Setting: Some years after the movie
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Author's notes: Okay, okay. I should be ashamed of myself. This has got to be the longest "songfic" in existance... the song that inspired it was Blind Guardian's "And there was silence" from their album "A night on the opera" Some of the lyrics just called out to me...the song is about the war of Troy. At the end it turned out I used every single song on the album... And the comic-fans will recognize some ideas here...eventually. Twisted a bit but still...
Prologue
Ororo Munroe was standing in the office of Charles Xavier, dressed in her X-men garb. She didn't know yet if she should use it or not, it depended a bit on what kind of assignment Xavier had in mind for her. Her past as as a thief had given her the, sometimes unwanted, status of being an undercover agent for the X-men. Would this be one of those times?

That's when Ororo hears the sound of the door opening and turns around too see Xavier roll through the door with Scott Summers walking behind him. She notice that Xavier looks a bit weary and asks with worry evident in her voice
"Professor? You okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine Ororo. Just tired. This last hour in Cerebro was very draining to say the least."

Ororo looks at him questioningly.

He looks up and tells her the story.

"Well, it's all part of your mission. Yesterday I noticed a, for lack of a better word, explosion of mutant activity close to Jerusalem. It was just a routine scan at first, when that happened. Normally Cerebro can't reach that far so the mutant in question must be extremely powerful. The activity disappeared almost as fast as it had registered so I've spent most of my night atuned to it, too see if I could spot it again. No luck. And this morning I bypassed all security-measures in Cerebro and went full power. Maybe a stupid thing to do but it payed off. The mutant is still out there, but shielded in some way."

"You'll be okay?" Ororo asked, knowing fully how dangerous it was to Xavier to use Cerebro at full power.

"Yes. I only need some rest. Now, what I want you two to do is to fly down there and see if you can find this mutant. I would send the whole team if I knew if he is a potential foe but at this point I simply do not know and do not want to alarm him if he's benign. The mini-Cerebro Moira helped to create should be able to help you immensly with that."

Both Storm and Cyclops almost simultaneuously nods their agreement and says "We're on our way".

After the Blackbird has taken off the door to Xavier's office opens once again and a woman in her early thirties enters the room, asian looking but still not.

"What do you think?" Xavier asks?
"I do not know. The signs are still there and hasn't even fluctated since you sent them away."
"Which means?"
"That this probably won't account for anything. Everything will still happen as forseen."
"What do you see?"
"Death. Death everywhere."