Hi guys! :) I know I haven't made an author notes section before, but I thought I would just talk to you guys for a bit! :) This chapter's a bit bigger, I just thought it would be hard to separate it into multiple chapters, so it's bigger... :) Anyway, this is my first fanfiction, and I want it to become really popular! :) Feel free to review, it's free to the public (I don't discriminate... XD )! By the way, try to imagine Kurt as the one in the X-Men Evolution series. :) I didn't realize there was a section for that... :\ ;) And I'll try to make a full "this is what this person looks like" thing for the new mutant girl... :\ (I couldn't think of what that's called... XD ) Anyway, here's chapter 4! :)
It must've been two hours since the fight. The sun was setting over the mountains, and Kurt was getting very, very cold without his clothes. He glanced at the girl, who was still knocked out. He began to fear that he did something worse than just knocking her out and tried to find something to wake her up with, like improv smelling salts. He looked everywhere around the rock, not wanting to leave the girl for very long, he stayed within easy eye-sight and teleporting distance. Through many disgusting attempts at a smelling salt, Kurt remembered something.
"Vait a minute…" he said to himself. "I have some in my bag!" He face-palmed and walked over to the bag he was carrying when he jumped out of the jet. As he tried to find the smelling salts, be didn't notice that the girl was beginning to wake up; not fully, but enough to be called conscious. He gave up on the salts when he realized he had to use the restroom. He sat and fidgeted, not knowing whether to relieve himself near the girl so he could see her or in the woods where animals were less likely to attack them. But, he also thought on how if one was to pee in a circle, then that would be technically his "territory". So, with that thought in mind, he almost peed around the girl, but blushed and decided against it. He walked about ten feet into the woods and began to relieve himself, not knowing that the girl was now fully awake and confused.
"Ug…" she groaned as she rubbed the back of her head. She looked down at herself, and realized someone had covered her in clothes, lifting the clothes, she noticed she was completely naked. Blushing, the girl smelled her surroundings. She smelled a scent she's never smelled before, a male mutant that's slightly older than her. She grunted, thinking about why he might be here, that being to recruit her for the Brotherhood; although, he didn't SMELL like one of them. One of the last one's had her thinking they all smelled like dead fish, rotting bugs, and ten-day old B.O. What was that mutants' name? Frog? It didn't matter to her, they were all the same; they were all wanting her help so they can rule the world, and she didn't like it. She sifted through her memories, trying to figure out why she was naked and had a terrible headache. She remembered walking through the woods, not naked, and finding a blue mutant near her improvised home. She had growled lowly and morphed into an animal that would make sense being in the current area, the only thing she could think of that would maybe work and give her the upper hand was an endangered snow leopard. She morphed into the animal and felt the clothes slide off of her. She remembered thinking that she would come back to get them once she finished the mutant. Then she attacked.
Looking at the clothes laying across her, the girl realized that they were the same that were on the blue mutant. The girl thought on why maybe his clothes were covering her. Remembering that the mutant she was fighting had somehow gotten on her back, and got her into a half-Nelson like move, knocking her out. If she morphs from animal or other form back into human form, then she has no clothes on when she's human. Realizing this fact, the mutant she was fighting must've covered her up with his clothes. She smiled at this, thinking at how cold it can get in Germany at night. Soon, Kurt came back to where the girl was laying, and saw that the girl was awake.
"Oh. Um, hello zhere. Are you okay?" Kurt asked the girl lying on the ground. The redhead glared at the blue boy.
"I don't want to join your stupid club, or whatever you want to call it. And I'm sick of being chased around the world by you guys, so if you don't leave within the next few minutes, I will not let you go as I did the others." The girl threatened.
"Voah! Calm down man! I'm not from the Brotherhood!" Kurt said to the glaring naked mutant.
"Oh? You're not? So, are you just a German boy that got lost in the woods or something?"
"Um, no… Actually, I am from another organization, but not anysing like the Brotherhood. In fact, we're kinda bitter enemies. They vant to rule the world and have mutants the dominate race, vhereas ve vant a world where mutants and humans can live in harmony together, with no prejudice or racism." Kurt calmed.
"Heh… Have fun trying to get that done…" smirked the unknown girl. "I've tried to do that for years, but to no avail."
"Vell, zhat's kinda vhy I vas brought here. Zhe leader of our organization, Professor Xavier, he actually used to be friends vith zhe leader of the Brotherhood. But, some stuff happened and zhey vent zheir separate ways. But zhat's beside zhe point. He saw zhat zhe Brotherhood kept going from country to country, and mutants coming back from missions broken, bloody and bruised. So he deduced zhat zhere must be something zhey vant; if it's a machine, zhen I vas to destroy it after getting as much information as I could about it. If it vas a human, zhen I was to see who zhey are, vhat zhey can do and see if zhey vanted to fight on zhe good side. But, if you didn't vant to fight vith us, zhen I was to not push it and drop it; ve don't like pressuring people into zings zhey don't vant to do by the vay."
"So, you fight the Brotherhood? What's your organization's name?" the girl asked. The only other mutants she had seen in the past few months were from the Brotherhood, and she needed someone to talk to.
