We stood in the dessert in the middle of nowhere, the professor finally pin pointed the mutant who was trying to control us. Chelsea, Logan and Thorn stood by me as we looked at the entrance to the hopefully abandon Hydra complex. It was eerie to be back here, both Chelsea and Thorn looked pale as they walked inside along with Logan and I. Thorn looked over to Chelsea and smiled.
"You've been here before haven't you?" he asked and she nodded.
"How can you tell?" she smirked trying to hide her worry.
"You have the look in your eyes… the kind that screams imprisoned." I was impressed with Thorn, he seemed to be empathic but then again he knew what the feeling was like. Chelsea sighed and her smirk faded as she looked through the empty hall noticing something wrong and it took me a moment to see what she saw… or rather what we didn't see. The room was pristine clean and clear of every mutilated body that used to decorate the halls.
"Their back, I can smell them… something is different though.. something smells familiar." growled Logan, he sniffed the air and his claws extended as we walked through the halls on guard. As we came to the central control room we found a man standing over the computers staring diligently at the screen. He wore a ragged torn purple and black hooded robe.
"So the test subjects have returned. It has been a long time Thorn, Chelsea. Have you come back to serve Hydra?" the man turned around and we got a good look at his face, he wore what looked like a worn plague doctor's mask over his head. Once Thorn and Chelsea saw it they nearly screamed in both anger and fear.
"Putress!?" Chelsea roared wasting no time and leaped at him only for her to crash into the computer, the man seemed to vanish from sight. She picked herself up and scold looking around the room and roared once more. "Where are you you psychotic butcher!"
"Hahahahha! I missed your insults, I also miss dissecting you, tell me do you still have the stitches for when I sliced you open and took your liver? That was one of my favorite moments with you." She roared in anger and sent a cone of fire all around her.
"I'll burn your sorry ass to the ground! Your mistress is dead, your lead experiment is disintegrated! For all your idiotic attempt at destroying the world is all for nothing!" She screamed, standing in the blaze. She took in another breath but was stunned as she felt a sharp pain in her side. She looked down to see a large curved blade within her chest.
"Chelsea!" Logan rushed forward only to trip to his knees. I stared at his feat and my own in horror, grabbing onto our legs were long clawed skeletal arms protruding from the ground through what looked like puddles of ink black sludge. I pulled and kicked at them shattering the bones only to have them grow back as we stared helplessly at Chelsea as the man pulled his weapon out of her chest with a loud slink. She gasped as the blood pooled around her feat.
"Do not fret my dear, I refrained from stabbing into any vital organs. I want you to be alive for when you see my latest creation. As for Hydra do you really think that mad woman was really Hydra's true leader?" he asked as more skeletal arms latched themselves on Chelsea's arms and legs.
"What!?" the man chuckled as he walked to another computer placing a small USB device into it and fiddled with the bottoms.
"You are truly a fool for someone so ancient. She was a puppet who cut her strings, nothing more. The true puppet master is not who you would expect, Hydra's true goal was never the destruction of the world! That is so useless! The true goal is to make the world out own, to put it under our heels…" with a single press of a button a corroded image appeared on the largest screen overlooking the whole room. All I could see was a head covered in red. "Sir the data has been retrieved and the umbrakinetic DNA samples are in perfect condition. However experiment Shoggoth has been taken and is no where to be found."
'Well done, Professor. This base is no longer necessary, have your little pet reduce this place to rubble.' with a dark chuckle the man shut off the screen and whistled, when it echoed through the hall a loud deep distorted roar echoed through the building. The man grabbed Chelsea's face and turned it to the direction of the roar.
"Thank you ever so much for leaving the defenseless specimen on it's lonesome, you should have thought more of what you were doing. You never lost the tracer I implanted in your brain did you?" Her eyes widened at what he revealed and the large dark creature that burst through the metal ground and roared out a blast of black purple fire. It looked like a huge dragon's skeleton only connected in a dark aura of purple fire. Chelsea gazed at it in horror as the man faded away into the shadows laughing in utter amusement. The emotions I felt emanating off her were full of sorrow and so were the emotions within Logan. He looked and felt heartbroken looking at at the burning bone dragon.
