World of the Brotherhood

Chapter 9

Something's Coming

Magneto had become more and more interested in the use of his new team member. The first use of Zodiac had been to use her telepathy to supply power to a new Cerebro he was building, but she had more uses. She knew more mutants then he had first thought. The Brotherhood was now working on finding a way to recruite Zodiac's friend Nature into the group, and earth mutant would be a nice addition to the team. Avalanche had left the day before, muttering something under his breath that sounded like 'Waste of Live, mutant power my ass.' Magneto ignored it and continued his planning.

"Magneto?" came the voice of the person at mind.

"Yes, Zodiac dear?" he asked turning to her from his desk.

"Al and I where speaking just now and she wanted to know if the offer you made her was still open." said Zodiac, "But she also wanted to know if maybe some of her other friends could be made the same offer?"

"Yes my dear, tell he she is welcome to come, but we must meet her friends first." said Magneto.

"Okay." said Zodiac, he noticed something odd about her disposition.

"Pyro!" yelled Magneto down the hall, as he looked at the news.

"We have a problem?" asked Pyro.

"Yes, it looks as if Mystique had been captured on her new assignment." said Magneto.

"So should I tell the others?" asked Pyro, turning quickly.

"No, we have somewhere to go first, a church where a mutant meeting is taking place. Zodiac's friend has notified me of it. We are going, tell the others. In an hour we will be leaving, and not coming back, there's a new location." said Magneto.

"The other island?" asked Pyro, his eyebrow raised.

"Yes, oh and Pyro." said Magneto, as the teen turned towards him, "I like what you've done with your hair, blonde looks nice on you."

"Thanks." said Pyro with a smile, as he left the room.

Zodiac stood looking out the window of the cave and shivered. She felt something big was going to happen, she had to get out of there and fast. She looked around at her stuff in the room next to her. She picked up her cat and was about to change forms, but something stopped her, someone at the door.

"Getting ready to leave?" asked Toad, leaning against the door frame.

"No." she said quickly, putting her cat down.

"Sure, you wheren't. So my telepathic friend, something in your mind?"

"I just. . ." she went silent.

"Backing out?" came the voice of Pyro.

"Never." she said, glancing at him, "I was just going for a fly."

"Well Mags said where going to some church in an hour, be back." said Pyro, in an unusually demanding tone.

"Your not coming back, are you?" asked Toad, turning to her .

She was silent and couldn't reply. If she said yes or no it was a lie. As much as she hated not being able to make up her mind, something was telling her to leave, and leave fast. Did she want to stay and face the danger coming or flee like a coward. She turned to Toad, but he was gone, she went to glance out the window, but he was crowtched in it, blocking her exit. His normally emotionless eyes seemed to be confused.

"I-I don't know." she said honestly.

"Why?" asked Toad.

"I can't really tell why, somethings telling me to go." said Zodiac.

"He'll be furious you know, he'll expose you or something." said Toad, calmly.

"I can always go home." said Zodiac, with a smirk.

"He'll find you."

"No, no he wont." she said, getting angry, "If you ever want to find me. . . use the charm."

"What the hell does that mean?" asked Toad.

She smiled and leaned close to him as he still blocked the window. He got uncomfortable in the small space with her head that close. He wasn't sure what she was doing, but at this point he just backed up a little more. Her face went from smiling to a deep red and she backed up and without warning pushed him and took off, in the shape of a large bird. He glared after her and stomped off down the hall. Would she come back?

THE END

You all know what happens next, I might write a sequel! Crappy ending, I know