logan sighed and looked away. "kid, we all live fucked up lives. because of people like xavier people like us have a place to go and try top get away from it all. dont shun help. damn." eric looked at logan. "what?" logan put his beer on the table. "it got warm. I hat warm beer." eric grinned grabbed the beer, and focused. a few seconds later he tossed the beer back to logan. it was now so cold it had frost on the sides. eric grinned and shrugged. "one of the many perks of my power is I will always have the coldest drink. thanks for the chat loagn. I needed it. good night." eric left the kitchen and shortly after was curled up under his bedsheets. as he tried to fall asleep he let his mind wander. strangly it came to kurt. he really was very cute. eric even found himself woundering silently if he was gay. almost as soon as that thought entered his head it was snuffed out. no he was not gay he could tell that. for some reason he found that that disapointed him. even though he hardly knew kurt his energy felt very nice. it was almost like feeling the sun on his skin. kurt's energy was warm inviting, and made him never want to leave it. eric shrugged and rolled onto his side. he had school thenext day and he needed a good night sleep. even though he technicaly did not need to sleep he still liked to dream. the last thought that hit his mind befor he fell asleep was woundering if kurt's fur was soflt like silk or like leather.

CHAPTER 2

3:00 A.M., that was the time that eric woke from his pleasant dream. when he relized he was awake he almost cried. it had been such a good dream, but he did have a schedual to keep. eric silently got up and and got dressed. a few seconds later he was sneaking out of his and kurt's room. silent as the grave he made his way down the grand satir. he had just turned a corner when he felt it. he had less then a second to put enegry into his kin to make it harder then dimonds, before 3 metal claws tried to take his head off. a flash of sparks flashed from the claws scraping against his hardened skin. acting out of reflex eric grabbed the claws and pulled with his enhansted strength. logan flashed by his view before he was thrown the length of the hallway. lgan hit the floor slid another 5 feet into the base of the far wall. his claws retracted , and he let out a small moan. "ow, what the hell are you doing up and sneaking around at this time of the morning?" eric shrugged. "I go for a morning jog every day. what are you doing up this early?" logan got p and dusted himself off. "same here. you want to go together?" eric grinned and nodded. shortly after that eric found himself on a fast run through the city, with logan. as they turned into an alley-way, they ran into trouble.

a group of thugs jumped out atthem from behind a set of dumpsters. "all right boys hand over all your money." logan and eric acted at the same time. logan twisted his wrists. with a loud, 'skinnt' his claws popped out of his knuckles. eric on the other hand opened his hands and fingers. electricity began top climb inbetween his fingers, and up his arms. eric looked at logan and logan looked at eric. both grinned at the same time. logan launched himself forward and cut through one of the thugs guns. even as the parts fell he grabbed the man and threw him into the wall. after a short knife fight witha the second thug he turned to see how eric was doing. eric had grabbed one of the thugs and had both his arnms in a back lock. (1) a simple twist and a loud crack signaled that he had broken both of the thugs arms. eric turned his attention to the last thug. he held a shotgun and was already taking aim. eric felt the energy pulse and threw out his hand. lightning shot from his finger tips, and struck the thus in the chest. the thug was thrown the length of the all, struck the wall and slid down the wall and did not move.

loagn retracted his claws, and let out a small whistal. "not bad kid, not bad. were did you learn to fight like that?" eric shrugged. "when you live alone, and are a mutant you learn to defend your self." eric glansed down at his watch and then looked up. "I have to go if I want to get back in time to eat breakfast." eric waved to logan and then channeled energy into his legs. in less then 5 seconds he was back at the mansion. as eric walked in the doors his ears were met with the sounds of life. students, talking and laughing. eric grinned and headed for his and kurt's room. eric stepped into his room and grabbed his bagkpack. he just stuck his head into the kitchen to get a bite to eat when a mob almost ran him over on their way to the table. as eric fixed is toast he heard someone shouting "mail call." he hardly ever got mail so when spyke tossed a pakeage to he he almost did not catch it. a small card was attached to the box. looking at the return address eric found that the pakeage was from Exogen. 'dear eric your a bitch to find. you should have told us you had moved. anyway, a few years ago you sugested a bio generated creature that used your bodies natural radiation to live. 3 days ago we completed it. in this pakeag is experiment ID# 1012712270. just put it over your heart and absorb the small amount of energy already in it. then hold on to your hat. it will sting a little bit at first. if the pain persistes stop and send it back. let me know how it works.'

