Prologue pt 1

So it's Beast and as the title states, a girl from his past. Serena is quiet but strong and you will learn can have a fiery temper, but thats later lets start right now.

This is before and after the X men first class and I took a little from the comic page from wiki about Beast on here with his dad and the nuclear plant, but that's about it.

All rights go to X Men and stuff, save for some of my plot and like 2 characters...

This is my first X Men fanfic and I hope you enjoy.

I looked out the back door to our small back yard, the grass had already started to die as the winter coldness crept in, but I didn't care. Making sure that no one could see into the yard, I took my shoes off and ran to the only tree in the far back of the yard. It was an old oak that had been there ever since my mother had bought our little shack of a house.

My father had died when I was younger from an explosion in the nuclear power plant that he worked at; my mother still visited his grave every Friday, although I don't know if she was really saddened by it, she didn't act like she missed my father, in fact half the time she seemed to hate the mere memory of him.

I was slightly unsocial, though it really had nothing to do with my father's death. Most kids at school tended to stay away from me, and I preferred it, most of them were immature and unworthy of my friendship in my opinion. They all walked around like useless children, while I was stuck at that school because my mother didn't want me leaving her to go off to some gifted school. I could be almost any where I wanted to be, yet I was stuck here in some no where town.

I mean I was super smart, like genius level smart, and I don't mean to brag, it was just the truth, yet here I was stuck in a hick town all because my mother didn't want to loose the only person that makes sure the house and bills are in order.

The feeling of climbing the tree always brought me much joy, the feeling of my ugly feet free from my shows, my feet able to grip onto the branches of the tree like I was an ape, the harsh bark cracking under my feet and hands. No one had caught my eye at my school, except for one girl, she was pretty but in a natural way, she had black curly hair that she always wore down. Her name was Serena, she really had no friends and she walked the school like she wasn't really there, but she would go into her backyard and sing and to me she sounded like angels.

Her parents never came outside, and no one really knew what they looked like, my mother was slightly scared of that house, but it intrigued me. The thought of someone never coming out of their house was slightly scary but it also meant there was a reason why. I loved hearing a story; I had already gone through all the books in our small town library, so now I could only hear a story by word of mouth or the newspaper that my mother couldn't afford to buy.

Every time I went up on my tree, I always hoped that she would be down in the yard next to me singing, I had watched and listened to her more then once, but it never bored me when she sang the same song over and over again. But this time when I went up and looked down to her yard, I say nothing but their two large oak trees, after a moment, a small thing of light was coming from the tree. Unnaturally so.

Jumping from the perch in my tree, I leaped over the fence separating the two yards, and lightly landed in Serena's yard and looked up into the tree. There appeared to be a figure in the tree, but the figure was being lightened up by something, I couldn't see what was really happening. It looked like he or she had a light that shown all around them and almost through them. It was an odd sight to say the least.

"Hello?" I half whispered up at the illuminated figure. "Is someone there?" I said it a bit louder.

A little scream of surprise came from the figure before it tried to stand up to only bang its head on a branch and fall from the tree. Using my quick reflexes, I ran to the base of the tree and caught the figure before it almost smashed into the ground.

I felt my back and butt slam into the ground right before the weight of the person hit my chest and stomach. I looked up and the dark blue sky for a little trying to get air back in my lungs. The figure leaped off of me and crouched down to examine me. It looked like a girl, but I couldn't tell, my glasses seemed to have fallen off I thought absently as I looked at the girl above me.

"I'm so sorry, please forgive me," the girl kept repeating in a strained voice as her hands fluttered over my face, unsure of what to do. Interrupting her I said, "glasses" and the girl's dark hair flung around her face as she looked around the ground for my glasses.

She pressed something to my face and I could finally see her. Serena had a bright white strips going across her face in a complex design that seemed to be glowing like a light bulb. I looked down at her hands and say what looked like a many tipped star glowing on her hands and the white light didn't stop there, it seemed to spiral up her arm. The same complex star was on the center of her forehead and curved strips went down between her hairline and eyes on both sides of her face.

The parts of the girl's body glowed in strips and her hair had highlights glowing the same way, but what scared me the most was the way that her eyes were completely white and glowing with the same light as the other strips on her body.

Looking up into her face, I realized that I couldn't tell at all what she was thinking, her brown eye, which usually portrayed any emotion she had were gone and the white ones before me weren't showing a speck of emotion. Her face turned and Serena looking at my bare feet, the big toe looking like a thumb, like an app's foot, covered in light brown hair.

"Serena?" I whispered trying to draw her attention away from my mutation. "Serena what's wrong?"

"Wrong? Nothing," She said coldly, finally dragging her attention back to my face. Though her voice was cold and stiff, I could smell, with my animal senses, the fear coming off her body. Her hands were clasped together and she was ringing her hands out nervously. Her body was stiff and it looked like she was ready to run on a moments notice.

Sitting up quickly using my mutation to add speed to it, I looked over at Serena. With my movement, she had leapt up and backed into the tree she had just fallen from. Fear was rolling off her body in huge waves and I could almost feel the tension in her body.

