Sharp Claws And Sharp Words: An X-Men Fanfiction

Chapter Seven: Healing and exchanging names.

Salus and I ran out the door and we never looked back.  For some reason, I don't feel any pain from the wound earlier.  Did Salus heal me?  But she didn't really touch me or anything.  I have no idea. 

Salus stopped the control of my legs with a flick of her finger.  I fell to the wet and dirty ground.  But I don't really care.  As long as we are away from them, then I don't really care.  I never trusted Magneto and the others.  But for Raven to side with them, that was a low blow.  I really don't have a reason not to trust them, but something is telling me not to trust them.  I guess that happened to Salus too.  Maybe she was just a little hesitant.

"Hey, Mira.  Are you alright?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Oh shut up, let me see that wound."

That stopped me for a second.  "Wait, you didn't just heal me a while ago?"  I asked her.  "What are you talkng about?  For me to heal you, we would have to stop in the middle of everything and even though I can heal you in just a few seconds, maybe one of them might have caught us.  So since the power to control you is more faster than healing, I did that so we could escape easier.  I needed us to be in a place so they wouldn't find us for now. Oh and you know what sucks about my mutation?"

"What is it?"

"It is kinda limited. So I kinda need to wait.  While we are doing that,  let's take a look on that wound shall we?"

As awkward as it is, I took off my shirt.  But strangely enough,  there is no wound nor scar.   "Salus, are you sure you didn't heal me during that escape?"  I asked her.  "I am pretty sure.  Since my mutation is limited, I can only do one thing at a time.  Is this part of your mutation?"  I stay silent for a moment.  "I don't know.  I don't know where this came from.  I never noticed it before.  When I was attacked by Ra-  I mean Mystique,  before I was in that building, I didn't really regenerate like this." 

Salus just shrugged.  "Maybe some mutants like ourselves discover more skills of our mutation can do.  For example, When I with Magneto, I accidentaly made this rat kill himself after I just healed him.  Ironic huh?"

"Yeah... really ironic.  I guess you have a point there." 

We were walking for a few minutes.  We didn't know where to go, so we went forward.

"So I have a question, Salus."

"What is it, Mira?"

"What does your name mean?"

"What, Salus?  Oh, yeah.  It's not really my real name.  Magneto named me this.  We all have these nicknames or whatever you call them so we could hide our real identity.  Or as Magneto says, 'get rid of our human names.'  In my opinion, I think that it gives people a clue about their mutation."

I process some of the information that was basically thrown at me.  "Well, I understand the names as a kind of clue, but the name Salus isn't really that much of a clue.  what does it mean."

"Salus means heath in latin."

"See?  Now I understand why your name is a clue.  It's kinda nice."

Salus was now silent for the rest of the trip to nowhere.  Then I follow her to this abandoned house.

"Where are we?"  I ask her.  "We're at my old house.  I know that it's not much, but it's all we got since we don't have any money or a job."

"You do know that there are still jobs open here.  It's hard to believe, I know.  But they are."

"Ok.  But can we worry about jobs later?  Right now, let's figure out who gets to sleep where."

"Ok."

We walked into the abandoned house.  Despite it's name of category, it was actually in good shape.  So was the furniture in the house.  There were couches, chairs, tables, and I saw a piano.  I walked over and played a few keys on it, and then it turned into a song.  I have just always loved playing the piano.  My mother taught me how to play when I was just little.  So this was like a little hobby of some sort.

"Oh, hey Mira!"

I quickly turn around, stumping my toe in the process. "Ow!  Um, yes, Salus?"

She giggled before answering.  "You know Salus isn't my real name right?"

I just shrugged.  "I person can have many names.  But I call you that because it's the only one I know."

"Well then, you can learn a new name and the real one."

She turned to walk away.  Just when she reached the archway of a door that has looks like it has been kicked down, she stopped.

"It's just Sarah.  Sarah Creed."

------AUTHOR'S NOTE----------

OK, for all the people who have read the Marvel comics or have done some reasearch or something, you might notice some references in some of this story.  I didn't mean to do references from the comics, just from the movies so everybody could understand it. (It was kinda Salus' fault!  It is hard to make an original mutant power!)  And most of it will be from the movies I promise!  But it kind of felt like I would have rewritten the whole movie like most X-men fanfictions would.  So I just wanted to change it up a little bit, since there are more comic books than movies.  If you don't understand it right now, you might understand it a little bit more if you read more. 

Ok, just wanted you guys to know ahead of time.

Just sayin',

Simply stating.

Bye.