X-TERMS

Chapter 3: The hero lives

"Foxe! Foxe!! WAKE UP FOXE YOU ASSHOLE!!!"

A voice calling for him and bright light woke Foxe from his mind. Oh God he hurt so damn bad, he groaned weakly and struggled to open his eyes as the voice that called him spoke again.

"Alex! Alex he is awake finally!"

He recognized that voice and whispered hoarsely,"G-Genovia..I'm alive?"

His voice sounded dry and his throat felt like sandpaper, how long had he been out? Where was he? Could they turn out that damned light so he could see!?

He heard two sets of footsteps one he recognized as Alex since she was always so light on her feet and walked with purpose no matter where she was. The other was a heavier set of male feet from the sound of it he was a man of decent stature and weight, had to be 180 maybe 200 pound..Foxe forced his eyes open.

There she stood her typically beautiful hair in shambles and her brown eyes full of tears and standing next to her a man of about five foot eight turquoise dyed hair and shining blue eyes with a raven seated on his shoulder.

"Alex,"croaked Foxe,"X-Term?!"

The man spoke first,"Leonard, Foxe. Hair, black, Eyes Violet, power over Shadows and Flame. Well met I am your doctor of sorts my name is Nox Thorn. You're lucky to be alive and please refrain from straining yourself you've been out for a week."

Alex spoke to him next softly,"You had us scared you bastard! If you weren't hurt I'd kill you! Good thing Genovia decided to come back to you..seeing you like that..oh god!"

Alex started crying again and Nox led her to a chair and gave her some tea. He walked back to Foxe and picked up his chart flipping pages and finally spoke.

"Impaled hands and torso, six broken ribs which have been reset. Swelling to lower jaw from repeated blunt force, and to top it off concussion from blunt force to back of skull."Nox shook his head and rubbed his temples,"I'm not sure who you pissed off man but damn guy almost killed you! Good thing X-Terms heal faster than normal humans. Your stitches are out but you'll be feeling pain for a while longer."

Foxe reclosed his eyes and tried to breath in deeply before the pain in his ribs stopped him, reset and healed..mostly but by the gods if it didn't still hurt. He slowly sighed and tried to swallow before speaking again.

"Am I..at X-Terms HQ?"

"Sadly no. Alex and your companion brought you to my house. There was no time to get you to a proper facility,"Nox tapped his raven,"Good thing Huginn here was out for a nightly jaunt and caught site of them or you my friend would pinned to a wall and dead."

"Not very thankful is he Nox?"crowed Huginn.

"Now Huginn give the man some respect he almost got carried away to death,"Nox flicked the raven's beak," Sorry about that Huginn never did learn to have manners let's get you up and going friend."

Nox gently sat Foxe up on the reclining bed and brought him a small cup of shining blue water, a typical survival liquid made by X-Terms R&D department. It consisted of water and power enhancing vitamins which also increased the healing factor that came with having majick.

Foxe downed the cup in one go and felt his throat become normal,"Thank you Nox! Never thought I'd be so happy to have this bitter shit!"

Nox laughed and refilled it,"Better get used to it man. It's part of your life for the next few days. So tell me who did this to you? Who did you piss off?"

"Colt Maynard coded Shadow,"said Foxe,"My oldest brother."

Huginn sqauked loudly, and Nox dropped the container of X-Terms water shattering it on the floor. Foxe looked up and everyone's eyes were on him, he sighed and began slowly.

"Alex I lied to you for so long...I had a family...I was born into the Leonard's family. They were one of two major assassin families, and I destroyed them both. Or so I thought, seeing as Colt survived."

Nox cleared his throat,"You're saying that your brother is the fucking Shadow!? Most wanted prick in all of Astos..no..the whole damned world!? And he beat you to death!?"

"Yes Nox! Keep it down my head still hurts!"winced Foxe.

"What have you gotten into Nox Thorn?"whispered Nox as he sat down head in hands.

Well beat to death, flashed back to killing his family and his once loving relationship with his brother to a strange doctor who was in the middle of a crisis now, what a way to wake up.