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I'm soooo sorry that its taken me so long to update. There was a wedding, not mine, a cousin of mines and we had sooo much to do for it. Now that that's over there is the impending DOOM brought on by the coming of school. I'll still try and update, but seriously, I need to be good with school.
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Chapter 33
Rune avoided another ball of flame and gave another shove of gravity in Pyro's direction. He wondered how long it was going to take them to find her before he could finish this fight. "Storm, we've found her." He heard over the ear piece. It was his cue. Rune pushed him hard. Pyro slid across the ground and slid past the doorway and into the building. He hit against the opposite wall knocking the breathe out of him.
The gravity continued to press him into the wall while Rune walked toward him, Pyro tried to flip open the lighter. Rune jerked his head to the side and the lighter compressed itself into a ball while dripping out lighter fluid. "Struggle, please give me a reason to squash you." He pressed harder on his chest. Pyro gritted his teeth and tried to keep air in his lungs. "Do you want to know how I beat Dragon all those times?" He asked while glancing around for others, "Dragon has a temper, he runs out of flame pretty quick when I get on his bad side. You, you're trickier with your fire but you need something else to make fire or you can't do anything." Rune stopped several steps away from him. "I could of beat you a while ago, the others just needed more time." He winked, "You won't ever win Pyro."
Pyro laughed as best he could managed, "Sure... dilute yourself." His head pushed back harder into the wall it cracked.
Naomi shivered slightly, "Could someone do something about Recharge?"
"You have her pretty well in hand." Fallen said and kicked at the restrained girl. Recharge glared.
"Not for long." She replied, "I've been using my power for a while, I don't want to end up sick again."
Prism shrugged, "I think you should be fine," she looked at him curiously, "I've noticed something about your powers, the few times I've gotten to see them at work. They're shadows; there's a new moon tonight."
"So?" Logan asked, he sniffed the air and looked down the hall. "Rael's bleedin'."
Beast looked out the window at the glimmering of stars, there was no moon. "I believe he's talking about how it is the earth's shadow crossing over the moon, so perhaps it increases your powers." Beast looked back at Naomi, her skin was at about the same glitter as the stars overhead. Naomi looked down at Recharge.
"Regardless," she stated, "Plus, I'm going to help Rael." She headed for the door, hoping her uncle and Prism were right. "Come help me Prism?" She smiled over her shoulder, "I could use some light."
Logan walked over to Recharge and did the same to her as he had down with Recoil, she fell limp in his arm, the shadows then withdrew from around her and crawled up around Naomi into what looked like a water lily blooming around her feet. Prism grinned and ran out with her into the hall and back toward the stairs.
The liquid metal shot out again around Rael's defenses. It rolled up around his wrist he retreated trying to free himself from the spiking grip.
"Rael!" Naomi called coming up the stairs. Quicksilver shot long silver whips in her direction, her shadow shot up to defend. When it shifted direction Naomi's shadow shifted with it in pliable fashion. "Looks like you could use some help."
Rael scoffed. "Don't go interrupting my fight, Reckless." The black energy covered his free hand like a gauntlet, and he grasped the spiny tendril around his wrist. "I'm more than able to fight my own battles." He pulled Quicksilver closer to him, the boy stumbled and pulled the liquid metal back to himself. "Though he's yet to say anythings to me." Rael stated, "I wonder if he speaks."
"I speak when it's relevant!" Quicksilver stated angrily, he swung out his hand at Rael, droplets of mercury separated from his finger tips and spun toward Rael.
Naomi's skin was beginning to loose its glimmer, the shadows at her feet were starting to fade, looking like the static on a television just before its final click off. One of the globules hit Rael's skin, at first nothing happened then it began to spread, digging itself into Black Blade's skin, he immediately tried to rip the liquid from his arms and face. The boy flung several more in Naomi's direction.
She looked to the shadow's of the globules, her own shadow fading. She gritted her teeth and waved a hand in the same fashion as Quicksilver had, "Swallow them." She whispered, her eyes turned white. The shadows beneath the little metal bubbles shot up at the same rate as the 'bullets' moved and swallowed them before they could touch Naomi. They paused mid-air.