"No… it cant be!" when the man faded away so did the skeletal arms. Once free she grabbed her side holding off the blood loss, as we backed away from the flaying undead dragon. It crashed into the computers its bony tail slashing through the electronics like they were made of jelly, how the heck something with no muscles trashed the place so easily. I wasn't going to wait for it to do so, I summoned my own fire and focused it into claws as I rushed forward only for Chelsea to stop me. "No! Get away! This is my fight Devlin!"
"But!" I felt her heart burning with resolve but also doubt. I shook my head there was no way I was going to leave her alone with that thing but she simply roared sending me backward into Logan sending us back far out of the way toward the exit. She glared at the bone dragon and shifted herself into her true form biting into its vertebra and tossing it aside. I turned to Logan who looked pale and stunned, I shook his shoulder trying to wake him from his stupor. "Logan please! Wake up!"
"It cant be…" a tear fell from his eyes and the rushing sorrow bit at my heart my own eyes welling full of tears. I pushed them back as I looked back to see Chelsea being bitten by the large skeletal beast as they rolled on the ground swiping at each other and blowing fumes of scarlet and violet flames. The skeleton however clawed her eye and pushed her to the ground pinning her down as it loomed over her grinning back its large fangs as it bit down on her neck making her roar in total pain, only to be silenced as it roared back sending the fumes of purple and black flames into her face. The flames calmed as it let go roaring above her in victory. I felt my body heat up and my heart implode with righteous fury.
"RAGHHA!" I leaped up surrounded in blue flames as I drew my fist back clawing my hands as I slashed at the beast chipping the bones on its eye socket and tossing it across the room. I landed on her neck still burning in anger, and breathed heavy my body screaming at me to keep fighting and trash that bone pile! I roared out tossing my head back and leaped once again only to be tossed back as the skeleton roared at me with it's flames. I managed to grab hold on one of the hanging computers and slashed the hanging wire grabbing hold of it and spinning it with my body sending it flying at the dead dragon cracking it's skull wider.
It roared again spreading its large wings covered in thick sinew and tried to stab me with the pointed end I smirked my mouth moving high above my cheek up to my ear as I grabbed hold of the bone and pulled my body forward clawing into the bone itself and twisting my claw severing the iron strong bone in half snapping it like a twig. The dragon roared in agony as it tried desperately to shake me off succeeding by biting into my leg and pulling me up into the air and tossing me up high. I frowned and twisted my body as I hit the ceiling and pushed off it rocketing down as I brought my claws straight down going through the dragon with a loud slink.
The large dragon fell to the ground falling apart bone by bone as I rose to my feet stumbling as my arms and hands burned. I looked up feeling tired and weak as I heard a joyful clapping. Above the room where the hooded man floated in the air hanging by two withered black and purple wings.
"Well done! Well done, that was a spectacular performance, I expected no less from the reborn Wolf God. However the dragon child is still necessary for our cause. Soooo..." the hooded man snapped his fingers and I heard the bones rattle and flew into the air reforming and shrinking into a human's skeleton which glared at me and leaped into the air coated in a purple flame as it rose to the side of the man. "Oh and thank you so much by letting me take more blood from Thorn."
"WHAT!?" the man chuckled and pointed at the exit.
"I nearly bled him dry, you might want to retrieve him before he parishes I left his body in the entrance. Oh and I left a bomb in the lowest sector of the complex where our nuclear reactor is located so I suggest you leave in the next few minutes. Until next time Godling." the man and the skeleton vanished from sight leaving me speechless. I looked to Chelsea who returned to her human form unconscious, I quickly lift her in my arms and rushed to Logan. He still stared in shock his eyes welling with tears.
"Logan please snap out of it! We have only a few minutes before this place is a burning crater!" Logan looked up at me and shook his head his eyes changed to a stoic gaze as he nodded rising to his feet. I nodded back at him and we both ran out of the base the looming threat of the bomb exploding in my mind. As he drew closer to the exit we found Thorn on the ground looking pale as a sheet of paper. A small puddle of blood coated his back as Logan scooped him up in his arms. We rushed to the x jet and we placed both Chelsea and Thorn down as Logan grabbed the controls.
