Chapter 1
She is sitting on the roof of her home. She has pale laminating milky white skin, long violet ringlets cascading down her back, shy ice blue eyes with a tint of emerald green in them, a tiny waist line. Everyone swears that she is a very beautiful young woman. She grew up moving from one place to another, never staying in one place to long, she grew up alone; when she was nine years old her mother kicked her out of the house and she has been on her own ever since. Until now, now she has joined a team of heroes to protect a city.
Her name is Serenity, but the outside world knows her as Fear. The team includes a man by the name of Mikeial also known as Blade; he has taken the role of leader. Blade has long black hair, hazel eyes with a tint of emerald green to them, he has a couple of powers just as Serenity does, his gifts are turning into mist, reading minds, throwing fireballs, and he is very good with weapons.
Serenity can read minds, control the weather as well as nature, and is very good with weapons as well. Another team member is a man by the name of Chris, the outside world knows him as Bones; Bones has the power to read minds he has super human strength, and is really good with weapons.
Next there is Criss, the world knows her as Red, she has long fiery red hair (hence the nickname) she has brown eyes with a tint of emerald green to them, she too has gifts, she can absorb power from others and she can control fire, she is also good with weapons.
Last but not least there is Sorrow, also known as Violet Ghost, she too has violet hair, only a couple of shades lighter than Serenity's, her power is that she can hide her power level, and she can control metal with her mind, she too is good with weapons. The team is known as the Assassins, none of them are older than twenty years of age. That is the team she is living with.
Right now Serenity is up on the roof of their home, looking out at the city thinking about her life. She's been on her own since she was nine, and now she is seventeen years of age; she has traveled the world in such a short time.
The Assassins built their home in a small town known as Oroville in the state of California. Some nights they don't have any trouble, but then again some nights they do, so far tonight they don't have any trouble. Serenity spent some time in New York at a school for kids with gifts to learn how to control their powers. A man that is a teacher there adopted Serenity as his daughter.
When she left he gave her a comm. link so that they can keep in touch. At this time her comm. link goes off, "Yea dad?" Serenity's Serenityic voice said into the comm. link.
"Serenity are you alright?" A deep man's voice replied. Serenity rolled her eyes; it's been two weeks since they talked he was always so worried about her. "Yes dad I'm fine. How is everyone?" Serenity asked. She always worried about everyone else but herself.
"Everyone is fine Serenity. Your sister is getting married." Her dad said. Serenity was not surprised by that her older sister, Marie, was a pretty girl and had been dating Remy for quite a while. "When will the wedding be?" Serenity asked. Marie was two years older than her, Serenity's dad, Logan, adopted Marie a year before Serenity was brought to the school.
"The wedding will be next month, here at the school; Marie wants you to be her maid of honor." Logan answered. Serenity nodded her head. "Okay I'll be there in a couple of weeks." Serenity said. She could almost see Logan nodding his head. "Alright we'll see you soon honey." Logan said, "Love ya." He added and hung up the comm. link Serenity put the comm. link in her pocket and got up and went back downstairs to find Blade and let him know she had to leave in a couple of days.
She found him in their built in gym. She walked up to him and he tossed her a fake sword to spar with. She caught it just as the rest of the team walked in. They sat on the bench and waited their turns. Serenity had Blade pinned with in ten minutes.
Next was Bones and Cat's turn. Serenity went and sat down on the bench; Serenity watched Bones and Cat spar, mentally telling Blade about her sister. Serenity didn't tell anyone about her past; she really just kept to herself, so Blade took it as a shock that she had a sister, but said that they could all go, that he would get friends of his to protect the city.
When training was over the team went their separate ways. The alarm went off to tell them that there was trouble a foot.
Everyone was already in their fighting clothes. Blade always wore black leather pants, with a black wife beater, black boots, and a long black leather trench coat, as does Bones, but Bones always wore black pants with no shirt, Cat just wears regular clothes, Serenity on the other hand wears tight black leather pants, a short black halter top that shows her stomach, thigh high black boots, with hoops inside to hold onto weapons, and the heel themselves would be weapons, they were made of solid sliver with black paint over them, Sorrow wears a short blood red mini skirt, blood red bikini top and high heels. Serenity thinks that she used to be a hooker, but that's beside the point. They took off at once to stop whoever was causing trouble.
