X-Men Evolution
Chapter 1:
My name is Riana Cross and I am a mutant. I have the power of Holy, it's rather a complicated when you don't understand it fully so I will try to explain the best I can. Holy is simply a force of light that allows me to push, move, and explode the objects I concentrate on. It makes a good flash bomb too. I can also create spheres, absorb other common elements into that sphere, and cause an attack with that element. An example is ice; if I create a sphere and ice is thrown into it, I can create an ice bomb. I can heal too, but only other people and when I do heal, I grow weak for a few minutes. If I overdo it, I could knock myself unconscious or go into a coma…, which sucks.
When a mutant realizes there…a mutant, there family would either neglect it or become over protective of it. I got both. I always kept my power to myself, too afraid to make friends or let anyone see me using them. My first real problem occurred at school when I was seven. A group of boys caught me using my powers and when I denied it, they started chasing me and calling me witch. They tried to provoke me to show them but when I refused, they push me and pull my hair…so I ran. They cornered me, yelled at me, saying that I was a witch, and that I should be punished. One of the boys picked up a rock and threw it at me and the rest did the same. All I could do is cover my face and pray that they would stop…but they didn't. More rocks came at me and they were getting bigger. I felt sharp pains all over my body from where the rocks had hit me. One hit me in the face and I couldn't hold it in anymore, my body began to glow and a bright light burst from me and knocked the boys back…I never went back to school. After that day my dad watched over me closely and home-schooled me. My mother wouldn't even look at me anymore nor would she talk to me.
It wasn't until I was nine that I experienced my first outburst. That's when my powers consume me until my body can't hold it in anymore it sort of explodes. It hit me around ten at night. My body would glow faintly and my skin felt like it was on fire but on the inside, I was freezing. This continues for three hours when my body started flashing, I screamed in pain as the light exploded from my body. This little event put me in a coma for three months and knocked out all the lights on our street. I also noticed a change after that night, everyone on my street was healed. My neighbor Ms. Barnes no longer had lung cancer; eighty-year-old Mike who lived down the road started walking straighter and without his walker and a girl across the street who was crippled could walk again. Everyone seemed to be well and happy after that.
One day when my mother was taking a nap and my father was at work my doorbell rang. I ran down the stairs to answer it quickly, I didn't want it to wake my mother. It was the little girl across the street. She wore a green skirt and a light orange top decorated with flowers, the rainbow clips stood out in her short jet-black hair.
"Hi." She said happily
I coward away behind my door, I wasn't good with people. "Hi."
"I want to give you this."
She held out a small pie to me.
"What for?" I asked
"For healing my legs."
My eyes widened and my jaw dropped a little.
"I know what you are I saw the light coming from your room three months ago."
I quickly slammed the door and locked
"Wait!" she yelled, "I didn't mean to offend you…or scare you."
I went to the window and watched her.
"She sat the pie down in front of the door then she sat on the first step. Was she just going to sit there? Usually someone would take the hint of being unwanted but not her. I went back to my room and after three hours, I came back down to check…she was still there!
I opened my front door and poked my head out.
"It's about time." She said in a cheerful voice "Come sit by me and share this pie."
I waited for a few seconds and then sat down next to her.
"What did you mean by you knew what I was?"
"It means I know you are a mutant."
"And…that doesn't freak you out?"
"Nope!" she smiled
"Really?"
"Yeah, I would love to have powers, it would be so cool."
"One would think so."
"I'm Sarah Bailey what's your name?"
I smiled just a little, something about this girl made me happy.
"I'm Rin, Rin Cross."
Sarah became my first friend, every afternoon we would take walks around the neighbor and occasionally walk into town and buy frozen yogurt.
I began to open up more and feel better about myself but my mother got worse. She became every ill and couldn't stand to be in the room with me now. The worst part was that she was pregnant and that her being sick could harm the baby.
I tried to stay away from my mother as much as I could but nothing seemed to help herm knowing that she had a mutant child had but her in such a deep state that she could die from being so stressed. My dad came to me and told me that my mother was sick and that maybe if I lived with someone else that she may get better. I didn't like that fact of moving away from home but I agreed to do it if it would help her get better and that my little brother would be healthy when he came into this world. I told Sarah the news and that I was moving away but I would come and visit her and surely, she could come and visit me.
When they day came where I would be taken in my new family I sat at the top of the steps and watched as my dad answered the door and invited He was a bald man in a wheelchair who was accompanied by another man with black messy hair wearing a leather jacket. My dad shook their hands and thanked them for coming.
"So where is she?" the man in the leather jacket asked
"Riana come on down sweetie."
I stayed where I was, I didn't feel comfortable enough to go downstairs. My father came to the end of the steps and called me again. I didn't want to disobey him but I didn't want to leave so I went halfway down and stopped again.
"Come on Rin its okay."
My father looked to our visitors. "Sorry, she's a little shy."
The man in the wheelchair looked at me. "It's alright Rin you can come down."
I didn't understand what just happened; he spoke to me without even moving his lips. I looked at the man standing next to him then back at him.
