The sun rose on a cool September morning. School wouldn't be starting for a few days and the kids are to get a jump on shopping. Daniel Howlett awoke from his slumber. He is the first of six biological children to Ororo and Logan. Third born of eight.
Daniel has a big bedroom to himself with his identical twin brother David across the hall from him. David is the polar opposite of him. While Daniel would rather help, David will help if asked. Daniel is slightly mentally delayed and does his best
to try keeping up with his siblings. He does homework despite being a bit slower mentally and always wants to help his classmates. Daniel attends a special school for kids who are mentally delayed and his teachers love him. Professor Xavier wanted
to hire a teacher to work with Daniel but Logan and Ororo didn't want that. They wanted Daniel as well as their other children to learn to be aron around others their own age despite having powers. Jean, Scott, Emma, Alex, Megan and Rion all agreed
thus the reason their children attend school away from the mansion. Professor Xavier was worried that the students would use their powers in public but that hasn't happened.
David is Daniel's opposite. He is gifted intellectually and is popular. His intellect is part of his mutation. David was always smart but his mutation enhanced it. In fact he hates doing his homework despite being smart and athletically gifted.
Daniel like his siblings and parents is a mutant. While his siblings have at least one mutation, he was born with fourteen different abilities.
John possesses the ability of Pyrokinesis, thus the reason his X-Men name is Pyro.
Azari has abilities like T'Challa super speed and agility and can fight. He also is a half mutant having superhuman abilities.
David has ominilinguism and advanced Intelelect.
Kendall discovered she has abilities like Ororo being able to control the weather and is learning to keep her emotions in check. Ororo is teaching her to use her abilities.
Lucas discovered he has abilities like Logan. He has razor sharpe bone claws, rengerative healing, and animal-like senses.
James has telekinetic abilities and can teleport. He has the combined abilities of Jean and Kurt. Kurt has smoke when he disappears. James just disappears and reappears where he wants to. He's not as strong with his telekinesis as Jean is but is developing
his abilities.
Oliver has crynokinectic and hydrokinectic abilities. He's a lot like Bobby in the sense that he can make anything cold but can also control water. He's learning to control both of his abilities.
Daniel always knew he was special. He isn't just slow he also has a speech impediment. It makes him sound different and he doesn't like the word retarded. He does however know he's special as a mutant. He discovered his abilities just four years ago.
He discovered he could heal himself. He cut his arm in school and by the time he got to the nurse's office his cut had healed.
Daniel discoverd he could create force fields. Something he discovered when his sister fell off the roof and he stuck his hand out to help her and the force field he created saved her.
Daniel also discovered he has kinetic energy using all energy the way he sees fit.
He has all of the vision abilities from telescopic vision to radar. He's a techno path being able to understand, build and reconstruct all technical devices.
Daniel can levitate and fly, he can cloak himself as well as everyone else, create seismic enegery blasts, control and manipulate electricity and create portals.
While his siblings have their parents to help with learning how to control their abilities, Daniel had to learn on his own. He felt bad that they hadn't really invested much time with him. He takes comfort in his martial arts training having recently
earned his second degree brown belt under his uncle Rion. Though he's taken longer to earn his belts, he still loves to train. He's not the only one with a martial arts belt in the house. John, Azari, David, Kendall, Lucas, James Jr. and Ollie are
black belts. John and Azari are third degree black belts while Kendall, Lucas, James Jr. and Oliver recently earned their black belts. Daniel is the only one who isn't a brown belt.
Rion even trained Ororo who owns a fourth degree black belt. Logan can hold his own. To put it plain and simple the Howletts and Munroes are a family of martial artist.
Between he and David, Daniel has always been the odd one out. For as long as he could remember he always wanted to use his gifts to help people. David on the other hand would rather not get involved. Daniel wants to someday become an X-Men like his parents,
aunts and uncles. That's why he trains as hard as he does despite his handicap. David never understood it and doesn't support it.
