Kirin Itchiki was only 9 when his mutant power manifested and it was the weirdest mutant power ever in his opinion. His life became an RPG after that. He'd been walking home from middle school happy about his latest mock exam when a car came swerving toward him. He just suddenly was surrounded in a shield of crackling energy. People on street stared at him . The car had stopped and everyone was safe. Kirin had been confused and had stared at his hands he'd thrown them up to protect himself then his shield had appeared. He looked outside his shield to see that he could see bars above people's heads along with names and levels.
"What's going on?" he cried, "Help me! Someone help! What's going on?"
He wore black shorts, a white sailor shirt with blue color and a red tie , he wore a hat on his head it was white with black trim, he wore black sneakers, he wore a black satchel that rested on his left hip, his black hair was short his bangs wisped down on the left side of his face and his eyes were a dark almost black color and he was short and baby faced.
He was scared.
"Calm down!" a voice called. A man was standing there an American by the looks of him. He wore a black suit with a gold X on the chest and a gold belt with a red X in the had a thin black visor with a red lens covering his eyes. "Listen to me, kid ! You need to remain calm try and gain control!"
"How do I do that Cyclops?!" he yelled, the man looked startled but that was the name he was seeing above the man's head. "Help me!"
"Take deep breaths and try and clear your mind!" Cyclops called back. Other people in colored suits appeared at his side. "Try to imagine your shield vanishing back into your body. Close your eyes and calm down."
Kirin did as he was told. He heard people gasping then sirens. He opened his eyes his shield was gone. He blinked up at the people wearing the suits and walked over to them.
"Thank you." He said and bowed. "I am grateful. "
"We'll have to do this later , kid." Cyclops said, "The police are coming and we'll get into trouble. Let Storm take you. She'll take you home and we'll follow."
A black woman wearing black leather pants that fit perfectly black high heeled boots, A silver belt with an X on it, a black shirt with gold around her breast area and a black cloak. Her hair was long and white.
"I have to pick you up." she said. Kirin nodded he didn't know why but he felt he could trust these people. She picked him up and they flew into the air. "Where to?"
He gave her directions to his house and they landed. He was glad he lived deep on the outskirts of town in a forest area. His parents were shocked when Storm landed and set him down.
Kirin screamed as he heard a loud noise coming toward the house and his shield shot up again surrounding him in a sphere.
"Not again!" he cried. A jet was landing and the people in colored suits were getting off. "Help me!"
"Just do what you did last time." Cyclops told him in a calm voice. "It's okay. No one here is going to hurt you. Just calm down."
Kirin nodded and forced himself to remain calm. He shield slowly retracted back into his body.
"Good job." Cyclops told him with a smile. "You're learning very quickly. Is this the first time you've manifested your powers?"
"Yes." Kirin replied, nodding. "I'm Kirin Itchiki and I've never had these powers before."
Kirin was now sitting at the dining room table on his cushion across from the people he now knew were called the X-Men. They were mutants like him. That was what he was it seemed odd and his family didn't seem to like the idea. His mother and father were upset with him his little brother and sister confused. His youngest sister was too little to even know what was going on.
"Our son is not a freak!" Kirin's dad stated.
"No he isn't." cyclops stated, "He's a mutant. You saw his powers for yourself. He needs to be trained to control them or something bad might happen to him. Prof. Xavier says the X-Gene runs in your family. Just because you did not manifest powers doesn't mean that your children wont. "
"X-Gene?" Kirin asked , "I don't understand."
"You don't need to!" his mother shrieked. "You people are no longer welcome here! Leave at once!"
They went. Kirin felt his parents look at him.
"Get your things packed you are going to stay with your aunt in Shizuoka."
"Yes, Father." Kirin got up not even bothering to argue. He went to his room and began packing his things. They lived in a cold region near Mount . Fujisama but Shizuoka was right at the base it was bound to be colder there. He didn't really care he was confused. His powers. He was a mutant? An X-Gene? He didn't understand what any of this meant. All he knew was he was different and he needed to figure out how these powers worked. "What's wrong with me? "
His aunt and uncle were glad to see him and sent him to a room that was to be his while they argued with his parents. He hadn't been allowed to change as soon as he'd had everything packed they'd been loaded in the car and brought here. He didn't bother unpacking. He just lay his bags down then went outside. It was beautiful here. He wondered if he could summon his shield on his own. His closed his eyes and pictured his shield around him. When he opened them it was there. His mother screamed grabbing her chest. He hadn't known that they had come looking for him he lowered it making it vanish it was getting easier to control.
"I'm sorry, mother." he apologized, "I heard something that scared me." It was a lie but he didn't care they were getting rid of him because he could do this. "I'm sorry."
"You don't need to be sorry." his aunt said, kindly. "You go on and use that power of yours whenever you want. It is nothing to be ashamed of. "
He liked his aunt. He could only remember meeting her once before when he was really little his mother was his aunts sister but they didn't talk.
"What is it you can do?" his uncle asked, "What was that?"
"A Shield I guess." he said, "I'll try to bring it up so you can see." He closed his eyes and pictured it and heard a gasp. He opened his eyes it was up. So he could control it! He just had to picture it up and down. He could do that! "See. it seems to be made of some kind of energy. "
"Oh, wow." His uncle said with a whistle. "how long have you been able to do this?"
