Chapter 28

Strange

I was getting shacked as I started to open my eyes. "Aprill are you okay?"

My vision starting to focus and I saw Fred looking down at me. I blinked at him, hadn't he turned into a cat last night. "Freddy…"

He took in a deep breath of relief. "Hey, morning beautiful are you okay?"

"Ya…" I said slowly and looked around. I was still in our bed room and Fred didn't have a shirt on. "Didn't…didn't you turn into a cat last night?"

Fred's eyebrows came together in confusion. "No…turning into a cat is your thing baby. Bad dream huh?"

I really wasn't sure what to think, the whole thing felt so real. But I guess it was just a really weird dream. I didn't want to press the thought any more than that, Fred looked stumped enough. That was when my phone buzzed. I leaned over to the night stand and looked at my phone. It was a text from my dad, Your mother and myself are flying to meet you for a visit. We'll see you soon sweet heart. "Freddy it looks like my parents are coming for a visit."

"Oh really, that's pretty cool." Fred said with a smile and started to get out of bed. We both got dressed and went to stairs for food. It took about a few hours before I heard a knock on the door. I walked to the door and was greeted by a bright smiling face. It was my father's face and he embraced me at once. "Papa it's so good to see you."

"It's nice to see you as well sweetheart." He said softly and broke the hug first. My mom come up close behind and also hugged me.

During the course of the day Fred and I hung out with my parents. It was nice to spent time with my parent and would have been better if Fred was human. The four of us sat around in the living room. My mom and dad sat close together while I sat in front of them. Fred sat down next to across from them. The conversation was light at first. My parents talked about vacations that they have gone on, the history behind the castle and advancements with the company. I talked about what had been going on back home with the X-Men and the Brotherhood. I mentioned some cute moments between Fred and myself. Then I fully up dated them, leaving out some details about our vacation and what happened with Wanda and Silver.

After a couple of minutes my dad cleared his throat. "I have some news for you Aprill."

"What is it daddy?" I asked said after I took a bit of my pizza.

"It's about back home and what has happened after the robot attacked you guys." My father explained and I froze. The thought about the attack still scared me. Especially the part where I was taken to a lab for study and Fred came to save me. In my lap I could feel that Fred tensed that the mention of the attack. Trying to gain control of myself, I stretched between his ears to sooth him. Father continued before I could say anything. "People have been buzzing with talk about how to handle mutants. Your school is debating on letting you guys to continue to go to school there or not. The professor stressed to your mother and me that we should get you home as soon as possible."

My heart sank at the news, I didn't want to go back yet. I still want to enjoy a little more vacation with Fred. "But dad…I want to stay a little longer. Can't someone else deal with what is going on?"

"Honey there is no other option." Dad said sternly. "You kids are the future of mutant kind. The stands have to be made now that mutants are not a threat and that we come in peace. You are our daughter and we are very important people, your mother and I. Charles felt it would be best for you to be the one to make the stand or at least help Jean out with what to say." When I sighed in defeat my dad softened. "I know you want to stay sweetie but you know you can't stay here forever...well…" My dad paused, seeing what he just said.

My mom elbowed him in the gut. "Oh Wilson don't start saying that."

"Regardless," Father cleared his throat in embarrassment. "They really need your help back home honey. The public needs to know that mutants aren't dangerous. I want to be sure that my daughter will be able to live in this world without constantly running for her life. That and as soon as your friends got back to the mansion…they were attacked. They had been on the run for a while and now they are back home and have to face the same call."

No matter how much I wanted to protest in staying I knew my dad was right. It wasn't just the people that were fighting the robot that got shaken up. Humans all over got worried and scared. That and I didn't know what to say about them being attacked at the mansion. All I remember was being saved by Fred at the labs and was taken to my parents soon after. I haven't been called by any of the X-men in a while and I was glad for it. It gave me the change to enjoy my vacation while I could. Now it seemed there was no way to avoid not going back home. With a sigh, I nodded at my father. "Alright Daddy…I'll go back home. Let's just get Fred better and then we can start getting ready to leave."

