I sat across from Liam with our legs folded to meditate. We sat inside the danger-room in a new program made to help us learn focus. All around us stood hundreds of noisy people shouting and screaming within a large beat up road, jeering us with random insults. We sat in front of each other focusing on a single ball of red and blue fire that hovered above the ground.
Jean stood next to us watching us and the fire ball carefully. The objective was to keep the ball in an even height and size. If one of us failed to keep focus the flame would lose the size or even inflate if we let the people in the stands get to us. I wanted to do my best so I wouldn't end up making Liam fail because of me and I think he felt the same.
One of the people in the stands said something that got to me and the blue part of the fire started to flare up a bit with my anger.
"Don't worry about the crowd guys, just focus on the fire." I growled inside my head, it was easy for her to say! People weren't calling her names. I took a breath and kept my side of the fire as even as I could until one person said something that made me ignite my fire into a small inferno of rage. The blue part of the fire turned black and consumed the red fire into a pillar of dark flames. I quickly ended the flame leaving a bit of small sparks on the ground.
"Dang!" Liam shouted, he inched back before the flame could consume him. I apologized and took a breath. "you really hate that word..."
I could still here it ringing in my head and it made me want to burn the person in the crowd who said it. Only one person had ever called me that word and I hated it beyond anything in my life. Just thinking of that word made me sick to my stomach.
"You got now idea…" I shook my head and stood up. "Let's spar! I need to let out some steam."
"Ha! You asked for it!" ever since our first battle Liam and I became dueling partners. He was one of the only students that could fight me on equal ground. I smiled thankfully when he agreed and turned to Jean.
"Do you mind being the referee?" Jean nodded but cringed reluctantly.
"Sure just try not to kill each-other. When you two fight I get nervous." Liam and I laughed at that. The professor actually had to upgrade everything after our first fight. Now the danger room didn't take much damage, leaving only a few burns and scratches marked the floor. Liam shouted out a code once Jean made her way to the control room.
"Password: Elemental Unison
program, Stadium of Champion's" the world around us shifted with the voice of a monotone woman.
'Voice recognition recognized, Welcome Mr. Coles' once the world came into focus we were standing on a red and blue platform standing a few feat above a pull of water. Beyond that was a stadium full of people cheering all around us. Devlin smirked at his new creation with pride. He really made a great training program. The ground on the arena held stone discs that popped up to allow him to use his Geo-Kenisis with ease, and the water sounding us made his Hydro-Kenisis perfect for using. In this simulation Liam was near unstoppable, just how I like him.
"Ready!?" shouted Jean. Liam got into a stance and I flexed my claws.
"Ok here's the rules," I began wanting to make this more interesting. "you stick with earth and water only and I'll fight with no back up form the wolf pack."
"Sounds good to me!" He instantly pulled three stone discs out of the ground and formed them into his right fist into a makeshift shield. He then waved his arm at the water pulling it around his arm like a whip. He stood there proud and brave just like a knight. I turned off my image inducer and reveled my wolf parts, then crouched down letting the flames encircle me in an armor of fire ready to pounce at him.
"You are so going down!" I growled waiting for the signal from Jean.
"FIGHT!" I felt the pent up rage inside me fade as I leaped into the air right over Liam landing behind him then swiping him with my flaming tail. He blocked it with his shield right on time and used the water whip to grab my tail. I gasped and froze as he pulled it trying to toss me.
"AAAAGGHH!" confused he paused to see me drooling in pain slash pleasure on the ground.
"Dev!?" he asked confused I shackle lifted my head and gasped out in jagged breaths.
"Please let go of my tail!" blushing he dropped the water whip letting it splash to the ground rushing over me.
"Are you OK!?" he flipped me over only for me to cruel in a ball raping my tail around my waist trying to hide something I did not want him to see.
"I'm fine!… just give me a sec." I breath but my… problem didn't go away. Liam looked worried and called out for jean. She rushed down and to us asking me what was wrong. "Nothings wrong…" she gave me a look that said something like, don't lie I'll read your mind and you know it… wait a minute! 'Jean can you hear me?'
'Yes, so what so wrong your having to exploit my powers?' I sighed and told her all the while glaring dagers.
'You do know what happens when someone touches my tail right? What do you think happens when some one pulls it!?' she looked at my lap and blushed deep red.
"Yeah umm… fight suspended do to small injury." I glared at the small coment as she showed Liam out.
"Injury!? Will he be OK? Cant he heal himself?" she shook her head still blushing as she pushed him out the room.
"Please don't make this difficult… He'll be fine I swear! Just go get changed and he'll see you later. I have to train Amara in a few minutes anyway." he walked away looking very worried but for my dignity I had to let him go. Logan however deiced to walk in at that moment.
