Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:40:07 EDT
From: RAINBOY0719@aol.com
Subject: mutants tale 2

Disclaimers: I do not own the X-men nor do I know the people that do. This
story comes from the far depths of my mind. This is my first story that I have
sent here. Please send comments to glennstewart666@hotmail.com

My Note: I would like to thanks two people that have con me into this. My
best friend Jodie who is the one that checks all the spelling and
grammer. Cause she loves to make fun of my BAD spelling. And I would like
to think the writer of Hard to be X-men. THANKS GUYS!!! (GIRL!!) ANd now
for the story.


A Mutant's Tale*
We are different from the rest
*Vision*

    Its been about three months since I came here and things haven't been
easy. Every night I have nightmares and I end up in Brandon's bed. I feel so safe
with his big arms wrapped around me. I feel as if nothing could ever hurt me.
The professor has no clue where they are coming from. So every night I fall
asleep and have nightmares. I'm woken up by Brandon and he crawls in my bed and
holds me. I know he's my friend but I get the feeling he also wants to be
with me. It can't be though because he's had girlfriends since I've been here. I
still get that feeling in my gut that tells me not to get too close because
he's not the one.
    I have regular school classes and training. I had to choose a codename
and some type of weapon. So my code name is blue flame and my weapon is two
Sais. I'm not bad with them. I mean I give Logan a good fight some days.
    Gambit, Brandon and I were sent out on a mission. We were to go to some
place called Newert. Pick up a guy and bring him back. We were told to keep a
low key. Get in and get out. We took the black bird and made in there by noon.
We touched down and we walk for about a mile until we came to the town. People
were out walking around. We walked down the street to where the house was.
When we got there I looked at the house. I got an uneasy feeling about this, but
didn't say anything. Gambit knocked on the door. A guy opened it.
    "Hello? May I help you?"
    "Yes we are looking for Eric Lexamer. Do you know where he is?"
    "This is he. What can I do for you?" Eric said with a worried look on his
face.
    "Eric may we please come in?"
    "Uh, I got to go." he started to slam the door shut. I put my hand on the
door to stop it. *The house was on fire. Big robots were attacking us.* I
looked at gambit and Brandon.
    "We got to go. They're coming." I said quickly. Brandon grabbed Eric and
put him over his shoulder. We took off in a sprint. Boom! I turned to see the
house blown up. All that was left was wood and fire. A sentinal landed in
front of us. I pitched fireball after fireball at it. The sentinal fell to the
ground in pieces. Three more came out of nowhere. Gambit pulled out his deck of
cards and charged them up. Then started to throw them at the robots. Brandon
was jumping out of the way when he was hit. "Brandon!"  I yelled running over to
him. I grabbed him, putting him over my shoulder. I looked at Gambit and he
grabbed the guy and we took off. We ran back to the black bird and took off. I
laid Brandon down and strapped him in.
    "You think we lost them?" I asked Gambit.
    "I hope so. So what's the deal with this kid?" he asked.
    "I don't know?"
    "How is Brandon?"
    "He should be ok. I will feel better when we get back and have jean take
a look at him." I said with a little worry in my voice.

_____


    "Master they took the bait." said Hunter.
    "Good. I knew they would. Now all we can do is wait." an evil smile came
over his face.
    "Master do you think this will work? I mean what if they find out about
Eric. If they find out what his mission is then we will lose our only piece of
the puzzle." Toad said.
    "It's a risk I am willing to take. I don't have to explain my orders to
anyone. Now leave me. I must rest." they left their master alone in his
chamber. A faint glow then came from a corner in the room. Master stood up and walked
over to it. He bowed to it. "Sir, things are slowly coming into place."
    "Good. My armies are ready for when the time comes." said an airy voice.
It sent chills up master's spine. "Keep an eye on them. I trust you can do
that." with a flash of black light it was gone.


