"Nina, look I caught a fish!"

A tall, slender woman walked out from her tent and smiled as she saw her cub run back to base with a tiny fish in his hands.

"I caught it Nina, I caught it all by myself!"

Nina laughed as she strutted over to the small boy. She bent down so they were both eye leveled with each other and smiled as she messed with his long strawberry colored hair. She took the fish from him and smiled.

"Good job Toby, we will eat good tonight!"

Toby smiled proudly as he watched Nina walk over to the fire pit. He then ran over to the other end of base and grabbed a handful of fire wood as he watched the woman begin skinning their dinner. Nina looked up and smiled as she watched the tiny cub carry a couple of branches over to the empty pit. Toby, her cub was a very tiny creature in her eyes, so fragile he looked. His face was heart-shaped and his skin was white as a dandelion. His face had tiny red freckles which covered the boy from head to toe. Toby's lips and nose were as tiny as Nina thought they could be and his eyes, oh his eyes were Nina's favorite thing about him. They were so big, so bright, so childlike, but they had lost one thing, his innocence. She looked down at the fish she was skinning and chuckled to herself. The fish was so small she'd be surprised if it could even fill the boy tonight, but she wouldn't say anything to him. The way he ran up to her, so proud of himself, she wouldn't dare destroy that.

Nina watched as Toby ate his half of their dinner. Every movement he made was so carefree and joyful, but she knew deep down that he was watching their surroundings just as close and careful as she was. That's when she smelled it, it was a musk and wild smell, a man.

"Cub," She whispered.

"Nina?" Toby put his food down and slowly walked over to her.

"In the tree now Cub."

She sniffed the air again and narrowed her eyes in the direction of the intruder.

"But Nina…"

"Cub now!"

"But…"

"NOW!"

Nina turned to throw him in the tree, but she was too late.

"Well, well, well look what I found here dinner and dessert."

Toby looked behind Nina to see a man standing at the far end of their base. His hair was long yellow and wild; his face was cold, fierce and hungry. Toby covered his face as the man brought his sharp nails up to his lips and licked them hungrily. The young boy always thought Nina looked wild, but he was wrong Nina looked nothing like this man. This man was the wild one not Nina.

He watched as Nina's body tensed up.

"Leave now!" she growled at him.

The man laughed at her and walked closer to them.

"And miss an easy meal like this? I don't think so girl."

Toby screamed and ran over to the tree behind them as he watched the woman growl and transform into a strong, protective lioness.

Toby started to cry as the man laughed and ran over to her slamming her into to ground. He watched as Nina jumped up clawing the man across the face. The man cried out in pain as he grabbed her by the throat and threw her against a far tree. The lioness stood back on all fours as she ran towards the monster trying to get another hit at him, but the monster grabbed her again and picked her up by the neck and jabbed his hand in her stomach. Toby cried and ran out from behind the tree as he watched the creature rip his bloody hand from her and throw her on the ground.

"Nina!" Toby ran over to her and threw his arms in front of her.

"Leave her alone!"

The monster laughed as he stalked over to Toby. Toby closed his eyes and started to think about scary things when he heard a cry.

"Sabretooth!"

He opened his eyes to see that another man had come out and stabbed the monster from behind. Toby turned around and hid behind Nina. He looked up to see a new man, he had metal that came out of his hands and he was faster than the creature. Toby put his face in Nina's fur. He didn't want to be here anymore he wanted Nina to wake up and take the away so that they were safe again. He started to cry as he tried to wake up his lioness.

"Please Nina wake up. Please Nina!"

Toby's cries softened as he felt Nina start to come back to him. He looked at her as she started to stand back on her feet.

"Hey kid."

Toby looked up to see that the monster was gone and now just stood the second man, the one with the metal in his hands.

"Stop, don't hurt her!"

The man put his hands up, "Hey I'm not going to hurt you kid."

Toby looked at Nina as she was about to attack him, but instead she fell back on the ground and transformed back into her human self.

"Nina!" Toby cried as he ran in front of her and threw his hands up block the man from coming any closer, "We're not going back!"

The man put his hands down and bent down to Toby's height, "I'm not going to hurt you kid, but if you want that girl to live you're going to need to let me help you."

Toby started to feel tears come out of his eyes as he sat down next to Nina's unconscious body. He put his face in Nina's long nappy red hair and looked back up at the man.

"Fine, help her."

He watched as the man pulled a phone from his pocket and called someone telling them to bring the jet now. He watched carefully as the man sat across from him. Toby looked back at Nina and put her head in his lap playing with the tiny freckles on her face, they were like his just not all over his body. Her skin was white like his, but unlike his there were a lot of scars all over her, Toby called them battle scars and always told her how cool they looked on her.

"Name's Logan kid. What's yours?"

Toby looked over at the man, Logan, he hadn't moved since he sat down.

"Toby." He whispered.

Logan nodded his head, "How old are ya Toby?"

"I'm 10."

"Who's the girl?"

Toby looked down at her and moved her hair out of her face.

"She's my sister Nina."

"How old is Nina?"

"I don't know." Toby whispered.

Toby and Logan started to make small talk. He asked Toby his favorite colors, food, games some of which Toby answered and some he didn't. Toby watched as Logan carefully walked over to him and Nina.

"I'm going to try to put pressure on some of her wounds kid, so that she stops bleeding as much."

Toby watched carefully as he saw Logan rip apart his shirt and start wrapping it around Nina's wounds.

"Why were you even in the woods kid?"

"We live here. It's the only place Nina can protect me."

"This Nina, she's a Mutant right?"

"Yeah."

"Are you one too kid?"

"Yeah."

"Well you've seen mine. I have metal claws that come out of my knuckles. I'm guessing she can turn into a lion. What can you do kid?"

Toby looked back down at Nina, "I can make people see things."

"What kinda things kid?"

Toby closed his eyes and looked back at Nina, "Scary things."

Not soon after that a giant jet landed next to them and four people walked out. Toby watched as a red head women and a tall man carefully picked up Nina and took her into the jet.

"Come on kid well help ya now."

As Toby followed Logan into the jet he saw a dark woman with white hair at the controls and another women sitting next to her with short auburn hair with white streaks as bangs in the front of her hair. Toby didn't say a word as he sat down next to Logan as they flew off.