Now fourteen, Daniel is very fit for a kid his age. He loves sports but would rather workout or read. He's also hit puberty and does his best to try getting a girlfriend. That hasn't worked out well for him. He tries to get a girlfriend at the special
school he attends but it hasn't worked out for him.
For David, he has no trouble getting girls or being popular. In fact he is very popular and is courting a young woman in his school. David also pitches on his school's baseball team and has gone on to win the championship.
Daniel gets out of bed stretches his five feet eight inch frame. Daniel looks like a combination of both Logan and Ororo. His skins complexion is tanned like Ororo's, he has green and bluish eyes and his hair is thick and curly, a little like Logan's
but with white streaks in it. Daniel has muscularly toned psyche. He's not as toned as his brothers and father but still in great shape.
David is his identical twin only he's more muscularly toned like his father but a little leaner. in fact, David isn't the only Howlett male who is in great shape. Azari and John are also in great shape. And there's Logan who is in the best shape of all
the Howlett men. David keeps his hair in a ponytail. David knows he looks good.
His brothers and sister know how good looking they are all keep in great shape with their martial arts training and extra sports activities.
The Howletts are indeed a good looking family. John who doesn't look like his parents but has his own unique style to him. He's eighteen and will be starting college in a week.
Azari looks like Ororo. His hair is cut short and he to has a well toned body. He's sixteen and almost ready for college. Azari is six feet tall and on the football team. He's no slouch when it comes to the opposite sex either.
Kendall is twelve and already has boys chasing her because of her fit body. Like Daniel, her skin is tanned. Her hair is black with white streaks which is long flowing down her shoulders and her eyes is bluish green. She's four feet eleven.
Lucas is the same height as Kendall. He's got the same color tanned skin, eyes and hair but his hair is curly like Daniel. He to is pretty fit for it kid his age mainly due to his love of skateboarding and other sports. At age eleven Lucas has begun to
hit puberty and has no problem talking to girls as he is very social.
James Jr. looks just like Logan with his short cut hair with white streaks in it and his skin is lighter than that of Daniel, Kendall and Lucas. He's shorter than Lucas, has bluish green eyes and also keeps in shape for an ten year old. He loves sports
and loves spending time with his father helping Logan with the manual labor.
Oliver is the shortest of his siblings. Oliver's hair is short but curly at the top with a single white streak in it. His skin is identical to James' and his eyes have the same bluish green to them as his siblings. Oliver is the geek and bookworm of his
siblings but make no mistake he to is fit for his age having been studying martial arts.
After brushing his teeth and using the toilet, Daniel heads downstairs to the kitchen still wearing his pajamas. He knew he didn't need to be ready for school since the school. School doesn't open for another few days.
He decides to fix breakfast for everyone. Being a little slow, Daniel figured after watched Ororo and Logan make breakfast that he could do it on his own. One of the things he could do was cook. Something he picked up watching Ororo with ladies of the
mansion. He begins to remove the pots and pans from the cubbards. He takes out the batter for pancakes, the eggs and waffles as well as the bacon. He begins to make the pancakes first while frying the bacon and putting the waffle batter in the waffle
maker. Knowing that he has seven siblings and two parents, Daniel knew he'd have to make a lot of food so that's what he did. He's so emersed in cooking that he hadn't heard Ororo behind him.
"What are you doing?" Ororo asked looking pissed.
"Huh?" Daniel asked spinning to see his mother pissed off.
"What are you doing?" Ororo asked. She was frowning with her hands on her hips. Daniel knew that look all too well.
"I was making breakfast. Wanna help me?" He offered his speech a little delayed. Ororo rolled her eyes.
"Making a mess this early." Ororo complained as she made her way over to the stove. "Move." She said as Daniel moved from the stove. He watched her as she finished what he was trying to do.
"Ma let me help. I've watched you cook enough to know what to do." Daniel said.
"No Daniel. I got this. Go get ready. We're all going shopping in a while. Wake your brothers and sister up." Ororo said continuing to cook. Ororo didn't want Daniel making a mess. Truth be told, she didn't want Daniel doing anything because he is mentally
delayed. Daniel backed up from the kitchen and ran up the stairs. He felt bad. He wanted to make breakfast for everyone but Ororo shut him down. He knocks on John's door.
