Pray this is not just another X-Men wedding!

[Captain James Hook]

''I'll always be a good boy, Mummy. I'm your youngest son. I'll never do anything to harm you.'' Captain Hook sobbed again as additional tears ran down his face. ''You always protected me. I was almost usually with you.''

[Black Queen]

Selene's stilettos clicked and echoed in the large foyer of the building, slowly with her pace.  The door clicked shut behind her.  Other X-Men telepaths were trying to breach them, but the door was locked.  Perhaps, they were even visible outside the glass.  What appeared to be black paint began to roll down the large window panes, shutting out any vestige of light or communication from any of Jessie's allies.  The Black Queen stopped about 10 feet in front of the young Phoenix, grin still smeared across her face.

Selene had taken note of how organized Jessie's mind seemed since the last time she had visited.  No more chaos.  However, it was merely swept under the rug.  "You've cleaned up the place."  High above Jessie, perhaps 4-5 floors up, a large glass elevator overlooked the room, its glass filled with a darkness that seemed to radiate into the rest of the foyer.  "Ah... There it is." Selene looked up.  Selene was drawing Jessie's attention to the darkness trapped inside that elevator.  

Selene then melted away into corporal shadows, her body becoming half Selene and half living shadow covering the floor behind her in an elegant, but terrifying way.  "Why would you inhibit yourself in such a way?  You were born to inherit this Earth, not to be bound because someone else said so."

Meanwhile, their corporal bodies at the wedding were just glaring at each other as only a quick moment had passed by.

[Emil Desmarais]

Emil was not pleased by all the drama going on around Selene and her prey, so he started to set up wards and barriers to anyone trying to get close to them. Two vampires stood near the redheaded woman, so Emil used an eldritch blast to send them flying. "You will not hurt my mistress!" he shouted as the vampires suddenly became familiar to him. "Not you lot," he muttered as he sent another blast at the men. "I am sick to death of you Irish gutter snipes and your cadre of friends!"

"You must be part of the cadre," Ewan said as he got to his feet again, "because I am the gutter snipe, Leonard. Desmarais, haven't you learned a few things since we last saw you? Always picking the wrong side in battle. Your daughter Aria must be beside herself! She had hoped you'd reformed!"

"Do not mention my daughter, you vile creature!" Emil screamed as he sent another blast at the men.

"You know the one I mean, Leonard?" Ewan said as he kept taunting Emil.  "Petite, dark hair and eyes. Loves to write. Someone you'd like to get to know."

Emil set off another blast, but this one sent him flying backward. It had been blocked, and he wasn't prepared for it.

"You do not pick on my baby brother," Roslea MacFeorais said as she came up behind Ewan and Leonard. "Nice to see you, Black Hat," she added as she placed her hand on Leonard's shoulder. "Now Emil, let's call off the zombies and the greenery and sort out this mess."
 

[Blackwell]

Blackwell and Haggrid had gotten swept up  in some of the maddening vines and looked on as Jack vanished in a teleport to heaven knew where! Then the Mystic Council police detective saw Craig Dragotti speaking to some tall and very beautiful woman. "Oh shite!" Alastair shouted as he beat away at the vines before pulling his sonic device from his jacket pocket. "They were supposed to fix this thing for me!" he said to Haggrid as he kept zapping the vines but with little noticeable difference. "I think they muffed it!"

"Allow me!" Rubeus replied as he pulled a wand and sent magic blasts at the vines. "Who is that woman anyway?"

"His dead wife. Or resurrected wife. He always talks about missing her, so I have no idea how this happened! We just have to get to Craig now!" Blackwell added as he smacked his sonic and finally got it to work. "Last time I let the property master mess around with this! Craig! We're coming!"

[Craig Dragotti]

Craig's eyes widened the minute he saw Blackwell with Haggrid. He smiled for a split second. ''I'm so happy my other companions are present.'' Worry filled Craig's eyes. ''Please don't harm Isabella. I'm currently trying to reason with her.''

Craig glanced at the sobbing pirate. He turned to Haggrid and Blackwell. ''Please help Captain Hook. He's sobbing about his mother, but she isn't there. The other pirate is tormenting him. He could be Captain Hook's older brother.''

[BENNU]

Jessie looked up at the ceiling as the darkness reached out to her almost like a soul mate wanting to be held by its lover. Jessie danced with the darkness all of her life but she had so much she cared about to keep her crossing over. "I choose my family and my friends over that Selene....Something you know nothing about....I cared for you.....You didn't want me for anything more than a instrument of your dominion over everything." She said getting up from the sofa hovering just off the ground moving forward rather than walking.

"I will always be wild and free......Why would you think if you had your way I could be controlled.....And don't tell me that wasn't what you wanted...."

[Captain Jasper Hook]

Captain Jasper Hook heard everything Craig just said. Scowling, he faced him. His eyes narrowed. ''You are not going to wreck my fun!'' Jasper glanced at Haggrid and Blackwell. ''You're not going to wreck my fun as well!''

Jasper continued to scowl. ''You don't know what my little brother did to me years ago. Jamie Hook should suffer!'' Another smile replaced his scowl at a snail's pace. Jasper still saw Captain Hook's tears. One corner of his mouth almost reached his ear.

[Blackwell]

"I should not come to weddings! Bad things always happen!" Alastair said as he looked at Craig and the resurrected Isabella. "Madame, if you have come back to this life, and you know your husband meant you no ill, then why torment him? He is a mutant, and he could not control his powers. Please, listen to him," Blackwell added as Haggrid seemed to be mystified and stood next to his friend a bit dumbfounded. "What is it, Haggrid?"

"These pirates seem very familiar to me," the giant said as he tapped his wand against his chin. "From a book. Did you gents pop out of a book? I can pop you back if you please."