_____


    I sat in the game room with Bobby, Rogue, Kitty, Chris, and Caleb. We
were all worried about Brandon. He was one of our best friends. I felt guilty
about not having his back. If only I had seen it I could have pushed him out of
the way, but the past is the past and nothing could change that. We waited for
any sign of Brandon being ok. I then heard footsteps coming down the hall. I
looked up to see Brandon smiling at us. I jumped up out of the chair and ran to
him. As soon as I took off, the rest of them saw me and did the same. We all
hugged him then pulled away.
    "What? Did I have you guy worried?" he said in a smile.
    "We're just glad you're ok. That's all." Rogue said in her southern
accent.
    "Well I know one thing. I sure am hungry." Brandon said as he grabbed his
stomach. We all laughed at him. We walked down to the cafeteria to get a bit
to eat. We sat at the normal table. They all nominated me to get the food, so
I went up and stood in line to get something to eat. When I got up there I saw
Eric in front of me. He was about 5'7 and around 150, just like me. He had
dish water blonde hair and light tan skin.
    "Hey Eric." I said as I put my hand on his shoulder. He turned around and
smiled at me. He had eyes that were so blue that they looked unreal. He
smiled at me and I thought I was going to faint.
    "Hey. You're Rain right?"
    "Yeah. That's me. So how do you like it here?"
    "It's not bad. I didn't think there was going to be so many people here.
Are they all mutants?" he asked.
    "Yep. So you've made any friends?"
    "No. Not really." his head dropped a little.
    "You want to have lunch with me and my friends?" his head popped right up
and smiled.
    "Sure. That sounds like fun." we talked a little as we got the food and
headed over to the table.
    "Hey guy. This is Eric." I said as I sat down and he sat next to me.
"Eric, this is Bobby, Rogue, Kitty, Chris, Caleb and you've met Brandon already."
    "So Eric what your gift?" Kitty asked.
    "Well I have super strength and heightened senses" they all just stared
at him until Chris started to talk.
    "Dude that's so sweet!"
    "What your guys' powers?" Eric asked.
    "Well I can freeze things." Bobby said as he closed his hand and made a
ice ball in it.
    "I can take and absorb peoples life force and when it comes to mutants I
can borrow their powers." Rogue then said.
    "I can walk through walls!" Kitty said with a smile.
    "Me? I can conduct electricity and my brother here is telepathic and
telekinetic," Chris said as he pointed to his twin Caleb.
    "What about you Brandon? What can you do?" Eric asked.
    "I'm a shape-shifter and I have super reflexes." Brandon stated.
    "As you know I have blue fire and I have foresight." I said staring at
Eric. There was something about him that would have made me drool if I were al
one. We ate and talked for a few getting to know Eric. Then they took off only
leaving me with Eric.
    "So who's your room mate?" I asked.
    "I think his name is Joey. He seems nice."
    "Joey is pretty cool. So do you have any classes today?"
    "No. Not yet. What about you?" I asked as we got up.
    "Yep. I got combat training tonight. Come on lets go listen to some
music. What's one of your favorite songs?" I asked.
    "I like "In The Shadows" by the Rasmus. It's my favorite. What about
you."
    "That's one of my favorites too! Come on I got that song." we walked my
room.


_____


    Eric and I have been good friends for about two months now. It's cool and
at the same time freaky that we like all of the same things. Brandon has been
a little bit of an ass to him for some reason. My powers have grown slowly as
well. My hand-to-hand combat is much better to.  My nightmares have started
to become worse and worse as each night goes by. Some nights even with Brandon
holding it still don't help. It's the same thing every night. I'm running
through the woods with something chasing me. I try to out run it but I can't. It
tackles me to the ground and rolls me over to face it. I look at its face but
I can't see it because it's in the shadows. It brings its face out from the
shadows and smile at me. He opens his mouth and two fangs sticks out. It goes
to bite me when out of nowhere its shoved to the ground. I look to see a guy in
the shadows. His hand stretched out. Then I woke up in a cold sweat. Brandon
had his arms wrapped around me. I worked my way out form under him and sat up
in my bed. My stomach growled and so I got up from the bed and got dressed. I
put a shirt on and walked out of the room.
    When I got into the kitchen I could see someone in the shadows. "Hello?"
I asked.
    "Rain is that you?" It was Eric. I walked over to the wall and turned on
the lights.
    "Do you always sit in the dark?" I asked him as I took a seat at the
table.
    "Yeah I guess I do when ever I get the chance to." He said with a smile
on his face. God I thought I was going to melt right there. I smiled back at
him. "So what, you can't sleep?"
    "No." I said shaking my head from side to side. "What about you?"
    "Same. Why cant you?"
    "I've had as funny as this sounds, a nightmare." I said looking at him.
    "No, that doesn't sound funny. I had one to." We stared at each other for
a few and then turned away. Could he really like me? No, it couldn't be could
it? I shook the thought from my head and looked back at him.
    "So what was your about?" I asked him.
    "Well I'm running in the woods and being chased by something. It knocks
me down and sits on top of me," It sound just like the same dream I had, "But I
couldn't see it..."
    "Cause its face was hidden in the shadows but when you can it has yellow
eyes and large canine teeth." I said interrupting him. He just looked at me
and shook his head.
    "How did you know that?" He asked me while looking right at me.
    "I had the same one. I don't get how we could have the same dream
though."
    "Do you think we should wake the professor?" He asked.
    "No it's not that important. We can wait till tomorrow to talk about it
with him."
    "Okay. What should we do now? I mean I can't sleep."
    "Neither can I so lets go for a walk. Sound like fun?" I said getting up
from the table.
    "Yeah that does sound like fun." He said as he got out of his chair, we
went up to our rooms and put some pants on and sneakers. Something told me to
grab my Sais but I didn't. I met him at his room and from there we snuck
outside. Now you're not to be outside after curfew so if we got caught we would get
into big trouble.