"Serena please sit down, I just want to talk. I'm not going to tell anyone, if you don't tell anyone about me." Seeing the truth and logic in my words, Serena slowly walked over to me and sat down. The glow on her body had started to fade and was almost completely gone. "Now tell me, Serena, what can you do? I know you're different, that much I've seen, I believe you have a mutation like me, I've done years of research, well as many as I can, since I am only ten. So tell me, tell me everything, please. I've never met anyone else with another mutation."

She looked around nervously, but I waited, she knew as well as I that no one ever came outside in cold weather like this and that the streets were empty around here so no one to over hear us, or hear her if she screamed, she still seemed to fear me slightly. "I- I mean- It all started a few years ago. I was at the corner store on James Rowe," She paused waiting for me to understand, James Rowe was in some of the worst parts of town. There had been many articles in the papers at school about different mugging and beating.

"Go on," I said with a nod.

"There were these two men outside the store; I had just bought some bread from the store you see? So these two men came up to me, one of them wearing black and the other wearing jeans and a gray hoodie. I just wanted to get home, and-and one of them demanded for my money, but I didn't have any on me after buying the bread. The men didn't believe me, so one of them dr-dr-drew a knife. He- he," Serena chocked on her word and I could see the pain in her now brown eyes, the pain of remembering. Fear again came off her body in waves and she visible started to tremble.

"You don't have to tell me," I said quietly looking at Serena, I wanted to know what happened so badly, but I could see how much it was hurting her to tell me.

Serena looked away and took a deep breath and looked back at me with a look of steal determination on her face.

"No, I'll tell you," She said softly but firmly looking at the sky, "Someone needs to know, my parents-," then she faulted and a look of helplessness came across her face before the determination returned, "My parents, they don't understand, so someone needs to know. So one of the two guys drew a knife, there was no one around to see what was happening, it was too late at night. I didn't get a good look at the knife; all I saw was a flash of shinning silver before a white light that seemed to crackle with electricity hit them. I didn't understand what had happened, but I looked around and found both the men crumbled against a wall ten feet away. At first I thought an angel had saved me, I thought that God had looked down on me with pity, but I was wrong. I didn't know that I was glowing until halfway home, I had run from the store to the start of our street but I looked into one of the windows of a dark house and saw something glowing in the reflection. I thought the angel had followed me, but when I looked around all I saw was myself, so I looked back at the window and realized it was me," Serena stopped and looked at me, I could tell she was waiting for judgment, judgment that wouldn't come, I thought secretly. What she had done was right, and it was not silly for her to think an angel had come, she still held onto her religion with the lasts hopes of it being true, I had surpassed those hopes when my farther never came home.

"So I think that I can send like an electric force with my mind, and I have this shield thing that I can make that looks like the same white light thing as the electric force. But every time I use my gift, the curse comes with it, my body will glow like you just saw, but its all over in the same design with the little explosion star. And I can almost feel it in me, the energy. I know it sounds stupid and I must sound really uneducated, but it's not like they teach us this kind of thing at school." She had truly opened up to me, and I could still tell that she was waiting for judgment, she didn't sound like she knew a clue of what was happening, but neither did I when it first happened to me.

"Ok then, I'll tell you my story now. I guess that's the least I could do. I think my mutation came from my father, you see, there was this toxic spill at the nuclear power plant before I was born that my father was in. He should have died then, but he didn't. My mother thinks I'm like this because she sinned when she was younger and married a poor man. I don't really know or care at this point, but it seems that I have better reflexes and physical abilities then most humans, and it also seems that I'm, somewhat of a genius. And as you've seen, my feet have mutated to adapt to my reflexes, or maybe my reflexes have adapted to my feet, I am unsure. I know it sounds out there and I don't mean to brag or anything but I just understand and learn things much faster then everyone else, it seems."

"Or it could just be you go to school with idiots, but I don't think your bragging, I also think that its true," Serena had this kindness in her eyes as she said this, "I mean, you seem to have read every book in the library and I've seen you reading textbooks, textbooks Hank! No one reads textbooks for fun, so I think you could be a genius," It took me a little of guard that she knew so much about me and even knew my name, though I knew hers, but still...

"Thanks Serena, I got to go home. We should be having dinner soon," And it was the truth, mother would be mad if I was late, but I also needed to ponder of Serena's mutation or gift or whatever it was she could do.

"Oh you're right, sorry for keeping you so long," Serena said with a laugh as she looked up to the dark night sky.

Hopping the six foot fence and landing in my back yard with ease, I heard Serena mutter "show off" and her fading footsteps and the opening of her back door. I laughed softly while putting my shoes back on before going in for dinner. Mother would have a fit if she found out I had been running around our backyard like an 'ape' again.

Though I didn't much care right then, because I think I just made my first real friend and she seemed to be a mutant to add to it.

So what did you think? Did you like? Hate it? ... well lets hope you liked it.

You really don't get to know the characters personalities that well, but that will come with part two of the prolog (ya I know TWO parts)

Well I think you should leave a comment, but that's just my (cough* VERY IMPORTANT* cough) opinion.

So you should leave a comment, like really.

Oh and a picture of Serena in her glowing form is on my page!

Xoxoxo

Carpella