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Artsiv
Action. All there is in this war ridden world is action. Sometimes I get really sick of it, but times like now, when I'm beating the crap out of a few K-Pros, it's kind of thrilling. I looked around the cleared area me and Damion were fighting in, there were about three more K-Pro's.
I was about to go after the next K-Pro in my sight when I felt a hard fist connect with my jaw. I followed the momentum and swung my fist wide, only to hit air. I shrugged it off and continued toward the K-Pro.
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry!" I heard. I turned back to where my hand had gone through air. There was a girl there now. Well Okay then. She was tall and slender, with black bobbed hair that looked almost dark gray. Her eyes were blue, a really bright baby blue, her skin was tan and freckled, and she was covered in scars.
I gave her a questioning look (my jaw hurt too much to even move).
"I'm Madi, I'll talk to you later." she gave me a smile and went back to kicking and punching K-Pros. I followed her lead and went back to fighting. I looked around to see how many K-Pros were left, about five (they just kept coming!), when all of a sudden, I couldn't see anything anymore. I rubbed my eyes, trying to get whatever was in them out, and when that didn't help, I opened my eyes more.
Doing this stung as all hell, but I kept them open. I spread my arms and willed my feathers to come out, after they were out I started flapping. I was rising up off the ground and the higher I rose, the better I could see. When I was high enough I saw that what was in my eyes was a thick black smoke. I looked around the large cloud, trying to find the source.
It was a girl, her mouth was open and black smoke was pouring from it. The only thing I could tell about her from this high up was that she had long black hair and tanned skin. Her eyes were unusual, though, they seemed to be glowing. I flattened my arms to my sides, putting my head before my feet. I was rushing towards the ground from about a thousand feet up. I let the flow of adrenalin go through my bloodstream and I was about to crash. At the last second I spread my arms wide, catching myself before I face-planted.
I landed down sloppily, messing up my footwork and crashing down on my stomach. I've not really practiced this "landing" thing. The girl heard me and turned around, the black gas had stopped coming from her mouth.
With no warning she ran at me, trying to get a hit or a kick in before I could dodge or block it. She was a fast person, striking hard and perscise. It was a bit scary actually. I watched her movements with my raptor vision, picking up on the slight muscle twitch before she would move. I finally had to take the offensive, and tightened the muscles in my legs. When I saw the perfect opening, I moved at once. I flowed through the air like a shadow, silently and fluidly, I moved beside her, stretching out my arm and clotheslined her. She fell flat on her back and I bent down and held her shoulders.
"I. . . am not. . . your enemy." I rasped between breathing. I had never thought I could move that fast. She nodded and I let her shoulders go.
"Who are you?" she asked. Her shoulders and arms seemed ready to fly to my neck if I even moved a toe toward her.
"I'm Artsiv, I have a few others with me. Who are you?" I eyed her warily, closer up and when she's not moving, she doesn't really look that threatening. She was shorter than Nov'c, only standing at about 5'1''; she was skinny and looked almost to the point of starving (unfortunately, thats how most people looked now a days); her hair was tied back into a low pony-tail, it was long, about down to the middle of her back, black and had a bit of a shine to it; her eyes weren't glowing anymore, they were oval shaped and bright green.
"I'm Olivia, you can call me Liv or Livi. There are two others with me, Madi and Katie." Olivia said. She looked at me up and down, judging me by what I look like. I felt a flush of guilt when she visibly flinched from my eyes. I stood, letting up on her shoulders and offered her a hand. She ignored my hand and walked back over to the smoke cloud. She walked right into the gas, not caring if she would get lost or anything. I thought about following her, and decided against it.
I spread my arms wide, let my rusty brown feathers sprout from my skin, and I flew. I soared up as high as I could go without having to change completely. I focused my mind to my breathing, I was up so high the air was a lot thinner. After I regulated my breathing, I focused on what I saw. I was looking for the town Nov'c, Professor, and James had gone into. I searched for a few minutes before a small clump of buildings shot up. I angled down just outside of them, making sure I was landing in the forest of trees that surrounded the town. I pulled my feathers back in and began forward.
I was at the edge of the town now, calmly watching all the anti-mutant homo sapions. They were minding their own business, nodding to each other as they passed by. Even if I looked like a human, I would still stick out like a sour thumb. I'd be too jumpy, I'd look too paranoid, I'd be too paranoid. I waited for a gap in the seemingly never endless stream of people to walk into the small town. I looked around, looking for Nov'c's purple hair, Professor's lean and lanky frame, or something that would show me my friends.
