Dark Light

Author's Note: I've been reading my story over, and let's get one thing stated before I go any farther. Wolverine and Keita will never be a couple, and I know it looks like it from what I've written, but I kind of want Keita want a similar relationship to Logan like Rogue is with him. Now that I have that cleared, on with the story!

Chapter 3

A few months had passed since Keita had visited the mansion, and it was about time for the school year to start again. Xavier had been observing Keita with Cerebro lately, and had noticed her mutation was rapidly advancing, but still wouldn't bring himself to reading her mind without her consent. Why she hadn't called them yet, he still hadn't figured that out yet, but wanted to get her in the mansion before school really got started,

"Logan, I think it's time to get a new recruit that we've already met, would you be willing to go fetch her with me?"

"Really? Well, I'm in," Logan scratched the back of his neck wondering why he wanted to get her now after such a long time,

"Rogue, why don't you come along too it's a quiet place that I think you'll like," she nodded, happy to be doing something for once, "Now that's decided, let's go. I believe her school has already started, so we'll be just in time for her to be home after school,"

Everyone climbed into the jet, and Logan steered to the coordinates and once they got there, he noticed a small inconvenience,

"Charles, where do you want me to land the jet? In a field, perhaps?" Xavier smiled,

"Well, I believe her house has a field right behind it, so lets just land gently and try not to destroy too many crops," he slowly landed, and they walked to the house. Logan knocked on the door. A little boy with blonde hair and brown eyes opened the door,

"Hello?" When he saw the size of Logan, he closed the door slightly. Rogue saw the problem and she pushed Logan out of the way and crouched down to his size,

"Hi, we're friends of your sister. Is she by any chance here?" He opened the door a little farther,

"Sorry, she's not here at the moment. I think she had a practice or something at school. Do you want to wait for her inside? She's supposed to be home anytime now,"

"No thank you, we'll try to find her there. Do you know when your parents will be home?"

"Umm… I think Mom will be home at five and Dad will be home around supper time. I can give you their numbers,"

"That would be great,"

"Here, I'll get my sister, she knows them," He left the door open and yelled for his sister,

"What do you want?" she asked the three more cautiously. She looked much more like Keita. She had hazel eyes and shoulder length curly dirty blonde hair. They convinced her that they were friendly. (With a little coaxing from Xavier) She gave them the numbers, and they left to go back on the jet. They made phone calls to her parents, and they seemed to be excited enough to leave their jobs early to meet them. Fortunately, there was a motorcycle for Logan and Rogue to ride on to get the girl while Xavier tried to locate her.

It took a few minutes but they got to the next town and located the school. They walked in and asked for Keita. Almost all of the people knew her, but they didn't know where she was. They kept walking around when someone said she was in the music department. They got directions and headed towards the music department. They heard a piano playing and went to check the room. The music was kind of dark, but it was very fast, and sounded really hard to play, so they thought it was possibly one of the piano teachers.

They walked in to find out it was actually Keita playing, they tried to be quiet. Keita looked up as she played with a little shock, but continued to play anyhow. She finished the song, and then proceeded to ignore them. The teacher looked happy, and he applauded. She looked at Logan and Rogue,

"What are you doing here?" it was the icy tone Logan encountered at the bar a long time ago,

"We were just doing some sight-seeing," she stood up, and it seemed she had gotten taller since they had seen her. She had to be at least 5'10''. Not only had she gotten taller, but she had gotten to be more attractive. Not only had she gotten longer, her skin had paled, she was skinnier, which made all of her features more beautiful, and her eyes seemed to sparkle more,

"Really? Why don't I give you a personal tour. I think I'm done here, yes?" the teacher nodded. As we headed to the parking lot, a boy came up to Keita,

"Where were you? I was looking for you everywhere," the boy was six foot tall, and he hugged Keita,

"Mr. Smith didn't think I was good enough for the band until I showed him otherwise," the boy smiled, and they had a quick kiss on the lips,

"Sorry Tyler, but my friends here are from that place I went to a couple of months ago, remember? They kind of wanted a pow-wow with my mom and dad, who should be home soon. We'll do something tomorrow night," he gave her the puppy dog eyes, but she didn't fall for them. She sent him off and she went up to a nice looking car, "Was I right?"

"Yeah, you hit it right on the head, kid," she grinned at Logan's comment,

"Let's go then, I'll show you the faster way home… as long as you don't get caught," she grinned, and they saw her soft side again. She hopped into her car,

"What happened to the motorcycle?"

A genuine smile flashed, "Tyler didn't like being on the back of the bike, so I traded in. Plus, I didn't have enough money to buy this at the time I bought the motorcycle," Rogue joined her in the car while they waited for Logan on the motorcycle. Once they both had the engines going, they zoomed on the back roads to her house. Rogue noted a rancid smell,

"What's that horrible smell?" Keita giggled,

"Never smelled a cow before?" In a few seconds, a pasture of pure mud and "other" things was filled with cattle. They zoomed towards her house, and got there in less than 2/3 the time they originally came. She parked in the driveway, and Logan said quick,

"I'll go get Charles," Keita looked a little shocked,

"He's here too?"

