(OOC @ Tempest: ? Sorry I think it's the way you phrased it but I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at.)
Clay stood by, ready and focused in case he had to nullify anything. Unfortunently he didn't think this would help against whatever and whoever these new creatures were.
He took his commands from Iceman and Rogue though and with them nearby he relaxed somewhat, content to let them take control as he stood ready.
Re: A room with a view.
Angelus looked at Drusilla with an amused grin, Spike however stood with Dawn still, Dru's hand raised slowly, her mind wrapping around Rogue's body, completely and totally paralyzing it in mid-air.
Angelus:"Fisty bunch aren't they?"
Spike:"Bunch of kids!"
He retorted to the older vampire, not at all keen on joining the fight, Dru smiled as she calmly walked passed Rogue who was still Frozen, stretching out her mind she also paralyzes the man of ice.
Drusilla:"Don't worry about the children...we didn't hurt them."
Angelus:"Well...much..."
Spike:"Stop playing with them and let's get goin already!"
The bleached vampire sounded english, but the other two didn't seem to reply to him.
Angelus:"First of all, if she's related to the Slayer, then she might cause problems, toss her with the others."
Dru disappeared from infront of Bobby, appearing a few meters behind him, her arm raised as she forms a ball of energy that shoots out slamming hard against Clay's back, the young mutant flying forwards and landing besides both Dawn and Spike.
Spike:"What am I suddenly the bloody chauffeur?"
He growled in disgust over how he was being treated, but Drusilla walked passed Bobby and stood between him and the students, a field of energy forming around her body as she looked back at the leader of this team.
A devilish smile spread across her lips as the last of the team arrived in the hall, Angelus looked towards the faerie with a foul look upon his face.
Angelus:"I hate Faeries.."
Just as he said that Dru expands her field as if she was the center of an explosion, the blast slamming hard against both Clay and Dawn, their bodies helplessly flang into the nearby vortex, both Vampires seemed uneffected by the blast.
Spike:"Well atleast we know they're all alive."
He sounded slightly disappointed at that, Dru's eyes looked out the window, and Spike's gaze followed shortly after, they stared out into the bright sun lit grounds
Drusilla:"We're being Summoned, he wants us to hurry.."
Angelus:"Well I can't say it's been fun, I was hoping for more of a challenging welcoming party..."
Both Angelus and Drusilla's features alter, their now vampiric expressions visible as their yellow eyes glare over towards the students, fangs baring as they considered who to snack on first.
But Drusilla paused, sensing the powers of even more mutants where being sent their way, it was almost as if Angelus could read her mind, for he to looked back towards the gateway, Drus hand reached out and within seconds the portal collapsed in on it's self.
She threw another energy blast towards the window, the glass shattering into peices, the darker haired vampire leaped out of the window, his body appearing to burst into ash before he even reached the ground, Dru leaping out after him, her shape shifting into that of a large crow.
As Spike moved towards the window, Rogue was able to recover from her state of paralyzation, she stood, standing right between Spike and his only chance to escape.
Spike:"<ahem>...Forgetting something aren't we?"
He called out to the others that seemed have already disappeared, in a sudden urge of panic Spike lashed out in an attempt to punched Rogue across the face, but his fists couldn't even get within 5 cm of her face before he yelped aloud in pain and clutched his head as the chip inside activated, refusing to allow him to harm a human.
Spike:"Bloody hell!"
He cried out as he heard the distant echo's of laughter inside his mind. He pressed himself against the wall in a futil effort to stay out of the direct sunlight pouring into the hallway.
Re: A room with a view.
Bobby watched in horror as he stood, unable to do anything as both Clay and Dawn where thrown threw the swirling vortex that hung in the middle of the corridor.
These 'Vampires' with their twisted features and glaring eyes taunted him and Rogue until they had to leave, the vortex closing and the remaining vampires escaped threw the shattered window. But they had one cornered, one that seemed unable to attack Rouge, Bobby watched as Rouge's anger grew inside her.
Quickly Bobby smackedhis hand against the wall by he shattered window, his hand began to initiate a reaction in the air about him, ice appeared sealing the smashed window that the others had escaped from, and continued until it created a solid wall beside them across the corridor. The only way for this 'Spike' to escape now was back down the corridor towards them and Bobby wasn't about to let that happen;
"Rouge, be ready, don't drain him just yet." Bobby said quietly before turning back to the white haired man, "Why are you here? And what have you done with those students!" Bobby glared, "Don't us do anything we might regret, your not getting out of here any time soon."
