A/N HELLOOO READERS! How are you guys? I just want to say I am good. Now before you ask, this is a sequel kind of thing to Backstory. This fic starts a year after it. Before we get to the story, I want to ask a small favor, please submit an oc for my other story, 'The Darkmija: Rising –Rewrite–' for Danielle's friends/acquaintances/enemies/rivals/crush and so on. I want to know your ideas for that fic, so, yah. Anyway, without further ado, ONTO THE STORY!

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The Phantom Feline

Prologue

Danny's Pov

I have been at the institute for a year, a YEAR, and I feel like I have lived here my whole life. Sure I had some problems with jocks and stuff, but I'm used to that. Any rivalry between any of us was settled real quick when Duncan broke the inducer professor X gave me on my first day at the mansion. Their too scared that I'll tear them in half with my ice claws… or my talons on my feet and hands. A lot of the girls who had seen me without my inducer keep trying to touch me, probably because of my fur… it is rather soft.

Other than that, school is going very well. I have worked to my best because of two things: one, the professor is threatening to put me on kitchen and danger room cleanup duty if I don't, and two, I don't have ghosts that I have to catch every ten seconds. (That actually happened once. Not fun.) I have good grades in history, English and math. But I have an A in science, engineering, nature and PE.

At the institute, things have gone better than I had hoped. I and Kurt always train together in gymnastics and martial arts due to our similar physical mutations. I still have a crush on Rahne, but I have yet to voice it anywhere outside my head. (Courtesy of Jean and Prof. X) I have also noticed that Rahne acts similar to me when I am around her, so I think she has a crush on me too. I won't talk to her about it until I'm sure though.

I love it here, especially when I'm with Logan, because he feels like my father figure in the institute because he feels that we can understand each other better than anyone else, except maybe X23, but I'm not complaining. She feels like my younger sister when I think about it.

My time in the institute has been wonderful; I just hope it'll last.

Unknown Pov

In an underground facility in an unknown location, a man with large horns on his head stood in front of a computer displaying many pictures and clips of Danny while in Bayville. None are of the institute, strangely. The man chuckled evilly as he watched the clips in amusement. He frowned when he saw the transformation into the feline form when the watch broke. Smiling he growled out in a fluid voice of a politician, "Finally I've found you Daniel. Soon you will be mine."

A/N how's that for a first chapter, eh? This is just the prologue for those who didn't read the chapter title. The romance between Rahne and Danny will start near the end of the next chapter. For Danielle fans, I'm sorry but Danny didn't give her the ecto dejecto on time in d-stabilized so I'm sorry.

Pulsar is out and thanks for all the fish.