Whispers In The Dark (Kasumi and Aura)

Aura normally traveled at night, it just made for less trouble with the police, after all Aura had made herself quite well known with a few robberies and dozens or murders. The cops seemed to be more annoyed by the idea she had killed a number of them, which had slowed down since the x-men had began working with the police. The idea of it, made Aura glad she had never decided to go with the x-men inf act in cemented the idea in her head that she had chosen the right path after all. She was a soilder and would have followed orders either way, but she was happier being able to help her people.

The park was nice as it was large and open and at night could be hard to see people at distance, keeping her well enough from view the cops did not simply fire at her. The Aura heard the scream and her head turned to the direction of the screaming, she knew the voice, in fact she had tried to kill the owner of it during the battle of KP. Aura ahd assumed and heard Kasumi had rather poor opinions of her, but she was a mutant and that was what truly matted. No animal should ever lay a hand on a mutant, certainly not a human, which around here was the most likely cause, or, Aura hoped against, another mutant.

Running Aura quickly found three shapes that looked like people as she got close, she heard the men, as they took notice of her footsteps, she was being rather loud she realized. The first Man opened his moulth to say Something, but before he could Aura, already had formed her Aura around her body, and a hammer struck the man flat in the chest, producing a very loud snapping noise, that made the man scream as well, to shut him up, Aura struck him again, this time in the side of the head, Assured he would not be getting up Aura turned to look at his friend.

The other man, seeing what had happened, turned and ran, And Aura's leg twitched as she wanted to follow, but their was something far more important, Looking down Aura sw kasumi was not dead as she was not laying down. "Are you all right?" she Asked the hammer on her hand flowing to join the rest of her Aura. "Human scum.....and these are the people you seek to protect?" Aura asked though she did not expect a real answer to the question, just more of the pro-human speech, the x-men were famous for.

"Then Shin is a fool, their is nothing more special or motivating then fighting at the side of those who you love. Their is always a chance we may be hurt, weather we fight or simply stay in the shadows. It may all be for the best anyway, the ideals the x-men hold and with them shin are harmful to our people." Aura said happy Kasumi seemed to be understanding the reality of their peoples plight.

"I do not hate you Kasumi and i never have, in fact i was very happy to find out you were still alive The fight at KP was nothing personal, my orders were to protect KP and we were heavily outnumbered. So each strike had to do the most damage it could, as i could not worry about wounded opponents getting back up to stop me with so much going on. I had hoped the blow was not fatel though at the time it was meant to be so" she admitted truthfully. She liked Kasumi and had done what she did because her orders had been to stop anyone from entering the building, she had failed and because of that Syn had died. "Even if i did not like you, you are a mutant and you were in trouble from Humans, no Human should ever lay a hand on a mutant" Aura said the last part dripping with venom in her words.

"When my powers emerged, i was in a fight with a human girl, my powers emerged and killed her so my parents let them lock me a way in a cage like an animal, there i sat for a long time hearing the screams of our people, all of them children. The Miracle and her friends came and saved us, in exchange for that freedom we vowed absolute loyalty to her cause. We learned why their can never be real peace between mutants and humans. Fear, humans will fear that which is more powerful then they are, that which can replace them in work and sports" She said leaning her back against a tree. "I spent two years fighting humans as they killed those around me with weapons and captured those they could to experiment upon us. I saw the humans tender mercy with my own eyes when i watched my friends fall one by one" she said, the anger in her voice was radiant, she struck the tree with her fist which had already covered itself with her Aura.

"Think of it like this my friend, 12 humans are needed for a job, the employer fires them and does it with a single mutant in half the time. Do those humans who can no longer feed them selfs celibate? No they learn to hate us and in time many will fight us. Our own nature of being better then them ensures they will always have fear of us. Miracle taught me Many things, Orders must be obeyed before anything else, even friendship or our own feelings because only then will those around us survive." Aura said finishing her long and slightly marauding speech.

"Look not at this wound as a crippling blow, but one that has has made you open your eyes. You will always have a home in sanctuary as all mutants do. We care for our own kind there instead of letting humans stab us in the back. COme my frind, The police will show up soon, and they will not care, you were the victem. We are mutants, guilty by default" she said as she started walking away from the tree, glad they were fairly deep in the parl and that few were there right now.

"I had been worried the attack may have angered you" Aura admitted knowing many took that type of thing very personally. Many had trouble separating business from everything else a line that had been hammered into Aura for years. Orders came before everything else, friendship, family even one's own convictions. Some times one just had to do what was needed no matter what that happened to be. "Many have trouble understanding that, i am glad you do" she said sounding quite happy about it.

"Humans do terrible things all the time, a short time agar, me and some friends fought to defend babies that were not even born yet, because humans wanted to kill them if they turned out as mutants. I am not even sure how they would ahve known but even i try to avoid killing babies, even human ones" she said which was true mostly, other then orders Aura did not try and kill human babies, mostly becuse they could be mutants but also becuse she did not believe the human race should be completely wiped out, just the majority of it.

"I can say nothing of how your parents react, some do react better then others, but living at sanctuary the kind and sweet tales are rare, most i welcome into the sanctuary have had rough lifes, i even knew a guy whose father tried to kill him upon finding out his son was mutant. Not every Human is evil, for example the Sanctuary has one human resident, our receptionist Lisa. She is a very kind woman and understands that mutants will one day inherit this plane" she said unsure if the woman really knew that at all, but to Aura it seemed like a hard thing not to understand ina place that contained the order.

Aura walked and as she did she looked back to Kasumi with a kind smile. "Mutants are just an evalution of humans and as such we will one day rule this world as the humans grow fewer and fewer, still if we don't stand up before that, the children of our species may never see adulthood. That is why i fight, so those who come after me do not have to, one day i prolbely will fall in battile, but by then i hope my actions will have saved many of our kind. In the end you must be true to yourself. You do not have to fight at all, their are many ways to help our people without ever lifting a sword" she said which was true, after the war, society would need people who could do normal jobs, Aura figured she would never see that glorious day, but just because she was a soilder did not mean everyone had to be. "I am a soilder, it is what i was trained and destined to do, your destiny may be the same or diffrent" she said trying to offer Kasumi hope. "Take time and figure out what you want to do" she went on still trying to help and sooth kasumi.

Aura began to enter alleys as they traveled, honestly she felt more comfortable in them, mostly because she was wanted criminal though she had managed to not make the news in quite some time. She had been killing much less due to Lori's wishes. "it is all right what matters now is you understand the plight of our people" she said a she ducked into another alleyway, navigating completely by memory.

"Then you can do that as well, their is always room for those who wish to fight" she said honestly quite happy to here such words from her old friend. "Though that may lead to having to kill" she said hoping her friend already understood this. To Aura fighting and killing were closely related more so when it came to humans. "And at that point you may not be able to turn back" she said, she wanted her friend to side with them but she also wanted to make sure it was what the frog girl wanted as well.

"Yes you would need to be much better at fighting if our fight is any indication" she said recalling the short lived fight they had. Aura realize her friend had been surprised and unwilling to fight a friend which brought up another worry. " And old friends may well try and stop you" she said going on again hoping Kasumi knew the path she would be choosing. It wa sone that in Aura's eyes could not be turned away from, as the police would not care if you were guilty or not, they would just toss you ina c age and be done with you.

They soon Arrived at the Large golden Doors of sanctuary, Aura's home for the past yera and a half or at least she thought it was about that anyway. "here we are" she said opening the doors and walking in though few were awake at this hour. "you hungry?" she asked curiously.