a/n So this is my first story and if you like it you really should thank Clumsyclouds cause she kept nagging me to put it up. This story will follow the second x-men movie to some extent but will branch off later on.
CRACK! The roll of thunder echoed through-out the room and lightening flashed reflected in eyes so dark a blue as to be almost black. The eyes sat in a teenager's face that despite her youthful nature was furrowed in anger and fear. Between her hands a ball of black fire rolled and spun.
Her ears twitched as she listened to the floor boards creak as a person walked around in the room next door. Closing her eyes she tracked the person's movements, grinning as they avoided the squeaky floor boards in an attempt to not wake anyone. "Doesn't matter I can still hear you." She whispered, the shadows in her hands shot out and opened the door causing the now visible girl to squeak in surprise. "Hell, I can smell you." She added, inhaling deeply. A faint trace of flowers and herbs filled the room. "If sunshine had a scent it would smell like you cuz." She growled making room on the window seat.
"Hmph, you don't go out in the sun enough to know what it would smell like Alexis." The other girl responded settling in to the available seat. "So you must of had a pretty bad nightmare. Was it about the 'incident'?" She asked holding Alexis' gaze.
"What makes you think I had a nightmare Elena?" Alexis snarled as she looked out the window unable to meet her cousin's questioning stare.
"You hit the wall. Hard." Elena answered. "Why won't you talk about what happened back then? I mean I understand that it must have been awful but you're only hurting yourself by keeping it all to yourself."
Alexis turned her head slightly, as if listening to a far off sound that only she could hear. "They came out of the woods and broke into the house." She began turning to face her cousin. "I was upstairs but I could hear them yelling at my mom. Demanding to know where the mutant was. I didn't know what they were talking about but my mom refused to tell them. The man who was in charge hit my mom and then ordered the others to search the house. By then I was sitting on the stairs I saw my mom try and stop them and they..." Alexis stopped and closed her eyes. "They shot her. Blood was everywhere. I remember screaming and starting to attack the leader but they knocked me out. Next thing I knew I was in an underground facility, they experimented on me, ran all sorts of tests. Forced my mutant powers to manifest early."
"You were only ten years old! Why would they do something like that? That must've been pure torture. And for two years!" Elena gasped. She had heard of awful things happening to mutants but Alexis hadn't even gotten her powers yet. "But that explains so much! I mean you're super paranoid and constantly on edge and-"
"Two years of my own personal hell." Alexis interjected turning away from the window and heading towards the door. She paused in the doorway turning slightly towards her irate cousin. "And they weren't to happy that I left either." Just as she finished a loud banging was heard down stairs followed by a door crashing to the floor. Elena's dad headed down the stairs, her mother close behind.
"I told you that door needed to be fixed before the storm! Did you listen? No!" Elena's mother lecture was cut short by a spurt of gunfire. Elena's eyes went wide before she dashed out of the room.
Alexis stepped into her shadow and reappeared downstairs taking in the sight of her cousin kneeling over her parents, hands glowing slightly. Alexis' acute hearing could tell that their hearts had stopped beating. Something inside of her snapped as she met her cousin's gaze. Later Elena swore that Alexis' eyes had gone black. "They're both mutants!" One of the soldiers shouted as he took aim. He never fired as shadows threw him against the wall.
"Let's get you somewhere safe." Alexis murmured wrapping the both of them in shadows. When the shadows dissipated the soldiers were staring at an empty room and the girls were standing in an unknown hallway.
"Where are we?" Elena asked staring about her as she recovered from the shock of teleporting so suddenly.
"Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters. It's a school for mutants." Alexis responded glaring at the approaching forms of two adults. "You'll be safe here. They'll teach you how to use your powers and those goons shouldn't be able to find you here. Especially when I'm done with them." She concluded, turning away.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Elena cried out as Alexis disappeared into the shadows. "Come back!"
Elena's voiced echoed in Alexis' head as she reappeared in the living room of her home. "Your boss never quits does he?" She snarled, glaring at the shocked faces of the soldiers. "Time to send him a message." She roared as gunfire filled the air.
a/n So let me know what you think by clicking the review button!