as eric finished reading the letter his heart began to pound. had they really done it? did he no longer have to wear lead lined clothing? eric crumpled the note and tor into the pakeage. inside the box was a small 1 cup beaker. inside the beaker was what looked like black jello. as eric looked at it he felt it began top react to the small amount of radation that passed through his cloths. then someone spoke from the table. "yo eric what is that stuff?" eric looked up to find that it was kurt wgho had spoken. infact everyone was now looking at the beaker with mild interest. "this might just stop all the radition my body makes. that is of course if it works. wish me luck." eric picked up the beaker and slowly caried it to the bathroom. once there he locked the door, and took off his shirt. as his heart continued to pulse and glow eric stuck his hand into the beaker. almost at once the jell began to literaly crawl out of the jar and onto his skin. eric gritted his teeth and put a masive glopb right in the center of his glowing heart, and held his breath. the seconds ticked by. then the pain hit him. it felt like someone was trying to cut out his heart. eric fell to his knees and began to shake. he could feel the jell expanding covering more of his body. he could feel it creeping down his stomach, and wrapping around to his back. he then became aware of a new feeling.

the jell was wrapping itself around his legs, and at the same time it began to crawl up his neck. eric let ut a small scream that echoed off the walls. his knees seemed to vanish out from under him and he colapst onto the floor. he felt his hand hit the beaker and felt it land on his chest breaking open and spilling more jell onto his body, and still the jell continued to close around him. it was down to his feet now. then another new feeling hit him, pressure. it felt like he was being crushed by the jell. as it began to cover his face he became aware of somthing, numbness. the feeling was spreading from his feet to his chest. as the jell crept past his eyes he felt it do something he had not expected. it began to crawl into his mouth and nose. then all at one the jell just seemed to evaporate. one minute he was looking at the black of the jell, the next he was looking up at the ceiling. eric slowly and shakely, stood up and looked at himself in the mirror. the first thing he noticed was that his heart was gone. the glow from his herat was almost completly gone. the skin around his heart was slightly paler then the rest but you only saw it if you looked closly.

eric turned and did a 360 spin. it was then that he noticed it. the veins on his back had turned black and showed through his skin. eric shugged and began to put his skin back on. a few black lines on his back, he could say that they were a tattoo. eric grinned and opened the door, he came face to face with xavier and storm. "eric I felt a sence of panic are you OK?" eric nodded. "yeah I just was not expecting the jell to react like that to my body." xavier raised an eyebrow. "jell?" eric sighed and explained what had happened. after he was done he looked at them. storm spoke first. "so you now produce no radition, correct?" eric nodded. storm and xavier both looked at eachother and then looked at him. "you know you will be late if you dont get going. we will talk more tonight." eric nodded and walked down to the front stepps of the mansion. there he stopped. everyone else had left already, on their way to school, so he had noone to walk with. he could take his cycle but he waould attract stares, and he did not want that at least not on the first day of school. eric shrugged, and channeled energy into his legs. eroc took off leaving a plume of dirt and dust behind him. as eric shot down the streets, of the city he smiled.

he was mving faster then most people could see. to everyone he seemed to be just a gust of wind. eric turned off the main street and shot down a side street. hugging the wall eric began to crouch. as he neared the end of the street he jumped straight up. eric shot 30 stories straight into the air. as he flew over the city he felt a feeling of peace settle in. up here nothing could stop him. every hair on his body stiffened alowing him to absorb as much energy as possable in that time. but all to soon he found gravity pulling him back down. he landed with a loud crunch about a block from the school. so as not to attract attention to himself he walked the rest of the way, to the school. eric walked up the steps and became awear that he was being watched. eric looked around but could not see what the source of this feeling was. eric shrugged it off, we always felt strange when he was at a public school. he had just placed his backpack in his locker when he felt a hand grip his shoulder. eric spun around expectng a fight, what he found was the principal. "oh principal Darkholme, don't do that. I dont like it when people sneak up on me."