As I was looking around, a large group of people gathered into a crowed. They seemed to be talking amongst themselves, not giving a care to anyone outside the group.
"MUTANT!" there was a shrill cry from the far end of the U shaped town. I instantly was in a defense position.
I've been found! How many an I up against? Will they have guns? Could I fly? Can I defend myself? These thoughts and more were racing through my mind, but then I realized something; everyone was running away from me. Or towards someone.
I dashed after everyone else, easily seeing over everyone's heads to find what they were seeing. A few of the front people had started to pick up rocks and sticks, throwing them at a pour soul. Fury blurred my vision red and I marched forward. I blocked the rocks and sticks with my back, taking most of the blows.
"Get out of the way you moron!" a voice called out, reaching my ears it sounded like fingernails scraping a chalk board. I ignore them all and kneeled in front of the poor mutant who was now in the fetal position, silently crying.
"Just stop it!" I boomed over the crowed. The rocks and sticks stopped flying immediately. "Don't you moron's see what the hell your doing?" this question seemed to hit too close to home.
"It's a danger to us and the community!" a voice yelled at me.
"What was it doing then?" I countered. They had no answer. "You are all raceist! Your discriminating because of something someone can't control! Are you that stupid? Could you be that self centered and evil? And you think we're the bad guys!" bad choice of words.
"So you're one too?" a womans voice yelled. I narrowed my eyes and glared at her.
"Does this answer your question?" before anyone could say anything else, I spread my arms and feathers began to grow. "God has sent me to see if you were ready for redemption." I droned, making myself look dark, "The Father has sent me to test you. This was a test. And you failed." (ten points to anyone who notices this quote from Maximum Ride) the last three words seemed to freak everyone out.
"We didn't know!" "Give us another chance!" "We plead forgiveness!" were just some of the shouts, the others had started to pray. I looked down at the mutant that had almost been stoned to death, she was getting up and actually smiling and laughing at the scene I had just caused. I looked into the crowed to see an on-the-ground-rolling-in-laughter Nov'c, a smiling James, and Professor shaking his head, but smiling none the less.
I took the opportunity of momentary power to actually do some good here.
"Now," I boomed, "To redeem yourselves, you must be kind, friendly, and unharmful any mutant who you come across! If you do not hold up this redemption, God will not let you enter eternal paradise." Everyone in town was now gaping at me, waiting for the next words that will come out of my mouth. I raised my arms above my head and motioned for the gathered humans to separate. They did, and I led the mutant behind me to the end of the U shaped town, I looked back and saw Nov'c, Professor, and James following.
When we were safely in the woods Nov'c grabbed my shoulder and forced me to turn around. "What the hell was that?"
I watched her, and couldn't help but let a wide smirk cross my face when I answered, "Brilliant, on-the-spot thinking. Besides, I saved a mutant and helped countless others who might happen to come across this town. In three minutes. You have to admit though, that was impressive."
"Artsiv, yes in your place at your age, I would have done the same thing, but what you did, might not work out as well as you thought." Professor said, thinking way too deep on the subject, "What about the atheists in the town? They'll point out key things that the religious people failed to notice, like the fact that their 'angel' might have been a mutant as well. That could make an uproar from the people who were fooled, making it even more dangerous for mutants than it was before."[1]
Way to rain on my parade, Professor. I thought to myself, keeping it as far away from Professor's mind as mentally possible.
"We need to get back to Elly and Jove! After you all left, K-Pro's came. I came to get you. We need to get back!" I remembered Elly and Jove all of a sudden, still in the cave. What if they were found?
"You left my brother?" James asked, sounding furious.
"Yeah, it was either stay with him loose, and get captured, or come here and get you three." I defended myself immediately.
"You left my brother!" James yelled and started toward me, I got into a defense pose.
"And if I didn't come and get all of you, then we would have lost, gotten captured, and then you would have been on a wild goose chase trying to find us!" I yelled back.
"James! This is no time to turn on our own!" Professor said, taking James by the shoulders to hold him back, "Now, we need to focus on getting back." James nodded and I went back to my normal posture. "Artsiv, could you fly us there?"
"Not all of you, it takes awhile to change completely, but I might be able to take one of you at a time." I answered the Professor's question.
"How long would it take?" Professor asked.
"About three minutes each, and that's not adding the wind if I'm flying into it." I said. Nov'c licked her finger and held it out.
"Its at our backs," she informed.
"Then about two minutes, if I fly really fast."
"Then what are we waiting for? Lets go!" James said, annoyed that we were still discussing the matter. We all turned to the Professor, waiting for his decision.
