Episode 2

Rania felt her head spinning when she woke up, she bolted up right startled to find herself in a bed. Her vision adjusted and she discovered she was in a hospital like room, except it

didn't smell like one. She then realized there was a bald man in a wheel chair sat beside her. She recognized him almost too soon and she asked "Charles Xavier?" He smiled comfortingly

and answered "Yes, I am Charles Xavier. And you are Rania Thompson; I can see the resemblance between you and your father." Rania then asked "Where am I? And where's my

sister?" Xavier answered "Your sister's fine, she's having fun with one of my student's, Kitty Pryde." Rania said "So I'm at your Institute?" Xavier nodded and asked "Rania, may I ask you

how and when your mutation started?" Rania pursed her lips at the shivering memory and said "Did you hear about some kind of heat wave that whipped out all of Langley up in

Canada?" Xavier said "I'm guessing that was you?" Rania answered looking down "Yes." Xavier asked "May you tell me how it happened?" Rania pursed her lips and asked "Can you

please just read my mind? I don't like talking about it." The professor said "Of course, now I want you to relax, if you must just don't think about it at all, although I believe you should,

you may be able to understand your power's better." Rania pursed her lips before the professor lifted his hands and pressed his finger tips to her fore-head, this is what he saw.

The professor was floating in warm grey smoke that hovered around his wheel chair. He stood up and walked through the mist. The mist coiled around his ankles as he walked before the

mist began to shape itself into images. When the mist was done shaping he saw Rania sitting in a bed in a purple room. She sneezed into a piece of tissue and her eyes began to water.

Her mother came in she looked like she was in her early 40's. She was probably Native American or Aboriginal. She came and sat beside Rania on a chair parked beside a desk and asked

"Honey are you feeling any better?" Rania glowered at her mother and said "Does it look like I'm better?" Her mother slapped Rania's hand and said "Don't be giving me anymore attitude

Rania. Do you want some hot chocolate?" Rania groaned and said "Mom I feel like an active volcano the last thing I need is something with the word's 'hot' or 'warm'." Her mother gave a

nervous look at her and held her hand to Rania's fore head but instantly pulled her hand away and clutched it saying "Honey you're burning up, your skin just burned me!" She ran from

the room and came back really fast with a thermometer. She put it in Rania's mouth and the thermometer instantly went up to 122 degree! Her mother felt the thermometer burn her

hand and dropped it on the ground. She then grabbed a rag and picked it up as smoke began to hover around it and she said frightened calling down the hall "Honey we have to get

Rania to the hospital! She's 122 degrees!" A tall and strong looking man came in and said (a look of deep concern on his face) "Alright bring her out to the car Julian, I'll be there soon."

He walked briskly from the room and Mrs. Thompson helped Rania up Rania's arm around her neck. They were half way down the hall when Rania collapsed passed out. Mrs. Thompson

shrieked and ran to the freezer where they had an ice pack. She brought it over and placed it on Rania's fore head as she called to Kiera "Hun go and get your father and the vegetable

bags in the freezer!" Kiera ran from the hall frightened to the point where she had tears in her eyes. She came back with 3 large vegetable bags in her arms and Mr. Thompson behind

her holding 4 more. They placed them on her arms and legs but still her temperature was rising fast! Rania became so hot that the ice in the ice pack had melted and the vegetables

began to bake from her body heat. Her mother was shaking and sobbing while cradling Kiera in her arms. Rania began to groan and moan and sweat dewed everywhere on her body.

Her father pulled back his wife and said as he felt sweat and mist from her heat "She's way to hot, if we touch her skin she'll surely burn us." Rania soon began to gasp for breath and

couldn't seem to utter much sound. Suddenly she was being lifted off the floor from a large glowing light and began to scream yelling "It hurts! Make it stop! Dad! Mom! Help me!"

Suddenly a crack in the ceiling formed and the light carrying Rania began to shoot out of a large forming hole in the ceiling and roof. Her father suddenly realized something, she was the

light! His own daughter a mutant! But she began to scream louder and then suddenly there was a loud glow and many screams and then the light from Rania disappeared and she fell

through the hole knocked out and landed on a pile of ash a big gash on her forehead and cheek and blood everywhere her clothes all in tatters and everything a mess.

The professor pulled his fingers away from Rania's head and she rubbed her head and said "Well, that was nice to relive." The professor said "I'm sorry Rania that must've been terrible."

She nodded and looked down but then suddenly there was a big poof of smoke and both Rania and the professor fanned it away and then there was a blue and fuzzy man standing

there with 3 fingers and pointed ears, fangs and a tail! Rania was surely surprised and gasped shocked. The fuzzy guy looked about 17 or 18 years old. He said a little surprised in a thick

German accent "Oh, she's up. . . . Yeah. Hey prof I was wondering if you've seen Ryan, Logan wants to give him a new lesson in the danger room, hopefully Jim will come out without a

broken leg this time." The professor said "Kurt is that how we act around our guest's?" Kurt gave him a look that said 'you know who she is! Why should I care about my manners around

her?' Kurt although reluctantly turned to face her and said "Sorry." And shook her hand she had to bite down on her tongue to stop herself from gasping when she felt his hand. The

professor said "Rania this is Kurt or Nightcrawler, one of my students here he has the ability to teleport and climb on walls and is a great acrobat, I also believe he may have a super

power to consume large sums of food without becoming stuffed." Kurt said a little impatiently and annoyed "Hey! I can't help it I mean food is like my kind of Paradise, any way do you

know where Ryan is?" The professor put his finger tips to his head again and said "Your room Kurt, oh and I suggest you count all the money in your wallet when you get up there."

Kurt's yellow eyes bulged and he said "I'm going to kill him!" He teleported off leaving the professor and Rania showered in his smoke. When it had cleared away the professor said "I'm

sorry about how Kurt was acting, I hope none of the other students give you any trouble." He looked away when he said the last part, and somehow I had a feeling he really meant it.

He then turned back to face me and asked "You came here believing this was your best source for help, if you wish to you may stay but I warn you it may take the students some time to

get used to you, your room will be with one of my students her name is Tina, but most of the students call her X-23, she is a clone of one of my teachers his name is Logan or you may call

him Wolverine. They both have adamantine claws that come out of there knuckles." Rania thought about having a roommate that had knives the shot out of her knuckles and a shiver

went down her spine and she could clearly see that her time here was going to be absolutely wonderful – not.