Mystique nooded and spoke. "understandable. I would like to speak to you in my office for a moment." eric shrugged and allowed himself to be taken to her office. eric looked across the desk at the principal. he could feel a small differance in her body energy, it felt like mutant energy. Mystique sat down and looked at the boy infront of her. he did not look like avery big threat to Magneto's plans, but if there was one thing she had learned it was never to judge by appearance. "you know eric, not everyone is as blessed as you are." eric shrugged. "yeah I know. Not everyone is rich." mystique shook her head. "no that is not what I ment. I ment not everyone is so lucky to be a mutant." eric shrugged again. "I guess..." she was leading him onto somthing, that much he could tell. mystique continued on. I work for a a man who beleives that a war is coming. this war will decide the fate of mutants and humanity. he feels like we should win. he wants you to join him and gfight on the side of mutants." eric felt anger boiling in the pit of his stomach.

when eric spoke, it was in a voice of forced calm. "so just so I understand, you want me to betray the only other people who trust me! you want me to work for a man who does not even have the balls to show himself?!" eric stood up and gripped the desk. mystique stood up also. "you have no idea who your messing with boy. if you turn this down you will have made a powerful enemy." eric snorted with inderferance. "lady I was just about to say the same thing." and with that eric picked the whole desk up and broke it in half like it was a stick. mystique shrunk back slightly. she knew Magneto had said he was powerful but super strength was not rare. "you think just cause I'm a mutant I'll side with you?! HOW DARE YOU!" eric was so mad that he was beginnning to lose control of his powers. the lights began to flicker and pulse, in rythm with his heart beat. "lady trust me, my powers are far stronger then you could even imagine. good day to you ma'am!" with that eric grabbed his books and stormed out of the room.

TODD'S POV

Todd Tolonskey, had just finished unlocking his locker when he felt anger. personal experance told him to be carfull. tood carfully looked around. he had to look carfully becasue if he caught anyone's eye he was usually beaten up, and being in the brother hood did not stop them. it was then that he saw the source of the anger he was feeling. a boy about his age. tall, died hair, and a mad look on his face. all that plus the fact that he was heading this way made todd a little nervous. but he had never been one to judge on looks, so when the boy tunred and opened the locker right above his he did what came natural, he smiled. the boy stopped halfway through putting his books in a bag he had around his shoulder. for a full minute the boy stared at him then to todd's surprise the boy gave him a small weak smile. todd smiled back and went on his way thiking he had made a new friend.

ERIC'S POV

eric walked down the halls of his new school he felt slightly better. the smile his locker neighbor had given him had help to sedate some of his anger at mystique. for the next few classes he went through the normal 'new guy' routine. saying hello, sitting next to someone he did not know, answer question about himself, lieing for half of the question to hide the fact that he was a mutant and agy. so by the time lunch rolled by he was more then ready to get out of the school for a while. insdtead of eating however eric had a different intention. making his way behind the school he found just what he was looking for, the school fussion box. placing both hands on the cables running from the box. no sooner had his hands made contact with the cbale then he felt it. the strange burning, tingling feeling that came from him abosrbing leathal amounts of energy. as the energy pulsed through his body he began to feel a little less tired. a few minuteslater eric walked out from behind the school brimming with energy. as he looked around the school he noticed a slightly depressed energy signature. eric had never been one to let people be depressed and not do anything so he made his way to the source.