Later that day we said good bye to my parents. Fred and I spend that night alone in our room. I told him everything that my father said about us needing to go back. He didn't like it either but he made our last night alone magical. Freddy cooked us dinner by candle light and we cuddled up in bed to watch a movie afterwards. When the movie was over he caught my lips with his and we finished where we left off two weeks ago. This time there was no thunder or flashes of light. We made out until two in the morning and then passed out. By morning we had breakfast and packed our things. Once it was noon I got a text from my dad saying that the jet was just about to land in front of the castle. With all of our things packed and outside, we walked outside hand in hand for the jet. Within ten minutes it landed and was able to board. Our things were put in the jet and we made ourselves comfortable inside. It took a couple of hours to get back home and it only felt like an hour. Fred and I made small talk while in the jet. We talked about how we could set up date nights while being at home. We both knew that once we got to the airport that we'd go separate ways. It was really hard to think about that, since we had spent so much time with just the two of us. However we knew that there was nothing that could be done about that. Toad on the other hand slept the whole way there. At times I forgot he was there but then I would hear him snore a little. Of course my heart fell when we landed at the airport and got out. Our bags were going in different directions and I saw the X-men waiting for me. The Professor and Jean waited with a sign with my name on it. A couple of feet away stood Lance with a sign as well. Toad had already hopped out of the jet and over to Lance. Once there he got a hit over the head and yelled at. I knew that both parties waited on edge for us and I sighed.

I looked up at Fred with a frown. "I'm going to miss you…" I trailed off, not wanting to cry.

He gave me a soft smile and pulled me into his arms. "I know, but we'll see each other soon, I promise." With a gentle squeeze he kissed me before pulling away. I grasped onto him and held onto him for dear life. Before long I had no choice but to let go. It was very sad but…I knew that for right now this was how it was. We walked forward, hand in hand until we had to go to our separate parties. Once I was with the Professor and Jean, I looked back at Fred. He patted Lance on the shoulder and Lance was smirking a bit. As we started to walk away from each other I turned around and called out. "I love you Trucker."

Fred paused and looked back at me. There was a smirk on his face. "Love you to baby."

The rest of the day had gone by pretty fast. I was updated on everything that was going on. Things were getting troubling with human's knowing that there were mutants out there. There was meeting that was going to be held tomorrow about letting mutants going to public schools. Jean had already had a speech ready and everything. The Professor wanted me to say a few words, seeing how I came from an important family. I knew that this whole thing was important but I felt it was over kill to have me speak after Jean. I told the Professor that I would think things over about if I wanted to say anything or not. Until the meeting however, we all still had to go to school and I wasn't happy about it. From what I heard the Brotherhood had been banned from school and that included Freddy. I thought that I would at least be able to hang out with him there. Oh well, I thought, there was still all the dinner dates that we planned. Tomorrow would be my first day back at school and I wished that it wasn't.

I was wake and ready as I could have been that morning. All of us had something to eat and were off to school. At first I didn't think that it would be that bad but I was wrong. Once we were on school grounds and walking to the front doors, everything stopped. Everything looked at all of us as we made our way to the door. I looked around and most of the people I could talk to were glaring at me. I turned around to see that Kurt wasn't with us. He was standing and talking normally with the other students. I remembered that Kurt was in his normal form in the attack, no one must have guessed that that blue haired monkey was him. It was sad, Kurt looked torn between being normal and being with us. I looked away from Kurt and looked at what was a head of me. We were all still getting those looks once we got the front doors. Out of nowhere Duncan came and stood in front of Jean. "Hey Jean, I just wanted to let you know that this doesn't change a thing." He said with a smile.

I forgot that those two were kind of together. It was so typical that he would flirt with me while he was with Jean. "It doesn't?" Jean looked at him confused.

"Sure," He continued to smile and laced an arm around her shoulders. "I'm willing to over look your problem completely."

That is when she got mad. "Problem?" Jean frowned and her eyes hardened over. She pushed Duncan away but instead of taking the hint, he took hold of her again.

"Ya, besides we can totally put your mind reading powers to good use. Like during exams or…"

Jean fully moved away this time and I thought she would blast him against the wall. "You…you…you…grrr. We are so done." She said hotly and took hold of Scott's hand. They walked past Duncan and the rest of us fallowed after. I was the last one in the door and he took hold of my arm.

