ShadowCat And The X-Men (Book 1)

Chapter 16

We had been inside the caves for a while and the biology teacher had been explaining things, I didn't care enough to really pay attention.

I only took part in this program for the extra credit.

In my boredom, I saw Anne walking deeper into the cave and I punched Scott on the arm.

"Ouch," he winced and I turned his head with my hand to Anne's direction.

We sneaked out of the professor's lecture, grabbed our flashlights and followed Anne into the darkness of the cave.

We lost her.

I was looking around with my flashlight, but then I heard a quiet “Wow” from Scott’s direction.

I turned to see what he was looking at and saw a beautiful waterfall.

I walked next to Scott as we both got closer to it.

But then I noticed something Scott hadn't, there was a huge gap between the ground we were standing on and the waterfall.

I grabbed his arm sternly before he could take a step further and he looked at me in confusion.

I pointed my flashlight to the gap and he gasped, taking some steps back.

"Oh God, thank you," he said and I smiled in return.

"You're welcome." 

I walked closer to the gap shinning the area, the gap led to a river. I wonder where could it further lead to, maybe another waterfall outside the cave.

"What do you want from me?" Both Scott and I jumped in surprise when we suddenly heard Anne’s voice.

"We don't want anything from you," I answer, louder than I expected.

"Well, except maybe your friendship," Scott said smiling slightly at her.

Scott was really trying to help her.

"Wanna know what I want? The truth. Am I a target for you and your X-Freaks?" she asked getting closer to us.

What had Mystique done to her? 

What had we done to her? 

I didn't say anything, how could we even explain something like this.
She trusts and believes whatever lie Mystique tells her.

We are the bad guys in the story Mystique narrated for her.

There is really nothing we can do about it.

But I am not ready to give up on her, not yet.

Neither did I, nor Scott said anything.

"It's true, isn't it? I know all about your stimulation battle, the one that I'm the enemy,” she said her voice cracking and she begun to walk away.

This was exactly what Scott was afraid of, maybe he knows Anne better than we do.

"No! That's not true, we don't want to hurt you, we actually never did," I said and she stopped walking, she turned to face us.

Scott took a step closer to her, but Anne kept a distance between us.

"It's complicated, but we want you with us," Scott, and I don't really think this was the best moment to say that.

"Oh yeah? Well, sorry not interested!" she said and started to walk away again.

"Hey we're have you guys been?" the blonde boy with brown eyes known as Paul, Scott's friend, said and walked to the scene.