ok this is my first story. I have three new characters that I will introduce in this chapter. They will eventually meet up with the X-men. This story takes place in an AU of the movieverse. It is set after the first movie except that Logan is already back. Reviews are welcome...but be gentle because this is my first attempt at writing a story.
Early Saturday morning golden rays pass an opening in dusty curtains of a local motel in Westchester, New York. Slowly lights hit the face of a young teenage girl named Skyler. Skyler let out a grunt of frustration as the suns rays interrupted her peaceful slumber. It had been months since she had a descent night sleep and the suns presence was not welcome. She lifted her head slightly to retrieve her pillow from under her and then placed it over her head in an attempt to block the suns rays. With thebright lightseffectively blocked Skyler tried to fall back to sleep. Again, her peaceful rest was interrupted, but this time it was not from the rays of the sun but from her friend that slept in the adjacent bed. Even with the pillow over her head Skyler could hear her friend snoring which sounded like a duck being strangled. Not that she ever heard a duck being strangled, but his snoring is what she would imagine a ducking being strangle sounded like. Sometimes having heightened hearing was a real burden Skyler thought as she realized she would not be able to fall back asleep.
Sitting up with a huff Skyler chucked her pillow over at a young teenage boy who slept in the adjacent bed. The pillow hit the boy directly on his chest causing the boy to awake suddenly. "What was that for?" the boy whined.
"Because you are snoring Bryce!" Skyler said as she looked at the clock. "And it is 7:30 am."
" 7:30 am!" he said in an irritated tone. Bryce grumbled something before he turned over and went back to sleep. Skyler ran her fingers through her long brown hair and let out a sigh. She needed to figure out how to stop Bryce from snoring or she would never get a good night sleep. Looking to her left Skyler couldn't help but smile at what she saw on the bed next to her. Two small feet rested on the pillow with the blanket tucked closely around the ankles. How April in the course of the night started with her head on the pillow to her feet on the pillow by morning was a mystery. Getting up Skyler made her way to the bathroom.
Skyler shut the door behind her and grabbed a hair tie that was located on the sink. She put up her hair in a pony tail and began to wash her face. As the cold water hit her face she couldn't help but feel relaxed. It surprised her how she had come to enjoy this new life. She had met Bryce and April approximately six months ago. If anyone had told her six months ago that she would be traveling with two other teenagers across the country she would have laughed in their face. Skyler was more or less a loner and didn't particularly care for company. But somehow Bryce and April had made it impossible for her to ever leave them.
Skyler could remember the first night she met April and Bryce. She was walking down an alley on the streets of Detroit when she heard two men threaten someone. As she got closer to the voices she could see two men harassing two teenagers a boy and a girl. Skyler made her way towards the men preparing for a fight, but before she could make her presence known the teenage boy picked up a very large city trash can and threatened to throw it at the men. The men looked frightened and one of them reached behind his back into his wasted band. Skyler's heighten eyesight revealed the man had a gun. She sprinted towards the man and knocked him to the ground with a well placed round house kick to the head. At this point the teenage girl hit the other man with what looked like electricity. The two stunned men got up and ran away. The boy put down the trash can and turned his attention towards Skyler. Both Bryce and April thanked Skyler for her help and asked her if she too was a runaway. Skyler nodded and told them that it wasn't the only thing they had in common. She was also a mutant. From that night on they traveled and survived the streets together.
Maybe the fact that they were mutants and runaways was the reason she agreed to travel with them. Even if that was the case it wasn't the reason she chose to continue traveling with them. Both Bryce and April had optimism about life that was refreshing given their backgrounds. Bryce and grown up in Colorado. His parents were proponents of the Mutant Registration Act and were politically active in trying to get the law passed. Bryce's powers of incredible strength emerged when he was only twelve. Knowing his parents were not mutant friendly he did his best to hide his powers. That is until one day at school he became angry at a peer and accidentally threw a table through a wall. That night his parents were furious and began to make plans to get him "help". Bryce packed up his things and left that same night and he has been on the streets ever since. Despite this obvious traumatic event he seemed happy or at least put on a happy face.
April on the other hand had been in foster care since she was four. Her parents had died in a car crash and she had no living relatives. April was lucky that she had nice caring foster parents. She was unlucky that she could never stay in the same foster home for very long. This caused April to be very cautious about who she opens up to, something that Skyler could relate. Even though her past was unpredictable she always found a reason to smile or make others smile. This not only soothed her wounds but the wounds of others. April's pranks and laughter were a way of coping with the pain of not having someone constant in her life.
Skyler looked into to the bathroom mirror and loathed the reflection before her. Two blood red eyes stared back at her. These eyes were unnatural. Yes, there is a medical condition where people have red eyes, but it is usually accompanied by white skin and her skin was an olive tone. No, this was not a case of albinism she clearly was a mutant. Opening her mouth she examined her teeth especially the long upper canines. While she examined her teeth in the mirror memories started to flood her mind.
"Do you like it here?" a young girl asked another girl sitting next to her.
"No." The other girl replied.
"I don't like it here either."
Skyler began to shake her head trying to loosen the grip of her memories on her conscious mind and suppress them back to her unconscious mind. Taking a deep breath to clam herself Skyler picked up a contact case and unscrewed the top. Again looking at the mirror she put in two contacts changing her eye color from red to brown.