Skye: Baddaboing!

Phoenix: Guess who's back?

Skye: I have no idea! Please, tell me.

Phoenix: It's Barack Obama!

Skye: Lame…nah, I'm kidding. I love that dude.

Elska ran with the children. Colossus was leading the group and she was right behind him, running as fast as she could yet still trying to make sure the children weren't left behind. She only wanted to run, to be away from Sabretooth, that was all.

But Logan was down there, and so was the professor, and she couldn't quite remember where Storm, Jean and Scott had gone for the week.

She skidded to a halt, feeling friction burn from a rug attack her feet. John, Rogue and Bobby stopped a few feet in front of her.

"What are you doing?" Bobby asked.

"I'm going back for the professor!" she shouted, turning sharply.

"What are you, crazy?" John demanded. "You'll get yourself killed!"

He grabbed her arm.

"Let go of me!" she shouted, yanking her arm back.

John flew backwards with the force of it and she ran back down the corridor. At the top of the stairs, she stopped and glanced down. Logan and Sabretooth were so fiercely engaged in their fight, that they didn't even see her. She stumbled hurriedly and clumsily down the stairs and to the professor's side. She tried to ignore the slashing and squelching of God knows what internal organs were being ripped open behind her

"Professor, your leg," she said.

His face was white.

"It's broken."

Elska inwardly groaned. This was NOT going to be pretty.

She ripped his pants just under the knee right around. The bone was sticking out and upwards and blood was cascading down his leg. Elska shivered and ripped a hole in the piece of material she had in her hand. She tried her best to keep her touch gentle as she put the material around his leg with the bone poking through the hole she had made. She didn't even know if it would do any good but it was something she had seen her mother do when she was little...or at least this was what it had looked like.

She heard Logan and Sabretooth stop. Sabretooth took in a deep breath.

"Smell that, Jimmy?" he asked.

"My name is Logan."

He sounded strained. Elska chanced a fleeting look behind her. Logan's fists were in Sabretooth's hands and they were both pushing against each other, covered in blood. Some wounds were still healing.

"Can you smell it? The blood…"

Logan growled darkly. Sabretooth laughed and then, within seconds, Logan was lying on the ground, several feet from him and struggling to get up. He started slowly towards Elska, then, without warning, he lunged towards her. She shrieked and rolled to the side. He missed her completely but that didn't stop him from landing on the professor's leg. Xavier didn't scream, but simply fainted right on the spot. But just before he did, she heard a faint Right ear… echo in her head.

She reached up and felt a little hard lump. Her nails found the underside of it and she pulled. There was no pain, but when she looked at it in her hand, everything made sense. The little gem was purple and glittering in the dim light. It was amethyst. It all made sense now! Why her powers hadn't been working, why she had been unable to touch Rogue without experiencing what everyone else experienced. She couldn't understand why she hadn't felt it before.

But there was no time for deep thought. She threw the little gem from her and it disappeared from sight. She stood up. Sabretooth was advancing on her. Even though she was slightly afraid, it was nothing compared to her earlier terror.

She didn't want to use her powers, she didn't want to. She had sworn to herself that she wouldn't turn into anything unless she really had to. Well, now was one of those times.

She closed her eyes and imagined it. She imagined it's body, slimy and ugly, it's huge serpents eyes and snake hair. She didn't want to have to use this one again, but she had to.

When she opened her eyes, her hands were gnarled and greenish, steely talons on the ends of her fingers. Medusa, a comical character to some, not to Sabretooth though.

She stared at him in the eye. She knew that he wasn't about to turn to stone, but he stopped in his tracks, frozen, rooted to the spot.

"Get out," she said dangerously, feeling the forked black tongue caress the inside of her mouth. "Get out!"

The many snakes which now made up her hair hissed angrily. She felt the fangs in her mouth grow slightly longer. Her body was unwillingly warning him now. No! She couldn't lose control, she had to stay in control.

"I said leave!" she shouted, startling even herself.

Sabretooth seemed to regain control over his body.

"I'll be back," he said.

Then he turned and ran, not as if he was scared (which he was) but just as if he was running towards something. She imagined her own body, thin and fragile, her hair slightly messy as it had been before she changed.

Then she felt it all. It had hurt to turn into the thing, but it hurt even more to turn back. Every pore of her existence burned, but she wouldn't cry out. She closed her eyes and dropped down to her knees, then it was over. But the migraine that followed all of her transformations was painful too, and nothing that painkillers could cure.

She jumped a little when she felt Logan pull her up. He put his arm around her and she sighed into his chest. She felt so tired. All she wanted to do was sleep.

"You should sleep," Logan said. "But when you wake up, you're gonna have to tell me exactly what he was talking about. And I don't want any lies or excuses."

"Me too," Rogue said, coming down the stairs.

Elska didn't argue. She looked down at the professor and had no idea what to do. That was until Jean, Scott and Storm walked through the door into the carnage.

"I got the professors psychic calls. What happened?" she asked.

She didn't want to explain now. She would explain later and meanwhile, Jean would take care of the professor.

Phoenix: I applaud you Skye. I'm liking this story. Although it's not a very original plot is it?

Skye: You're supposed to be my friend!

Phoenix: A good friend buys you dinner and a best friend eats yours *says wisely*

Skye: What the hell does that have to do with anything?

Phoenix: Review for her please? LOL.