Chap. one

"Are you sure we should be doing this?" I mumbled under my breath, knowing Kurt would be able to hear me.
"Sure, why?" He asked, turning to face me slightly in the uncomfortable wooden seats that were on the train we were presently in.
"You really have to ask?" I replied, red eyes glaring sharply at all around up whose attention was focused suspiciously at me and the boy next to me, we were both wearing head to toe capes, nothing able to be seen through them, which I guess is why they were staring at us, probably thought we were terrorists or something.

Anyway, when I glared at them they looked away immediately, which made me smile slightly.
"Are you sure we're doing the right thing, they might miss us at home, and we might be too mutated to be excepted, even at this so called, institute for mutants."I subconsciously felt for my ears through my cloak as I stated my case.
"We'll be fine, I promise, and if anyone tries to hurt you, I'll stop them, you are my little sister after all!" He joked, making me smile also.
"Yeah but I'm still in all you're classes, regardless of the years difference." I muttered teasingly.
"What was that?" Kurt laughed, giving me a 'nuggy' through the hood which didn't really work, but I laughed and played along anyway, he always knew how to cheer me up.

"Bayville station." An annoying voice, loud too, came over the intercom on the train, alerting me and Kurt that it was time to depart.
Coming off of the train, Kurt was carrying four bags, stupid stubborn male insisted on carrying them all, while I was only carrying a small backpack with my laptop and journal in it.
Looking around, I looked for the man in the wheelchair and an African woman that had been described to me over the phone, they were going to be picking us up.

Twenty minutes later we were at the institute.
"We're heading out Professor!" A male voice came from the arch doorway in front of the group of three (aka Prof. X, Kurt and myself).
"Just a moment you two," Prof. X stopped the red headed girl and the boy with glasses, "come here."
"I'd like you to meet some people." They came into the room as he said this, the room which me and my adoptive brother were still covered head to toe in, as they came in I stepped fully behind my brother, holding onto his arm. "This is Lilith and Kurt Wagner, they arrived late last night." Professor Xavier explained.
"Hey, this is Jean, I'm Scott." They both waved as my bother just stared at the floor, as I peeked up at them from behind my brother, under my hood, feeling both scared and shy. "How you doing?" Scott then questioned, putting his hand out, making my brother back up, pushing me back slightly to, without removing his hands from his deep pockets, while I didn't have any at all, I didn't even have sleeves, my cloak was kind of like a blanket that was stitched together with a hood on top, and while my bothers was a dark green, mine was black with silver edging.
"Kurt, you're among friends here, you too Lilith." The professor calmed, grabbing lightly onto Jeans offered hand.
Obviously reacting positively to this, Kurt pulled out his hand, while I remained dubious. "Hello." He shook Scott's hand, well at least until the normal looking guy with glasses showed shock on his face, making Kurt quickly retract his three fingered hand.
"I was just telling these two how I set up this institute for gifted youngsters, for youngsters gifts who are not always an asset, right Scott?" Ohh, obvious tension, I came out from behind Kurt, eyes wide with curiosity.
"Ahh, so... you... heard about last night?" I could tell he almost didn't want to hear the answer.
"Difficult not to. It was on all the news channels." The prof. wasn't happy.
I zoned out as Jean started to head towards Kurt and myself.
"I'm packing a bazooka behind each eye ball, what do you want from me!" At this I zoned back in, say what?
"Control, Scott! That's what you came here to learn! That's why you're all here." It's fairly obvious that the Prof. Is like that dad around here.
"Scott's eye's emit an optic blast beam." he turned to us, explaining Scott's ability, to which, for some reason, Kurt took off his hood, revealing his blue like nature.
"Cool!"
"How 'bout you Kurt, Lilith?" Jean questioned, "got a special gift that brought you here?"
Kurt went into all 'bamf' mode and reappeared in the corner of the room, on the other side.
"Maybe," was his response, "come on Lil, show 'em!" He encouraged me, to which a slowly shook my head. "Sorry," Kurt exclaimed, before disappearing again, "she's kind of shy around strangers!" With that he appeared behind me and with a quick tug, pulled off my cloak, I quickly reached up to cover my ears, while closing my red eyes and curling my tabby cat like tail around my waist.
"Hey, it's ok." Soothed Jean, while I felt calloused hands remove mine from my ears, making them twitch slightly, "open your eyes," Scott encouraged from in front of me, "It'll be ok" I did as he instructed, seeing that he was directly in front of me, still holding my hands away from my ears, looking pointedly at them, he noticed and quickly let go.
"So, what you got?" He quickly asked.
"Umm." I didn't really understand what he meant.
"Your ability!" Kurt called from the other side of the room, having transported there so that I couldn't hurt him after he removed my cloak.
"Well.." I thought for a moment, "I'm kinda good with illusions, and I am like a cat in more ways than just appearance, I control gravity umm, I know I'm forgetting something.. Oh yeah," I smiled at them, "I can heal really, really fast!"
They looked shocked at all my abilities.
"How old are you?" Jean questioned, earning a questioning look in return. "It's just, you look so young and you act young, but it's unusual for someone of a young age, well for anyone really, to have so many abilities," she explained (A.N Wow, that was a lot of so's and young's!)
"Um, I'm fourteen, but I'm in classes for fifteen year olds." I replied.
"My little sis is a genius!" Kurt interrupted proudly, putting an arm around my shoulder after 'bamf'-ing over to next to me.
"Kurt!" I whined, embarrassed.
"Well you are!" He replied before turning to the others, including the Prof. whom had been all but forgotten.
"Her IQ's 156." He bragged.
"Shut up." I almost begged.
"Wow." Was Scott and Jean's simultaneous response.
Luckily the Prof. took to my wish for the topic to be dropped.
"I'll be helping these two get settled in. We can talk more tonight."