"See what you can do pup, just don't let them die here!" I took a deep breath as I let my fire coat their bodies, it licked away their wounds but they remained silent. Logan managed to start the jet and lift us into the air quickly taking us away when the base imploded. I felt the whole jet rattle and topple as we managed to get far away.
I gently shook Thorn and Chelsea but they were out of it. I sighed and let them rest, Beast could help them better then I could. I ran my hand through my hair and left my ears lay flat on my head. This mission was horrible, we didn't even find the mutant we were looking for. Not only that but Hydra was still up and running. I hoped Liem and Jean were having better luck then us in their mission…
/X-men\\\\\
Liem and Jean stood in a waiting room along with professor Xavier, waiting for the doctor to see him. Liem sighed and looked toward Jean.
"Have you ever met her? The mutant who lives here I mean." She shook her head.
"No but I have heard of her, she is very powerful but very troubled. She's been here almost her whole life." Liem looked around and sighed, it was a horrible place to grow up. An insane asylum was no place for anyone, it hurt him to think of anyone living here for even a day.
"Do you think she is ready to leave this place?" Jean shrugged.
"No idea but she is one of the most powerful mutants in the world, an Alpha level one at that. If she ends up in the mutant's control then we are in huge trouble." She looked to the door as a doctor in white walked into the room.
"She is ready to see you now." He said. Professor Xavier nodded to the man and asked both Liem and Jean to stay in the waiting room while the doctor lead him to a bared room. He asked the professor to wait and he awaited the girl to come to him.
"Hmmm..." the professor sensed and heard the girl screaming enraged as she came down the halls. He led the girl with his powers showing her the way to him as she rushed down the halls. She burst into the room as it became distorted and rotted with her fury. "Hello Wanda, it has been to long."
"Raugh!" she growled at him her mind a flurry of emotions and frustration. "Let me out."
"That is why I am here Wanda, to set you free into my custody. If you can keep your emotions and powers in check you will not have to be returned to this place." She glared at him but calmed slightly.
"I want to leave… I don't like it here." She breathed hard and ragged as she keeled to the ground her powers causing the room to decay and crack. The professor moved closer to her hand patted her shoulder.
"Then come with me Wanda, clam yourself and I will help you to the best of my ability." he gently placed one finger on her forehead and her eyes fluttered and she smiled her head filling with relief. "you will be safe with me Wanda. I promise you."
/X-men\\\\\\\
We returned to the institute nearly dead but still kicking, we took Chelsea and Thorn to the infirmary and beast looked them over managing to give Thorn a blood transplant and after a bit of rest Chelsea woke up. She and I spoke for a while and I learned more about the creature and man that attacked us. We were in the kitchen having a few sodas. Chelsea ran her hand through her hair and sighed.
"It was a few years back when I first met him at the Hydra base. His name is Professor Putress, Hydra's lead scientist." Just talking about him brought anger and hatred in her heart boiling inside her.
"What is he a professor in?" She looked dead serious at that.
"Necromancy; he has the power to bring the dead to life and animate sown body parts together like Frankenstein. Roomers say he came from the school of dark magic named Scholomance where the devil and demon gods teach idiots more ways to bastardize the laws of nature. They say he killed his classmates and stitched them all together into an unstoppable behemoth, he calls Patchwork. You know when he is close by when you smell intense rotting flesh." my stomach twisted in knots hearing her describe it and was glad I did not have the horror of meeting the creature.
"But what about the skeleton dragon? What is that thing and why does he have power over it?" She bit her lip and shook her head.
"You saw for yourself puppy, the egg I felt behind is that creature. I don't know what he did to it but it is not my baby anymore. Its a monster, another weapon under his control. Exactly what I was hoping for it to avoid, I guess I fucked up there huh?" she chuckled her heart burning with pain.