Bobby readied his stance incase the Vampire attempted to fight them and he saw Rouge do the same. He wasn't quite ready to get bitten either, the ice that sheeted across his torso now began to extend up over his neck as a way of stopping any biting, and continued down over his legs. The air about him now felt much much cooler than it had.....
Re: A room with a view.
Rogue hadn't listened to what Iceman was saying at all. Ready to kick some vampyre asses, she speeded towards the three... and stopped.
*Now this is weird! That damn chick got some powerful mojo workin' and not even *I* can stand against it!?* [annot.: usually, weak telepathy doesn't work on her]
Unable to do *anything*, the mutant hovered in midair just to land after everything, she would have wanted to prevent, had happened.
"Now sugah" she looked at Spike an evil grin appearing on her face.
"Ya know, I'm pretty pissed with that gothic chick playin' with me and part of my team disappearin' into some tunnel thingy so either you tell us what we wanna know or..."
Apparently gentle but very hurtful due to her supernatural strength, she pulled the vampires arms on his back placing her knee right at the backbone.
"Guess you get me" , she whispered tenderly in his ear.
*Now that's the fun part!*
Tightening her grip, Rogue added to Bobby's questions.
"And who else did ya throw into that hole?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life can be like a stone thrown in the sea. It creates waves, maybe changing something, maybe not, but no matter what it causes, every single wave will disappear into nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: A room with a view.
He watched in torment as the windows sealed and the sheet of ice blocked his only escape, yet he could only think one thing,
Dru left him...Dru actually left him behind...
He paced back and forth along the wall, taking a few steps one way before turning and heading back, his eyes glued to the floor and only flickering up every now and then to study the faces of angry humans, barely registering what the man was saying.
Why was he here? Was this real? He just wanted to get out of the mansion because....he wanted to talk with Rogue...he wanted the voices to stop laughing at him, why did they always laugh, why did they always hurt him?
Why wasn't Rogue or Willow here to save him like they usually were...?
Spike:"..Rogue?"
He asked looking around hopefully, but she wasn't here, the slayer wasn't anywhere, who was that ice man talking to? Was he tormenting him!? How dare that human play with his mind, it was mixed up enough as it is!
That's when the white-fringed human leaped out and grabbed hold of him; he gave a strangled yell as she grabbed hold of his arms.
Spike:"Stupid git, let go of me!"
He demanded struggling against the unnaturally strong mortal, obviously an evolved human.
Spike:"I know..I'm not really here, ouch! Dru wouldn't leave me, she loves me, I'm still in the graveyard, that's it, I was hit with a spell, I'm dreaming, the Slayer's there with me right now..I know she is, they both are, her and Willow, both fighting, crying, they want me to wake up....I should wake up.....YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL!"
He snarled in the opposite direction of the group, his hazel eyes glaring at something only he seemed able to see.
Spike:"I didn't hurt them! It wasn't my fault!"
He protested under the strain of the southern belle
Spike:"I didn't take their bloody autographs you know!"
He cried out as she pulled painfully hard on his arms, at the same time his face alters, his fangs bared out as he snarls, kicking himself up off the ground, he slammed hard into the untouchable X-Man, his super strength barely able to free him from her grasp.
With a scream after slamming into her his hands clutched to his head yet again, falling back to the ground as the implant erupts, sending out heavy doses of pain into his head.
Quickly he scurries away from her, turning around he crouches low, awaiting yet another attack from her, his eye's dwelling momentarily on her neck before he looked away.
Spike:"You don't understand! You have to let me eat, you ever seen what happens to us when we don't eat? Skeletons, walking bloody skeletons!"
He shook his head, looking away from the unseen figures he was talking to, closing his eyes as he tried to make this strange world he had been unwillingly tossed into disappear.
Spike:"We're the same you know, we just drink from humans, you eat cows! No one care's about the bloody cows!"
He looked over at Bobby and Rogue, panic flaring in his eyes.
In yet another futile effort to escape, he Vamps out, his now deformed face glaring towards the humans once more, charging towards the group, his speed making him but a blur, leaping onto the wall opposite of the iced over windows, Spike attempts to dive threw the sheet of ice with extra force..
Weakened by the rays of the sun he was able to crack it with his strength, the ice cracking slightly apart as his fists pound violently against it.
What he had forgotten however...was the sun.
Unused to the welcoming rays of the warm sun that leaked threw the gaps in the ice, the naked rays burning into his fists, with a yelp of pain he leaps back putting out the flames that burst across his fingers, his face returning to it's human form as he slams against the wall in a panic.