"Johnny wake up." Daniel called to him.
"Go away bugger." John yelled.
"Mom says get up." Daniel yelled back. He went to Azari's door and banged on it yelling for him to get up. He did the same for David, Kendall, Lucas, James Jr. and Oliver. All had gotten up and headed downstairs. Daniel went up to his parents bedroom
and knocked on the door to the master bedroom. "Dad." He called to his father. Logan was still asleep. "Dad. Mom's making breakfast. Time to wake up."
"Get away." Logan said.
"Dad." Daniel said.
"I said get away!" Logan yelled. Daniel backed up out of the room. He went back downstairs into his room and began to get dressed.
Once done, Daniel came downstairs, everyone was downstairs eating breakfast. Even Logan who had gotten up. Everyone is still in their pjs. Daniel looked on hurt. He sat down at the table with his plate. There wasn't much food left. There was one pancake
left with a strip of bacon.
"Hey, where's my breakfast." Daniel asked. No one answered. "Mom, can I make more bacon?" He asked.
"There is no more slow-poke." David said.
"There is no more bacon. I have to go food shopping later on." Ororo said.
"That's not fair!" Daniel yelled before getting up from the table and went to his room. Ororo noticed this and immediately felt bad. Here he was trying to make breakfast for his family and ends up going without.
Everyone had gotten dressed with the exception of Daniel who was already dressed. They all loaded into the family van and it was John who got to drive while Logan sat in the passenger seat. Logan and John were chatting about girls, cars and sex. Of course
Logan had to be careful because Ororo could hear them. He was always honest with his boys when it came to talking about sex. Daniel watched the scene before him. He sees Ororo who is sitting in the seat behind Logan chatting with Kendall about girl
stuff no doubt. He could see Azari and David two seats ahead of him talking about football, martial arts and skateboarding, their three favorite sports. Lucas, James Jr and Oliver are in the seat ahead of him battling each other while playing video
games. He realized everyone had someone to talk to. He didn't. It pained him to see how close his siblings are to each other and to their parents. He didn't have that. He focused his attention on the scenery out the window.
Ororo looked back at him feeling bad for how she treated him. All he wanted to do was make breakfast for the family but she kicked him out the kitchen and didn't even let him help her cook. To make matters worse, Daniel hadn't gotten a chance to eat.
They left him a piece of bacon and a pancake. That's not how you treat family. Kendall was talking a mile a minute but noticed that Ororo's attention was on Daniel. She didn't like that one bit.
"Mom are you listening to me?" Kendall asked.
"Yes honey." Ororo said snapping her attention back to Kendall who then continues her rant about school and seeing her friends again.
Logan and Ororo shopped for clothes for the children. Everyone was allowed five outfits. Of course the guys all brought jeans, shirts, socks underwear while Kendall brought her girl outfits making sure she coordinated her outfits. Ororo brought her a
new pair of earrings to go with her outfits. Azari had picked out five jeans as well as his favorite shirts, sweat shirts and tanks. John picked out basic stuff. Lucas and Oliver did the same. James Jr. followed Azari's footsteps getting the latest
gear. David picked out cool clothes including Sean John jeans. Daniel picked out his favorite color jeans as well as t-shirts, sweat shirts and tanks. They then went to footlocker and picked out their sneakers in their size.
After shopping, the family decided to grab lunch at the food court. Daniel watched as everyone was paired off talking with one or another. He watched as Kendall and Ororo were arm and arm while eating salads. The two were laughing as they ate with one
hand. Azari and John were clowning around with their chicken nuggets and fries. James Jr. and Lucas tried to race each other eating their fish sticks. David, Logan and Oliver looked on amused and disgusted at the same time. It was Ororo who spoke
up having turned her attention to her fish sticks eating boys.
"Becareful you two don't choke on your food." Ororo said.
"I'd pay money to see that." Azari said then making a gagging sound causing laughter from the group.
