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Post by Rowan 'Mac' McKinnon on May 5, 2008 3:42:59 GMT 1
Mac grabbed her head as she struggled to push the burning back down. She didn't want to kill anyone! Too much death..
"rrrr-AAAAARGGHH!!!" and again fire burst from her hands as she flung them out to the side. One fireball hit an empty table, the other narrowly missed one of the fleeing customers before hitting the counter. It caught fire the flames spreading quickly. "NN-N-NO!...Help!"
THe linolium on the floor beneath her feet was bubbling and warping with the heat she was generating. "Stop me! PLease!" She begged as her eyes cast sightlessly about herself. Not again, please. she couldn't have a blow out here. So many people would die! "Unh...NYAAAAH!" And with that her body was surrounded by a funnel of flame. She did her best to channel it upwards. And it licked across the ceiling.
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Post by Spencer Lee on May 8, 2008 16:15:55 GMT 1
The heat was unbearable. Almost everyone had gotten out by now but Kitty well she hadn't. Why hadn't she. Maybe she though she could help the girl who was now screaming for help. Maybe this is why Kitty was brought here. Not only to stop Max but to help people like her. Train them. Make them work for the government. Saving life's.
Kitty's body was now floating off the ground her body phasing from the heat. She couldnt let the heat hurt her. The fire it was everywhere. She hated fire. Really hated fire.
Kitty looked around for anything to use. She noticed her laptop melting to the ground. She wanted nothing more then to shout and rave about it. She just lost everything she had on it.
But she had to stop flame girl over there first. She hovered to the counter phasing though it as she got to the tap. It was too hot to touch. With out a doupt... Kitty scanned again as a fire ball hurled at her. Dropping to the ground she phased though the floor. Missing the fire only just.
She had the idea. 'Please work please work please work'
She grabbed the girls legs as her body popped up from the ground grabbing as much as as she could she dragged the girl though the ground. No oxygen meaning no fire. She wasn't called a geek for no reason. Holding her breath and the girl making them both phase though the floor she wait a moment till the fire was out. It was risky by far if she stayed under there too long the girl could die.
Soon she pulled her self and the women back up though the ground at the back of the shop. Gasping for air she hoped the girl would be alright.
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Post by Rowan 'Mac' McKinnon on May 8, 2008 23:06:07 GMT 1
Just when Mac thought things couldn't get any worse, they ofcourse did. She felt something grab her legs and a strange tingling sensation all over her skin. Next thing she knew everything was black, there was no air and she felt like the building had fallen on her.
An overwhelming pressure surrounded her for what felt like forever. She couldn't move!
'Christ I'm dead!' was her only thought.
And then suddenly the world was back. She was on the thankfully flameless floor of what appeared to be a store room. Gasping and coughing like she had been choked. She had time to acknowledge her entire body was pins and needles, before rolling to her side and being violently sick.
"Bugger!" she rasped her throat croaky and raw. Raising her eyes she stared at the girl beside her. She didn't know how but she'd stopped her. Mac owed her big.
"Thanks." She craoked. "Now what?"
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Post by Spencer Lee on May 9, 2008 9:43:22 GMT 1
By now Kitty had gotten used to phasing. She remembered what she was like on her first time. She couldn't move after walking though the wall, then came the sick. Then the dizziness. It was really something that made her not want to Phase again but she got used to it, she had to.
She pulled back strands of her hair from her face as she stood up her eyes adjusting to the light outside. She could hear the fire men yelling and putting out the fire. She hoped no one had gotten hurt in the fire.
Looking around the back of the shop she saw two exits onto the main street. They needed to get away before the cops catch them. True she could just phase though them she didn't want this girl to blow them up. She really didn't fancy phasing with the girl again. It was way to risky for her. She seemed to be doing that alto lately. Doing things that could really damage herself. Maybe she was just testing her self.
"Come on we need to get out of here now" Kitty said looking down at the girl as she was sick, making her so wish she hadn't seen that. we. Grabbing the girls hand she helped her up from the ground. The girls legs still a little supplely which was to be expected. Moving slowly but promptly they moved out of the alley making there way onto the packed street. People where gathering around to see what had happened with the coffee shop. Pushing past people they made it across the room looking out at the mess the women had caused.
"Do you wanna tell me what the hell happened back there?" Kitty said turning looking at the women resting on the wall.
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Post by Rowan 'Mac' McKinnon on May 11, 2008 2:06:57 GMT 1
Mac's legs felt like they didn't really belong to her. She was shaky still and as soon as she stood she felt like vomiting again. Fortunately (if that was the right word) her stomach was now empty so she just coughed and hacked a bit as she followed the other girl out and into the crowd.
"Do you want to tell me what the hell happened back there?"
Rowan met the others gaze squarely. "'Pends, dunnit." She rasped, her Scots accent thickened by the stress she was under. Not that it was all that light to begin with. "Ye gonnae tell me what y'did?"
