I stood holding Danny's boxes in my hands, I walked with him all the way from the orphanage to the mansion thankfully storm gave us a ride back in the X-Van. Danny and Jazz looked so excited to be living in the institute and I couldn't blame them, I talked about it a lot back when I first showed them I was a mutant. Sure Jazz was not a mutant but it didn't matter that much with the professor mostly because she wanted to learn move about Danny and our kind.
"You are very enthusiastic for your brother." He said and that was an understatement, she was very interested in learning everything about mutants she could know. She would get her own room in the institute was the first human to be allowed within it's walls as a student. I showed them around and showed them to their own rooms where they unpacked and settled in.
Jazz ran off the meet with the other girls and I went with Danny to test his powers, the guy was powerful and strong. Super strength, odd energy manipulation, and flight. I had a feeling he could do more once he learned more about his powers and got used to using them.
"You really think I can get stronger?" he asked me and I nodded. Without a doubt he can be even stronger then he is now, his heart is powerful and kind. I stopped for a moment and felt something strange, it was as if there was another heart in the institute that I did not recognize. Its emotions were troubled and mixed as if he or she was in the middle of contemplating her life.
"I'll be right back I got to check something out." I left Danny be while I ran after the new heart finding it belonged to a woman with awesome caramel blonde hair. She hand an air about her that made me thing of a biker chick I used to see speeding down the road in my old home on the highway. I smiled at that, I really liked motorcycles so I thought I was going to like her right off the bat. "Hey!"
"Hm?" she turned to see me and smiled. "You a new student?"
"No, not really, I've been here for about a year now. My name is Devlin Mercer, nice to meet you." I held out my hand and she smirked.
"My what a gentle man, you like the kind of kid who likes to party. Know where I can find a good drink here in the institute?" I chuckled at that.
"This is a dry school Ms… um.. I never got your name." She sighed but her confident smirk remained.
"Names, Chelsea Marks. And I see the tail and puppy dog ears so I'm guessing you must be a mutant." I rubbed the back of my head and chuckled.
"Yeah, are you one to?" I asked she smiled and from behind her a long red bladed tail swayed and vanished as if it was never there.
"That answer your question puppy dog?" I nodded amazed. She didn't show me much but it was defiantly a mutation. Her attitude was kind of familiar, it reminded me a lot of Logan and not just the calling me a puppy thing… something about her just screamed I know Logan. She put her hands on her hips and pouted looking up at the institute. "Well it's been fun chatting with ya but I got worked to do. You know if the prof is in?"
"Yeah he's up in his office, top floor first room between the two stair cases." she smiled and ruffled my hair messing with my ears causing me to yelp and pull away blushing holding my ears back, "Please no ears! They are very sensitive."
"Really? Ahahah cute!" she patted my shoulder and walked inside. I sighed and made my way back to Danny.
"Why do they always go for the ears?"
/X-men\\\\
Chelsea Marks made her way to the professor's office looking around the institute feeling a sense of nostalgia at the large building. She smiled at a the double doors and pushed them open seeing the professor and a face she was afraid of seeing. She quickly summoned her wings and tail clawing her hands and growling at the man next to Professor Xavier.
"The hell are you doing here Erik!?" The master of Magnetism himself Magneto stood by the professor's side smirking at the woman.
"Oh the dragon woman. It is good to see you again as well and my name is Magneto to you." he said closing the door behind her. She was moments from leaping at him when the professor held out his hand.
"Please Chelsea, Erik is not here to harm anyone. He has in a way reformed from his old ways." She stared at the man and glared.
"Doubtful. But I wont flat out beat your ass… this time." She smirked at Magneto who glared at her. "So Chuck what did you call me out here for? Must be important since you know Logan doesn't want me five miles near him."
"That moment may come to pass, however we require all the help we can get… there is a.. problem." Chelsea crossed her arms lifting an eyebrow.
"Wow, if there is something wrong enough that 'he' is here then the shit must have hit the fan." she smirked. "Let me guess, did your brother get out again?"
"No no… there is something worse then Cain I am afraid." Her eyes widened and she sat down knowing this was important.
"What is it chuck?" Xavier sighed and his face became grave.