"Hey pup, you and snowball done with your training?" He stood over me lifting a questioning eyebrow. His tight uniform did not make things easier for me. "Pup?"
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"Logan..." I breathed trying to control myself all the while staring at his waist. "If you don't leave right now I'm going to do something you'll regret." I licked my lips seeing the shocked face of the man in front of me. "Then again don't move an inch and take that shirt off!"
"PUP!?" His voice quivered as I uncurled myself and let my tail wag quickly behind me. I don't know what came over me, I felt so warm and my head was foggy. I spreed my legs out as my pants started to feel so tight. Logan's jaw dropped as I stood up grinning with a small stream of drool running down my neck. Gulping in fear Logan held his hands out in mercy. "Puppy listen to me OK? Your not feeling so good."
"Oh I'm feeling good Logan, and in a second your going to feel real good. Now take off the shirt!" I leaped onto him and ripped his shirt off exposing his chest and abs to the cold air of the danger room. I summoned four wolves that bit down on his limbs holding him to the ground.
"Pup what the hell are you doing!?" I chuckled darkly above him as I pulled my hoodie over my head tossing it aside took his mouth in mine. I buried my tongue in his throat and pulled at his belt. He tried to speak when I broke the kiss. "Pup please this isn't rig-PFH!" I stuffed a ripped piece of his uniform into his mouth, I had a hungry look in my eyes that I saw reflected in his own.
"You need to stop talking now." I ran my hands down his chest to his waist and grabbed onto the edge of his pants. "Don't worry daddy, puppy will make you feel good."
"Pup..." I stopped and looked around seeing nothing.
"Who's there!?"
"Pup..."
"This is happening darn it!"
"Pup!"
"Oh for F-ing sake!"
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I woke up covered in sweat, Logan was by my side fully dressed shaking me awake. I bit down on my lip and realized that I was dreaming. I felt so embarrassed as he stared at me like he was trying to read my mind.
"Dam pup, you really didn't want to wake up. Good dreams?" I faked a smile and nodded my head.
"Yeaaah..." I really wanted to smack him for waking me but at the same time I was very worried about that dream.
"Well get dressed, you got some training with snowball today." My face drained of all it's blood, I pulled the covers over my head and faked a cough. He pulled the covers off me not buying the lie. "Nice try pup, but your not getting outa… uhh."
"What?" I asked as he paused. He blushed and gave me back the blanket and walked to the door not saying a word. "Logan?"
"… uh… I'll give you a minute to take care of that pup." confused I followed his gaze and saw something that made me pale again. The front of my pants were sticky and very tight on my waist when I saw them I pulled the blanket over me and gasped. I looked back at Logan who had a hungry look in his eyes. The same look I had on my face in the dream. "Yeah… see ya latter pup."
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I stood in-front of Liam and Amara all of us were in full uniform. We were deep inside the basement of the manor, it was one of the unfinished parts of the basement that had yet to be made into a real room or hall. Both Liam and Amara were helping reconstruct the earth around the place. Their Geo-kenisis made it easier for the construction and also helped them train to control it. Jean was helping with the lesson so she could learn to be a teacher at the institute.
I was really impressed with her knowledge on Geo-kenisis. But I guess being a kinetic herself she would know a lot. We stood over a large chasm going deep into the ground. Apparently there were caves under the institute.
"Alright Amara, you'll try first. Just concentrate as hard as you can on the bolder above that ledge." she siad pointing above us. Right in the way of a hall system was a huge builder about the same size of us all combined.
"I don't know..." she said a little worriedly. I patted her shoulder to reassure her.
"You can do it no problem!" I wasn't exaggerating at all. I knew Amara was one of the most powerful of the students, on par with even Liam and I. I knew she could do it. Liam smiled and joined me in engineering her.
"Don't worry, if you loose control I'll help out." Despite his offer Jean shook her head.
"Please try not to, it's my responsibility to keep you all safe. If anything happens I'll be the one to handle it." I heard her talking to the professor and that's how he wanted this to go down. Honestly I was confident she could handle it. She was just as powerful as Liam if not more so.
I heard some footsteps above us and saw Scott on the platform entering the top hallway. He stood there watching us… or should I say he was watching Jean. I had to admit he has been kind of stalker-ish lately with her. It was kind of cute and also kind of creepy. I have to have a talk with him some day, I could feel his heart's longing for Jean. Jean's heart however belonged to an idiot jerk for what resigns I could not fathom.
"OK… I can do this." she lift her arms and the bolder began to move lifting from the ledge and moving slowly higher. Liam and I cheered making the girl smile with pride.