Ducking away against the wall of the hall, safely avoiding the rays of light as he cradled his burned hands, holding them close to his unbeating heart.
He began murmuring under his breath as he stared at the cracked sheet of ice, a cold, heartless tone, but he raised it to sound more feminine, his words riddled with his English accent.
Spike:"...Bad William, you broke the window again, how many times have I told you....DO NOT PLAY NEAR THE WINDOW!...the devil will come for you, you naughty little boy..."
His voice returned to normal as he whispered to himself, hiding his face behind his arms as he draws his knees to his chest, he looked away from everyone, pretending they weren't really there, his arms wrap around his head, refusing to accept the fact he was left behind in a strange world, refusing to allow or accept the thought that this was real, and how much danger he was truly in.
Spike:"....Bad William...look what you've done again, silly little runt..."
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"Ouch... oh that's just great!" Rogue swore having the feeling of a déjà-vu in the back of her mind.
"Ice, can't I just drain the memories from him? He's dead so it surely won't kill him! We can't play with some insane vamp now, got more
important things to do, don't we?"
She approached the whimpering Spike cautionously, being aware of his strength which had enabled him to escape from her.
Re: A room with a view.
"Rouge no!" Bobby said quickly. "Thats not how this is going to be done, he might be 'dead' but to be here he still has life force, if you take that we have no one, and no reason for those others to return, thats if the other bloke even survived out in that sunlight."
Bobby looked back down the corridor, and saw no one, this was his call and he was going to make the right choice;
"We need to get him somewhere where he won't be able to get away, and for some reason he always seems to recoil just before he attacks. But at the moment he doesn't seem like he's going to do anything. Xavier will be able to get the information we need if he's not willing to divulge, it's the only way we are going to be able to findout where Dawn and Clay are, and who else was sent through.
I don't want to risk you hurting yourself with his demonic soul Rouge, other than us, we only have Tink left of our team, and this Vulpine if she can be found. I should of moved faster, done something to stop them, to save them, now we don't no where they are and have no way of getting wherever it is!" Bobby's voice tinited with guilt, he had already lost two of his team members on this first day, he wouldn't be surprised of Xavier removed him from leadership as soon as they met him. He had to do something to get them back, and Spike seemed to be his answer.....
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Tessa watched in horrified silence as her best friend in the world was sucked through a portal and disappeared. She stood frozen to the spot, something she would later curse and regret, wondering if there was something else she could have done.
She cursed herself and her faerie heritage. Her powers, as many of them as she had, were entirely useless and she couldn't help thinking that if she was a mutant she might have one power that could have helped.
As it was she turned on the vampires and on her team leaders as anger overtook her, overwelmed her senses so she couldn't think straight.
"You have powers, why the h*** didn't you do something?" she yelled, accusing everyone in the room.
The meaning of her words sunk in though and her face contorted as her bottom lip quivered and tears sparkled in her violet eyes, threatening to slide down her pale cheeks.
"Sorry," she mouthed in no more than a whisper. "It's just...I couldn't save him. I may as well have just killed him."
It was clear that Tessa wasn't in a state to think, let alone fight. She had never experienced loss before, let along losing someone so dear to her and by what she considered to be her own fault.
"What happens now?" Tessa asked quietly, trying to brush the tears from her eyes and return her mind to it's normal thinking capacity.
Re: A room with a view.
"Rouge, keep a watch on that (Bobby pointed at the withered form of the Vampire sat on the corridor floor), Ill talk with Tessa here."
Bobby took Tessa by the shoulder and pulled her aside carefully;
"I am so sorry Tessa, I feel as you must do, I was responsible for them and i wasn't able to save them, but you've got to stay positive here. We don't no they are dead at all, I have heard many stories about portals like this, we can still find them, it's not a lost cause yet, not at all.
But Tessa, I need you to stay strong, with them gone the Silver Strike Force is down to only three of four members and i need you to put all your effort into the team, we can get them back, we can save them, but it's going to need all of us.
I know how close your were to Clay, to both of them, but you must stay strong, if not for me, then for them."
Bobby looked reassuringly into Tessa's deep violet eyes, his own piercing blue eyes looking straight into hers. He squeezed her shoulder lightly to confirm his feelings and turned back to Rouge;
"Rouge, get him up, make sure he doesn't try anything funny, we can't afford to loose him. I think it best if we take him down to the science lab, we can monitor him better there, and we also have the added protection of the technology down there. Do you concur?"