I was just glad we didn't have to go to school today I thought as I collapsed on my bed, the Prof. and Miss Monroe were going to be in here in a second to be sure I had settled in, I had just finished unpacking, my cloak at the foot of my bed, all my posters already set up, and I was going to rest a bit before they were finished settling Kurt in, whose room was next to mine. However before I knew it I was a sleep.

After what seemed like minutes, but after glancing at my watch I realised it had been hours, I was awoken by a knock at my door, "come in" I replied while stretching on the queen sized bed.
"That bed is ridiculously comfy." I smiled at Miss Monroe, whom had entered the room before closing the door behind her.
"Yes, the Professor and myself came by earlier, but you were asleep, so I decided to try again now, however the Professor is with Ceribro."
"Ok," I replied, having less than no idea what she was talking about.
"Anyway, I see you've settled in," she laughed, looking around at my numerous posters I had already set up.
"It's not a problem is it, I could take them down if you like, I guess I just got a little excited." I explained.
"No it's fine, anyway if you have any problems, come and find me. You'll be starting school tomorrow."
"No!" I exclaimed as she turned towards the door, I was still sitting on the bed, well until I jumped up as I yelled. "I mean, please don't make me go, I can't deal with the teasing anymore!" My ears were pressed flat against my skull while I was playing with my tail slightly.
Surprise and remembrance was shown on Miss Monroe's face.
"Ah, I forgot, Professor Xavier already gave one to your brother, and I forgot you didn't have yours yet. Come on, let's go to get yours," confused as all hell, I followed her.

