I waited anxiously in the snowy lawn for Logan and Storm to arrive with the new student. I was determined to make him feel welcomed here as much as was possible. Honestly I've made a listed plan and hoped it would work. My plans have been going well lately and it didn't hurt to think of one. I picked up my list and checked the first task impatiently while Crest sighed at my side.

"Step one, wait for new student… check…" Crest smacked me with his tail once I finished reading it. I coughed and spat out the fur that got into my mouth. "What the heck!?"

'You need to relax! If your to persistent on the schedule you'll end up loosing him to it. Just show him around and he will be fine.' said the wolf, he was right though. I might end up doing more harm then good with keeping up with the list. He might freak out and end up not liking it here… or more likely he might end up hating me alone for being so studious.

"Fine… I guess I'll just wing it… but I'll keep it with me just in case!" Crest shrugged and laid down next to me his black fur looked nice in contrast to the snow. I looked over the lawn to see the school's jeep driving up the path to the mansion. Excitedly I jumped up along with Crest rushing to the front door to great the new guy. I eased Crest's fur down brushing off the snow and fixed my straightened my clothes doing the same.

'Want a mint while your at it?' I was going to smack the jerk but I wanted to make a good impression so I turned on my image inducer so he wouldn't be to freakout by my tail or ears. I stood up straight and smiled brightly as Logan opened the door to the jeep. He waved hello and turned to open the door for the new guy who stepped out and stretched.

The guy was handsome and about the same age as me. He had awesome white hair tied in a tail not as long as mine but still pretty long reaching down to his shoulders. His icy blue eyes smiled my way looking on confidently. He wore tight black sleeveless shirt lined with white fur at the collar that matched his hair and a pare of thick blue pants also lined with fur at the feet and the waist and thick brown leather boots. He dressed well seeing as he came from the north pole. He walked up to me and held out his hand smiling brightly.

"Hey you must be one of my new classmates, nice to meet you. I'm Noatak Coles, but you can Liam." I shook his hand and smiled back.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Devlin Mercer. Welcome to the institute!" I said waving my arm motioning to the mansion. When his icy eyes lit up I felt a surge of blush reach my checks. He looked so cute and happy. The blush only deepened when Logan smirked at me and patted my back almost too low.

"You show him around pup and I'll take his things to his room." he leaned down and whispered into my ear. His breath hitting my skin with warmth. "I saw that look you gave him pup. When your done showing him around I'll show you why you'll always choose me." I swallowed a lump in my throat and stifled down a moan as he stroked my tail. How he found it with my image inducer on I did not know.

"Wow this place is huge!…" Liam turned to us and lifted a confused eyebrow. "You OK there Devlin? You look kind of sick." Logan chuckled and tugged at my tail lightly before letting it go. He smiled like he did nothing and walked away.

"The pup is fine, he just needs a second. See ya later kid, I got to pick up a few things with Storm." I took a breath and shuttered for a second and smiled Liam when I calmed down.

"Are you sure your OK?..." I nodded my head trying to regain my dignity but before I could answer he gasped in shock. I followed hid eyes and saw that he was staring at Crest like he seen a ghost.

"A spirit!? There are spirits here?" I rose my eyebrows, normally when someone saw Crest they thought he was a big dog and nothing more until he spoke or used some form of power. Liam could tell him for what he was really right off the bat.

"How did you know that?" I asked confused. Crest was the one to answer my question.

'He is an Avatar. A human with the power to speak with the spirits of the world. As a spirit born from the moon he can see me for what truly I am. Tell me child what do I look like in your eyes?' Liam smiled.

"A wolf with pristine white fur and glowing eyes of fire." Crest smiled and walked up to Liam licking his hand.

'Thank you… it has been so long since I had that form. To be reminded of it brings joy to me.' Crest walked away while I turned to Liam who looked happy to have met Crest.

"So is that your power? To see spirits?" Liam smirked and shook his head.

"Not exactly, I can see spirits but I think that's more of a birth trait then a power." he looked around for something until he stopped and stared at the snowy ground. He took a breath and got into a stance like he was about to fight and gracefully lift his arms, when he did a patch of snow lifted from the ground turning back into liquid. He balled his fist and grunted as the water formed into an icy stone. Swaying his arms in-front of him he took a deep breath and slowly released it making the icy stone turn to a fog of mist. He took a nother breath and sighed turning to see my amazed eyes.

"you can control water?" I asked he chuckled and shook his head no.