"Someone is controlling the minds of other mutants forcing them to do things in his name. So far one from both of our groups has been put under his thrall. I require those of strong will that can defend and if need be restrain those who become controlled. With your true massive size you are ideal to keep any of the others at bay." She frowned at that.
"You calling me fat!?" Xavier blushed and held his hands up.
"No no of course not! I'm just." Chelsea burst out laughing.
"I'm joking! God Chuck you never change." she smiled standing up. "OK just tell me where I'm bunking and also where the booze is."
"The one thing that hasn't changed is that there are so alcoholic beverages inside this institute…" he sighed at her hopeful look."that I am sure Logan has hidden well."
"Dam it! I can never find things with him… sneaky sexy bastard." she looked back at the men and smiled. "in that case I am going out for… house supply's."
"Yes… if you do please keep it away from the students." she chuckled.
"You know me so well."
/X-men\\\\
"So Danny Jazz, how do you like your first day at the institute?" I asked they looked thrilled.
"This place is amazing! Its like living in a five star resort!" Jazz smiled her eyes shining with joy.
"Yeah its like some kind of dream, no more crazy parents, no more closed run down spaces, and so many new people just like me." Danny let a small tear run down his face that I wiped away smiling.
"I'm glad you two are getting along great, there are a few students I want you to meet before the day is over. And here is one of them now, hey Liem!" said boy ran toward me smiling brightly at the two.
"Hey newbies, Dev told us two new students were coming over today. I'm Noatak Coles, but people call me Liem… umm… are you feeling OK?" he asked looking at Danny.
"Yeah I guess so, why do you ask?" Liem stared at him for a bit but just shook his head.
"N.. No resson, anyway welcome to the institute and have a great first day..." that was weird. Liem normally is very outgoing, but he seemed shy with Danny.
"Is he always like that?" Asked Jazz, I shook my head.
"No, something must be on his mind right now… I'll check on him in a bit but first I want you both to meet my dad!" I said smiling seeing him riding his motorcycle up the road. He parked it in the garage as Danny spied him coming out of the small building.
"Oh, wow! He… wow!" Danny smiled dreamily at him. Jazz chuckled.
"No wonder you like him so much he is so… wow!" Jazz and Danny were one of the only ones I told about me and Logan being more then just father and son, they were suportive of me and let me feel less awkward that we were together. we watched as he came closer toward us taking his motorcycle helmet off and tossing it to the ground in anger. Something was not right…
"Logan.. whats wrong?" he just shook his head taking a deep breath out his nose.
"Not now Devlin." he said flatly storming inside the mansion. Jazz placed her hands on her hips and frowned.
"That wasn't very nice." I got worried so I turned to them.
"I'm going to go check on him something is not right. I'll see you guys in a little bit!" I walked after him hope he was alright… I don't know what I would do with out him.
/X-men\\\\\
To say I was mad would be like saying the sun was cold, I was fucking livid! Why the hell would chuck think bringing that fucking bitch back here was a good idea!? Dam it I just got over her and he brought her back knowing she was the last person in the world I ever wanted to see again! Fuck! I would rather be fucking up a thousand Sabertooths all at once then be in the same house as that dam woman!
"CHUCK!" I kicked his door open and stormed into the room as he and Magneto sat together talking.
"Hello Logan what brings you here?" I growled at that.
"You know dam well what I am doing here! Why the hell did you call her back here for!?" He sighed and Magneto chuckled.
"Do you really, think your opinion maters right now?" I snarled at him and unsheathed my claws but that only made him laugh. "Really? Metal claws agents the master of magnetism?"
"Fuck off!" Chuck slammed his hands on the desk spooking both me and magnet head.
"ENOUGH! There are more pressing matters then your petty differences Logan! The students are in serious danger! Jean has already been attacked by this man and Devlin may be next!" my eyes widened on that and I sat down.
"W… What makes you think he's next?" Chuck folded his hands and sighed.
"He seems to target the most powerful of mutants. Those that can cause the most damage to the world around them. Devlin is one of the strongest within the institute and so is Liem. Both could be in great danger and we required all the help we could get from someone known for her own power and strength of will, Chelsea Marks is within that category and so is Magneto. For their sake I ask you to please bare with her until the mutant is no longer a threat." I sighed running a hand through my hair.
