Chapter 2

Moving On

Professor Xavier was sitting in his room, enjoying a good book written by Charles Dickens, when suddenly Cerebro picked up the signatures of a new mutant. He wheeled himself into the room where he kept Cerebro hidden and looked at the coordinates on the screen. The location of the new mutant weren't far away, but it would take the X-Jet to get there before sun down. Using his mental powers he contacted everyone in the mansion and told them to search for the new mutant.

At the same time, Magneto's computer had picked up on the new mutant's signature as well. When he read the power level readings of the mutant he immediately wanted to get to them before the X-Men. Quickly he summoned his Acolytes, had them get into their metal transport pods, and headed back down to Earth.

Mystique was having dinner with her lover Destiny. Destiny was in the middle of a conversation about whether or not she should by a seeing eye dog when she was hit with a vision. In the vision she saw a young mutant child, how looked like a humanoid rabbit, killing a group of hunters with an incredibly strong amount of power for someone her age. She told Mystique about the girl and where she was located. Mystique smiled at the opportunity of adding another addition to her collection of Brother Hood and set off to find her.

Bunny slept in her tunnels for a long time. She overwhelming emotions and power that she felt and drained almost all of the energy out of her. As she slept, she began to dream about the parents that she once had. She dreamt about her time with Rose Bud and Henry when they were still alive and then she dreamt about the female rabbit who took her in when all seemed lost. She wanted to stay in those dreams and spend time with the families that were taken away from her, but she was soon pulled away from her dream world by the sounds of men and dogs coming towards her tunnels.

She quickly sat up and turned around to see that there was something coming down the main runway of the tunnel. It was some kind large dog. Behind it she could see the outline of it's master urging it on to find whatever it was that it was looking for down her tunnels. She couldn't understand an animals mind, unless it was a rabbit, but she was able to pick up on a few words from the dogs thoughts. "Hunt." and "Rabbit."

The dog came closer. Too close for her liking. Slowly she backed away from it and shouted into it's mind, "GO AWAY!!!"

Apparently the dog did not like this intrusion and knew that what it was looking for was straight ahead. It barked ferociously and charged at her.

Taken by surprise, she did not have time to react as the dog knocked her over and began attacking.

Down at the tunnels entrance, the owner of the dog heard the commotion, and began cheering his dog on, "That's it, Buck! Git it! Git whatever it is that's down there!"

Bunny was scared. She didn't like being underneath the giant dogs weight and she didn't like the owner egging on it's wrath. She tried to summon the fire that Lord Frith had given her to defeat the hunters a couple days ago, but the flame would not come. She screamed as she saw the dog go for her throat. Her scream vibrated throughout the tunnel, making the walls and ceiling fall apart. The dog whimpered in pain and it's master fell backwards holding his ears. Blood dripped from the dogs ears and then slowly it's body exploded. Bunny finally stopped screaming and the walls and ceiling finally gave away. Everything came falling in on her and what was once her home.

The hunter finally collected himself in time to see the warren collapse. His eyes widen in horror, remember that his dog was still in there, "Buck! Oh, no! Buck!" he saw movement under the collapsed her and raced towards it, "Buck? Hang on, Buck, I'm comin'!" before he even got there, Bunny popped out, shaking the dirt off of her fur. He stood there wide eyed at the large looking rabbit, murmuring, "You're not Buck…"

Bunny turned to face the voice belong to the man and glared. He had on the same kind of hunting outfit that the other hunters had worn.

The hunter noticed something else in the dirt that was right next to the large rabbit. He looked closely and saw that it was part of his dogs head. He grew enraged, pulled out his gun, and screamed like a mad man, "YOU KILLED BUCK!!! DAMN YOU!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!"

Before he even got to aim his gun Bunny had already opened her mouth and let out her horrible rabbit cry. The vibrations followed by a stream of flame hit the young hunter and killed him on impact. His body exploded in different directions, each piece still on fire.

Bunny knew that the second place that she called home was no longer safe and she must move on. She raced out of the woodlands and head towards civilization with even knowing it. When she got there she became confused and scared. She new that a part of her was human, but she also remembered how these so called humans reacted to her when she was four years old. She was now eight and like most eight year olds, she was curious.

She hid in some allies and studied the different types of humans walk by.

"They all looks so different from each other…" she thought, "They seem to get along really well. Maybe they'll accept me, since I look different too!" she began to step out of the alley when she realized something, "Oh, wait… I can't go out there just yet. I'm not wearing any clothes! Mama Rose Bud always said that it's not polite to walk around naked all the time." she looked around and caught sight of some clothes hanging on a clothes line that some apartment building have way up high, "Those will do." she smiled and hopped up to the closest one in one bound. Grabbing an oversized shirt and a small jeans. When she landed back on the ground she put the on the oversized shirt which looked like a night gown on her and then tried on the jeans, which fit loose enough around her legs for her to move. "Okay. Now I'm ready. "She took one step forward, stepping on the oversized shirt, and fell flat on her face. She got back up, "Okay. I definitely need to get a smaller top." she looked up again and spotted one that looked just her size and snatched it. Throwing the larger shirt to the side she put the other one on, so now she was wearing a pink tank top and comfortable blue jeans, "There. Much better. Now for the harder part."