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Chapter 3

"Charles they're gone!" Ororo yelled as Logan came in after her.

"Calm down Storm," Professor Xavier said as Beast came in after them.

"I checked everywhere," Beast said. "They're not even at their friends' house."

"Whatever the case might me, I'll get 'em," Logan exclaimed roughly.

"First the Brotherhood, now the X-men," the Professor said with knitted eyebrows. "Someone powerful is behind this, and we will find him, somehow."

"How about cerebro?" Storm asked with wide blue eyes. The Professor nodded and told them to come with him. Everyone waited outside of the big room to allow the Professor to do what he had to do with cerebro.

The Professor strolled into the large, round, empty room in his wheelchair and put the mechanical metal hat on his bald head and closed his eyes.

Images of places all over New York raced through his mind without a trace of the kids that he loved and cared about. Then it searched the United States. Nothing. Next, it searched the world and it was empty with X kids. The Professor suddenly saw something in his mind. It was a smile. As if someone was happy where they were. Like they never wanted to come back.

"What?" Professor X said to himself as he slipped cerebro off of his head. He strolled out of the huge room and the doors closed behind him. He stared at Storm, Logan, and Beast as they looked at him intently. "Wherever they are, they are happy there."

"How do you know?" Storm asked.

"I saw a glimpse of all their smiles put together and I felt that they were happy," he said as Logan scrunched his noise and knitted his eyebrows.

"That's crap Charles!" Logan shouted.

"Maybe that's what the person behind this wants you to think," Beast said trying to work the situation out in his head. "Maybe they're being tortured somewhere and the man is trying to block that from your mind. But why?"

Professor Xavier closed his eyes and sighed deeply. "There's something missing," Professor Xavier said. "I have this strong feeling that something is missing."

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"No stress, death, or worries," said the mysterious man. "Empyrean. A world of beauty."

"Yes, but where is my wife and daughter?" the man with ancient clothes on asked with a sad face. "You said they'd be waiting for me here."

"Still worried about the normal family that will never accept you if they found out you were a mutant?" the man asked nicely and calmly.

"That's not true!" the saddened man exclaimed. He had come to this beautiful land with everything that he wanted in the world belonging to him. Except his family. They were nowhere to be found in this world that he could not escape. He always got through life with the help of his family and friends. How was he going to survive this when his family and friends weren't beside him? "Can you not bring them here to be with me and live in happiness?"

The mysterious man looked at the other man who was longing for his family. "Do you not enjoy what you have here? You are lucky to be here, away from the harsh world."

"Actually, I long for the world. I want it back because it gives me what I want the most," the ancient civilized man said putting his head down.

"You seem to still obtain feelings and emotion," the mysterious man murmured to himself in anger. He was surprised that he hadn't taken what he needed from the man for him to survive here. "You are free from hurt here. Why do you wish to go back?"

"I cannot live without emotion," the man said. "No matter what you persuade me with."

"If that's the way you want it," the mysterious man said as his eyes glowed with red. The ancient civilized man's eyes widened with fear. He had never seen so much hatred. "Unlike you, I have no emotion. No fears, pain, stress, or worries! I live forever!"

Suddenly the man fell to the ground. Without a fight, just the look in his eyes, he collapsed on to the ground. When the ancient civilized man saw his eyes, he saw emptiness.

It is said that the eyes are the key to a person's soul. A soul consists of emotion, feelings, and pure beauty. It is you and if it is deprived from a person's body, then your emotions and free will are gone.

Forever.

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Scott looked at a hot red car and admired it for a few minutes. It had orange and yellow flames drawn on it. It was a very small car that was decorated with real, black leather seats. Scott had never seen anything so admiring. He hopped in the car which had already contained the keys in it. It was all his. No one else to ride in it but him. The car was so beautiful. He couldn't keep his eyes off of it.

He twisted the keys in the ignition and stepped on the gas pedal. He drove off on this clear road that was deep black. As if no one had driven on this road that had the sun in it's view. Scott didn't even have to squint to see the sun. He had all his sunglasses in the car with him but didn't have anything on his face. Scott ignored the sun because he was paying too much attention to his car.

"Next time I'll drive the blue Porsche," Scott said to himself with a smile. He had no worries about tomorrow because it didn't exist.