"Professor, she's awake," Miss Monroe called as we entered a library type room.
"Ah, came to get her hologram?" He questioned, earning a nod from Miss Monroe. "Alright," the Prof. nodded, reaching under his desk and pulled out a case, opening it in front of me.
It was beautiful, the case held a black dove, with a silver chain to hold it around my neck, under further inspection I saw that the body of the dove stuck out slightly, almost not enough to notice. Seeing where my glaze was, the Prof. explained, "If you push on that button, an illusion will project and make your ears and tail disappear, while your eyes will take the appearance of a deep blue colour, your brother told me you liked that colour." I nodded.
"Is this for me?" I questioned, getting a nod in return.
"Awesome!" I squealed, ears up right, delicately taking the necklace, and tried, unsuccessfully to put it on.
"Here, I'll help!" Kurt's voice sounded from behind me, making me turn to face him, only to see him in some sort of uniform.
"Cool suit." I told him, handing him the necklace, giving him a warning look to be careful, while moving my white/silver hair out of the way.
Suddenly this red light, accompanied by this really loud obnoxious noise appeared.
"Mutant detected!" A computer like voice stated.
"Ok, well I'm gonna go now, I'm still feeling a little tired." I yawned for emphasis. Turning to face Kurt I told him to fill me in later, with my eyes closed, then opened them, only to see his shocked face.
"What, what is it?" I wondered, slightly scared, "Did something go wrong with the hologram?" I asked.
"No, nothing, just go look at a mirror."
"Ok?" I pondered what he meant leaving, when I entered my room I saw a parcel on my bed, I assumed Miss Monroe put it there after she left, after showing me to the Prof.
Opening it I saw a uniform much like Kurt's, only black with silver on the belt and in the stitching, much like my cloak, feeling it I felt that it was the same soft material too, looking at the foot of the bed I made sure that my cloak was still actually there, it was. Also like my brothers suit, it too had a medium sized red X on the belt, only mine was on the side, rather that in the middle.
Excited, I eagerly put it on, it was a perfect fit, next to the box was a pair of black sneakers with silver laces, putting those on too I saw they were a perfect fit.
Taking out my black, lacy ribbon that was in my hair I brushed my hair and put it into a high side pony tail on the right side of my head, my side fringe on that side too, I then placed my ribbon around my neck, so that it was like a chocker, and looking though my stuff I found a pair of lacy black gloves, with a fake leather, only much softer and more flexible than the real stuff, part on the wrist.
Looking in the mirror I saw that it all fit and looked really cool. Looking fully at myself I gasped in surprise, you could no longer see the cat ears on top of my head, instead you could see human like ears with black rose studs on either side of my head, I felt them to see if they were real, only to be disappointed to feel air, and see the illusion of my ears falter slightly, looking at my behind I saw no tail, but instead a hole in the suit where my tail would usually be, I felt for my tail, and sighed in relief when I felt it wrap securely around my hand, my tail helped my balance easier.
Looking at my eyes lastly I saw they were in fact a deep blue, 'like the ocean' I thought to myself, smiling widely, my big, now blue eyes showing that emotion as well.
Pushing the button on the necklace I still wore around my neck my hologram turned off, revealing my true self. Getting bored I decided to put on some dark silver and make up to complement the outfit, and some deep red lipstick to match my eyes, on normal people the colours of makeup I chose wouldn't work, however with the paleness of my skin it worked for me.

"Hey sis, can I come in?" I heard my brothers voice ask.
"Sure." I asked, walking over to the door to open it, only to see a blank space where he should be, and then heard his voice from behind me.
"Wow, my little sister's growing up! Now we're going to have to set some rules." His German accent that was so much like mine exclaimed, making me turn around.
"Like what." I decided to humour him.
"Like no boys."
"Kurt!" I whined, I felt myself blush.
"Alright, alright, but we're talking more about his later, now come on, let's explore!"

Once we reached the front room, it randomly started raining.
"Ohh! It had been such a nice night too!"I whined Hello, cat, I. HATE. RAIN!
Suddenly the doors opened by the wind, and a toad like person came screaming through, only to land on Kurt.
When they both landed I ran over to help my brother up.
"What no help up for your big bro?" The Toad boy questioned.
"What're you talking abou- Todd!" I yelled, almost jumping on him, but was held back by Kurt.
"Whose he?" Todd asked rudely.
"I'm her brother, who're you?" Kurt rudely replied.
"Not so sorry to burst your bubble, but no you're not, mum and dad only had two kids, and I don't remember a blue fuzz ball being one of 'em." Todd's jersey accent stated as the two got into fighting stances.
"Hey! You're both my fam-" I was cut off as they began to insult each other again.
"What are you anyway, some kind of ratty plush toy?" Todd's insult.
"Feh," Kurt complained about the smell after smelling the air, "the names Nightcrawler, and at least I don't reek like unwashed lederhosen!"
"You blue furred freak!" Was Todd's response, even though he probably didn't even know what they were, and then launched at him, as Kurt grabbed me and teleported somewhere, making Todd land on nothing, surprising him.
"As you say in America, niener, niener, niener!" Kurt reappeared on the chandelier, making sure I was stable.
"That aint gonna help you boy!" Todd warned, jumping up at Kurt, not really seeing me there too. I noticed that his jersey accent really came out when he was angry.
Still holding onto me, Kurt jumped down, using Todd as a pedestal as he went. "You're so slow!" Complained Kurt, letting me go so that I could float to the ground, after getting to the ground I thought it would be best to go find someone to tell them what was going on, so, controlling the gravity around me, I left to go find someone, after a while, I found Jean and Scott, whom were talking about a latest assignment.
"Todd and Kurt are fighting!" I told them, at which they quickly looked at me, and Jean grabbed my hand, dragging me, flying also, to her room told me to wait outside and a few minutes later came out fully dressed, in what I assumed to be her fighting uniform
Running towards Scott asked "Whose Todd?"
"Todd Tolansky's his full name." I told him.
"They looked shocked while they continued to run, "how do you know him?" Jean asked.
"He's my brother." I told them.
"I thought Kurt was your brother?" Asked Jean, still flying alongside me as I steered them to the fight.
"Yeah, Kurt's my adoptive brother, he was adopted too, but as a baby, while I was adopted when I was five, while Todd's my brother by blood." I exclaimed as I heard the Prof's voice seemingly from everywhere.
"Scott, Jean, Lilith, Nightcrawler and Todd have teleported into the Danger Room!"
"Oh man the Danger Room had automatic defences!" Exclaimed Scott, turning to Jean.
"It'll attack them with everything it's got!" Was Jean's response.
"What was that? And what's the danger room?" I asked as they both stopped
"That was the Professor communicating with you, and as for the Danger Room, well, you'll find out soon enough!" Jean replied, turning around and heading for what I assumed to be the danger room.