"There will be no popping in or out of books, Haggrid," Alastair said as he looked at the Hook brothers. "What in the world led you to this point?" he asked both men. "And can't there be a brokered peace between you?"

 

 

[Madelyne Pryor]

Madelyne Pryor had vanished after she and Amora helped Jessie and some of the other X-Men free a group of test subjects in Alaska.

Oh yes. And resurrect Jean Grey.

Maddie still had issues wrapping her head around that one. She was outside the facility, then she followed the others inside, and then she was hit with a bit of the Phoenix Force and vanished into the atmosphere bathed in cosmic fire.

It had been months since anyone had seen Maddie, and it was purely by chance that she heard Ewan's cries for her help.

She had not been in the White Hot Room, nor had she been on the blue side of the moon or in the Shi'ar Empire's airspace. That would have ended badly.

{{Ewan, what is going on?}}  Maddie asked telepathically as she moved closer to San Francisco. {{I can feel Jessie, but she seems upset and not totally with you. And where are Jean and Emma?}}

As she got closer to San Francisco, Maddie tapped Emma and Jean on their psionic shoulders to get their attention. {{Ladies, Jessie is in trouble, and she needs your help}}
 

[Captain Jasper Hook]

Jasper heard Blackwell and Haggrid's voices. He turned to them another time. His scowl came back. ''My younger brother defeated me after I refused to part with additional gold years ago. I happened to be his weapon teacher. I was why Jamie Hook became good with using weapons.''

Jasper smiled again. ''My sibling won't be able to hear you. He is viewing a mere illusion of our mother. You'll never get through to him. Jamie Hook was a crybaby when we were boys. He will always be a crybaby.'' 

[Isabella Dragotti]

Isabella glowered at Craig. ''I remember you always hitting me for no reason, Craig. I remember fire consuming me after your past kiss.'' She heard Blackwell. Isabella faced him. She still glowered.

''My ex-spouse harmed me. He ended my life. My mistress said Craig Dragotti killed me, since he wanted out of his marriage.'' Isabella watched as Craig's eyes widened again. ''You must suffer, Craig. Suffer as I suffered.''

[Leonard Grimm]

Leonard had gotten his attention pulled away from Ewan and Aleera and toward some crazy looking people wandering around the party. "Great. Another bunch of zombified tourists or party planners or something," he muttered as he saw one trying to attack a waiter. "I know I'm not supposed to kill you, but I'm only doing that so the princess back there shuts her mouth," he said to no one in particular as he motioned back toward Karenza. "Tried to go out with her way, way back in the day. Then Dana. Then Roslea. Should have just stayed the hell away. Been snake-bit ever since."

"What the hell are you yelling about now, Leonard?" a voice boomed as a protester went flying through a portal and seemingly out of the property. 

"Branan! Finally! Wait...where's the leggy lady who usually is at your side? The Trill?" the vampire asked as Branan winced a bit. "Oh shite. I forgot."

"The Praxus symbiote is alive and well in a new host. Sadly, my time with her has passed," Branan said as he opened another portal and sent a second zombie through. "My sons and I have been hunting Morgan LeFay. Care to join us once this wedding has been cleared of party crashers?"

"You mean Camelot's LeFay? Hell yes!" Leonard said as he rounded up another protester for the portal. "Is this portal sucking the bad mojo out of these idiots? I sure hope so! I do not make a good Daryl Dixon!"

[Harley]

"I wish I knew who was doing this!" Harley shouted to Omega Red as some crazy guy came running at them. She flipped her bat and swung it at the guy, sending him flying backward into the side of another party tent.  "Thanks for the assist with the greenery! You'd think this was the local production of Little Shop of Horrors! I am not a big plant fancier as it is, and this is going to give me nightmares for weeks!"

Harley saw more of the Walking Dead rejects just wandering around aimlessly, and she looked at her companion and scowled. "We can't kill these jokers because, well, we're X-Men now," she said as she stuck out her tongue. "But could your coils maybe un-zombie any of them? Drain off the Evil Dead ickiness? If we had only plants to fight and no stupid protesters, we could end this fast!"

[Omega Red]

Omega Red glowered at a guy running to Harley. He began to tense. *I said I would protect Harley* he thought. His eyes became wide after Harley used her bat to protect herself. *I suppose I won't have to protect Harley as often. I am a bit impressed!* 

Omega Red smiled at Harley for a moment. ''No problem. If you happened to be a certain someone called Wolverine, I would have hesitated to rescue you.''  Omega Red frowned and shook his head. ''Wolverine kills? No problem! I kill others? I'm a villain! At least I killed to survive.'' Omega Red grinned. ''For the most part.''

Omega Red's frown came back. He shrugged. ''I'm not sure. I never used my coils to drain a zombie's life force.''

[Phoenix]

OOC: I will be posting Jean in two places for the forseeable future

IC:

Jean's body was in the old Cybercide HQ and labs helping Ceri Creed, but her astral form was at the wedding trying to help Jessie. She kept meeting with resistance as Jessie continued to fight off whoever was fighting her at the moment.  {{Maddie!}} Jean said telepathically as the attacker kept her locked out. {{Maybe you can take out this woman in the physical world while Emma and I work on the astral plane to help Jessie?}}

{{This, ahem, witch is glamoured, but I have a good idea of who it might be}} Maddie said as she kept walking around Jessie and her nemesis. {{She could not have been this stupid, could she?}}

{{Who?}} Jean asked as she kept using her astral Phoenix form to swipe away at the wall keeping them out.

{{That snake Selene. This is not out of her ballpark}} Maddie suggested as she circled the blonde woman standing near Jessie. {{But I have to find the person who worked the glamour and get my second least favorite redhead with a fetish for Canadians to help, and you know how I hate asking for help!}}