Three days later and the Assassins are on their way to New York for Serenity's sister's wedding. They are flying commercial to New York they'll land at JFK airport where Logan will be there to meet them. The plane lands and Serenity leads the way out keeping an eye out for Logan, but does not see him. Instead she sees a woman with long snow white hair and dark skin.
Serenity walks up to her, "Aunt Aurora?" Serenity asked. The woman turned to face her, and then wrapped her arms around her. "Oh Serenity it's so good to see you again." The woman said. Serenity smiled as she hugged her aunt, "your dad had to work, so he asked me to get you and your friends, speaking of which." She added as she broke away from her niece.
"Aunt Aurora this is Blade, Bones, Cat, and Sorrow; guys this is my Aunt Aurora." Serenity made the introductions. Aurora shook everyone's hand. They got their luggage and got into the SUV, Aurora driving. About thirty minutes after they left the airport they arrived at the school.
The team was in awe, it was a huge house with vines growing up the sides of it, so much propriety, kids playing everywhere. Aurora stopped the car in front of the door. The door opened and Marie came flying out the door, literally flying out the door. Serenity got out of the car and hugged her sister.
"Serenity it's so good to see you." Marie said. When they broke apart Remy and Logan were standing there. Remy gave her a hug; she then looked to her dad. Logan walked up to his daughter.
"Hi sweetheart, it's so good to see you again." Logan said wrapping his arms around his daughter. "It's good to see everyone again as well." Serenity said, "Dad, Remy, Marie this is my team, Blade, Bones, Cat, and Sorrow; guys this is my dad Logan, my sister Marie, and my future brother-in-law Remy." Serenity made the introductions.
Everyone shook hands. Logan grabbed Serenity's luggage and took her up to her old room. He then walked with her back downstairs to great everyone else, she meet up the dean/physics teacher, Professor Charles Xavier, he remembered her, and he should considering he was her grandfather.
Logan took her down to meet up with her Aunt Jean and Uncle Scott; they are married to each other. He took her down to meet up with her Uncle Hank, and finally her mom, Logan's wife, Raven, Serenity walked into Raven's classroom. Raven turned around and saw Serenity.
"Serenity, my daughter, it's so good to see you again." Raven said, Raven ran up to Serenity and gave her a hug, "oh sweetheart you've grown up to be a beautiful young woman." Raven said. Serenity wrapped her arms around her mom.
"It's great to see you again to mom." Serenity said. The team walked in, Serenity turned to look at them, "what's the matter?" Serenity asked seeing the look on Blade's face. Blade walked up to her.
"You didn't tell us that you knew the X-men." Blade said. Serenity gave an innocent look. "It never came up." Serenity answered. She looked to her dad who was eyeing Blade strSerenityy. She came walking up to him all the while giving him a look that said 'let it go' Before they left Oroville Bones, who is good with electronics, customized their communicators to go off if there was trouble here in New York, the communicators went off, Bones pulled his out and looked at it.
"Mutants are causing problems at a mall." Bones' deep voice said. Serenity's mom, Raven, walked up to him she looked at the picture. "Those are not just any mutants." She said then looked at Serenity and Logan, "It's the brotherhood." She added.
Serenity then took out her communicator and looked; she then looked at her team. "These mutants are not ones to play around with; they are very dangerous; perhaps the four of you should stay here." Serenity said. Blade looked at her as if she were crazy.
"No way we're going; this is what we trained for." Blade said. The rest of the team nodded their heads. Marie, Remy, Aurora, Jean, and Scott came running in suited up, Logan is always suited up, Raven does not wear clothes her skin is blue, and she can take the form of anyone; she was once known as Mystique.
They all took off. Marie, aka Rouge, carrying Remy, aka Gambit, Serenity carrying Blade since she could fly as well, Aurora aka Storm, carrying Scott, Jean carrying everyone else, she is telepathic, so it was easy for her. They landed in front of the mall and waited for the brotherhood to come out. They were standing there for about two minutes when the brotherhood came out.
"Well if it isn't the X-men, brought some friends I see." The leader of the brotherhood, Magneto, said, "ah Fear it's been a long time, you've grown up to be quite a fine young woman; do you remember all that time ago when you were young what I did to you?" Magneto added. That got Logan growling.