"For the pup… but don't expect me to get along with her… you of all people know why I hate her." I stood up leaving the room closing the door behind me and sighed but a familiar sent rushed through my nose and growled in annoyance.
"So your going to throw another fit or are you done being a little girl about this?" I turned to her and was about to flip her off but I sighed walking away. "Hey! Dam it what the hell!? Why wont you just talk to me!?"
"You know why." she moaned growling in her throat.
"It was my decision dam it! I didn't want a kid to go through being immortal! To end up alone and loosing everyone he or she cared for! For fuck sake you cant remember what it is like loosing those people! You don't remember past fucking seven years from today! You don't remember what it is like seeing them grow old and wither away! You don't know what it is like!" She screamed at me her eyes welling up in tears which she brushed away. Not wanting to show her emotions but I was sick of it!
"You think I don't know what it is like loosing someone!? Fuck I was so close to loosing the one person in this world that I loved multiple times, not just you ether! I know what loose is dam it and I pull through!" Fuck her for not thinking I don't know what it is like! I lost Devlin so may times… god, just thinking about him growing old like that burned me hotter then his fire. But I would love him even if he dies before me, and I will never stop loving him. She stared at me confused for a second and gasped holding her hand over her mouth.
"You found someone else..." I snorted at that.
"Yeah, and I love him more then anything in this world." her eyes only widened larger from me saying that.
"Holy!… your gay!?" I growled at that, fucking hell!?
"What I am is none of your business anymore!" I turned my back on her and she just turned me around smirking.
"If you think lying about something so stupid is going to make me drop this your insane!" she smirked at me and ran her hand on my chest like she used to and spoke in my ear. "I know you still love me, you can deny it all you want but I know you've been waiting for me to come back."
"Don't." I said flatly but I did not pull away like I should have. She was right about one thing, I did miss the time we spent together but those times were over… so why was I not moving? She leaned closer to me pressing her body closer to mine brushing her lips on mine.
"Don't what?" I felt myself tense as she kissed me pressing her lips on my own my eyes closed and I pulled her closer to me not able to hold back any-longer, god I missed her touch so much but… but this was not right… I pulled away and shook my head.
"I, don.." I heard a sob and at first I thought it was her but she does not sob… oh god no.. NO! FUCK NO!
"Logan..." Devlin stood there his eyes full of tears of betrayal that fell down his cheeks. My own eyes widened in horror, fucking hell what did I just do!?
"Devlin! This.. this is not what it looks like!" he shook his head and ran out the institute's front doors. I growled and smashed my head on the wall. "God dam it!"
"Holy crap! You are gay… and… that was your boyfriend… fuck. I. am. dumb." she face palmed shacking her head. "Dam Logan I am so sorry."
"Don't give me that crap! I got to go save my relationship before he hates me forever." I was going to run after him but Chelsea stopped me.
"Wait! Let me, he might not want to talk to you right now. If I saw my boyfriend kissing another girl er… guy.. or… whatever, my boyfriend would be the last one I would want to see." I was going to argue but she might have been right… dam it she better not screw this up!
"Fine… I'll trust you just this once." she smiled at me and ran after the pup… please god or anyone who is listening please let him not hate my guts.
/X-men\\\\
I don't know how long I ran but I ran past Danny and Jazz even past Liem. I really wanted to not be alone but I also didn't want to be anywhere near anyone else. I felt like my heart was breaking, everything I knew felt like lies. Everything… goddess it hurt so badly.
I wanted nothing more then to sulk inside the woods next to the institute and try to get over what I saw. I knew though I might just not be able to. It hurt to much that I wanted to cry and cry until it was over. This was just like the time back when I was going through the path to Crest's grove.
I could hear him calling me a.. a.. goddess I don't want to remember that now. I just want to… goddess I don't even know. I curled up on a tree and let my tears fall trying to get my emotions back in check. Getting worked up was bad for the world around me and the people in it too.
I felt my fire burning around me and onto the tree, I pulled it off it only for it to get caught on a bush I growled and let the fire burn it, my anger raising inside me. I howled as I stood up running my claw through the bush setting it ablaze and shredding it into ash.
"DAM IT!" I twisted around letting my anger flow as I shredded the tree turning it into fire wood. I did so again to another and another letting my anger rise and my sorrow faded leaving nothing but my rage.