as he neared the basket ball court he found the source of the energy. the boy who had waved to him earlier. he sat next to the courts looking longingly at the boys playing on the court. eric neared the boy and spoke. "what is the matter?" the boy looked slightly surpried to see him but he answered noe the less. "oh well I wanted to play ball with them, but they laughed and made fun of me." eric stood next to the boy and focused his attention on the ball. orange, rubber, and a lot of energy running through it because of the heat on it. eric grinned and placed his hands out in front of him. the boy looked at him curiously. thern all at once the ball exploded in mid air. as the boys groaned and left the court eric spoke. "I'll play you if you want," todd looked at him. "how can we play the ball exploded?" eric shook his head. with me you can never be sure of what you see. you might find that what you saw is not what happened." eric waslked out onto the court and snapped his finger. as if by magic the peices of the balls flew into the air and reformed back into the ball. todd looked at the boy, and grinned. "your a mutant." eric nodded. ''the name is eric but most people call me charge." todd nodded and smiled back. "name is todd but everyone calls me toad." eric grinned. "fair enough, you start." so for the rest of the lunch period eric and toad played basket ball.

as lunch ended, Eric glanced at his schedule, and found that he had gym next. eric sighed. befor gym had been his most dreaded class. mostly because he was requered to take off his shirt, and expose his glowwing heart. almost at once eric perked up. now that his heart did not glow he was sort of looking forward to gym. as eric entered the gym he found that he was not the only mutant there. kurt, and spyke was also there. eric grinned and nodded at them and they nodded back. as he walked over to them he could not stop grinning. he was getting to enjoy gym for the first time in a long time. as eric walked to the locker rooms to dress down he relized something. he would be seeing kurt with out his shirt or pants. granted it would only be the body thrown up by the image inducer but still, it was kurt's semi naked body. eric began to get slightkly red at the thought, this fact was helped by nightcrawler putting his hand on his shoulder and asking if eric was 'ok'. eric let out a small "yes" and continued walking to the locker room. as eric beagn to get redressed for gym he caught kurt out of the corner of his eye. he almost died.

kurt was a freaken god in hiding. (I wont spoil anyone's vission of semi naked human kurt so I wont describe him.) through out the whole period eric could hardly keep his eyes on what he was doing. they just seemed drawn to kurt's form. it was just god like. his body seemed to be perfect in everyway. this normaly would not have been a problem were it not the fact that they were doing dodge ball in gym. normaly this was an easy sport for eric. he would simply put extra energy into his eyes and that would force his reflexes to heighten, to a point were he could simply step out of the way of even the fastest ball. but with all his attention on kurt he had a very hard time playing, so by the time they went go get redressed eric had been hit quite a few times. as eric left the locker rooms. after gym was eric's break period, normaly eric would sit alone at a table and read or experiment with his powers but today was different. he felt like going for a small jog around the school. as eric rounded the lunch room area he began to hear shouting and the sounds of a fight going on. as eric neared the shouts he began to make out the sounds of someone begging them fighters to stop. eric rounded a corner and found the fight. 3 teenagers were kicking his newest friend tood in the ribs. "HEY STOP IT!"

the 3 boys turned and grinned at eric. "what? all we are doing is beating up a mutie. what is the harm in that?" eric felt anger burst into his chest. glancing around he found the perfect weapon. a chain link fense post stiking out of the ground. eric grabbed the top part and tore the post out of the ground. as it came up he could feel concrete sticking to the bottom. with 1 hand he pointed the pipe at the boys. "I said leave him alone." the boys had gone slightly pale but showed no signs of backing down. eric had expected them to do a lot of things, but they did the one thing he had not expected, they charged him. eric brought the end of his makeshift staff down infront of the first man. the concrete at the end exploded sending rocks and concrete flying, in ever direction. that took the first boy down. eric spun around and smashed the end of his staff into the second boy's ribs, sending him to his knees. he turned to face the thrid and final boy. "you leave now or you will end up like your friend." the boy smiled. "your one of them.a mutant, a freak, DIE!" as the boy charged eric sighed, and spun around. the end of the pole slammed into the boys chest sending him flying backward and hitting a wall about 12 feet away. eric gave him a once over. a few broke ribs nothing deadly, he was fine. eric turned to todd who by now had raised himself up to his legs and was shakely leaning against the wall. "thanks for helping me." eric nodded and put his arm under todd's arms to help steady him. "dont mention it. come on I'm taking you to the nurce." todd thanked eric and after several minutes they found themselfs in the nurce's office. after staying to find out how bandly todd had been hurt eric said his goodbyes and on his way out glansed at the clock. it read 2:58. he had 2 minutes untill school was out, so he went and got his things out of his locker.

