X-MEN R
BASED ON MOVIE VERSION
HARPY: THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER ONE: OUT OF THE BLIZZARD COMES--HARPY!
It was nine O'clock on a cold November evening at the Xavier Institute for Gifted Students,
the home of the X-MEN. A severe blizzard isolated the school from all outside contact.
The four people who made up the X-MEN, Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe and Logan were in the huge common room of the school along with Professor Charles Xavier.
Professor X as he was known, was the founder and head of the school. The place was actually a school and a haven for mutants. The students were young mutants who were being taught how to control their powers. Prfessor X was himself the most powerful mutant telepath in existence.
Jean Grey was a telekinetic with telepathic powers. Scott Summers, A.K.A. Cyclops, could shoot destructive red energy from his eyes that he controlled with a ruby lensed visor. Ororo also called Storm could control weather, and Logan, Wolverine, hyper-regenerative healing, bones laced with adamantium and adamantium claws housed in his forearms. These were the X-MEN.
All the students were in their rooms studying, talking or sleeping, so that the five adults had the room to themselves. They were relaxing, not conversing, just enjoying the quiet. The only sound to be heard was the crackling of the logs in the huge fireplace. Then, from the front door, they heard a soft scratching sound. Jean got up.
"I'll go see what that noise is." she said walking towards the door.
"It's probably that little kitten Rogues been sneaking food to." Ororo said.
"Probably." said Jean, then laughing she continued, "She still thinks we don't know about it."
When she opened the door to look out into the night a blast of bone numbing cold and wind driven snow blinded her for a minute. She blinked her eyes to clear them so she could see. Then something soft fell into her arms. Looking down she saw a black mass of feathers that were covered by a reddish-white sticky substance. Looking closer she saw that they were great black wings that were folded around a young girl. She was naked and unconscious. She had long black hair and through half opened eyelids it could be seen that she had soft grey eyes. Her hands and feet where tipped with long razor-sharp talons.
"We need to get her to the infirmary." Jean said. "Logan, can you carry her?"
"Sure thing, red." Logan replied. He came over and gently picked the girl up, being careful of her wings and cradled her in his arms. "Let's go."
A few minutes later they were in the infirmary. Jean told Logan, "Put her on this bed, lay her face down so her wings won't get hurt."
Logan softly put the girl in the bed and then looked at Jean. "What next?" he asked.
"I need all of you to wait outside while I examine her." She asked.
"We'll be right outside Jean." Said Professor X. "Call us when you know something."
They left and Jean started her examination. She started with the wings.
"What is this stuff?" She asked herself. "It's all over her wings."
She touched it and gave a horrified gasp as she realized the truth.
"Oh My GOD! It's blood and skin! It's HER blood and skin!"
END CHAPTER ONE.