"I don't know what they want but we got to stop them before they cause anymore harm… wait, he said something about Ensnarement Shoggoth, do you know anything about it?" she shook her head but Thorn was the one to answer. He stood in the doorway holding onto a blood infusion pole where a packet of blood seeped into his arm through an IV.
"I know… but you might not want to hear it." I helped him to a seat and asked him to tell.
"Please, we need to know all we can if we are going to stand up agents them." he sighed and nodded his head.
"When they were putting us under experiments, trying to take our umbrakinesis, they took us to a room deep inside the base… they strapped us down to a table and drained blood from us leading down into a large metal door by only an IV." he said tapping the light clear tube hanging from his arm. "from inside the room I could hear something moving inside it.. something huge and angry… one day when they took me to get more of my blood they opened up the door and Putress walked inside, I tried to take a peek but I wish I didn't… it was a huge black mass of… god I don't know, it was a thick slime with large eyes all over it and huge gaping mouths that opened up under the IV tube licking up all the drops of my blood… I didn't sleep for days after that. I kept seeing it in my dreams moaning and drinking up my blood."
"Goddess..." I felt his fear and knew just how frightening this thing was. Then a sick thought ran through my mind. "the mutant… he took it before Putress could… its under his control..."
"Fuck..." Logan cursed shaking his head.
"You can say that again.." I looked at Chelsea and Thorn, they have been through so much and it hurt me to see them like this. I smiled and stood up from my seat.
"Lets go hang out!" they looked at me like I was crazy.
"What?" they all asked.
"Lets get out of the mansion for a few hours and do something. There is a new movie out today and there is a concert in the park. Lets just go have fun!" they smiled up at me and Thorn looked at his IV.
"Well the bag is empty, why not?" Chelsea smirked at us both and nodded.
"Why not, its not like this day can get worse right?… I really hope I did not just jinx us..." she turned to Logan and he smiled too.
"Na, nothing can be worse then what we went through. Lets do this." he stood up and so did the rest of us. After we got an all clear from Hank, we got dressed and strolled the town and thankfully we did not get into more trouble. We actually had a lot of fun, a cool horror movie played in the theater and we got to catch it. At most of it I silently screamed but Logan threw his arm around me and I nearly fainted from the blood rushing to my cheeks. After the movie we walked to the park and enjoyed the concert. Thorn and Chelsea really let go and danced joyfully. I joined them and danced with Logan, it took him a little bit of coaxing but I managed to get him to sway with me to the beat. Chelsea told me she was impressed with the effect I had on Logan, apparently she could never get him to dance.
After we came back to the institute I found Liem and Jean had returned with the Professor and the mutant girl they were recruiting. The moment I saw her I felt so much sorrow rushing inside her and I had to strain myself not to be caught up in her emotions.
"Hey guys.." I walked up to the girl and Liem smiled at me and introduced me to the girl.
"Hey Dev, this is Wanda. Wanda, this is Devlin Mercer." he held out my hand and she hesitated to touch it before she drew the courage to shake it.
"Hi.." I felt so much fear in her and I tired to be less threatening then I was.
"Nice to meet you, don't be afraid the institute is a safe place." she didn't buy it and I sighed. "OK I'll be honest with you, there have been a lot of trouble lately but you have my word that we will protect you. I promise you this."
"… I believe you." she felt slightly relieved and I smiled. I told them goodnight and returned to my room and dressed for bed, snuggling under the sheets when I started to hear something odd… it was like a song being played in a music box. It lulled me to sleep and I had no choice but to do so. I felt myself dreaming; I was within a large desert standing on dunes of sand. My head felt fuzzy and my thoughts were hard for me to read.
'Come to me.' I heard a voice calling out to me asking me to come closer. It sounded so welcoming and warm that I could not not follow it. I walked through the sands as they shifted under my feet. I walked for so long as the voice kept calling me to it. The sands formed into a large pyramid and it opened up to a large room showing me a room full of gold and jewels, at the center of the room was a large golden throne and sitting upon it was a man dressed like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Blue tribal markings coated his bear skin and he worse a headdress of gold and jewels. The man rose his hand and motioned for me to come closer.