Prism walked in just in time to watch the slowly moving and roiling bubbles of darkness, rotate once around Naomi, her skin pitch black and a shadow acting like a dying television screen. She tilted her chin slightly when Quicksilver fired more bullets. The bubbles shot forward and consumed the bullets and continued forward hitting and driving Quicksilver back several steps.
Quicksilver began to yelp suddenly and began trying to rip the blackness off his skin, "Burns! It burns!" He cried, trying to use his liquid metal to force the blackness off his skin.
"Get yours off Rael," Naomi stated, "And I'll stop it."
"Naomi what are you doing?" Prism put a hand on her shoulder, her skin was fridged to his touch, almost burning cold. He pulled back, "Naomi don't let your power control you!"
She glanced over her shoulder at him and winked, "I know what I'm doing." to herself she added, I hope.
The metal on Rael went limp and slithered to the floor into a puddle. Naomi pulled back the shadows from on Quicksilver, "If you knew what's good for you, you'll disappear." She whispered, she was thoroughly exhausted and knew she couldn't keep up the indestructible act for much longer.
Quicksilver's skin was raw in some places, and in a few it looked like the first few layers of flesh had been peeled away from him. He gritted his teeth, "Blink!" He yelled.
There was an explosion of two shapes appearing at once, Nightcrawler released the boy letting him fall across the floor, Blink got back to his feet after a moment of staggering and grabbed Quicksilver before they could move and vanished with him.
Naomi's knees gave, she sighed and looked up at the others, "Now can I go home?"
"Prism, that teleporter just grabbed the two up here and vanished." Fallen Angel said over the communicator, "Have you seen Nightcrawler?"
"I am here," said blue-skinned man replied, "I will take Naomi, Prism and Black Blade to the vehicle, then come back for the rest of you." he stated, he took hold of the three kids and left behind a blossom of black smoke.
Naomi exhaled they appeared next to the car, "I want to sleep for a week."
"I think we all do." Rune stated from where he sat on a seat in the car, his arm crudely wrapped in gauze. "All of this over a silly girl," he shook his head and smiled, "You get hurt?"
She shook her head and walked over to the car, behind her Nightcrawler vanished again, "Nothing that wasn't self inflicted I guess." Rune sat up, in the light from the car's ceiling lights he looked over her perfectly black skin, he touched her jaw and she flinched. "Well, except that I guess," she was surprised he'd seen it.
"It's swollen," Rune stated the unasked question of how he'd noticed. "Recharge hit you?"
"Where'd Pyro go?" She asked and rubbed her own hand over her jaw, "Slide over, I want to sit." Rune did as asked, the exhausted girl climbed into the car.
"Gone." was all he said.
"Reckless," Rael approached cautiously, "What was it you did, just before he ran...?"
Naomi closed her eyes and sighed, "I... tried to force him between." she said, then hurriedly tried to explain, the words didn't come out in a nice order and she stopped before she made too much of a fool of herself. She sighed and ran a hand through her faded black hair, some of it had tried to turn white. "I think the reason it hurt him is... I couldn't take all of him at once, so... I was tearing his skin and the rest of him into little pieces."
"In-between?" Prism said softly, the five of them, including Storm, were sitting in the car now, the others popped into existence where they had appeared before. "So another world?"
Naomi nodded.
"Naomi, I don't advise you try to take others there until we get more information about this place you can go." Storm stated, "It could only exist for you, it could be something entirely different for different people." She shook her head, "We'll have to run some test, but first we get home." She leaned her head out the window. "Load up! Chris, Warren, you two fly home, we'll be there soon. Chris, no sonic booms."
Fallen Angel and ArchAngel both nodded then took to the sky. Beast climbed in next to Naomi then the others, Logan took shotgun and watched out the window.
The sun was starting to come up. Naomi curled up slightly against Rune and closed her eyes. Rune adjusted his injured arm then let her fall asleep. Beast watched him carefully.