Original Character

This chapter goes out to all the folks who have original characters.  We wrote this chapter especially for all of you.

Kastarry LeBeau used to be an average teenage girl with everything going for her.  She was beautiful, smart, popular, athletic and had two parents that loved her deeply.  The problem was…she became a mutant.

The moment her mutant powers manifested, her life went down the tube.  She isolated herself and eventually became a world-hating Goth dressed entirely in black.  Her friends, although oblivious to her mutant powers, abandoned her and she was no longer involved in the sports that she loved so much anymore.

She sat in her at her desk at home writing 'I hate my life' all over her notebook as she nonchalantly played with her nose ring.

"Charles!" Beast yelled out of nowhere.  "Don't give her a nose ring!"

"Why not?" asked the Professor.

"I don't know!" said Beast.  "They just REALLY offend me and if I HAVE to be writing this story about YOUR original character who you're making worse by the minute, she's NOT going to have a nose ring."

"Why do I always listen to you?" said Professor Xavier as he went back up and deleted the words 'nose ring'.

She sat in her at her desk at home writing 'I hate my life' all over her notebook as she nonchalantly played with her pencil.  She was supposed to be doing her homework but that just did not matter to her anymore.

There was a sudden knock at the door.  "Kastarry?" said the voice.  "Are you in there?"

"Come in dad." Said Kastarry as she shoved her books under the desk.  The door opened and Pietro walked in looking very concerned.  He had aged since his high school years.  He was now an adult but he was young enough to be able to relate with his daughter.

"Your father and I are very worried about you, Kastarry." Said Pietro as he sat down on Kastarry's bed.  "You haven't eaten for days."

"I'm trying to lose weight." Snapped Kastarry.  "Why do you care?"

"I'm your father, Kastarry!" yelled Pietro.  "Don't take that tone with me!"

"I knew you'd fly off the handle." Said Kastarry.

"Okay…" said Pietro.  "I'll start over."

"Don't bother." Said Kastarry.  She started hovering a pencil in front of her for amusement.  Pietro walked over and snatched the pencil from the air.

"You can't just use your powers whenever you feel like it!" Pietro said.  "This is what got you in trouble last time!"

When Kastarry's first mutant power began to show, her family just thought that all she could do was teleport.  But as the days continued, they discovered that Kastarry could do a lot more than just that.  No one in Kastarry's family knew it but she was actually the Chosen One that is born every five hundred years.

"Charles, Kastarry is a Mary Sue." Said Beast with a groan.  "A very unrealistic Mary Sue."

"Well, that's what her character design says." Said Professor Xavier.  "This NEW Kastarry is the biological daughter of Jean and Remy but is being raised by Remy and Pietro.  She has god-like powers because of her Chosen One-like status and she will eventually fall in love with Kurt and discover a way to fix his appearance…"

"Charles, no." said Beast as he put his foot down.  "Besides, isn't Kurt in his mid-thirties by now?"

"Well, Kastarry will later turn back the time on all of the X-Men, Brotherhood and Acolytes so that she can mingle with them in a comfortable setting."

"How about we limit Kastarry's powers down and say that the time has been turned back some other way." Said Beast because he rather liked the idea of all the characters that he knew in real life being their regular ages.

"Maybe we can make Kastarry a DEMI-God!" said Professor Xavier with a smile.

"No!" said Beast.  "Perhaps some OTHER mythical creature?"

"Hm…" thought the professor.  "How about a Unicorn!  One that can turn into a human and still use all her powers!"

"Something less powerful…" said Beast.  "Like a vampire or something."

"Yeah!" said the professor.  "A vampire!"

"We're having a dinner tonight, Kastarry." Said Pietro.  "We are inviting only our dearest friends and I don't want you to ruin it."

"Don't worry." Said Kastarry as she smiled at one of her fathers with her fanged mouth.  She then gave him a hug and he stood up to leave the room.  Kastarry wasn't going to ruin her fathers' time, so she decided that she would just stay up in her room all day.

"They're ashamed of me," she thought.  "That's why they think I would ruin their time.  Well, I'll show them!"

She turned her light off.  The dark suited her much better than the light.  She knew exactly how she would get back at both her fathers for being so ashamed of her!

Kastarry stood up and opened her door.  Slowly, she descended the stairs and could hear the voices of the guests and she figured that she would have to meet them at some point anyway.

"Oh!" said Remy.  "Here's Kastarry-chan now."

"I remember seeing you when you were just a little baby!" said the aged Scott as he looked at Lance excitedly.  The two were holding hands as tightly as ever.

"Ohayou-gozaimasu, Sukotto-san and Ransu-san." Said Kastarry, bowing.  "My otou-sans have told me all about you."

"Charles, I don't mean to be rude or anything…but what's going on?" Beast said suddenly.

"It's Japanese." Professor Xavier answered.

"I know that." Said Beast.  "I am fluent in Japanese."

"So what's the problem?" asked the Professor Xavier.

"X-Men Evolution is not an anime." Beast explained.  "And even if it WAS… Sukotto-san?  Ransu-san?"

"It's spelled out the way she would pronounce it." Professor Xavier explained.  "How it would be written in Romanji."

"No more Japanese." Said Beast, rolling his eyes.

"You're not fun, Hank." Said Professor Xavier.

"How about I type for a little while?" Beast suggested.

"Never." Said Professor Xavier.  "I am a much faster typist than you.  I won't write any more Japanese.  I promise."

"Fine." Said Beast.

