The Mystics

Chapter 1 - The Dream

Bobby
The mansion starts shaking. It's probably Jean again. Jean Grey has the most powerful mind in the world. It was three o'clock in the morning and everyone in the mansion is asleep. The last time an incident like this happened, it was in 80s. Jean Grey reacted to the awakening of the most powerful mutant: Apocalypse. The shake was subtle and stops almost immediately.

They are lying naked on opposite side of the bed, Bobby and Dré, a blanket is over them. They hear glasses breaking, like someone is breaking it out of anger. They rise up of the bed suddenly.

"What the hell was that?" Dré asked.

"I'll go check on Jean. Go get the professor," Bobby commanded as he gets to his feet and run out of the door. In an instant, he is in his ice form.

Dré leapt from the bed, grabbed his bathrobe, and jump off through the window.

Bobby exited through the door. He was running like crazy. His senses beyond human.

Dré
He was fast asleep with Bob until a strong tremor woke them up. Bobby said to get Professor X while he check on Jean. This is bad. Really, really bad. The last time Jean acted like this was when a very terrible mutant had awoken.

His feet is leading him through the wide and long corridors of the mansion. Soon, he's outside the professor's room. He knocked on the door. The door opened quickly. He was on his wheelchair.

"Professor, we need you to go check on Jean," said Dré.

"Let's see what's Jean's nightmare all about this time," Professor Xavier said as they head down the hallway.

Bobby
Bobby is soon outside Jean's room. Fifteen minutes has passed when Dré arrived with the professor from a different hallway. They probably told every nosy kid in the mansion to go back to their bed.

"Is she doing it again?" Bobby asked as the professor approached the room.

"Let's see what we can find," the professor said.

Jean is lying on her bed, blanket covering half of her body. Her eyes squeezed shut. Her head is moving from side to side.

Storm, Logan, Scott, and Beast arrived.

"What happened?" Storm asked.

"We don't know," answered Dré. "We all went to bed after dinner. We were tired after training the children. The house started shaking and we all rushed to get here."

Storm looked around. Not sure what she should be doing. Everyone seems to have the same feeling. Everyone has crowded into the room, everyone sharing a look of uncertainty except for the professor.

"This is bad," Scott mumbles as he get to Jean's side. He brushed her hair off her sweaty forehead. His hands are shaking badly, scared for Jean, perhaps.

Gently, the professor grabbed Jean's hands. He closed his eyes. He started calling Jean's name. He's inside her head.

And then the professor is walking to a city that is in full chaos. Snakes, crows, cats, and other monsters are feasting on civilians' dead bodies. He looked on the other side of the city, a giant fire snake is devouring the city, burning everything and everyone on its way. The giant fire snake is under the manipulation of the man in black dress robe. The man sees him and set the fire snake to him.

As the giant fire snake made its way towards Charles, the professor closed his eyes, focus, and shouts "Jean, wake up!"

Jean snapped her eyes open. She could feel the hot and sticky sweat all over her body. Her mouth tastes like dry metal.

"Voldemort," Jean murmured. "He is coming with an army of monsters."

"Can we stop him," Storm asked.

"There's no way. He's too powerful and he's coming with an army of monsters," Professor X said.

"What can we do?" Dré asked.

It was Bobby who answered the question. "So we fight," he said like its not a big deal.

"We can't win," growled Logan. "We're gonna break like toothpicks against Dee and Voldemort's fear manipulation."

"Well, we have no choice. We can't run. John Dee can see quite a lot. He has the ability to see in every animal's eyes," Jean said.

"Don't forget our responsibility to the school," reminded Storm. "We can't abandon the children in times of crisis like this."

"I have a proposal," the professor said. "We have friends all over the world. We don't have to fight alone. In New York, we have the stage illusionist and the sorcerer supreme."

"What about the Scarlet Witch in Denver?" asked Beast. They almost forget he was there because he's unbelievably silent. "She's known for her mind-control abilities. I believe she can stand against the dark lord's mind manipulation."

In the past, the dark lord took pleasure in invading the minds of his victims. He could create visions designed to torture them into insanity. Only when they're begging for death would he finally kill them.

"Maybe."

The professor seems too deep in his thoughts to speak; Finally, he met everyone's gaze and then cleared his throat.

"Suit up," the professor said to Logan, Beast, & Scott. "We have to surround the mansion." The professor turned to Jean after and said "Go find the Maximoff girl in Denver. Get to the sorcerer supreme and to the homo magi in New York after. Help them guard protect the eye of agamotto. Take Storm, Bob, and Dré with you."

Jean rose from her bed and started packing.

Storm left the room to prepare.

Bobby grabbed Dré's hand and began pulling him toward the door. "Come on, Dré. We have to hurry!" Dré followed quickly. They darted out the door.

Dré
Hidden inside Dré and Bob's closet was a box full of black suits. While Bob is taking a quick shower in the bathroom, Dré headed to the bath tub. There's a shower in there too. He turned on the shower and the cold water began to run down on his big, muscular, brown body. He likes cold showers. It wakes him up better than an espresso shot. He wasted no time and scrub his body with a bar soap right away.

Dré realized he'd be on a war again. This fight would be different because the last time he was on a battle field, it was against the X-Men and Bob...... In the middle of the fight, when he heard the god he was loyally serving insulted one of the guards who died protecting him, he switched side. He can't follow a god who doesn't have his back. So, he pierced his pierced his swords through his lord's chest and killed him.

Once he was done showering, he hurried off to their bedroom and put on the suits. Bob got there a minute after him. He's fully suited already. Seeing his beloved in that look made his blood rise. As much as Dré would love to do something wild and passionate, they were in a hurry. So he ignored his fantasy and dressed himself as quickly as he could.

"Let's go to war," Dré said, slipping his weapons into the empty sheaths on his back: Clarent on the left, excalibur on the other.

"Right," Bobby shifts into his ice form. "Let's win this war."