History Before the X-Men
By Time And Life 21
Kurt has never felt this awkward before. Azazel had never felt this awkward before. Both were under the eyes of the young woman that was in the kitchen. Amanda kept looking from Kurt to Azazel back to Kurt again. She was seeing the similarities and differences between father and son. Both were very unique in many ways. The skin color, the tails, the ears (She secretly really liked Kurt's ears.), and their legs. But the differences are outstanding. Azazel was tall in stature with sharp features. He was more composed and old fashioned in his ways. He placed a glass of water in front of her.
"Thank you." She smiled at him. He nodded at her in welcome.
"It surprise to see normal human here." Azazel said as he placed a cup of hot jasmine tea in from if Kurt.
Kurt was still stiff from seeing him in his hell hound form.
"Drink, syn. You look much too tense."Azazel said chuckling.
Kurt shook his head and took a small sip from it.
"Well, my parents don't like that I come here from time to time." Amanda said after she drank a bit of her water.
"Oh? Anti-mutants?" Azazel asked raising an eyebrow.
Amanda shook her head.
"Oh no…they are still adjusting to the fact that I'm dating Kurt." Amanda said a bit shyly.
Kurt nearly spat out his tea at the mention. He didn't want Azazel to know he was dating her yet!
"So, your родители, are getting used to him?" Azazel said as he looked at Kurt strangely.
Amanda smiled brightly.
"Yeah! Actually," Amandad looked at Kurt.
"My mom is really warming up to him. Right Kurt?" Amanda smiled.
"Right, if throwing holy water on me is, Aufwärmen, then i would agree." Kurt frowned as his tail twitched at the memory.
Last week when Kurt went to pick up Amanda for a new movie that came out, Her mother threw water on him, ruining his image inducer and having to go back to the mansion for Forge to fix it.
To Kurt's surprise, Azazel started to laugh. At first it was a chuckle, then it became a bit louder.
"Well, I think it runs in family." Azazel smiled in sympathy at Kurt.
Kurt looked at Azazel with a questioning look.
"You had Holy Water thrown at you?" Kurt asked astounded.
Azazel nodded, still chuckling.
"Da, was in Italy with Elite. We had break from SHIELD work. Scarlett spoke of going to the Churches there, and I went into confessional." Azazel smirked the memory.
"I came out and the priest spoke of demons walking the earth. Then Scarlett came into the church and the priest was screaming and tossing holy water at us like last life line. Funny experience, but ending in being very wet." Azazel chuckled.
Amanda hid her smile behind her hand.
"Really? That does sound funny." Amanda said smiling.
"Glad to know I'm not ze only one." Kurt said finishing his tea.
"Is unfortunate in many ways to be Neyaphem. But advantages are nice." Azazel said as he opened the fridge with his tail and grabbed a green apple with it.
He placed it onto the counter and then picked it up with his hand. Kurt frowned.
"I don't know how to do that." He muttered.
"You are forgetting that our hearing is very good as well. It takes practice. Took 6 years to handle swords with tail. Another six to utilize it as weapon." Azazel said as he leaned back into his chair.
"Wow… that's amazing." Amanda said as she looked at Kurt.
She could picture it now. Kurt, in his later years, wielding a sword and looking dangerous. To her, it was heroic.
"Sounds like a lot of work. It doesn't even sound easy." Kurt said in awe.
"Takes time and practice. Just like teleporting." Azazel said as he suddenly went into thought.
"How far can you teleport?" He asked his son.
"Two miles. Why?" Kurt asked. Azazel frowned a little.
"Hm…you should be able to teleport anywhere in world. I ask Renegade when she comes back." Azazel said as he bit into his apple.
"Why? What would you ask her?" Kurt said suddenly self conscious in front of his father.
"Renegade went to school to become doctor and geneticist. She theorized along with Moria McTaggert that X-gene is passed down from Father's side. Makes sense, seeing that you look more like me, rather than mother." Azazel said as he placed his hand on Kurt's head, then ruffled it.