"Alright, James you go first." James nodded and went over to me.
"How does this work?" he asked.
"Put your arms around my waist, and hold on as tight as possible." he nodded, and did as I said. Awkwardness followed. I willed my feathers to sprout, wincing a bit at the bee sting like feeling of them coming out of my skin. I started to flap my arms as hard as I could, managing to whap James in the head once. Soon my feet were off the ground and I rose higher and higher, my arms starting to tire.
I had this theory, Angel from the X-Men, he was not a strong person, sure he was strong for a human, but in the mutant community, he wasn't that strong. But his wings were. They could carry him, and twice his weight. When I didn't have anything that looked like feathers out, my arms were inhumanly strong. My theory is that my arms muscles were the same as Angle's wing muscles.
I looked down at the ground below me and James, trying to spot out the clearing. I found it and started my decent. When I was a few feet off the ground, about seven, I looked down at James.
"Jump!" I yelled. He let go of me and fell to the ground, landing with a roll. I started back toward the Professor and Nov'c. The wind rubbed my face raw in a matter of seconds, and I flew as fast as I could. It was much easier now that I didn't have the added weight of James. I made it back to Professor and Nov'c in three minutes. I landed and the mutant I rescued grabbed on to me next.
"Hold on." I told her, and I started to get off the ground once more. She was much lighter than James, and way easier to carry. I got to the clearing in two minutes. The wind had stopped, so there was no wind resistance on my next trip. I landed and Nov'c grabbed onto me, I started this process all over again. I got to the clearing in two minutes. I went back for Professor. He held on to me and I started to gain altitude for the last time until I dunno when. By this time my arms were seriously going to give out any second.
"Professor?" I asked, trying to remain calm.
"Yes Artsiv?"
"Could you get adrenaline to start going with your telepathy? I'm not sure how much longer I can keep flying for."
"I can try." I felt the mental hands of Professor trying to get into my mind, let him. I felt him trying to find the right part of my brain, after a few seconds, I felt the adrenaline start, jump starting me and giving me so much more energy. I got to the clearing with professor in two and a half minutes.
When we were about six or so feet off the ground, I looked down at the Professor, "Jump!" he did so, letting go and making sure to bend his knees for the impact with the ground. I flapped a few more times, trying to to crash onto Professor. I pulled my arms in a bit, dropping altitude, then, whoosh, I pulled them out a bit more, slowing me enough for a running landing.
After this I looked around the clearing; all I saw were the random, strewn-about body's of K-Pro's. I ran to the small cave, along with the Professor. When I got to the opening, I looked inside. There was everyone I had been with for a day. And three more. Madi, I recognized from earlier, stood up and walked over to me.
"Hi, I said I'd talk to you later? Well, I'm Madi. Your are?" she asked as she held out her hand.
"Artsiv," said, momentarily freaked out about if she'd suddenly zap me with magical laser powers. If those ever are her powers. "So, what are you hated for?" I asked, trying for the sarcastic way, but the tone got lost from my mouth to her ears.
"Turning invisible, heightened senses, flexibility, and coming back from the dead. You?" she smiled this whole time, as if trying to keep me from running away by eye contact.
"I turn into a huge eagle. I have really good eyesight, but that's basically it." I barely said. I was not a brave outgoing person, so being in a conversation about the one thing that I've had to hide is a bit nerve racking. I looked around, as the conversation between me and Madi had died, and noticed that there was only two people in here that I didn't know; the mutant I rescued, and another girl (I'm guessing Katie) sitting beside Liv.
I took this free time to actually look at the mutant I had rescued; she had short, spiky auburn hair, and what looked like fox ears; she stood at about Nov'c's hight; her body build was lanky and thin; and she was wearing a soft peach colored shirt and blue shorts with a fox tail. She was constantly looking around, focusing on something, and then turning back to Nov'c, who was talking to her.
The other girl- Katie?- was standing with Nov'c and the mutant I rescued, they were all wrapped up in their conversation. Katie (I've decided that thats her) had shoulder length chocolate brown hair; she had brown eyes, but they were a bit diluted; she was tall, at about 5'7''; her face was still a bit round, and she had a few curves.
I got up and walked over to the least inhabited wall of the cave and sat down, leaning my head on the rough stone. It was so cold compared to the air around me. I closed me eyes, focusing on my acute hearing for any warning of a K-Pro, or something else. After a few seconds I heard someone get up, walk over to me, and sit beside me. I could tell it was Nov'c because of how she walked, like a dancing ballerina, light steps on her toes. She barely made any noise when she moved. She's, like, the modern ninja.
