Being a mutant is not all that it's cracked up to be.
"There it is, KILL IT, KILL IT!"
Living in constant fear.
"STAY AWAY FROM US, FREAK!"
I would not wish this curse on my worst enemies.
"DON'T LET IT GET AWAY!"
Being feared and hated because I am different
"YES! I GOT IT!"
Never being able to control your powers, no matter how deadly.
"Wait! What's it-"And constantly hurting the people whom you once loved.
"NO, PLEASE, STOP!"
I am a mutant.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" And I would sell my soul to forget the things that I have done...
"Logan!", shouted Storm, aka Ororo Monroe, as she burst through the doors of the large manor. "Come quickly, Logan, it's an emergency!".
Logan, or, Wolverine, leader of the X-Men, came running down the large flight of stairs to see what one of his most trusted friends was yelling about. "Storm what's wrong?". Storm gazed at Wolverine with petrified eyes, and exclaimed calmly, yet a bit panicked,
"I found this young girl bleeding on the docks, Logan, we have to help her!" Logan looked at the young girl, maybe eight-teen or so. Her porcelain skin drenched in her own blood and covered in bruises and deep cuts. Her skinny jeans were cut and torn to the point where they didn't even resemble pants anymore, and her black t-shirt seemed even darker from the blood, which seemed rather fresh. Her glasses were cracked and broken around her round eyes, though they were closed.
"Get her inside, now, hurry!" Logan took the young girl from Storm and ran inside, carrying her in his muscular arms.
"I must say, I am rather impressed by her rapid recovery." Dr. Henry McCoy, or Beast as he is referred to on missions, was still looking over the girls wounds, which had almost fully healed in a matter of hours. "The cuts on her legs, arms, and face seem to have, somehow, healed to the point of just being a few minor scratches."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA! Please tell me that she does do NOT have metal claw things sticking out of her fists!" Bobby Drake, or, the one and only Iceman, was surveying the girl that was laying on a table in the X-Men's medical station, grabbing her wrist and holding it up in the air, as if it were Bobby's own unwashed clothing that he had just smelled.
"Knock it off, Bobby, this is really serious!" Katherine Pryde, or Shadow cat, smacked poor Bobby on the back of the head and scolded him for his ignorance. "Ow! You know, Kitty, your constant abuse is a sign that, in my opinion, you may like-" At this point, Kitty was attacking Bobby with an extremely hard punch in the arm.
Wolverine, who was completely ignoring the two "love-birds" looked over to Hank and asked seriously, "So, Hank, do you think she's a mutant?" "Let's just say," stated Hank sarcastically, "if she wasn't a mutant, then we would have a long lost relative of the Hulk on our hands." Logan just smiled and looked down at the young woman, not knowing what to think of her. 'She seems so young', thought Logan, while trying to block out the sound of Bobby and Kitty's constant fights, 'I would hate to find out that something terrible happened to her…' Logan didn't really like to admit it, but he does have a heart buried deep into his hairy chest. He cared about his team mates, his friends, and other mutants. But this one girl, this ONE girl had a sort of familiarity that Logan just couldn't put his finger on. As if… as if she was part of him somehow…..
"It's nearly been ten hours Hank, why hasn't she woken up yet?" Logan and Hank were still in the med-bay, twelve hours later. "I don't know Logan, statistically, by the rate that her wounds healed, she should have woken up hours ago."
"I could scan her mind to see if she is still in there, if you would like me to." Hank and Logan looked behind them to see the Xavier's Institute's own little physic, Jean Grey, standing in the door of the med-bay with her boyfriend, Scott Summers, Aka Cyclops, standing right behind her looking as over protective as ever.
Hank and Logan exchanged glances, then Hank stated gratefully, "Thank you Jean, that would be very helpful!" Logan then smiled at Jean and winked at her seductively. Jean of course, knowing that she must stay true to Scott, brushed off Logan's advances and walked over to the girl on the table. "You're all going to have to leave, though." said Jean, placing her left hand on the young woman's forehead, "it'll be hard for me to concentrate with all of you talking."
"Don't worry Jean, we'll get out of your hair!" Scott came up to Logan and Hank from behind and drug them both out of the room. All they could see before Scott closed the door behind them, was Jean smiling and placing both of her hands of the girl's face.
"It's been an awfully long time, do you think that Jean's okay?" Scott looked towards the door, though Logan could not see his eyes behind his Ruby red sunglasses, he could tell that he was sincerely worried. "Relax, Summers," mouthed Logan as he leaned forward in the waiting room chair, "I'm sure that Jeannie is perfectly fine-" "I saw how you tried to hit on her, Logan, stay away from Jean!" "What's wrong, slim? Getting nervous by the competition?" "I-"
"Hank! where have you been?" All of the men looked in front of them to see Lilac Spinster, Hank's girlfriend and newest member of the team, wrapped in a violet colored robe, and holding it very tight. "Lilac, I didn't expect you to be up at this hour, is everything okay?" Lilac had tear stained eyes, and as she looked at Hank, it was as if one could see relief filling her eyes full of hope. "Hank, I've hardly seen you all day long, I've been getting so worried!" "Hey, hey now, it's alright, I'm right here, I'm right here."
Logan watched as Hank held Lilac close to his chest and allowed her to lovingly cry into him. Lilac's hair was probably the most strangest thing about her, actually, her name pretty much sums up her hair. It was the color lilac, but it was very short, maybe to the middle of her neck. Logan knew that she had some emotional issues, seeing as though mother killed herself and her unborn baby brother, and her father constantly abused her, blaming poor Lilac for the death of her mother and unborn little sibling, so Logan tried his best to stay away from her at all costs.
"Well 'Tarzan'" stated Lilac longingly while looking deeply into Hank's subtle brown hazel eyes with her emerald green ones, "when you decide to take a break from saving the jungle, maybe you could visit 'Jane' in her tree house..."
"Oh for God's sake..." everyone looked over at Logan, who was lighting and cigar, not even caring that he just ruined the moment. "*sigh* You know Logan," Stated "maybe the reason you don't have a life is because you don't have a woman like Hank or Scott or, or like any self-respecting man for that matter!" Lilac then just walked off, but not before giving Hank a playfu little pinch on the cheek (and NO, not his butt cheeks!). "God," sighed Logan as he sunk back into his chair ", Hank, your woman is a real b-"
"!" all of the men looked at the door in shock. "JEAN!" Scott did not hesitate with removing his ruby sunglasses and bursting own the door with his eye beams. "Jean are you-" but when they all looked at Jean, who was lying on the floor unharmed, they saw that the young girl was awake and... and smoke coming out of her hands.
Running through the Stars : Chapter One
So peeps, what do you think? This story is probably going to have a lot of chapters so BE PREPARED!
Reviews are highly appriciated, but please, no flames!
I just want to point out that the relationship between the girl with smoke coming out of her hands and Logan will NOT BE ROMANTIC, I know that I made it look that way, but it will not be. Please review!