Fan Fiction ❯ Shadowdancer ❯ Meet Shadowdancer ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 2

She happily munched on the extra large meat lovers pizza from her favorite New York pizzeria as she watched the city from her rooftop vantage point. She pondered the enigma that was the four strangers. She had actually chosen to perch tonight just above said pizzeria and was happily assaulted by the wonderful smells coming from the ovens. Tonight she wore pretty much the same outfit, black shirt, black cap, black pants, black boots and sunglasses, except instead of her short black leather jacket, which was still bloody; she wore an ankle length black leather trench coat.

Polishing off the pizza she briefly contemplated going in to get another before standing up and actually doing so. She was damn hungry and this was her favorite way of filling her stomach. Inside the person in front of her ordered and then politely stepped aside for her to make hers. The lady at the register knew her on sight and smiled when she stepped up.

"So you're back again huh?" she said as she wrote something down. "Your usual right?"

"Of course Sam. What else would I get?"

"Oh I dunno maybe something a little healthier. Then again you never gain any weight so I wonder why I bother." She chuckled as she handed off the paper and then motioned for the next in line.

"Right Sam, Healthy, I'll have ta remember that." The girl said as she stepped to the side chuckling not even realizing that outside stood the ones she had been puzzling about.

"Hey Donnie isn't that her?"

"Yeah Mikey I believe it is. She's wearing a different coat, but everything else is the same."

"Do you think we should follow her?"

"We should probably get the pizzas first. The others are waiting."

"Alright. Ooh I hope they have all the toppings we want."

"You mean all the toppings you want."

"He he yeah."

Inside the girl still waited for her pizza. She seemed lost in thought as the brothers placed their order. Her nose twitched a little as she caught the same smell from the night before. Looking sideways out of her glasses she caught sight of two of the ones from the other night. She smiled slightly before turning to get her pizza from Sam.

"Alright there ya go. Extra large meat lovers with extra cheese and garlic. Phew girl why do you eat all that garlic?"

The girl chuckled, "Because I like garlic. Besides it keeps away the vamps Sam." She smiled as Sam giggled.

"Oh you. Here take your pizza and get going I got others to serve."

"See ya," she said as she took her Pizza and left. In the alley she swiftly scaled the ladder to the roof and perched on her favorite spot to polish off another pizza. Inside the brothers were talking to the girl named Sam during a lull.

"So you know her?" Mikey asked nodding in the direction the girl had gone.

"Who? The one in the black and glasses?"

"Yeah."

"Oh her, yeah she's a regular. She gets the same thing every time. Don't know her name really. I asked her once and she said to just call her Kit. Don't know if that's her real name or not, but she responds to it." Sam shrugged.

"Well, here's your order. Three supremes with extra cheese and one meat lovers with extra cheese and garlic. Goodness you and her have the same taste apparently. Oh and if ya want to talk to her you might find her on the roof here. Sometimes she goes up there to think. She says the smells coming from the kitchen help relax her."

"Thanks Sam," said Donnie as they took the pizza's and left.

Outside Mikey turned to Donnie in the alley. "Hey ya think we should go up and see her?"

"I don't know," he replied shaking his head.

"Aw come on. I know you and the others want to find out more about her, just like I do."

"Well, yeah, but."

"But nothing. Here you go get the others and I'll go check the roof out," he argued swiping the meat lover's pizza from the top of Donnie's pile. Before he could say anything Mikey was already scaling the fire escape to the roof. Donnie just shook his head and went to get the other two where they had agreed to meet them. Leo was going to be furious, but there was nothing he could do about it. On the roof the girl leaned against the darkened skylight and stared off into space. Half of the pizza was already gone and she was working on another slice. She was finally beginning to feel somewhat full. It was a bitch having a high metabolism sometimes.

There was a small scraping sound that only she could have heard by the fire escape. She smiled as she took another bite. One of them had followed her. He had also brought an offering apparently because she smelled pizza. The same pizza she munched on currently. He was good; she had to give him that. She could barely hear him as he came across the rooftop to where she lay. When he stopped just a couple of feet away she finished the slice she was working on and sat up. She took the box on her right and transferred it to her left.

"You can sit here if ya want," she said softly as she patted the spot beside her on the rooftop.

He was startled. How had she heard him? He had been as silent as he could and she still heard him. She noticed his hesitation as she stretched one leg out, bent the other at the knee and wrapped her arms around it. She reached over and grabbed another piece of pizza as he hesitantly sat down and put the pizza on his other side.

"Don't worry about me hearin' ya. Not much gets past me anymore." She sighed as she set down her slice in the box.

"How'd you hear me?" Mikey asked.

She smiled at his eager voice. "I'll tell ya once yer friends get their butts up here. I assume they are comin' up here since all of ya were so fascinated with me last night."

"He he yeah they're comin'," he said sheepishly as he scratched the back of his neck. "So what's your name anyway? The girl in the pizza place said it was Kit."

She looked at him and smiled flashing her fangs at him. "That's one of my names. Not my real one, but one I use occasionally."

"Huh?"

She chuckled as she stared into the sky and let him ponder that. Barely a minute later she heard the others come up and start their way. Mikey heard them too and called out to them. "Hey guys."

