"What do you mean, you're seeing me off to the train!?" Ember snarled as she packed up her gear as the day to go back to Hogwarts had finally arrived.
"I mean I'm going with you to the train and that's final." The male feral shot out.
Ember stared at Logan trying to figure out what going on in the guy's adamantium covered skull.
Jean just gave a look that said just go with it for once.
Ember was still confused but shrugged "whatever." She guessed that the Professor threatened him. The three of them, the female feral mutant didn't mind Jean seeing her off, but it unnerved her to have Logan, who she was cloned from to tag along to a taxi to King's Cross Station.
They got to the station and saw that it was a mad house with people and noises.
Ember was pushing her trolley cart, as she weaved her way through the masses, as she got to pillar nine and ten.
Logan grabbed the trunk and turned to Ember "So which way, kid, don't want to miss the train."
"Follow my lead," Ember mutters as she looked like she was just going to lead on the pillar and then slipped through and ended up on platform 9 ¾
Logan and Jean followed and seen a large steam engine that had gold lettering that read, Hogwarts Express.
"So this is how you get to school every year nice seems homey." Logan commented taking another pull of his cigar.
"Yeah, train ride lasts all day." Ember replied as she loaded her trunk on the train with all the others. She turned back to Logan and Jean unsure because this first for her to have Logan see her off. She went and hugged Jean as she seen many children supposedly her own age do with their parents or guardians.
"Well have a good year and try to stay out of trouble" he ruffled her hair.
"Thanks, I think" Ember responds, as she boarded the train. She told Jean mentally how to leave. She found an empty compartment and sat down. Thinking that maybe Logan really did care about her in some way other than a student-teacher relationship, they had.
As she settled down in the compartment she heard a voice " Oh Sorry i thought this car was empty." The boy squeaked out.
Ember turned and saw the boy; he had messy black hair, green eyes under glasses held together with tape, and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. "It's okay, you can sit with me."
The boy nodded his head "thanks I hope I'll not bother you." He said in a very soft voice.
"You're a first year, aren't you?" Ember questions, as she watched the boy, she sniffed and recognized part of his scent, but why would he smell like her.
He gave an awkward smile and nodded once more he was trying not to look at her. "Yes ma'am."
"Save the ma'am stuff for the Professors that are females, I'm a student like you, by the way the name's Ember." Ember replied and introduced herself at the same time.
"I'm Harry, it's nice to meet you so what year are you in." Harry responds
Ember tried to place this kid, she didn't know him, and with the way he was acting, he wasn't a clone. "Third year."
"Really that's so cool I hope I do well in this school." He squeaked out in excitement
"Yeah, I have to do well or else I will hear about it from my other headmaster." Ember replied, why was she talking to this kid, she didn't really converse with anyone, without being spoken to first.
"Other headmaster you mean there is more than one at the school." Harry questioned
"No, there's only one at Hogwarts, I should have explained first, I live in two different boarding schools, Hogwarts, and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters." Ember explained, "Professor Xavier is my guardian."
The kid nodded his head and went to look out the window Ember watched the kid and could tell he wasn't from a happy home.
Ember decided she should let this kid, know about who she really was. "Harry, do you know about mutants?"
He nodded his head "My uncle says they're a menace but i think some of them are so cool." His face lights up a bit at the thought.
Ember smirked, "This is going be easier than I thought. I'm a mutant as well as a witch."
"Really wicked" then he looks a bit scared, " Don't worry I won't tell anyone."
Three claws slid out from Ember's hand, "Trust me, kid. These claws won't ever hurt you."
He leaned in closer and studied them "Wow bloody wicked don't it hurt with them coming out like that."
"Everytime, but I got a healing factor, so it's easy to deal with them. You could say I take after both my parents that way." Ember answered as the claws retracted back into her hand.
The kid leans back with a sad look on his face turning back to the window.
Ember looked at him, "Truth is, I never met my mom, I bet she doesn't know I exist. I just met the man that shares his DNA with me."
"Yeah I know how you feel I don't know either of my folks they died little after I was born." Harry replied
Ember wondered just how much to reveal to this kid, that she was by programming a natural killer, nah that would frighten him. "I'm sure that Xavier can pull some tight strings to let you come to the States to his school if you want?"
"Really that would be nice but I don't want to be a bother plus I don't know if my aunt and uncle would let me." He sighed and looked out the window once more.
'I will see what I can do,' Xavier's voice sounded in Ember's mind. Ember growled but felt touched.
Harry eeped at the growl and slid back further in to his seat.
"Sorry about that, I don't like when Professor X checks in on me." Ember explains, "He's a telepath, and has a machine that connects him to all mutants, I'm sure he has learned to speak through it as well."
Harry nodded still looking a bit pale.
"Growling is just part of who I am; I'm not as bad as Logan." Ember replied, she looked at the door, "Someone's coming."
They both turned to the door and saw a red head kid look in to the room "sorry elsewhere else is full up mind if I kind yeah"
"Get in here, Weasley." Ember stated, giving a small smile and waved her hand "Plenty of room, have a seat."
Ember stared out the window as she thought about her life all three years of it, she had awoken after her induced sleep in her chamber, to find herself staring up at strange people in lab coats, she did not know it at the time, but they were scientists they were tasked to clone Project Wolverine. Only down side was that the genome that had been saved from Project Wolverine was too badly damaged and couldn't clone the person himself, however there was enough DNA markers to make a female genetic match to Wolverine…that one had been X-23 or Laura as she was going by now. However, Ember was the next one down she was known as X-24. Her only mission was to kill Wolverine and Laura. However, her maternal genome came from some unknown female, who did not know what she had done.
