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Vincent: Took ya forever to update.
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Chapter 8

During dinner Vincent was getting a headache from all the noise. He didn't have the ear plugs because he left them upstairs. He quickly finished his dinner and headed to his and his dad's room. He entered and flopped on his bed. He put the pillow over his head and closed his eyes. Then he heard the door open.

"Hey, son."

"Hi, Dad."

"Why you have that pillow over your head?"

"Headache."

"From all the noise?"

"Yeah."

"I'll teach ya to control it all."

"When?"

"How about now?"

Vincent lifted the pillow and looked at his dad. "Okay."

They were soon outside and Victor blindfolded his son. He circled them with different things. He then walked away and faced the circle he made. His son was in the middle of it.

"There are some scents all around ya. I want ya to try and separate the scents. Then when that is done I want ya to focus on one scent. Then I want you to track where it is in that circle," Victor said.

Vincent smelled the air and all the scents made him take a step back. Even though he was blindfolded he closed his eyes and tried to separate the scents and focused on one that smelled like some sort of flower. The smell reminded Vincent of the girl back home he liked. He smiled as he had that one scent memorized. He started walking. His head tilted a few times. Then he stopped in front of where the smell was coming from. He picked up the object and inhaled the scent and smiled dreamily. He took the blindfold off and saw it was a rose. A brilliant red rose. He looked up at his father and saw he was smiling.

"Nice job, cub."

"Thanks."

"Ya know what? I think that yer all set with controlin' your sense of smell. You'll learn the rest on yer own," Victor said. "Yer uncle and I want ya to duel with Wolverine."

"Wait. What? You want me to go against Wolverine?"

"Yes."

"He wants to kill me!" "I know he does. If you battle him then he may stop." "How?"

"Look, I think he just want dominance over you. Wants to be the alpha male. If you beat him and become the alpha then he won't kill you."

"How do you know?"

"I don't but that's what yer uncle and I are guessin'. Now we'll have to set up a time so you can battle him."

"No. I won't do it."

"Vincent."

"No, Dad. I ain't throwin' my life away."

"You ain't throwin' your life away. Yer just fightin' for dominance, boy."

Vincent growled. "I don't like this."

"I know. But ya got to do it."

"Do I have to be naked?"

"Yep. I'll be there keeping an eye on things."

"Will you be Sabretooth then?"

"Yes. I'll protect you from him if it goes too far."

"How far is too far?"

"Not sure yet."

"Great."

"Don't worry about it. C'mon, let's get to bed."

The next morning Vincent was in his classes and Victor was talking with Logan and Charles in the telepath's office. Vincent was walking around the grounds during his lunch. He thought about the duel he had to do with his uncle. The young feral hoped that he would be able to defeat him. If not. . .No, he wouldn't think about that. He continued walking when he saw some kids. He thought about going over to them or not. Nobody liked him. Why go over then? he thought. Vincent continued walking.

Logan and Victor were still talking with Charles in his office.

"We need to figure out a plan," Victor said.

"All he's doin' is fightin'," Logan said.

"Yeah, but Wolverine would or will fight to the death. We don't want that," Victor said. "He could kill my cub!"

"Is there a way to make it so he won't kill Vincent?" Charles asked.

Logan shrugged. "I dunno," he said. "I think he only wants dominance over the boy."

"When should this battle take place?"

"Could do it in two days," Logan said.

"Yeah, that will be the best thin' to do," Victor said. Out in the forest. After the kids go to bed."

Charles nodded. "Alright. I'll have the med lab ready in case it is needed."

"Thanks," Victor said, smiling.

Vincent sat under a tree, watching the kids. He closed his eyes and leaned back. He heard footsteps and opened his eyes to see a Asian girl in a yellow trench coat, pink shirt underneath it, she had pink sun glasses on her head, and had on red circle shaped earrings, blue shorts that were halfway to her knees with a belt, yellow gloves, blue boots, her hair was very short, she had red lips, and had brown eyes. She looked around Vincent's age.

"Hi, you're Vincent, right?" she said. "Sabretooth's son? I'm Jubilation Lee, but everyone calls me Jubilee."

Vincent stood up. He towered her. "Yeah, Vincent Creed."