"Not just water, I can control fire earth and wind… but I'm not that good at wind yet." he said disheartened. "no mater how I try it I could only do it once when I was five. The other elements were a breeze… but…"

"Don't worry." I said patting his back reassuringly. "that's why were here. To learn to control our powers and use them to help other mutants." he smiled at me and beamed with hope.

"Do you really think I can do it?" he looked so hopeful, from the skill I saw already I knew he could.

"You bet!" I led him inside and showed him around, we saw the rec room, the kitchen, the dining room, and the library.

"This place is freaking huge!" he said excitedly. I smirked as we got to the elevator.

"Oh you haven't seen anything yet." once inside I pressed the button with the large X on it and we descended into the metallic basement. The moment the doors opened he gasped and whistled impressed.

"Wow..." I showed him the med room, the new X-jet and Cereibro. "How loaded is the owner of this place?"

"Loaded enough to buy a spare Jet…" I gave Liam a look and wondered if he was ready for a danger-room session. The professor asked me to test him once he got to know the mansion. Because of my healing tears I was perfect for testing his limitations. "Do you feel like testing your powers?"

"You mean here?" he asked worried. I shook my head knowing that he didn't want to end up destroying the room.

"No, we have a special room for that." I told him to follow me and I showed him inside the danger room. I walked him to the locker room while I handed him a temporary training suit. "Get changed and I'll meet you out side."

"Oh OK..." he immediately pulled off his shirt and fiddled with his belt. I quickly walked to my locker and did the same trying to keep my eyes to myself. Sadly for my sanity I peeked a little seeing his smooth stomach with little sighs of muscle. He kind of looked like I did before my body changed only a bit taller and more slightly more muscled.

I tore my eyes away and finished putting on my uniform. My old one was ruined so Logan had a new one made for me. I really liked it. It was almost exactly like my old one with a few new features. It was black hooded and sleeveless shirt showing my arms and two holes inside the hood so my ears could fit through and an X on the chest, a pare of tight black pants hung to my legs with a blue flame design on feet, a pare of open towed sandals that allowed me to use my toe claws and a pare of finger less gloves so I could use my hand claws without scraping my knuckles. The professor made sure it all was extremely flame retardant so as to not burn up whenever I used my fire.

"Wow!" I turned around to see Liam fully dressed in his temporary uniform. "will I get one of those?"

"Yep! The professor lets us choice our own design once we graduate into being an X-men." he looked confused so I explained more. "an X-men is like an honors class type of deal. When you show you can defend yourself and be able to control your power you get to go on missions to help protect other mutants who need our help. For now your level is Beginner, then you go to New recruit and from there you go to X-men. Does that make sense?"

"Yeah I get it. So when do I start?" I smirked and waved for him to follow me. Once we were back inside the Danger room I shouted out to the computer.

"Password: Azure Flames

Program, Glade of the Fallen, START" a monotone voice of a woman sounded in the room.

'Voice recognition recognized, Access granted, welcome Mr. Mercer.' once the voice faded the room began to change in a wave of light. The roof faded away until we were under a bright star lit sky shining down on a field of blue flowers and lush green grass. Liam gasped in amazement.

"What just happened?" I chuckled.

"The Danger room has a virtual reality program that can change the room into whatever is programed into it. The grass, flowers, earth, and sky are all as real as it needs to be. Honestly I'm not sure how any of this works but for all intensive prepossess it is real but not." I waved my hand to the flower glade and smiled. "How do you like my program? You can make one two if you'd like… after you fight me."

"Cool… wait what!?" I turned off my image inducer and revealed my ears tail and claws getting into a battle stance. Blue flames danced around my hands and feet spreading to the flowers forming a circle of flames around us like caged arena of fire.

"Show me what you got!" I leaped after him with my clawed hand rushing for his chest. He leaped away from me as I continued into the flames hiding behind them as he called out.

"So you want to play rough huh!? Fine!" He stretched his arms lifting to boulders out of the ground and forming them into two clubs which he spun in his arms ready to fight. "BRING IT!"

"You'll regret saying that." I chuckled as walked into the fire with my hood up, my eyes glowed with fire as I smirked at his worried but steed fast demeanor. I rose my hand and clicked my fingers two wolves walked from the ring of fire snarling with the same fiery eyes I held.

"That's what you think!" the wolves charged at him without mercy. Skillfully he pounded the wolves with his stone clubs making them fade into smoke one by one. I waved my hand summoning five more surrounding him with fangs and claws of fire. Liam swung away at two more before his clubs shattered and the wolves caught one of his arms. "Dam!"

