Disclaimer: I own Celestia! She's mine and you can't have her! I also own her mother. Sadly, though, I don't own anyone else. I wish I did. I'd be rich. –sigh-

Chapter One: The Discovery

Professor Xavier opened his eyes and removed his helmet. He placed the helmet on its stand and rubbed his eyes. He was exhausted, but his work wasn't finished yet.

Xavier reached over to his keypad and tapped in the sequence to bring up the information on one of the mutant he had just discovered.

The hologram was tiny as to be practically microscopic, but he could read what it said, no matter that he had to strain his eyes. (He needed Forge to reconfigure this thing so he could make the words larger. He wasn't as young as he used to be.) Gender: Female. Age: 16. Birthday: 2/19/89 (hey, her birthday was in two days!). Height: 5'6".

Weight: 122 lbs. Hair color: Brown. Eye color: Blue/Yellow.

Xavier started. Yellow? "Cerebro," he called. The machine beeped. "Bring up visual, life size."

"Requesting visual." In a flurry of color, Cerebro summoned the image Xavier had requested. The telepath leaned back in his wheelchair and examined the 3-D image.

The girl was a lean, cat-like creature. She was firmly muscled with a sheet of hair that hung to her waist. She had pulled the hair into a low ponytail. Her eyes, though…they were bright blue with cat-like pupils and yellow bolts of lightning reaching from the pupils to the edge of her irises. Her name flashed beneath her rotating figure. Celestia.

Xavier fingered another sequence to bring up a menu of commands relating to this figure. He pushed "mutant power" and the display changed.

Giant wings spouted out of Celestia's back and her skin rippled into deep blue scales. Her canines lengthened into piercingly sharp fangs and her tongue forked ever so slightly. A long, thick, tapering tail snaked its way around her legs and lashed back and forth like a whip. Celestia's fingertips roughened and developed pads, while her nails melded into strong claws. Her hair turned black and extended to hang around her knees. Her feet transformed from normal human feet into scaled feet that looked as if they had been forced to stay on their balls and toes.

The change didn't surprise Xavier. Cerebro's first image of the girl had looked normal because that was the form she was currently in. "Cerebro, display visual of subject's powers."

Cerebro complied instantly. Celestia's image extended her bat-like wings and leapt into the air, then disappeared in a bamf of imploding air. She reappeared six feet above Xavier's head and flew intricate patterns around Cerebro's spherical chamber.

Teleportation. Interesting. And she could fly. Xavier voiced another question he thought he already knew the answer to. "Can she change?"

Cerebro sounded a negative chime. "Please rephrase question."

"Can she transform her shape? Can she alter her appearance at will?"

"Yes. The use of this third talent is how she has remained alive and hidden."

Three talents? She had to be a child of mutants. No way was she born to pure humans.

"Cerebro, who are her parents?"

"Unknown."

"Last name of subject?"

"Unknown."

Xavier sighed in frustration. Dead ends, no matter where he turned. He shook his head. Normally one mutant wouldn't keep his attention like this for so long. He had discovered at least sixty others today, but Celestia had grabbed his attention and wouldn't let go. Something about her was important. He just didn't know what.

A/N: Hello! First chapter of the first fic I've ever posted. Can you guess who she's related to? Reviews on every story written by the winner! Lol. Please review! Much love!