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Full Summary: The X-Men are feeling slightly down because Logan and Rogue are missing. They return home to see a friend waiting for help, because her boyfriend was taken. The X-Men start to wonder if their is some sort of connection between these kidnappings. More visitors arrive at the mansion, some much closer to certain members than they imagined. Back with Logan and Rogue, they find out they aren't as alone as they originally thought. The danger they face ahead is shadowed as they realize something much bigger is going on. If only they knew what...


Story of a Guilty Heart: Falls and Rises

Prologue

A man with long red-brown hair watched as three of his team mates placed some people into cells. He had his hair tied back in a pony tail and was wearing a brown trench coat. To complete his look he was wearing sunglasses, even though he was inside.

A man with long yellow hair and sharp teeth, carried a teenage girl who couldn't be more then eighteen. She had brown hair and had two white stripes in the front. She had a collar around her neck that was blinking a red light. She was fighting against the man that was much larger then her. The man, let out a roar and threw her into the cell and hit her over the head. He closed the door behind him as he stepped out of the cell. He marched past the man with sunglasses, glaring at him the whole way.

Sabretooth est dans a bad mood. Gambit got to remember to stay of his way.

Another man who looked Native American with long black hair, known as Scalphunter, carried a man with claws coming out of his knuckles. Scalphunter dragged him into a cell, across from the girl and slammed the door shut. The man in the cell scratched at the bars, but it appeared to have no effect.

Last to walk into the room was a man called Prizm who's entire body was crystal. He was carrying a man with blond hair and had a pair of white feathered wings coming out of his back. He appeared to be in his early twenties. The blond was still knocked out, his head lolling from side to side. Prizm threw him inside the prison next to the man with claws and shut the door, leaving the room.

The man with sunglasses was about to leave the room when he heard someone yell to him.

"Lebeau!" He turned around to see a Korean man, not much older then him, walk down the brick hallway.

"What can Gambit do for you, mon ami?" He asked with a Cajun accent.

"I'm not your buddy!" He snapped. "Mr. Sinister wants you to guard the prisoners." He told the man with sunglasses. "Although I don't know why he picked you." He sneered at him. "You can't be trusted."

"Why would that be, Scrambler?" He asked, pulling out a playing card from a pocket in his trench coat. The card started to glow pink.

"What are you doing?! Lebeau! Put the card away!" A big burly man with short brown hair yelled at him.

Gambit reluctantly pulled the charge back into his fingertips and put the card in his pocket. Scrambler smirked at him and walked out of the room with the man known as Harpoon.

Gambit looked at the new prisoners. What was so special about them anyways? The man with the claws was glaring at him, sitting beside the bars, with his claws still sheathed. He was the only one of the three that was awake. The teenager was slumped on the floor, blood flowing down the side of her face. The blond was still knocked out, lying on the floor on his back with his wings stretched out on either side of him.

Gambit grabbed a chair in the corner of the room and spun it around. He sat on it with his elbows resting in front of him, on the back rest, still watching the prisoners. This was going to be a long night.


A/N: Okay, there are a lot of characters in the story now, so I'm probably going to be screwing up with their descriptions and powers. I don't do good with lots of characters. Anyways, I may have changed their personalities a bit, but that's to make my story better (I hope). And these stories do basically revolve around Rogue since she's my favourite character in the movie and cartoons. Anyways, this is only my second story, so it's probably not very good, but I think it's better than the first so anyways... yah here's the prologue, I hope you like it. The first chapter will come when I get some reviews... and for any of you who were wondering (and probably have it figured out)... yes, Gambit does become a major character in my story... you know what comes when that happens...