"Mikey what are you doing?" exclaimed one of them.

Mikey stood up, "Chill Leo it's okay."

"It's not okay. She could be an enemy Mikey," said the leader.

The girl chuckled and stood up to look fully at the ones arranged before her. There was Mikey, the closest. The one he had addressed as Leo was in front of the others and the other two hung back. One had laid the pizza boxes on a metal box that jutted out of the roof. She chuckled as she walked up beside Mikey.

"C'mon Kit tell them your not an enemy," he said as she stood beside him.

"Well ta tell ya the truth I really don't want ta be anyone's enemy." She sighed sadly, "It just seems that everyone else wants ta be my enemy just because of what I am." With that she reached up with both hands and took both her glasses and hat off. Everyone gasped as her beautiful silver hair cascaded down from it's confinement to brush against her hips in a long braid. When she opened her eyes they glowed faintly in the dim light. The guys could also see that her ears had an elfin look to them and were pointed.

She tucked her hat and glasses back into her pockets as she turned and went to sit where she had been before. Leaning against the skylight she grabbed her neglected piece of pizza and finished it as they came over and arranged themselves in front of her with their own pizzas. Sitting up briefly she grabbed a bag out of the shadows and set out two six packs of mikes hard lemonade. She grabbed one and popped the cap off. Quickly she downed about half of it and then sat back. The hotshot took one sideways glance at the leader before grabbing one himself.

"Raph what are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing Leo? I'm drinking."

Leo huffed and was about to say something when the girl spoke. "I wish Bobby were here. Then these things would be cold. Sorry about that." She took another long drink and sighed.

"What do you mean by that?" the intelligent one asked.

"Okay ya guys all heard about the whole mutant menace thing that went on a while back."

"Yeah dude that senator was really wack," said Mikey as he opened one of the pizza's and grabbed a slice.

She snorted, "Hell yeah, that asshole. Anyway Bobby's a friend of mine from upstate. His nicknames Iceman. Guess what he does."

"Uh, controls Ice," ventured the smart one.

"Bingo, prize fer Mr. Whiz kid."

"Your one as well aren't you," said the leader.

"What the ears, hair, fangs didn't clue ya in? But yeah I am. Bobby's mentor upstate helped me get my mutation under control. Although, it's still not easy being a mutant. Especially not one like me. Anyway I might as well tell ya my name if I'm gonna tell ya my story. Sam downstairs calls me kit like she told Mikey, but my real names Adrian Night, aka Shadowdancer. I'm a rogue and a thief and something of a fighter, but well that doesn't mean much nowadays," she sighed. She didn't know why she was going to tell them these things, but she knew she could trust them. She also knew she needed to tell someone. Xavier and a few of his kids knew, but only Logan understood what she had gone through. And none of her current friends could really be trusted with the knowledge. "So what are yer names? I know Mikey's sort of, but the rest of ya I have no idea."

"I'm Donatello, but everyone calls me Don or Donnie."

"I'm Leonardo or Leo."

"Raphael, but call me Raph," he said as he lifted his bottle to Adrian and finished it off. He went to reach for another bottle but she stopped him.

"Here let me get that fer ya." She raised her hand and twitched her fingers up a bit. One of the bottles lifted up and then floated over to Raphael where he plucked it out of midair. She smiled, "Nifty ain't it."

"Whoa cool dudette."

"I can't believe it. That was telekinesis, wasn't it?" asked Donnie.

"Yep, only one of my many accomplishments. The professor helped me train and refine it. I remember one time someone broke my concentration and the glass I was lifting exploded. He explained it as a mental twitch where I accidentally put too much pressure on the glass."

"Which is why it exploded."

"Yeah." She sat there for a second remembering. Suddenly she drained the bottle she was holding and threw it to the side. "I need something stronger. This shits too weak," she said as she sat up and rummaged in her coat for a second before pulling out a silver flask and drinking from it.

"What is that?" asked Raphael.

She raised her eyebrow at him, "Not something ya should be drinking."

"Oh really."

"Raph."

"Oh shut it Leo."

"Ya should listen ta him Raphael. I can get away with this because of my mutation, but ya can't."

"What do you mean?" This time Mikey asked.

"Well my natural mutation is accelerated healing, enhanced senses, and general cat like reflexes and random shit like that. With my healing factor I tend ta metabolize alcohol three times faster than a normal person." She pulled a pack of cigarettes from an inside pocket and lit one. "I also heal the damage these bad boys do, so they never last long. Nothing ever does." They sat there wondering what to say next. Suddenly she sat up very straight and snuffed out her cigarette. Leo went to say something but she held out her hand to stop him. They saw her sniff deeply then in short rapid bursts as she looked around.

"What's wrong?" Mikey whispered.

"Someone's coming. Ya guys get yer shit together and get out of here. I'll hold them off."

"What?"

"Just do it. Currently it's me they want. I'll meet ya about halfway ta yer place." She stood up but stayed crouched.

"What? How?"

"Just go dammit," she hissed and watched as they gathered up everything and disappeared over the edge of the roof. She put her hair back up under the cap and put her glasses on before blending in with the deepest shadows on the roof.