as he began walking out he heard someone saying his name. eric turned, and found that spyke and kurt were running up to him. unseen by them everytie kurt said eric's name a shiver of happiness shot up his spine. "is it true that you had to take Tolonskey to the nurce?" eric nodded and told them about what he had seen, and done. by the time he had finished, scott, jean, and rouge had joined them. as they began to walk eric listened to all of them tyalk about their day. as they turned into a short cut he felt it. a massive spike in kenetic enegry and it was headded straight for them. eric spun around and saw what it was. a dumpster was headed straigh for him. it hit him so fast he almost did not have time to create an absorbtion feild around him to absor the energy. no sooner had the dumpster made contact then all the energy left it causeing it to drop right infront of him. then he heard a voice. "so your the new guy?" eric looked around and found he was talking to 3 boys. the boy who had spoke was of medium biuld. he wore gloves, and had brown hair (avalanch). the boy next to his was by far the biggest boy eric had ever seen (blob). the next to him had white hair and a wirey build(quiksilver). eric nodded. "yeah I'm new. can I help you?" the boy with brown hair spoke. "yeah my name is avalanch, next to me is blob, and next to him is quiksilver, and we want to fight you."

eric rasied an eyebrow. "and why would you want to do that?" avalanch took a step forward. "Magneto says your this super powerful mutant and we dont think that is true." eric put his hands up in a defensive maner. "so let me get this straight, you know I'm a mutant, you know that I'm a class 5 and yet you stll want to fight me. wow you 3 must be really tough or really dumb." scott put his hand on eric's shoulder, but eric shook it away. "no scott, if they want to fight a god let them find out how it feels." eric wne tinto a fighting stance and motioned for the brother hood to start. avalanch made the first move. the wals of the ally-way began to shake and vibrate with energy. eric almost lost his foot but then saw his savor. the dumpster that had hit him. he grabbed the edge of it and with as much energy as he could hurled it straight at avalanch. the dumpster hit his in the side of the chest knocking him out and sending him flying into the wall. blob charged him and he was forced to jump out of the way. land with his back against the wall he weighed his options. he could fight the blob head on, or he could try something else. he had a lot of stored energy but he did not know how much of it he would have to use to fight the white quikesilver. a noise broke himfrom his thoughts. the blob had changed course and was now headed straight for him and he no time to react.

the blob hit him full force crushing him against the wall. "you fool did you think you could beat the blob?" the seconds tick by then all at once the blob felt something grab him, and lift him off the ground. eric's eyes glowed as he pomped energy into his arms to help lift the mamoth that was the blob. eric was running low on energy so with one motion he threw the blob against the ground and drained as much extra energy as he could, from him. that only left quikesilver, eric turned to him and waited. Pietro gave him a slight nodd, before he vanished. eric looked slightly surprised. 'why would he make it seem like he was super pow-' eric's thoughts were cut off as he felt a punch conect with his left should. eric was thrown from were he was standing and laned about 3 feet on his back. "so your a speed demon. I never cold have thought of that. but 2 can play at that game." no sooner had the words left his moth then he vanished too. Pietro dropped out of his speed ability. "were did you go?" then all at once eric's voise seemed to speak from every corner of the alley.

