Disclaimer:I do not own X-Men, only Karine is my creation.
Bold is thoughts sent telepathically
Italics is thoughts
"Quotations are spoken out loud"
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Karine observed the freshly fallen snow outside her home. It was winter and no time to be outside but she had wanted to watch the snow fall. As her eyes followed the path of a snowflake, her thoughts drifted to the day she had discovered she was a mutant.
-Flashback-
Kaine was woken up by pain instead of her alarm clock, what could be the matter? She thought as she rushed out of her room and headed for the bathroom, clutching her stomach tightly. Its too early in the month for my period, but I don't know what else it could be. Racing down the hall she was brought to an abrupt halt by her mother's exclamation, "Karine what have you done to your beautiful black hair? You look like a demented zebra!"
Huh? Karine thought as she pushed past her mother in her way to get to the bathroom. She ran into the bathroom, closed and locked the door, and leaned against it. Catching sight of her self in the sink mirror she stared at her hair in horror. Her lovely locks were no longer a sleek shade of black, but instead every color of the rainbow, from puce to purple. Now she got her mother's demented zebra comment.
Her stomach still cramping but getting slightly better, she got undressed and took a shower. Washing her hair she tried to get whatever her brothers had put into it out, but her hair was as multicolored as ever when she finally stepped out of the shower. Feeling better, but still slightly sick, she went back to her room and got dressed.
Stomping down the stairs to the kitchen she spotted her youngest brother, Chris, as he sat at he table eating cereal. Getting ready to bawl him out over her hair, he looked up from his bowl and said, "Whoa, what happened to your hair?"
"You know perfectly well what happened to my hair as you did it!" she replied. "now just tell me how long I'm going to look like this!" He just stared at her. She opened her mouth to yell at him some more when her five other brothers stampeded down the stair.
Luke, her oldest brother, stopped stock still when he noticed her hair when she turned to glare at him from beneath rainbow colored hair. Stuart, who ran into Luke when he had stopped said, "Hey what gives, whats the hold up?", and stepped around Luke. He too then saw Karine's hair. " Wow, well that hair would stop traffic much less Luke."
She glared at him, too mad to speak anymore. Too bad looks don't kill or all my brothers would be six feet under, She thought to herself. The three brothers behind Stuart looked at her hair a minute then calmly walked past her to the kitchen table, with only Ben commenting, "Love the new do sis." Shaking her head at her brother's follies, she walked out of the house and headed for the barn.
Entering the barn and grabbing a pitchfork, she passed the mares and their foals and stopped to watch them. "I wish I was one of them, of course with a few improvements though" she sighed softly to herself, thinking of Pegasus , the winged horse from Greek mythology. Leaning on the pitchfork, she watched the play of muscles under the skin of a chestnut mare as she bended he graceful neck to nuzzle her nearby colt. She sighed again as she remembered how how gorgeous and awe inspiring the picture of Pegasus had been in her literature textbook, all well wonderful was the only word she could think of.
Suddenly she felt a funny tingling in her bones and her skin shivered. Feeling frightened she dropped the pitchfork and fell on her hands and knees in a crouch. She tried to scream at the strange feeling of what her body felt like was being ripped apart and all the came out was a neigh.
Startled she tried to lever herself off the ground with her hand only to realize she didn't have any hands. Upon realizing this she realized she had changed into a horse. Oh but what a horse it was for it was not just any horse, but a special horse, one with extra appendages. Appendages nothing but a bird should posses, or Pegasus, she had wings. More than a little freaked out, she tried to flap them. They worked, she first thought as the motion lifted her now huge frame slightly off the ground. Her second thought being, Shit I'm a mutant, how am I going to tell mom and dad?.
She had been following the mutant crises on TV. Okay I'm obviously some sort of shape shifter, like Mystique the terrorist. She pictured her self in her mind and was abruptly herself again. Apparently it only hurts the first time. Again thinking of Mystique, she pictured her mom, nothing happened. Following that idea she thought, Maybe I am an animal shape shifter, just kinda confused.
This time she pictured a cat in her mind. Again nothing happened. Really confused she went through her train of thought before the transformation had occurred. Okay, pretty horses, the mares with their foals, Pegasus, and suddenly again she was a female Pegasus. She finally made the connection between her form and how she got there.
Changing back to her normal form, slightly bewildered by the chain of events that had happened she put the horses out to pasture and mucked out the stalls. While doing all of it she considered the pros and cons of telling her parents about her mutation. After considerate debate she decided not to tell her family. Going back to the house to get ready for school she thought of her mutation and what it entailed. She could turn into a winged horse, so now she could fly, Whoopee. Its not like she could turn into anything else.
It made her even more of an outcast than before. She went up the stairs and back to her bedroom. She changed out of her barn clothes and into her school uniform. During her entire school day she was preoccupied with her own thoughts and spaced out of class. If her friends at lunch noticed anything usual they didn't say a word about it to her, as if she would notice anyway. She came home,did her homework, and went to bed still thinking about her mutation.
-End Flashback-
Karine remembered the year and a half she had kept her mutation a secret before deciding at age 15 to leave her only home. She had found out in the months following her first shift, as she had decided to call it, that she could shift into more than just Pegasus, she could shift into any creature of fairytale or mythology. Her personal favorite was the tiny flower fairy she could become. She was now living in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere in New York state.
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