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Sorry, I tricked you guys but I'm writing about a Morlock since there aren't a lot of chapters on them. Thank you for all the reviews. You give me such encouragement. Happy New Year! Also this chapter is one of my favorites. Extra juicy with so much mystery, read to find out more!

X-Men: Restoration

Chapter Twelve: Aria Hawkins

Aria watched from a distance as they argued over who was right. What they should do. The argument had lasted several hours with no consensus. She closed her eyes as she tried not to show her anger at trying to stop RJ from expressing his opinion because it was true. She believed every word of it. Her eyes began to glaze over as she remembered her horrible past. Words were the death and life of her.

She thought about her good for nothing father who never loved her. He always told her she was a horrible daughter and that he would go to the store and exchange her for a son if he could. Her father had always wanted sons because he had always wanted to raise men. What made him more abusive was that she had killed her mother when she was born. There was no one to tell her that it wasn't her fault. Her mother had a weak heart and it gave out in her birth.

Her brother who her father was so proud of was a fighter pilot for the US Air Force; her brother was the only one who was ever an ounce of kind to her. He was away on duty for what seemed like millennia to her. He didn't know what dad did to her while he was gone. Her father was cruel in the most brutal ways…he used words like venom. He never touched Aria but he would spit on her and call her every terrible name in the dictionary. He would call her a murderer for what she did to her mother. The sad thing is she believed it.

She had constantly thought to herself that words had power and they held her captive. She thought about words and how she could transform every viperous word her father would say into good and beautiful words. She thought of words like kind, humble, pretty, intelligent, and sharp witted to describe herself to keep her from going to the darkness. This tragically only lasted for a few years before she would fall into a depression of hateful words that would surround her hungrily. She found out though that she could translate words from different languages. She could understand all types of words…this gave her power. Her father became angry at her for showing this gift and told her never to do it again. She kept magazines hidden in her room that were in different languages though. She loved words too much to stop.

Aria ran away when she started to resemble her mother in her looks. Her father became more angry and bitter at her and started to hit and bruise her across the face so she would become nothing to him. What she found on the outside was a world of mutants just like her running, running from vicious human beings like her father.

"Aria! Aria!" Mila called out as she waved an ivy vine back and forth in front of Aria's face. Aria was huddled in a little ball covering her face. She got up quickly as she saw everyone staring at her in concern. Aria looked up with an emotionless expression.

"I was just…sleeping." She said as she stomped through the sewer water to get away from them. She saw Marina running towards her in the sewers. Her long dark braid flopping to and fro. Marina was their friend or ambassador between the Morlocks and the X-Men. In a way, Marina kept them safe but also provided them with information from the outside when they were sitting ducks down here before Aria arrived. Marina had met the Morlocks when the Prof sent her as an ambassador for her training. She apparently was very closed off to the world when she first arrived at the so called mansion. She became fond of the Morlocks and continued to be an ambassador or friend as she called her position. This was the story Aria had heard though she was still coming to believe of it. She visited them whenever she wasn't training with 'Mr. Logan'.

"Guys, it is bad. There have been mutant attacks everywhere and they think it is all connected to you guys because of the subway incident. The non-mutants have started mobbing anyone who has shown mutant powers. You guys need to either run or lay low for a while. The X-Men are also getting blamed for the attacks because the Brotherhood have the Blackbird and they are using it as their mode of transport." Marina said in a calm voice. She was very serious with everything she did and she never got scared. Aria found herself relating to Marina since they were both serious and emotional types of people.

Aria thought about the words of RJ. He said that we can't change their perspectives on the mutants. Morlocks would always be Morlocks never able to surface and walk in the light and be respected like regular human beings.

Aria felt the pain of her past. She held it all in and forced the thoughts away. No, it couldn't be. They said they would rise but not in this manner. They said they would destroy all of them. She breathed as Marina stared at her stern curiosity. Aria nodded in acknowledgement.

"I can see if I can pick up anything on the police scanner." Aria said as she turned the nob on the old fashioned radio. She had a techno kid install a police channel in the radio for letting him cheat off of her Spanish tests when she was in school so many years ago. She was running and she needed to stay away from crime so she wouldn't attract unwanted attention, though she attracted a lot more than that when people found out about her gift.

