This fan fic is based on a rp my friends and I did on the X-men rpg site i co-founded.I own Aurora,Ghost and Adrian are owned by there creators.I am only borrowing them for this fic,all marvel chars are not owned by me...though i wish.I am only borrowing them so please dont sue me ^.^

This is my first fic so please R&R ^.^

Fate...karma....whatever you call it had a very wierd sense of humor....

It was strange.....some days things just happened that you cant understand.

Your wondering what I'm talking about right?

Well maybe if I tell you about what happened,you'll understand.......it all started on a sunny day in Bayville Mall.....

The mall in Bayville was large and crowed,just the place for a little shopping.Happy humans shopped and talked forgetting there troubles for the moment.They bought useless trinkets and ignored everyone and everything around them but there own needs and wants.

The crowds in the mall also helped make it a thiefs paradise.....a sucessfull thief could blend in after takeing what he or she wanted usually,unless you were noticeable in a crowd.......

One particular girl named Aurora knew it was easy to steal as she had been doing it for allmost 5 years.She was mostly unusal until you looked very closely at her curly hair,which was a very bright neon green and hung to her waist.Aurora was small,only 5'1 and very thin and looked to be about 16,though she was older than she looked.She also was a mutant.Her powers included the ability to create earthquakes and form rock knives from her hands.She had two more abilities but they were not known to her yet.

She wandered the mall looking for something that would fetch a good price with Sami,the pawn shop owner.After wandering for about half a hour she found just what she had been looking for.She had her sights set on a exspensive CD player in Circuit City,when no one was looking she "lifted" it and walked out of the store.

She was stuffing it in her bag as she walked quickly toward the mall exit,and walked by two people who were talking.One was a girl who was pale...her hair,her skin,her eyes all of it was very pale,she had on all black.She had a timid "feel" about her.The other was a tall young man with brown hair and green eyes,and a heavy build.He had the look of a football player and "felt" very intimidating.

As she hurried toward the exit the pale girl looked up and watched her frowning "Wonder where she's off to in such a hurry...?" she muttered.The young man shrugged and looked around at the crowds uneasily.

She had her head down and was almost to the exit when she heard SHOPLIFTER! STOP! THIEF! she looked back her eyes wide.She finally got the item in her bag and ran toward the door.

The pale girl looked at the people yelling and jumped, almost disappearing. She thought for a second if she should get involved. She couldn't just let the green haired girl get away. Doing the only thing she could think of she concentrated hard on the girl's backpack, eyes narrowing a bit but otherwise trying not to make herself stand out too much,attempting to hold it in one place.

She tugged on her bag but it wouldnt budge.Panic got the best of her,and she created a earthquake that shook the whole mall.As the earthquake shook her eyes glowed bright green.

"Whoa!" The pale girl lost her balance and fell to the floor. Her concentration was completely lost on the bag, letting it go from her mental hold on it. She looked up at the girl from the floor, eyes wide. "Hey! Wait! Stop!" She couldn't believe how this day was going...

Her bag finally came free and she fled through the exit looking back only once her eyes wide,glowing and frightened.As soon as she was gone the earthquake stopped.

The pale girl soon got up, brushing herself off. This was not her day. She had run into yet another mutant obviously, and could've gotten hurt. She gave a sigh and looked at Adrian. "That was odd..."

He looks on strangely as the earthquake comes to a stop and the other mutant runs out of the door. He looks at Ghost for a moment then towards the people that still follow out the door, not saying a word. "I don't think they'll catch'er," he says quietly.

"I don't think so either..." She shook her head. "Not with those... abilities, at least...."

He looks around to see the crowd dispersing, but people were still talking to the guards. "I think we should get out of here as well," he says to her,"I think maybe someone saw ya," he looks at one of the people pointing to them, becoming slightly more nervous.

She muttered some curses under her breath before nodding to him. "Yeah lets get you to the Institute." She sighed. "I was afraid someone would see. Jeesh, try to help out and you have people chasing after you before long...." she sighed and left the mall leading Adrian to the institute,so he can get settled.