Between the two demon like mutants, the tension between them disappeared. Amanda chuckled.
"Well, at least i know where Kurt gets his good looks from." Amanda said as she hooked her arm around Kurt's.
"I never said i was good looking." Kurt said looking down at his girlfriend.
"Yeah, but you are very good looking to me." She said kissing him on the cheek. Azazel chuckled at the two. Secretly glad that his son was accepted. It reminded him of his younger years in the gypsy camp before he was taken away. Then something perked up his ears. A high, shrill whistle. His face contorted in annoyance.
"Прости меня, I must leave now." He said as he tossed the core of his apple into the garbage.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Kurt asked.
"Blaze is calling." Was all he said.
Then he disappeared. Leaving Kurt and Amanda alone.
"Well, I like him." Amanda said smiling.
"Thank you, Amanda." Kurt said as he hugged his girlfriend around the waist.
Never knowing that when Azazel left the kitchen, he would be coming back with Blaze, bloodied and injured.
Rouge's head was pounding. She was hearing something frantic in her ears…Renegade. She was there.
"Anna! Please wake up!"
She could hear Renegade's voice growing louder.
She opened her eyes and saw Renegade's ice blue ones looking into her's worriedly.
"Wha-? What happened?" Rouge slurred. She felt really uncomfortable.
Something was around her neck and it was chaffing. She reached up and felt something there.
"Don't fiddle with it, Rouge. If you do you will get shocked." Renegade said as she grabbed Rouge's hand and placed it down.
Rouge's vision finally cleared and was shocked at what she was seeing. She was in a train car. She could hear the train whistle and the movement of the tracks below. She looked at Renegade.
"Where are we?" Rouge asked as she looked around. They were not alone. There were other people in the train car as well. They had a thick black collars on as well. Some were old and some were her age and maybe younger.
"Rouge…we were captured remember?" Renegade said as she moved to her side and pulled her close, as if she didn't want Rouge out of her sight.
Then everything came back to Rouge. She remembered following Renegade and Blaze to the murder scene…
4 hours ago…
Rouge made sure she waited ten minutes before she changed her clothes and followed them discreetly. She was wearing boot flare jeans with her converse and her purple off the shoulder shirt that she usually wears. The last part was to put on her gloves when she thought back to Blaze and he had leather gloves on.
"Why would he wear gloves?" She thought to herself.
Maybe it made him more professional? She shook her head. She had to follow them now.
She stuck to the alleyways of town. She knew the murder happened on Joy street, so she made sure to stay no the backroads. As she turned onto Joy, she saw the yellow tape and a couple of cop cars there. They were still investigating the murder. Joy was a street that had a large part of the backyards filled with forest area. She remembered the small community wanted the forest left alone instead of expanding the suburb area. It was a good thing too.
Rouge sneaked past the cops when they weren't looking and went to the back of the house. She had to breathe again when she saw the back yard. There was blood everywhere. There were no bodies, but there was defiantly blood. She steeled herself and looked around carefully. She made sure to avoid the dried blood puddles. She could tell that there was a fight here. But why haven't the neighbors heard anything? She heard something click behind her. She looked at the back door of the house and she took off to hide behind a tree. She told herself to calm her beating heart and kept her breathing silent. She could hear the voices of Renegade and Blaze. She peered from behind the large tree and saw them.
"Seeing anything yet?" Blaze said as he turned to his wife.
Renegade's eyes were turning gold and she looked like she was picking things out of thin air.
"As much as i can see the past, it's all blurred. This family should not have died." Renegade said as she looked around.
"So, you are saying that it wasn't their time?" Blaze said as he took off his right leather glove.
Rouge was curious of why he took of his glove. He kneeled down to the ground and placed his hand on the dried puddle of blood. Rouge could faintly see his eyes glow faintly and the veins around his face protruded outward and it was showing a silver black color. He stood up and placed his leather glove back on.