Aria shook the thoughts from her head as she listened to the terrifying news. She started to cry but she never cried. All they could hear was numbers but she heard words…terrible, terrible words.

Burning, crashes, injured, critically ill, and death. DEATH. They would be coming after all of them to avenge the lost. It was an instinctive human response that was the very core of their being: Vengeance. Lyra approached her as she wrapped her dark blue arms around Aria.

Marina paced calmly but Aria knew now that she was not calm. She could read, write and hear any language. She knew the language of fear since she had been running from it and she could see it in Marina. No matter how calm she seemed she was nervous and terrified: the way she paced showed it calm and collected steps, a little too heavy, the way she brushed the hair out of her face by glancing downward as if she was hesitant for someone to notice.

Aria couldn't stop herself from feeling the ache of death since she had heard it. Aria couldn't feel emotions responsively but she felt them through words. Words held a power over her and yet she was in control of them also.

"Death. They have had death. There is no stopping them now. They are coming for all mutants." Aria mumbled as Lyra began to change color. Lyra's skin changed into a deep hue of purple. Her hair staying dark blue. "We need to fight to defend ourselves, there is no stopping them!"

RJ approached Aria and lifted her off the ground and gave her an embrace.

"Who will join us. We need to fight to survive. There will be no more running or they will kill us all." RJ said confidently. Aria glanced up at him. She agreed, completely. She had seen much worse things than her father in this non mutant driven world. There was no more hiding.

RJ held up her hand as she came to terms with what he was saying. She could no longer run. Marina tried to stop them both but she was pushed away.

"No, this is not the way! We cannot fight them! If we fight them, to destroy them then it is all in vain. We want peace. The way of things is not peace. Mutants can live in peace." Marina pleaded with Aria and RJ as other Morlocks began to see the bigger picture.

"We fight to survive. We want peace but there will be no peace when we are dead. There will just be silence." Aria said as she turned away from Marina. Spyke stood by Marina, trying to calm down the Morlocks.

"Calm down, we cannot do anything this way. We need to think about what to do rationally." Spyke said as he tried to appease them. Shiloh began to cry as she hid behind Spyke in this argument, rebellion. Marina, Spyke, Shiloh a few others ran out of the chaos as they tried to get the Morlocks not to listen to Aria and RJ. Aria didn't have time to think about who was missing from it all. She saw the familiar faces of Morlocks around her and she saw that their words were not in vain.

She thought about the concealed past and reveled in the memory she had been hiding from. The Institution. The Institution told her that they would crush mutant kind by using mutant kind. They would fight fire with fire. The Institution put her through hell by having her translate against her will their message of destruction. They made her use words as weapons against herself. She tried to run from the memories but she found herself suppressing the idea of revenge because she saw it as weak. She had changed her mind in this one second.

She would avenge her kind. They cannot control mutants. Mutants are powerful. They maybe the minority but they are so much more powerful than the biggest human army.

The Institution always said they would kill them all when the mutants had blood on their hands. They were coming and they had always been coming. They were lurking in the shadows of every mutant protest, every hate crime and every kidnapping. The Institution was rising and she would be ready. She smiled for the first time in a long time.

Hi! Just wanted to know how I did. I gave Marina a minor part in this chapter since we haven't seen her in a long time since I have been writing a lot of chapters about the Brotherhood and Morlocks! Hopefully this shout out to Pottergal is good. I tried to potray her as strong but concerning for her friends. We will hear more about her relationship with the Morlocks later.

I hope you like the element about the Institution I threw in. I think it sounds very creepy and scary. Yes, and I am sorry but had to have deaths at one point it is a mutant rebellion and the Brotherhood are now crazy for lack of a better term. You'll see how crazy and psycho they get in later chapters. I am bringing in the honorary X-Men and Brotherhood (those who have graduated from Bayville in later chapters so get ready for Rogue, jean, Scott, Lance, Pietro, Wanda...etc)