"I..." the man smirked at me as I felt my mind slowly fading my body swayed and my knees buckled as I feel on them. I held my head trying to think but it was so hard to do so. Something inside me told me to just go to the man but another told me to run for my life.
'Come to me, Anubis.' Anu wha? I looked up to see the man smiling widely and I could feel his heart burning with love and joy. I forced myself to my feet and walked forward, step by step I felt my mind fading and being replaced with the feeling of submission. I managed to get to his feat before I fell onto my knees again. The man held out his hand and smiled at me his eyes clouded by a feeling I could no longer pin point. I subconsciously touched his hand and he pulled me onto his lap. He held me running his hand on my cheek. I felt so warm and safe in his arms but something deep deep down in my heart told me he was not safe. 'Anubis..'
I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out of my mouth, I must have looked like a fish at that moment. He simply stroked my face and placed his finger at my lips hushing me. Soon his face was replaced with Logan's and my heart soared. I smiled and rested my head on his shoulder. I looked on as a bright light blinded me waking me from my slumber.
I looked around me and found myself in Logan's arms, the sun was shining brightly through the window and the day was new. I stood up from the bed and felt odd… different in a way. I walked to our bathroom and washed my face, but as I did my face felt… odd… my fuzzy then usual. I looked up from the water to see my face was… oh sweet goddess.
"AGGHAAAAaaa!" I screamed out in fear falling on my tail as I I kicked back to the wall, Logan rushed out into the room worried.
"Pup! What is it what… oh my god." Logan's mouth hung open as he stared at my deformed body.
"Logan, something is wrong!" I rose my hands to my face and gasped, they were more like paws then hands anymore. On the palm was a large black pad broken up into three sections and my fingers were the same they felt rough to the touch and dull. The nails themselves were replaced with long pointed black claws tipped with what looked like blue plasma. The same blue substance was all over my chest arms legs in lines familiar to me. I looked down at my legs and breathed harshly, they were inverted at the knees going back like an animal's and the toes were long and pointed like claws as well. I stood up falling once but managing to work them right enough to pull myself to my feet. I looked again in the mirror and tried to bite my lips but in a way there were not lips anymore I ran my claw carefully on them seeing a thin black line and a mass of flesh and fur. I felt it all over my new face and ran my hand down my snout and touch the large black mass that was my new nose. I looked deep into my glowing eyes and bit back a scream.
"Pup… your a.. a.." I looked back at him he was smiling ear to ear. "a Puppy."
"Logan!" I growled or more like yelped at him. "Why are you so calm about this!? I'm a freaken werewolf now!"
"Umm Pft!" he was trying so hard to not smile but it was difficult he looked like he was enjoying this way to much. "You look great pup, its cute."
"CUTE!?" I felt the plazma on my skin and claws flare up a thin line of fire burst from them as I shouted. "You know what happened the last time I turned into this! I nearly killed you did you forget that!?"
"Do you feel your heart pup?" the line of fire calmed on my fur and claws as I tried to feel my emotions… it may not have been happy ones right now but they were there.
"Yeah.. kind of." he smirked at me and ran his hands around my fuzzy back. He felt my fur in his hands and smirked down at me.
"Your so fluffy." I blushed under my furry face and frowned.
"Your not going to take this seriously are you?" He smirked at me and shook his head.
"Your fine pup, your just growing up. Chuck told me you might change back into this once you were older. Its normal, pup..." he had an odd look in his eyes and I tried to read his emotions but stopped when I figured what what he was feeling.
"Logan?.." he smiled widely and kissed me.. well tired to kiss me, it was a little odd kissing with my new mouth. I kind of lost myself for a second and enjoyed it. But then smacked him hard for doing it! "What is wrong with you!? I am panicking here! Take me to the professor!"
"Dam fine, ow… you hit harder now… I like it." I blushed harder and growled at him smacking him was not going to work. I just glared at him and felt my eyes shining with fire. He quickly held up his hands and backed away. "Alright I get it, lets go see Chuck."
