Chapter 2: A Frightening Discovery!
A few hours later, Kitty, Piotr and Kurt finally made it back to the Xavier Institute and got out of the car.
"Guys, I still can't shake that creepy feeling about that weird white figure in the road. It's like it's a ghost or something," said Kitty uncertainly.
"I don't know. It seems odd that it would be a ghost. Besides, ghosts do not exist…do they?" asked Piotr uncertainly.
"Well Mein Freud, we have gone against stranger things than ghosts. Besides, we are mutants and I cannot imagine anything stranger than that," said Kurt.
"Right…" said Piotr and Kitty smugly.
"I mean that, you know, we are beings who have fantastic powers and ghosts have fantastic powers, so in a way, we are no different," said Kurt embarrassedly.
"It's okay Kurt," said Kitty slyly.
"Yes, my friend, we know you mean well," said Piotr just as slyly.
"Really or are you two got something evil planned for me?" asked Kurt uncertainly.
"Maybe," Piotr and Kitty both said slyly.
"Oh no!" said Kurt panicking.
"Oh yes!" said both Piotr and Kitty maliciously.
Suddenly, the doors to the Xavier Institute opened suddenly and out came Henry "Hank" McCoy, whose codename is BEAST. Unfortunately, Hank looked disturbed and he said, "Oh! Kitty, Piotr and Kurt! Thank goodness that you three have arrived here! There is something amiss in the Institute and it seems to have affected one of our students!"
"What happened?" asked Kitty, Piotr and Kurt.
"Come inside and I'll show you three!"
As the three X-Men joined Hank inside the Institute, a white mist suddenly comes swirling behind the three X-Men, unbeknownst to the X-Men and just as the doors were closing, the white mist zips through the doors and gets inside the Institute.
Kitty, Piotr, Kurt and Hank are now inside the Institute infirmary and what they saw made their skins crawl. On the table, lays a student whose skin is now bleached white and whose eyes were sunken in, making him look like a dead corpse.
"Oh my god…" said Kitty.
"What happened here?" asked Kurt.
"One of the students found this boy lying around the school grounds this morning, as white as a sheet. This young boy looks like he is dying, but his body system is still stabilizing. Unfortunately though, not only is this boy's unconscious, but it seems like his powers are gone."
Kitty, Piotr and Kurt looked at each other in shock and then Piotr asked, "What kind of terrible force has affected this boy?"
"It's hard to say. The strange thing about this whole incident is that it doesn't seem to be a mutant who has caused this kind of harm upon the boy. No, it seems like a sort of…supernatural being that has caused this," speculated Hank.
"Supernatural Being?" asked Kitty, Piotr and Kurt in shock.
"As in ghosts, witches, vampires, you name it! However, it's strange that such a being has found a way to come towards the school without any of us knowing about it. Strange indeed…"
"Okay, this is getting weirder and weirder every time," said Kitty.
"We got to protect the students from this…being of sorts before it gets to anyone else," said Piotr.
"I agree. We just need to know where this supernatural being is at and what we can do to stop it," said Kurt.
"I'll set up the security system for the institute to seek out supernatural waves so that way, the students can be more alerted," stated Beast.
Little did the four X-Men members know, the white mist that entered the school was silently lurking around the health infirmary doors and spying on the X-Men. The white mist lingered around for a few minutes and silently slinked off down the hallways of the institute, looking for fresh prey to feed upon.