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Jean peered at the animals that were so cute and walked over to them. None of them seemed to bark or dislike her. She felt welcomed. She didn't have to hide herself from them. She fed them chocolate and ate some herself. This was fulfilling. She didn't have to tell anyone where she was or what she was doing. She didn't have to study for an exam or worry about saying something wrong that will hurt someone's feelings.

She had no worries or stress. She was free. Free from human suffering in a beautiful place that cleared her thoughts. Her thoughts were blank. She didn't think of anyone or anything and she liked it that way. She felt something in her eyes and blinked. She rubbed her eyes and ignored it.

Jean's green eyes looked at a gray and white cat and she smiled. Her smile was vague but she felt good about helping the animals. She didn't have to give them away to anyone. The cats gray eyes looked at Jean's and turned away. For the color of her green eyes had faded.

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Rogue lay on the fake sand with Gambit next to her. She turned to him and smiled. She liked to feel his skin even though she barely knew him. She didn't care. He seemed to not care either. He barely spoke and Rogue liked that. That way they wouldn't get into any fights or dislike anything about each other. Rogue looked up at the fake sun. She didn't have to squint to stare at it.

Rogue turned to Gambit and laid her head on his bare chest. Her black bikini was covered with sand and the waves never touched them, even though they were so close to the shore. The bright blue sky was glittering, but Rogue had no thoughts about it's beauty except that she enjoyed it.

She was happy away from the world who rejected her differences. She was satisfied with what she had here. Everything she wanted. She closed her eyes and saw all black. She heard no thoughts. She saw no thoughts. She never dreamt of anything anymore because her life was fulfilled. There is nothing more. Nothing.

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"Lance! Where are you?" Kitty yelled in the huge mall. She had all the clothes in the world but she couldn't find Lance. He had disappeared sometime when she had been shopping. She had been shopping for so long but then gave up when she found out that everything was already hers. Except Lance. He was no where to be found. The mall was empty.

"LANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kitty cried for the thousandth time as she started crying on the hard, cold floor. Where was he? She rubbed her eyes to wipe away the heavy tears streaming down.

"Kitty…………………………" A voice called in an echo.

"Huh?" Kitty asked herself as she turned around. She got up and walked over to the corner. She found a club with lots of music and people dancing. Kitty smiled and walked in. She was already dressed in fancy clothes, so she'd fit right in. She blinked and scratched her eyes. The color of her eyes had dimmed as she walked into the club with the loud music, forgetting about Lance.

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Evan skated up and down the ramp as he screamed with happiness. His screams started to fade as he did the same things over. But he couldn't stop because he was still having fun. He never looked over at the empty benches or his friend Kurt, who was nowhere to be found anymore. Evan couldn't care less. He was having the time of his life. He closed his eyes and opened them back up to reveal a faded color.

Over in the very far corner Kurt sat eating cakes and sweets and chips. He hadn't gained a pound. He sat on a chair outside with his legs up and the sun always out. He looked at the sun for five minutes and didn't squint once. His yellow eyes turned into peach and then they were unnoticeable.

He leaned the chair back and put his hands behind his head. Suddenly the loud noise had faded and it was silent. Kurt couldn't hear anything and liked it this way.

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Professor Xavier rested his eyes for a moment and then opened them quickly. He couldn't sleep because he was so worried about his students. His family. He didn't know where to start looking and where they were. There was not a trace of them. Where could they be?

His heart ached with hurt and pain and concern. He tried communicating with them from their minds but he got nothing. What if something happened to them and they never returned?

"Now that your students are gone, who will dare to come to your institute? Who will you teach? Your life will become meaningless."

"Who's there?" Charles asked.

"I just came to tell you that they are happy," the mysterious voice spoke with satisfaction.

"Where are they?" Professor Xavier asked.

"Come with me and I will show you. Your life won't be meaningless if you come with me," the man said as a gust of wind came through the window. Professor Xavier tried to read the man's mind and see if he was telling him the truth and what he was talking about. Professor Xavier fell off his wheelchair and onto the ground. He could not handle this man. He felt emptiness from the mysterious man.

The mysterious man knitted his eyebrows and disappeared. The Professor felt the powerful energy like nothing else. He's seen this man before. Was it in his dreams?

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