"Touch my daughter again and I'll kill you myself." Logan said. Magneto started to laugh at what Logan said.
"Have you forgotten Wolverine, I control metal, and metal runs through your entire body." Magneto said. Blade stepped forward.
"You touch Fear and I'll kill you." Blade said. Serenity looked at Blade strSerenityy. She had never heard him talk about her like that before. At that point the whole team stepped up to Magneto and agreed with Blade. "And you are?" Magneto asked. They looked at each other.
"We're the Assassins, and we protect each other." Cat answered Sorrow stepped up and looked Magneto up and down.
"I can control metal as well, so don't threaten Wolverine." Sorrow said. Magneto looked at her and smiled. Magneto knew something about Sorrow, so Serenity got in to his mind and saw what it was. Serenity about fell over at what she saw in Magneto's mind.
Serenity's eyes turned pure black a huge gust of wind came up and lifted the brotherhood into the air Magneto used his power to control metal and caused a piece of metal to fly through Serenity's upper chest, which dropped them to the ground. Serenity fell to the ground, Logan and Raven ran up to her along with Jean, Jean is a doctor so she took a look.
The metal went all the way through Serenity's chest leaving a hole about three inches in diameter; blood was pouring out of the wound and onto the ground. Jean looked up at everyone who had gathered around.
"I have to get her back to the mansion, she's injured quite badly." Jean said. Logan picked Serenity up and started to run with her back to the mansion Jean flying close behind. Everyone else looked toward Magneto and the brotherhood, especially the Assassins.
Magneto took that chance to run with the brotherhood away from their wrath. The X-men and the Assassins then returned to the mansion when they got there they walked downstairs where the severe medical room was. "How is she?" Blade asked Logan. Logan was sitting in a chair outside the room. Logan looked up at the group and walked over to Raven and wrapped his arms around her to comfort her.
"Jean is doing surgery on her. The metal pierced a part of her heart; the bleeding won't stop, Jean is doing what she can." Logan answered every word he said brought tears to Raven's, and Rouge's eyes, as well as Blade's. Logan saw Blade's reaction to what he just said about Serenity, he thought that Blade was possibly has crush on his daughter.
They all sat there for what seemed like days after five hours Jean walked out. Everyone stood up and looked at her.
"Serenity is going to be okay." Jean said first and foremost knowing that that was everyone's concern, "She was close to death, something made her hold on, by rights she should be dead now, something, or someone means an awful lot to her." Jean said.
Everyone looked at her, "she can have visitors, but she's asleep right now, I had to put a breathing tube down her throat, so she'll be out for a while." Jean added. Logan and Raven went into the room. Jean walked over and sat next to Scott, she never thought she would have to that kind of surgery on her niece. Logan walked over to stand beside Serenity's bedside, Raven on the other side.
They both held each of Serenity's hands. The rest of the family walked in along with the Assassins they all gathered around her bedside, even Professor Xavier was there. Logan was thinking of a way to save his daughter's life. Jean had to hook a blood bag up to Serenity because of all the blood she had lost. 'I will not lose my daughter again.' Logan thought to himself, he then looked at Jean.
"Jean is there a way to transfer my healing ability to Serenity?" Logan asked. Jean looked at him and thought about that. "There might be Logan, Rouge could you use your ability to transfer power from your dad to your sister?" Jean asked. Marie nodded her head.
She walked over to Logan and placed her bare hand on Logan's bare hand and started to absorb his gift, then laid her hand gently on Serenity's arm. Thirty minutes after Marie started this Serenity woke up. Jean ran up and pulled the breathing tube out of Serenity's mouth.
"What happened? Where am I?" Serenity's Serenityic voice asked. Jean appeared above her. "Serenity honey you're at home, at the mansion." Raven said. Serenity looked around at the people beside her bed. Everyone was there even her grandfather, she gave a slight smile.
"What happened?" Serenity asked yet again. Raven looked at Logan. "What do you remember?" Logan asked. Serenity laid there a minute. "I remember trying to send the brotherhood away." Serenity answered. Logan looked down at her and held her hand.
"Serenity, sweetheart, Magneto used his gift to throw a piece of metal through your chest, Jean and I brought you back to the mansion, where she performed surgery on you. You almost died." Logan answered. Serenity looked at him.
