Reuniting the Family
The large green lizard-man had disappeared, now a woman, her long blonde hair tied tightly into a high pony tail as she carried a young girl, holding her as if she was asleep.
Phoebe made her way towards the hideout for the new brotherhood, climbing the porch, another hand reaches out from her ribs, this third hand opens the door and she carries the girl into the house.
Nervously glancing about, Phoebe's form shifts to her natural state, her shorter red hair and blue skin now visible as she places the girl down on the couch.
Phoebe:"Hush little sister, everything will be ok."
She said softly as the girl groaned while asleep, her blue human like fingers gently stroking some of her fringe behind her pointed ear.
*From the shadows of the room Mystique watched her daughter bring in another. She stayed quiet and walked over to the side of the couch. She let out a slight chuckle as her daughter talked to whoever she had brought in with her*
Mystique: "Sister? Now, no-"
*She looked down to Aris, and stoped in mid speech. The blue fur, it seemed familiure, then again the girl did look around 13...And 13 years was a long time, it couldn't be...Could it? But how did Phoebe find out about her?*
Mystique: "How did you find out about her?"
*She asked angrily, looking back to Phoebe. She knew this wasn't right, now wasn't the time. The Brotherhood was low on members, and Xaviers were getting more by the day. If Wolverine found out about this...No...She was her daughter too, she had every right to spend time with her. She looked back down to Aris.*
Mystique: "Arisa, how you've grown. What things have those X-Men put in your mind about humans?"
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Aris could hear a voice speaking as if from far away as she was gently laid down on a soft surface,
Hush little sister, everything will be ok
She felt the soft touch of her hair being brushed out of her face, she could remember when her dad would do that when she was young, though of course he never did anymore.
Sister? Now, no-
How did you find out about her?
Right about now Aris began to feel her senses comeback, the voices no longer sounded far away but she didn’t recognize them either.
Arisa, how you've grown. What things have those X-Men put in your mind about humans?
Began to slowly open her eyes as her mind continued to clear up, and she began to recognize the woman’s words as more than just sounds...wait...how did she know her name??
“Wha?” She groaned as she opened her eyes fully and took a look at her surroundings, there were two women...one looked older than the other...but they were both blue...
“WHAT THE?!” She shouted in panic as she rolled right off the couch at the two women’s feet. Her claws shot out of her hands as she formed fists, and she jumped into a crouched down feline-like position on the floor,
She stopped dead in her tracks and rose up to her feet slowly, staring up at Mystique with wide eyes as her claws retracted back into her hands, leaving her knuckles trickling small amounts of blood as they slowly healed,
“M....mother?”
Aris couldn’t remember ever being so confused, afraid, shocked, and yet oddly happy at the same time. Edited by: WolfChild13 at: 5/21/03 12:06:49 pm
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Phoebe glared over at Mystique, folding her blue-hued arms angrily at her mothers questions.
Phoebe:"You honestly thought I'd never find out about her? Or the others? I saw you head off and watch over that fuzzy girl, only needed to put blue and blue together and realize she was related to you somehow, followed her to the school, and found this one instead."
Placing her hands on her hips Phoebe glared at her mother.
Phoebe:"Spit it out mother, exactly why have you been going behind my back regarding sisters and brothers I never knew I had! I discovered everyone from the old brotherhood already knows Kurt Wagner is your son! You all just forgot to mention that I have a brother, a sister, and now I find out I have a neice aswell!"
The red head looked over at Aris.
Phoebe:"Arisa, Talia, Kurt, they're all so far away from us! But don't think I'll find them, I'll find all of them mother...we're family, and that's what matters."
Phoebe's ruby lips gave Arisa a loving smile.
Phoebe:"We're not going to hurt you, I just thought...you'd like to meet us....I'm...I'm you're older sister, Phoebe."
Her yellow eyes studied the young mutant carefully, wondering how she'd react to being brought here, but from the sound in her voice, there was a part of her that was glade to be here.
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Aris listened in complete confusion to the other young woman talk to Mystique, unaware that her hands had stopped bleeding.
Aris saw er kind smile, and then heard: We're not going to hurt you, I just thought...you'd like to meet us....I'm...I'm you're older sister, Phoebe."
"W...wait a minute.." She stuttered, looking over at Mystique, "I have another big sister?!"
She felt a familar stinging in her eyes that thretened to bring forth tears,
"Why..." She looked up at Mystique with a pained expression, "Why...why didn't you ever come for me? Why did you never even drop in? Not even my own sister knew I existed!," at this point she felt her eyes watering up and she looked down, away from them, "No one would have had to have known..." she whispered.
She wasn't sure weither she should do what she was always told to do, and try to get away, or if she should stay...she had wanted to meet her mother for so long, and now she had a sister too.
She could feel all the anger of having to explain to everyone she met that she didn't know her mother, and that she really didn't even have one.
Edited by: WolfChild13 at: 5/21/03 4:15:38 pm
*She stayed quiet as her angry daughter spoke, letting hersay everything she had to.*
Phoebe:"Spit it out mother, exactly why have you been going behind my back regarding sisters and brothers I never knew I had! I discovered everyone from the old brotherhood already knows Kurt Wagner is your son! You all just forgot to mention that I have a brother, a sister, and now I find out I have a neice aswell!"