"Don't hesitate! Fight like your life depends on it!" I could feel my eyes change into a deep blood red. "Because it just might."

"RAAAG!" roaring Liam rose his arm pulling the very liquid out from within the grass and flowers using it like a blade slashing into the wolves. Angrily he clawed his hands and two streams of fire shot out like blades which he charged at me with. "Take this!"

"...hmph." I focused my power transforming my hands and feet into dark blue clad fire. I grabbed at his blades and before they could hit me and swiped my clawed foot at him only for him to block it with a mound of stone he kicked up. I jumped back and escaped outside the ring of fire. He took a breath and waved out his hands pulling at the water within the ground and air until a large glob floated above him.

"Let's see you burn things when their wet!" he pun around sending the glob of water into a circular wave flooding the grass and flowers and dispersing my flamed ring. He brought his hands together and formed a large blade of red hot fire. He smirked as the fire around me died down.

"Hehhehe..." I chuckled to myself feeling a surge of energy fill me up. I rose my hands into the star lit sky and pulled them into my chest and let the energy burst from me. Dark blue fire emitted from my tail, eyes, claws, and mouth. I lowered myself to my hands and knees and rushed at him at top speed rammed my flaming body into his and swiped him with my tail. Sending him flying into the field. If he didn't block the attack with his sword he would have been crushed. Knowing what I did I calmed myself and focused on letting him attack. He lifted himself off the ground and looked kind of pale at me. And I could tell why, I must have looked like a demon from hell at the moment. "GIVING UP!?" I growled like a wolf ready to rend it's pray.

"YOU WISH!" he rose his hands and pulled both the water and rock from the ground and combined them together with the water surging around the large pillar moving like a chain saw. He charged at me and I at him. He slammed his weapon at me and I tried to block it with my claws only to be pushed down by it's sheer force. "Got you..." he growled out. I chuckled when he said that. "What are you laughing at!?"

"Did you forget... I don't fight alone." five wolves jumped out of the shadows biting onto his arms legs and shoulder pulling him off me. The saw stone fell to the ground in a blast of rock and water as he they both hit the grass. My wolves surround me in a shield of muscled fur. "Have you had enough?"

"GRAA!" I stared in shock as his icy blue eyes were engulfed in a pale light. The ground around us shook and rose in long tall pillars. He trusted his hand out and the pillars of stone rushed at me in top speed. My wolves rushed at them braking a few while at the same time turning to smoke at the sheer numbers of them. I clawed at the numerous stones only to be pushed back further and further. Once the last stone fell to my claws I turned to Liam who was holding his hands up in the air. Confused I looked around to see the withered ground around me. Above him floated a huge ball of water the size of the X-jet. "TAKE THIS!"

"Crud!" the watery glob descended upon me as I charged my dark flames into a concentrated blast. Roaring I tossed the black and blue fire ball at the water making them both explode into a huge fog of mist, tossing us both back from the blast. My hands and feet returning to their normal shape and the aura of power from Liam faded away with mine.

"End simulation!" as we panted on our backs the room shifted back into the metal clad way it was only slightly burnt and wrecked. I sat up to see professor Xavier approaching us from the control room with Logan and Storm.

"Well done Mr Coles. You shown great skill and mastery of your ability's." the professor praised. Logan helped me to my feet and petted my fuzzy ears.

"You really gave him a beating pup." he said smirking at me when I blushed at his words. I turned to Liam who was kind of messed up from the fight. His arm was bleeding a bit and his face had a small bruise, his uniform was torn almost to shreds. I felt so bad. I rushed to him and cried a small tear into my hand placing it on his cheek.

"I'm so sorry Liam! I kind of over did it…" the tear drop spreed through his body healing all the wounds I inflicted on the poor guy. He shrugged and actually smiled happily.

"You kidding!? That was awesome! Your really powerful… I'm sorry for this." he said pointing to a bruise on my arm I didn't even notice. Crest appeared in-front of me and dropped a healing tear on my hand. "So you can control dark fire, summon wolf spirits, and heal people with magic tears?... That's pretty cool." I rubbed the back of my head and folded the ears on my head back shyly.

"Thanks..." he patted my back looked up at my ears and tail whistling impressed as if he was only really seeing them now.

"Those real?" he asked and I nodded yes. "can I?..." Logan smirked as I blushed deeply when I knew what he wanted to do.