"Real scary puppy dog, but not powerful enough to fight me." I turned my head growling to see Chelsea Marks, seeing her made my anger rise and I roared running at her only to be blown away by her own roar. The fires only raged as I flipped landing on all fours my tail frizzed and my eyes felt glued to the woman. I growled at her and roared again. She held up her hands and tried to calm me down. "I'm not here to fight kid, I just want to talk.
"GrrrAGH!" I leaped at her claws extended as she summoned two powerful looking wings form her back and her long bladed tail. With just one flap of her wings sent me flying onto a tree, I grabbed onto it and leaped right back at her taking one of her wings and shredded it clipping it and making her scream.
"FUCK!"she grabbed my with her free wing and pushed me off her only for me to pin her to the ground and for me to slash into the other. "Stop it! Fucking brat, you want to fight then lets fight!"
"Grragh!" She grabbed me with her tail and tossed me onto another tree hard! I gasped and lost consciousness for a moment but… I wish I did. I felt my fire surge into an inferno it blazed around me and towered way over the tree lines. I stood up and roared blowing a few of the trees back as I rushed her encased in a large blue fireball.
"Oh crap.." I pulled back my fist and punched her sending her flying through the trees I followed her my hands and feet blaring through the grass leaving nothing in my wake but ash. I garbed onto her as I stared into eyes before crashing my head down on her own. We crashed into the earth as I rose above her howling in victory. "You kids, always thinking your the shit."
"Grah!?" I looked down to see her smirking at me her eyes glowing bright green a silted like a snake. In a flash her form changed, she grew huge bursting in bright ruby flames. I fly into the sky and held out my fire near my feat keeping me in the air. I looked to see her for what she truly was, a large red dragon. She flew into the air right after my opening her jaws to bite down on me I felt blood seep through my shirt as she tossed me back to the earth. I stood up from the ground letting my fire coat my wounds healing them as I rushed up into the air on her back. I flexed my claws and pinned them into her scaly body and cased her to roar. She soared into the air up high as I continually stabbed her, she rolled and dived no matter much I hurt her she just kept healing. "DIEE!"
"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" she grabbed me with her tail and bit on to my neck I grabbed her jaw and pulled it closer just to gouge out her eye she screamed and we both fell from the air right down on to a tree. She crashed over me and slammed into the ground. We both laid there in pain as she changed morphing back into her human form. Scratches and marks all over her body that slowly closed as did my own when my fire licked them away. I felt my rage fade and only sorrow remained.
"Dam it!" I roared slamming my fist into the ground. "I thought he cared about me! I thought he loved me!"
"Kid 'pant' it's not his fault. I kissed him. He," I shouted at her punching her boob making her wince.
"HE KISSED BACK!" I rolled over crying as I curled my body up into a ball. She sighed and sat up.
"He's an idiot kid, cut him some slack." she touch my shoulder but I pulled away she sighed again. "Look kid Logan and I… dam it I cant believe I am going to say it but… we are ancient history. Yeah I loved him but enfranchised on loved. He may still have a huge place in my heart but… dam it he doesn't feel the same anymore. Whatever happened was just an old flame that has long since died out."
"Bite me!" I lift myself off the ground and turned to her my fire burning around me. "You cant lie to me! I can see right inside your heart! I sense the love you have for him burning inside you every time you say his name!"
"What!?" she held her hand over her chest and looked annoyed at me. "I thought the prof banned insight powers!?"
"Empathy is not a real power, everyone has it! But my own can see everything your past, your present, everything that you are!" I leaped at her one last time grabbing her by the neck and glaring into her eyes. "Show me the truth!"
"Fuck no! get out of my head!" I smirked.