"you fool. did you think I was just strong? quess again, I can be a god if I want and there is nothing you people can do about it." eric simply seemed to appear out of nowere, running straight for Pietro. Pietro had no time to react and felt eric's rapid punches conect with his chest, face, and legs. Pietro stumbled backwards and fell to his knees. eric stood infront of him. "not bad not bad." eric was so focused on Pietro that he never saw avalanches attack until it was to late. eric felt his bones shatter as his bone exploded in his body. a few seconds after his bones exploded he felt his body begin to regenerate, but not in the normal sence. he muscles tightened forcing his bones to touch, then small pulces of energy shot through the shards welding them back together, in less then 3 minutes eric was back on his feet. the others had joined in now. cyclops was fighting Pietro, jean and rouge were fighting the blob, and avalanch was being taken care of by nightcrawler and spyke.

eric rolled his neck and felt the newly mended bones pop, and crack. 'I'll have to be sure to heal them when I get back to the mansion. but for now...' eric chraged forward at the closest brother hood mutant, avalanch. lance saw eric hading for him and forced more vibrations through his body. but eric was ready for it, absorbing field in place he simply absorbed the negery from the attack. eric shot lighting out of his hands and straigh for avalanch. the attack hit him dead on, throwing him from his feet and slamming him into the brick wall behind him. eric turned to the blob, who had his back turned to him. eric pushed energy into his eyes and felt them begin to burn, eric grinned and released the field holding the energy in his eyes. energy blasted from his eyes, and hit the blob in the back. the blob flew forward and hit the wall. the blast of energy continued to hit him, until eric told it to to hold. eric turned to Pietro and just caught a glimps of hi beforew he vanished again. but this time eric was ready for him. eric closed his eyes and channeled energy into his eyes, ears, and skin, bumping his senses up to super-human levels.

eric grinned and spoke. "super speed, not a bad power but it had one major drawback if your fighting me. the law of kenetic energy states that an object in motion will stay in motion, unless stoppedf by an outside force, like me. by putting energy into my body I can sence any form of energy around me, and right now your the biggest form of energy around me, and that means I can see you no matter were you are." eric opened his eyes and let the energy fly from them to a space about 15 feet to his left. Pietro let out a grunt of pain as what felt like atruck slammed into his chest. the attack threw him from his feet and threw him into the dumpster from earlier, laeving a larg dent in it. eric straightened up and instantly relized how ow on energy he was eric tunred to the others. "I have to leave I'm almost out of energy see ou back at the mansion." eric looked towards the sky and focussed, all of his remaining power into his body. skin, muscles, and any internal organs (eyes, blood vessels, brain) instantly insinerated as his body changed from flesh and blood to pure energy. eric shot straight upwards and towards the mansion. in less then 2 minutes he was flying through the open window of his and kurt's room. as eric paased by his nightstand he saw how bandly he was hurt. his skin was cracked in several places and blood was slowly dripping from his ear, and the corner of his eyes.

eric made his way over to his dresser and began to dig around in it until he found what he was looking for. eric pulled a small shot about 5 inches long from the dress, pulled off the cap and pushed the neddle into his neck. a split second later he felt the burn, that signaled it was working kick in. artifical calcium was now flowing through his veins and soon after forcing its way to his bones. coating them in a hard shell. over the net few hours the calsium-alloy would melt and cool almost a dozen times and ment his bones untill they were healed enough to finish the process on their own. eric grunted and lay down on his bed. it would be about 4 hours until the burning stopped, and then it would become a throbing feeling in everyone of his joints and bones. after that it would change to a feeling of coldness as it made its way deeper into the cracks in his bones. eric's vission began to blur as he felt the lose of how much energy he had used during the fight. eric ran a small energy spike through his hair, causing them to stand on end, allow him to absorb more heat and light energy from his surroundings. with that done eric closed his eyes and allowed exhastion to over take him.

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A:N) well there is chapter 2 I hope you liked it. It was really fun to write. in the next few chapters more will be revieled about eric's power and you get to meet, bio a mutant who helps eric study his own power. please review this chapter.