"Oh, god, that's right, I was trying to send him away because what he was thinking." Serenity said. Everyone looked at her intently, "Where's Sorrow?" Serenity asked. Sorrow walked up closer to her, "Sorrow I'm sorry to tell you this but, Magneto is your father." Serenity said.
Everyone looked at her surprised by this news; no one knew that Magneto had children, much less a daughter named Sorrow. Serenity started to get up when she hit a force field she looked at those that were telepathic, which was only Jean and Professor Xavier. She then looked at Blade, "Guys can I talk to Blade alone please." Serenity said.
Logan was a little hesitant about leaving them alone, but Raven eventually dragged him away. "I was so worried about you Serenity." Blade said. Serenity gave him a small smile, "Jean said that something or someone was holding you here, that something or someone means an awful lot to you to keep you here." Blade said.
Serenity nodded her head. "Yes, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." Serenity answered, Serenity was trying to play in her mind how to say this to Blade, almost dying gave her a new perspective, she should face her fear of saying this to him, tell him how she really feels about him.
She was still trying to think of a way to say this when all of a sudden Blade claimed her lips with his, he pulled away long enough to smile at her, then claimed her lips again with his, in a more passionate kiss. It's been two weeks since that day. Serenity was able to get up out of bed not long after that.
Now Serenity is being fitted for her maid of honor gown for Marie's wedding; Serenity is just glad that her gown is not pink, Serenity hates that color with a passion, her gown is a very simple soft green color. Her waist line is so small that her gown has to be specially made to fit her. Serenity and Blade's relationship had grown since then. Logan has somewhat gave his blessing.
Marie's wedding is close upon them. Serenity is watching T.V. with her family right now. Remembering when she was brought to the school. Professor Xavier found her through Cerebro, he then sent Logan and Jean to collect her, when they got there she was being attacked by the members of the brotherhood.
Logan and Jean fought for her safety eventually Jean had to send them away using her power; by then Serenity was lying unconscious on the ground, Logan picked her up and carried her back to the school and took her to the hospital room where Jean could examine her.
Three days later Serenity woke up to see Logan sitting in the chair beside her bed. From that day on she was his daughter. Logan protected her just as he did with Marie and his beloved wife, Raven. One thing about Logan is he is very protective of those he considers family.
"Serenity are you alright?" Marie asked. Serenity looked over at her sister. Marie's wedding was in a couple of days. Right now everyone is just relaxing, enjoying everything, enjoying the time they have together, after Marie's wedding the Assassins will be going back to Oroville. "Yea I'm alright Marie." Serenity said.
Serenity was thinking of how nice it was to be with her family again, she is going to miss them. Maybe one day she'll be able to have her family together for her wedding if she ever got married, but right now she didn't think so. She wondered how Oroville was doing without the Assassins being there.
Serenity didn't know who Blade got to watch over the city for them but hoped that they were doing a good job. Serenity had a secret from her family, she wasn't a mutant, she was something else, and she was scared to tell them, thinking that they might disapprove of her if they learned it. She healed at a rapped speed, faster than others, faster than Logan did, her powers she was born with, they didn't come at points of heighted emotional stress like mutants did, and she is not even from this plane of existents.
She is from a dimension known as Vampiria, in a small planet known as Azarath, she was considered an outcast even on her planet, so she was sent to earth, and that is when Professor Xavier found her. Serenity stood up and got her families' attention, "Can I get everyone to come to the planning room?" Serenity asked; the Assassins already knew her secret for they are what she is; only they were originated from Earth, not her dimension.
Everyone got up and walked with her to the planning room they sat in their seats and Serenity looked around the table at her family.
"You all know that I consider you all my family, my parents, aunts, uncles, sister, cousins, and things like that; but, I have been keeping a secret from you, scared that if you knew you would no longer accept me. You all know that I have gifts just as you do, but I did not get my gifts the way you did, I am not a mutant, I wasn't even born on Earth, I was born in another dimension known as Vampiria, on a small planet called Azarath, even there I was an outcast, my mother, my birth mother is queen there, my birth father was a traveler that went from planet to planet creating a new species our people." Serenity said then took a in a deep breath.
"I was born with my gifts from day one I had them, I didn't get them in a moment of heightened emotional stress, I am what my people have come to call a Vampire, Earth knows of this species, but thinks of them as myths, we are not myths, the only difference between my species and the myths of my kind on Earth is that we do not drink blood, that is why my eyes have the tint of emerald green to them, it is a tell-tale sign of what I am if you know what to look for, when my emotions run high, if I'm not careful my eyes turn completely emerald green.