Later in the park........

Aurora finally came out of hiding after almost being caught in the mall and went to the park to look at her spoils from the mall.She looked around suspiciously but saw no one.She went to what she though of as a empty part of the park and sat on a bench and began unpacking her bookbag.

Ghost had been sitting peacefully in the park for some time, her back resting against a tall tree. It was a rather nice day, a bit sunny, which is why she sat under the tree- for some shade. She gave a small contented sigh and took out her notebook from her black bookbag. She opened it to a blank page and slowly began to sketch in it.

After a little while Ghost looked up from her notebook and noticed the same green-haired girl from the mall. She wanted to yell out to the girl, but decided that would just have her running again. She wondered for a minute the best way to approach her and then decided it might be best to go invisible. She looked around, making sure no one saw her before vanishing and slowly making her way to where the girl sat.

Aurora looked around and then pulled out a exspensive cd player and then a few necklaces that were pretty. "Not a bad haul might be enough ta feed me for a abut a month." she had the particular accent only someone raised on the street would have.

Ghost gave a sigh before appearing next to her on the bench. "There are alternatives to stealing, you know..."

She looked up starled and jumped off the bench,rock knife suddenly in hand "Who're ya?What do ya mean?"

She ignored both her first question and the knife in her hand. "I mean I saw you steal from the mall earlier and that little earth shaking trick you did. There is a place for someone of your...abilities to go. Where you don't have to steal for food and run from the law..."

She lowered the knife "Ya saw me....."She looked around again "Yer not freaking on me why?And a place where i dont need ta steal ya right,no one wants me 'cause i'm a mutant."

"First off, yes I saw you. Secondly, I'm not freaking on you for a very obvious reason. Remember when you couldn't move your backpack? And then me suddenly appearing? You are not the only one who is different. And last, there is such a place who will welcome you just because you are a mutant. I should know..." She gave a small sigh after saying all this and looked at her. "And there is really no need for the knife..."

She set the knife down on the bench and looked at he girl "Yer a mutant too?Thats why i couldnt........I cant control ma power and it all just happened so fast...this place ya talk about will they accept me?I mean i have nothing ta pay um but this stuff." She looked uneasy now.

She sighed."Yes. I'm one too...And sorry but I couldn't just stand by and watch a shoplifter get away, not like it did much good..." She then shook her head. "And don't worry, it doesn't cost a thing. They take in a lot of runaways."

She nodded "I didnt think i'd be seen and well i dont like stealing but i didnt have a choice,i havent eaten in 3 days.....ya woulda stopped me if my power hadnt gotten the best of me."She sat down on the bench the knife crumbling to dust "I'd like ta try going to this place,ya talked about.And bye the way my names Aurora."She held out her hand to the girl.

Ghost shook her hand. "Call me Ghost." She gave a small smile. "I think you'd like the Institute. At least come to get something to eat..."

Aurora smiled at her "Nice ta meet ya Ghost.Institute?Is it a school or something?And they give food ta the homeless and runaways?"She was slightly nervise now.

Ghost straightened up and said in a mockingly serious voice, " 'Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters'." She then laughed a bit. "Yeah its a school. And yeah at least come to get something to eat, although you should probably try to stay. Its a lot safer than being out in the streets."

Aurora laughed "I think i should check it out,i've had a few close call recently and my luck might be running out." She put the cd player and other stuff in her bag and shouldered it. "If i do get ta stay is there a way i could return this stuff without getting in trouble?"she hated stealing and only did so out of nessesity.

Ghost thought for a moment. "Hm...well...maybe I could try and help you out there. I could try returning them for you..."

Aurora nodded "If you can i'd appreaciate it,if not well i'll figure out something."Her stomich growled loudly in protest.

"Well, they can't exactly catch what they can't see..." She looked at Aurora. "You wanna head over to the Instiute now?"

She nodded "True yer power is at least usefull.. i'd like ta go see this place,i dont have nowhere ta go right now."she stood up looking around outta habit.

