Disclaimer: yada yada...I own nothing except for the plot...hell I don't even own my own penname...I took that from my best friend...Thanks Fung-Li!

Summery: Jean's been dead for two years...and then things began to...change...

Author's note: I actually know very little about anything outside of the Movies background. While I do know some of the following charaacter's histories, some of it may be inaccurate because I decided to change it, but more often because I simply don't know. Please forgive me. And this is taking place two years after the end of X2.

Prologue
Alkali Lake
May 21, 2005
12:56 am

It was silent. The moon glistening on the murderous lake as it had every night for the past two years. The silence in itself was overpowering. No sounds from animals. Not a whisper of wind. The trees even stayed rooted to their places, not swaying. It was as if the lake itself was holding it's breath. Waiting for the impossible to happen. Waiting for hell to freeze over and the dead to walk. It had taken almost two years for her body to move from the bottom of the lake to the shore beside it. Two years for the power that lay dormant inside her to reawaken. Two years for it to take her over completely.

The body that lay on the shore was perfect. As if nothing could touch it. As if raising a jet with powers never before seen, and holding back rushing water with the same, had just been a daily occurrence. As if she had been swimming. But the animals knew better. As did the wind. The trees even shivered as they stood. The dead was about to walk. And the entity that would leave, would be a hell of a lot different then the one that had come. Where goodness, purity, and love had died, hell had taken over. The Phoenix had risen.

Sorry so short. The only reason I'm allowing this to be so short is because I'm posting chapter 1 along with it. So go on...read it please!