I am so, so sorry for keeping this secret from you, but as I said I thought that if you knew then you would not accept me. I am confident that now that you have gotten to know me, and know that I would never hurt my family you can handle the truth about me.
Now here I stand awaiting your judgment of me." Serenity finally finished her confession. She looked at those she considered family, all of them looking at each other. Logan stood up with Raven beside him and walked up to Serenity.
"Serenity it was very brave of you to come to us with this knowledge, but, the truth is we have known all along what you are, we didn't know where you came from 'til now, but we knew what you were, Professor Xavier and Jean can read minds remember." Logan said.
Serenity looked to her mom who nodded her head, she then looked at her family and they smiled and nodded their heads. Even knowing what she is they still accept her. She smiled at everyone and hugged her dad and mom, then broke away from them.
"Thank you all, you are my family, and I love you, you are the only family I know." Serenity said; she didn't know it but the Assassins stood behind her listening to her confession, "when I was born my birth mother who is also named Raven, was half demoness and could handle the birth of one of my kind, she got rid of me when she realized that I was not a product of her beloved husband, named Richard, I was nine years of age by then; the circumstances of my birth were very terrible, my mother always walked just before bed, the night I was conceived she was raped by my father, five months later I was born, at first she thought that I was Richard's offspring, but when my….Vampiric powers came threw she knew I was not his, she and Richard knew that I would have powers with her being half demoness, but, when my vampiric abilities came through they sent me to earth at the age of nine, leaving me alone.
"I made my way from country to country, hiding on ships, and planes, I knew I was alone, I know what I was, my birth mother told me before she sent me away, I was in the country of Romania when grandfather sent dad and Aunt Jean to get me, that is why I clinged to mom and dad so fast, I needed parents to love me and show the right way. Being raised by mom and dad was a great experience, and I have not thought about Raven or Richard, or Azarath since then. Why should I when I have this wonderful family that accepted me knowing that I was not even one of their species." Serenity said.
She felt a presence behind her and saw the Assassins standing there, they had heard her confession of her past, she never spoke to anyone of her past, and now everyone knew. So now she stood in front of the Assassins awaiting their judgment of her. Blade walked up closer to her.
"Serenity you know that the team does not judge you, you know that we are Earth's version of vampires; the difference between your kind and Earth's vampires is that Earth's drinks blood, our team is like a family, we have been together for two and a half years and have grown to love each other, I love you Serenity and do not judge you." Blade said. She then looked to Cat, Bones, and Sorrow they all nodded their heads. Serenity wrapped her arms around Blade.
"Thank you." Serenity whispered in his ear knowing that the team could hear her. Bones then looked at Cat. "Catherine I have loved you since we met, and I know that you love me, will you marry me?" Bones said as he kneeled down on one knee in front of Cat.
Cat looked down at him as he slid a red engagement ring on her finger. Cat looked around at everyone else in the room then turned her attention back to Bones. "Bones I do love you as you said, of course I'll marry you." Cat said. Bones smiled and then picked her up and swung her around.
Serenity smiled softly looks like she has another wedding to attend. At that time Serenity's vision faded she no longer saw her family but she saw a woman with long violet hair, the same color as hers. "Serenity you need to come back to Azarath, the kingdom needs you." The woman's voice said.
Serenity knew who it was; it was Raven her birth mother, Serenity shook her head. "Why should I you sent me away when I was nine, just because I was different.
I will not come back to your home, my home is on Earth, I have a loving family, and a great life here." Serenity answered the woman's voice. Just then she saw Blade standing in front of her. "Serenity are you alright?" Blade asked. Serenity nodded her head then looked to her family.
"Serenity what did you see?" Logan asked. Serenity looked at him and then to Jean and Professor Xavier. She knew that they could see the vision in her mind. "Her birth mother has called to her for help." Jean answered. Logan looked at Raven and then to his daughter, "She asked her why she should, that they sent her away when she was nine." Jean said. Logan looked at Serenity and then to Blade.
"Serenity you swore to protect those that are in need of it, if she needs help then go." Logan said to her. Serenity looked at her dad and then to the rest of her family.