*She let out a sigh, it was time for the truth to come out.*
Phoebe:"Arisa, Talia, Kurt, they're all so far away from us! But don't think I'll find them, I'll find all of them mother...we're family, and that's what matters."
Mystique: "I have not told you because you weren't ready. I know how you are about family, I knew you would do something like this. Do you know what the X-Men will do once they find her missing? They'll..."
*Her voice trailled off as her younger daughter talked.*
Aris: "Why...why didn't you ever come for me? Why did you never even drop in? Not even my own sister knew I existed!" ... "No one would have had to have known..." "
*She walked over to Aris and stroked her hair.*
Mystique: "It's not easy, but I have been there, watching you, silently..."
*She looked up looking to Phoebe, holding Aris' hands.*
Mystique: "Her father...He was an X-Men, Wolverine, the one with the claws I told you about...Nobody here knows of Arisa-...Kurt your brother, the truth is, I told him about you. He didn't want himself or his daughter to have anything to do with us..."
*She said, changing the subject midway through her talk, her voice trailing off as she finished. She turned her head down to Aris, letting go of her hands.*
Mystique: "I'm sorry...But if Magneto found out about you and everything that happened those years ago...It wouldn't be pretty"
*She shook her head, recalling how she had to morph out of her normal state everytime she was near Magneto, what she had just said was part of the truth.*
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Phoebe's eyes widend in disbelief.
Phoebe:"You mean...Father isn't aware, no one? ...My own brother wanted nothing to do with me?"
Her eyes dropped to the floor as that sank in..
Phoebe:"Why? What happend? What did I do to have him dislike me so much?"
She asked hurtfully.
Phoebe:"If her father is an X-Men, then does that mean.."
The red head looked over at Aris, realizing the X-Men would come after her and take her away again.
Phoebe:"...Can you believe that! Our family is trying to keep us apart!"
She protested.
Phoebe:"Why don't you stay here, with us, just for a short time? Please, just so we can spend some time together...before they came for you...before you're stolen away again..."
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Aris listened in silence as her mother explained everything to her. She felt her run her hands through her hair softly and was comforted for a minute, and she believed her.
Why don't you stay here, with us, just for a short time? Please, just so we can spend some time together...before they came for you...before you're stolen away again...
Aris was silent for a second or two. It was true, if she stayed here for even another few minutes she would be diobaying numerous people, the Profesor, her father, Storm... But she had been waiting to meet her mom for years, she couldn't pass this up,
Aris: "But...how do I stay without them coming to look for me? Surely they will, and even if somehow they don't look here then when I come back they'll want to know where I've been. What could I say?"
She looked down, a torn look on her face,
Aris: "And my Brother and Sister, Connor and Madison are just now healing..."
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*She looked at Phoebe, she could have just as easily told her the truth, but she'd just go after him trying to bring Kurt here. It just wasn't right having X-Men run around the Brotherhood.*
Mystique: "Phoebe, you were young then, very young, you did nothing wrong. Kurt just did not want to be part of our family, anymore..."
*She looked at her youngest child.*
Aris: "But...how do I stay without them coming to look for me? Surely they will, and even if somehow they don't look here then when I come back they'll want to know where I've been. What could I say?"
Mystique: "Don't worry about them for now, for we can spend some time together."
*She looked around, making sure there was no sign of Magneto, luckily he was too busy to be wandering around for no reason.*
Aris: "And my Brother and Sister, Connor and Madison are just now healing..."
*She recalled a few trips to the institute where she had seen Aris with the two other mutants, her other family. Mystique began to wonder what she meant by them 'healing', she could find that out later. She sat herself on the couch which Phoebe had put Aris on earlier.*
Mystique: "Arisa, sit."
*Now was also a good time to find out what was happeneing at the Institiute recently, but she would have to ease her way into it, so Aris would not get cluey.*
Mystique: "Now, tell us, what has been going on with you? Don't be afraid to hide anything, we're family."
Re: Reuniting the FamilyMystique: "Don't worry about them for now, for we can spend some time together."
Aris furrowed a brow, that didn't make much sense, they were bound to come looking for her, and if they did then both Mystique and Phoebe could be in some serious trouble, and Aris would get the whole 20-20 questions for sure...
Mystique: "Arisa, sit. Now, tell us, what has been going on with you? Don't be afraid to hide anything, we're family."
Uh oh, Aris thought silently, giving her Phoebe a quick glance, this was where it got tricky. She hadn't yet decided if staying here was wrong of her...after all, hadn't she been told over and over again that she was never to trust Mystique? But this was her mother she was talking about...her family... Heh, she thought to herself, a part of my family that has never even said so much as Hello before now.
She glanced at Phoebe again, but it wasn't her fault...she never knew... and Mystique didn’t have any choice.She took a seat next to her mother tensely. She had to be very careful about what she said, she’d been told that her mother was very pervasive…and manipulative…
Aris: “Er…” She stuttered, looking down at her bare feet, “Nothing to much….I’ve made some new friends lately…and worked on my animal transformations..”
