn't jump at us or attack us but Rogue kept an eye on him. I felt something from him but I didn't know what. I went in to the area of where Rogue parked that small car. "How everyone gonna fit in here?" Rogue asked as she glance back to Kitty, Ray, and me. She glared at Sabertooth but didn't say anything to him at all.
"You take Blake to the Professor and Hank. They find a way to fix this and we will take the bus." I heard a grunt from behind me and I glance back at Sabertooth who was looking at me. "You going to the Mansion?" I asked him and he growled running off. "Didn't think so." I said turning back around. I got down to Blake's level and smiled to him. "Rogue is going take you to really good people who will help you okay? Mr Xavier is really nice man in a wheelchair and though Hank looks like a scary monster he's really a giant teddy bear." I said softly and he nod his head.
24 hours later
"I was a zombie?" Alina asked rubbing her face clean of the gunk that built up over the night.
"Yes." I said laughing at her as she glare at me through the soap covering her face.
"Did you guys spike my drink or something?" I laugh more.
"No." I said still laughing.
"Then why can't I remember!?" That's when Xavier finally step in.
"Miss Harper is in fact telling you the truth." He said rolling in to the room. I smile and looked over my shoulder to Wolverine who came in too.
"Uh, really?" She asked confused.
"Yes." He said bluntly. I try not to laugh when she got light headed from the though.
"I was undead, as in dead but not really dead?"
"No. More like your body was forced in to a mindless state being control by emotions of a scared child." He corrected and she sat down on the chair beside the sink. We are in her room but right now everyone was only here to check on her. She was the only one of the mutants here affected.
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