Title…….. X-Men: Enter the Darkness.

By: Highlander_XWO_Slayer

Summery: The War of the Realms has begun. The X-Men now enter for their part.

Rating PG to PG-13 to R. For death and mass destruction.

Timeline: Set a short time after X2: X-Men United. Date is set around my other stories.

Disclaimer: Joss Whedan owns Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I own the Character Matt and the things involved with him. I also own the idea behind the War of the Realms. Marvel Comics owns the X-Men, and anyone else I pluck from the Marvelverse.

Feedback: Please R/R

Distribution: Go ahead but please give credit to me

Chapter 1:………. Beginning of the Year of Darkness……….

Westchester, NY………. 12/31/02.………Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Rogue is walking around the mansion alone, because most of the students have gone home for the Christmas break, she is looking for Bobby Drake. She finds him in the common room watching TV.

She walked over to the couch and said, "Hey Bobby, what's you watching?"

Bobby looked up at his girlfriend, and said, "Nothing much. Please take a seat, keep me company."

Rogue nodded and made her way around the couch to sit next to Bobby. They then put it on a channel, and started to watch. After they started to watch the a news special came on.

The News…………

Ladies and Gentlemen. We are sorry to interrupt, regularly scheduled programs, but we have a special bulletin, straight from the President of the United States, George McKenna."

The scene then changed to the White House Press Room. And standing at the podium is the President. He wait's a few moments then begins speaking. "My fellow Americans. I am here tonight to tell the you all something. It has come to my attention that there is another world behind our own on this planet. Many of you have heard that there are mutants in the world. But of right now they are the least of the worlds problems."

He stopped for minute then he started again, "I just recently been informed that that demons and vampires are real. Many of you will scoff at this but we have live feed of an actual demon." He then signaled for a monitor to be turned on to show a room somewhere.

The scene opened up with several soldiers in a room. One of the soldiers just happened to be Agent Riley Finn. His wife, Samantha, was also there. The camera panned around and then showed something chained to the wall. Agent Finn looked toward the camera and said, "We are ready here." Riley waited and looked over at the monitor at the side of the room. After he saw the president's nod, He walked over to the chained demon and began to speak.

Riley indicated the demon, "Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a demon. A Polgara Demon. It kills with special bone skewers that project out of its forearms." Riley indicated for one of the other soldiers in the room to take a prod and stab it into the Polgara's arm. When he did the skewer popped out. Riley then said, "The most common ways to kill a demon is to stab it in the heart, or cut its head off. But demons are generally stronger, and more evil then normal humans. So if you see a demon run, do not engage it."

Riley then moved away from the demon. The camera also followed him. Off of the camera the soldier that had stabbed the demon took a sword the was handed to him by another and then cut the demon's head off.

Riley then left the room, with the camera following him. He made his way into another room. This room was holding a vampire that was also chained to the wall. Riley stopped in front of the vamp and then turned to the camera and said, "This is a typical vampire. It is only a few days old. Vamps abhor crosses but they do not kill them."

He pulls a cross out of his jacket and holds it towards the vamp. The vamp hissed and tried to pull away from it. Riley then put down the cross and then said, "The typical ways to kill a vampire is a wooden stake to the heart. Decapitation, or fire. Also sunlight." With that Riley pulled a stake and slammed it into the vamp's heart. The vamp looked surprised before exploding into dust.

The president came back on the screen and said, "From the word that I have received from other world leaders, some bad is going to happened soon. I have came on here tonight to make every one ready. Be safe." The President then stepped away from the podium. One of his aids, stepped up and began taking questions.

X-Mansion……..

Bobby and Rogue stopped watching the TV, and looked at each other. Rogue spoke first, in her southern accent, "This cannot be good."

Bobby shook his head and said, "No it isn't."

Meanwhile in another part of the mansion………. Xavier's office…….

Xavier sat in his wheelchair, behind his desk, shaking his head. He then muttered under his breath, "It was only a matter of time."

Just then Logan, codenamed Wolverine, walked in the office. He said, "What was a matter of time, Chuck?"

Charles Xavier shook his head and said, "How many times have I asked you not to call me Chuck." Xavier shook his head when Logan just smirked. He then asked, "Logan have you watched the news today?"

Logan shook his head, but before he could say anything, several people entered the room. Scott Summers, aka Cyclops. Jean Grey. Ororo Munroe, aka Storm. And the two newest mutants to have shown up, Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit. And Henry 'Hank' McCoy, who everyone called, The Beast.

After they all found places around the office, Scott asked, "Professor, how exactly will this latest news affect us and the students, plus mutants all over the world?"

Xavier looked around at his X-Men, and said, "I don't know. But we do need to start teaching the students how to protect themselves, if they encounter a vampire."

They all nodded. They then continued to discuss what they are going to do.

10 minutes before sunrise……….. Roof of the mansion………

Remy was sitting up on the roof because he couldn't sleep. Most nights found him up on the roof, looking out over the area. Right now he is thinking about what made him come to Xavier's in the first place. He had shown up about two weeks after the whole Dark Cerebro wave thing happened. He shook his head.

5 minutes until sunrise…..

Remy looked around. For some unknown reason, he was sensing something very bad coming. Just then he looked up and saw the darkened sun rising. Watching it Remy's red eyes flashed. He then muttered, "Dis not going to be good."

Woods surrounding the mansion………….

Logan was walking through the woods, since 11:00 that night. As the sun rose, Logan stood and watched it. He then said, "We need to train the kids a lot sooner then we thought."

8:00 a.m. that morning……… Bobby Drake's room……..

Bobby woke up and got out of bed and walked over to the window. He was so shocked by the darkened sun that his hand, which was sitting on the glass of the window, froze it instantly.

Rogue's room………….

Rogue was also shocked when she looked out the window. She shook her head and said, "This is not going to be good."

Xavier's office………

Charles was looking through some papers. He was thinking about the darkened sun. He knew of no mutant that had that kind of power. What he was thinking was that was a demon. He just did not know what kind.

Magneto's hidden base……..

Eric Lehnsherr, aka Magneto, was standing at window, looking out at the darkened world. Also in the room is Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, a large bestial mutant. Mystique, a blue shape changing female mutant. Toad, a garish mutant with a tongue like a toad. And the newest one, John Allardyce, aka Pyro, a young mutant with the ability to manipulate sources of fire.

Eric turned to the others and said, "We need to be careful. But we will wait and see who they blame for this." The others nodded.

Two days later……….1/3/02.……. The X-mansion……..

Over the last two days the students have been returning to the school. After they arrived they all were informed of some new classes everyone was to take. They all took it in stride. A lot of them were down because of the lack of sunlight.

It was 10:00 o'clock a.m. and Rogue did not have a class right then. So she was outside taking a walk. As she made her way towards the driveway, she saw a figure standing on driveway, looking up at the mansion. She noticed that he was wearing all black, including the black duster he was wearing, and that he had shoulder length white-blond hair.

She slowly walked up to him, not knowing that he already knew she was there. When she was a few feet from him, she cleared her throat and asked, "Is there anything that I can help you with?"

When he turned around to look at her, she was somewhat memorized, by his startling green eyes. He chuckled at her reaction. He then answered, "Yes, I am here looking for Professor Charles Xavier."

Rogue then said, "He is not here right now but I can take to one of the other teachers." He nodded and she indicated for him to follow her. For a long time after meeting him, she would swear that his laugh sounded like a wind through trees. She thought it was nice.

TBC………………….