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Ok, guys, All the disclaimers apply, that means all thanks goes to Marvel for the X-Men, I'm just making the story. And I do read all the other stories, and they're great, keep up the good work. They inspire me!
Chapter 20: Demons, Death, and Destiny
For months now, I had been secretly researching my powers. Apparently there was some god with my powers who lived a long, long, long time ago. My powers of telekinesis and telepathy come from my mutant genes, but my weather mastery, preminitions, and other things come from a completely different place. Apparently I was a witch, or...wait, what do you call a male witch? Wizard? But anyways, the books say that this "god" saved the world without his powers, but was eventually beat by an ultra-uber demonoid (my own words). This demonoid was made of every demon in the world, if you believed in demons. There was an army and apparently En Sabur Something or other controls them. In more current news, this month I'll be taking it easy with the research to be with Bobby. He was...well, how would you be? Me, on the other hand, had no control over my powers as of late. I had this dream where I'm laying down and there is this fiery bird coming from me. We're in the air. I can see the clouds so clearly, but it ends there. Bobby says the room shakes and things float, namely me, when I'm asleep. I even blew a book up that Jean was holding when I raised my hand to answer a question and I levitated without trying in the danger room and I teleported without knowing it...I felt emotions from miles away and heard so many thoughts. I knew that bird, though, I'd seen it! But where? I had a feeling something was wrong, but I couldn't crawl back in bed. I had Bobby to think about.
Bobby walked in the room and stared blankly at me, " You ready? We're heading out." he said coldly.
I grabbed him and hugged him, " Everything'll be alright, she's in better place." I said softly.
He looked at me oddly, " You believe that, huh." he said.
I stared for a minute, then he chuckled, " How do you do that? You always make me wanna smile, even when..I..." he trailed off. I raised my hands to levitate my bags to me, but he lowered them, " I'll carry them. Wouldn't want you blowing them up, do we?" he asked.
I sneered, " Funny." I said, smiling at him. He grabbed my bag and followed me out of the room.
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Pyro, Magneto, Wanda, Mystique, Pietro, Logan, Warren, and Piotr were going with us, which was my own personal hell, but anything for Bobby. When I got on the jet, I immediately had a vision: Big demony-looking thing from the books killing me. It was a cross between Jeeper Creepers and one of those suped up vamps from Buffy. I saw myself trying without success to fight it, and my powers didn't even work on it. When it ended, I looked around to see everyone staring at me and Piotr sat down beside me.
Piotr looked at me with concern, " Are you okay?" he asked.
I nodded, " Yeah, just the normal me in danger scenario. Can't have a trip without that." I frowned.
" I know about that, you played it on everyone's mind. I was talking about you." he smiled.
" You want the abridged version?" I asked.
" That bad?" he asked.
" No. And yes. Bobby's the one who should be comforted." I said patiently.
He nodded and rocked back, " Where is he?" Piotr asked.
" The loo. Or whatever the word if or bathroom." I nodded. I looked out the window and saw the funeral site. It was beautiful, as far as funerals go. Even from the jet I could feel the gloomyness and I could feel the tears. It was worse when we got there. I didn't know Bobby's mother, but I felt everyone's love for her. After the funeral, Bobby went to talk to his father and brother and came back with a frown on his face, " Are you okay?" I asked.
" Yeah, but I have to go and help Dad with the money thing and I think we need to have one of those heart to hearts with Ronny. So we might be forever." Bobby joked, making me chuckle, " Why don't you go ahead and go back to the house."
I nodded and relayed the message to the rest of the mutants and we headed to Bobby's house to get comfy. I liked it. It was suburban without being too suburban. I could have seen Bobby living there with his family. I could see Bobby and I there. we all sat in the living room talking before I felt something extreme. An intense feeling that trumped any other feeling I'd ever felt. I headed to the window, but was cut off by Logan.
" Look, I need to talk to you..." he said urgently.
