"Jean, meet me in Cerebro's room" called Charles after sensing the new mutant through the computer. She emitted a strange signature, one that he barely could put up as human, but it was okay, some mutants didn't look as humans either. He was taken out of his thoughts by the redheaded teen entering the place. She was a little bit confused until she saw the panel with the information about the new mutant.
"Do you need me to accompany you to met this new mutant? Who is this time?" asked the girl, peeked from over the other telepath's shoulder.
"Her name is Edith Lair and… she is an orphan. Her birth name is a mystery and has some hostile behavior even with her pairs" he said, reading the girl's record. "Apparently she has been sent into foster homes a lot of times and every time she was returned by the scared parents telling that she was some kind of monster"
"Mutants are always seen like monsters…" commented Jean. "Do you know what kind of power does she has?"
"No, but I'm more than ready to find out"
-In the orphanage-
"You are saying that I'm a mutant?" asked the girl, moving her head. She had dark long bangs with pink stripes that gave it exotic look and strange golden eyes. She apparently had no problem in declaring her condition in front of the director of the orphanage that currently housed her, who was shivering. "Should have known it"
"Why?" asked Jean, a little bit confused.
"Because I have natural pink hair and three days ago shot some kind of laser from my finger that pierced my bedroom's wall. Pick up one" she answered, raising her hand. Edith drew in breath again, thinking about the delicious smell all the people in the room were emitting. Somehow she always was hungry, hungry for… humans, but she didn't know why. Maybe it has something to do with her mutant powers.
"Okay… so you could shot lasers from your fingers?" asked the older girl.
"Just one of them" answered Edith, raising it. "I'm not really sure how it works, but… every time I do it I got weaker"
"Well, in the Xavier Institute you are going to learn to control that power without hurting yourself" explained the professor. "So, do you want to come?"
"Yeah, it's better than being here" said the girl, crossing her arms. "Besides, no one wants me here since I came three months ago" after signing the papers to trespass the custody of the teen to the Xavier institute, the director of the orphanage asked the professor to talk to him in private about some things concerning his new student.
"I have to tell you something" she started, sitting with her arms crossed. "Being difficult wasn't the only reason the authorities had to transfer that girl so often. She has some kind of stalker that always follows her wherever she went"
"And do you know the identity of the man? Or what he wants?"
"No… the only thing we know about him is that he arrived at the country with a newborn Edith in his arms, telling that she was the love of his life and that he was going to live with her forever. The police took her away immediately and protected her identity, but he kept coming back. Nobody knows how he found her"
"Then we will be careful in case he shows up" promised the professor, confident that an entire school full of mutants could contain the strange man.
"That guy is dangerous, I warn you. He could escape the police every time they have him surrounded, some even said that he was some kind of monster" she said. "Well, now she is your problem, don't let her get out of the right path now"
"I won't"
They returned to the institute with the new student, who wasn't really amazed by the super powered teens running through the place, not even with the ones that have different powers from her. Then she expressed her desire to dissect some of them to find the source of their powers… of course without killing the precious specimens.
"What are you saying?" asked Jean a little bit horrified.
"I like science… a lot. I want to be a scientist when I got older and for now I'm interested in this mutations. They are pretty interesting, but I will need to open up some of them to find out how this works"
"You can't just open up other people!"
"Says who? I can do whatever I want" she crossed her arms and refused to listen to reason. When they arrived she was sent to her room, to install herself, frowning at the little room she was assigned to. "Well, it could be worse"
"Hey, we want to say hello!" said an exited Kitty, entering to the room without knocking. Edith raised her head and frowned at the girl. "It's very rare to have a new girl in the house, so I want to know if you want to go to the shopping mall later or…"
"Too fast" cut her the new mutant.
"Oh, right, so you are a more Rouge kind of girl" practically ignored her the still exited Shadowcat. "But we can still be friends. We can do something later, like read fashion magazines or chat in the school or…" continued Kitty. "Hey, I love your hair, who painted it pink?"
"It's natural"
"Oh… it's part of your mutation? Can you change your appearance at will or something like that? Can you do it for me too? Or…"
"Can I dissect you?" asked Edith, hoping to scare the overly chatty girl she had in front of her.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard right, I was asking you if I can cut you open" repeated the pink stripped haired girl. "For what I know about your powers it seems that I am not going to be able to do it unless you let me, so I'm asking for permission"
"Of course not! Do you know how ugly stitches looked?!"
"I was not planning to get you out of that alive, so you don't have to worry. I have more than enough specimens to work with here"
"Do it and you are dead, kid" said another person from behind. Logan appeared, sensing the new girl was serious and that… well, she didn't smelled like mutant at all. Hell, she didn't even smell like a human being. Her smell was more like a carnivorous beast, a pretty strong beast that they might not be able to control… but if Chuck said that she was going to stay with them then he trusted his judgment.