"What I'd tell ya!" she turned to me smiling brightly.
"Thanks guys I.. Agh!" her concentration wavered making the bolder began to fall. Jean used her telekinesis just in time to hold the bolder in place.
"It's OK just..AAHH!" a split second passed as a beam of red light hit the bolder shattering it to small pieces that rained down on the four of us. Thankfully Liam was able to block most of the debris. Jean shocked looked up to see a smiling Scott. I face palmed and shook my head when she turned to Amara and Liam showing the younger students out. "Let's go train someplace else!" she growled taking them away. I waved goodbye to Liam and used my claws the climb the rock-wall to talk to Scott. He looked hurt and confused as to why she was angry.
"What did I do?" I sighed and shook my head.
"Really!? You are not that clueless Scotty!" he cringed at my yell. I was so frustrated for Jean knowing what she felt just then. "You under minded her job! She had things handled and you stepped in almost hurting us in the process..." I calmed myself feeling his regret boiling to the surface. Yelling at him wasn't going to help any. I had to show him. "Look… don't tell Jean I told you but I looked deep into her heart. Shes really not been herself lately, she's questioning her powers and her status. If you really want to help her and for her to see how much you care about her you have to give her some space to figure things out. If you don't she might do something foolish."
"… I… I get it…" he sighed sadly and shook his head feeling sightly worse… 'I really got to work on these things.' I placed my hand on his shoulder and smiled reassuringly. "Give her time. I don't think she really likes Duncan anyway."
"Really!? Did you see that in her heart!?" I shook my head.
"No, but I got a feeling Duncan will screw things up on his own someday. My advice is to wait for that moment and then the wait for the rebound rule to end and after a week or so then you make your move." He had an air of impatience about him when I said that but that was all the help I was going to give him today. "Now if you don't mind I got dust everywhere because of you and need a shower."
"Yeah… sorry about that." I patted his shoulder and shook my head.
"Just don't do it again and next time trust in Jean then you'll get closer to your goal." I patted the dirt off me and walked out leaving him to think. I hope he will take my advice to heart because if not he will end up hurting the poor woman.
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After a nice shower I found Liam and Kurt talking to Rouge in the Rec-room, I felt so much tension in their hearts and cringed when Rouge shouted something to them and walked off steaming with rage and embarrassment. Leaving Liam and Kurt glaring at each other with equal anger.
"What the heck did you two do to Rouge!?" I shouted summoning two wolves to growl at them making the boys jump frightened.
"Nothing we were just talking when this fuzzy blue jerk came in and started flirting with her!" shouted Liam.
"I was flirting!? You were the one putting the moves on her dude!" yelled Kurt.
"QUITE!" I and the wolves roared at the two making them flinch back. I felt so much embarrassment coming off Rouge at what these two did. "Rouge is a person you idiots! Do you know how it feels being hit on by people you live with and have no real feelings for!? It's painful! And it's worse when you think of them as friends, because it makes you feel like you can no longer thrust them or be near them without feeling uncomfortable. And for someone like Rouge who is usually un-trusting of others makes it a thousand times worse! What where you thinking!?"
"sigh… your right. Sorry.." one of the wolves grabbed a news paper in it's jaws and smacked Kurt with it. "Owww!"
"Don't apologize to me you fuzzy idiot! Apologize to Rouge!" I stopped my self and shook my head. "You know what no just give her a bit of time and I'll apologize for you."
"Dev wait!" said Liam, he turned to me and handed me a small box.
"What's this?" I opened it to see a rose.
"It was a gift for Rogue… I was going to give it to her… before.." he said glaring at Kurt. I smiled and nodded my head.
"It's cute! I'm not sure how she will react but I'll give it to her for you." He smiled and his heart filled with hope. He turned to Kurt and the two apologized to each other while I left to find the angry girl. I looked all over but found no one. Until I heard shouting coming from outside. I followed the noise finding Kitty and Tabitha being harassed by Bobby, Sam, and Ray.
"What the heck is wrong with the guys today!?" I jumped into the fray and made the boys back off. "What the heck is going on!?" I said ready to tear the jerks apart.
"She insinuated our gender!" He said pointing to Tabitha I sighed and summoned three wolves at the idiots not wanting to even bother with the amount of idiocy. The boys ran off screaming from the growling masses of fur. While I turned to the girls bowing respectively.
"I apologize for the guys…" I rubbed the back of my head as they looked angry but not at me but that didn't mean they didn't misplace their rage. Kitty was the first to yell.
"Like what is with you guys and your stupid pride!? All I said was that girls could beat you losers in football!" I shrugged and nodded my head thinking about it.
