Chapter Four: The Truth About Wolf
Wolf, one the other hand wasn't as secretive and insecure as Luna, but she did have her fair share of secrets and insecurities, insecurities more than anything else. Wolf's biggest insecurity was her eyes. To go with her long black hair and tanned skin, Wolf had bright, yellow, wolf-like eyes. She was very sensitive about her eyes and was very likely to maul the first person that even dared to insult her eyes. Those eyes were part of the reason why she was called "Wolf" (as you have probably already figured out, it's not her real name).
The other reason was because of her mutant powers. Wolf, like Luna, had several different powers. The one she used often and the one that was the most powerful was her ability to produce a very loud, wolf-like howl that was similar to a sonic blast. Wolf called it a "sonic howl" Along with those powers, Wolf also had sharper, keener senses, a healing factor, her adamantium skeleton and claws and she was a telekinetic. Wolf's greatest power was perhaps her telekinesis. She was very skilled at it and as a result, she was very powerful. The largest thing she had ever lifted using her mind alone was…a cruise ship, much to her shock.
Wolf's adamantium skeleton was something she'd had ever since she was born. Apparently, she'd used her claws to cut her way out of her mother's womb when she was born, causing her poor mom a great deal of pain. Wolf wasn't sure how she'd gotten her skeleton and claws, but there always had been and always would be days when she was very thankful that she had them. Even though they were a royal pain in the ass sometimes, she was glad to have them. They'd saved her life more than a few times and she wouldn't give them up for the world. They were a part of her, after all. They were like her powers. Those claws helped make her who she was. Without them, she would probably be dead. As a matter of fact, she WOULD have died a long time ago if it hadn't been for them.
Wolf wasn't big on secrets and deception and all that crap. She had been raised to be an honest person and that was the way she intended to be. If people had things they wanted to keep to themselves that was fine. It wasn't any of her concern and on the other hand, her mother had said that people were entitled to their own privacy. If people had their secrets that was fine with her. Even Wolf and Luna had their fair share of secrets, especially Luna, who had no recollection of who she was or who her family was (Wolf guessed that she was repressing her memory). Wolf's biggest secret was, ironically enough, the one everyone wanted to know. The entire school (except for Luna) wanted to know what Wolf's real name was. Wolf had never told anyone, aside from Luna herself what her real name was. It was a very closely guarded secret and one Wolf wasn't about to talk about just yet. She didn't want to because, "It makes my heart hurt too much, because Mom was the only person who ever called me by my real name. No one but her was ever allowed to call me that and no one ever will again!" Luna had explained it off by calling it "An outburst of grief. She's still mourning over her mother and apparently having someone else besides her mother call her by her real name is a trigger. I think that her first name is sacred or something." Luna understood Wolf and Wolf's behavior better than anyone else and vice versa. So it was only natural that the pair share a room. Luna trusted no one else and Wolf was very used to Luna. Much to everyone's shock, Luna even had trouble trusting Professor Xavier. Luna's threshold of trust was extremely low, but we'll get into that in later chapters. Wolf was all the family Luna had ever known and she was glad for it. So, the pair was extremely close to each other, like the sisters they'd never known.'
Anyway, Wolf's name, her real, full name, was Sakura Marie Riverson. Her mother's real name was Anastasia Riverson (If you've read "Two OF A Kind" and if you know about my OC, of the same real name and codename, let me tell you something: it's the same mutant.). Wolf had gotten her name from of all things, a tree. On the day Wolf was born, Anastasia had been looking out the window of her hospital room when she saw cherry blossom petals blowing in a gentle breeze past the window. Those blossoms inspired Anastasia to come up with a name for her then-5-minutes old daughter: Sakura ("Sakura" is the Japanese word for "Cherry Blossom"; Wolf was born in Japan during the springtime, which is the only time of the year in which cherry blossom trees bloom.) Anastasia had been the only one who had ever called Wolf by her real name. And Wolf promised herself that no one else could ever call her "Sakura" ever again. Wolf missed her mother so much that it was almost unbearable. But she was determined to live with it. As mentioned beforehand, Wolf wasn't the kind of person who gave up very easily.
Then there was the entire reason WHY she'd come to the mansion. It was partly because she had to find her father and tell him of her mother's fate and also because she had been told by her dying mother to "Find Charles Xavier. He can help you find your father. He's at the Xavier School For Gifted Children. You know where that is." And then, her mother had died. Driven to fulfill her own wish and the dying wish of her mother, Wolf had struggled for two days with Luna in tow and an angry mob at her heels just to reach the mansion. When she'd gotten there, she'd collapsed on the floor of the mansion, exhausted beyond belief. Wolf had asked Charles to help her search for her father. She gave him the clues she had, including a trio of silver dog tags with the names "Wolverine", "Tigress" and "Wolf" on them. Wolf had often wondered of the third dog tag, the one with the name "Wolf " on it belonged to her. She figured that she would know soon enough. That is, if she was luck enough to find out.