"What the bloody hell does Graydon Creed have to do with this?" He said as he turned to his wife.
Renegade had a confused look on her face.
"Creed?" She said as if the name was dirt. She plucked at the air again and a scowl appeared on her face.
"It's too hard to see the past." She said as her eyes turned back to the ice blue color.
"If anything, there was a definite struggle. Krisson's powers were sub-sonic screams. It's not like Banshee's. He's a Bleeder." Blaze shuddered slightly.
"Oh? Wow…his screams should have woken up the entire neighborhood." Renegade said as she looked around at the ground again.
"That should have happened. I don't see any broken glass windows. They must've went straight for his vocal cords. He bled out." Blaze said as he turned to his wife.
Rouge had decided to turn tail and head out. She had heard enough. Though was she was walking through the small forest, she didn't realize that she was being followed and the next thing she heard was a click of a gun. She froze where she stood then whipped around and saw three men with guns aimed right at her.
"Well, what have we here? Another mutie?" One of the men said.
Great. She was stuck. Why couldn't she have better powers? Telekinesis would have been nice to have and convenient too, she would have yanked those guns out of they hands in no time flat. The men were wearing some sort of tactical clothing's that police would be wearing, but it was clear enough that they were not police.
"Look, I don't know what you are talking about, but i think you have got the wrong person." Rouge said trying to say the men to let her go.
They didn't. On of the men aimed their gun at her as he walked up to her.
"Now listen here, you are coming with us. Got it?" He said as he aimed his gun right in the middle of her forehead. Fear shot through her body. She did not want to die today.
"If i were you boys…i'd leave." She heard the familiar accent of the british man.
All three men then turned to Blaze as he step out of the tree shadows. Then Rouge felt herself being pulled backward and suddenly she landed right behind Blaze. Hands were on her shoulders. Rouge looked up and saw Renegade right there.
"More muties!" one of the men shouted.
"I'm afraid that my patience is being spread thin here…" Blaze started to grin as he took off his gloves and dropped then to the ground.
"Leave now, or i will not hesitate to kill you off. And trust me, it will not be pleasant." Blaze said as he flexed his fingers.
Rouge was confused.
"Doesn't he have the power to control and make fire?" She thought to herself.
"Oh yeah? What are you going to do then? Read our minds?" the third man sneered.
Blaze shifted his footing and ran straight at the three men. He was so fast! He knocked out one man with a punch, and the second one he grabbed his arm and sucker punched him and covered his mouth as he kicked in his knee, hearing a horrifying crack, and the man promptly passed out from the pain. The third man decided to take aim…and fired.
Rouge gasped as she heard the gunshots. Blaze was shot! But he wasn't falling and he stood up straight.
"Seriously?" He said in awe. Rouge heard Renegade gave a breathy laugh.
"The hell?" The man said as he stood back a couple feet.
"You should be dead!" He shouted.
Blaze ran over to the man and kicked him in the gut and he went flying to the side and hit a tree. He let out a strangled cry before Blaze seized his throat.
"Now…you are going to tell me everything about Graydon Creed. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. I'd rather do this the easy way. Talk." Blaze said chillingly.
Rouge could feel the cold tone of his voice. Then looked at the two unconscious men on the ground. What are his powers?
"His old name was Reaper." Renegade said as if it was an answer to her thoughts.
"He was a top notch assassin. He has killed many people. But only a few of them he killed with his bare hands." She said with stone lacing her voice.
"But…but X-Men don't kill." Rouge said looking up at Renegade.
"We have different stances Rouge. We hate killing. But it is necessary. I've been doing this for many years. We are not X-Men. We are Elite. We do what we can to protect all humans and mutants. No matter what." She said as she looked at her husband.
Rouge looked back at Blaze as well.
"Okay. You are going to tell me everything." Blaze said as he let the man go and fall to the ground.