Bobby looked at Rouge deeply, he wanted to know the opinion of his second in command in this instance, it was important that she to felt they were on the right track....
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Tessa nodded fiercely as she brushed back the last few tears and blinked back new ones threatening to fall.
"Thanks Iceman," she said. "For the support I mean and all. If it means anything you're a great leader. I just need a few minutes if it's okay then I can do whatever is needed," Tessa finished and an image of her and Clay hugging after his high school talent show popped into her head bringing new tears to her eyes.
She forced her eyes awake and tried not to see the other image that flashed furiously into her head, of him lying cold and pale in the dead on night while a storm raged around his defenceless body. She couldn't let herself think he was dead, she had to have faith or all was lost.
Rogue muttered putting her gloves back on. She felt slightly annoyed but Bobby was right. She had never absorbed a demon's energy before.
Literally *everything* could happen.
As Tessa started to cry, the streaked mutant just wished to comfort her... but was told to guard their "visitor" instead.
Well, at least he asked her about her opinion.
"The MedLab has a bed with... 'bandages' for special patients as far as I know, so that'd work"
Moving closer to Iceman but still keeping an eye on Spike, she whispered: "D'you think, the Professor's power works on those guys? I mean,
no soul, no mind or somethin'?"
Before moving back closer to the vampire, Rogue smiled encouraging at the faerie.
"We've been through worse things and survived, hon. It'll turn out fine, you'll see. Could you try and wake those student...s?" She pointed at Riley
being unsure whether there was one or more people and hoping a task would distract her a little.
*Sorry, that's all I can do for you now... Oh God, what if they're dead?!*
The thought was familiar to her; after all, she had had it over and over again
in the past 20 years but would Tessa be able to live with it? Would she *herself* be able to live with it? It was all her fault! If only she had just tried a
little bit harder.... If only...*
"Come up, sugah!" Rogue pulled the blond vampire up and locked his arms tightly on the back. *This* time, she would underestimate his strength!
"Ok" She lifted herself to the ceiling so Spike would think twice to free himself and fall to the ground.
"You better keep some frosty prison ready, sugah"
Rogue's attention was only focused on William under her as she waited for Bobby to smash the ice wall.
(OOC: sorry, I kinda lost track about who's actually lying around. Riley and... someone else?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life can be like a stone thrown in the sea. It creates waves, maybe changing something, maybe not, but no matter what it causes, every single wave will disappear into nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: A room with a view.
He ignored the people entirely, murmuring over and over again that this wasn't real, the faeire wasn't real, Angelus hated faeires, Angelus killed...he killed Spike's faeire...
She wasn't real, like all the voices they where just here to haunt him, here to punish him..
I think it best if we take him down to the science lab..
Spike's eyes shot over towards the man of ice, once again a panic flaring all around him.
Spike:"You're not taking me back there! I'm not a lab rat! I'm a bloody demon! I've got rights you know! You're not cutting open my belly again!"
He yelled angrily at Bobby and Rogue as he covered his hands over his stomach.
Spike:"I'm not letting you back in my head! Done enough damage you have, enough bloody damage!"
He looked over at Rogue and then back at Bobby, moving as far from them as he could, which wasn't that great a distance since he was blocked off. Then, almost without warning, Rogue sprang to action, grabbing his arms once more and this time she hovered off the ground!
Spike:"One of them had glasses, fancy red ones, like they used to wear before he took the sun away, I didn't touch the sun, he took it away, I tried to stop him, I did, but he didn't like the sun! All that bursting into ash gave him headacks!"
He looked fearfully back at Rogue, he'd only even come face to face with one other human who could pull out that much strength, and that was the slayer. But his eyes didn't linger on her for long, he looked down at the mutants below, catching the sight of the faeire once again.
Spike:"I've got a poem about my faeire, she was such a pretty faeire...but nooo, Angelus, he hates them, they make the place too happy and bright. Gotta kill the faeires, gotta get rid of their sparks....I wanted to be happy....Spike never get's to be happy...she said she'd give me my spark back, never got it...never got my spark."
He could see the impatiences growing, with a frightful yelp his mind grew more clear as he blurts out what little he rememberd of the other kid.
Spike:"Stand back Cat! Run! Run! Cat get way! Soldier boy kept yelling, not very polite to b yelling, got me all confused he did! She'll be cold back home, it's always cold....STOP IT!"
He yelled at something right below him as if there was someone taunting him.