"What about you baby, you still going out with that wide loud?" Duncan smirked and looked like was going to give me a kiss. The every thought made me sick and I pushed his face away from me.

"Freddy is ten times more of a man then you super star. Get over yourself." I almost hissed at him but I pulled back as much as I could. Flipping my hair in his face I walked into the school. From then on, things could have gone better. Going to class wasn't the funniest thing in the world anymore. People in my morning English and Science class glared at me. Some throw paper at me when I answered a question right. Others throw a fit when I was put into a group with them or was a pointed to grade quiz's in the group. They complained and sneered that I would fail them from them not being mutants. That if I got to close to the lab equipment, something would explode. Mainly in English I was getting notes passed to me, saying that I was kissing a whale. That I was going to be crushed under my boyfriend's weight. That I was a slut, or a chubby chaser for going out with Freddy. By the end of my second class I was rung out. I thought I would be able to handle coming back, but I never thought that people could be so hurtful. I knew that a lot of people were shocked that I was dating Freddy but…I never heard stuff like that. With a sigh I went to my locker and looked throw my things. There were tons of papers that fell out. I picked up of few and a lot of them said what I already heard. This was just not my day.

By this point I really want Fred with me. He would be my rock through all of this. However he was banned from school and there was nothing he could do about that. I made a point to call him after school so I could see him. I really needed his comfort right now. Just as I finishing cleaning up my locker and throwing away the letters, I heard a voice. I got a cross way near my locker that looked down the main hall way. I would walk over to the cross way and look down the hall. At first I couldn't believe that I was seeing. It was Lance, Toad and Freddy, walking into the school and pushed people over as the pasted. I heard them saying that they were back, big mutants going throw. At first I didn't want to get in the middle of it, seeing how Freddy was just doing what the others were doing. However I saw that Lance ran into some guy and turned on him. He had him up by the collar of his shirt and yelling about if he was a mutant funny or something. I had enough when I saw that.

I walked up to them and tapped Lance on the shoulder. By this point the guy Lance was yelling at ran off. "What the hell was that? Are you out of your mind?"

Lance glared at me. "What is it to you cupcake. Why don't you mind your own damn business?" I was shocked at Lance's tone. He has never been that mean to any of us before. Something was up for sure but I didn't want to ask. If I asked I had feeling Lance would cause a scene. "So run along little lady and leave the men to their business."

I was so shocked that I turned around and looked up at Freddy. I thought he would have punched Lance for saying that to me but he just stood there. "Freddy…" I walked up to him but he held his hand up to stop me.

"You heard him, get going, this doesn't concern you baby doll." Fred said evenly and my heart sink.

"Baby doll? What the hell. You're just going to let him talk smack about your girlfriend?" I was pissed off, this didn't have to deal with what we talked about on our vacation. I understood why he was on the Brotherhood side but this…it just wasn't right. Fred didn't even make it sound like he was looking out for me and trying to get me to stay out of trouble. It was then I felt paper getting paper thrown at me again. Some of the girls whispered slut as they passed. The boys called out chubby caser and made jokes to Fred. They said he should watch his step or else he could step on me. If Fred rolled over on me then I was done for. I frowned and blushed in embarrassment. I looked up at Fred, begging him with my eyes to help me.

I think after one too many jokes Fred glared at the guys, raising his fist. "One more word about my girl and you'll be the pancakes." They didn't think he would do anything about it, but when he took a step toward them they ran off.

I slumped where I stood and whimpered. "Oh Freddy…" I fell forward a bit and Fred caught me up in his arms. It felt so good to be back in his embrace, I didn't think I missed it this much until now. "I've had such a horrible morning."

"I'm sorry Lily," Fred whispered in my ear and hugged me close. "Be strong, I'll take you out to eat when this is all over. I promise."

I nodded sadly and pulled away so that I could reach up to kiss him. He took my kiss willingly and we ignored all the remarks about it. I didn't care what they said, I love him and that's all that matters to me. After a couple of moments Fred pulled away from me but I could tell that he didn't want to. He nodded to me, in his way of saying that he would see me later. I had a bad feeling that I would, at the meeting tonight. I also knew deep down that no matter how much Fred would want to be on the side for mutants to go to school, something in the Brotherhood may tell him otherwise.