The red head looked at Ember and gave a small wave looking a bit pale. "You're that Ember girl my brothers are always talking about."
"Which one? If Percy has been talking, it's all lies." Ember replied.
Ron just smiles and shakes his head "No, it's the twins but I still have trouble believing half the stuff they said."
Ember raised an eyebrow, "Those two are upset that they can't pull a fast one on me."
"That's fine but what I want to know it who was the bloke with you that scared them so much." Ron answered
"Oh, that was Logan." Ember replied unsure how to answer how she and Logan were related.
"Really the way they were talking he was some demon you summoned and tamed." He snickered at his brothers.
"No, Logan's human, I think." Ember replied
Ron saw Harry for the first time. "Hi I'm Ron Weasley nice to meet ya mate."
"Harry, Harry Potter."
Ron's jaw drops and he stammered for about a minute "You're really him, do you really have it."
"Have what?" Ember questioned
"The Scar." Ron answered
"Oh that.." Harry answered as he lifted his bangs with one hand, showing the scar.
Ember looked unimpressed.
"Wicked, so I heard you were raised by muggles how was that like." Ron asked
Harry shook his head, "I do not want to talk about it."
Ember's keen sense of smell, told her more than the boy's words did, something was wrong with his family life.
Ron just nodded and moved on asking about what kind of classes they might have trying to include Ember in the talk.
"First and Second years don't get to chose their classes, not until you're in Third Year." Ember explained; she rubbed her knuckles, where her claws would come out.
Harry just nodded and then asked, "Growing up in a magical family you must know a lot all ready."
"Doesn't work that way, but Fred gave me a spell to turn my rat Scabbers yellow." Ron replied
Harry sat up closer and looks eager to see more magic.
Ron cleared his throat as Scabbers was in an empty candy box, apparently, the boys had a feast, and Ember didn't even realize that the trolley cart came by. Suddenly the door slide open, and a busy haired girl stuck her head in, "Anyone see a toad a boy named Neville lost one."
Ember could find it in a heartbeat but she didn't think the toad would survive the encounter. The girl dared Ron to perform magic, and turns out it didn't work, then she shown off and fixed Harry's glasses.
Ron huffed and Harry beamed at his glasses being fixed.
"Holy Cricket, you're Harry Potter!" the girl exclaims
Harry blushes and looks away from them.
Ember couldn't help herself, she bounced in her seat and spread her arms out and exclaimed "And I'm Ember!"
The boys tried hard not to laugh but it was a lost battle, as the girl's face looked both embarrassed and insulted at the same time.
Ember stared at the girl, "I do know of Harry's assumed past, but do you think it would be unwise to shout out his name like he's some celebrity? I don't worship the ground that Charles Xavier rolls on."
The girl just huffed and stood up and stormed out the car.
"Scott was right; I have no control over my mouth." Ember sighed as she got up and got her backpack out of the compartment.
Harry just smiled. "Don't know who Scott is but I say you were brilliant you save me a bit of embarrassment.
"Scott is a teacher at my other school." Ember answered
"Well I for one hope I don't get in to the same house as her." was all Ron said.
"Well you don't have a choice, I'm going to the lavatory to change, so you two can change in here, just draw the curtains." Ember explained, and then she might pay a visit to Fred and George and apologize for Logan's feral behavior.
After changing into her uniform, she found the twins in the car in front of them chatting with their friend Lee Jordan. She tapped on the window before opening the door.
Lee waved at Ember "Hey girl good to see you again had a good summer?" The twins waved as well still looking a bit out of sorts.
"There was a summer? I was swamped in my other course work." Ember replied, "But I had a pretty good one."
"Well glad to hear still think you're mad for going to school during the summer." Lee replied
"Where else am I supposed to live during break?" Ember asked, "Well, I just wanted to apologize for Logan's brash behavior."
The twins just smiled and shook their heads. "Don't worry, we got over it, so just don't even think about it."
"I just wanted to apologize, Logan is something else. You're lucky; he didn't pull his own trick out of his sleeves." Ember replied she decided if she were ever going to have a closer friendship, she would have to tell these three about what she was just not all the truth just yet. "I've got something to confess." She sat down, and stared at her hands, "I don't know how to explain this, so you would understand."
Fred just looked at her a smirked. "You're in love with flint and are going to propose to him."
"I rather kiss the giant squid." Ember growled "No, I'm not joking," she sighed and showed them what she couldn't put into words.
As the claws slid out of her hand, the three wizards jumped back and looked a bit panicked by the sight, finally George broke the silence "well that does help a little."
Ember shook her head, "And yes, it does hurt when they come out." She retracted her claws. "Professor Xavier said that it was up to me if I wanted people to know about me." She looked up, "This is what I am."
The trio looked and then pulled her in to a hug. "Well that about the coolest thing ever but not as important as this year's cup."
Ember nods, "Not to change the subject, what did you tell your brother about me?"
"Not much just how athletic you are and how we try all year long to find out your secret." George replied
"Now you know, I might wait to tell your brother, so you're lips are sealed I don't want parents thinking, I'm going to start shredding apart the other students." Ember replied before standing up.
"Don't worry, love, your secret safe with us till you give the okay to talk" Fred stated as the others just nod in agreement.