"Nice to meet you, Vincent." She extended her hand.

Vincent shook it. "Nice to meet you, too, Jubilee."

"I've seen what the other kids have been doin' to ya and it isn't right," she said. "So, c'mon and hang out with me and my friends."

"Ya wanna be my friend?" he asked.

"Yeah, you're a nice kid. And you're father's nice, too. People shouldn't judge a book by its cover." She smiled and motioned for him to follow her.

Vincent followed her inside and through a couple hallways. Soon they arrived at the rec room where he saw two other girls and a boy. The first girl was Rogue, second girl was Kitty, and the boy was Bobby. They entered and Jubilee got their attention.

"Guys, this is Vincent Creed. Vincent, these guys are Rogue or Marie-" Rogue smiled at him "Kitty-" Kitty smiled and waved a little "-and Bobby." Bobby just looked at him.

"Nice to meet you," Vincent said.

"Nice to meet ya, too, sugah," Rogue said.

"So, you're, like, Sabretooth's son?" Kitty said.

Vincent nodded. "I am," he said. "I have the same powers as him."

"You act like him, too?" Bobby asked, glaring some at Vincent.

"Bobby!" Rogue elbowed him.

Vincent scowled at him. "Do I act like him? My father ain't a bad guy, Bobby," Vincent said. "I do have the same powers as him."

Jubilee turned to Vincent. "Do you want to go to the mall with us?"

"Yeah, sure," he said, smiling. "But I should tell my father where I am going first. With all the wanted posters and all."

"Ya'll be safe with us, sugah," Rogue said. "We'll just have ta disguise ya is all."

"Yeah, we can, like, give you an image inducer," Kitty said.

Vincent nodded. "Okay."

Soon they got an image inducer from Hank's lab and Vincent put it on. He played with it for a moment and his hair color changed to black and his eyes changed to hazel.

"There," Vincent said.

Jubilee, Kitty, and Rogue nodded.

"Let's go." Vincent smiled.

Jubilee smiled, too.

"Let's go," he said.

Soon, they got to a car and were heading into town. Vincent looked out the window and smiled at the sight of the town. It was really neat and the neighborhood looked very friendly, but Vincent knew that it wasn't a mutant friendly town. His smiled faded a little. Soon, they arrived at the mall. They all got out and Vincent could smell all the different scents around him. He followed the other in. Once he entered, a bunch of scents hit his sense of smell like a wave. He took three steps back, holding his head .

"Whoa," he said.

Jubilee turned back to him. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I am," he said. "Just too many scents. I'll be fine."

Jubilee nodded. "Okay," she said. "Well, let's get going."

Vincent nodded, smiling. "Alright, where to first?" he asked.

"Is there anythin' that ya need, sugah? Clothes or somethin'?" Rogue asked.

"No, there ain't," Vincent said. "I got clothes and stuff. I'm fine with whatever ya want to do."

"Usually Bobby and I hit the arcade," Jubilee said, smiling. "Why don't you join us?"

"Yeah, sure," Vincent said, smiling.

She nodded and Vincent followed her and Bobby while Kitty and Rogue went to a store. After a few minutes, they got to the arcade and got coins from the coin machine. Jubilee gave Vincent coins, too, since he had no cash with him.

"Thanks," Vincent said as he went to a race car game. Jubilee went up against him.

"No problem," Jubilee said.

They started racing. Jubilee was doing great, but Vincent was doing very badly, crashing into everything.

He glanced at Jubilee and smirked a little. "Every time I play this game, I always say: How can I ever drive a car when I can't drive on these games."

Jubilee smiled at him. "Ya just need practice driving. Maybe Logan and your dad could help you drive."

"Maybe," Vincent said.

They raced some more and Vincent crashed the race car and he just blew out air and slumped back in his seat, letting go of the steering wheel and watched as Jubilee won. Jubilee smiled and Vincent smirked a little.

"Ya win, Jubilee," Vincent said.

"Yeah, I do. Wanna play again?"

Vincent nodded.

After two hours of playing different games in the arcade, Vincent was started to get a little bored and a little hungry, too. Vincent looked at her as they played a shooting game.

"Maybe we should call it quits?" he asked. "I'm getting bored and hungry."