"Hey Blob," Lance grunted. "Stop sucking face and let's move out." With that Lance started to walk away and scared people as he went. Toad was after that and Fred was last. He waved to me and gave me a heart breaking smile. Ya, I thought, I think we both know that we are going to have a rough day. I went through the rest of the day trying to ignore everything. It ran through the school fast that the boys that expelled were back in school. That and me kissing Fred in the main hallway, it was sickening. People started to throw drawings at me now. Me kissing a whale, me crushed under Fred's weight. I wished that I could burn these without a lighter but…there was no point. Those letters kept coming till the school day was over. When school was finally out I got out of there as fast as I could.

Once I was outside, people didn't take any more notice in me. They just went their own ways and hung out with friends. At first I thought that Fred wouldn't show and that I would have to go back to the mansion broken hearted. However just when I thought I would have to go home, someone tapped on my shoulder and when I looked behind me it was Freddy. I smiled weakly at him. "I'm so glad to see you." I closed the pace between us with a hug. He held me close and stroked my hair.

"I know," He whispered. "Come on, that's get out of here baby." He led me to where he parked his car. Fred opened the passenger side door for me and I got in. Soon he was in the driver's seat and was driving away from the school. "I'm sorry what you had to go throw today baby. I'll do my best to cheer you up."

I smiled at him. "Thank you, you already are. So where are we going."

"I have called for pizza hut to delivery pizza to the Brotherhood house. I would take you out to dinner properly Aprill but…" Fred cut off short and focused on the road. I know what he was trying to say. There was no place that we knew off that would let us eat in their place. The school wasn't the only place where mutants were bullied, from what I heard. It was a miracle enough that Fred was able to order take out. After a couple of minutes he pulled into the Brotherhood house and we got out. Lance and Toad got there a little after that. They didn't like the fact that I was there at first. However when Fred told them that he ordered enough food for all of us, they shut their mouths. When we heard a knock on the door I took the money that Fred was going to pay with and answered the door. I figured the one of the most normal looking people here should answer. It was a guy holding seven pizza boxes. He looked at me and smirked, liking what he saw. I winked at him and gave him the money. He gave me my change, the pizza and I gave half the change back to him as a tip. The guy seemed pleased with himself and I waved good bye as I shut the door.

Fred figured out which pizzas went where. Four of the seven pizzas went up with Fred and me, the rest stayed with Lance and Toad. When we got to his room he set things up so that we could cuddle up. I set up my laptop to watch a movie. It wasn't much, we could be doing a lot better but it was still very peaceful. When everything was set up, Fred handed me a slice of cheese pizza and patted for me to sit next to him. I did and as I eat I leaned into him with a sigh. "This is relaxing."

"Very much so, what do you want to watch?" Fred asked as he started to look through Netflix on my laptop. I shrugged and he started to look through the romantic comedies. "I think that you need a good laugh and something girly."

I nudged him. "You're turning soft Mr. Dukes."

He nudged me back. "That's what happens when you fall in love Ms. Fisk." I smiled at him and kissed his shoulder. After a while we finally picked something and cuddled up on the bed. The movie was almost two hours long and once it was almost over it was six thirty. I sighed after a funny moment when I heard my phone buzz. I looked to see that I got a text from Jean. It said that the meeting at the school would start in an hour and that I should get ready. I sighed but sadly this time. Fred looked at my text and frowned. "You don't have to leave yet. Let's give it fifteen more minutes and then I'll take you home." I agreed and snuggled up again. Once our time was up, we cleaned up and he took me home. With a good bye kiss, he drove off and I got ready for the meeting. Jean was already there with all the parents and the school board. The other X-men and I were a little late in getting there. By then Jean was okay to handle the whole thing and wanted us there to support her. I was okay with that as Scott parked the van near the school. We all walked the rest of the way and we got into the parking lot next to the building where the meeting was being held, I was nervous.

And it looked like I had every right to be. We couldn't make it to the front doors before a car pulled up in front of us. I was stunned to see that it was Duncan. He looked pissed off when he got out of his car and glared at the five of us. "We have some unfinished business Summers. Just you and me, man to man." I growled at him, what the hell was he playing at?

