Disclaimer: Ok guys! I don't own anything, as in Harry and the X-Men are NOT mine! DARN!

A/N: This takes place after sixth year, but book six never happened! Only book one, two, three, four, and five!

Night Panther

Prologue (The Beginning)

A small boy with long raven hair and a short, skinny body structure sat by a window, his green eyes filled with tears and sorrow. The boy was Harry Potter. Harry had just gotten back from his sixth year at his wizarding school, Hogwarts, a month ago. From the moment he had gotten off the train things had started to go down hill. Fast.

The Dursleys had not taken it too well that Harry would be spending another summer in their care. Vernon had been especially angry when he was fired form his job not two days before hand. Petunia and Dudley would sneer when ever they had the chance at Harry, blaming him for Vernon's misfortune.

To put it bluntly, Harry was abused. Physically, emotionally, mentally, and sexually. He was broken. The first time Harry's uncle had laid a hand on him, his heart shattered and his mind shut down. The first time Petunia snapped and yelled at him his soul disappeared. He was just a little boy who had seen too much and had gotten lost in the pain. His friends leaving him in the dust, thinking that they were to good for him, slowly tearing him apart.

Harry sat starring at the stars his blank green eyes holding so much pain, his mind desperately looking for an escape, someplace to hide, a place where he finally might be able to find someone who cared.

"Please, Sirius, I know you can hear me. Please take me somewhere that has love and hope, joy and happiness. Please Sirius." Harry whispered brokenly, his voice soft and melodic; his eyes staring pleadingly at the star Sirius had been named after.

He got up and laid on his small cot his face slowly relaxing as he fell into the land of dreams.

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Harry slowly woke to the sounds of machines clicking and humming in the background. He opened his eyes to see a pale white ceiling. His mind processed that he was no longer in his family's home anymore.

"Hello Harry! Please remain calm we only want to run a few…tests. Nothing to worry about, it only causes some...minor…pain." A man said gleefully, his face swimming into view above him. He seemed to be about 40 with graying hair and a small beard.

Harry's eyes widened with panic as he tried to struggle, his efforts were fruitless as he finally noticed the manacles around his arms and feet. He turned his head to the man, fear clearly noticeable in his emerald eyes.

The man smirked and turned around to push a button. Harry started to move and he noticed that he was right above a tub of what looked like hot, melted metal. Harry struggled to get away but he was still too tired from the time spent at his Aunt and Uncle's.

Slowly he was submerged in the stinging metal. He screamed as it touched his skin, burning his flesh. His head was forced under and his lungs tried to breathe in air but all he got was metal. He thrashed as his life slowly left him, the steaming metal staining him. Blackness crept in and he lost consciousness before he could see a silver light burst from him and raise him out of the metal, surrounding his body and protecting him as he apparated away to a forest, the man from the room screaming, as he knelt on the floor in agony.

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Harry quickly sat up, his breathing harsh and his body in pain. He looked down at him self and saw himself in a green shirt and pants. He gazed at his surroundings, surprised to find that it was a forest in the early morning. He looked back at his hands and squeezed his eyes shut as anger took control of him.

'Why! Why did this have to happen to him! You were supposed to protect me Sirius!' he thought angrily. Suddenly a sharp pain shot through his hands and mouth.

Harry opened his eyes to see three metal claws sticking out from between his knuckles on each hand. His eyes widened in surprise and panic. He got up and headed to the left, slowly, his ears picking up a faint noise. Passing some trees he saw a small creek, he painfully walked towards it and keeled down to look at his reflection in the surface.

What he saw almost made him die of a heart attack. Two shiny metallic fangs shone from where his canine teeth use to be and two silky black cat ears, now taking place of his original ears, on the top of his head. Something twitched from behind him and Harry slowly looked behind him, afraid of what it might be.

A long black tail swayed back and forth, its smooth fur glinting in the light. Harry turned back around his mind in shock. 'Oh, Merlin! Please make this go away!' he thought frantically. To his immense surprise the fangs and claws slowly retracted, yet the ears and tail stayed.

He sat heavily on the ground the pain still too new as he processed what was happening and his mind going back to the blank state it ad been in the whole summer. His eyes now dull and his ears drooping he stared sadly ahead at the slowly moving creek.

A twig snapped and Harry spun around, now standing, facing away from the creek. His nose twitched and he picked up the faint smell of three people, not quite human, coming his way.

Ok guys! That's the prologue hope you liked it! The next chapter and all the others will definitely be longer than this one so don't worry! Please review!