Ice Moon, Fire Wolf

Chapter 2: Luna's Secret

Five Days Later

Luna and Wolf had become popular topics of discussion among the rest of the students, primarily because they were new and nobody knew about them or their powers and everyone wanted to know what they could do. Another reason was because everybody wanted to know what Luna really looked like under her long black hooded cloak that she'd been wearing ever since she'd left the infirmary.

Luna hadn't allowed anyone besides Xavier, Jean Grey and Wolf to see her without her cloak on, so of course, everyone was really curious. And everyone had various theories on what she looked like or why she was always wearing the cloak.

Small crowds of students had begun to gather outside their room every morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of Luna. It was beginning to drive Wolf, who had keen senses, crazy because the students made more noise than they meant to and it woke Wolf up and lot soon than she wanted to be awake. So, desperate, Wolf had gone to Logan and begged him to get rid of the other students before she went insane from lack of sleep. After that, Logan chased the other students off so Wolf and Luna could get some sleep. Wolf was particularly grateful to him for that.

Wolf was the only one who knew the real reason why Luna hid herself under the safety of a cloak and rarely allowed herself to be seen without it by others. It was Luna's greatest secret.

Luna was unusual-looking, even for a mutant. She had really pale, alabaster colored skin, silver colored eyes, and long white hair. She'd looked that way ever since the day she was born and it was the reason she'd gotten her name: "Luna", which was the Latin word for moon. She was as pale and white as the full moon. It was also the reason why she didn't know what her real name was or why she had no real family or a real home.

When Luna was born, her parents were horrified at the idea of having a mutant for a daughter, but they put up with it for ten years. Then, when she was 10, they left her in the wilderness by herself to die. Then, Wolf and her mother, another mutant named Tigress came by and found the abandoned Luna, who had been crying because she thought that no one loved her. When Tigress asked the crying child if she had a name, she'd said no. Her parents had never bothered to give her a name. So, Tigress adopted the child and gave her a name that went well with her pale features: "Luna" and raised Luna as a sister to Wolf. That was how Wolf and Luna, who'd been together for seven years, became such good friends and very close.

Luna had always been sensitive about her looks and wary about trusting other mutants, primarily because of what had happened to her (childhood trauma) and because even other mutants had harassed her about it. So, Luna, determined to never be teased again, hid her looks, which were really quite beautiful from the world. She didn't want the other students to call her a freak. It was her greatest fear and her deepest secret.