Author's Note: This is character introduction #2. After this there will be two more intro chapters and then I will start asking for plot ideas. Please R&R!
Chapter 2: Dante
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Damn it! I only have five minutes to get to class or I'm gonna be late!, Dante thought to himself as he sprinted to the school. He was almost through the main doors when a hulking figure stopped him. As he looked up, he saw the face of the school bully, a junior by the name of Jordan Hightower.
"Well, well, well… look at what we got here fellas… a poor little freshy that's gonna be late to class," Jordan sneered. Little was an apropos description. Well, compared to Jordan, who stood at almost six foot four, Dante was a whopping five foot ten. Also, because Jordan played on the football team, he was built. Dante had nothing. Dante knew that Jordan loved to fight, and Dante was scared by this because he couldn't fight either. The only thing he could do was cower.
But then a voice in the back of his mind said, This is enough! He should be as scared as I am, if not more! When he heard this, Dante realized that the voice was right and he starting wishing that Jordan was as scared as he was. Then all of a sudden, Jordan was screaming in terror as a giant wolf with blood red fur and eerily glowing yellow eyes lunged at him. Before the wolf could tackle them, Jordan and his goons turned and bolted yelling something about freaks.
Dante expected the wolf creature to go chasing after Jordan, but instead it turned to face him. Part of Dante said to scream and run, but another part of him said that the creature wouldn't harm him. He listened to the latter and calmed down, and when he did, the wolf creature disappeared. He then realized that he had made the creature materialize. And that could only mean one thing.
He was a mutant.
Well, this freaked him out even more, so he got up and ran from the school grounds. He didn't stop running until he heard the school bell ring. After, he just walked to the local park and spent the day there, thinking about what had happened and coming to terms with the fact that he was a mutant. When he checked his watch and saw that school was over, he decided to head home and face his parents. He knew that they had probably received a call from the school telling them that he had skipped school.
"Yes. Yes. Thank you, Miss Hubert," Dante's father said as he hung up the phone. He turned to his wife who had a curious look on her face. "Dante has apparently gotten into a fight earlier with a fellow classmate and then proceeded to skip school for the day."
"He did WHAT?" she exclaimed.
Just at that moment, Dante walked in the house. He had heard his mother exclaim outside and knew that they had indeed received a call from Miss Hubert, the school principal.
"Before you start yelling at me, let me explain why I skipped school today," Dante hurriedly said. He then proceeded to tell his parents the events of that morning. When he had finished, his mother just held him tightly while his father went to make a call.
"Hi, my name is Derek Jones. May I speak to Ororo Munroe?"
Author's Note: Now I know that this is a rather short chapter, but I intended to do this. More will be discovered of Dante in later chapters, so please be patient. And I know that I haven't exactly described his powers yet, but I'm sure that you can figure out what one is. I also hope to be updating this story by at least a chapter a day. If it takes me a bit longer to update, then please have patients with me. It WILL get updated. Thanks to all of you for reading and reviewing.