Even walked up to Duncan and got in his face. "We are not going anywhere."

Duncan smirked. "This is just between Summers and me, but I figured you would say that." He raised his hand to his lips and whistled. I was wondering at first why he looked like he was calling a dog. But then I saw Toad hop from behind a van nearby. After Toad was Lance and after him was Freddy. I knew that something was going to happen, I didn't want to fight them right now. This whole event was important and I couldn't let the Brotherhood stop us.

Toad laughed. "Looks like there's four of us and four of…" He saw that I was standing there and frowned. "Hey I thought she wasn't going to be here yo?"

"It doesn't matter," Lance growled. "We aren't afraid to use our powers, so guess what is going to happen now."

"So this is who you are huh," Kitty spat and walked up to Lance. She pointed a finger at his chest. "You're nothing but a hood and a lier."

I saw the look of pain on Lance's face. I had almost forget that those two have feelings for each other. However Kitty was in the same boat with me when it came to caring about a Brotherhood boy. The two of us had to fight against our boys because they just wouldn't try and turn a new leaf for us. I knew why Fred wouldn't but I didn't know why Lance wouldn't for Kitty. His face hardened after a moment and he pushed her finger away. "You're right, I will never be good enough for you."

The look on Kitty's face was painful to see but there was nothing I could do right now. Lance already started the attack and we all had to be ready. "Remember, don't use your powers." Scott yelled as he let Duncan push him back as they fought. Toad and Lance went after Kitty and Rogue, which left me with Freddy. With a grunt he charged to me and I dodged out of the way. It looked like it would just be Fred and me now, though I would have to help my friends soon.

"I'm not surprised you know." I huffed as I moved away from him trying to punch me. "Why do the Brotherhood want to fight now?"

"It's Duncan," Fred grunted as he gripped a car and lifted it over his head. He throw it over to were Rogue was and she moved out of the way just in time. The ground around us starting to get turned over and still shaking a bit. Lance stood clear of most of the fighting, sense all he had to do to cause damage was to create shockwaves. My friends were moving out of the way of parts of cement, cars, lamp posts and slim balls from Toad. "He talked with Lance and wanted to make a partnership. They both hate Scott to all hell, heck so do me and Toad. So Duncan said that we should help him get Scott kicked out."

I gapped at Fred. "But by the way it's going all of us could be kicked out of school and future mutants. Don't you guys see that?"

"I do," He grumbled, steadying himself when Lance created another shockwave under our feet. "I don't want you kicked out but I have to follow orders."

I growled at him. "I thought you changed!"

"I have," He yelled and throws a couple more punches at me. He missed each shot. "But look Aprill, none of you are fighting back like you normally would." Fred had a point; I looked back again to see that all the X-men were running around what Lance, Toad and Duncan were doing. "There still might be some hope for you guys. At least I hope so baby but I'm sorry, I have to keep fighting."

Fred tried to get a hold of me, to make it look like he was really fighting as hard as the others were. I jumped away from him and Fred kept on coming at me. I ducked and pushed Fred's punches away. He even tried to throw things at me. I would watch to see where what he through landed and was glad that no one was hurt yet. The fighting kept on going, Lance just wouldn't stop shacking the earth and soon I heard screaming coming from inside the building. I looked to see that people were coming out and were starting to get in the way of the fighting. I saw the professor and Jean, who were both shocked by what they saw. Things were starting to get out of hand and people could be hurt. I suddenly saw my friend's use their powers to help the people being caught up in the mess. I jumped clear over Fred's head and ran to get people out of the way of large pieces of pavement and cars. My friends were doing the same and tried to stop the Brotherhood at the same time. I got people out of the way as fast as I could. I watched as Scott saved Duncan and Kitty saved the principle. At the end of all the fighting, I stood with the other X-men at the front of the building.

"Let's get out of here." Lance ordered and started to run off, Toad not far behind. Freddy paused a moment and looked at me. I held a hand to my heart at the pained look in his face. I mouthed, call me and made the hand jester. Fred seemed a little less pained at the sight of that and smiled. "BLOB, move your ass now!" Lance yelled from the other side of the parking lot. With a sigh he turned and ran off with the others. Scott looked at me and gave me that mean look he always gave me.