"Thank you!" he scooped me up in his arms and rushed me to his office, the professor was shocked to say the least but he kept his calm through it all, his calm demeanor helped myself calm down as well.
"Please do not be angered but I suspect that this is indeed a permanent change Devlin." I felt my hear sink and Logan's rise; I growled back at him as he smiled at me letting a bead of sweat fall from his cheek. I pleased to the professor hoping this was not a brand new change. Ears a tail and claws were one thing but everything else was just to weird!
"Please tell me there is something I can do to change this!? Look at me am a dog darn it!" He sighed and shook his head and I felt my heart sink further, I through my head back on instinct and let out a wail or rather a howl of defeat. Logan started hopping on his heals like a little kid nothing like him I stopped howling and glared at him growling angry. "You are WAY to jazzed about this! Why are you reveling in my misery!?"
"I always wanted a dog!" he blurted out blushing. My mouth hung open for a moment and professor Xavier started cracking up.
"THATS IT!" I leaped off the ground and tackled Logan biting his arms and legs growling as the professor burst out in laughter.
"HAHahah Oh Devlin hah, I am so sorry Hahhahaha!" after a full minute of chewing on Logan I calmed down enough for him to heal. I spent the whole day being gawked at by my friends in the institute. Jean and Scott laughed, Liem laughed, even Wanda and Danny laughed! The only one who gave me a break was Chelsea who kept glaring at me when my back was turned. I pretended not to notice but it was a bit hard when she started following me around the mansion.
I decided to leave her be and figure my new body out. First I took a bath which was a really bad idea; I ended up smelling worse then I was. I had to take another shower just to get rid of that wet dog smell. Well while showering I notice something I forgot to dread… my.. my… oh goddess why? WHY!? This is so unfair!
After a whole shampoo bottle later I dried off and decided to test my powers in the woods next to the institute. First was Genesis, I tried to summon a wolf and thankfully not much changed other then the fur color which was neon blue. It glowed as if it was made of the same plasma that was on my self. I reached out and touched it and the wolf rubbed its head into my hand. It felt very warm, not on the edge of burning but just warm. I focused on a rock used the wolf to attack it, to my surprise once it touched it with it's fangs it exploded in a large burst of blue fire. My mouth hung open for a moment until I shook it coming to my senses.
"Wow..." I was a little hesitant to test the other two but I had to know what I was capable now before I hurt myself or someone else. Next was the easiest, Pyrokinesis. I held out my hand… paw and concentrated. The fire came but it was more… thick, like a fluid... Plasma! I made plasma! I quickly tossed the ball at a rock and it turned to lava and burned down into a small carter. I summoned another ball of plasma and tried to do something more… unique.
"Alright… you can do this." I focused the plasma and moved my hand around slowly making it follow my movements and soar into a beautiful arch and sent then out further. Making them dance around me like streams of water. I chuckled enthralled in my dance as the condensed flames span and twirled around me. The feeling of it was amazing! I let the plasma fade and sat closing my eyes for a moment. "So much power…"
I thought back to that moment, when I walked into that chamber. The blaring light and the horrible feeling of my heart being ripped out of my body. It was one of the most frighting moments in my life… it was like I lost everything that made me me and all that was left was a mad dog. If Logan didn't help me and if the raven didn't take back his power I would have been like that forever.
"Never again.." I stood up ready for the hardest to control of my abilities Umbrakinesis. This power was tricky for me and I hardly use it unless it is necessary or if I want to fully let go and thrash my opponents. I took a deep breath and let my feelings take hold letting my deepest emotions break through and manifest into existence.
The my paws swirled with shadows and bubbled with thick tar like substance that fell from my hand and seeped into the ground. The moment it touched the grass it… it all withered and died! I pulled my power back but it was to late, the ground around the tar expanded like virus eating away at the ground and as it touched a tree it turned to mush. I panicked but was glad it stopped. I took a breath of relief only wishing I hadn't, the smell was horrid like bile after Kitty's cooking.