"Well, I'll take you there. And my power is nothing compared to others I've seen, yours for example...." She stood up and looked at Aurora then around, wondering why she was looking about. "See something?"

Aurora frowned "No theres nothing but i allways keep a lookout for various reasons there allways...nevermind ..."She shook her head "My power sucks i wish i never had it."she shut her mouth saying more than she should have and lowered her eys to her sneakers.

"We all wish that sometimes we didn't have our powers, but we do, and thats just how it is. You might as well learn how to use it. Its quite something actually. Professor Xavier calls them 'gifts', even though at times I feel like they are more like curses..." Ghost shrugged. "Thats just the thing. There are people who know how you feel there. Who know what you are going through." She gave a sigh and looked to the ground for a moment before glancing back up. "Besides, sometimes they come in handy..."

She nodded unhappy "This "gift" as he calls it,lead to my family turning on me,hating me.I will lean how to use it if he'll teach me but i'll never learn ta like it."she looked a little startled at that "I didnt think anyone would understand what i've been through.......That they do i must admit,i've used them a few times ta help me get away......though unintennally."strange....she felt the girl could be trusted....

"Not asking for ya to like it, just control it. And whatever was the past is just that- the past." She gave another slight shrug. "I have to get my things before we leave anywhere..." She motioned over to the tree she had been sitting under. Her black backpack was still there as well as her notebook which still lay open on the ground, pencil resting gently on the half-finished sketch.

She nodded not really willing to talk about her past.She leaned up against the tree with no outward sign of her nervisness,as she waited for Ghost to get her things.

She grabbed her notebook and closed it before putting it into her book-filled bag. She threw the bag over her shoulders. "Ready?" She asked, looking at Aurora.

She nodded "All i own is in my bag,so i'm as ready as i'm gonna be."she smiled slightly at ghost.

"Well, that'll change. Lets go." Ghost walked through the park, leading the way to the Institute. "Its not too far from here..."

Aurora watched the shadows out of habit "Really?I didnt know there was a school around here for ...us.How many people go to this school?"

"Well we don't exactly advertise ourselves..." Ghost smiled. "To everyone else we are a school for the 'gifted', which, as I've said before isn't entirely untrue....There are quite a few of us. You'll see when we get there, the Institute is quite large..."

She though for a little bit "I didnt think there was a place for us.I mean with all of the crap they put on tv about how mutants are evil and stuff,i didnt think anyone would want alot of us under one roof."

"Yeah I know its hard to believe, but its true.Professor Xavier is one of us too, so I guess he made the Institute to help people like us..." She walked almost slowly, taking in the rather nice day.

She blinked and said soflty "A mutant principal?I've never heard of that before..that is just... i cant believe he'd want to help others,its too wierd."She walked slowly also.

"Yeah well before I came here I hadn't heard of a lot of things either. And wanting to help other people is never weird, its just a shame that it is often rare." She smiled slightly.

She smiled slighty back "It is rare where i come from,no one will help unless they have something to gain from it.And i doubt the professor has much to gain from a bunch of us being in his school."

She smiled slighty back "It is rare where i come from,no one will help unless they have something to gain from it.And i doubt the professor has much to gain from a bunch of us being in his school."

She smiled back "I guess yer right,its been a while since i've believed that." she never really had the lesure in the past 5 years see anything like this park and was enjoying it.

"Yeah, you have to learn to put some faith in people if you want to enjoy life." She replied quietly.

She shrugged "I....might be able ta later...but not now too much has happened ta me.....i just tryed to stay alive not enjoy it."she stares unfocused at thing as they pass them.

"Well, I guess now is a good time for change." She sighed slightly.

She nodded after blinking a few times "Maybe,if i get accepted ta this school i will change how i think of people and life,but until then change must wait."

"I doubt that you won't get accepted. The Prof. seems like an okay guy. And you shouldn't put off a change that could be for the better."

She nodded "I hope i do get accepted." How could she tell this girl change meant alot to her,and that even a little meant she couldnt go back to what she'd been doing.