"Hopefully they don't belch while choking." David sarcastically.
"Hahaha." Lucas said sarcastically.
"Don't be disgusting you two." Kendall said to them. James stuck out his tongue filled with food particles. "Eeewwwll!" She said turning up her nose. Lucas laughed after swollowing his food.
"Do that bugger thing you do with your nose?" John asked encouraging James Jr.
"Oh no." Kendall said.
"Yeah that thing with the bugger flying from his nose." Azari said laughing.
"Alright." James Jr. said.
"Oh god. Don't encourage him." Ororo said frowning slightly annoyed.
"This is gonna be funny." Lucas chimed him.
James snorts in buggers through his nose and hocks it through his nose and before it can come out he snorts it back into his nose and swallows it. John, Azari, and Lucas all laughed. Logan and Ororo shook their heads in disgust. Kendall felt like she
wanted to gag. Oliver smirked.
"Nasty." Kendall said frowning.
"That's talent." David said as they laughed.
"Neat trick bro." Daniel said deciding to speak. He was met with disgusted looks from Kendall, Ororo, Logan and Oliver.
"You would think that." Kendall said.
"The first thing you say all morning and that had to be it." Logan said. Daniel looked away hurt.
"I spoke earlier." Daniel said.
"Yeah you said 'Hey where's my breakfast.'" David said mocking his twin brother.
"Yeah and then you said 'Ma can I fix more bacon?'" John said adding to the mocking.
"Finally he said 'It's not fair.'" Lucas said as they laughed. Ororo and Logan noticed the look on Daniel's face. He was hurt that they mocked him. He went back to eating his food.
"He's been quiet all morning." Azari said.
"Why so quiet Danny?" Lucas asked. Daniel looked at him angrily.
"Leave me alone." Daniel said.
"He's mad cause we teased him. Get over it." David angrily. Daniel didn't even respond. Ororo felt bad. She didn't like it when his siblings teased course her and Logan's attitude towards him didn't help either, though neither noticed. They knew
he's a bit slow and to make fun of him wasn't right.
"I can't wait to get back to school." Kendall said.
"Me to." David said.
"He's probably thinking about Candice Barkley." Kendall teased smiling.
"Am not." David responds.
"Who's Candice?" Ororo asked.
"No one." David answered coyly.
"A girl in his class he's so crushing on." Kendall said.
"It's not like that." David lied. He was in love with this girl.
"Oh yeah then how come you doodle her name on your notebook?" Lucas asked.
"Oh is that right?" Logan asked. David looked away smirking. John and the others laughed. "What do you think Roh? We have anything to worry about with Davey?" Ororo smirked looking her son over.
"God I hope not." Ororo said as the other laughed.
"I hope so." David said as they laughed. "Now Daniel you don't have to worry about."
"Really?" Ororo asked. David shook his head. "Why's that?" She asked.
"He'll never get laid." David said as John, Azari, Lucas and James laughed. Logan shook his head amused. Oliver smirked but had no idea what his brother was talking about. Daniel said nothing.
"Nah. He's a good boy right Daniel?" Ororo asked.
"Yes ma'am." Daniel said as John, Azari and Lucas laughed.
"Kiss ass." John said laughing as he and Azari high fived each other.
"Watch your mouth." Logan said. John smirked.
"Daniel will be a good boy cause no girl knows he's alive." Kendall said as they laughed. Daniel's cheeks turned red.
"He can't even talk to a girl." Lucas said. "He stammers through every sentence. Everything is 'Bbbbbb ddddddd.'" He said the laughter continued. Daniel felt like crap. He dropped his head staring at his food suddenly losing his appetite. Ororo noticed
this.
"Guys ease up off your brother." Ororo said.
"You know we're just funning you D." Lucas said.
"Whatever." Daniel said. He didn't like the fact that his family would tease him. And why did Ororo say she had nothing to worry about with him? Maybe it was because Lucas was right. Whenever Daniel tried talking to girls he stuttered. What was he to
do?