Hello again to all my friends. I don't own X-men, but regardless the original characters that I'll be using in here do belong to me.

Chapter 27

Wolverine found himself put up to being the chaperon and driving a van filled with kids to a school dance. He didn't know how long before he took the head off Dragon and Ivy.

"Stop touching me you slimy lizard!" Ivy complained.

"You didn't have to come green child, I'm sure the world saw enough of your face when you were outside, the day you were born." Dragon replied.

He looked in the rear view mirror, "Hey, shut it." They fell silent for a moment then continued. Logan nearly growled, he glanced over at Naomi sitting in the front seat. "You look sick."

Naomi stopped looking out the window and looked toward Logan, "I've never been to a dance, and what if Rune isn't there?"

"Rune is a lot of things, but he's a sucker for a cute girl." Naomi blushed, "It what gets him in trouble." Wolverine replied, "He'll be there." She went back to looking out the window, "There's something else?"

She looked back at the six others in the car, Hart and Sparky; who caught her glance and grabbed Hart's arm tightly and slid closer to him. She was in a loose yellow shirt with blue and green metallic designs on it and skinny jeans, her hair was in loose curls around her face. Dragon and Ivy, still bickering both gladly heading to meet up with their respective dates at the dance. Dragon was in a long sleeve red shirt covering most of his scaly skin and black slacks. Ivy had pulled back her hair into a pony tail, she was in a simple v-neck green tee, jeans and black high heels. Naomi didn't understand how she would dance in those stilettos. Curse sat next to Circuit in the closest chairs. Circuit was in about the same close she'd last seen him in, a loose black t-shirt and jeans, his hair was still messed up. Curse was in a shirt that's color changed depending on how the light hit it, loose jeans and had in her hands a large bag that looked like alligator skin.

Curse gave a small smiled, Naomi had told her about the text message and how she thought there would probably be trouble at the dance. Curse had brought a few things, just in case things did go south. Naomi tried to smile back.

"I think somethings going to happen, and it isn't going to be good." Naomi said softly.

Logan kept his eyes on the road, "No chance, not while I'm on... babysitting duty." He hated the sound of that, he looked in the rear view mirror, "Looks like a few more decided to come."

Naomi looked back, it was one of the cars from the school garage. She couldn't quite make out their faces from the distance. "You're coming too, right Emily?" she said softly.

"Of course, someone's got to be able to keep an eye on everything." Her voice was feint, "Don't let Wolverine get lost though, the further away you go the less I'll be able to help."

Logan pulled into the school parking lot and came to a stop, "There, everyone out before the last bit of patience I have runs out." The kids exited the vehicle. Wolverine stood beside the driver's door, "If anything does, go wrong, yell. I'm nearby." Naomi nodded in his direction. The street lights made it hard to focus on anything.

The second car pulled up behind them, Rael came out of the car, walked around to the side and opened the passenger's door. He took the young woman's hand and helped her from the vehicle. She had dark brown hair cut to her shoulders in soft ringlets, a red shirt with a low cut back, black pants and high heels. Sparky sighed and rolled her eyes. "You always ruin my fun sis."

"I'll try to keep from sight then." Feather's voice was soft and silky on the ears. Without the heels she would likely be about to Rael's nose. She wrapped an arm around Rael's waist and smiled. "You must be Reckless, Rael's told me a lot about you."

Again, to Naomi she wondered how some of these siblings could actually be related.

"Are we going inside or are we going to stand out here all night?" Another person came from the car, from the voice she could tell it was Fallen Angel but his shadow was different, where were his wings?

She opened her mouth to ask when Emily supplied the answer. "Its a specially designed harness under his shirt and coat, it keeps his wings from being too obvious." Naomi nodded, "You sure you'll be alright, from what I can see from you, you can't see right now."

"I know..." she said softly, then to everyone else, "I'm going even if the rest of you don't."

"Good thing, I was worried you weren't gonna show." Rune came from the doors and stood among the others. "Guys... Logan."

"Rune, you better have a good reason." Logan stated.

He nodded, "Don't I always."

"No, you don't." Hart replied, "What's going on?"

"The Brotherhood are up to something, its going down here. Tonight." Rune replied, "I thought it would be too suspicious if I brought in teachers, so it's up to us to keep them under control." He sighed, Naomi guessed someone gave him a skeptical look. "I know I've been off the last few days, I swear I'm on the level with all of you. Pyro is already in there, so is Blink, a teleporter, and Recoil, he makes things blow up." He looked over at the door, "Lets just go inside and you can see for yourself. Wolverine, just stick around outside?"

"Yeah right. Leave something just to a bunch of kids." He slammed the door to the car and walked toward the school. "See you inside."

Rune sighed and ran a hand through his hair, he looked down at Naomi. "Shall we?" The others all headed inside.

She nodded still looking away from the light, "Is it like this inside too?"

Rune cursed under his breath, "You can't see can you?"

"I can't focus." She replied shortly. "Everything's a blur."

"I shouldn't of asked you then, I'm sorry. I swear I'll keep you safe." Rune took her hand and led her inside.

The first portion of the school was in darkness, the small amounts of moonlight came in though a few of the back doors, Naomi could see fine, until they entered the gym.

The music pulsed and vibrated the floor. Lights flashed sporadically all around the room sending half-light everywhere in the building. She stumbled slightly bumping into Rune, that wasn't the worse part. The shadows were just as jumpy, they shifted and were and weren't all at the same time. Her own shadow could hardly manage to keep with her as they walked. "Rune I can't be here." She said her head starting to ache. The lights cut for a moment before they turned into bright second flashes for several minutes. She immediately closed her eyes and grabbed Rune tighter. "Seriously, I don't think I'll stay sane."

"Awww, that's such a pity." She felt a pair of fingers run along the edge of her quarter-length sleeve, it felt someone had run glass along her skin. "And we were just going to start the fun, weren't we Rune?"

Rune quickly pulled Naomi behind him. Without even being able to see her Naomi could tell this was Recharge.

Dun dun duuuuunnnnn! Tune in next chapter to see how the dance goes... to hell in a hand basket that is.