Disclaimer I don't own the characters blah, blah, blah

Sorry this has taken a while, I've been working on my other fics, anyways this is just a short chapter to explain where Syphora came from.

Syphora's past By elven emma

Rogue was asked to get Syphora and bring her down for dinner. She found her on the veranda, staring at the sky with a solemn look on her face. 'Are you alright?'

'Yeah. I was just thinking.'

'What about?'

'My past. It all seems so strange. I've been on my own too much. It feels like a lifetime ago that I left home. Back then, the only mutants I had heard of were cruel and monstrous. So you can imagine my fright when I discovered that I was a mutant myself.'

'So how did you first find out you were a mutant?' Rogue looked at her with interest.

'Well I was mostly alone at school, I had a couple of friends but they preferred to hang around with more popular people. I was bullied as well, my friends knew but they didn't want to get involved. After school one day these two jerks decided to come and make a nuisance of themselves and they wouldn't leave me alone, then they started to push me around and began to feel really upset and angry. I was overtaken by a sudden strength that I never had before. I kicked one of them in the chest, and picked the other up by his leg using my tail and sent him flying in to a bush. They ran with fright. But they weren't the only ones who were scared. I looked at my new wings and tail and began to feel worried and more alone than I had been before.' A tear built up in Syphora's eyes as if the memories themselves were stinging them. 'The bullies tried to convince everyone who I really was, it got too much so one day I took some money and left home, taking the first train out of town.'

'Did you meet Logan after that?'

'Yes it's a funny story how we met. I was waiting for a late night bus in some small town and I bumped in to him by accident. I was wearing a hooded cloak and he couldn't see my face so he must of thought I was some drunken troublemaker. The next thing I know I'm up with my back against the wall and metal claws are at my neck. He quickly apologized and carried on but I asked him to wait. I told him that we had something in common. We were both mutants. I asked for help and so he gave me a lift. He soon became my best friend, my only friend in fact, I went with him everywhere for months. Until one day, they came for me.'

'Who did?'

'The same people who put those claws on Logan. They took me away and I never saw Logan again until now. They put this metal on me, saying they needed to experiment on a mutant without a fast healing ability. I eventually escaped but not before the experiment. I soon discovered I had jumped out of the frying pan and in to the fire as I met Magneto and Mystique. They wanted me to join them I refused and so time after time they came for me trying to convince me to join them. They said I hated humanity and back then I did. But not anymore, I only hate those who hurt me.' The two girls looked towards the sun and sighed and then both headed towards dinner.