X-men Evolution Fan Fiction ❯ Choices ❯ Assassin ( Chapter 2 )

(insert usual disclaimer but add that I don't own Nightwish lyrics either.

 

Chapter 2 Assassin

Storm

Storm wondered slowly lazily along the beach following a lead on a young mutant woman that was unfortunate enough to be one of the leading assassins in Japan. From what she could gather the girl was sixteen maybe seventeen, no one knew for sure.

She came to a ramshackle house and looked around. This had to be where she was hiding out. They said that she would run to the coast after a job. Ororo had little hope for this case as it were if the girl was as prolific a killer as they said she wouldn't want to go the straight and narrow.

Storm knocked on the door. A slender man not Japanese answered the door. He was 5 ft 8 in and all muscle. His short military haircut spoke volumes that he was not an average fisherman.

“Can I help you?” he asked.

“I'm looking for Duani Masada…”

“You leave that girl alone, it's her time off! She only gets one month out of the whole damn year that her dad doesn't drag all over the country and makes her…” he trailed off.

“He makes her kill?” Storm asked. Hope was glimmering in that thought.

“You're not here to hire her?” the man asked.

“God no, I wanted to offer a scholarship to a school for children like her, with unique gifts.” She explained.

“Would she be safe from her father? That ass has been killin' her soul for years. I love Dee like she was my own and I want her out of the business. My name is Jacob, I'm retired these days. I never saw anything like Dee before. She is a very singular creature.”

“We have the tightest security and we can make sure she is safe and taken care of.” Storm said.

“Follow me.” He said.

They walked further down the beach. Storm gasped as she watched the young woman in the shallow waves. No one had ever seen the girl up close and she could see why. Duani Masada was much like Kurt unable to hide what she was. Her skin was a deep teal like Caribbean oceans at dusk and her deep blue hair fell around her. She danced through the waves two katanas flashing in the sunlight. She moved with a grace the made it all beautiful.

“Dee!”

The girl turned to consider her visitors. Her eyes were bright gold but cold no emotion registered as she stared at the stranger.

“Father send her here with a job? I will remind him I have three weeks left to myself.” She said. Storm suppressed a shudder. She approached the young woman with caution to those dead eyes.

“I'm here to offer you a way out of under your father's rule.” Storm said. It was the carrot, hanging there teasingly, all she had to do was take it.

“Go on.”

“I work at a school for gifted children. Those who are mutants come and learn to control their powers. What is your power?”

“I sing.”

I beg your pardon?” she asked confused.

“The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say.”

Storm shook with the power of this young woman's voice. The emotions she hid, that she refused to show lay there in the music of her soul.

“Oh my, that is very lovely. You are gifted. Would you do us the honor of training at our school?” Storm asked.

Duani looked to Jacob and the older woman saw the girl looking for a father that would tell her this was okay.

“I'll cover for you with your dad. You need this, before all your emotions are gone. Be safe little fish.” He said. A ghost of a smile appeared on her face as she hugged her friend goodbye.

“We leave now.” She said looking at Storm.

“Yes.”

Storm followed them back to the house to get her things. “Charles we will be returning tonight.”