Chapter 1 – The Discovery

It was a cold day. A storm was rolling in, with high winds and cold rain, a sign that with it being fall, winter was close on coming on its way.

Most people were inside enjoying the warmth. Everybody except the homeless. Each homeless wore ragged clothes and had a ragged look. Most of them were older adults except with a close look, one 11-year old girl, Cassie.

She wore pretty clean blue yeans and a yellow tank top covered in her favorite blue Gap sweater. She had curly blonde hair that was midway down her back, with bangs covering her chocolate brown eyes. One of the only memories Cassie had not lost was a beautiful woman, who she had a feeling was her mother, always complimenting her eyes.

Even though the foster home kept her warm, she preferred to hang out with the homeless. One of her only reasons was that her only friend, Ally, an elderly king woman, was homeless.

Everyone was huddled around the little fires, but she really didn't mind. Most of the kids at the foster home hated her, because they thought she always lied about how she got to the foster home. This was just one of her normal days.

Next Day –

She, as normal, walked down the old alley to where Ally and the other homeless lived. As she neared close she heard a shot followed by more. Her walk changed into a run that was incredibly fast for her. She turned the last corner and could not believe her eyes…

The homeless were scattered over the dirty floor of their living area, them all covered with gunshot wounds.

She slowly wove around the bodies, each body breaking part of her heart, but she stopped with she saw a familiar body, Ally. She couldn't believe it. These were all innocent people including Ally. With as much of her as she had left in her she started to leave the bodies, until she heard a soft cough from a familiar body

"Ally!" With tears in her eyes she turned to Ally glad that she was still partially alive. She quickly ran over and kneeled next to her body.

"Ally! We need to get you help. I'll go now."

As Cassie turned around to run she heard a couple of words murmur from Ally.

"Stop Cassie. My time will pass to quickly. You will never forget me, as I will never forget you. I just want you to promise me you will protect yourself and be kind to others as you have been to me, find out who you were, but don't forget who you are now. Promise me please Cassie… you are the daughter I wished to always have… promise me… promise me." The last couple of words said in a low whisper. 'Promise me' were Ally's last words as her eyes became dead with a glaze over them.

With a whisper Cassie said, "I promise".

With the dead silence, Cassie's silent running tears became loud sobs.

But after what seemed like hours, in reality being a couple of minutes. Cassie heard sounds that sounded familiar.

Footsteps. She snuck closer to the person. She crept up quietly, thinking, 'This person might be the person who did this'. As she crept closer to the person, she noticed it was a man.

The man heard her and ran. As he ran she saw something glimmer in his hand… a silver gun. 'The murderer'

She ran using revenge as herenergy, and ran as fast as she could and leapt on top of him, making him fall. But he grabbed his gun. She started to back up, but she knew she couldn't get scared. She stood her ground and glared at him hard while he just pointed the gun at her. He obviously had no mercy, showing he was not scared to kill a kid. 'Then again, he had to not have any to kill any of the homeless either'.

She had to do something, she wouldn't let it end like this; she had to have her revenge. With all her rage about to burst, her eyes suddenly felt cold. She covered her yes only to have them dumb from cold somehow.

"Now is the little baby gonna cry?"

This was the last straw. First he kills Ally, then the homeless people, then he has the never to call her a baby?

A sudden pain came to her eyes. She closed them. But when she opened them again to see everything in blue, but that was the least of her worries. A blue beam came out of her eyes. She looked at the man, whose eyes went huge with fear.

"MUTANT!"

She gasped. 'Where? I'm not a mutant. Wait… no, no, NO!'

But when she looked at him again he was frozen in ice… devoid of life. She closed her eyes hard, but she opened them expecting the blue again, they were normal.

She looked at the man again, frozen in a surrounding layer of ice. She killed a person. A murderer, but an alive human being nonetheless.

'I'm one of them, a mutant'