Author's Notes: Alright, here's the deal folks. I've officially outlined the entire story! cheers I've outlined for 55 chapters. I know that's a lot. Sorry. However, before you break out the party hats, there's a catch… Writing every character is getting hard and I'm finding myself concentrating on certain characters. Sorry to say it, they just fit into the storyline easier and better. So though I love you all and I thank you for your support, I must admit that some characters I've used in the past won't be showing up as much as others… Sorry!
A New Age. A New Team
Chapter 9: Sparked Rivals Linked
Just outside the walls, but still within the cement gates of the Mansion, a utopia that was almost eerie in how beautiful and peaceful it was in the world of destruction and fear. It was full of both new and old trees; some with fruits, some had flowers, but the one thing that made these trees different from the other trees around the world was the fact that these trees were fully growing on their own, instead of depending on the human race in order to survive. Everything was alive within the cement walls of the Mansion, as if when Apocalypse happened, someone removed everything within the cement gates and once all the destruction was over, they placed it back within the gates, untouched. Xavier's mansion garden was one of four natural gardens lift in the entire world; any other garden was made by humans and completely relied on humans in order to survive.
Linx dark hazel and light hazel eyes focused on her Thai Chi movements as she did a quick, swift kick in the air and then spun around. Her short flipped out black hair, with tiny pieces of red underneath, spun around as she did. She took a deep breath in as she slowly centered herself, as she brought her body to stand up straight and together. She closed her eyes as her hands rested in front of her chest, with her palms pressed together, and she concentrated on the breathes as they slowly came into her lungs and softly were pushed back out.
"Nice moves." A voice said slyly.
Linx slowly opened her eyes to see a muscular man with yellow eyes and dark brown curly hair that came to his neck. He was wearing a white shirt that fit to his muscle quite nicely, and a pair of baggy black jeans.
"Orion, so nice to see you again." Linx said calmly and she walked towards him. She held out her pale hand to shake his, but Orion kissed the top of her hand instead.
"The pleasures is all mine, I assure you." She said as he looked up at her, from kissing her hand, and smiled.
Linx slowly slid her hand away from Orion and rolled her eyes as she wiped the kiss off on the edge of her long baggy red shirt and her dark blue jeans. "So what are you doing back here?" Linx asked calmly as she used the sleeve of her baggy shirt to pat the beads of sweat from her forehead.
"I came to see you darling." Orion said sweetly.
"Give it a rest Orion. I'm not interested." Linx said with a small smile on her face as she turned around and walked back to the small black bag at the base of a tree. She crouched down to her bag and unzipped it. She pulled out a water bottle and took a long drink from it.
The summer's heat had been extremely hot this year. It seemed as if every year the summer's heat got hotter and hotter. Since Apocalypse happened the Earth's ozone layer had become exceptionally thin, which cause the summers to only get hotter with each passing year.
"I will if you want me to." Orion smiled.
The door from the Mansion that led out to the garden opened up, and Hecate walked out with her platinum blonde hair swaying from side to side as she walked. "Oh, I swear some of the people Cerebro let's in…" She sighed in frustration.
Orion and Linx's attention turned from one another towards Hecate. "What's wrong Hecate?" Linx asked.
Hecate shook her head as she walked closer to Linx with her head down. "I met the new chick that Cerebro admitted into the institute – Hell's Angel." She shook her head. "I mean that girl is so–" Hecate stopped mid-sentence when her deep blue eyes fell upon Orion. "Sparks." She said coldly as she stopped in front of Orion (Sparks) and Linx.
"Ah my precious Hecate, how are you?" Orion said smugly.
"A lot before you got here." Hecate fired back.
"Oh I knew you missed me."
"Like I miss being chased by the Sentinels."
Orion leaned over to Linx and smiled as his yellow eyes locked on Hecate's deep blue eyes. "She's just playing hard to get."
"Oh you're unbelievable." Hecate sighed in frustration as she was trying her hardest not to use her powers on Sparks.
"I know." Sparks smiled. "That's what you said last night."
Hecate's deep blue eyes grew large with hatred. Screw powers! I'll kill him with my bare hands. She thought.