The last thing Rouge saw, was Blaze placing his hand on the man's head and somehow…he was taking the life out of him. Then blackness covered her vision, a strange smell filled her nose, and she didn't remember anything else.
Present…
Rouge looked at Renegade.
"Why did I black out?" Rouge asked.
Renegade frowned.
"It turned out that the three men were bait. Either someone planned this out and they wanted the X-Men captured, or they wanted to do this for sport. I can't see that far right now." She said as her eyes briefly flashed gold and pointed at the collar on her neck.
Rouge looked around trying to find the familiar blond hair of Blaze.
"Where is Blaze?" Rouge asked. Renegade smiled sadly.
"Blaze managed to get away. He is probably with the X-Men right now and trying to get them to find us." She said as she pulled Rouge closer to her. Rouge was bit surprised at the fact that the woman wasn't pushing her away. Her skin is poison. She would have thought that Renegade would shun her because of her powers.
"Listen to me Rouge. Follow my lead and don't talk to anyone. Things are going to get worse. Okay?" Renegade said as she held onto Rouge's arm tightly but gently.
Rouge nodded and became dizzy, she could smell that strange smell again.
"Chloroform. I'll see you when i wake up." Renegade said before leaning her head against the wall and passing out. Rouge followed soon after. Hoping that someone would save them soon.
TAL21: Okay, now i can do my author's notes. So, things are going to spiral down from here. Renegade and Rouge have been kidnapped, Blaze apparently managed to get away, and Azazel and Kurt are slowly starting to get along. I thinks it's going well...right? Anyways, I won't be posting a new chapter tonight, i have been busy with work and Black friday. Let me tell you, people. Are. Crazy. I saw a lot of people grabbing 4 or 5 of the same things. Xbox 360s were being sold out like they were going out of style. Personally, i prefer the PS3. Anyways. I was lucky to even get the PS3 (A want) and get some clothes (A need). So i hope you guys enjoyed your Thanksgiving and Black Friday Shopping. Onto the SHOUT OUTS!:
Dark Lord of The X-Men: Yeah, i wanted Azazel to give an important lesson to the kids about how their powers affect their surroundings and id they had said no to the fight, he would have let them go. I thought it was priceless. :D
Jay Eddon: I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did. :D For me, i watched the original cartoons and then Evo came around and then WATXM. I enjoyed them all. :D
Yuki: Okay. Let me explain something here. I'm trying to keep as close to Gambit's Origin as close as possible. There are many origins of how he came to be. He was kidnapped by the Thieves in one story line, abandoned in another, and so on and so forth. I had decided to take a spin on his origin and gave him Scarlett. That was the idea. I have studied his background enough that with the idea of History Before the X-Men, It had worked out enough for me to work with. And Yes. Scarlett did a three sixty of her personality when she had Gambit and when she met him again. Get this, She felt the pain and it was enough that she almost nearly *Spoilers* so it was hard on her. She had to steel herself up if she had to keep working with her Guild, the Elite, AND SHIELD. It was enough that She changed her name from 'Queen Of Hearts' to 'Ace Of Spades'. She died on the inside giving up her son. That's all i can give for now. Thanks for the review! :D
TAL21: Okay, i'm done with that. Now. I can't wait to get into the dirty gritty part of my story. Now, most of you know that i was doing this for NANOWRIMO, and seeing that it ends tomorrow, oh well. Hey, i gave it a shot, and i thought i did well. :) The next Chapter will be put up sometime next week before thursday. I will be returning to My WEEKLY updates, instead of Daily. But instead of 2000 words, it may be more than that. :D So yay for long chapters! I will see you guys next thursday and i hope to hear from you! REMEMBER TO LEAVE DETAILED REVIEWS! :D
Question Time!: What Theme song would you give this story? And What would be the 'families' themes? (Ie: Kurt and Azazel, Scarlett and Gambit, and Blaze, Renegade and Rouge.)
REMEMBER TO KEEP ON READING AND WRITING! :D