"A few hours." He lowered his shield. "I'm getting the hang of it. "
His uncle smiled fondly at him.
"Well, why don't you go have a look around stay close to the resort though."
His new home was a ski resort. He nodded and ran off.
"Cyclops!" A bunch of warmly dressed people turned. Kirin had been exploring when he'd come across this group. Being able to see names and levels he knew them to be the X-Men.
"Huh?" They looked at him. "What are you doing here, kid?"
"My aunt and Uncle own the resort." he pointed back the way he came. "Are you guys staying here? I just came to live here."
"We are." Cyclops said, "How'd you know it was us? We look different out of uniform."
"I can see your names and levels. " he pointed above their heads. "Right there. You're Scott Summers A.K.A Cyclops Race: Mutant. I know your age and power as well. You have Optic Blasts. "
"That's some power you got." The named Kitty Pryde or Sprite said. "So your parents brought you here?"
"Yeah, they say I'm going to live here now." he shrugged, "Oh, I think I got the hang of it watch." he summoned his shield just by imagining it around him. His eyes open. "See. I tried earlier when I wasn't scared and I could do it."
"You learn quick." The one named Logan grunted. "Not many new mutants catch on to their power this fast."
Kirin shrugged his shield going away.
"I bet if I had a dangerous power like Cyclops I probably wouldn't." Kirin said simply.
"You can see how old we are." Storm said, "How old are you? "
"I'm 9."
They talked more as they headed back to the resort. Kirin was happy to meet mutants like himself and asked all sorts of questions.
"Oh, Kirin!" his aunt rushed to him and hugged him when he got back. "Thank God I thought you got lost. "
"I did." he stated simply. "But these people helped me find my way back."
"Oh, sweetie please be more careful." she smiled at the X-men "Thank you for bringing Kirin back ."
"No problem." Scott said, "He's a nice kid."
Kirin was in his room that night practicing when he got another shock of what his power could do.
Shield Level up!
Shield Level 2!
It appeared on a green screen infront of him.
"It's like my online RPG's!" He cried, "Or the one's I read about in Manga! So this can't be my only power can it? I can learn more. I wonder how though. "
He sat inside his shield seeing how long he could keep it up. He was thinking.
"If I can project my shield by just wanting to protect myself maybe wanting to attack something will allow me to use an offensive skill. "
He lay down in his futon arms behind his head and before he knew it he was fast asleep.
He woke to screaming. His shield was still up and it was dawn.
Shield Level up!
Shield Level 9!
"Gotta love that!" He got up and ran around trying to find the screaming. Robots were attacking people. The X-Men were there in uniform. "Leave them alone!"
"Kid!" Sprite yelled, "Run!"
Kirin frowned. The robots were heading for him. He imagined his shield blasting power outward . The robot was blasted back.
Power learned!
Shield Force!
"I did it!" he cheered. "Okay, then lets keep it up."
They seemed to be focusing on him even though the X-men were fighting them too. So he kept blasting them away it appeared that they couldn't get through his shield.
Shield Force Level Up!
Shield Force Level 2!
Kirin began sweating and tiring a bit. This was a lot of work using the two of them like this.
"You're doing great, kid!" A girl dressed in red with flaming red hair called her name was Jean a.k.a Phoenix. "Just hang in there! We've almost cleared them out!"
"I'll try!" he called back. "But this is really hard!"
"If you can't do it run!" Wolverine yelled.
Kirin huffed and focused on his shield. He ran over to Sprite and pictured letting only her into his shield as he stopped in front of her. She was accepted in just as a green laser blast hit the shield.
"Like thanks." She patted his head. "I would have been able to faze in time. "
"Team Request X-Men!" he yelled, screens appeared in front of all of them. "Press yes!" he yelled to them. All of them looked startled but did as he said. "We're a team now!"
He didn't know what possessed him to try that but his power was just like a game.
"It's like one of Iceman's games." Sprite said.
"Yeah. That's my power." He told her. "I discovered what it was last night. "
Sprite gasped as more lasers rained down on them.
"Don't worry!" He called, to everyone. "They can't get through my shield. Their lasers are only Level 1 . I leveled my shield up to 9 last night ! We're fine!"
"Hey, in Iceman's game he can heal can you do that?" Sprite asked, she was holding her arm.
"Dunno." he shrugged, "Hold on. " He focused he imagined his shield healing them.
Power unlocked!
Shield Heal!
"Alright!" he cheered as Sprite's arm healed, "Go tell the others!"
She nodded and fazed into the ground and out of his shield. Moments later Cyclops arrived with Storm both easily entering his shield he healed both of them they thanked him then left. Jean came to heal too. Wolverine kept hacking and slashing.
Shield Heal Level up!
Shield Heal Level 2!
"perfect. I can heal more that way. " He said to himself. "Oh , no, I can't hold my shield anymore."
His shield vanished into him. His eyes got big he was defenseless right now. Luckily the others killed the remaining robots quickly. He fell on to his butt breathing hard and sweating.
"Good job." Wolverine patted Kirin's head. "You did good, kid. You learned two new powers and used them effectively. "
"Thanks, but I'm tired." he rubbed his eyes. "I think I over did it."
They all chuckled at him.
"if it wasn't for that healing power we'd be goners." Ororo said, "Sprite and I were really hurt."
"No problem..." He yawned. "Can one of you carry me to my room I dont want to go to school."
More chuckles.