Spike:"I apologised! I bloody apologised to all of them! Exept the boy, only the girls, they where scared, I could their hearts, beatbeat-beatbeat...."
He focused on Zac and Riley who had been tossed aside on the ground.
Spike:"I just wanted to talk, just wanted to hear her voice, don't know why they brough me here, I promised her you see, I promised....Don't worry Pet, I'll behave, can't do much with this blasted thing in my head anyway...."
Suddenly he focuses his eyes, glaring directly at Tessa once more.
Spike:"I heard her screaming....couldn't stop it, so why don't you leave me alone? You silly little nibblet, coming here, what did you think I'd do, come crawling back, you left me! You promised me! You said I'd get back my spark, you went cold on me....you left me, screaming...you never screamed, it was always laughter, couldn't you have laughed a little before you went away?"
He kicked his legs but that just caused his shoulder to experience even more pain so he stopped instantly.
Spike:"He took away my Spark! He took away my laughter! He then he had the nerve to take away my love, and NOW he's left me behind! I'm going to have serious words with grand-dad, he's a bad father, bad! Worse then William, atleast Spike loved his mother, took away her spark...wouldn't let her live without her William.."
He growled angrily and then pouted as he allowed himself to dangle helplessly in mid-air with this flying slayer-like strengthed mortal.
Re: A room with a view.
As Frost walked towards the gathered group, her pale blue skin glistening slightly as specks of ice cover her smooth skin. She calls out to her uncle
Frost:"What's goi-"
She paused upon seeing Rogue hovering with a man in her graps, he was talking to Tessa at the time she arrived and it wasn't hard to see this guy was a few cubes short of a full icetray..
Frost:"Who's that? Are you all-Riley! Zac!"
She yelled upon seeing her class mates further off on the ground, she run quickly over to them, seeing as everything seemed over she shifted back into her human form, her now blond hair obscuring her view as she leaned down and tried to sit Riley up.
Frost:"Hey! Are you two alright? Zachary! Riley!"
Looking back over at the others she called for help
Frost:"Someone give me a hand getting these guys to the med lab!"
Re: A room with a view.
"Iceman *PLEASE*! Let me knock that wakko out. He's SO gettin' on my nerves!"
Rogue shouted from the ceiling in a tone beyond annoyment.
As Frost arrived, Rogue seized another questioning look at their leader.
"Could you help Tinkerbell and Frostbite to get the two to the medlab as well? Got some irritating blonde vamp to carry, ya know"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life can be like a stone thrown in the sea. It creates waves, maybe changing something, maybe not, but no matter what it causes, every single wave will disappear into nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: A room with a view.
*Madison followed in after Frostbite. She looked around, what on earth was going on here? the she looked over to Spike and looked at Rogue.*
Madison: "Whoa, who's the blon-"
*She was cut off as Frost ran over to Riley and Zac, the she turned back to the vampire. She walked up to him her claws sliding out as she did.*
Madison: "Who are you and wha tdo you think you're doing?"
*The 17 year old scowled.*
"Could you help Tinkerbell and Frostbite to get the two to the medlab as well? Got some irritating blonde vamp to carry, ya know"
*She stopped in her tracks, she looke up to where Rogue was.*
Madison: "...Rogue...Please don't tell me you just said vamp, as in vampire-vamp..."
Re: A room with a view.
Rogue flashed a half-smile at Madison.
"Exactly sugah. Some blood drainin' ugly demon... this one's kinda cute though, 'm thinkin' about keepin' him as a pet"
she said jokingly in her southern accent.
"Has anyone of you seen Nocturne or Upgrade by the way? Sent them near the War Room... 'sides, if you got in then..."
Taking a look at where the icewall had been, she sighed.
"Ice?! Why haven't ya told me you already crushed the thing? Geeee.... ok girls, follow me! Gonna go to the MedLab. You can answer ma questions on the way, I guess."
Rogue flashed an excusing smile at Bobby "Sorry to play the leader here, but he's got some weight..." and flew in the MedLab's direction making sure she was just beneath the ceiling...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life can be like a stone thrown in the sea. It creates waves, maybe changing something, maybe not, but no matter what it causes, every single wave will disappear into nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: A room with a view.
"I thought u would have notice Rouge, kinda obvious now that u can walk down the corridor." Bobby retorted sarcastically with a grin. "OK, we should all get down to the med lab, these people need help."
Bobby walked over to Anna and helped his niece with the young unconcious form of Riley, taking him under the arm and following Rouge towards the med lab.....
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