" Not the time, something's..." I started.
" I would never intentionally hurt you, kid." he slipped in.
" Nice to know, but..." I said, but I stopped when I felt the feeling creep closer, " Everybody upstairs! NOW!" I shouted.
" What?" Pietro asked.
" Look, dad, something...a very vicious something is here! NOW GO!" I said , trying to usher them upstairs.
" You just called me..." Pietro began, but before he could finish, it came through the window! The demonoid was even creepier up close and it scared me. I quickly brought up a telekinetic shield so that the others wouldn't get hurt and I charged it, but it hit me so hard I flew back and it caught me in mid-air! It punched me to the floor and picked me up, slamming me into the wall! Before I could blink, it threw me through the ceiling. I was already severely bruised and bleeding and I had to think fast, so I got up and ran into the next door I saw and sank against the wall.
Pane < Help me.>
It grabbed me through the wall, but I kicked at it, getting knocked down, then punched and kicked at it again. I ran to the window, but he jumped into the shadows. I looked out the window to see Magneto and Logan waving me out. I reached down to open the window and that when I felt the pain. I looked down to see a claw sticking through me! I couldn't move, I was stuck on the long claw and soon I felt something push me through the window and I fell to the ground!
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" We need to speed this jet up! We have to get him to the mansion quicker!" Pietro said with his trademark quickness.
" Yeah, bub, we just need to pick up Bobby first, so pipe down!" Logan said, pushing the pedal to the metal.
I blacked out from there...When I woke up, someone was holding my hand. It was Bobby, but I felt the demonoid again. He was...where was he, or it? It was close. I couldn't lock in on it! At that exact moment, there was a bump and something grabbed the jet!
" That thing is flyin!" Logan said, trying to keep the control.
Suddenly, the door ripped off and everyone rushed him with their powers, but it was no use! It came to me when it was finished with the other and picked me up. As it looked into my eyes, I felt new, in pain, but new. I saw his eyes center on me and my eyes centered on the door. I kicked and punched, kicked and punched and finally, one of my kicks sent him to the floor. The jet was falling, and I knew I had to save it, so I flew out of the jet and laid down ontop of it. I mediatated and suddenly there was a fiery bird manifesting itself from me and I floated against the night air. I felt the Phoenix grab the jet and steady it, putting the door back telekinetically and the jet was ok now, Logan was controlling it again and I fainted on top of the jet.
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I laid there, bleeding onto the table for what seemed like days. I was dying on the slab and it didn't feel good. The thing severely kicked my ass. The sleep was good though, no dreams, just voices.
Jean < Been quite a day, huh?>
I was way too tired to respond.
Jean < You're scared, aren't you? Poor kid.>
Pane < Not a kid...and why would I be scared?>
I opened my eyes, " Just a little-
" ...scared." Jean finished, " It's alright. That thing was..." she said, then she looked down at my bruises.
I moved my arm under the cover and looked away, " No. It's not alright...I should be able to fight it. We all should!" I said angrily.
Jean searched my face, " What?" she said, confused.
" I..." I stammered.
" WHAT?" she repeated.
I began to weep, " I BEAT it! In another life, I beat it. So apparently, I suck at life. If I can't beat it, we're dead." I said in disbelief.
It was then that I noticed Piotr standing in the door.
Jean < You should get a better hold on your powers! You had sex with Piotr?! How was it?>
Pane < It was...after Scott and before Bobby.>
Jean < Be Careful.>
She smiled at us and walked out of the Med Bay, heading to see Professor X, I guessed. I felt like my power was working overtime to heal me and my gaze finally met Piotr's.
" Was that conversation about me? Or did I interrupt something." he asked, smirking.
I gave a weak smile, " Cocky, aren't we? Yeah. So I get a visitor, didn't know you cared." I joked.
Piotr looked at me, confused, and said, " Did you think I was lying? I care foryou, you're not some booty call, even though I really enjoyed it...Am I making you uncomfortable?" he asked nervously.