"Oh goddess!" I had to stop myself from hurling as I backed away but as I did I saw something rise from the ground in the center of where I dropped the tar. It was a large glob of light shining blue and beautiful within the air. I stared at it for a while until I decided to walk up to it, stepping into the rotted ground in a trance. Something inside me made me walk up to it and take it in my paws. It felt like… like it was alive… or rather… it was life… I don't know what I… I couldn't… my mind just went blank. I held it close to my face and my eyes clouded over, I wanted something from it but did not know what.
I felt my mouth water as I licked my lips… chops? I don't even know, I just… wanted it.. in my.. my mouth. I opened my jaws up wide and brought it up to my tongue and I felt like I was in heaven! I chewed on it tasting it like it was the best thing I have ever eaten before! I loved it! I wanted more! I summoned another ball of tar and tossed it at a tree killing it and the grass around it. The same orb of light floated into the air and I reached out to it making it float to me and gobbled it up eating it like a ravenous dog. It tasted so good!
"I knew it!" I turned quickly growling angered by being interrupted. I looked to see Chelsea glaring at me from behind a tree. I clutched my claws tightly and felt them burn with my fire. She glared at me her own claws at the ready and her tail swaying at her side. "Your under the creeps control!"
"Back off!" I growled, I leaped at her my claws slashing into the ground causing thick indents burning the grass and soil. She hovered over the ground and sneered.
"You are under his control!" I roared at her but stopped and looked around me. The grass and trees were dieing and bleeding dark ooze, I did this!? I shook my head and fell to the ground and heaved vomiting up the light I took into a thick pale liquid that slowly healed and revised the decay. I looked out of breath at the damaged I had brought to the woods as they slowly repaired itself. I looked up at Chelsea in tears who just stood there her eyebrow raised.
"I.. I.." I turned tail and ran out of the forest with her foot steps behind me. My heart ached and I felt a stream of tears fall from my eyes as I ran through the woods until I bumped into Logan. I looked up at his worried eyes and sniffed.
"Pup!? Whats wrong!?" he held my shoulders as I burst into tears nudging my head into his chest.
"Logan!" I cried. "I.. It!… make it stop!"
"Pup what happened?" I couldn't answer him I just cried all of my tear out hating myself for what I did. He held me tightly and stroked my furry head and ran his hand on my fuzzy pony tail. I was so afraid of what happened. I felt like I was nothing but a monster wanting nothing more then to eat that juicy succulent essence. I hated it, I hated me, I hated everything about what I have become! "Pup, Devlin, please tell me what's wrong. Why are you?… what the hell did you do!"
"Nothing! He's the one who is eating up the woods!" I turned my head slightly to see Chelsea still bearing her claws and tail holding onto the gooey ground within her palm. "Look at this! Its just like the crap Putress made to animate the dead!"
"Don't you dare compare him to that monster!" he held me tightly with one of his arms and used the other to threaten her with her claws. She groaned and tossed the tar filled dirt on the grass and it started decaying everything a few inches around it. Logan looked shocked to see it as a small orb of light rose from it. My eyes widened and my mouth watered as it drew closer to me. I looked down to see my hand subconsciously reaching out toward it. My eyes fogged over as I licked my lips breaking out of Logan's arms to take it in my claws. I stared at it like it was the greatest thing in the world and breathed deeply wanting nothing more to the swallow it whole. "Pup!?"
"See!? He's acting like a crazed mutt!" tears ran down my eyes as I felt my heart ache and my stomach churn bile rising high into my throat. I turned to Logan who was looking at me like I was… like I was a… a. "He's going in the stasis chamber, for his own good!"
"Please… help me..." I whispered, my head looking up at Logan pleading him to make this nightmare end. He shook his head and glared at Chelsea.
"He is not going anywhere." he walked over to me and keeled down staring into my eyes. "Pup… I'm sorry for letting you go through this alone. I should have been more understanding to what was going on with you. Your body may be changing but your still you."
"Logan..." I looked back at the glob of light and placed it back in the ground where it came. The grass healed and returned to it's healthy state. I dropped down to my paws and cried my tears hitting the grass as a shining flower patch slowly grew. "I don't want this… I don't want this kind of power..."
