Mutant Rising
Chapter 1
A baby, that's all I was when they found my first mutation. My eyes they were as gray as stone. Little did they know I had much more powerful mutations to come but that's for another time, my name is Kyd Chance and I am a mutant.
Back to me as that is the main focus of this tale, I'm Kyd Chance and I'm a mutant. My parents at the moment of my birth were appalled with my eyes but they moved on from that with time. The odd thing about my eyes though they were indeed gray and that usually links to blindness but in this case it proved to be a rarity, my vision was like that of a hawk. I could see far and clear ten times further than any human. As I grew up I was teased for my mutation but I grew to accept it. Sadly my family life was not good either, my parents they fought mindlessly and viciously. One night when I was eight years old I was in my room sitting in my closet on the verge of tears as my parents fought down the hall. When I heard my mother get hit and smack against the floor everything went silent. It was then that I felt a breeze against my neck, the sand between my toes, and the sound of birds chirping. I looked up from my fetal position and realized that I was in the backyard in my sandbox.
"But how?"
I thought to myself as I looked around and I screamed
"Mommy!"
Just then I heard my parents rush to my aid outside, I could see my mother's face had been bruised. A big black eye on her left eye and some strange burn marks around the outside of the bruise. I panicked and went back to my fetal position just then I was back in my closet. I had teleported, I wasn't sure how but I did. My child psyche couldn't handle what had just transpired and I blacked out. I awoke a few hours later to the sound of my mother's voice
"Kyd, honey everything will be fine I promise. Mommy loves you."
The next thing I know I hear a gun shot and a thud then I feel myself being picked up by my father and being rushed out of the house and my father trying to calm me.
"Son they killed her!" My eyes finally open my sight clear and I can see my mother dead on the floor and men racing after us "Who are they dad?!" I looked into his eyes and saw fear. "They're an anti-mutant agency, I'm getting you to the Xavier institute so you can be safe." "How did they find out what happened, it just happened a few hours ago" "Son do you really believe that?" I sensed the confusion in his tone "Wasn't it?" my voiced trailed off, as I was nervous for the answer "Son, you've been in a coma for the past month. Your mother had been taking care of you but somehow they found out about you and are here to hunt you down. I'm dropping you off with an old war buddy he will take you directly to the Xavier institute and you'll be safe you just have to trust daddy ok, Kyd?"
Tears began running down my face as my father ran with me in his arms, my tears being brushed away by the wind. I began to panic then my father remembered my mutation.
"Kyd, you have to teleport." I was shocked that he wanted me to do what got us in this mess in the first place but he was my father and so I listened. "Where dad?" "You have to get us to the old farm near Oak Lake that's where we are meeting my buddy" "Dad I don't think I can do it" "Yes you can son I know you can, it's only two miles from here and it will give you enough time to get away."
I hesitated as I noticed he only said I would get away. I put it aside and focused, as I had no idea how to use these powers all I knew was that I managed to teleport to my sandbox because it was where I felt safe and I pictured it to be happy. So I pictured the old farm, the one loan haystack, the rotted barn that was missing a door and all it's paint, that one fence posted that still stood from the fire that killed the family that lived on that old farm, and the one windmill that never turned. I felt cold then within a moment we were there, the old barn just as I had pictured it and I was there.
"Dad I did it!" I looked up to see tears running down my father's face as he said, "You did it, Kyd you really did it. Now my buddy should be in the barn. The men from before should be here soon I'll stall them as much as I can but I want you to look at me right now" I felt the sternness in his voice and I knew he meant it. It's funny even panicked I knew my father had a plan and was sticking to it. No matter how the family was he always looked out for us. As my father and I made eye contact he told me the words that I will remember my father for "Kyd, don't look back. Don't ever look back just keep your head low and know that daddy loves you no matter what." He placed me on the ground and told me to run for the barn and get to safety. Just as he said that I heard the men coming near. My father rushed me into the barn and told me to wait for my named to be called. I went into a fetal position in the far corner of the barn and listened.
I heard my father talking to the men outside, "Bradley Chance you are under arrest for harboring a mutant" I could make out my father's voice, he had been through hell the last few hours but still he managed to bolster his stern voice to stand up to these armed men. "If you think you assholes are taking me away from here in any other way then a body bag you're sorely mistaken!" The next thing I hear is a man yelling, "Shoot it! Shoot it! Call reinforcements now!" and gun shots blaring. The next few moments felt like an eternity but once silence fell I heard my name again but from a strange voice. "Kyd, Kyd you in here? There you are kiddo." A gruff man then picked me up and before I can look he throws on a helmet puts one on me and we are off on a motorcycle. In the distance I can hear explosions and I knew then my father had been killed. The man driving the bike spoke "Your father was a good man, don't ever forget that no matter what." I then hung my head and cried as I wondered who this man was, what the Xavier institute was going to be like, and why the man driving smelt like a dog. I quickly had one of my questions answered when the man spoke next, "The names Logan by the way, you're going to love the Xavier institute kid don't worry."