"Don't cover for him Aprill, Blob has everything coming to him for this." Scott growled and looked at Kitty. "Same thing for Lance."

We both ignored him and just focused on what was going on. Things settled down fast and I has happy about that. Once things were cleared we all went home and I couldn't wait to get into my room. It had been a long day between school and the fight. I didn't think that I would be able to see Fred for a while with Scott being a jerk. At least I was okay with the fact that Fred called me right when I got into my room. He told me that things were going to get complicated again after tonight. I hated hearing the news but it was something to be expected. He told me that we would do another date in the next two days. That lighten my spirits and I couldn't wait. After a couple of hours we said good night and I went to bed. The next day at school was the same as yesterday. Everyone was pissed about what happened at the parking lot. The Brotherhood was completely banned from school now. It was sad, I didn't want Fred to miss out on going to school. I almost felt like teaching him some of the material on our dates. It would give us a reason to meet up and we would be happy to see each other. Duncan was pretty pissed off today as well but I ignored him. He also ignored us which made my job a lot easier. It didn't feel as long of a day like yesterday. When school was over I walked out and was ready to be picked by Scott or Jean in the van. However, I was surprised to see Fred waiting by the road. He was leaning against his car and when he saw me he smiled. It looked like I was getting my own way home, one that would piss off Scott.

I walked up to him and I let him take hold of me. He kissed me softly and smirked. "So how was it? Are you guys able to stay?"

I sagged when he asked about staying at the school. "I don't know yet, I think I'll find out when I get home."

Fred nodded sadly and gave me a bear hug. "I hope you get in, I'm so sorry if you don't baby."

"I know…" Was all I could say while I let him led me into his car. We drove a around for a little while and got some fresh air. It was nice of Fred to do that for me. Things somehow got way easier now that we talked over vacation. Soon however I knew that I would have to go back home. Fred knew that as well and haft and hour of driving around, he took me home. I said my goodbyes and kissed him. Once inside I found out that the school board ruled that we could go back to school with no real worries. And for the next couple of weeks everything was returning to normal. I mostly stayed home and trained the new X-men. The other's handled some of what the Brotherhood did and that ancient mutant. I really didn't know much about it, and at some points I was glad about that. He had a puppet that could control people to do his bidding. I remember hearing about Jean and Kitty getting under his spell to steal rings for him. Personally I was glad that I has put in charge of training, I wanted to stay out of the fighting zone for a while. I just didn't have the spirit to do it after my vacation with Fred and what happened when we got back. Things around town had got better with mutants being around. Fred and I went on more dates when he didn't get pulled into doing something for the Brotherhood. I heard from him that Silver was home and he was put in charge of the place. He didn't like that at all because Silver was slave driving everyone. That and Silver wanted to put an end to the X-men, seeing how they could never defeat us. They wouldn't be able to but Fred was still hating to spit shine Silver's shoes. He made Fred cook all of his meals and that made both of us angry. When I would come over to hang out with Fred, Silver would throw a fit. He demanded that Fred was banned from seeing me and that I was keeping Fred from feeding him. The whole thing made me sick.

One night I slapped Silver across the face for calling me a bitch. "Stop bossing my boyfriend around you shit head." Fred was pretty impressed that I did that and took me up to his room before Silver could blow up. It was explained to me that Magneto was starting to build a new team and was giving the Brotherhood here a chance at joining. Fred wasn't too happy about it. He wanted to get closer to Magneto to protect me and everyone better, however the Brotherhood kept losing and he couldn't bring himself to beat me up. Beyond all of that, things were going along pretty well, until I found out a month after my vacation that the ancient mutant was free. The thought of such a powerful mutant on the loose scared me. Things seemed to start taking a turn of the worst. I didn't want to think about the mutant at all and anything I wanted to know I wasn't getting. Well I couldn't really get mad when there wasn't that much information to begin with. I tried to go about my day to day actives without much thought about the subject. I knew that at some point we would have to stand up fully to the mutant. If the X-men didn't want me to fight I still would. I was an X-men after all and didn't want this mutant around either.

