Author's Note:
Hey, so I'm back. And I come bearing a new chapter.
This is my first chapter where Danny is completely awake, so I hope you like it!
Danny awoke in a small white room, on a white cot. The only thing in the room that wasn't white was the light brown door on the opposite wall facing the cot he was currently laying on. 'wow whoever decorated this room obviously loved the color white ' Danny though sarcastically.
He pulled back the sheets, also the color white, and that was when he noticed that his normal outfit was gone and in its place was a pair of baggy, gray sweat pants and a matching grey sweat shirt. Surprised he leapt off of the cot and that's when he realized just how weak he was because he fell flat on his face. Pulling himself back to his feet but much more slowly this time. Once he had successfully regained his footing Danny made his way to the door and turned the knob. He was surprised that it wasn't locked and that he was free to leave whenever he wanted to.
Danny stumbled down the pure white hall. He remembered his long walk through the woods and then finding the mansion and he even remembered waking up to find a girl his age watching him. Then he vaguely remembered a bald man in a wheel chair before he had fallen asleep.
He wandered along the hall for a few more minutes till he came upon a pair of silver elevator doors. He stood in front of them, looking at the buttons trying to decide if he should go up or down.
"Daniel" a voice whispered in his ear. Surprised Danny jumped and spun around searching the hall for the source of the voice, but no one was there. "Come this way" the same voice said. Just then the elevator dinged and the silver doors slide open. He hesitantly entered the elevator and the doors glided shut again and the he felt the familiar feeling in the pit of his stomach as the elevator slowly rose.
After what felt like an eternity but could have only been a few minutes, the elevator stopped at the ground floor. Danny peeked his head out of the now open door and saw a empty hallway just like the one he had left but instead of white walls they were a light brown. There were doors lining the hall and in between every few doors there was a window with purple drapes pulled to the side to let in the light.
Once he was sure that no one was in the hall or would be coming out of the doors, Danny exited the elevator and walked down the hall. He had learned long ago that when in a strange place it was best to blend in and that tiptoeing anywhere instantly made you look suspicious.
"Over here" the same voice as before whispered. Danny looked around but there was no one there. Shrugging he decided to follow the voice. The voice led him through 4 more halls all identical to the first one. He happy he had the voice as a guide because by this time he would have been lost in the maze of a house.
Finally the voice stopped and Danny found himself in front of a plain light brown door. It was obvious that whatever the voice was it wanted him to enter the room. He knew that this all could have been a trap up but he was curious to see what was on the other side of the door. His curiosity won and he cautiously opened the door, expected at any moment for the trap to spring. When nothing happened, Danny pushed the door open the rest of the way and walked through into the room.
It was a medium sized room with a bookshelf, two comfy chairs meant for long nights of reading, a chess board and a large dark wood desk across from the door. Sitting behind the desk was the same bald man who had answered the door and was later in Danny's room when he had first woken up. The man was facing him and had a smile on his face.
"Hello, Daniel. It nice to see you wake", the man said pleasantly.
"It's Danny, not Daniel. Look I don't mean to be rude but who are you? And where am I?" Danny demanded of the man.
"It's quite alright Danny, you must be very confused. I'm professor Xavier and you are at my school for gifted youngsters." Xavier explained to him.
"This is a school?" he exclaimed in disbelief. "But it's huge."
"Yes, it is very large but none the less it is a school and a school that I would like to invite you to join." the professor said with a smile. The smile only grew bigger at seeing the incredulous look on Danny's face.
"Me", Danny squeaked out, "Why would you want me to go to your school? You don't even know me."
"Danny, you are a person who has been given special gifts and in this school children like you are given a safe environment to live and learn how to use their gifts to help others." Xavier explained to the boy. He had been able from the beginning to tell that their was something special about him.
"I-I don't know what your talking about" he stammered nervously, rubbing the back of his neck. It had become a nervous habit of his ever since he turned a ghost.
Professor Xavier had given this talk to many children, and so was unsurprised by Danny's reaction. He had seen students who, like Danny, were afraid of what would happen if it was known that they were different.
"Danny, you have nothing to fear. In this school everyone has a special power." he said in the boys head.
To say that Danny was shocked was the understatement of the year. He had never thought that someone could do that, unless they were a ghost of course. But the man sitting before him was not a ghost. Maybe Danny wasn't as alone as he thought he was, maybe their were people out in the world who understood what it was like to be different and feared and maybe he could even become friends with some of them. Realizing that he had been silent for a couple of minutes, he looked up at the professor and saw he had a sad look on his face.
'Was he reading my mind' he wondered. Danny thought of what his enemies would do if they were able to read his mind. All of his secrets and weaknesses would be theirs for the taking and here was a man who could possibly do just that. Now slightly suspicious of the professor, he put up the mental blocks he had learned after being overshadowed by poindexter.
The surprised look on professor Xavier's face was all the answer Danny need on whether the professor had been reading his mind and if his block had worked.
Xavier was shocked when Danny's mind had blocked him out, the only other person able to do that was Jean and Magneto when his helmet was on. Danny was much more powerful then he had first thought.
"So how did you do that and can you do anything else?" Danny asked, his curiosity overcoming his suspicion.
Over his surprise the professor explained to Danny all about the X gene and about his powers and some of the other student's.
"OK, let me get this straight, there is a guy here who is blue and hairy and can transport himself where ever he wants in the blink of the eye. That is so cool!" Danny exclaimed.
Professor Xavier smiled, Danny's reaction to Kurt's description was a new one, most people when they heard about or saw him were scared or disgusted by him.
"Now that you know about my school, what do you say, do you want to join?" Xavier asked. He already liked the boy and knew that Danny would get along great with the other students.
"I would love to join, but I don't think I have the X gene. You see I wasn't born with my powers. When I was 14 my parents built a portal to rip a hole into another dimension, called the Ghost Zone, but the portal didn't work. I got curious and went in the machine, while my friends watched. Once inside, I must have done something because it turned on, there was a flash of green light and a lot of pain and when I came to, I looked different and had amazing powers. I found out later that the machine had changed my DNA, turning me into a half ghost or halfa." Danny explained to professor Xavier. "So you see, I'm not a mutant."
Never in all his years had Xavier heard of such a thing happening and the thought that someone could be both alive and dead at the same time was just as unbelievable. But he could tell that Danny wasn't lying about any of his story and it made him wonder what it must have been like for this young man to go through that all alone and to even now know that he was different even from the people who were different themselves. Realizing how alone Danny really was, Xavier made up his mind.
"Danny, it doesn't matter that your not a mutant, you still need the help that my school can offer you. My invitation to this school still stands if you still want it." Professor Xavier said.
Danny was overjoyed, no longer would he have to keep lying to his family, go out at nights and get beaten up by ghosts and be so tired everyday he couldn't get his homework done. He would be around people like him, not that his best friends Tucker and Sam weren't great, but he was always afraid that one day they would get hurt while trying to help him.
"Then of course I'll join your school." Danny exclaimed excitedly, " but first I need to ask my parents."
"Oh, of course. You can use the phone in here" the Professor said as he wheeled himself out of the room, " I'll just give you some privacy."
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