"I don't see anyone stopping me"
"Edith, I see you already knew Kitty and Logan" said Jean, entering the room. She brought Scott with her, for safety. "We came to give you this, it´s your new school schedule at Bayville. Classes start tomorrow. You will have to talk to the principal, but… well, he isn´t a mutant lover. In fact he hates us, but if you stay in your side of the line…"
"I´m not doing that, I will do whatever I want" answered her, looking at Wolverine with an interested face. "Are you really a man? You smelled like flesh, but inside of you there is a metal stink that makes me wonder is you are some kind of cyborg. This is interesting, have you a computer for a brain or…?"
"I´m a human, a mutant" growled Logan. "But I have a healing power that allowed someone to cover my skeleton with adamantium."
"And yu got out alive of that surgery? Even more interesting" commented the girl, getting closer. "How fast this power works? Will you allow me to cut you up and get some samples? It could be very useful in the future for…"
"Stay away, crazy bitch!"
"Logan!" Charles entered the room and looked at Edith. It was something great to have a young person so interested in science most of the time, but… she was some kind of crazy and extreme. "Stop this, you too Edith. If you want to learn something about science I suggest you to go help our resident doctor in his experiments"
"I don´t think I will do it, he would consider me too young to actually help in anything important" she answered, raising an eyebrow.
"I will talk to him"
"Okay…"
-The next day-
"Do I really have to do it?" asked the pink stripped haired girl, looking at the entrance with a grim look. She was at the front door of Bayville High School with a group of rejected mutants... or one of the two groups of rejected mutants of the school. Everybody started looking at her as if she was some kind of freak show, waiting for her to do something amusing. "I mean… I have a higher IQ than most of the students and college level´s knowledge."
"You have to do it and don´t worry, this is going to be easier than you think… I hope" said Jean, pushing her towards the building. Edith sighed and walked with the other. Another first day in a new school, breathing the delicious essences of the students. She didn´t know what was so tempting about them, she already tried once to savor the flesh, but it was definitely disgusting. But they kept smelling so good...
"You said I have to speak to the principal" commented the younger female. She needed to put more space between them or she would attack and that wouldn´t be pretty. "His name is Kelly, no? It sounds like some kind of girl doll."
"Don´t say that in front of him" she knocked on the door of the principal´s office and entered with the new kid. Kelly was finishing his tie when he noticed the mutants on the entrance. His gaze landed on the unknown one and frowned. Jean tried to comfort her by putting an arm on her should on her shoulder, but Edith was not intimidated… she was ready to fight, to show who was the strongest to this weakling.
"You brought a new one, I see" he said in a very petulant way. "I will not accept her in my school, we have more than enough monster in it without adding more"
"As if I want to belong…" a hand was held in front of her mouth, shutting her up.
"Her name is Edith Lair, principal, and if you forgot it already, the scholar council was clear in that we shouldn´t be discriminated because of our powers" the red haired girl was very clear, adding emphasis via some well-placed mental waves. "So please, just don´t mess with her in her first day. She already has her schedule, so we have nothing else to talk about"
"Don´t put yourself comfortable, monster, you won´t be long here."
"I don´t want to last long, just to mop the floor with your ugly face" she answered with a roar much like an animal. It scared the principal… he was not used to this kind of mutant. What kind of power she had? Could she be more dangerous than the others? Then he can use her to expel the rest of them before they could cause damage to the normal students.
"Just get out of my way"
"Hum! Who does he thinks he is?!"
"The principal" stated Jean, very serious. "Don´t mess with him or he could make school a living hell for all of us"
"Talk for yourself, I´m not staying long…"
"You are and go to class. You can be a scientific genius but everyone needs to study to improve themselves!" Edith was taken to her class while looking at the redhead with a glare. She wanted to show that ugly human who was the boss. She stopped to think why she was doing those kind of things and the only answer was that it was her instincts. Why did she have instincts like that? But then again, she was not a normal human. The bell ringed before she can get out of her mind and the other x men arrived to get her to the canteen.
"What kind of food do we have today? I´m starving!" said Bobby, happy. Kitty show him away to be near the new girl and started chatting about a shopping trip for her, already forgot the creepy answer she got before. Edit simply showed her away and walked towards the food source. As always, it tasted like sand and didn´t make anything for her hunger.
"Come on, you have to eat!" tried to encourage her Tamara. "Guys, I don´t think Laser girl is feeling okay, do you think we should…"
"Laser girl? Who the hell thought a name as stupid as that?"
"Excuse me, but I didn´t have more time to think about a better name" said Kurt, very offended. "You could be more nice, you know?"
"Being nice is not part of me" she answered. "In fact, I doubt there is even an ounce of goodness inside me, maybe I was born to be evil" she roused and walked away, finally finding a group that sits better with her. "Hello, I´m Edith"
"So you are the new girl the X-geeks have" said Lance, putting his feet on the table.
"That I am"
"But you didn´t seem to be as boring as they, how the hell did you end up with them, pretty?" asked Pietro, taking one of her pink strings into his hands.
"Things happened, but enough about me, talk me about you"
"Well…"
"Edith, what are you doing?" asked Jean, walking towards them and grabbing the new mutant. "They are evil, you shouldn´t be with them."
"But as I said, I am too, and our chat was pretty interesting. Go away, please" Edith sat down again and the redhead retired worried. What kind of new girl did they just accepted in their home?