I don't own any of the characters except for Shadow and some later characters. (I apologise I can't get Kurt's accent right, I've never written a character with an accent before. I might try rewriting it later to try it out.)

"Kurt!" Kitty's scream could be heard throughout the institute. "You're going to give someone a heart attack one day!" she continued as she pushed him out of her room.

"I only wanted to borrow a CD." He explained as the door was shut in his face. "Sorry!" he shrugged at the door and headed to his room, he paused when he heard Professor Xavier talking, normally he would have ignored it but the voice that replied caused him to stop. He didn't recognise the voice and therefore became curious. He creped to the edge of the hall and looked down from the banister. A cloaked figure stood in the hallway with a bag at their feet.

"We can talk in the library. If you want to just leave them there we can collect them later." Xavier said as he turned his wheel chair round and headed towards the room. The figure followed behind him, their head moving from side to side taking in the entrance hall. "Was the flight okay?" Xavier asked as he disappeared from view.

"Aiii." The voice sounded female, Kurt guessed the answer meant yes. "What about him upstairs?" The woman stopped and stared straight at Kurt.

"Oh no, I think I've been found." He was about to teleport away when Xavier appeared beside the woman and smiled.

"This is one of the X-men. Kurt, would you like to come down." Xavier asked as he moved back slightly. Kurt smiled and teleported down beside the woman. She was a good foot taller than Kurt. He couldn't see her face through the darkened hood or her hands through the sleeves.

"Well it's nice to meet you...Kurt?" The hood nodded slightly.

"Yeah. You are?" Kurt held out his hand.

"Shadow, from England." She lifted her hand. She had long slender, pale hands with long black nails on the end. Kurt shook her hand then let go.

"You're from England, but you don't talk posh!" he sounded shocked.

"I'm from the North East of England, and we're not all that posh." She laughed, it sounded soft and bubbly. Lifting her hands she lowered her hood. Kurt was shocked, she was pale and had dark eyes, but other than that she looked normal. She smiled at his shock.

"Yes, I don't look horrid, but I assure you, this is a mental mask I hold over myself." Xavier turned and wheeled into the library, Shadow glanced after him and followed.

"Kurt, could you gather the students and teachers together, I wish to introduce everyone." Xavier called over his shoulder. "There is no need to hide Shadow. Kurt didn't hide."

Shadow sighed and nodded. "It's just hard sometimes. All my life I've been told I'm just a freak; it's hard not to believe it. Are you sure about this now? My powers are strong, a little out of control at times."

"You can't say that about yourself." Shadow turned to face Kurt as he had teleported into the room. "Take Jean, her powers evolved to quickly for her, we came here to learn how to manage our powers." He smiled at her, causing her to sigh again and sit down.

"Professor I was just dozing off!" Evan stumbled into the room.

"Wow! The porcupine sleeps after three days of parties." Wolverine walked into the room and stopped dead in his tracks, his claws extended and he growled. "You don't smell right."

"Chill!" Shadow said, calm as anything. Scott and Jean walked in behind Logan and stopped, Rogue bumped in to them and Kitty fazed through the lot of them.

"Why did you stop?" she asked turning to the three and noticing that Logan's claws were out. "Mr Logan? What is it?" She turned to see whom he was staring at.

"I assure you Logan, that Shadow is good. She just comes from a dark background." Xavier explained. Logan still didn't back down.

"What are you hiding girl? There's something else about you." He stalked up to her and grabbed the front of her cloak. He lifted her out of the chair and growled. She smirked at him.

"Logan stop it this instant!" Aurora cried as she ran into the room.

"Is there a place I can demonstrate my powers Mr Xavier?" Shadow asked, turning her head to the professor.

"Of course Shadow, lets go to the danger room." He moved his wheel chair past the students and over to the elevator.

"Care to fight it out wolf?" She taunted, everyone in the room gasped. No one had ever taunted Logan and gotten away with it.

"Fine." He threw her towards the door; she gained her footing and glanced back, nodded to Wolverine and then disappeared round the door. Logan followed the tail of the cloak and entered the elevator behind her. Everyone else looked at each other and then made a mad dash to watch.

Please review, I will update this every couple of days. Next chapter: you meet Shadows power and someone from her past.