I'm back with the sequel to 'A Shadow in the Moon'! I'm really excited, and I'm sorry if this didn't come sooner for those who were waiting.

To get it over with: Here's the disclaimer for the entire story; I don't own the X-Men. Only Shadow and Moonfire, and if you see them running around in their own little TV show, then that means I finally inherited Marvel. And like that's ever going to happen.

Chapter 1

I walk through the garage door of the Institute with Scott. We had just finished school, and thankfully I had been given my normal classes. Shadow walks in right behind us, and we head to the kitchen. Scott grabs an apple, then heads to his room to do the mountain of homework that he had. I notice a huge platter of muffins on the table. I start to walk towards it, and suddenly Kurt pops up in front of me. I scream and 'instinctively' hit him with my heavy book bag.

"Ow!" He yelps. "Mondfeuer!"

"Oops, sorry. I thought you were a big, scary monster coming to eat me," I say sarcastically. He laughs.

"I just came to warn you that Kitty's coming! And these are her muffins!"

"Really?" I ask. "Uh oh. Hey, Shadow, we shou-" I turn to her, but all I see is the kitchen door swinging slightly on its hinge. I am about to head for it myself, but then the other kitchen door opens and Kitty skips in.

"Uh oh," I gulp.

"Hey, Kaity! You should totally try my muffins. I can't find anyone else to taste them!" Then she notices Kurt. "Kurt! You can watch."

"Phew" was all he says. I glare at him. Kitty grabs my arm and leads me to the table, where she stuffs a muffin into my hand.

"Try it," she urges. "It'll be good!"

"Doubt it," I mutter. Taking a deep breath, I take a bite.

"Dum dum dum," went Kurt. I throw the rest of the muffin at him, still chewing. He ducks and it flies into the wall. And the next wall. And the wall after that. It ends up flying throughout half the rooms in the mansion, including Professor Xaiver's office. There it stops, and drops onto his desk. Judging by the holes in the wall, he knows it was Kitty's. So he brushes it into the garbage, acting as if he has never seen it and is just reaching for his pen.

"So?" Kitty inquires. Kurt is just holding his breath. I chew a few more times and swallow.

"Kitty," I say slowly. "did you actually follow a recipe? Because that was almost good."

"Nope," she says cheerfully. "No recipe. Just good ole following the guts. Speaking of guts, I, like, put some of a cow's in there. Or maybe it was a frog's…" I rush out the door and into my room, where I promptly throw up breakfast, lunch, and maybe my own guts, into the trash can.

"So, Kurt," Kitty says, turning to him. "Do you want to-" Kurt bamfs immediately into his room.

"Hmm," she says. "He must have homework or something." Just then, Jean is pushed through the door, and Scott is heard.

"This is payback for making me drive with Kitty!"

"Scott!" Jean fumes.

"Hey, Jean! You can try my muffins!" Kitty picks up the platter and closes in on the other girl.

"Oh, no," Jean moans, and bolts through the door.

I wake up and see that Moonfire hasn't slept in. 'But when does she ever?' I think. I swing out of bed and dress in a black T-shirt and jeans. Seeing the jeans reminds me of my latest joke. I had ironed a picture of Jean onto the back of a pair of her jeans. The entire school is still talking about it, and still congratulating me. Somehow Jean still doesn't know it was me, and I hope it stays that way. After heading downstairs and eating breakfast, I walk outside to search for Moonfire.

"Hey, Rogue?" I ask the goth. "Have you seen Moonfire?"

"Nope," she answers, and I go back inside. I plop down on the couch in the den and turn on the TV. I flick through the channels until a news channel catches my eye. Now don't get me wrong, I never watch the news. It's just that a picture was on there…

"A mysterious girl is wreaking havoc on the city! The Avengers are on the case, but that little kid is wiping them away like bugs on a windshield." I can't help but snicker as I watch the Avengers get smashed and blown away by the kid. I can't get a good look at her, but I'm sure she's good if she can fight the Avengers. Especially the Hulk, who was apparently thrown to Antarctica, or so the newscaster says.

"It's just in! News reporter and cameraman Andy McLockew got a good picture of the child." A pic flashes up, and I gasp. Very audibly, because Evan, Kurt, Kitty, Scott, and Jean run in.

"What's wro-" Scott starts, then stops as he sees who the girl is.

Because it's Moonfire.