A Feral Situation

Chapter 16

Creed ran as fast as he could to get away from the destroyed land. He knew that Weapon X and the authorities would come to investigate. He had only cover ten miles on foot. He would have covered about fifteen by now if he didn't have the extra weight that he was carrying, but he wouldn't leave her behind.

He looked down at the sleeping form in his arms, wondering what the hell Weapon X did to her. She had only been there for not more than two days and she was already more powerful than magneto. When he was with the program, it took them years just to get him where he was today. In a way he was jealous, but deep down inside he felt sorry for her for the fact that she had to go through that.

He was starting to get tired after about two hours of running. They had covered thirty miles on foot, but they weren't out of the woods yet.

Creed sat down on the ground and held Jubilee in his lap. She was no longer shaking, but now she was twitching due to another dream that she was having. He could tell that it was another nightmare and immediately tried to wake her up. There was no cover for him to hide in if her powers went off again like that and he did not want an early funeral.

"Jubilee." he said, saying her name for the first time, "Jubilee. Wake up. Wake up. Yer havin' a bad dream."

He shook her gently and then a little harder, until her eyes flashed open, which her glowing red. She lashed out at him with her claws. He fell over backwards onto the ground, quickly he pushed her off of him, and rolled back onto his feet. She landed on all fours and growled.

"Great." he said, "Just want this world, freakin' needs. Another flamin' homemade feral from Weapon X." he sighed, knowing what had to be done, "Okay, frail, ya wanna play? Fine. Then let's play." she paced back and forth, never taking her eyes off of him. He got into fighting stance, and mocked her, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Come get a piece of Ol' Creed."

On that note, Jubilee launched herself at him. He simply moved to the side and she went flying past him. She turned back around, roaring in frustration, and tried again. This time he didn't move, instead, he took her head on and they both crashed into each other. They rolled on the ground, biting and slashing, kicking and punching, and roaring through the night. Creed was taken by surprise by her increased strength and durability. He didn't want to kill her, he just wanted to tire her out, so that she could come to her senses and stop fighting. But he had no such luck there. She had an advantage on him that he didn't have right now that kept her going. She was a lot younger than him, had more energy than him, and was completely lost in an animal state of mind.

"Damnit!" he growled, she had taken a swipe at his grown and barely missed. The crotch in his jeans were completely shredded, leaving his boxers visible to the world. This made him angry, "Okay, frail! It was fun for a while, but when you go below the belt play time is over." he swung at her head to knock her out, but she ducked under his arm, and went straight for his throat. With his free hand he grabbed a hold of her neck and kept her at arms length, "Okay. Somebody definitely needs a time out!" he rolled over to where he was on top of her and then flipped her over so that she was face down on the ground. He pinned her hands above her head and put all of his body weight on top of her. He was exhausted from the fight, so he was adding a little big of dead weight onto her body. She too began to tire, due to the fact that her body can't stand that much pressure, and that she was slowly coming back to a human state of mind. Creed sensed the change in her sent and waited until she was completely back, then said in a sarcastic tone, "If yer this good in a fight, then why can't ya be this good in bed?"

Jubilee blinked and tried to turn her head to face him, "Uh… What just happened?"

He raised a questioning eyebrow at her, "You mean you don't remember?"

"No." she said, "All's I remember was that I was dreaming about fight this really big cat that was in my last dream. It doesn't seem to want to leave me alone."

He thought for a moment, remembering that the same thing happened to him, when he first turned feral. Slowly he got up off of her and walked a little ways away.

Jubilee got up as well and walked over to him. She was scared. Never before had she ever got into a fight and not remember anything nor had she felt such great pain since her pyrotechnic powers surface. But it wasn't those things that frightened her right now. It was Creed's lack of words.

"Creed?" she said, "What did they do to me?" he didn't say a word. "Creed?"

He looked at her out of the corner of his eye and then looked back into the horizon, he sighed, "They experimented on ya. Like they done to me, Logan, Fox, Maverick, and possibly countless others. I'm thinkin' that they've given ya a big power boost and altered yer genes to make ya feral."

She reflected on his words, then looked around at the destroyed land, "D-Did I do this?"

He was silent for a moment and then said, "Yes."

She dropped to her knees, horror struck that her powers that she worked so hard to control were now out of her control once again. "What am I going to do? There's no way that I can relearn to control such a great power as this without any help. Not even the X-Men's Danger Room can take this much damage."

"I can help." said Creed suddenly, "I can help you learn to control your powers."

She looked up at him with a shocked expression, "How? You don't have energy powers like me."

"You don't have to be a scientist to understand something, frail. I've had experience workin' with mutants that have energy powers like yers. Plus, I can teach ya control the feral part that's inside ya."

"Really?"

"Yeah, but only under two conditions."

"What's that?"

"You stay mine forever and you stay loyal to me always. Meaning that you don't betray me an' switch back over to yer little friends. An' you must always do as I say no questions asked."

"I have a problem with that no questions asked part, but other than that I can deal with the rest."

"Alright. So do we have a deal?"

"Deal."

"Alright, then." he reached out a hand and helped pull her up, "Come on. We've got a lot of ground to cover before Weapon X comes a long and decides to pick a fight again."

Together they both took off. Side by side.

As they ran Jubilee couldn't help but ask a question that had just enter her mind, "Creed?"

"Yeah?"

"Why did you save me back there at the Weapon X base? You could have left me for dead and got yourself another girl to be your play thing."

He smiled and replied, "Like I said before, frail. Yer mine now and what I claim as mine stays mine, until I get bored it. An' from what I've seen, frail… You ain't gonna be boring me for quite a while."