"I will only if someone comes with me." Serenity said. Something else that others did not know was that with Serenity being part demoness she could say spells that would take her to places that others could not go. She looked at everyone showing them how serious she was. "I'll go with you, Serenity." Blade said.
She looked at him and smiled, then the Assassins walked up to her and voiced that they would go. She looked to her family, not expecting them to go; they had to keep an eye on New York. Dad walked up to her. "Sweetheart if you can I'll go with you, your mom probably as well." Logan said.
She looked at her mom and she nodded her head. "Alright we'll go after Marie's wedding." Serenity said in response to them going. Everyone nodded their heads.
Three days later after Marie's wedding Serenity, Blade, Bones, Cat, Sorrow, Logan, and Raven gathered in a circle in the middle of the courtyard outside the school, they joined hands and Serenity prepared to say the spell to send them to Azarath, she remembered it well, she made herself remember the spell her mother used to send her to Earth, all she had to do was to change the end from Earth to Azarath.
She had figured this out a long time ago, but didn't go because of the fact that she had her family and did not want them to be upset that she went to Azarath she didn't want them to think that she didn't appreciate everything they did for her, because she did, especially now that she knew that they knew what she was from day one, "Everyone ready?" Serenity asked.
The group nodded their heads, "Alright." She added just then her eyes turned completely blood red, "Ana ayou sena sehttou gegagna gegonoso sentha setha Azarath Azarath…." Mentally she told everyone to hold on, "Azarath." They were encircled by a light blue light that lifted them up into the sky, she look up and then looked down and saw that they were being chased by the protection demon to keep people out of Azarath, "Hurry force yourselves forward, the protection demon is coming." Serenity said.
The group pushed forward and soon they broke through the seal the entered Azarath. They landed and looked around, Serenity could not believe that this is where she was from, it was beautiful, so tranquil, and it was incredible. People walking around looked at her and just stared; no one did that back on Earth, and she did not like it. People dressed in fancy clothing walked up to them,
"Princess Serenity please come with us." One of them said. She grasped Blade's hand and together the group walked with them. They walked the two miles to the castle; they were led inside and sat in front of the Queen and King, Raven and Richard. Serenity bowed to them, as did the group. The Queen stood up and walked down the stairs to stand before them
"Please stand all of you." The Queen said, Serenity and her family did as they were told, "Serenity Richard and I have been watching over you on Earth, I'm sorry that we had to send you away all those years ago, but we had no choice, the council forced us to do so." She said to Serenity. Serenity looked at the woman who birthed her.
"I'm glad you did, if you wouldn't have I would never have met my family, my mother Raven, my father Logan." Serenity said as she pointed to them, "my sister Marie, my grandfather, Charles, my Aunts, and Uncles, and all my cousins, nor would I have met Blade, Bones, Cat, or Sorrow." She added pointing to her team mates. The Queen looked back at her King. The King stood up and walked up to the group.
"Serenity your mother and I had every intention of raising you, but when the council found out what you were, they were afraid that you would turn against your people and destroy the kingdom, so they told us to either send you to Earth, or they were going to kill you. Granted you were not conceived out of love like you mother and I wished, we still love you, you didn't deserve death you were innocent, so your mother sent you to Earth." The king said. Serenity looked back at her family.
"Why have you asked me here, what is the trouble with your kingdom?" Serenity asked them. They looked at each other. "We have received word that your father is on his way back here, and he said that if his offspring is not here he will destroy our kingdom, he will destroy our people." The Queen said.
Serenity looked at her family, as did the Queen; she walked over to Logan and Raven, "I want to thank you for taking my daughter in and raising her; when her own mother could not." The Queen said. Logan looked at her and then to her King.
"We didn't do for you, we did it because we love her, and she deserved a better life than to be on her own. She is our daughter, just as much as her sister Marie is." Logan said; the Queen nodded her head.
"I know that you didn't raise her for me, but it was I that had interfered with Xavier's machine to find her." The Queen said. Everyone looked at her strSerenityy, "Azarathians are considered the guardians of the other planets, and dimensions, we control the destiny of the life on the other planes, and planets; and I told Cerebro that Serenity was a mutant so that Xavier would send someone after her so she would be protected.
I never expected the two of you to adopt her, but I'm glad that you did." The Queen added.