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Blood, Torment and Illumination	By : MyraThorne Category: X-Men: (All Movies) > Slash - Male/Male Views: 3625 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Authoress Note: I'm back! Well, book 2 is finally drawing to a close. Just the epilog to go! A note about the ending of this chapter. I am going somewhere with all of this. For Stryker, it was either this fate, or getting ravaged by bears. I decided this was the better ending.
Victor ran out of the Alkali Lake facility onto the roof close on the heels of Fred Dukes, who was currently calling himself “Mathildur” at the moment, with his nephew close beside him. Victor didn’t care what Maya or Moonlight said, he didn’t trust Daken one bit. But for now, he really didn’t have much of a choice.
Just as Moonlight had told him, Victor saw Wade trying to bend Jimmy into a more agreeable a position in one of several helicopters. Victor felt his blood staring to boil. He planned to personally remove Wade’s internal organs in alphabetical order.
He couldn’t hear what Jimmy was saying, but Victor could see his little brother reaching out to him as he tried to wriggle past Wade to get to Victor.
“Jimmy!” Victor called out. Wade’s head snapped around, his eyes widening as they settled on Victor. Victor felt his claws lengthening as he watched Wade reach for both of his swords. Maybe he wouldn’t be able to extract vengeance on Stryker, but Victor was willing to at least have the temporary satisfaction of gutting Wade for stealing his baby brother from him.
Mathildur licked her lips in anticipation. “Why don’t you let me handle the gorgeous little man who talks to much?” she/he suggested. “I can think of a few better uses for his mouth while you get your brother to Maya and Moonlight.”
Victor couldn’t help but shudder a little bit at the implications all of that entailed.   Fred and Wade was one image, but the idea of Mathildur and Wade didn’t sit quite right with Victor. Hell, even Wade didn’t deserve that. Victor could only imagine the damage Mathildur could inflict, and that was just the physical.
But right now, his main concern was getting his little brother back.
It seemed simple enough. Mathildur basically terrified Wade as a general principle, so he ran squealing like a stuck pig from Fred. Victor watched the antics of the two … men? with a look of mirth in his eyes.
It was in this moment that Daken made his move.
“Daddy?” he whispered in James’s ear. “Are you all right?” He had managed to take his uncle’s short moment of distraction to get to his father first.
Jimmy’s head lolled about his shoulders before lifting up enough to look at Daken. “Daddy?” he mumbled. “Ain’t no one’s… Daddy. I… Daken? Oh, god, Daken, get me outta here.”
“Of course I will, Dad,” Daken promised, hooking his hands under his father’s arm pits. “You and I are going to get out of here. I’m going to take you to a special place, where it’s going to be just the two of us.”
“Like hell you will.”
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Moonlight took a deep breath as she prepared to face off with Essex… Mr. Sinister. One of the best things about Nick Fury, as far as she was concerned, was that he didn’t need someone to explain a plan to him. A quick shared glance, and he and his agents sprang into action.
While the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents dealt with Sinister’s newest followers, Moonlight prepared to deal with Sinister himself. She made a mental note to pick a mutant body for her next life, because not having any kind of special powers what so ever was going to make this very difficult.
At least she had centuries of battle experience of her own to draw on.
She quickly found herself locked in combat with Sinister. Moonlight threw punches, and blocked kicks as best she could.
“Leave my baby sister alone, you son of a bitch!” Magnhildur roared as she tackled Sinister. She punched Sinister in the face, breaking his nose. Magnhildur glanced to Moonlight. “Romulus is gone, Moonlight.”
Snarling, Moonlight realized that Romulus had indeed disappeared on her. “He is not fucking this up!” she screeched.
“We can handle these fools,” Magnhildur promised. “Get out of here!”
Moonlight took off, knowing exactly where Romulus was going. She found her way to the roof, kicking the door open. She saw that Victor had his hands full with Wade, and that Daken was trying to abscond with his father.
“You and I are going to get out of here. I’m going to take you to a special place, where it’s going to be just the two of us,” Daken was saying to James
“Like hell you will,” Moonlight growled. She lunged at Daken, tackling him to the ground. Moonlight knew that she was no match for Daken, but she had to give Victor enough time to get over to James. All she needed was a few precious seconds-
“I killed you once, and I can kill you again!”