"Yeah, sure," Jubilee said. "We can get something to eat at the food court. We're suppose to meet the others there."

Vincent nodded and he, Jubilee, and Bobby headed to the food court. Vincent glanced at Bobby and saw that the kid was sending glares at him. Vincent frowned and looked back to where he was walking. He knew that Bobby didn't like him, but there was something else in him that Vincent didn't like either. He wasn't sure what it was. Vincent shrugged it off for now. Soon they arrived at the food court.

Vincent felt bad that he didn't have any money with him to pay for the food, but Jubilee said that it was alright and Kitty and Rogue didn't mind either. Bobby on the other hand did mind some. Vincent got something small to snack on. When they sat down, Vincent started eating his small bag of chips.

"Don't you get an allowance?" Bobby asked him.

"Yeah, I do." He glared a little at him. "I was savin' up a bunch of money, but with what happened back at my old home on the island, it never got taken with us, so I will have to save up all that money again."

"How much money do you get each week?"

"Bobby!" Rogue said.

"It's alright." Vincent looked him right in the eye and smirked. "Twenty bucks a week."

"Wow, twenty dollars?" Jubilee asked.

"Yeah, plus some Christmas money, too," Vincent said. "Soon it will be birthday money."

"When is your birthday?"

"Next month. May 20th."'

"That's coo!" Jubilee said, smiling. She was getting an idea.

"Yeah, it is," he said, smiling.

After the talk with Charles and Logan, Victor had looked for Vincent. He went to the yard, but had found nothing. He went to the kitchen, dinning room, rec room, bedroom, anywhere he could think of, but he couldn't find him. He went into the woods, too, but found no trace of him. He was starting to get very worried. What if some mutant hating group like the FOH had found him or worse. Victor shook his head. No, Vincent was fine. He hoped he was fine. He went back to Charles' office.

"I can't find my cub anywhere," he said. "I've looked in every place he would be, but he ain't in any of the places."

Charles' nodded. "Do you know if he went with any of the students?" Victor shook his head. "No one here likes him," he said.

"We can go to Cerebro and try to find him."

Victor nodded and they headed down to the lower levels. Once off the elevator, they went down the hallway and stopped in front of a door. After Charles' identified himself, thee doors opened and they went inside and the doors closed after them. Charles wheeled to the controls and put on his helmet. Victor was behind him.

"Victor, don't move," Charles said, closing his eyes.

Victor stood still.

The room changed to red lights surrounding them. Victor looked around, seeing all the red lights that were mutants. He looked at Charles.

"Can ya find him?"

"Yes," Charles said. He focused on one red light and it turned into Vincent. "He is fine. He is with Jubilee, Rogue, Kitty, and Bobby."

Victor nodded, but scowled. "He should have told me where he was going," Victor said.

Charles took off the Cerebro helmet and the room went back to normal. Charles turned to Victor. "Victor, do you really need to be angry with him?"

"Yes, I do! He took off without sayin' one word to me!" Victor growled. "Or to ya, Logan, or the other X-Men!"

Charles looked at Victor. "Victor, I think that you are being a little hard on him."

"I ain't bein' hard on him!" Victor said. "He should have known better to take off without tellin' an adult where he was goin'! What if he gets caught by an anti mutant group like the Friends Of Humanity? My son, Graydon, is the leader of that group. It would be extremely bad if he found Vincent because of him looking just like me!"

"Victor, please calm down," Charles said. "Vincent will be alright. It looks like he used an image inducer to change the way he looks."

"He didn't change much," Victor said. "He only changed his hair color and eye color! Graydon will be on the look out for him because of us bein' wanted by the government!"

"Victor, he is going to be safe with-"

"Safe? They are just frail kids, Xavier!"

"They have powerful gifts," Charles said. "You have seen what Bobby can do with his ice power. Kitty can phase through matter and Rogue can absorb people's life force. They can help Vincent protect himself."

"Vincent doesn't know how to fight," Victor said. "I know he is in Jimmy's defense class, but the boy needs to learn how to fight with his claws from me."

Charles looked at Victor and nodded. "We will see what Vincent has to say about this. Even though you are his parent and makes his decisions, he should start making his own decisions."

Victor glared at Charles and growled a little at him. "Fine, but as soon as they get home, he is going to be in so much trouble."

