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Chapter 55

Things were getting out of hand, and fast. Pyro threw another long stream of fire in the direction of Bobbie, he responded with a flood of ice. All of this for some girl, he still didn't understand why they were hunting her so hard, sure her powers always were changing but he really didn't want to keep up this fight. They'd missed their chance, next time he was just going to have Blink grab her and get out of there. There was always the back up plan though, even though it would take longer it would have a greater chance of success.

Juggernaut was at odds with Rael and Wolverine, the two were dancing around the massive man while the two would deliver biting stings to him, Wolverine's claws leaving wide scars in the metal armor. The plant child had roots pulling down the earth Rocky was trying to throw around, and the others weren't fairing much better. He could see Naomi charging in under the cover of a strange light with another mutant, his hair changing from brown to white blonde as they moved. He cursed at their luck while working to keep Iceman at bay. He reached for his neck with his other hand and activated a comm. link hidden just below his collar. "We have to retreat."

"That puts a delay in our plans Pyro." A voice replied in his ear, there was a pause, "Very well, no need to continue. Return to the others."

Pyro let out a long loud whistle, Blink immediately began flashing between each of the others, collecting his companions until they had all vanished.

Sighing, Logan waited a moment longer before pulling back in his claws, "Hey, everyone alive up there?"

"We're still here Logan." Iceman yelled back, all of them came to the ledge above them. "Midas wants to try and fix the road, if that's alright with you."

Rael's black energy shot up the hillside and coiled around one of the roots Ivy had called out, he climbed up the hillside quickly, Naomi wasn't there. "Where is she?" he said between heaving breaths.

"Nightcrawler took her to the school." Prism replied, "She was hurt so he thought she should get back fast."

Massive rocks crumbled into sand around them, Midas sighed heavily as he moved from one boulder to the next. "Could use some help you know. Faster this gets done the faster we get to the school, get that?" He kicked a pile of sand back toward one of the holes in the road, "Gotta move the mass first."

Naomi heard the cars rolling back into the drive. She sighed and turned on the water to her shower. The summer semester was starting so there were fewer students in the school, but Warren had patched her up his powers had started to advance to show some minor healing abilities. The cuts were all gone without a scar to show for it. She climbed into the streams of warm water and sighed as the heat immediately began working on her tight muscles Naomi scrubbed and washed the dirt and smell of smoke from her skin, she then let the shadow skin fall from her and let the water pour of her black skin for a short while. When the water started to feel cooler she exited.

The girl dried herself off then wrapped her shadow around her body before walking into her room, it acted like a long dress around her dark body.

"Wow, that is a nice trick."

Naomi squeaked involuntarily and covered herself with her arms. Rael was at the door. "I'm gonna kill you people, stop picking the locks!"

"I'd get the lock replaced, I think Chameleon rigged it. So," he came in, closed the door and sat on her bed, "what was with the wings?"

She glared at him and pulled her shadow up and across the length of the room so he, or anyone else who entered the room wouldn't see her. "From what I'm coming to understand in those shadow bubbles it has the 'animal instinct' that exists in people. I'm guessing your animal is a bird of some kind..." she closed her eyes remembering the feeling and pulling on her shirt. "Maybe a raven, or a roc."

The shadow dropped when she was dressed. "So, what's on the agenda now? Did you call your, our parents?"

"Yes," Rael stated leaning back on the bed, "They'll be by in a few hours to do their sweep over our persons to make sure we're alive. Your uncle wants to talk to you too, he's down in the basement."

She thought about it, "Well, I wanted to see Emily too, so I'll go see him after her." she opened the door and let him out first before heading downstairs.

Prod bumped into her as she came around the corner, "Careful gorgeous, don' wan' to chance a nasty fall." He said with a grin, "Off to get your summer schedule then?"

"Has uncle Hank been handing those out?" she asked and Prod nodded, "Then probably." she could feel the tendrils of his mental powers feeling around at her defenses. "You keep that up and I'll think your up to something." she said while walking away, the sensation immediately vanished, she grinned and went to Emily's room.