Romulus.
Perfect.
Moonlight knew she was running out of time.
Especially when Daken popped one set of his claws in her midsection as Romulus bit her jugular. She was dimly aware of her blood spraying everywhere.
Well, this sucks, she thought painfully. Moonlight desperately hoped Maya was up to finishing what had been started.
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Maya and Mathildur both shouted in horror and loss as they saw Moonlight’s fate.
But it was James who acted first.
Or, at least it was his body that acted first.
“Sorry, Romulus, but I don’t die that easy,” Moonlight snarled, cutting into Romulus’s chest with metal claws. “And this is bigger than either of us.”
Romulus staggered back, glowering at the woman who was in control of his lover’s body. “You were always so short sighted, my dear,” he snapped at her. “Despite your trying to manipulate everything, you could never see beyond your simple minded goal.”
“En Sabah Nur must be stopped,” Moonlight replied coldly. “I will do whatever it takes to do that. You are-“
“My dear, you really need to grow up,” Romulus cut her off. “En Sabah Nur will be stopped with or without you. True, it will be easier with your help, but I think you’ve lost sight of what exactly it is you are trying to accomplish.”
Maya had had enough. “You two can argue until you are blue in the face, but we are getting nowhere,” she snapped. “Romulus, I told you your place in these things a long time ago. The same goes for you, little sister. I’m going to do something I should have done years ago.”
“And what is that?” Romulus sneered.
“I’m going to interfere.”
“Maya, don’t!” Moonlight yelled.
“No, little sister,” Maya admonished. “Your time of interference is over. Like you, I know what must be done. What you have forgotten is how to be human, and it’s high time I helped you remember that. But first, we need to get things straightened out.”
Maya glared at Romulus. “James is not for you, of that much my sister was correct about. He has a great role to play yet, but it is not as your paramour.” She tipped her head to the side. “It time, old man, you must decide which side of the coming war you will be on.” Maya turned her attention to Daken. “As for you, boy, you are more trouble than you’re worth. I would kill you, but you have one role left to play. You won’t like it, but tough.”
“Maya, what the hell are you doing?” Moonlight growled.
“Rather than have all of this foolishness drawn out for hours or days on end, I’m just speeding this along to their natural conclusion,” Maya explained. “So, here is what is going to happen. Romulus, you are going to continue doing… whatever it is you do. But without James. Sorry, but he is just not in your future.
“Daken, you’re about to get a crash course in learning how to care for someone other than yourself. You are going to raise Moonlight in her new body.”
“Wait. What?” Moonlight shrieked.
Maya shook her head at her baby sister. “The Askani sisterhood cannot afford to have you not working to your full potential, Moonlight,” she explained, waving a hand at James/Moonlight. James crumpled as a ball of light was pulled out of his chest. Maya took the ball lovingly into her hands. “What better way for you to be reminded how to be human than to grow up all over again?”
Daken looked decidedly uncomfortable. “Yeah, I’m really not interested in fatherhood-“
“Tough shit, little boy,” Maya snapped. “Moonlight is not the only one who needs to do some serious growing up. You need a real responsibility. So, you are going to raise one of the people who is essential to the defeating of the man who will destroy the world if they fail. But don’t worry, you’re going to have some help. Wade Wilson is going to help you raise my little sister.”
“Say, what the fuck now?” Wade interjected. With Victor’s attention drawn away by Moonlight and Maya, he had been trying to sneak off.
Maya sighed. “You and Daken are going to raise Moonlight,” she explained before grinning darkly at the two men. “Good luck with that. Don’t fuck it up, or we’re all screwed.” Maya waved a hand, opening a portal that what appeared to be a very young girl fell out of. “I had this child created a few days ago. She comes from the two of you. Congratulations.”
Daken and Wade both looked either stunned or ill. It was kind of hard to tell.
The little girl looked at the two men in bewilderment. She then decided the best response was to suck her thumb.
