A/N: Sorry for the long wait for this chapter, darn writer's block. Thank you so much for the reviews, the favoriting, and alerting. I do not own X-Men, just the plot for this story and my OC. Enjoy the chapter and please review. -Maiden of the Heavens (MOTH)
Chapter 7
The car barely made it to the gas station pump, before the tank hit empty.
Remy stepped out, and stretched his aching body, driving six hours straight with only a drive-thru coffee was not enough to keep him going. He glanced down at Ivy, and a soft smile flicked across his face, she was still sleeping. The Cajun put the nozzle into the gas tank, as the gasoline pump came to life and began filling up the car. He half-lazily threw his jacket over the sleep succumbed earth-puppeteer before heading inside the gas station, with only his hat and wallet.
He returned just as the gas tank was full, and the pump clanked to a stop. He set his fresh cup of coffee into the holder, and dug his hand into the bag he also had, before he opened up the chocolate bar and dangled in front of Ivy's nose like pendulum. The earth-puppeteer wearily opened her dark rose pink eyes, and rubbed them sleepily before grabbing the candy bar. She let her sleepy gaze shift to Remy, giving him a lopsided smile.
"You were sleepin' for so long, I thought you were turnin' into Sleeping Beauty on me." He smirked, about to pull out of the car out of the parking lot.
"Non. Using dead earth makes me exhausted." She explained, and took a bite out of the candy bar, she blushed when her tired mind finally registered what he had called her. Remy shut the car off, glancing out of review mirror, his once happy smirk turning into a scowl.
"They just don't know when to give up." He said, grabbing his staff from below the passenger seat and exiting the car. Ivy turned to see who Stryker had sent this time. Remy was already blocking blows from Dead pool's twin thin sabers. But the man behind their attempted kidnappings would not to be stupid enough to send just one.
The earth-puppeteer scrambled out of the passenger seat, and ran to her fellow runaway, in long strides, she was not going to let him face the mutant-slaughtering man alone. Her pupils turned into silts like that of cat's, as she tried to search for any earth that she could manipulate. Finally finding some, she let her fingers reach out to it, so the strings that looked like tiny silver diamonds, transforming into thin strings could attach to the tip of her fingers. She smiled in triumph, only for the hair to stand on the back of neck, as she felt her chest beginning to squeeze in panic.
"Did you really think you could escape so easily?" He said darkly in her in ear, as his claws began to dig into soft flesh of her neck.
Ivy tried to calm herself, as she finally sensed dead earth behind that was near the heels of Sabertooth's boots. The silver strings that had attached to the tips of fingers slackened as they began to connect with the dead earth behind the animal-like mutant. His claws beginning to dig deeper into her neck starting to draw blood. The earth-puppeteer pulled her fingers and arms forward, as huge spike formed from the black tar of the parking lot and the cement below, lunched out of her enemy's chest, making him howl in pain and release her. Ivy landed easily on her feet, as she began to sprint toward Remy again, letting the pieces of black tar that had fallen from the spike turn into a small round shield that was about the size of a large dinner plate.
The Cajun continued to block blows from Dead Pool's swords, the diamond on the tip of his staff, glowing red with kinetic energy as it hit one of the thin twin blades making it shatter like glass. Dead Pool cursed and thrust his good sword toward Remy, who swiftly blocked it, and then spun his staff, hitting the man who was trying to kill him, square in the cheek bone with a sickening crack. The sword being sent skidding across the lot.
Sabertooth's claws ripped through the spike that had been lodged through his chest, and the gigantic black piece of manipulated earth crumbled to the ground. He charged toward the earth-puppeteer, bloodlust in his eyes. He was going to rip to shreds when he was able to grab a hold of her. He forgot all about Stryker's orders to bring her and the Cajun to the island, as he charged toward her like a freight train.
The Cajun glanced up from where his staff was now between him and Dead Pool. Ivy was rushing toward the two of them, determination clear in her dark rose pink eyes. But it was the mutant behind her that made his forest green eyes become wide. He quickly fished a card out of his pocket at Ivy and whipped it toward her, as it glowed with kinetic energy. Ivy caught and pressed into the black tar shield that was hanging from the silver strings around her arms. She let the shield fly, hoping that would hit Saber tooth. He easily dodged it as the disk hit some teenager's poor rust bucket of a car, and it exploded into pieces. Ivy was beginning to tire, he could tell by the way she could not keep herself from swaying any longer. Saber tooth reached out and felt his claws sink into the back of her neck, as his fingers wrapped around her and his claws began to dig into her throat. A pain filled gasp escaping her, as he sneered in satisfaction.
Remy felt his staff collide with Dead Pool's recollected sword, he had retrieved it during the Cajun's card throwing, while also ducking a blow from the kinetic-energy user's weapon. He looked up from where was staff was pushing back the blade, and the earth-puppeteer's name fell from his lips in a fear and worry filled whisper.
The diamond head on his staff connected with the tar and cement, as he swiftly dodged a knick from the blade, that could of clearly taken his eye out. The kinetic energy that rippled from the diamond, erupted underneath Sabertooth's feet as both mutants were sent soaring into the air, the burly mutant barely missing landing on top of Remy's car, as Ivy lay in the aftermath of the explosion. Unconscious and bleeding from the claw marks in her throat.
A/N: Updates will now be on Sunday nights, since classes are starting again for me tomorrow. Once again, please review! -Maiden of the Heavens (MOTH)