Before Hecate had the chance to attack Orion, Linx stepped in between the two and changed the subject quickly. "So what's so bad about this new girl?" She asked, as Orion stood behind her smiling proudly at the very pissed off Hecate.
Slowly, Hecate's deep blue eyes lost their hatred as she got her emotions under control. He just wants a reaction out of me… He's like a five year old little annoying brother. She thought. Who constantly hits on my friend and me. She shuttered and then turned her attention back to Linx and her question. "She has wings." She said plainly and in disgust.
Linx raised an eyebrow at Hecate and glanced at Orion, before looking back at Hecate. "Is that the only reason you don't like her?" Linx couldn't help but smile a little in how strange of a reason that was not to like someone.
"No." Hecate protested.
"Then what else is the matter?" Linx asked as Orion walked over to the tree near Linx's bag and sat down.
"I don't know. There's just something about that girl that I don't like."
Orion unzipped Linx's bag and started to look around, and out of the corner of Linx's eyes, she saw what Orion was doing. She focused her mind on the zipper of her bag zipping shut, and her telekinesis quickly zipped the zipper shut just as Orion was quickly pulling his hand out of her bag. He had a large innocent grin on his face as he stared up at Linx, who just shook her head with a slight smile on her face and then turned her attention back to Hecate.
"Well you always did have a good judgment of character." Linx nodded.
"If you believe that then why do you still talk to that fool?" Hecate glanced over at Orion.
"Hey!" Orion said in a playful offended tone as he stood up to walk over to the girls.
"Because unlike you I like to try to give people benefit of the doubt." Linx sighed as she defended Orion, but not too much because she knew if she did Orion would make a comment about how Linx must love him.
"Not a smart move." Hecate shook her head. "Easy way to get taken advantage of."
"Or a risky way to make an alias." Linx countered Hecate's comment quickly.
"Oh Hecate, you just wish I would take advantage of you." Orion said sheepishly.
"No I just wish you'd drop dead." Hecate looked over at Linx. "Can't you grant me that one wish? It can be my birthday wish, and I promise I'll never ask you for another favor again."
Linx cocked her head to the side and gave Hecate a look of 'real funny'. "No Hecate, I cannot grant that "wish" for you." She sighed. "I don't have any power of death in this realm, just the power over death in the Dead Realm and Limbo."
"I know, I know, just hopeful wishing." Hecate smirked at Orion.
And with one simple sentence, Orion shut Hecate up. "You know you want me."
Hecate jaw dropped open in a mixture between shock and horror at Orion. She was stunned that he had the tenacity to say that to her. To her face at that.
"I wouldn't want you if your were the last human on Earth!" Hecate said with anger as the sky slowly started to grow from a bright and hot sunny day to a grey and stormy night. The clouds began to grow thick with deep, dark shades of gray and the sky itself swirled from a light blue into a dark black.
"Oh now you've done it." Linx whispered to Orion as everything around her was becoming dark.
"What was your first clue? The dark clouds or the look of death in her eyes?" Orion smirked as Linx walked over to the tree and grabbed her bag.
Linx walked over to Hecate with her bag on her shoulder and walked over to Hecate. "Just forget about it Hecate." She tried to compromise with the girl of darkness.
"Fine." Hecate huffed as the sky that had slowly became dark and black quickly warped back into light and Hecate grabbed Linx's wrist. "We're leaving." Without warning, Linx found herself being dragged back inside back the force of Hecate. Linx knew that if she tried to struggle against Hecate when Hecate was this pissed off, that Hecate might not realize her own super strength and break Linx's wrist, so Linx thought it was better to just go along with her.
Linx walked along side Hecate; leaving Orion standing in the middle of the beautiful garden. As they got to the door, Hecate threw the doors open and started to drag Linx through the doorway, but right before Linx disappeared through the doorway she glanced over her shoulder at the tall man standing in the middle of the garden and gave a weak smile before being yanked inside.
Orion (Sparks) stared at Linx as she pulled through the doorway and when she looked back and Orion saw those two different colored hazel eyes take a second to glance at him one last time he couldn't help but smile. He turned around, put his hands into her pockets of his baggy black jeans, and walked away with a smile on his face.