"If Rouge and Jean were on the girl's teem and if idiots like them were on the guys I wouldn't doubt it." that made them relent and Tabitha patted my ears making me cringe a bit.
"At least one boy has some sense!" I shuttered as she and kitty petted my ears. "And a cute one to!"
"Please stop!" laughing they did and I pulled my hoodie up to hide them. "Look not all guys are dense… some just… don't know how to express their feelings without looking like week and like you said guys have very fragile pride."
"I guess your right… but that doesn't like excuse them!" Said Kitty. I shook my head.
"Your right, by the way have you seen Rouge? There is another incident I have to rectify for my gender." she pointed back inside the mansion.
"She's like in our room." I thanked them and waved goodbye. "Good luck!"
'You are doing well you know?' when I walked back inside Crest stood by smiling at me with pride.
"What do you mean?" the wolf pointed back at the girls chasing the boys while Tabitha tossed her explosives at them.
'Your goal. To help the world, even with these small tasks you are making a great impact. You may not see it yet but it is happening.' he licked my hand and followed me as I walked to Rouges room. He burst through the door much to my protest and jumped into her arms nuzzling her face.
"Crest! You guys ever heard of knocking!?" I apologized but it didn't matter once Crest started licking her face making her laugh. "It's fine haha! Just control your dog!"
"You heard her Crest settle down." Crest really like Rouge above most of the students other then Jamie. I guess because he felt sorry that he was the only one she could touch without hurting. I sat with them as Crest laid down on her lap as she gently ran her hand through his fur. "… Rouge.. about Kurt and Liam..."
"Ugh… I don't want to her it!" She said resting her head on the wall closing her eyes. "If those lunkheads asked you here to talk them up then you can leave right now."
"Oh I wasn't going to do that. I was just going to tell you they were sorry for what they did and they wont do it again." She opened her eyes and looked slightly shocked.
"They are?" I nodded and handed her the box.
"Think of this as an apology form Liam… as for Kurt… we'll he's Kurt! He's going to be crazy no matter what I say." She opened the box and pulled out the flower bud looking pleased.
"Liam gave me this?" she asked smelling the rose.
"I think he has a crush on you." I covered my mouth not realizing I just sold out Liam.
"He does, does he?" she smirked and picked up a piece of paper placing it on my face. "Hold still."
"What are you!?" to my shock I felt her lips touch my cheek through the paper.
"Then give that to him for me would ya?" she asked as Crest dragged me out of her room by my hood. I wasn't hurt by her power but I was stunned out of my mind.
'Your fat!' growled Crest through his teeth as we made it to the hallway. I stood up and smacked him in the snout.
"Am not!" he laughed as I subconsciously touched my stomach checking for flab. Angered I ran after the mutt chasing him through the halls.
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I sat across from Liam outside the institute. He was sitting concentrating on breathing. Storm gave him instructions on Aero-kinesis and he was trying his hardest to make it happen. He took a deep breath and let it out only for his breath only to come up.
"Dam it!" He growled frustrated by his failure. He stood up and ran his hand through his white hair taking the snow off. I sat him back down and spoke, trying my best to help him.
"You said you did this once, what did you do at that moment to cause it?" he sighed and thought.
"I was little and my older brother Tonraq was watching me for my parents. I had a really bad nightmare and it happened… it was like a hurricane found it's way inside my room. The wind was so intense that it took my brother hours until he found a way to reach me and shook me out of it. Ever since then I got my other elemental powers over time and I was never able to use wind again no matter how hard I tired." I gave this all a thought and tried to come up with a good solution but I needed more information.
"what was the nightmare? Do you remember what it was about?" Liam looked pale when I asked.
"I.. it's too much… I cant say." he turned around looking away from me. I felt a deep fear within his heart and knew a way to show him that I was to be trusted with something so horrible in his life.
"… Do you want to here a story?" Curiously he turned back to look at me. I summoned a wolf to me and petted it trying to calm myself in order to tell him the truth of my most horrible part of my life. "… Before I was adopted by Logan and made it here to the institute I was brought to an orphanage refusing to go to my god parents... I spent a month there when someone adopted me even though I asked them to not give me to anyone.
The couple acted nice at the orphanage and I though at first that it wouldn't be so bad you know? But I was wrong… the man beat me at night and called me names while the woman pretended not to notice. This went on for days until he found out I was… gay… he then called me something unforgivable and I almost ended my own life. I found a bridge just outside the town and was about to jump if a police officer didn't pull me from the ledge.