"To late." I forced my empathy on her forcing my way through her heart to see what she and Logan had. I found myself in the institute, she was talking to him smiling and laughing, drinking and playing cards. They looked so happy that it made me hurt inside, I looked deeper and found them in his room kissing roughly making me ache worse. I had to know more and saw him smiling at her as she told him she was pregnant and just hearing that made me want to cry. I hesitated to look more this was to wrong but I needed to know I had to know if there was more. I looked to find her alone on a mountain top in her dragon form clutching something within her tail. Her eyes shined with such sadness it flooded it's way into my heart. She uncoiled around the egg and looked back only once before leaving it on its own. I watched as she flew away leaving the egg alone I looked toward it feeling its own sorrow as it's mother fled it leaving it on it's own. It wiggled on the stone and the bright red egg turned black and blue before cracking. The world around me shifted once again and I found myself back at the institute. She was once again with Logan he was screaming at her tears running down his face as he growled and snarled. She stood there taking his rage with a sad smile on his face. I knew now what they had and what he meant to her. I wanted out of this, I did not want to feel for her but I did. I wanted to hate her, I wanted her to mean nothing to me but she did. "Why!? Why do I have to care about someone who… who..."
'Because that is what you were meant to do.' I looked around and found me in Crest's grove. Said wolf stood over me large and foreboding. He smiled down at me and I sighed.
"What do you mean?" I asked, he smiled and he motioned around us.
'These fields of flowers hold the hearts of many different people, one to name a few was the man who caused my first death. His heart all though dark with madness is within this garden.' that was messed up.
"Why? Why do anything for people like that!?" Crest chuckled.
'Because they are all the same, they each hold pain and fear, yet also love and joy. They each feel just as much as the last. The only difference is that they each know different pain as they each know different love. They are all so similar and yet so unique, they are the greatest treasure of this planet. They are all my duty to collect and on the end of this world to give them to mother. Now this duty is placed on your own shoulders…' he looked up and so did I, shinning up in the sky was the moon yet it was as close as it could be. He patted my shoulder and smiled, but all I could do was frown.
"But… why tell me this now?" he held out his paw and it started to fade. "No.."
'Yes, it is about time I left, I have stayed to long where I am not needed.' I shook my head furiously.
"No! Not yet I still need you!" he smiled at me his black fur fading away shinning brightly until it was pristine white. He looked so beautiful, I grabbed onto his fur and held him tightly. "I need you! I don't want you to go. Why now!? Why!?"
'Devlin, I am you and you are me and because of that I am never apart from you. I will always be right there in your heart.' he said one last time before fading away until he was nothing but a head. 'this is one last thing I must tell you, my final words from mother herself. Listen carefully…
My child head these words. The story I am about to tell you is a very important one, it lintels a long long journey under taken from the parent past on to the child, continuing from generation to generation without end. You will pass on the memories of this planet and bear witness to every phenomenon along the way and pass them on until there are no more children. When the skies are clouded by hatred and wars this planet will be overwhelmed, overwhelmed by its own grief and all will be lost. that end can not be avoided it is the way all all things, but in the end you will collect those memories to the very last child, and so my son, on that final night, may you fill that child's memories full of love and joy. This is your task my son, you will be the bearer of the flame of memory, the keeper of the hearts of those that will pass. Care for them as if they were your own and one day may you return to me and regale me with the tales of those children. My dear wolf my child of the Heart.'
with those last words Crest was no more, he faded away into a single flame that rose into the sky and shined brightly on the pale moon. The world faded away and I was back in reality. I looked to see Chelsea standing there in shock. I cried out in her own pain and fell to my knees. She looked at me and to my surprise she held her arms around me and hugged me.
"I… I saw what happened to your friend… I'm sorry." I cried on her shoulder and held her back.
"I'm sorry… I gave people worse then you second chances… you deserve no less." I smiled looking in her eyes my own clouded in tears.
"Thanks… I think… I know I heard an insult there." I chuckled and punched her boob again.
"That was for kissing my boyfriend!" she clutched her breast and her cheeks inflated.
"Phft dam it brat… I kind of deserved that. But you deserve this!" she pulled back her fist and punched my neck taking the air from my lungs. I chocked as she chuckled still in pain. "We even?"
"Yeah." I managed to say, we looked at each other for a second and burst out laughing.
"Hey puppy dog, how about I treat you to a drink?" I chuckled.
"I am only sixteen you know." her eyes widened at that.
"Oh god that perv! A guy is one thing but a freaking kid!?" I stopped her there.
"I was the one who insisted on the relationship. So don't blame him." I said carefully. She sighed and shook her head.
"I swear he is the biggest idiot in the world… god he has a nice butt though." I chuckled and nodded.
"He sure does." she smirked and helped me to my feet.