After a long Wednesday in the middle of the second month back from my vacation, I was glad training was over of the day. I texted Fred once I was crashed on my bed. I didn't know if he was going to be free tonight but I hopped so. As I waited for a text, I looked at my night stand. My gothic rose was still in the same place I placed it before I went to training this morning. It shined at me in the dim lighting and I smiled. I didn't want to wear it to training in the fear that it would break. However now that I was back I was more than okay with wearing it again. I don't remember a time when I wasn't wearing it. It has gotten to the point now that I don't even feel it on me, almost like the rose became a part of me. As I was starting to sit up, and put it on I heard a scratch at my window. I jolted at the sound and turned to see what caused it. At my glass slider windows/doors, stood a girl. She had short blood red hair and powerful green eyes. Wearing a t-shirt and jeans, she had knives strapped to her legs. Along with that I saw a hilt of a sword poking over her left shoulder. Around her waist she wore a lick leather cord, kind of like a belt. However I saw a wooden handle dangle from her hip. It took me a moment to figure out that she wore a whip as a belt. What I found amazing is that she kinda looked a lot like me, in the face and body. That and I have seen her before; at least I thought I had. If I was right, she came in out of nowhere at Camp Redwood.

With a smirk she taps her finger on the glass, wanting me to open it. With a growl I get up and put the gothic rose around my neck. I open the door slightly and glared. "What do you want?"

"Hey now, is that any way to say hello." She joked. "You remember me don't you?"

"How the hell did you find me here?" I growled. I haven't thought about her or the older man with her since that day. There had been more important things to worry about around that time. Dating Silver, dealing with Freddy, leaving the Brotherhood and the list goes on.

She was still smirking at me. "That's for me to know and you not to find out. Do you even remember my name?"

"Do you even know mine?" I hissed back.

"Aprill Lyn Fisk, daughter of Samantha and Wilson Fisk. Samantha is the super hero Wildfang and Wilson is the ex crime lord, King Pin." I stared at her in shock. "My name is Fenix Ember Fisk, we're related but our parents didn't tell you that, did they?"

I got past my shock quickly and snapped. "I'm an only child, don't play games with me."

"Oh?" Fenix said, raising an eyebrow that was the same color as her hair. "Do I have to keep going? You ran away from home when you were five. You found the run down monster truck place where Uncle John hung out with your best friend and now lover Fred Dukes."

"How…how do you know all that?" I said slowly, stepping onto the balcony fully and closed the door.

"I have my ways, that and recently I've been looking out for you. See I'm not going to get into details on how…"

"Tell me now." I sneered, not liking how she was playing games with me.

Fenix's eyes narrowed at me. "Oh? Fine then. We, Aprill, are twins. I was kidnapped the day we were born, actually a couple seconds after I was born. Sabortooth was hired to do that by our step-brother, who you met before. Him and I have one thing in common, we hate our mother for corrupting our father."

"WHAT!" I exclaimed. "Mom didn't corrupt him, they fell in love…"

"Bullshit," Fenix spat. "Our father was a very rich and powerful man. But then he chose to give all that up for one stupid bimbo…"

At the words of calling my mother a bimbo I lunged forward. Fenix didn't see it coming in time and I scratched her face with my finger nails. I put enough force into it to draw blood and Fenix looked impressed. She scuffed at me and raised a hand to her cheek. It wasn't bleeding that much about after a couple of minutes, the wound started to close up. "I'm just like you sis, just I can't turn into normal animals like you. We are the immortal daughters of the Fisk family. Difference there is, I want our mother out of the picture, dead and get our father back."

My eyes narrowed. "Your insane, father would never go back to crime, even if you got what you want."

"Oh is that what you think, is it?" Fenix purred, taking a step closer to me. Tension, power and evil pulsed off her in waves. Her every presence gave me shivers. "Tell me something then, what would you do if you lost the love of your life?"

I froze and actually thought about it. What if Fred…what if he died? What I do with my life then. I could picture me being in horrible pain, lose and the world would suddenly be…dark. "I…"

"You'd die inside basically." Fenix cut in with a smirk. "You see, without Samantha, father will be easy pickings to turn back to nor…"

"You're a cold hearted bitch," I snarled and took a step forward. There was very little space between us now. I glared into her green eyes and hissed. "If you know what's good for you, leave, before I kick your ass across this town."