"Vell, ve have a school vhere ve teach young mutants how to control zheir povers, zhat's called 'Zhe Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youngsters.' The 'organization' is really a team of highly trained graduates zhat vant to fight zhe Brotherhood, zhe few zhat become part of zhe team are called 'X-Men'."
"'X-Men?' What's the 'x' stand for?"
"Um, I think it means 'extra special' or some sappy stuff like zhat." The girl smiled at this, and said,
"Well, I could try it out, I don't like just jumping into something that I don't know much about, so I'll have to spend some time with some of the 'X-Men' and see the institute, that kind of stuff."
"Vell, if you decide to come and you need some time alone, ve aren't confined to the grounds, and zhere are so many zhings to do, zhat you almost never get bored." The girl smiled again at the older boy's enthusiasm, and said,
"Well, that's all fine and dandy, but I'm getting bored sitting here without clothes on. Do you think you could go grab my clothes? They should be just a few feet that way." The girl said as she pointed to some bushes. "And something tells me you want your clothes too."
"Vhat?" Kurt said absentmindedly, not remembering that he only had his boxers on. He glanced down and blushed, realizing that he was basically naked. "Oh! Ja! I could really use my clothes, but I'll go get yours first."
"Such a gentleman!" The girl said jokingly. Kurt smiled at the joke and went to fetch the girls' clothes. As Kurt went off to fetch the clothes, the girl analyzed him. She wanted to make sure everything he said was true, so she apologized silently in her head as she scanned through his memories. Seeing all of the things he said were true, and that they really were fighting against the Brotherhood, the girl decided that it would be worth her time to try out this "institution".
"I found zhem!" Kurt exclaimed excitedly. He ran back with her clothes, and handed her the items. She started to get up, when Kurt blushed and turned quickly around, so he wouldn't see her naked. She chuckled at his shyness and pulled on her only belongings. She had stolen them from an American Goodwill, and they were a bit small.
"You can turn around now." The redhead stated. Kurt turned and took his clothes so he could put them on. He began to pull the clothes on as the girl studied the other mutant.
"Tall, German accent, blue fur, and a tail; not something you see every day." She thought to herself. "But, if you were to look past the fangs and yellow eyes, he's not that bad looking." Kurt finished dressing and smiled at the girl. She smiled back, but she didn't fully trust this mutant, even the most innocent looking mutants can be killers. She decided that she wasn't going to tell anything about her past until she knew that these "X-Men" could be trusted. Even though she scanned Kurt's memories, that doesn't mean that the other mutants on this team could be willing to turn her in. Turn her in where? That's exactly what she doesn't want people to know.
"So, um…" Kurt started. The girl shook her head to stop thinking, and looked at him. "Vhat is your name? It vould be pretty awkward to just call you 'you'." He said smiling. The girl shifted nervously.
"Should I tell him? I mean, I don't think he could find out a lot about me just by my name… And I could lie if I wanted to…" the younger mutant thought. She swallowed her fears and said with a proud voice,
"My name is Melody, Melody Kaitlyn Conway." The girl stated.
"Melody… It's beautiful…" Kurt said with a smile. Melody blushed and asked for his name, even though she knew it from searching his memories.
"Oh, yeah, I should probably tell you vhat my name is. My real name is Kurt Vagner, it's vith a 'w', but my accent von't allow me to pronounce it zhat vay." Kurt joked. Melody laughed and smiled.
"Why did you say 'real name'?" she inquired.
"Oh, vell, at the institute, ve sometimes go by codenames. My codename is Nightcravler."
"Why Nightcrawler?" and at that question, Kurt teleported behind her, and tapped her shoulder, earning a slight jump.
"Because, I can teleport and I can blend in vith shadows. I also can stick to valls."
"Cool! Like Spiderman?" Melody asked as she spun to face Kurt.
"A bit…" he said with a devilish grin. "So, vhat can you do?"
"Um… well…" Melody began. She was a bit nervous because she didn't want to reveal much about herself to someone she just met. She was about to say something, when something burst through the tree lining. The two mutants turned to the noise, and saw something hunched over. They stared at the thing, until it began to rise to its feet. At the movement from the thing, the two mutants got into a battle stance. The creature grew and grew, and grew some more until it was approximately six and a half feet tall; almost a foot taller than Kurt and Melody (due to Kurt and Melody being almost the same height). The two smaller mutants growled at the thing.
"Sabretooth…" they both growled. Kurt knew of Sabretooth because Logan had often fought him, and Melody knew him from Kurt's memories and her own experience with him.
"Well, well, well… Look what we have here." said the tall man in his deep, throaty voice.
Melody glared fiercely at the tall man. She knew he was bad news, and whenever he came around, she had to fight pretty hard. Kurt was nervous; he'd never fought someone like this before. Maybe a few times in the Danger Room, but that Sabretooth was easier, more, Kurt level; not full power and ready to attack. The blue mutant gulped and thought-
"Oh no… vhat are ve going to do? I'm not ready to fight him!" He got more and more scared as the giant man began to walk towards the two younger mutants; Melody could smell that he wasn't here to talk, and she began to get nervous. Sabretooth chuckled when he smelled her worry. Smiling evilly, he began to crack his knuckles, chuckling at the two.
"Oh don't worry, I won't hurt you—much…"