"Of course he is. We used the Xjet to get here," Keita gave a look of doubt but said nothing,

"And I have to watch the Xjet while they're talking to your parents," Rogue said with an annoyed tone. The two left and Keita quickly explained what was going on to her siblings, so they could pick up the house as fast as possible. Keita also started making a dinner meal of spaghetti, knowing her parents would want to feed them dinner.

Logan and Xavier were greeted at the door by Keita's sister,

"Hi, I'm Kamille. Welcome to our house, our parents will be here soon," she greeted them eagerly. She seemed to have taken a liking to Logan. Logan and Xavier made themselves comfortable on the couches. Pretty soon, Keita's mom and dad came in.

"I don't think we've been formally introduced, I'm James Johnson and this is my wife Patricia Johnson. You know Keita, but this is Kamille and Kail. Kamille is thirteen and Kail is nine," they paused and looked at the two, "You must be Professor Xavier and Logan," They shook hands, and James made small talk while Keita and her mother made dinner for all seven of them.

They ate the dinner, still chatting. When they were done, Keita, Kamille, and Kail cleared the table. Xavier noted that Keita had hardly touched her food. Once they were done, the parents suggested that Kamille and Kail go ahead and do something else. They agreed, and went on their way so they could discuss school items,

"So… you are very interested in Keita coming to our school?" Xavier asked,

"Yes, we believe it would be a very nice opportunity for her to experience. Tell us Professor, what classes do you offer?"

"Well, our students go to Bayville high school, but we have many educated professors that are always willing to tutor a student. We also give other lessons, which we've mentioned to Keita. They're private lessons that we let the student tell as much as they want or little as they want,"

"She mentioned that a bit. But why did you decide to come now to speak with us?" Xavier was getting a feeling that the parents wanted to speak to him without her. He mentally told Logan to make a diversion for Keita, when it seemed like it wouldn't be too obvious. Logan understood and waited for an opportune moment,

"Well, we thought it would be better for Keita to join now while the school year is just starting than during the middle of the semester," much to Xavier's surprise, he felt a small amount of telepathic power come from Keita. She seemed to frown, but didn't show too much difference otherwise,

"I didn't realize I was going to a school outside the mansion. So, does this school emphasize on the arts? I would like to get a job in that area. I think I have some potential,"

"No, but it has plenty of opportunities that the current school you attend doesn't probably have." Suddenly, there was a big bang, and a yelp of pain from outside,

"Kail…" Keita growled and was out the door in a flash to help her little brother. Logan scratched the back of his head kind of confused and went out to help without mumbling before he left,

"I'll go help too,"

"Poor Kail, Keita is so protective of him, though. I'm kind of glad for the diversion, Professor. You see, we really would like Keita to go with you, but she doesn't want to go for some reason,"

"Is that so?"

"Yes. Usually, we wouldn't mind that she would give something like this up, but since you focus on her abilities, we think it's the best for her. Especially lately,"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, at first, it seemed like there were moments where Keita would make a comment a little meaner than she would usually say. We figured it was just a phase of being a teenager," they paused, and Xavier beckoned them to continue, "but then, she was able to do things we didn't think were possible,"

"Like what?"

"Well, first, she started piano lessons, and she advanced quite rapidly. She's only been playing the piano a year, and she can play classics, that we only hear in concerts anymore. But then, we had coaches at our door asking us to have Keita join their teams. We thought it would be a good idea, but Keita found it all funny and just laughed at the idea. Then she'd go out at night, and would leave so silently, we wouldn't realize what was happening. Then we caught her drinking at a bar one night. We found out she was drinking regularly," they looked shocked, "she's quit since then, we promise. She hasn't had a drink since then. Don't make that a reason for not taking her,"

"Actually, my friend Logan caught her there one night. Luckily, she took a card from him and took a tour of the mansion not long after. So don't worry about it," they looked relieved, "Please go on,"

"That was not long ago, but since then, she hasn't drank. After that, we don't know what happened. She's snowballed from there. She won't eat anything. Not only has she changed physically, but mentally too. It's as if she has two different personalities inside her,"

"Could you please elaborate?" Xavier was surprised at how much Keita's parents had noticed. It was helping him get a complete picture of the seriousness of Keita's mutation,

"Anymore it's like she's her regular self, or she's this icy girl, who is her own force of will. We can't figure out why. She seems happy with her life,"

"Is there any certain time when she's more prone to being this dark person?"

"Well… usually she's her regular self in the morning. During the night she's a bit more snappy, but the worst is when she snaps. If she's irritated enough, she goes mad. It's quite a sight. However, she doesn't snap all that often. We're just concerned for her well being,"

"I understand. I'll see what I can do. I think there's one thing holding her back from coming with us. Do you possibly know what that is?"

"We don't think so, but the only thing we could possibly think of would be her boyfriend, but we highly doubt it,"

"Thank you very much for your time and supper. It was quite tasty,"

"Thank you professor, for listening," Xavier said no more, and left to talk to Keita outside…

ANOTHER LONG CHAPTER, I'M SO SORRY! Well, just think of it as fast forwarding trough a couple short chapters. I'm going to type out enough of my story so that everyone finds out her mutation, but then I'll decide by the amount of the stats.