"Dam puppy dog, you can pack a punch, no wonder Chuck called me in." I smiled at her and said something I might have never said if I did not feel her heart.
"So am I." we walked back to the instituted and we talked over some cold soda, she told me a lot about where she was before she came to the institute. "So your brother is a mutant? Will he be joining the institute?"
"Not sure, I want him to but he's a bit of a… brat to say the least. But if he wants to then I'll bring him down since Chuck already cleared it with me… now about Logan… when did he start getting into guys." I blushed how she said that. She looked at me for a second and then burst out laughing. "oh man hahaha that came out so wrong!"
"Yeah… well I asked him and I never got a real answer. But we've been dating for about a year now… well dating is not a good word for it.. only two people know about us that being my friend Liem and my adopted sister Laura." she smiled at that.
"Sister huh? So who's what are your parents like?" I smile.
"Logan's my adopted father." she spat out her soda and I cringed forgetting the weirdness of it all.
"I have got to have a word with that perv..." she growled.
"Like I said I was the one who started it." she sighed and chuckled lightly at me.
"You got some balls puppy dog. I like ya." I smiled feeling the same.
"You too." she smirked at me again and got a sly smile on her face.
"He still good in bed?" my mouth hung open and my tail frizzed making her scream with laughter.
"Pup?" she stopped her laughing when Logan walked into the room, I stopped my shocked face and looked up at him feeling my heart ache a bit. I lowered my head and my ears. Chelsea coughed and stood up patting my shoulder.
"I'll talk to ya latter puppy dog." she bent down and whispered in my ear. "Give him a chance."
I smiled back at her but it faded once she left. Logan glared at her a bit but let her leave. He took a seat next to me and sighed popping one of the sodas and chugged it down. I looked away from him and summoned a wolf running my fingers through it's fur. I tried to sense crest but found nothing, the wolf panted and licked my hand. He was just a wolf no deity wolf inside him. I felt a tear run down from my face, I lost a good friend this day… but I hope I did not loose another one.
"Pup… I wont lie to you… I did have feelings for Chelsea… I might even still have those feelings but the two of us were never right for each other. Her leaving me like that was proof enough. The both of us were the only ones who could live past everyone else our healing factor making us near immortal. I really think that is the only resign we were ever together… pup… Devlin, I don't love her anymore…" he heeled next to the wolf and looked up at me. He took my hand and smiled sadly. "I love you."
"Logan… you kissed her back." I stood up and tossed my arms around him. "Please… tell me you really love me and let me see the truth. Let me look inside the deepest most strongest of your emotions… if I am there if only I am there then I will know for sure that you love me."
"Pup..." he hugged me tightly garbing one of my hands and placing it right over his heart. "Look as deep as you want because my heart belongs to you and you alone."
"Logan..." I did as he asked and peaked right into his heart. It was clouded by Rage at the hydra organization, Rage for Shield for using him for so long, Rage aimed for his enemy Sabertooth, Rage for Magneto, Rage for Gambit, rage for just about everyone. I looked past the hatred and found light, inside was the institute and his loyalty for professor Xavier, his admiration for Beast and Storm, his caring for each and every student. The light even though berried under darkness shined bright and stronger then any I have ever seen. But was worse was the sense of dread he held for out living the ones he knew. The very thought of it burned into his heart as a coming wave of darkness that would soon come. I had to look deeper and I found it hiding deep within his heart. It shined like a lighthouse in the darkest of storms. The light astounded me and sent shivers of joy and happiness through my own heart. There within the brightest place within his heart was me. I touched the phantom image of me and felt it explode in an aria of colors that made me weep. It showed me the first time we ever met in the gas-station, to the time he first kissed me, and the time I first came back to life. So many memories of me stayed here in his heart, memories that would last for the goddess knows how long. I pulled away and cried in his arms snuggling my head into his chest.
"You do love me! Goddess you love me so much! That's all I wanted to know! Logan I'm so sorry I doubted you! Please don't hate me!" I sobbed as he held me tighter kissing my head and rubbing my back.
"I love you to Devlin, and I promise I will love you and no one else ever again!" I don't know how long we stayed there in each others arms but I could care less, I knew he was telling the truth and I knew he would be with me even if Crest was not. I knew I would never be alone.