Author's notes- First of all, thank you to Aiden Cross for helping me out with this first chapter! He has an account on here too, so go check out his stories!

Anyway, this was something I've had in mind for a long time. I love making OCs, don't care what the haters say. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I'm going to enjoy writing this!

Disclaimer: I do not own Xmen. I do however, own Cassandra Blake and any other OC that makes an appearance in this story. Unless you ask my permission, they're mine!

Prologue

Gloucester, Massachusetts

"It doesn't matter that she has powers or not, we love our daughter! We're just trying to think of other options for her."

Cassandra sat at the kitchen table, looking out the frosty window and listening to the conversation in the living room. She hadn't even been home for five minutes when her mother told her to wait it the kitchen. Her parents were apparently having an conversation with "someone important".

"Are they sending me to some nut house? All because I have powers?" she thought to herself. Tuning out the conversation, she busied herself with pushing a marble across the table. Katie must have left it there earlier.

"Cass?"

Her mother was standing in the kitchen door. Her smile was bright, but sadness tinged her eyes.

"Am I being summoned by the Goblin King?" she asked sarcastically. This meeting seemed to be making her mother upset, and she didn't like it.

"Come on in, Supergirl," her mother teased. "There's someone here who wants to speak with you."

Walking into the living room, Cassandra's eyes fell upon the man talking with her father. The stranger seemed to be in his late sixties, bald headed, and wearing a dark blue suit. The wheelchair he was sitting in looked more advanced than she had ever seen. The man turned his chair so that he was facing her fully.

"Hello, Cassandra. My name is Charles Xavier. It's very nice to meet you."

"Um… Hello Mr. Xavier," Cassandra said, bewilderment in her eyes, "What's this about?"

"Why don't you take a seat."

Still confused, Cassandra sat down in the armchair in front of the coffee table. She looked toward her parents.

"Are you guys sending me away? Did I do something wrong?"

"No! Of course we aren't, honey," her father immediately said.

"Then what's this all about?"

"Professor Xavier here, runs a school for special children like you," Cass' mother replied.

"Mutants, you mean."

"Yes Cassandra, mutants," Professor X slipped in.

"How can you run a school for people like us? You look completely normal."

"Ah, true, but some powers don't manifest themselves on the outside of the body."

"What do you mean?"

"Your mother is remembering the first time she took you to the beach, you cried when your toes touched the water because it was too cold, you were three years old. Your father, is trying to plan the distance between here and the school to make regular trips each year. About three and a half hours Mr. Blake."

Both of Cassandra's parents stood in shock, not believing what had just happened.

"You can read minds?" Cass whispered across the table.

"Yes, and there are many more people with more spectacular abilities than that at my school. If you'll permit me, I'd like to ask some questions of you before we proceed."

"Um sure," Cass was still dumbfounded by the spectacle that had just been performed in front of her.

"Thank you. Now first thing's first, how old are you, Cassandra?" Mr. Xavier asked.

"Fifteen?"

"And how old were you exactly when you discovered you had unique abilities?"

Looking at her parents again, Cassandra answered, "I was four..." she trailed off.

"Go ahead, tell him, it's okay," her mother smiled down at her.

"I'd gotten angry and threw a fit, I was little, that's normal. I grabbed the coffee table and they just sort of happened. I started to pound my fists into the floor and left giant dents in it"

"Would you mind showing me what your powers are?"

"Okay," Cassandra spread her hand flat out on the table, as soon as her palm touched it she began to change. Her hand, starting from the tips of her fingers began to turn into solid oak. It rose up her arm and engulfed her entire body until every inch of her, including even her eyes were wooden and firm.

"Wow, that's quite an ability, and can you only do this with wood?"

"No, I can do it with just about anything I can touch."

"Oh really now, then can you try this?" Reaching into his pocket, Xavier pulled out a small chunk of a silverish metal no bigger than a quarter.

"Sure," taking the metal in her hand she transformed again, her body became heavy, heavier than anything she'd ever become before, "What is this stuff?" she said, trying to hold herself up.

"That, my dear, is adamantium, the strongest metal on earth. I am quite surprised you can hold yourself up."

"Well it's not easy. I feel like I'm going to fall through the floor."

Handing back the metal she slowly turned back to her normal self. She stood up and brushed herself off, relieved to not have all of that weight on her.

"Is that all you can do Cassandra?"

"There is one more thing, but it kind of hurts."

"Oh you don't have to do that, right professor? Not if it's going to hurt her," Cassandra's mother spouted, getting flustered.

"Of course not, I'd rather you just tell me than injure yourself."

"Okay, I guess it's just, if I get hurt, I heal really fast. Like big cuts, broken bones. I once broke my shin clean in half and wasn't supposed to be able to walk for a long time, but the next day I was good as new!"

"Incredible, not many have a healing factor as quick as yours. Actually I really can only think of one other mutant who does."

"Who's that?"

"You'll get to meet him very soon I suspect. That is, if you are coming to my school."

"What do you say Cass? Do you want to go?" Her father said as he bent down and laid a hand on his daughter's shoulder.

"You'll get to meet people just like you, make a lot of new friends with incredible powers," Mrs. Blake looked softly at Cass' face.

Looking at her parents the cogs in her brain started to spin. What was really seconds felt like she was thinking for ages. Cassandra then directed her attention to Xavier, staring deep into his calming eyes she nodded, " I'll do it."

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