"Pup… it will be OK, you can control it." I cried into his neck my heart was aching and I hated every second of this.
"Perhaps he can or perhaps not, only time will tell." we all turned to see the purple cloaked man. He stood within the woods smiling at me in victory. Both Logan and Chelsea stood in front of me and summoned their claws. The man chuckled and shook his head. "Do not fret I simply was here to deliver you a gift from my master young godling."
"You…" I felt my body shake in anger. "you did this?"
"Not me exactly, I am simply a vessel for his power. Come with me godling, with your power I can free my master and he will rule this world." my eye twitched and my fur stood on end as I pushed past both Logan and Chelsea.
"YOU DID THIS!" I roared at him aiming my paws at him sending a wave of blue plasma at him it covered my view as it launched at him searing the ground into a large explosion the towered high. I breathed deeply again my arms clenching as he laughed. Confused I watched as the flames and smoke died down and gasped in horror.
"Oh godling, your power is amazing! No wonder he sees so much in you… however I am not without means of protection!" there surrounding him like a blanket of eyes and jagged teeth was a… a… goddess there were no words for it! It was a large black mass of hundreds of eyes and thousand of jagged teeth filled mouths! "Behold the most ancient being within this world, created by darkness and madness itself! The great Shoggoth!"
"That's not right! That plasma should have melted you to the ground!" he simply chuckled at me again making me growl.
"The Shoggoth grows with power at each elemental force, devouring them and increasing it's mass. Fire will only make it stronger! The only thing that can harm it is the pure light of the goddess and nothing else." the creature moaned and slithered around him eating at the ground like my darkness. It just seem to grow and grow Chelsea and Logan were confused at to what to do. Nothing I did could harm it and slashing at it was not going to do nothing but get them eaten. "It is beautiful, no? My master found out about this lovely creature, he told me all about them. It was brought into this world by that foolish Necromancer, who knows nothing about them. They were brought from an alternate dimension used once for manual labor by the desensitize of the world who were masters of telepathy. Now this creature belongs to me!"
"You think so?" we all blinked for a moment confused at who said that but once we figured out its location we nearly lost our minds. There sitting in his wheelchair was professor Xavier. "You may know more of this creature then I do but what I do know is that it is a mindless drone that works for a telepathic master."
"And!?" said the man. Professor Xavier smirked at him and I was shocked to sense actual dread in both Chelsea and Logan's heart.
"And my new acquittance, is that it only works for the strongest telepath in the vicinity of it." the creature moaned and groaned as it's many eyes stared at the man and proceeded to advance on the cloaked man.
"This is impossible! What are you!?" the man backed away as the creature wrapped him around in a large tendril tossing him up into the air.
"I am Professor Charles Xavier, now get out of my school!" the creature moaned again devoured the cloaked man within it's jagged jaws. "now spit."
The creature inhaled and spat the man high into the air far off the ledge that led to the sea. The creature then crawled and slithered it's way to professor Xavier as he gently creased it. He then stared at it until it moaned and cried as it began to shrink smaller and smaller until it fit into his palm. It squirmed and slithered around him moaning like a dieing man. We just stared in awe as he came over to me patting me on the head.
"I am sorry for what has happened to you Devlin.. I now know that this was not a normal mutation. I will do all in my power to revers what that man had done to you but at the moment I must focus all my mental power on this... Shoggoth… as he called it." I shook my head.
"This might not leave so easily… I think.." I turned to Logan and I looked at the flowers that I made with my tears. "I think I can control this… with help.."
"You got that help pup." said Logan smirking. Chelsea looked confused but sighed.
"Professor, Devlin could be under his control still. He needs to be put under surveillance." Professor Xavier shook his head.
"Whatever he had done to Mr Mercer it has not affected his mind, only his body.. I may not fully know what he had done but there is one way I can find out." He looked at the creature in his grasp and smirked. "Yet if it comforts you any he is under surveillance."
"Who's?" the professor smiled and pointed to Logan who lift me in his arms taking me back to the mansion. "Oh..."
"Yes, he will be fine now if you don't mind there is a mission I have for you and Mr Coles…."