Charles nodded. "Just don't make the punishment too harsh."

Soon they were on their way home. There had been no trouble with Vincent being seen. No one at the mall recognized him from the news and wanted posters on a news board. He was very glad of that. Vincent sat in the back with Jubilee and looked out the window as they drove back home. He had had a really fun couple of hours with Jubilee. She was the one who seemed like she would become a close friend. He grinned at the idea. He was happy to have a friend who didn't care that he looked like his father and wasn't afraid of getting to know him. He wished that the other kids would be like that, but they wouldn't. No matter how hard he tried, no one would like him except for Jubilee and hopefully Kitty and Rogue. They seemed to like him, too. But not Bobby and Vincent didn't care that much either.

They were soon pulling up to the mansion and Vincent got worried some. He knew that his father would be angry with him for going with Jubilee, Kitty, Rogue, and Bobby without telling an adult where he was going. He sighed a little. He was so going to get it. He wondered what his punishment would be. He hoped that it wouldn't be too harsh. He had a feeling that they would also be arguing, too. The car pulled up to the garage and the kids got out with their bags and Vincent saw his father, Logan, and Charles waiting for them at the garage door. Vincent took a deep breath and exhaled it. He walked up to them. The others went inside. As soon as they were out of hearing range, Vincent tried explaining.

"Dad, I'm sor-"

Victor cut him off. "Do ya have any idea how worried I was?" he said. "I have been worried sick 'bout ya!"

"I know. But, Dad-"

"Ya know better then to take off without tellin' anyone!"

"Dad-"

"What if someone saw ya? What if some anti mutant group saw and tried to hurt ya? No, what if the government caught ya then took ya away and turned you into their lab rat?" He snarled.

Vincent snarled back at him. "I'd fight them off with my mutation, Dad! I ain't helpless!"

"Yeah, ya could fight them off all ya want, but yer healin' factor is slow! Ya wouldn't stand a chance if they used a lot of tranqs on ya!"

Vincent scowled at Victor.

"Ya are in so much trouble, cub," he said. "Yer grounded all the way until tomorrow night. No leavin' our room at all unless ya need to get to class."

Vincent scowled at him and growled. Victor growled back at him. Vincent then pushed past Logan and headed up to his and his father's bedroom, running up the stairs. He slammed the door and sat on his bed, scowling deeply. He couldn't believe his father. Yelling at him like that. Vincent growled and threw his pillow to the other side of the room.

Victor scowled a little at the stairs. He turned back to Logan and Charles. Logan was glaring at him a little and Charles had a frown on his face.

"What?" he asked them.

"Did ya have to be that way with him?" Logan asked.

"Yeah, I did. Ya would too."

"No, I would have been more gentle with him if he was my kid."

"Well, he ain't yer kid is he?"

Logan growled a little.

"Please, calm down," Charles said.

He put a hand to his head, his eyes closed. "I can sense Vincent. He seems upset. Not angry."

Vincent sat on his bed. He was feeling sad now instead of feeling angry. Ever since he was found out, his life had been nothing but crap. He got the crap beat out of him, none of the kids here like him except for Jubilee, Kitty, and Rogue, and his father yelled at him for leaving when he would have been safe with his new friends. He felt tears well up in his eyes and they fell down his cheeks. It was just all too much.

Charles opened his eyes and put his hand down. He looked at Victor and Logan.

"Vincent is definitely upset," he said.

Logan glared at Victor. "This is yer fault. Ya had to go and yell and upset him."

Victor glared back at him. "Ya think this ain't hard for me, too? Bein' wanted by every damed government in the country and in Canada? I'm more wanted than my cub is! I have to protect him and make sure he doesn't get hurt while keepin' an eye out for Stryker and Stryker wannabes! If they get a hold of him then they'll use him. Turn him into a lab rat and use him against me to get to me and take me away from him! If they get both of us then we're screwed! And we'll get separated and will never see each other again!"

"You are punishing him because you are protecting him?" Charles asked.

"Yeah, ya could say that," Victor said.

"Ya need to go and talk with him without startin' another fight," Logan said.

Victor sighed a little. "He ain't gonna talk to me," he said. "Not after that."

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