Rally for Rights

[Husk]

Paige's eyes widened when she saw the fire up in the air, "Sh*t." She muttered before following behind Logan for now. Looking around she tried to make sure that no one had gotten injured.

[lifedeathangel]

Maya gave a nod at John's words and then headed off around the perimeter towards the back of the religious group with Siryn. Today her powers were of no use, since John didn't want to hurt them.

She moved amongst the crowd acting like a normal pedestrian who just came to see the show. Finally at her post, she smirked when she saw an arch of fire hit a protest sign. "And the game begins." She muttered and waited for the next move.

[Everyone Else]

::The man holding the sign saw it burst into flames, and dropped it before he could be burned. His eyes turned fearful, but his words grew righteous, rather than acidic.:: "Do you see? This is what they mean by 'mutant rights!' The right to harm humans!"

::The crowd was indeed beginning to grow panicked; many mutants never used their abilities in combat situations, and those with loved ones or children began trying to disperse, unsure if it was a mutant power gone awry or a bomb set up to scare them. Others, who tended towards fighting back, took the fire as an excuse to start up, and they began shouting back at the religious protestors. "Serves you right!" one voice called, while others shouted for them all to get back.

The people on stage were attempting to keep everyone calm, using the microphone to assure them that none of this was planned, and that if they did not remain orderly, matters would only grow worse. The police were on call, which would be worse indeed.

The fire caught the attention of the members of the fourth estate intent on chronicling the action. Cameras all turned to the mutant responsible, and the first victims, prepared to get footage.::

[stjohn]

As Astral grabbed his arm, he looked over at Astral. "Why the hell did you do that? I could've missed the damn sign!" John replied in a somewhat snappish tone, before he looked back to the religious protesters, just as the crowds began to grow rowdy with shouts going back and forth between groups of the humans and mutants.

Seeing the news cameras, he then began to push through the crowd, towards the religious people more flames being sent into the air, towards the religious group.

[Avalanche]

Lance assessed the area as quickly as he could, though he always preferred the theatrics, not the precision. He raised one arm, creating a wave of vibration going through the ground, not so strong as to cause damage to the ground surface, but enough to shake the religious crowd standing on it - and some of it also reached the place where some of the cameras stood. He'd love to see the footage they now got with the equipment shaking and falling.

[wolverine]

As some began jeering at the religious group, Logan stalked past them, glaring as they shouted. "Shut up, you're makin' things worse!" he barked at them out of irritation, stalking off to see if he could spot any more antics. As he walked, he felt the ground begining to rumble and he looked around quickly, but could see no one obviously controlling it.

[astral]

"Someone could get hurt!" she retorted, still holding onto his arm, but it was more out of instinct than anything else, for the crowd was getting angry and she was begining to feel nervous.

[Typhoid]

"I'm not exactly the best at crowd control," Typhoid said to Odin, having to raise her voice a little to be heard. "I can protect them, though." Well, sh*t, she thought. And me without my knives.

Looking around, she had to leave Odin, and instead followed Wolverine to the crowd of religious protesters, hearing him tell them to shut up. "Logan!" The crowd jeered her, and she shot back this time, lighting up green with her own power. "Look, if you don't want to get killed, I suggest you SHUT UP!"

[stjohn]

"I'm just trying to get them to f*ck off!" John snapped to Astral, over the growing sound of protesters and their shouts.

[astral]

Astral pointed at the noisier crowd with a fearful expression. "Does it look like it's working?!" she asked shrilly, wishing he hadn't drawn attention to them since now she more than ever looked like a mutant, and a bad one at that.

[wolverine]

"F*ckin' hell, Ty, do you want them to mob you?" he muttered when she came over, displaying her powers.

[stjohn]

Turning towards Astral, John paused, raking a hand through his hair. "Look, if you want to get out of here, go ahead. Go back to the Hotel with Lucy or something." He told her, looking back towards the burning protest signs and few trees that had also caught fire as well. "And do it now, before this stuff gets worse-"

[Somebody?]

Lucy:

Lucy looked at John before covering her face as the cameras came in their direction. "John..." She trailed off before feeling a bit of vibration coming from the ground below.

[Odin]

::Odin scanned the large crowd to find all the members of the Brotherhood. The pyrokinetic, appropriately named Pyro he knew from exposure was with the protesters, whom Odin didn't care for, but this would only make them look bad. He had the girl the darkness-controlling mutant had been watching with him, and...a human. Apparently, nobody stood for anything anymore, fanatical other otherwise.

The seismic mutant was off in a different direction, and Odin got a lock on him. He pointed, knew that Typhoid understood how his powers operated. He called over to be heard above the noises.:: "That one's causing the earthquakes. Do you think you can stop him?"

[Morph]

Morph realized he was witnessing the powers Odin had described, one after another - first fire, then earthquakes... Now all he needed was a heart-stopping touch, but whatever it meant, he didn't stand waiting to find out.

"This isn't funny anymore," he muttered, grabbing Golem by the sleeve. "Let's go!"