In some little town outside of New York

Several days after she stayed in the room of the old house, working for food and shelter. That night, she decided to leave and try to find a permanent home somewhere else. She packed her small bag of her still dirty clothes and few belongings and walked out of the house after she thanked the owner who let her stay there.

She walked to an alley, spread out her wings and started to get ready to fly. At her startlement, someone yanked her down when she was only 3 feet off the ground. The fall almost knocked her out; she got up on her knees and saw several dark figures with guns.

"Mutants! Mutants are attacking the town!" one called out. They pushed and shoved her into the street. Several came out with torches and guns and some with knives.They pushed her to the ground as she tried to get up. "Get out of our town mutant!" some shouted. Some started to through rocks at her she tried to get up, she was knocked to the ground again.

She sat there a second or two when one with a rifle shot at her. She dodged all the bullets. She took all the strength she could muster and forced her way from the crowd, and took off. They shot at her. One bullet hit her in the back and another narrowly missed the side of her head. She kept on flying. She looked back and now couldn't even see the town's lights.

After a long time of flying she started to feel a surge of fatigue go through her body. She came over a fairly thick forest and decided that would be the best place to rest. She lowered herself in the forest, but as she came within 6 feet on the ground, she started to pass out. She lost control of her flying and hurtled to the ground. She hit several limbs of a tree and landed in thick brush. She was knocked unconscious.

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2 or 3 days later

The X-men had a mission, to go to a mutant testing facility a few miles outside the city limits. They completed their mission with victory, and started walking through a forest to where they left the Blackbird. Wolverine, Jean, Cyclops, and Nightcrawler(they were the only ones sent on the mission) were walking(in Kurt's case bamfing XD), when Logan stopped walking.

"What is it, Logan?" Jean asks who stopped in her tracks as well.

"Shhhh,.." Logan hushed and listened. They all grew quiet and listened as well. In the distance, they heard a quiet moan.

"Come on," Logan said and walked toward the left into a thickly wooded part of the forest. They came to a clearing in the woods. The moaning was louder. "It's here," Logan said. They started searching the edge on the clearing. After 10 minutes, Scott and Jean grew tired and sat on an old log to rest.

Nightcrawler kept bamfing from one tree limb to another, and Logan kept searching and sniffing the air. Then Nightcrawler called out, "Come und look here! Hurry!"

They all ran to where Kurt was and saw in somewhat amazement, there, a young mutant girl who was covered with deep cuts and scratches. "Oh, god," Jean said as she stared at the girl's claws and wings."We need to get her to the mansion, and fast," she said.

"I'll carry her," Kurt offered.

"Ok, let's go," Logan said and started walking toward where the Blackbird should have been. Kurt carelfully picked the girl up his arms and teleported towards the way the other X-Men were walking. He gracefully held onto the girl and bamfed from one tree to another, and stopped when the other stopped. They finally reached the X-jet.

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At the X-Mansion right after they arrived

Scott rushed into the front room of the mansion, "Storm, we need medical table ready, NOW!" He rushed back out of the room. Rouge was sitting in a chair reading, as was Storm. They looked at each other, and Ororo bolted out of the room.

By the time Kurt had bamfed into the medical room, Ororo had prepared a medical bed, and the supplies were at head, ready to treat any wounds that could have come to one of the X-men.

Kurt bamfed into the room, and carefully lay the girl on the bed. Storm examined the girl's claws and wings. Jean walked into the room. "There are several holes in her shirt as if she was shot. We need to make sure the bullets aren't still inside her," Jean said to Storm. Jean looked at Kurt in a way that asked him to leave the room. He teleported himself to the hallway outside the room.

Storm pulled up the girl's shirt to examine for any wounds or cuts. Nothing but bruises. But on her back there was a large, sorta-round scar on one side of her back. They were sure she was shot there. On the girl's face, there were several cuts from tree branches; they assumed when she fell in the forest. On her shoulder there was a scar similar to the one on her back. And the girls arm was badly scared and a little bit disfigured. Jean and Storm looked at each other. "Something ripped all the way through her arm," Storm said in horror and disgust. "Most likely a bullet," Jean replied in a dry sounding voice. Jean picked up and held a vial with a needle on it. It was a strong pain medicine. She attached the needle to the top of the tube and stuck the girl in the upper arm. The girl flinched which made Jean step back. She finished the tube, and recapped it. What startled her is that the young girl's wings and claws just, went away.

She tried to ignore it. Jean's telekinetic power, she moved the girl into the x-ray room. After the results were printed out, she left the girl in a hospital bed, and she and Storm gathered in a room with Professor Xavier where they examines the x-ray pictures.

"From what I can tell, the girl was shot in her middle back, shoulder, and arm. The bullets still remain in her back and shoulder. It ripped all the way through her arm," Jean said.

"Has the girl awaken yet?" Xavier asked.

"She hasn't moved yet except, when Jean gave her pain medicine, her wings had come inside her body," Storm replied. "The x-rays show the extra bones of wings in her back and what we presume to be a tail in her lower back. We aren't quite sure of her claws."

"We will soon start to surgically remove the bullets, then hopefully she'll be able to recover and might even stay in the students dorms," Jean said.

"When she is well enough to move about, please send her to see me. I think it would be a good idea to talk to her," Xavier said, still looking at the x-rays.

"Yes, Professor," they replied one another the other.