My sister hissed back at me. "I'd love to see you try."

With a grunt a throw a punch into her side and Fenix yelped in pain. Snarling I pushed forward, breaking the stone railing and falling with my sister in front of me. It took a few moments to before Fenix recovered. She pushed and pulled until she got her foot in my gut. She kicked off me, making my fly throw the air and landing on the ground hard. I let out a gasp and slowly started to get off the ground. Fenix on the hand landed on the ground with ease. She looked at me with narrowed eyes and raised a hand to the hilt of the sword on her back. With a smirk she pulled it out and pointed it at me. There was sick gleam in her eyes, like she was dying for this moment to run that sword through me. Fenix blotted forward, the tip of her sword aimed at my heart. Out of nowhere something slammed into Fenix, making her drop her sword and flying off to the side.

"…Freddy?" I had to do a double take but there he was. I wasn't sure where he came from or why he was here in the first place. However in this moment it didn't matter, he just helped stopped Fenix from killing me and I was grateful for that. As I was starting to get up I heard a high pitch screech and looked to see that it came from Fenix. She glared at the two of us, she bright red hair on fire.

"Oh how cute," She snarled. "It looked like you take after your whore of a mother. She's corrupting you Dukes," Fenix spat. "You could be a great help to Magneto if you just got rid of her."

"Well taught shit," He sneared. "The next time you come after Aprill, I'm going to break your neck, understand?"

I wanted to puck, Fenix shivered in a way that looked like she liked what he just said. "Oooo, you're a mean one aren't you Blob. Listen, whenever you get tired of that X-men tramp, come looking for me. I'll be waiting…"

"Get the hell out," I snarled. "Now!"

"I would but…" Fenix smirked, and it was the most evil intended smirk I ever saw. "You are needed for something every special." She snapped her fingers and suddenly things happened really fast. A metal bar flow from across the yard and slammed into me. Once it made connected with my body it coiled, gripping onto me like a vise. When the metal bar was fully around me it was filled into the air and pulled in the diction it came. I looked to see that it was Magneto, but he looked different. His helmet was forgotten, letting his white hair fly around his face. There were blue lines etched into his face, neck and hands. All the lines seemed to meet up at some point and pool into his eyes, which were a glowing blue. I screamed, trying to pull out of the metal. But it was too tight on me. I looked down to where Fenix and Freddy were.

"FREDDY." I screamed, hopping he could do something.

Fred was about to run forward but was stopped by Fenix's sword. "There's no point Blob, she will become the final part of my master's plan."

He looked at her. "What are you talking about?"

As soon as Fred spoke, two more metal bars shot out from where the first came. The slammed into the mansion, searching. I could hear screams and things shattering from inside the building. Before long people were being dragged out, Storm and the Professor. "NOOOO." I screamed, soon they were flown up next to me.

Fenix laughed as a metal disk hovered over to her. She stepped on the disk and was brought to where I was. "The age of the apocalypse is near and you three are the keys to his army. You will become his front soldiers, ready to do his bidding whenever he calls upon you."

I looked at Fred one last time before a bright blue light took over my vision, causing me to black out…looking sense of everything around me.

NOTE: Hello everyone, so sorry for the long delay on this chapter. RL sucks lol. But anyway, this is going to be the second to last chapter of book one of the WildFang Chronicles. That's right, I said book one, there will be two more books to come of this fanfiction. I hope to go throw the chapters of this first book and fit errors and make things pretty. I also hope in the next two weeks that the final chapter for this book will be out. Once that is out, I would say almost a month after that I'll start posting up book two.

ALSO, I hope to pick up on the other three fanfictions that I'm writing. I'm also hoping to start mapping out other fanfictions that I want to write but that is all in the near future. My main goal is to finish book one and start writing book two. The other fanfiction will come around the same time, if not sooner than the second book. Thank you all to the people that have stayed with my main story for this long. I am so glad that so many of you have really loved my story and I hope that you all will enjoy the ending, along with what may come in the second book. As always, thank you so much and I hope to see you all in the last chapter.