X-Men – Shadow Shifter
Chapter 1 – Grievous Past
The past can affect people in all sorts of ways; it can make them into the people or character they are today. On the evening of 1947 in the city of Charleston in the state of South Carolina, a young boy sleeps while outside the very house people celebrated the 4th of July. This family was not of an American origin but had a family that was descended from the tip of Southwest Britain known as Cornwall.
While celebrations were still running out side, a group started to gather outside the house. The men turned to one another to make slight nods at each over to say they were ready. They carried a couple of baseball bats and one carried a pistol, their leader. The group walked towards the house and knocked hard on the door.
The hard knocking on the door kept growing louder and not before long became a loud crash. The boy slowly got out of his bed to get to the door. On the outside he heard his father shouting.
"How dare you break in, leave at once!" to which he was replied.
"Its the 4th of July, we are here to kick out the English freaks like you"
"I am Cornish and proud, know the difference. Now get your arse's out of my house!" snarled his father
"We want your little freak of a child. Then we will be on our way." The man commanded
"You lay one finger on my son and I will break your hands, NOW GET OUT!" he shouted
"Break his legs!" another man shouted. With that the boy heard sudden shouting and crashing outside his door, he even heard the female shouting of his mother outside the door only to end with a sudden gunshot sound.
The door flung open sending the boy across his bedroom. The thug stormed towards him and grabbed the boy by the arm. In retaliation the boy bit the man's arm making him shout and briefly let go. The man lunged forward again and grabbed the boy and slapped him with the back of his hand across the boy's face.
"You are coming with us you little English runt!" the thug leader shouted. This time he threw the boy to the floor and started to throttle the boy.
"I killed your mother and father, you hideous creature!" Then he started to manically laughing at the choking only to suddenly hear a vicious growl right behind him. From the corner of his eye he could see a big dark creature baring its white sharp teeth. Then he looked down at the boy to see his eyes turn black and the pupil's blood red. Without warning the creature lunged at the thug leader. The man screamed as the creature started to claw at his face before biting hard on his neck.
At this sudden outcry the rest the stormed upstairs only to have their fate end by screaming and the sound of roaring. When the thug's cries where finally gone the creature turned to see the boy suddenly trying to get back as far as he can, only to be stopped by the room's wall. The creature looked directly at him and made its way to him. The boy felt very frightened at the thought that this creature was going to kill him. But the creature just stood in front of him and simple held out its black claw and just urged the boy to take it. The boy decided to follow what the creature wanted and it seemed to help him to his feet. Then the creature stood back into the black shadows and just seemed to disappear as if it never existed.
The boy left his room to find his mother still hanging in with a gunshot wound in her gut. Bleeding she looked at him to put on a brave smile as if things were all right. She said
"Everything's alright my dear Jack, The nasty men won't get you." Blood started to slowly drip from her mouth.
"Don't forget Jack, Mommy and Daddy love you". With that she slowly closed her eyes. Not to far away his father lay not to far away from where his recently deceased mother lay. Jack wept by his mother's body and was soon found by the authorities.
One policeman came to Jack and asked for his name and Jack replied.
"Jack Piren" he said in quiet mournful state. Then he was taken away from his former home to spend most of his childhood an orphan.
To be continued