"Get in there now!" I heard the Prof.'s voice again, urging us to go faster.
"Maybe you should wait outside." Wondered Scott.
"No way! Those are my brother's in there, I'm going in!" I replied, pushing him out of the way so that I could enter the so called Danger Room.
"Fine! I've got the cannon's you two keep them clear of the tentacles!" Instructed Scott, noting my determination.
"On it!" Jean exclaimed as I just nodded, taking her example and going in the air, "you take Todd, I'll take Kurt!" Jean flew off after telling me that, leaving me to defend my pale, toad like brother that was behind me, screaming like a girl.
"Stay still!" I yelled at my brother as I tried to grab onto him, only to have him constantly jump out of the way of the blasts.
"No way, I don't wanna get shot!"
'Well then stay still' I was getting seriously annoyed, and decided to try removing all gravity around him, even though it had never worked before.
"Yes!" I celebrated as it worked. I then motioned for him to come over to me, which my awesome powers did, I then grabbed onto his arm, keeping him out of harm's way until it was all over, which I did very successfully I might add.
"So, what you doing here?" Questioned Todd, " I thought you were sent to Germany or something?" He said this with great bitterness, making it obvious that he hated the fact that I left when I was only 5.
"Yeah, I did, but I came here with Kurt, what about you, why are you away from New Jersey?" I asked him, landing on the ground when all the mayhem had dispersed.
"Ran away few years ago, been liven' in Bayville ever since." he told me, getting on his own two feet, "sorry sis, but I've seen enough I am, like your Jersey accent, gone!" With that he hopped out the door, with Scott yelling after him.
Quickly, I ran after him, only to lose him in the forest surrounding the school.
I sighed before hearing Kurt appear behind me. "SO that was your brother?" He asked, receiving a sad nod in return, "well, he's... unique. A lot different than you described, a lot more green." He joked, making me laugh.
"I can't believe he just ran off like that." I sighed.
"Well don't worry, I might not be a sibling by blood, by I am one in spirit, and I won't ever abandon you," he promised, giving me a hug, transporting me to my room and out of the rain.
"Blah!" I exclaimed as he let go, realising I was all wet, I then, using my awesome abilities, made all of the rain lose the gravitational pull and float into the air, and then flicked it out of the open window, and then did the same for my much less wet brother, afterwards closing the door.
"Do you wanna go down and have some dinner?" Asked Kurt.
"Sure!" I smiled, and my brother 'bamf'ed us down to the dining room.
There Jean and Scott were talking about this guy Logan coming back, and when they saw us there they quickly explained who he was and after that we just talked about what school would be like tomorrow and if anything was going wrong or if we were confused or anything at all, to just come and talk to them.

Something tells me, regardless of all the drama that I could sense coming our way, I can tell that I'm gonna like it here.