She let her voice fade and continued to look down, her hair falling in her face and helping to hide her face. The little girl in her was fighting for control and threatening to tell Mystique everything…
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*Mystique looked at her daughter as she spoke, she gave a friendly smile. She could tell Aris was holding stuff back. She watched as she held her head down.*
Mystique: "What have those at the institute said about me? I can tell you're holding back. Is it what they said that's holding you back?"
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Phoebe folded her arms, already mother was trying to get the inside scoop with the X-Men, couldn't she back off and allow her kids some get-together time?
Afterall, she had a lifetime to catch up on that she's missed of her sister. But instead of complaining and making things worse she unfolded her arms and placed them on her hips.
Phoebe:"So you're a changling aswell? So am I! Anyother tricks other then those claws of yours?"
She asked with an impressed tone in her voice.
Phoebe:"What about your adopted family, did they treat you alright?"
She asked, however her tone grew worried and filled with concern over what might have occured in her child hood away from her true family.
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Phoebe:"So you're a changling aswell? So am I! Any other tricks other then those claws of yours?"
Aris: “Just one,” she said with a smile as she stood up, “It’s not that easy to do though, it takes even more energy than holding an animal form,”
She stood up, and concentrated on the broken ceiling fan hanging rather precariously above them, and before anyone could even blink where Aris was standing there was only a puff of blue, brimstone smelling, smoke. But up hanging by her tail from the ceiling fan was Aris coughing and waving her arms around to help clear the smoke away. She grinned down at her sister and mother, and then in another poof of smoke was back down on the ground standing next to Phoebe.
Aris: “Phew…better not do that again, I’m feeling a bit light headed…” She reached up and brushed sweat off her soaked forehead, “I try to avoid doing that if I can, it takes way to much energy,”
She sat down cross legged on the floor and looked up at Phoebe,
Phoebe:"What about your adopted family, did they treat you alright?"
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There was a slight change in Phoebe's mood, she was glade her sister wasn't hurt by her adopted family.
Phoebe:"Those are neat powers, I'm sure they're very handy at times little sister, you're a force to be feared by those who wish you harm and respected by any person."
Each word her elder sister had spoken where filled with pride, she looked over towards their mother as if expecting her to say something.
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*Mystique watched Aris's performance, she smirked. It was true what Phoebe had said, her powers would be fear by those against her. Powers such as these could be useful for the Brotherhood, but now was not the time to recruit her youngest daughter.*
Mystique: "Well, it's good to see that your other family is looking after you."
*She paused, before changing the subject.*
Mystique: "I'm sure with the right training your powers could be extremely dangerous."
*She smirked again at her daughters power.*
Mystique: "If you are ever in the mood for training, feel free to ask us."
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Aris could feel her face flush with pride at both her sister and mother's words. Of course she herself didn't see her powers as such gifts, when she teleported she often wound up someplace she didn't even reconised and fainted, the same went for shifting, it made her tired and weak and she had to be careful about what she changed into.
Mystique: "I'm sure with the right training your powers could be extremely dangerous. If you are ever in the mood for training, feel free to ask us."
Aris furrowed her brow slightly, again wondering if training with the very people she was to be fighting against was wrong, but there could be some very definite advantages to training with other shapeshifters. There were just things that her father and other siblings couldn't help teach her, but maybe Phoebe and her mother could...
Aris: "I would like that," She smiled as her tail flicked behind her figure like a whip, "I'd like that alot. How should I contact you?"
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*A smile returned to the mothers face as her daughter agreed to training.*
Mystique: "...Contact us?"
*She opened her mouth to speak again, but quickly closed it. She couldn't just have Aris teleport in. Not only did it make Aris tired, but what if Magneto saw her? No, there had to be another way...*
Mystique: "Alright, once a week or so myself, or Phoebe will come down to the institute, disguising ourselves as one of the students, to come and get you. You'll know it's us."
*It might be a bit risky for that to happen, like if she or Phoebe happen to walk past the student they had shifted into or Xavier, Jean or another psychic mutant happened to notice them. But after all, it was all for the better of her daughter and Mystique may not end up sticking to her word.*
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The next morning, Phoebe was easily the first to wake from her family, awoken by the yelling in one of the other rooms, she had angrily made her way to the door that was housing the loud mutants.
Opening the door, she witnessed an argument between ne of the new members and an older member, both complaining over the other's sleeping habits. One complaining the other snored while the other complained he shifted about to much, with a growl, the shapeshifter gave both a cold stare.
Phoebe:"My little sister is here, behave yourselves, otherwise mother will be unhappy!"
Both seemed to instantly sink back into their beds as Mystique's daughter slammed the door closed, then made her way down into the entrance hall. She slumped herself on the couch and thought over what was to happen between her sister and herself. In a sense, if she returned to the X-Men, would that make them enemies? She wasn't sure she was able to fight her little sister....not after all she went threw simply finding out about her.
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