I jumped off the high stone fence, if a normal person had jumped from that height, he would have broken an ankle. My name is Ally and I'm no normal person. People are after me, crazy people, who conducted crazy experiments on me. It's only been a couple of days since I escaped, and the crazy people have had the hounds on my heels ever since. They weren't happy with my escape, not at all, but I won't let them catch me, not again. I'll run to the ends of the earth if needs be.
I looked around me as I landed quietly on my bare feet on the soft damp grass. It was early morning; the sky was a beautiful red. Threes were scattered in front of me, half blocking the pale building in the distance. Silently I walked towards the large stone sign that stood besides the locked entrance.
"Xavier's Institute for Gifted children." It read. This was the place the boy with spikes told me about. He said they won't find me here. That boy lived in the sewers of New York. he was like me, yet not like me. His spikes didn't come from the DNA of an animal. He had told me to find a Professor X he would help me.
With my super sharp hearing I made a sharp left and began to sprint towards the distant building. I could hear the rapid blast of something being shot at me. How could they have found me so quickly? I dodged every bullet, jumping numerous times in the air when out of nowhere spinning blades would appear. One nicked my sleeve but I was able to dodge them all.
I eyed the branches, would it be safer if I swung from them? No, on the ground I could dodge the shots easier. I tried to breath, but I couldn't. I was exhausted, on the verge of tears. I couldn't even scream. Why couldn't they leave me alone? Hadn't they poked at me enough?
The Institute was getting closer, but was still very far. The threes around me began to thicken. The shots began to decrease until they all but vanished. Panting I stood with my back to a three. I closed my eyes and tried to steady my breathing. I wouldn't be a good first impression, if I entered the institute on the verge of tears. I was such a cry baby, why couldn't I go through anything without crying or screaming.
I tensed; I heard a creak from branch above me. I rolled and spun around as something landed with a growl in the place where I had been standing only a few split seconds before. A tall slim girl in a leather suit stood crouched, her long dark brown hair half covered her face. She looked about 14, a year older than me. She stood up slowly, she had both her hand crossed in front of her chest, two silver needles protruded from both of her knuckles.
She ran towards me growling. "What are you doing here?" she growled swiping her needled hand at me. I jumped back.
I tried to answer her but I couldn't speak, my troath had closed again. Why did I have to be such a coward?
"Answer me!" she yelled at me, still slashing at me. I dodged as fast as I could, at a time like this, I was glad about my enhunced senses. Even though if I didn't have these enhanced senses I wouldn't be in this situation.
I clenched and unclenched my fists; I had to find somewhere to shoot my web, if only I could get into the threes. Two strong feet slammed themselves onto my stomach. I yelled in pain and surprise. I had been distracted. I crashed into the ground, my back collided with yet another three. It splintered behind me. I heard the girl walking towards me. Her needles receded into her knuckles of one hand. She knelt in front of me, roughly grabbed my collar and lifted me. She lifted me right of my feet. I was at eye level with her and she was a good deal taller than me. Her face made her looking terrifying. I could taste the sour bitter taste of venom in my mouth.
"Don't make me repeat myself." She growled; bringing a needle close to my neck. It felt cold across my bare neck.
"That's enough Alex." Said a rough voice. "How do you expect her to answer you holding her like that?"
"Logan what's going on?" said a woman's voice.
"It's just a kid." I heard the soft thuds of feet and whispers.
The girl, Alex. Dropped me to my knees. I coughed and rubbed my neck where the needle had touched. I looked up at the girl. A muscled man in a black jumpsuit-like outfit and a red x on his shoulder stood beside Alex. "Calm down Alex, she doesn't seem like a treat."
"Logan, she dodged all the security shots." She growled.
"So what? that's happened before." Said a boy's voice.
"You'r not helping Blue." Said Logan. I looked passed Logan and Alex. Behind them stood about twenty teenagers. In the front stood a girl, taller than Alex, she looked like the eldest of the teenagers. She had flowing curly red hair and was wearing a black and green jumpsuit. A slightly taller boy stood beside her, wearing a similar jumpsuit like Logan's however his eyes were coved by strange looking goggles. Besides him stood what I took as a boy covered in blue fur and had a long blue tail, guess I found out who Blue was. Next to Blue, looking half asleep was a girl with a loosely tied pony tele and next to her stood an extremely cranky looking girl with multi coloured hair and gloves.
"But Kurt's got a point." Said the sleepy girl.
"Make way people" said a tall, dark skinned lady with a cape and long white hair. She was walking towards us. She was the woman who spoke before. She knelt down before me and calmly said.
"We are your friends, you can calm down." She said. I tried to slowly my breathing but still couldn't breathe properly. "I'm sorry about Alex." She continued. "We have become weary of strangers entering our grounds. We can no longer tell who are our friends and who are our enemies."
"She could have used the front gates." Grumbled Alex
"If I recall you didn't use the gate the first time you came." Said the girl with the multicoloured hair.
Alex gave a growl so low that I was probably the only one who heard it.
"Enough." Said the white haired lady. She turned back to me. "Can you tell us your name?"
"How do you she understands us?" asked the boy with goggles.
The red head nudged him roughly with her elbow. "Hey, I meant she might not know English." She corrected.
I gulped. "Ally." I whispered. I was surprised how low my voice sounded.
"What did she say?" said a boy I couldn't see.
"Ally." I said a in a little voice.
Logan turned to the kids. "Enough questions from you newbies. Off to bed." he said roughly. There was a loud groan of protest. "Anyone who isn't back inside the institute in two minutes has a training session with me!" he said fiercely, but with an evil grin.
If it was possible, most of the kids vanished.
"Welcome to the institute Ally." Said the lady helping me to my feet as the remaining kids walked closer towards me. "My name is Storm."
My eyes widened. Yes this must be the right place. "Storm?" I said, my voice was slowly sounding a little louder. "He said you could take me to Professor X."
"Professor X?" said the red head.
I nodded my head.
"Ally, who told you?" said Storm, still sounding calm and friendly.
"A boy in New York." I told her. "He was like a hedge hog, covered in spikes."
Now it was her turn to look surprised. "You spoke to Evan?"
"That's his name?" I asked. Then nodded my head. "He said I could hide here."
"We should take her to Professor X." Said Logan. "He'd like to meet our little Intruder.." and without another word he began to walk towards the institute.
"That talk better include us." Said the girl with the pony tail, running straight trough a three, I tried not to show my surprise.
" Kitty's right and even if it doesn't, we'll still ease drop." Said the blue boy.
"Kurt!" said the multicoloured girl, sounding annoyed. "You should never reveal your trade secret."
Kurt shrugged and vanished in a puff of smoke.
"It's no secret Rogue." Said the boy with Goggles," we all know you three ease drop on everything."
"Well Scott, we did use to do the same thing." Said the red Head.
"That's why Jean, I'm glad now Professor X fills us in on what going on." Said Scott.
"Stop blabbering you lot." Said Alex. "You're holding the rest of us up."
Wow, a few minutes ago these kids looked like they could kill me , now they were talking as if nothing had happened. And what was up with them anyway? Running trough threes, vanishing in puffs of smoke, making needle emerge from your knuckle, where these all run away experiments like me?
Storm began to lead me towards the institute. "Who are you people?" i menaged to say, hoping i wasn't sounding rude
Strom laughed. "Ally, we are the X men."