Chapter 1
"Jacques!" she yelled, as she reached for her brother's arm. But it was no use. She could barely reach her fingertips. "Let go of me! Jacques!"
"Jenevie!" he yelled as Jenevie's captor disappeared in the shadows. He flung his head from side to side, trying to free himself from the bars binding him to a wall. But his attempt was futile, for they were in too deep. Suddenly, something unexplainable to him occurred. The bars slowly loosened while his eyes blazed a bright red color. His blond hair rose as if being blown by the wind. The bars continued to loosen until they glowed red as well. Before they were about to leave their confinement in the wall, they shot forward rapidly. From a distance, he heard two loud clunks. His eyes turned to their original color, which were very light blue, and his hair dropped abruptly.
"What was that?" a red-haired woman said. She turned to her left and found two metal bars wedged tightly in a green dumpster. A man wearing visors behind her turned his head and looked at her direction. She raised her right arm slowly and the bars creaked. They slowly rose up without any support. They floated in midair. The man eyed the bars curiously.
"Magneto?" he suggested, grabbing them. The woman shook her head in response.
"But he has no motivation? This is only minor compared to what he actually wants," the woman argued. "Let's go find out."
"How?" the man asked. He slowly rose in the air. He gasped and glanced at the woman.
"We go to the direction it was thrown from. See that hole over here--" she gestured to the wall in front of them, "—I bet that if we go to a straight direction, we'll find what we're looking for!" The woman rose up and shoved her hands forward. The wall suddenly exploded and they both continued on. After moments of flying, she saw a boy, about fourteen or fifteen with blond hair, with his head buried in his knees. When the woman approached him, he lifted his head and gasped.
"Do not come closer," he said with a French accent. The woman continued her approach.
"What are you doing here?" she asked. The boy just shook his head and backed to the wall behind him, which gradually disintegrated as he got nearer.
"S'il vous plait, I do not want to hurt you," he pleaded, shaking his head. But the woman kept on walking. When she held out her hand, some invisible force knocked her back. The boy sank on the ground, which disintegrated, and started to sob. The man rushed to the woman and helped her up.
"I don't think he can control his powers," the man said. The woman placed her fingers on her temples and probed the boy's mind. Don't worry, we're here to help, she said. I am afraid zat no one could help me, the boy cried. The woman probed deeper into his mind.
"He can expel psychokinetic energies," the woman said to the man.
"Can you block his powers until we could get to Professor Xavier?" the man asked. The woman concentrated. But, after a few moments, she screamed and was flung back. The rest of the wall crumbled and a couple of feet of the ground disintegrated. He knelt and the crumbled pieces floated around him. His eyes burned with a fiery red glow. His face erupted black trails. The man rushed up to the woman and helped her up again.
"Jean, what's happening?" he asked, shielding his face with his hands as the disintegrated pieces multiplied. Suddenly, they both saw something very unbelievable. A red light started to rise up from the boy and began to take the form of a phoenix.
"The Phoenix Force? But isn't it inhabiting you?" the man asked.
"We'd better explain this to the Professor…" she said.