"Sure… just don't touch to roughly, their kind of sensitive." Liem nodded and I vent my head so he could see more clearly. He gently ran a hand across one and rubbed it with his thumb and for finger.

"Wooow." I stifled down a moan as he released my ear and went for my tail filling the bone and fur. "That is so cool! I always wanted to know what it was like to have a tail… I'd seen the wolves around my home wagging these things and wondered what they felt like." He said dreamily as if he just accomplished a bucket list item.

"Mmmmph!" I pulled away when he grabbed the tail just a little to tightly. He gasped and waved his hands in-front of him concerned.

"Did I hurt you!?" I shook my head and Logan flat out laughed.

"Na kid, the pup likes that." Storm held back a laugh.

"Now why don't you to go get changed, Logan and I finished preparing your room Liam. Would you mind showing him there Devlin?" she asked. I shook my head feeling slightly calmer.

"Not at all. Lets go..." We waved goodbye to the teachers and made our way to the locker room. I quickly changed back to my clothes trying my best to not give in to spying on Liam. Once I was dressed I walked to the door and waited for him to finish, when he did I praised myself for being strong and showed him the way back up stairs.

We talked for a bit and I got to know a little more about him. He came from a small town deep in the north pole, where he learned he could see and speak to spirits that were drawn to the pole by the world's axis. I knew spirits were beings born from dreams of the goddess, who lived within the world. They were not directly born form her like Abaddon, Soran, and Crest but they were very strange and powerful.

He told me the village found out about his power to speak to the spirits and called him the Avatar; the one who can speak for the spirits. His story reminded me of Storm, her people believing she was a goddess and all.

Other then the tittle he had and his job to speak and keep the peace with the spirits, he told me he loved music and even played the piano and even sang. When we made our way to the rooms we bumped into Rouge.

"Hey, Dev. That the new guy?" She asked running her hand through her bangs. I nodded and introduced them.

"Yeah, This is Noatak Coles, but he priforse Liam. Liam this is Rouge." He held out his hand but Rouge shy away from it.

"No touching." she ordered. I turned to see the hurt look in his eyes and the slightly regretful look in hers. "Sorry, I just don't like physical contact."

"Oh! No problem." he said rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Hey Rouge!" from down the hall came running Laura. She turned to Liam and scaled in suspishion.

"Hey Laura!" I said smiling at my sister. "This is.."

"Don't care! Come on Rogue we got girl things to do." she said pulling the Goth girl by her sleeve.

"See you later girls!" I said waving them off a little mad at Laura for brushing Liam off like that. I turned to him and saw a familiar dreamy face. "Liam? You OK?"

"Yeah…" he sighed out smiling. I led him to his room and left him to relax and get settled in but not before he asked me a question. "Is.. is that Rouge girl seeing anyone?"

"No..." I said worried for his well being.

"Cool!… I mean… that's to bad.." I shook my head.

"Careful dude… she… she's got a lot of emotions running in her. Not all of them are happy." I felt a wave of emotion run through me to, it was like I was worried not for Liam getting hurt but for Rogue who I knew was kind of fragile. "Do what you want but be sure not to break her heart or I'll have to give you another Danger room session."

"I'll be good!" he said smiling brightly. I gave him a look and I could tell from his heart that he wasn't lying. I waved goodbye and went to find Logan.

"Hey there pup." I didn't have to look far. I turned around to see Logan standing behind me. He smirked at my slightly frightened face and firmly grasped my tail pulling me to our room. I gasped and backed up as he pulled me inside.

"Logan!?" He wrapped my tail in his fist and kissed my lips when I gasped.

"Missed me puppy?" my eyes fluttered and my heart raced when he growled into my ear taking it with his teeth. I gasped and tried to nodded my head.

"Always."

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"Now child of the darkness, RISE!" a woman with long green hair cackled with joy as a young man with short black hair and a build of a warrior stood up he was draped in nothing but a sheet of green dripping liquid. The man's eyes shined as red as blood, emotionless and uncaring. The woman circled the man and ran her hands over his bear chest and arms in ecstasy. "You are perfect. Now… speak, what is your one and only propose!?"

"…." the man looked around the room until a guard dressed in green armor caught his eyes. In the blink of an eye the man rushed at the guard and struck his hand through his chest ripping out his heart. He rose the bloody organ to his eyes and crushed it. "… to end all life."

"YES!" the woman shrieked in laughter as the man tore through another guard. "Kill them all!"

/X-men\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\