Chapter 2

Arriving at the Xavier institute a few hours later I caught my first glimpse of the place the institute was immaculate, its front yard was like that of an old kingdom courtyard, and the house or should I say mansion itself was massive. I was in awe as the man named Logan walked me into the institute and a bald man in a wheel chair was waiting there for me he spoke with a British accent and so elegantly I had to pay attention.

"Hello, Kyd. My name is Charles Xavier welcome to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children. There are many people here just like you and together we can access your gifts."

I don't know what clicked in my head, maybe it was losing both my parents in one day, maybe it was being in strange territory, or maybe it was something to do with my new powers but something changed and I replied with a voice I had never heard before with a tenacity I've never felt before.

"Gifts!? Gifts?! How can you call something that caused the death of both my parents a gift?!"

Charles just sat there calm and collected and replied to my outburst

"Kyd I understand you do not want your gifts but this is a place of safety and learning. You will learn to understand that you are a gifted individual and you have a purpose in this life and with us guiding your journey you will be anyone you wish to be. So I humbly welcome you to the Xavier Institute."

He looked to the gruff man that had brought me here; he was very hairy and had almost blue hair and side burns that almost touched his chin. Charles then spoke again

"I see you've already met Wolverine or as we call him Logan. Logan can I speak to you in my office. Kyd follow Scott here up to your new room and then he'll introduce you to the others."

A young man with dark red sunglasses and red lenses walked up behind Charles and introduced himself as Scott Summers codename Cyclops. I followed him up my room and he then led me to the dinning room, which was similar to a casual kitchen area of a dorm, and there was a group of boys and girls anywhere between the ages of 8-16. He then introduced them to me. First there was a very cute girl I guessed around 13 with blood red hair her name was Jean Grey a rare combination of a telepath and a psychic, there was a little blue man named Kurt Wagner or Nightcrawler he was a fellow teleporter but also could stick to walls and was born with superhuman agility he was I believe 12 or maybe thirteen its hard to tell with all the fur he would later help me control my powers a bit more, next to him was Kitty Pryde who could walk through walls like it was an open door she was cute and she was 8 just like me, a girl that just went by Marie but everyone called her Rogue apparently she could temporally take peoples' powers and take their memories I couldn't tell what age she was on account of all the gothic looking make up she was wearing, there was some blonde kid name Bobby Drake who was about my age also and he could control ice I got a vibe from him that we would not be friends, and finally a girl by the name of Laura Kinney I'm not sure why at the time but I was drawn to her. She had jet black hair and a mystery behind those hazel eyes. I was nervous but everyone seemed to accept me for who I was and I had never really experienced anything like it. For the first time in my life, I felt home.

The first one to approach me was Kitty she had a friendly ore to her so I became fast friends with her.

"Hi! I'm Kitty nice to meet you!"

Her bubbliness caught me off guard she noticed quickly that I was uncomfortable

"Hey it's ok I understand you're nervous. We'll talk another time."

Then all at once it seemed like they came to talk to me I got so nervous I felt like I was suffocating I couldn't handle them crowding me like that and before they knew it, I was gone an empty blackness that was there one second and gone another. They were starring at a black silhouette of me while I was safely tucked away in my room and I would stay there for the next three weeks. Kitty would occasionally bring food to me and try and talk to me but I would just teleport away, needless to say I was catatonic.

It wasn't until my twenty fifth day there at the institute that someone broke through to me, it was Laura who came into my room and approached me slowly. She told me about her own experience here at the institute. She told me of the men who kidnapped her at birth and did experiments on her to give her the retractable claws that she had, and she was honest with me.

"This place isn't for everyone and maybe it's not for you. Just give it a chance and let yourself decide."

She then placed her hand on my shoulder, it was the first contact made with me since Wolverine had brought me to the institute. The warmth of her hand sent chills down my spine, I loved it.

The next thing I know she's leading me downstairs to the kitchen where I had met everyone before. As she opened the door she said

"Look who's finally out of his room!"

I was met by a group of smiles and laughs. I felt home again like I did my first day. I was ready to become a part of the X-Men.