He made me tell him why I almost did that and he arrested the couple for neglect. When I came back to the orphanage I started to see Crest around me. In a way he saved me by scaring the heck out of me..." Liam looked at me strangely I wasn't sure what it was so I looked into his heart and felt pity, compassion, and remorse for my life. Biting his lip he told me his dream.
"I was alone deep in the tundra standing under a large hollow tree. Spirits were dancing around me joyful and content… but… there was a loud explosion. The happy spirits turned dark and angry and started closing in on me they attacked me and even though it was a dream I felt every single thing they did. They burned me, drowned me in water, smashed me into the ground, and suffocated me without mercy. But they wouldn't let me die.
It was like that for hours until they brought me to the tree. Inside it was a mass of red tentacles, all surrounding a huge red diamond like eye full of hate. It pulled me into the eye and shocked me it was like every nerve in my body was screaming in pain. I begged it to stop and when it did I thought it was over and done with but I was wrong.
It showed me things… horrible things. It was a woman with pale white skin and long beautiful silver hair being attacked by a monster in the shape of a kite the same monster that was showing me these things. The woman was able to fight off the monster using an awesome bow and arrow and summoned another monster that looked like a clone of the it only white and blue instead of black and red.
The new monster grabbed onto it and wrestled it into the hollow tree and the woman sealed it inside with a single arrow. The new monster flew to the woman and turned into a little baby. After that I woke up in Tonraq's arms." I looked at him amazed. No wonder he was reluctant in telling me his dream. When I heard it, it sounded so familiar but I just couldn't place it.
"I think I have a way to help you learn how to use your wind. I think your wind was called when you felt fear. I think you called it as a defense mechanism. My Umbra-kinesis works the same way, just think of what scares you and let the fear go and be free from it." he thought of what I said and concentrated. After a moment he started shacking refusing to keep going. Doing this wasn't such a good idea. I put my hand on his shoulder and the wolf licked his face trying to reassure him. "it's OK. You don't have to do it right away, just give it some time." After a few minutes of mediation I thought of an idea to help encourage him.
"Hey have you ever tried combining your elements?" his eyes shot up at that and smiled brightly.
"No but that sounds awesome! I saw you combing your fire and darkness for those awesome claws and blasts, I was meaning to ask if you can show me how!" I stood in-front of him and rose both my arms out to my sides.
"Combining elements is simple because of where I drawl them from. My fire is my determination and hope made manifest, my darkness is my fears and courage to see my challenges through no mater what. Thinking and concentrating on them both and imagining them take flight is how I pull them together to form a new power." my arms exploded into two blue waves of liquid like fire surrounded by plats of pure darkness holding them together like bone and muscle. Blue and black flames radiated from my palms sparking ready to burn through all that stood in my way. "I call this my ascendent form. Letting my physical form burn away leaving my heart and soul to burn alone and unbound."
"That. is. awesome! Have you ever fully transformed?" I shook my head.
"I never really needed to and honestly I'm kind of hesitant to do it." I said letting my arms return to their previews forms. "it takes a lot of power from me and I end up getting knocked out after a few seconds in full form… anyway let's start! First I want you to tell me what you drawl on to use your other elements." he thought for a moment.
"Honestly I never thought about it much… give me a second." he looked at the snow and waved his arm pulling at it turning the snow into water. He moved the water around him slowly swaying his arms calm and focused. "When I use water I feel… calm, passive, like I can do anything so long as just go with the flow." he let the water calmly fall to the ground and pulled at the earth lifting a rock with quick strong movements.
"When I use earth I feel..." he smashed the rock and sent the pebbles around him in a circle then smashed them together back into a rock and sent it back where he got it. "Strong, sturdy, like if I stand my ground and be brave I can take whatever comes at me." I knew where he was going and summoned a ball of fire having him take it in flowing swift motions. It burned around his body and surged upward into a large stream of fire.
"When I use fire I feel agitated but driven, letting all my rage out into burring flames to achieve my goals." I smiled knowingly.
"Sounds simple enough, let's try combining both fire and earth. Just think of something that makes you angry and what makes you strong. Concentrate on them both and then let them take form." he took a breath and pulled at the ground he held above his hands and span it closing his eyes and letting himself get lost in his emotions. The rock stopped it's spinning and started to shift and glow until it became lava. Liam opened his eyes and smiled brightly like a child at Christmas.
"YES!" he was beyond thrilled. He made the lava flow like a stream of water sending it around him and even making more until the lawn looked like a volcano erupted. I had to tell him to stop before the whole lawn was destroyed. "My bad dude… that was just so awesome!"
"Then how about a sparing match?" That got his attention.
"You. Are. On!" we rushed inside after he fixed the lawn. This was going to be interesting.
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