Author Notes : Hey there people. Sorry for not updating in like a month but I've been ill a couple of times and missed school. I had the lovely thing of writer's block, don't we all just love writer's block. Ok on with the story.

Disclaimer : See chapter 1

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Emmaline Kells sat on the plane that was taking her to her new home in Antarctica. She sat in a rather large comfy chair thinking about her life in general. Basically she lived a life of uncertainty, never knowing if someone she cared about was gonna be killed in genocide currently taking place. Many people in her life had been killed; those many people had either been a mutant or were accessioned with them in some. Even those who weren't mutants were wrongly accused this lead to their death.

The reason she sat thinking about this was she was on her way to safety. She was escaping all of the violence and executions in the street. Her parents were rich. She had led the life of luxury but now she didn't really see a point to her life. All of the people she knew were gonna get killed one way or another. The best way she thought not to get hurt was not to get close to anyone but that was hard when you were living in a world where someone you knew died everyday.

In fact the only reason she was going to be saved was because of her parents money and connections. They had got in contact with a man called Xavier. Emmaline had no idea who he was; all she knew was that he had accepted her to be frozen as a last attempt to save the mutant race. But she suspected that Xavier had profited out of her being chosen. Her parents were willing to do anything to save their daughter in the hope that she would live on.

Emmaline came out of her train of thought and looked out of the window next to her. Far off in the distance a snowy wasteland had just appeared over the horizon line. She guessed that was where the laboratory was located. This place was gonna be her home for a long time...a very long time.

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He walked into the room a large duffel bag slung over his shoulder. Looking round he surveyed the large room and took it in. There were lots of long tubes and he assumed these to be the pods he was told about. There were two other people in the room. They were sitting at opposite ends glaring at each other. One of the girls had shoulder length black hair and grey eyes. He found it hard to tear his gaze away from her to look at the other girl. The second girl was slightly older looking and was tanned in appearance. Her hair was brown and long; it seemed to reach half way down her back. While he was looking at her she took her gaze off of the other girl and looked directly at her. Gangs found himself getting lost in her eyes. They were dark deep brown and seemed to draw him in. As if he was looking into the depths of her soul. Soon she turned her attention back to the younger girl sitting across from her.

The tension was thick and he could feel it. You could cut it with a knife if you wanted to. These two obliviously hadn't got off to a great start. That wasn't good as far a Gangs new they'd be spending a long time here so it would help if they at least were mutual to each other.

He set off across the large grey room, covering the expanse to the two girls quickly. He reached the one with alluring eyes first. He cleared his throat so that she would look at him.

"Hey, I'm Gangs Rafter and looks as if we're going to be spending a lot of time together in the future. Well from what I've been told it looks that way," He said in the friendliest voice he could. He didn't want to seem to forward or eager. After all he needed to make friends here. The girl didn't reply or even react straight away. She just sat and looked at him. Her eyes seemed to be searching his face for something. 'Oh know' he thought, I've offended her in some was but just as Gangs had muttered that to himself a large smile spread across her tanned face.

"Hi Gangs, I'm Gabriella Garcia but call me Gabby. It's nice to meet you. You seem like an okay guy from what I can tell," She replied with her usual vigour.

As she introduced herself Gangs noticed that she had a slight accent. From what he could tell it had a Mexican edge to it. She seemed and acted friendly enough and was possibly around his age. She stood up and held out her hand. She was around 5"3 in height and came up to Gang's shoulder. He obliged by taking her hand in his and shaking it.

Gabby liked this guy already. He had that sort of air about him that said she could trust him. This was a good thing as usually she was weary around males. Ever since her father left she had been distrusting of other men. As someone she knew once put it she had father issues and guys issues. That friend had long since gone though. Killed while trying to get food to survive. She had been there but had gotten away. That was when being a mutant had its advantages. She had used her powers to get away. Telekinetically stopping any bullets from hitting her, she had escaped to the edge of town and hid there until they stopped looking for her. Gabriella came out of her world when she heard Gangs speak.

"Gabby, hello," He snapped his fingers in front of him. She has been quiet for the past few minutes, staring out at nothing and he was getting worried, "Gabby you okay?" He asked.