Maya took the ball of light and held it over the little girl’s head. “Now, Moonlight isn’t going to remember who she is for at least twenty to twenty five years,” Maya continued. “That depends on when En Sabah Nur decides to make his move.” The light went into the child. Maya pushed the girl toward her two daddies.
“Um, what’s her, ah, what’s her name?” Daken asked, his throat suddenly very dry.
Maya shrugged. “I’m going to leave that up to you two,” she said. “Consider it the first hurdle into fatherhood.”
The little girl blinked at the two men before announcing, “I’m four an’ a half years old!”
Maya turned to Victor and James. “Now, for our arrangement, Victor. I will heal James’s mind, making him of one mind again.” She raised a hand in warning at Victor’s obvious joy. “But there is the matter of the price for my services. Including Moonlight, the others, and myself, there are seven Askani Sisters devoted to fighting En Sabah Nur. Now that things are mostly back on track, we will not be as active in your world. However, the seven sisters will be needed to fight the final battle. You know where one of them is. You and James must find the other six. This time, none of us were in proper bodies. We just used what we could find. But that won’t do in the end.”
Victor nodded. “How will I find them?” he asked.
“It’s not that easy,” Maya grinned. “Because if it was, En Sabah Nur could find them just as easily. I will give you hints as to where each one is as you go along. You will find the first of my sisters where Artemis should have been the day a great prince was born.”
Victor hated riddles. But before he could demand any more information, Maya walked over to James and took his hands in hers. She started speaking in some strange tongue, placing a hand on his forehead. James’s eyes rolled back in his head as he crashed to the ground.
“Remember, Victor, all I did was put your brother’s mind back together,” Maya said. “It will be up to you to fix the rest of it. Don’t fail us, Victor, or the world will be destroyed.”
Victor watched with the others as Maya and Mathildur vacated their host bodies.
It took him a moment to realize that they were really on their own now.
“Papa, what’s my name?” the little girl asked, taking Wade’s hand in her own. “Why is the sky blue? Which one of you is my mommy? Can I have a puppy? I want some ice cream. When can we go get ice cream? What’s the capital of Assyria?”
Daken and Wade looked at each other helplessly.
Victor noticed his little brother regaining consciousness. “Wha’ the fug jus’ happen?” James slurred, struggling to get his feet underneath him with Victor’s help.
It was going to be a long day for everyone. Victor noticed that Romulus seemed to have disappeared.
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As a general rule of thumb, Romulus was not against what the Askani Sisterhood was trying to accomplish. He, too, had butted heads with En Sabah Nur over the years. It was just that they also seemed rather interested in getting in his way as well.
And while Moonlight he could deal with, Romulus knew better than to try and go against Maya. She had a nasty habit of ruining everyone’s day. Why, just look at what she had done to poor Daken!
Romulus was not going to be saddled with another progeny from that family again. Though it would probably be in his best interest to take a hand in guiding the child’s upbringing.
It would be good to have one of those damned sisters on his side for a change.
Unfortunately for Romulus, he was so busy plotting, that he was not paying much attention to where he was going.
Romulus walked right into Nick Fury. Well, more like he tripped over Nick Fury, sending both men sprawling in an undignified heap on the floor.
Snarling, Romulus tossed the man off of himself, only to find twenty guns aimed at him.
“Shit,” Romulus muttered.
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William Stryker decided it was high time to get the hell out of Alkali Lake while the getting was good. Things were getting to weird for him (and he worked with Wade Wilson on a regular basis). Talk of world domination, possessed people, and then another government agency were all sure signs to Stryker that it was time to go.
And so it came to be that one Williams Stryker was running through the woods with a suitcase of money and whatever research he could stuff into it while trying to find the car that David North had assured him was hidden out here somewhere.
But instead of finding this car, he found himself nose to nose with a group of aliens.
“Hey, here’s one! We can take him, too!”
Stryker blinked. “What the fuck?” he asked.
“You have been chosen for a great purpose, human!” the alien who was obviously the leader intoned grandly to him. “You will come with us for the great experiments of our Most Glorious Emperor D’Ken so that you may be of great service to the Shi’ar Empire!”
All you need to know for now, is that Stryker’s fate involved a lot of probing.
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