She could feel her strength returning rapidly and stood a bit straighter as she evened out her breathing. She took the opportunity to check her clothes. Huh. Not a mark. handy that.
"Ma mut'nt." She stated boldly. "N ever since I got here. Th' burnin's gotten....stronger. Dunno why. "
She looked off for a minute. a muscle flicking in her jaw. She hated having to say this, but...
"Thanks...If ye hadnae done...whatever!" She paused again before meeting the others eyes again. In for a penny. "When m'powers first activated I had a blow out. I was oan a school trip at th' time. There's Ten miles o' the Scottish Highlands nothin' but ash and 243 people no more'n dust on th'wind. I'd known 13 of them since I was 6." Her mouth twisted into an approximation of a smile. "Congratulations Darlin'. Y'just saved half th' town from bein razed t' the ground!"
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Post by Spencer Lee on May 11, 2008 8:50:14 GMT 1
Kitty tried to understand what she was saying but with her accent Kitty was pretty much having trouble but she though she got the jift of it. Something about killing a bus full of kids on a trip. Nothing but dust huh.
When she said congrats to Kitty for saving half of the town this didn't make her feel all warm and fuzzy inside. What if Kitty hadn't been there to stop her. What if shes not again. What if the mutant blows and kills half of Misery.
"And theres me thinking you just needed anger management" Kitty responded. "Why cant you control your power?" She asked the women who was watching the fire of the coffee shop begin to die down as the fire men put it out. There was a big thick black cloud hanging over this area of Misery now. Global Warming isn't going to like that.
Kitty was wondering why she was even still talking to this girl she hates fire yet she finds her self standing trying to help this women who could quite frankly kill half of the town. She needed Kitty's help though.. and she wasn't going to stop helping just because of her silly little fear.
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Post by Rowan 'Mac' McKinnon on May 11, 2008 13:53:12 GMT 1
Rowan thought mulled over how best to answer this question. She wasn't sure why she was telling the girl all this. of course she owed her for shutting her down before she did any lasting damage to anyone. And she did remind her of....Not thinking that now.
"I can. Usually." She answered. "Understand, my 'gift' isn't something that switches on an' off really. It's more like a river an' I'm a dam. Used tae be every coupla weeks I'd find somewhere quite and let loose f'r a couple a hours an' then I'd be fine f'r a nother coupla weeks again." She paused again to collect her thoughts.
"But there's something here. In Misery. Something that's swelled the river an' I'm not catchin' up quick enough." She ran a hand through her hair and sighed before straightening with a grim look of determination on her face. "But I will!"
Suddenly her mood shifted and she smiled crookedly at the girl. "M'names Rowan by the way. Most call me Mac though." The smile turned decidedly wicked and her eyes twinkled. "Figure seein' as how I tried to chargrill ye an you did your thing we might as well know each others names."
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Post by Spencer Lee on May 12, 2008 22:28:19 GMT 1
Wasn't this place stood on some kind of mystic energy or what not. Well that was what she herd the government talking about. Which was one of the reasons why Max couldn't be allowed to get the town if he dose then maybe he will use that to his own advantage.
Kitty nodded and smiled "I'm Katherine Pryde but most people call me Kits or Kitty. Really take your pick" Katherine said as she agreeded the least they could do was tell each others names. But where would they go from here. I mean Kits just stopped the women from killing people it wasn't something Kitty could just let go i mean what if it dose happen again.
"I actually wasn't sure if it would work or not, I'm not a fan of fire or my gift isn't" Kitty said making some sort of conversation. "What brings you to Misery?" Kitty asked. Everyone had a reason for being here. There was something about this place. It brought anyone powerful or with meaning here. There must be something to it.
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Post by Rowan 'Mac' McKinnon on May 14, 2008 1:43:08 GMT 1
Rowan paused. Was there a reason she had come to this town? THinking back, she remembered being at the bus depot, and being told she had only enough money for two destinations. Misery or some place called Treyville or some such. She'd thought she had picked Misery randomly, but had she been drawn here? Was fate pulling her down some path she couldn't see herself?
"huh." she muttered. "Don' rightly know, Spooky. Thought it was just as far as my coin could take me. But now that ye mention it....." Glanging at the other from the corner of her eye she added. "What about you? What's a friendly ghost like yersel' doin' in a wee town like this? Ye look more big city t'me."
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Post by Spencer Lee on May 14, 2008 5:54:45 GMT 1
"Believe me id rather be in the city" Kitty went on. Wondering if she had not taken this job she could have been in the city doing what she did best. Alot of her old jobs had been in city's helping people in hostage such and all. Seeing as she could Phase it was the perfect thing for her to do after the.. the accident. She lost a few good men out there. They never trusted her again until now. But maybe they just sent her to the little town because no one would miss her or the town if it fell...
"I'm working in the department of Science" She lied. "Shouldn't be here any longer then they need me" She lied again. She was going to have to be around here for a while and she knew it. With no leads on Max and his team she was stuck.
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