She shook her head as if to clear it. "On um yeah, I'm fine."

"What were you thinking about," He inquired? Gangs was curious, he didn't want to see her look so upset.

"Nothing important," Gabby replied quickly.

Gangs took this as a sign that the subject was to be dropped and naturally he did do. He didn't want to push her away sfter only just meeting her.

Silence came over the room again as Gabby and Gangs looked around the room trying not to make eyes contact with each other. It was then that the silence was broken by another voice.

"Aren't you going to introduce me to your friend Gabby?"

It was the other girl who had been in the room when Gangs arrived. He had totally forgotten about her. He looked over at Gabby and saw anger flash over her face quickly but it vanished as quick as it came and her complexion went back to normal. Although the anger didn't quite leave her eyes as she stared at the darker haired girl.

The girl took another step towards them her eyes on Gabby the whole way. Eventually she reached Gangs who had positioned himself in front of Gabby slightly. He hadn't even realized he was doing this but he had a strange feeling about this girl. As if she couldn't be trusted. Something about her told him this but he couldn't quite place it.

The girl now stood before him, she was slightly taller than Gabby and stared up at him with piercing grey eyes.

"Hey there, since Gabby is rudely not introducing us I'll do it myself;" She gave Gabby a pointed glare as she said this. "I'm Raykel Moon; it's nice to meet you. So where are you from?"

Gangs looked her over suspiciously as she spoke but it was better to talk to her in a civilised manner than run the risk of starting a fight. "Massachusetts, other than that there's nothing really to tell," He smiled as he answered, trying to remain friendly. "And you," Gangs thought it best to find out as much about her as her could.

"Me, well I'm originally from Glasgow but I moved to Hong Kong and later to Japan. I know a number of foreign languages;" Raykel said this with pride to him. She was very proud if where she came from and her heritage in general but mentioning Japan opened old wounds for her. When she resided in Japan the man she loved and been brutally killed. It had upset her greatly and she still hadn't quite got over it. She kept the one thing that meant the most to her. It had great sentimental value to her; it was the charmed he had given her as a present. The charm kept her memories strong and him alive in her heart.

"Ah I see you've met," A tall man with white hair spoke. Next to him was a bald man in a wheelchair also approached? The three mutants could only assume that these men were Xavier and Magneto for they had never formally met the two great mutants that would save their lives.

"If you would like to come with us there are others who you must meet," This time it was the bald man who spoke.

Gangs had an uneasy feeling about him. It was the look in his eyes; they had an air of untruth about them.

"Gangs you needn't worry. I'm not dangerous; you can trust me," As Xavier spoke the corners of his mouth rose into an evil looking smile.

The three mutants looked at each other in shock. The bald one was a mind reader, a telepath. When he had reassured Gangs it was as if he had been monitoring what they were thinking.

Magneto broke into the silence, "Don't be too shocked. Charles is indeed a telepath. The greatest to have ever walked the Earth. Now if you would like to follow us, more mutants have arrived and I'm sure you are all eager to meet them," The tall man with white hair who was now clearly Magneto told them. The three of them complied and followed Magneto and Xavier through the large heavy metal doors into the corridor and to where the others who had arrived were.

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Darius watched the scene unfold in front of him from a dark corner of the room. Nether of the three mutants had noticed. Although the male seemed to have perhaps sensed something but he couldn't be sure.

The unspoken feud between to two females had amused him. They had sat staring at each other for a good ten minutes before the male had joined them and broke the silence.

Out of all of them the girl with black hair seemed more seseptible to the darkness. 'But no matter' he thought to himself. They would all fall to the darkness at one point. It would be sooner rather that later for some of them. But eventually they would all join him and he looked forward to that day indeed.

He uttered this to himself as disappeared into the shadows. If someone entered the room it would have been as if he was never there. The dark shadows concealed him well and these shadows would envelop the world.

to be continued

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Author Notes : Some of this chapter was written without a muse so if parts of it are kinda weird that's why. Hope you guys enjoyed that. Review please and tell me what you think. I welcome suggestions and I don't know when the next chapter will be up but I'll try and get it up as soon as possible. School is gonna be hectic over the next few weeks.

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X-Moonchik