Chapter 22

"This is the right choice." Angelina thought, as she sat on the motorcycle. She put on her yellow sunglasses (it helps her see in the dark better), "Please forgive me, Derek….Mom… everyone. I have to do this, it's the only way. I'm sorry." Angelina turned on the motorcycle and rode in the dark.

Back inside Angelina's room….

Derek groaned as he opened his cell phone.

"Kyle, please tell me you didn't pick Angelina up." Derek said.

"What? No, what are you talking about?" he asked in confusion.

Derek didn't answer him but stare at a piece of paper that had a title, "The Perfect Weapon". Derek started to look at the drawings in the paper. He saw a drawing of a young girl that looked just like Angelina when she was 11 years old. His eyes widen.

"DEREK! Hello? Anyone home?" yelled Kyle.

"Yeah. Um…pretend that I didn't just call okay." Derek said.

"What? Derek, did something happen to Angelina?" Kyle asked again.

"No. It's nothing. See ya tomorrow." Derek said as he hung up.

He grunted as he pulled his dark brown hair back. He slammed his fist onto her desk where the paper is and stared at it with fury and betrayal in his emerald eyes.

"She didn't….." Derek thought as he exited the room.

Meanwhile, Angelina got off the motorcycle near a forest. Apparently, Zeke's new hiding spot is in the middle of nowhere. Angelina used her night vision to see which way she was going and realize that she had a long walk ahead of her. She smiled as she took off the glasses and put them on the seat.

She started running in the dark and scary forest. The wind on her face made her heart race, but she didn't lose her breath. As she ran, she heard the sound of creatures living in the dark forest as she ran along its edge. She darted in between the tree, jumped over rocks and roots extending from the ground, and ducked from branches. As she ran, she thought she caught a glimpse of something or someone in the trees but thought nothing of it, and kept running.

Angelina suddenly stopped when she noticed that it was a dead-end. She was on a cliff now, staring at an abandoned warehouse across from her. However, the ocean was blocking her way. Angelina picked her long hair up and took her cloak off as she put it in her bag and dived inside the cold and shivering ocean. She swam inside the ocean, holding her breathe, so no one can see her. By the time, Angelina got out of the water; she saw mountains of rock above her.

"You gotta be joking me." She sighed as she started to climb it.

"You gotta be joking me. Have you found her yet?" asked Logan as he walked inside the kitchen.

"Nope. I think we searched the whole mansion." Storm answered, "She's probably playing hide-o-go-seek with one of the younger students."

Logan stared at her, trying not to snort at her.

"Don't Logan." She warned.

A few minutes later, Marie, Jean, and Professor Xavier came in. Marie was looking horrible because she's afraid that Angelina might have been kidnap again. Logan went to Marie's side and grabbed her hand for support.

"Did you find her in Cerebro?" asked Marie.

Xavier nodded a "no" to the parents, "She's blocking her mind. She's a smart teenager. She reminds me of you, Marie."

Marie raised an eyebrow at her old professor, "Oh?"

"You do recall that you ran away from the mansion." Storm answered adding a smile.

Marie sticks her tongue at her and thought for a moment about where she would be. Scott came in with a very upsetting face.

"She is definitely your daughter, Logan." Scott said, "And yours too Marie."

"What do you mean one-eye?" asked Logan.

"She stole my bike or the same bike that Marie stole 16 years ago." Scott said.

Marie's eyes widen, "Why would she steal a motorcycle?" she yelled.

Abruptly, they heard a door slam from a bedroom door. Derek came walking past the kitchen until Logan pulled him inside the kitchen. He was wearing sweat pants and a brown t-shirt.

"What's going on?" he asked as he was shoved into a wall.

"Where's Angelina?" asked Logan.

Derek sighed and didn't say anything. Jean decided to read his mind but couldn't, there was something he was hiding that he didn't want them to know especially the professor. Jean sighed as she looked at the professor.

"He's not giving up, Charles." Jean said.

"I know, Jean. But there is something else. I know it." He answers back.

Derek looked at the two telepathies and knew that they were trying to read his mind. Derek saw the other adults talking about Angelina and where would she is and he took this opportunely to get away. As he closed the front door behind him, Derek took off his sweat pants and under them were his dark pants. He took off his old shirt, and there was his black shirt. Once he was finished changing, he put on a leather cloak and walked inside the garage.

Derek looked around the big place to see if anyone was here. He flipped open his cell phone and dialed a number.

"Hello?" asked a voice.

"Drew? Listen, I need you to find the coordinates of Angelina's cell phone." Derek answered and told him the number. "Okay….thanks. Listen; DO NOT tell anyone about this especially the others. Thanks."

Derek got on a motorcycle, drove away from the mansion, and drove the same trail Angelina did. However, as he left a couple of students were eavesdropping his conservation.