A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 44: Some Things Are More Important Then Rivalry

Spitfire (Grace) stared into Aphrodite's (Mary-Lynn) violet colored eyes in anger, while Hell's Angel (Jazmine) stood by her side. She let out a harsh breath as she cracked her knuckles a couple times.

"Now what?" Hell's Angel whispered.

"We don't give up." Spitfire nodded, "Hit me again."

Hell's Angel took a deep breath in and felt a small warmth spread throughout her body and then she let out a soft breath as a whirl of fire spiraled into Spitfire's hand. "I'll take to the air," She whispered and with one thrust from her large black wings, she moved into the air.

Here we go again. Aphrodite thought as she kept her eyes on Spitfire and watched out of her peripheral vision as Hell's Angel took to the air. She glanced over at Rush, who seemed to be preoccupied. Don't run… She reminded herself.

She's not afraid… Spitfire thought curiously as she stared at Aphrodite, while the fire in her hand danced back and forth. She clapped her hands together and then turned them out towards Aphrodite, which shot a spiraled flame towards her. Aphrodite quickly took off running as she felt the heat from the flames following behind her, as Spitfire manipulated the fire to follow her.

Hell's Angel circled above the southern bell running for her life like a vulture in the sky. I have to plan this right, she reminded herself before she was flying behind her. Perfect. She dove down towards Aphrodite and swept her up into the air. She quickly took off up into the air and held on tightly to Aphrodite's arms as she was about to throw her down into the ground, but she felt a strange feeling wash over her.

Spitfire closed her hands and stared up at Hell's Angel as her heart began to beat faster and faster. Drop her… Drop her… "DROP HER!" She shouted up to Hell's Angel, but she quickly realized it was no use.

"Kill her," Aphrodite said seductively as the idea of destroying one of her enemies excited her. Hell's Angel quietly breathed in as the warm sensation filled her lungs once again, and then she gasped as a sharp pain surged through her body.

Spitfire watched as Hell's Angel's body lurched forward in the sky and wobbled back and forth as she hovered. What is going on? She watched as Hell's Angel's wing slowly began to flap slower and slower.

"What are ya doin?!" Aphrodite yelled as she looked back behind her at the large angel and then saw Hell's Angel's greenish-brown eyes roll in the back of her head. They slowly lowered to the ground and then Hell's Angel fell like a boulder in the sky with Aphrodite in her arms.

"Hell's Angel!" Spitfire shouted as she took off running towards where they were falling.

Aphrodite wiggled her way out of Hell's Angel's grasp and when she hit the floor, she quickly rolled to the side out of the way. The loud thud of Hell's Angel hitting the cement ground echoed throughout the warehouse. Aphrodite's violet colored eyes stared in horror at the unconscious angel and watched as the large black wings burst into the air with the sound of cracking bones. The black feathers fluttered down around her and Hell's Angel and then through the feathers, she saw Spitfire running towards them. Aphrodite quickly stood up and stumbled away from Hell's Angel and sat down against one of the cement walls of the sunken laboratory.

Spitfire slid across the ground to Hell's Angel's side, "Hell's Angel? Come on…" She whispered as carefully wiped the black feathers from her back and then stopped when she saw an injection needle sticking out of her back. She looked over at Aphrodite, who was cowering against the cement wall.

For the first time in Spitfire's time of being part of X², she actually felt bad for Aphrodite. She looked afraid and lost. Everyone knew that if it ever came to any other type of fighting besides hand-to-hand that she wouldn't survive, and everyone knew that she knew that too… and it was finally being tested.

Spitfire looked back down at the injection needle and quietly wrapped her hands around the cold, empty needle. She swallowed her breath and then pulled the needle from her back and stared down at the needle in her hands for a moment before sliding it across to Aphrodite's side. "Run," She said as she stared down at Hell's Angel. There was a moment of silence again before Spitfire looked back up at Aphrodite, "Run." She grunted.

Aphrodite stared at Spitfire and saw the desperation in her eyes. For the first time ever, a member of X² was looking out for a member of Chaos. She scrambled to her feet and ran as fast as she could over to Rush. "We have to go suga." She said nervously.

"Ah know," He said as he turned to her and unrolled his hand to show her an injection needle he had found in the pile of shattered crates.