    We walked for a few without talking. It felt weird to be alone with him
anymore. Like I was scared that I wouldn't be able to control myself. I was so
temped to just wrap my arms around him and kiss him. But I kept my urges in
check. "So what are you doing this Easter Break?" Eric asked.
    "Well probably stay here like normal. What about you?" I asked as we sat
under one of the large trees that made up the woods behind the mansion.
    "I think I'm staying here to." He looked me in the eyes. I could feel
love and loneliness coming from him. The love was aimed to me. Ok now I think I
have lost it. Our eye contact was broken when birds took off flying. I felt
anger coming from somewhere in front of me. We both stood up and looked around to
see what caused the birds to take off. The anger grows stronger as if it was
moving towards us. We heard something being pulled out of the ground and the
next thing I knew a tree was being flung at us. I tackled Eric to the ground as
the tree barely missed us.
    "What did I find here?" came a deep voice from the shadows.
    "Who are you? Show yourself or are you so scared that you can only fight
from the shadows?" I said with anger in my voice.
    "Oh Juggernaut is not afraid of little ones like you. You are the ones
who should be afraid of me." He said as he laughed at us. A tall man stepped out
of he shadows. He was built all over. He had a red suit on with a red metal
dome on his head covering his face. I ready my fighting stance, as did Eric. I
knew of his reputation as being unstoppable. The only person who has ever
stopped his was the professor. He came charging at us. Eric took off with his fist
ready. Their fists hit each others causing energy to send shock waves out. I
went flying back into a tree. I looked up to see Juggernaut punching Eric in
the chest, which sent him in a tree too. I got back up and ran to him. I check
his pulse to see if he was ok. I looked up at him with rage in my eyes. I ran
at him with my fist aflame, punching him in the chest and he slowly moved
back. He went to punch me as I jumped in the air and kicked him in the head. My
foot just bounced off of his helmet. I felt my foot crack from the power of the
kick. I just took my mind off of it for now. He punched again and I blocked
it. I felt myself being pushed back from the force of the hit. I ran at him and
he punched the ground splitting it. I jumped out of the way and jumped kicked
him the chest. He didn't even bug. I could feel myself becoming weak. If only
I grabbed my Sais. I started to throw fireballs at him. It was keeping him at
bay put the question was for how long? My strength was slowly become depleted.
I didn't think I was going to win this fight.


_____


    At the same time Brandon was looking out the window. He had woken up
without Rain in his arms. He had a bad feeling that something was wrong. That Rain
needed him. As he looked out the window at the woods he saw a blue light
coming from it. Then suddenly the light turned in to a large blue flame that shot
up into the clouds. It was Rain. Brandon stood up and opened the window,
jumping out of it heading for the woods. "I'm coming Rain, just hold on."