I chuckled at his bold accent, " If I wasn't...with Bobby, you'd so be on my radar." I smiled.
He smiled and sat down, " You rest now. And I'll be here." he said, leaning back in the chair. His wide frame in the chair made me think of...his wide frame in the chair. I liked him all protective. I liked him. Not love, like. I smiled and fell asleep looking into his eyes. I wondered what about me made them all want me, not that I was being conceited or that I was complaining, I just...it was hard to juggle and balance. I love him, but not in the way he wanted me to; he took my mind off my problems, but it was only temporary.
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I woke up hearing Bobby and Piotr arguing, but that wasn't what woke me up. It was coming, in fact, it was almost here. I wasn't ready, how could I be? My powers (which didn't affect him) were wonky, I was physically destroyed and I hadn't finished researching. Suddenly there was a vision.
Vision
I was in ancient times and all around me were vampires. I could feel the urge to fight course through me and I yelled, " Libraesque!" and a book appeared. I looked at it and it had a circle with a hand in the middle.
Vision
I got up and walked to the elevator, Bobby and Piotr following me, then went to the ground floor and I yelled the word, " Libraesque!" and the book appeared in my hands. Kids gathered around, looking at me, bloody and bruised, holding a book. The door burst open and I flew back against the wall! I got to my feet, ready to take on this thing!
" Everyone." I said, pausing, " OUT!" I quaked.
The kids looked at each other for a minute, then to the demonoid, then to me again.
My eyes glowed a pearly white and winds began to whirl around me, " GET OUT!" I said in a deep, barotone voice. At this, they all scattered behind doors. He ran at me, lunging his claws at me, but I grabbed his arm and threw him! I kicked him, then levitated into the air and kicked him in the face, but he grabbed me and slammed me into the wall, sending me into the kitchen! He procceeded to knock me around the room and through walls until I finally came to a crash. I noticed everyone ready to use their powers and I couldn't let that happen!
" No! Your power don't work! I think he feeds on them!" I said weakly.
He grabbed me and threw me, like before, through the ceiling. After kicking my ass upstairs, he thre me through the floor, all the way down to the sub-basment. I noticed something fell on top of me, the book, so I opened it and suddenly the words flowed up my arms and into me and it made sense, the old me was a wizard, or a god. He was a mutant too, that's why they thought he was a god. the power was awesome! Piotr was fighting it and it was winning, so I felt myself rise to the ground floor. Once it saw me, it stopped completely.
My eyes glowed a golden color now, " Wow..." I said excitedly.
Piotr looked up at me, " Pane?" he said in awe.
I cocked my head to the side, " I wanna play." I said, lowering myself to the floor and punched him, then kicked him, then ducked his claws, which narrowly escaped my throat, and flipped over him, then sweeped his feet from under it and telekinetically called a ceremonial sword from the wall and impaled him into the wall, " Bored now." I said, admiring my handiwork.
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After a meeting with the X-Men and Brotherhood, I found myself outside by the pool, gazing into the water as if it were telling a story. In a way, it was. I had been there for hours and I was ready to leave, but I couldn't. There was something there, something I was supposed to see. I saw Emma Frost in my mind. I remembered that this was where I met her. I reached up to touch the chair and the vision hit me like a bullet!
Vision
Scott and Logan stood in the Danger Room, beaming down and discussing something. They turned as Emma beckoned them over and they walked to her. I felt her invade their minds and then she disappeared into through the side door right before I came.
Vision
I levitated into the air and fell into the water, immediately finding myself in the Danger Room, in front of the whole team, " Averde Statum!" I said, causing the Danger Room to go black.
" What are you doing?" Scott asked, looking around, then at me.
" Ask Emma." I said disgustedly.They turned as I stepped from the blackness, " Armonium Kutra!" I said and suddenly Emma began to gasp for air and she fell to the floor, writhing in agony.