[Episode 42053] [Episode 42053]The boy kept up with him over the past few days, but he wasn't yet up to Genma's level of skill, strength and speed. Not if the fat martial artist went full out. But, now he was certain it was time to begin the real work out.
"Get up bo...huh?!" Genma glanced at the empty bedroll next to him and searched about, looking for tracks.
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This was the day, Kiima thought, smiling. This was the day that the next guardian of the Lord Saffron was determined. There was only one other girl to compete with her, and in a few minutes Kiima would attend to ending Jeesa's chances to be appointed the apprentice guardian.
This would be the day that started Kiima on the road to greatness.
"Hello," a male voice startled her out of her introspections. She turned to see a young groundling hanging from a tree limb level with her, and staring at her appreciatively.
He (when had she started thinking of groundlings as people rather than objects?) was, Kiima noted, a rather handsome figure of a groundling.
"What are you doing on Phoneix Mountain, groundling?" Kiima declared angrily, oddly scared by the way she was noticing his form. "It doesn't matter! You'll be sorry when the guards find you!"
And with that she launched into the sky where no groundling could hope to follow her.
"You fly beautifully," the voice said again, drawing Kiima's surprised stare at the form gliding on the winds next to her
He was held aloft on bizarre leathery wings that flapped in powerful manners that sent Kiima's blood racing. Old tales of dragons that courted Phoenix women in odd forms came to Kiima's mind. And she wondered if this was such a creature come to court her beauty.
Thoughts of the ceremony were fleeing from her mind. She didn't know what to think, and, in confusion twisted around to fly away from the other.
She was nimble and quick, more so than the inexperienced Ranma, but she confused and distracted, and unwittingly entering into a mating flight pattern with the male.
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Jubilee was brooding alone in the mansion's kitchen. Beast was searching through whatever files they had access to for similarities to what had happened to her. Shadowcat was helping in that regard with a little creative computer work that most other people would call hacking.
She twitched a moment, sniffing the air.
"No news is good news, kid," Wolvie said as he entered the room.
"The Professor said it didn't look like there was anything else gunking around in my mind," Jubilee said stabbing at her ice cream. "Nothing else anyway." She didn't mention how she had just smelled him coming.
"Don't blame yourself," Wolverine said. "You ain't Jean or the Queen."
"But I've had the training to resist," Jubilee said. "We all have. I was being sloppy."
"It ain't your fault, Jubes," Wolvie re-iterated.
"I've been kind of jealous of Paige and Jono, maybe I wanted..." Jubilee stopped.
Then she felt a surge through that link Emma had helped her block.
Wolverine shook his head, promising himself to tear the...thing apart that had done this to Jubilee.
"Jubes," he started gruffly, wondering how else he could make this clear to her.
"It's happening again," Jubilee interrupted, eyes flicking back and forth. "He's with another girl."
"Where?" Wolverine asked, hitting the intercom switch to contact the Professor's office.
"It's windy," Jubilee said. Then she winced. "Something hit him."
"Her?" Wolverine asked. Jubilee shook her head.
"He's worried about her," Jubilee said. "She's fine."
Wolverine considered that piece of information.
"Where are they?" Wolverine asked, gruffly.
"I don't know! It's just...feelings," Jubilee said. "I can't see...oh, shit, they're going to start." She shook her head and thumped it into the table, slamming her eyes shut, weeping.
Coarse hands wrapped around her and held her gently.
"It'll be all right, Jubes," Wolverine said. "We'll take care of it."
"Wolvie," Jubilee said, snapping her head up. "Don't kill him."
He frowned at that, wondering if it was something other than Jubilee talking.
"Please, I don't think this is his choice either," she said.
"Fine," Wolverine said after a long moment. He didn't complete the thoughts. But he ain't getting off scott free. "Chuck, did you catch any of that?"
"Yes," Xavier said. "And there's some news."
Jubilee shivered again, no news was good news, but news...on the other hand...in that tone of voice.
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