"My name is Charles Xavier and the man beside me is Logan, we're special…. just like you."
He did it again! By just looking at me…what the heck is going on?
I felt like an idiot just sitting there and I didn't know why but I saved myself from more embarrassment and came downstairs.
We went into the living room; I sat across the coffee table from our special visitors.
"Hello Rin." Xavier smiled at me
"Hi." I said shyly
"You know why we've come here today?"
I nodded "To take me to a new home."
"Yes and not only your home but a school. A school for people special like us."
"See." My dad said putting his arm around me "You'll meet people like you…You'll have friends."
I smiled weakly; this wasn't my best idea for a new beginning.
Xavier spoke again, "I want to talk about your daughters' ability and what you think about it?"
"It's…complicated. I really don't know what it is that we're dealing with."
I felt a little sad, my dad made it sound like a disease.
"It's called Holy; it's a rare and very powerful ability."
"Is this dangerous?" my father asked
"It could be, it's a raw and yet pure energy. It's based on emotions and what she feels and if those emotions are good then we're okay."
"She's like Jean." Logan said
Xavier nodded "She's…similar."
"Who's Jean?" my father asked
"A student at my school, she has the power to move things with her mind. I'm training her to control them and I want to help your daughter too."
Xavier smiled at me. "What do you say Rin? Would you want to come and stay with me and learn more about your power and how to control it?"
"We've already had this conversation." My father interrupted "She needs to go."
"I know Mr. Cross but I want to hear it from her."
They all looked at me, waiting for my answer.
I nodded my head yes.
Logan smiled "You don't talk much do you?"
I looked down at my hands and avoided him. I could feel the heat rushing to my face.
"What of her mother?" Xavier asked
"She agrees too."
"I would like to hear it from her Mr. Cross, if it's not too much to ask."
My head gave me a gesture to leave the room. Therefore, I got up and went to the kitchen and my dad got my mother. I poked my head around on the other side of the kitchen connecting to the dining room, which was close to the living room so I could see and hear whatever they say.
My mother and father came back and sat back down. My mother's hair was down and in her face, dark rings shaded around her eyes…she looked so pale.
"Mrs. Cross, I'm Charles Xavier, head of the school for mutants I just wanted to talk to you about your daughter."
"Why ask me?" she asked
Her voice was so monotone…so tired. It is as if she had no feeling at all anymore."
"I just wanted to hear from both parents are you sure you want to give her up."
My mother said nothing but he could clearly see that her answer was yes.
"And as your request for memory loss…I can do that but are you certain that this is what you want Mrs. Cross, to forget your first child. I don't want there to be any regrets."
My mother looked up at him.
"The only regret that I have it that that thing… ever came out of my body. She was a mistake."
I felt like I had just hit rock bottom, I couldn't get my tears to stop. I knew she couldn't stand me but a mistake. I didn't want to hear anymore I ran to the kitchen and sat between the cabinets and the island.
"A Mistake!" Logan yelled jumping from his chair "She's your daughter, your own flesh and blood!"
"Logan." Xavier said
"She's a monster." My mother said
"She's not a monster! She's a child and you treat her like that! How do you sleep at night?"
"Logan!" Xavier snapped
"What!"
"Please." He said more calmly
Logan growled and then stomped out of the room, Xavier sighed.
Logan stomped right into the kitchen, went to the nearest window, and gazed outside. The sky was covered in a blanket of grey clouds, making the mood even gloomier. He turned around and saw me sitting on the floor. I quickly tried to wipe my tears away before he could see but he didn't take a genius to see that I have been crying. He came over and sat down beside me on the floor. We said nothing. Logan was unsure at first to even touch me but after a few seconds, he laid his arm on my shoulder. I don't know why but this made me cry even more. Without thinking, I climbed up in his lap, buried my face into his jacket, and started crying again.
Charles Xavier wiped away my mother's memory of me; she no longer knew that I had ever existed. Now I was on my way to Xavier's school for mutants like myself. I was nervous; this would be the first place I had ever stayed at besides my old home but I must forget the life I had before…there was nothing there for me. The school was huge! Trees, fields and gardens surrounded it. When the car stopped, Xavier was lead inside by a guy with sunglasses on, Logan helped me carry what bags I had and we walked through the school doors…the doors of my new home.
"Don't worry." Logan said, "You're going to like it here."
I sighed in doubt… I sure hope so.
The second we entered the foyer a woman with white hair greeted us. I thought she was very pretty.
"Hello there, what's your name?" she asked me sweetly
"Riana Cross."
"Riana Cross, that's a pretty name."
Xavier came out of a room and asked for Logan. I didn't want him to leave, I had just gotten used to him and now I'll be alone again.
"It's alright Rin." Xavier said, "Storm will take care for you."
He gestured to the woman next to me. Logan handed her my bags that he carried and went with the professor and I followed storm to my new room. They put me in a room to myself right next to Storm. Xavier thought it would make me feel better and in a way, it did. I liked the Storm lady; she was very sweet to me. She gave me a tour of the school and then let me do whatever I wanted which to me was staying in my room.