"Hey," she said in a soft voice, "Elliot's nice, you should talk to her. She wants to thank you."
I opened one eye to look at her, "Who's Elliot?"
"The mutant you saved, dumbo. She's funny, but she gets so distracted." Nov'c mumbled. She was tired, I could tell, her voice was rough and hoarse. She had most likely been talking, trying to reassure the others and keep them from mass heisaria.
"Who's the other girl?" I asked.
"Katie, she's like you, sarcastic, gets board so easily, ya know, stuff like that." Nov'c could barely talk now, her voice was so bad.
"Nov'c, get some sleep." I said, I looked outside and saw that the almost nonexistent sun had set along time ago.
"Oh thank God, I thought you never say that." Nov's mumbled as she stretched out, setting her head in my lap. I absentmindedly started to get matted in dirt and mud out of her purple locks. I sat up for awhile, watching and waiting for everyone to fall asleep, then I moved.
I got up, carefully moving Nov'c's head and setting it down without waking her, then I left the cave. I had about six hours before the sun rises at 5. I started the transformation into my huge eagle state. It started with my feet, turning them into talons that kept getting bigger and bigger until they were huge, then it moved to my legs. It covered them in rusty brown feathers and then they started to enlarge. Then my torso, them my head, and last my arms. I inwardly smiled that the long, painful process was now over.
I spread my now football field length wingspan. I started to flap, being as quiet as possible. I was off the ground now and rising fast. I was soon soaring well above six thousand feet. When I'm an eagle, my lungs are so much bigger and more efficient, like my heart, so I could fly up for miles. I flew for a long time, in one huge arch, looking for signs of trouble anywhere near our cave. I locked onto any movement with my acute raptor vision focusing my mind to my eyesight. When I was done with the arch, no danger was spotted, I landed near the cave, proud of doing this and not getting cought.
That was, until I heard, "Artsiv, so nice of you to come by." it was Nov'c. She'd woken up. Damnit! I started my change, bitting down hard on my tongue and cheeks to keep from screaming as my bones shifted and shrank, popping back into place. When it was finished, I thought I'd just pass out right there from pain and exhaustion.
"What woke you up?" I asked nonchalantly, as if commenting on the weather.
"Lets see, was it the fact my head suddenly got dropped at 10:56 at night, or the very strong, very cold wind that blew in one hour and forty-five minutes later? Ya know, I think it was the first one."
"Go ahead." I said, biting back a scream when I moved to get into the cave.
"Go ahead with what?" she asked, her voice dropping as she walked into the cave too.
"Read my the riot act, threaten me, be ready to slice off a finger with your magic sameri sword that you can always make appear with the blink of an eye." I said. I felt myself relax when I stopped moving, letting my sore bones rest for how many seconds until I had to move again. See, this is why I rarely change back and forth.
"Look, I'm not here to yell at you, and I am not your mother, I just want you to know how dangerous that is."
"What are you talking about?"
"Changing and flying around in plain sight. Before we had to leave camp, I got a message from base camp Kimono Dragon. They've gotten new information about the K-Pros. The humans are starting to build planes now. They're going airborne. It's not safe in the air anymore, Artsiv."
"No, the air has always been safe! There is no way that they could take that away! I thought the First Mutants destroyed all the schematics for all the war time vehicles! What about that? Theres no way they could be airborne. . ." I trailed off, trying to convince myself that Nov'c was lying. There was no way. . . no possible way. . .
I felt my stomach tighten and shift. Crap. I hadn't eaten after I changed! If I change and don't eat, I throw up. On more negative about my powers. I felt my body scream with protest as I hauled myself to my feet and ran out the cave opening. I won't give you the disgusting details, but it wasn't pretty.
I fell to my hands and knees, then managed to turn over and not land in my own puke. I lay there, exhaustion claimed me and I found I couldn't move, I couldn't even talk.
"Artsiv?" I heard Nov'c call out. I heard running ballerina footsteps but I didn't see if she found me or not, because after that, my eyes unwillingly closed.
1: now, for everyone thats reading this with a religion that took that offensively, I had no intention for it to be raciest. I, myself, am an atheist, so I think I would have noticed that if I was an anti-mutant person, that is. But yeah, I had no intention for it to be raciest, and I'm sorry if you took it that way.
AN~ so how do you like the third chapter? R&R please! Oh yeah! Almost forgot, I am now, officially on vacation. I will not be updating for the next few weeks, I promise to have one of the LONGEST chaps when I update next! Until I update,
~Crocodile Tears (Or whatever my pen name is now)