Erchirion smiled at Kira, head clear of all thoughts of being insulted, "That is true, but we have no reason to trust you either."

"I can think of a great reason," Kira smiled, snapping her fingers and having a flame appear on top of her fingers. She stared straight at flame-boy's eyes, anxious to see any small movements.

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Abby tilted her head, "She has a point you know. Sneaking about only made this situation escalate unecessarily." she raised an eyebrow curiously, "Plus...we're the good guys here. You trespassed on our land. How does that make you look?"

All the while Kurt was stifling a giggle. "You're going to take down Apocalypse" he snorted "Right. All four of you alone? When our entire team has been fighting him for ever since he began to build his army with little luck." he eyed them seriously. "Apocalypse is not someone to be taken so lightly. If he was so easily defeated, we would not be having this conversation. Now unless you have something more solid, I suggest you leave." he spat the last words out bitterly. While he admired there bravery, such bravado would only likely get them killed against Apocalypse.

Sensing his frustration, Abby slipped her hand inside his. Kurt looked over at her and managed a small smile. She always seemed to ease him down. Abby looked over at the siblings. "Look, we appreciate your help, really we do." she sighed, "But Kurt's right. Getting to Apocalypse and his stronghold is not that easy. We've lost many in the fight and some still linger in Sinisters breeding pens. If you want to end this tyranny, then help us. Join with us." she reached out her other hand in a symbol of frienship.

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Erchirion's eyes blazed of mischief, as he watched Kira's flame with interest. He too snapped his fingers, a flame flitting in and out from between his fingers. He smiled at Abby, "Thank you for pointing that out to me. And what makes you think you're the good guys?" His hand closed, the fire going out over it.


Minna looked at the three of them, eyes blazing with determination, "We know. We've been there. We've 'lingered in his breeding pens' for a while, so we have a good idea how bad it is in there." She took Abby's hand cautiously, ready, in case the girl tried something else.

Kira stared at Erchirion's flame with irritation. Competition was on the rise. Keeping the flame in it's place, her mind sorted through all of the different methods of applying fire to different situations. Smiling, Kira closed her eyes and thought of the land to the side of Erchirion. She remained relaxed for about half a minute until the sparks began to fly on the grass about a foot away from him, starting a small fire upon the land.

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Erchirion's eyes flitted to the small fire a foot away from him, it snuffed out. His gaze then landed on Kira, he was cleary amused, Fire did not bother him, and neither did the girl. She did not scare him at all.

Abby lightly shook her hand, "We've all suffered through this. We've all lost someone. We are the good guys, if we weren't, this would not have been a conversation." she smiled crookedly.

Kurt began to get agitated. He needed to speak with Abby and he wanted to do it alone, with no prying eyes or ears. He noticed the fire battle going on between Kira and one of the males. Normally he'd break it up, but his mind was too distracted with other things. So he left them to it.

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Minna's smile faltered, but only once, "That is true. I apologize for our actions. We will help. Trust us." Her eyes flitted once to her fire-manipulating brother in anger, seeming to say 'Watch it Boy. Behave.' Erchirion caught her gaze, and smiled, eyes understanding, and full of intelligence.

Kira was struggling to withstand her desire to use her awesome force without the fire power against flame boy. With her self control slimming each minute, Kira tuned herself back into the conversation and decided that this was going nowhere quickly. Urgent to push the situation along, so that she could have her I-can-control-fire-better-than-you fight with that boy whose name started with an E, Kira spoke up, "Lovely, now we're friends. So, what are we going to do about this Apocalyspe dude?" Her lips stiffened after saying dude, unable to comprehend how California surfer girl she just sounded, but, once the moment passed, Kira brought her gaze back over to her competitor in hopes that he would make the first move.

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Erchirion's mischievious gaze lingered on Kira, but he said nothing, not fearing her nor her criticizm. Soon, he like his siblings, turned their gaze to Abby, awaiting her orders.

Despite what he said to John, Charles was not all right. Portions of muscle was ripped during the attack and some of his vital organs suffered some blunt trauma. Damage that neither he nor John could fix. In addition, he was starting to get hungry, sending him further in the feral rage.

Before long they had arrived at the mansion, where a crowd of people were gathered in the garden. Among them were Kurt and his girlfriend, Abby. Four siblings were there whom John did not recognise. And another female stranger. But it was Kurt who John had his eyes on. He drove up to the crowd and cried, "Kurt, nice to see you here again. Have you seen Lehnsherr? I need to speak to him." For the first time, he took note of his condition. Grime and ash tarnished some parts of his clothes and skin while shrapnel and stray bits of metal had nicked at the occasional areas. But he definitely thought he looked worse than he actually was. Meanwhile Charles was waiting near John, breathing deeply.

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I was cured all right.

(So, John doesn't know Kira?)

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(Nope. He kinda keeps to himself.)

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I was cured all right.

Minna blinked, turning around at the sound of John yelling to Kurt. Elendili looked at the Nightcrawler, "He's talking to you." "He's looking for Lensherr." Erchirion added, "He wants to speak with him. He also says it's nice to see you again."

(Oh ok. I just wanted to make sure you knew she went to the school with him.)

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((sorry got caught up with other things last night))

Kurt shook himself out of his daydream like state when he saw John and his half-brother Charles. He looked concerned and that's when Kurt noticed the severity of Charle's injuries. "Mein Gott!" he exclaimed "I will take you to the infirmary and inform Magneto of the situation" he looked at Abby, who too was showing concern for the injured mutant. "I will be back soon, please stay here. I need to talk to you about something" he turned back to John.
"Take a deep breath" he said, preparing them both for teleportation. It was a risk, but with the wounds he had to take the chance.

Within a second, all three men were in the Infirmary. "John, get him prepped. I'll go get Eric." he bamfed off again.

Abby stood where she was, gazing off into the distance. John's brother's injuries looked really bad, hopefully they could help him and find out what happened. She also wondered what Kurt needed to talk about.

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