Two by two, the guests arrived until the party consisted of Scott and Lance, Kitty and St. John and finally, Kurt and Bobby showed up.  The group went into the kitchen were they would be having dinner.

"It was really nice of you to invite us." Said Kitty.  "I know we may seem a little strange…" Kitty put her hand on St. John's.  "But we're glad you have accepted us.  Meet our child, his name is Cornelius and he has no mutant power.  He is wearing a red shirt and we hope that he will not be killed off at the first sight of action."

"We hope not as well." Said everyone.

"Let's say grace." Said Pietro.  "We'll go around the room saying what we're thankful for.  Remy, would you like to start?"

"Certainly." Said Remy.  "Remy t'ankful for his family.  Pietro, for always being there for me and bringing this family together.  And Kastarry, for being the light of my life for adding a feminine touch to this household."

"Remy pretty much took what I was going to say!" said Pietro.  The table chuckled warmly.  "But, I would also like to take this time to remember Jean, the wife I had for a few hours before I met my dearest Remy.  She is Kastarry's mother and without her, Kastarry would not be with us today."

"And, to put this in short, I'm thankful for Scott for being a wonderful lover in and out of bed." Said Lance.

"Oh YOU!" said Scott, turning as red as his sunglasses.  "I would have to agree with everything Lance said…"

"I'm thankful for good friends." Said Kitty.  "And, of course, my family, St. John and Cornelius whom I love very much and his untimely action-filled death would sadden me."

St. John paused for a moment and then sighed.  "I'm thankful for…these candles.  I have been deprived in my fireless house for so long."

The table was silent.  The people who were sitting closest to the candles took this opportunity to blow them out.

"And my family." St. John finished.

"As for me, I'm thankful for Kurt of course," Bobby started.  "Also…I'm baffled as to how I even got here.  If not for Kurt helping me through my tough time when I was struggling with drugs and alcohol and became temporarily suicidal, I probably wouldn't be here today.  And when my lower body was paralyzed in that terrible car accident that took the life of Ronnie and my parents, it was Kurt who taught me how to walk again."

"And I'm thankful for…" started Kurt.

"But I'm also thankful for Kurt because he's the one who stuck with me when I was shot in the head when I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was taken hostage during a bank robbery and the robbers wanted to prove that they weren't afraid to kill anyone but I didn't die because Kurt was there to help me through it."

Everyone paused.

"I'm thankful for…" Kurt started again.

"Also," Bobby continued.  "Kurt was there for me when I lost my former husband, Ray, and my four adopted children in a freak plane crash while we were on our way to Disney World that killed everyone in the entire plane but left me mortally wounded.  Kurt was there for me when I was confined to a wheelchair.  Again.  He taught me to walk yet again when the doctors said I never would again.  Kurt was there for me.  And he always will be."

There was a long silence.

"You done, Bobo?" asked Kurt.

"Yes." Said Bobby.

"Then let go of my tail and let me say what I'M thankful for." Said Kurt.

"Sorry…" said Bobby.

"I'll keep it short." Said Kurt.  "I'm thankful for Bobby."

"Cornelius?" said Kitty.  "Do you want to say what YOU'RE thankful for?"

"I'm thankful for being ALIVE!" said Cornelius.  Everyone 'Aww'ed at the cute statement by crazy Cornelius.

"Kastarry?" said Pietro.  "You're last."

"I'm always last." Said Kastarry.  She thought about how everyone was so thankful for everything they had.  They all had someone to love and someone who loved them.  What did she have?  She had absolutely nothing and no one cared for her.

"Kastarry…" Remy coached.

"I'm thankful for nothing." Said Kastarry finally.  Everyone gasped dramatically.  "Except for maybe…MY MUTANT POWER!!!"

Kastarry smiled a twisted grin and leapt forward to each individual guests of the house as well as her very own fathers and bit them all on the neck.

"Charles!" said Beast.  "That is a rather frightening image!"

"Kastarry has a rather frightening mutant power." Professor Xavier answered.

"I think with that act, we've crossed over to the horror genre." Beast said, crossing his arms and nodding his head.

"Horror would be rather entertaining…" said Professor Xavier slowly.

"But I must say that I am rather tired of Kastarry…and of Cornelius." Beast admitted truthfully.

"Well, I planned on killing Cornelius off…" started Professor Xavier.

"I gathered." Beast interrupted.

"But not Kastarry!" Professor Xavier exclaimed.

"What, everyone is just supposed to laugh and say how silly Kastarry is for biting them?!" Beast demanded, slamming his hand down on the table.

"I suppose not…" the professor began.  "But I wanted her to sacrifice herself for the team and end up dying that way…and she still hasn't fallen in love with Kurt…"

"Kurt's already married." Beast pointed out.

"Yes but…"

"I know!  We could have Kastarry get weakened by all the life sucking she did and end up dying that way!"

"But wouldn't sucking the lives of many victims make her stronger?" Professor Xavier questioned.

Beast was silent for a moment.

"No." he said finally.  "No it wouldn't."

"But…"

"Okay.  I've got it." Said Beast, slamming his fist into his palm.  "She could suck the life out of them but actually sucks the past years out of them so they all turn back into their regular ages and she ends up absorbing all those years and slowly turns into a zombie and crumbles, dying because she decomposed and became so old."

"Can I at least describe THAT graphically?" Professor Xavier pleaded.  "This is the death of my original character after all."

"But that would be…HORRIFIC!" Beast said dramatically.

"Well, it IS a horror fanfiction…" Professor Xavier said.