_____


    I kept throwing them at him. But after the first ten he started to walk
toward me. I launched one and brought my hand up for another. I thought hard
about a fireball and a blue flame appeared then it went out. I didn't enough
strength left to make another one. Juggernaut walked up to me and picked me up by
my throat. Sweat dripped off my face on to his arm as he smiled at me. "Told
you, you should have been scared of me." He started to squeeze tighter and
tighter. "After you are gone I think I'll take out your little boyfriend too.
I'll brake his legs and the rip off his arms and let him bleed to death." Some
how I could tell he wasn't lying. I closed my eyes thinking that Eric was going
to die because I was weak and couldn't protect him. No I wasn't going to let
that happed. Not to Eric. My anger started to rise in me and then my eyes shot
opened.
    "Nooooo!" I screamed as my body started to heat up.  Flames erupted from
my body. First they were little but then they covered Juggernaut's body and
mine. My head was lifted up so I could see into the sky. The flames shot up into
the sky. The area around us was covered with blue light. Then Juggernaut
started to scream out in pain. "I will never let you hurt anyone of my friends
ever. Now its time to meet your maker." I punched him in the face. A large dent
showed up where I hit him. I jump kicked him in the chest sending him flying
into a rock wall. It collapsed on him. I know it was not over. I put my hand
over my head and formed a huge fireball. It grew and grew until he got back up
and looked at me.
    "How did you get so strong? I will crush you for that!" He yelled at me
as he charged. I flung my hands down to my chest and pushed out. The fireball
shot forward. They hit dead on. It thin golfed him and carried him away. He was
gone for now. I felt my knees get weak and started to shake. I walked over to
Eric how was out cold. I could see a little puddle of blood around his head.
I picked his head up and put it on my lap. I felt so weak. I thought I heard
my name being called out. My eyes started to get heavy and my vision bleary.
The last thing I saw was Brandon coming over to me calling out my name. Then I
blacked out.


_____


    I woke up with light shining brightly into my eyes. I couldn't see things
clearly. It felt like my head was going burst in two. I slowly picked my head
up of the table that I was on. I could feel that someone had my hand. I
looked over to see Brandon asleep in the chair with his head rested on the bed and
his hand interlaced with mine. I smiled at him and slowly brushed my hand
through his hair. He stared a little and looked up at me.
    "Hey." I said to him. He sat right up and took his hand away from mine.
    "Hey yourself. How you feeling?" He asked in a concerned voice.
    "I'm fine." I lied. I didn't want him to worry about me. I hated it when
people did. "Where's Eric?" I asked hoping he was ok. Brandon just shook is
head and pointed over to the bed next to mine.
    "He's been in a coma for the past two days. Kitty should be down here
soon to take over Chris's watch." I looked over and I felt loneliness coming from
him. I felt lost and I couldn't find my way. I was what Eric was feeling.
Just then Kitty came in and was fallowed by Jean. They both looked over at me and
smiled. Jean walked over to me and check my vitals and smiled.
    "How do you feel Rain?"
    "I'm fine." I lied again even though my head was pounding more. "Where is
Eric? In a coma?" I asked.
    "Well from what ever happened he hit his head and lost quite a bit of
blood and it bruised the back of his brain. I ran some test and stuff. He should
be ok."  Just then the professor wheeled in.
    "Ah you're awake, good." He said as he came up to the table that I was
sitting on. "Rain I would like to talk to you alone please." He said, as he
looked a Brandon and Kitty. Kitty walked over and grabbed Brandon's hand and led
him though the wall.
    "So what did you want to talk about Professor?" I asked a little
concerned.
    "Rain do you remember anything about your life before you came here?" He
asked. I tried to think about my life before I came here. I couldn't think of
anything at all. Why? I mean I never tried before. Then Jean must have
understood the look on my face because she grabbed my hand.
    "It's okay Rain. Everything will be ok." She said in a soft tone assuring
me that everything would be fine.
    "Ok but why did you ask. I mean there has to be a reason why you asked me
that." I looked questionably at them.
    "Rain when I did an x-ray on the back you Eric and your head to check of
and fractures, I saw something strange on your two's. When I later
investigated I found you both have the letters G.O.D. etched on the back of your skulls."
    "God?" I asked.
    "GOD stands for Government Offence Department. Their job is to find new
ways to stop mutants and control them. We think, Rain, that you and Eric were
made to be mutant hunters." Now I look at them in shock. I could never do that.
Just then Eric started to go into shock. The alarms went off as his body
started to shake violently.