Chapter 3

I don't know how but word had gotten around that I was a telepath. Sure I was weird enough coming from 1986, but now I was a telepath as well.

I went to Storm's office after class to start my training. I was pleased not to find the others there.

"Ah, Elwyn you're here. Please take a seat." Storm said.

I took a seat nervously; suddenly I got a flash of a man sitting at Storm's desk, not her.

"Elwyn! Elwyn!" Storm was shouting, "What happened?"

"I don't know. I just saw a man sitting at your desk." I replied.

"You mean you saw the Professor?" She looked at me like she was going to fall out of her chair.

"Yes, I think so." I replied.

"We need to help you control these random experiences. You control your telepathy. It doesn't control you. So let's start. Clear your mind and focus on my mind." she suggested.

I closed my eyes and cleared my thoughts I focused on her mind. Soon I was in her thoughts; she let me wander around but never too far in.

Storm spoke, "Now try communicating with your mind."

I focused on words I wanted to say to Storm, I asked "Can you hear me?" I was shocked and surprised to hear Storm answer in my mind.

"Yes, I can Elwyn." I opened my eyes and smiled at Storm. She smiled back at me.

In the next few weeks I started to gain more control over my telepathy. I could easily communicate with minds. I could read them better and I was on the verge of controlling them. Of course Storm didn't want me to control anyone so I had no practice.

One day while I was training with Storm, she said, "Elwyn, I can't teach you anymore I don't know what to teach you. So I'm going to let the Professor teach you."

"But I thought you said-" I started to protest.

"That was before you couldn't control your powers, but I trust you now. I have a memory for you." she said.

She closed her eyes and stepped into her mind. I saw a memory of the same man, the Professor. He started to speak to me.

"Hello there, what's your name?" he asked.

"I'm Elwyn." I replied.

"Well Elwyn, I'm Charles. You must be a telepath like me or else Storm wouldn't be showing you this." he said, "Now let's get started."

Penetrating the Professor's mind was much tougher then Storm's, and I was exhausted much sooner. I pulled out.

I opened my eyes. Storm was giving me a glass of water. I hadn't noticed that I was exhausted.

"How was it?" Storm asked inquisitively.

"It was harder than you." I replied with a grin.

"I thought it would be." She smiled. "So from now on you'll still come to my office, but you'll have lessons with the Professor. Understood?"

I nodded. As I left for bed, I caught a message from Storm. "Don't tell anyone." I understood what it meant. No one else knew about the Professor and no one needed to know.

My lessons started to get easier each time I had lessons with the Professor. We soon had covered everything that Storm had taught me, but on a grander scale. We worked on manipulating the mind, memory alteration and blocking. Of course I never could beat the Professor, he was just too strong, but it was good to battle an actual telepath even if he was just an illusion.

The next day, I was in Professor Drake's class. We were learning about the science behind our powers and how our powers could be explained... to a point.

I felt a sharp pain near my temple. It was like nothing I had felt before. I must have made a face, because Professor Drake asked me if I was alright.

"I'm fine." I lied. A girl with fiery red hair stared at me from the right-hand-back-corner of the room. Her eyes were of an unnatural purple hue. Her face gave me the remnants of a frown, but I had lost control. The next thing I knew, she was on the ground screaming.

"Abigail! What's wrong?" asked a worried student. "Wait... It was you!" The student eyed me angrily. I held up my hands defensively.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it... I... uh..." I tried to find the right words, but my mouth was suddenly dry. So, I did the most sensible thing I could do... I ran out of the classroom.

In the next few weeks my telepathy was under my control. Storm decided that I should try Cerebro. That afternoon I went down to Cerebro with Storm. She couldn't go in with me, so I had to face it alone. I went into the circular room walked up and put the helmet on. I saw flashes of images in my mind, I focused. They stopped. I saw an image of a young girl. She was hiding in an abandoned house somewhere in Phoenix, AZ. I took the helmet off and ran to Storm and told her what I had seen.

Everyone but I and Kitty stayed to look after the kids. Kitty told me to go to my room and get some sleep. So I did, like most nights I had trouble getting to sleep. I felt like something was going to happen. Then all of a sudden all of my metal objects started flying across my room and I blacked out.