"I don't have much time so I have to write this down fast! I think something is after me, I see it in the dark sitting on the edge of my bed when I'm asleep. It just sits there and stares at me! I'm to sacred to move or breathe at night, knowing that it's there looking at me. I told the others at the orphanage but no one not even the other kids would believe me. I guess it's because they don't think a huge dog with burning blue eyes would be inside the building without anyone else noticing. Well I had enough! I'm going to runaway if only to save myself from being mauled or eaten. So whoever reads this please know I'm sorry for worrying the staff and teachers but I can't stay here knowing that it wants to hurt me. Please understand that I have to do this, I can't let something else hurt me like they did. I don't want any more pain, so goodbye."

Sincerely, Devlin Mercer,

After reading the note the police officer turned to the orphanage manager. The woman was in tears, never had a child runaway from her facility in such a way before. She felt as if she failed the poor boy. The officer sighed and shook his head.

"Don't worry miss, these things happen all the time, we'll find him and bring him back safe and sound. Now can you tell me more about the boy and what he has been seeing at night?" the woman wiped her eyes and sniffed.

"Devlin, he said that he kept seeing a dog inside his room. We asked his roommate but he said Devlin was making it up." The officer raised an eyebrow.

"So his roommate… he's an honest kid right?" the woman chuckled at that and shook her head.

"No not one bit, but there was still no sign of a dog so there was not much we could do but tell Devlin that we would check the rooms at night." As the woman spoke the officer took out a note pad and began writing.

"So… you did check the rooms at night, right?" the woman nodded and sighed.

"But we never found a dog." The officer wrote a little more and looked up at the woman.

"So in all honesty, do you believe Devlin was making this thing about a dog up?" the woman sat for a moment and thought.

"I… I think he's not well…." The officer looked up from his writing with a questioning look.

"What do you mean?" the woman looked nerves.

"You must understand that all the children here come from broken and harmful families. Some of the children are left scared and distraught to the point where even an adult would breakdown… and Devlin is one of those children." The officer closed his eyes and sighed, he knew too well about how hard a life a child in an orphanage would have and the past that brought them there as well.

"So your saying that he is having some sort of hallucination brought by his traumatic past?" the woman rubbed her hands and bit her lip.

"He may have more than just a hallucination."The officer raised his eyebrow and the woman sighed. "There have been… incidents."

"Such as?" the woman sat back and opened her desk taking out a couple of pictures and handed them to the officer.

"Fires, for the past week and a half we have been having small fires around the building. The fires were small so we didn't bother the firemen about them. But we learned that the fires happened around the places where Devlin usually spent his time." The officer examined the pictures; they were of scorch marks the size of pennies and small flames no bigger than a candle.

"So you're saying that Devlin started these fires?" the woman nodded.

"Yes but we never see him doing it and we never found a lighter or matches on him or in his room. So without proof we simple put the fires out and kept a eye on Devlin." The officer wrote down a few words and spoke up.

"Have to talked to Devlin about the fires?" she nodded.

"Yes we asked him about it but he said he never saw anything while he was in the rooms except…" the officer looked up to see a frightful look in the woman's eyes.

"Except?" the woman looked up and shook her head.

"Every time we found a fire Devlin would come to one of us and say he seen the dog or heard it in a room." The officer took a closer look at the pictures and saw something odd.

"These fires… they're blue." The woman took a picture and saw the fire.

"I… didn't notice that before. That's odd, are they all like the same way?" the officer nodded and saw a picture of the scorch mark and showed it to the woman.

"That look like anything to you?" the woman shook her head then gasped in shock.

"I can't believe I didn't notice this before! I was so preoccupied by the fires I never took the time to notice what they all looked like." The picture was of a black mark of the ground but in the shape of a paw far too large to be a dog.

"I seen a paw print like that when I was in the scouts, it belongs to a wolf." The officer stood up and shook her hand.

"We will be back to make a more thorough investigation involving the fire incidents, in the mean time we will be looking for Devlin Mercer, until then please keep in touch with us and let us know if you hear from him."

/X-Men\\\\\\\\

I don't know how long I have been walking, minutes, hour's maybe? I just know if I stop I'll run into the dog again. I feel so scared out here all alone with nothing but a pack and the clothes on my back, well and the dog but I don't want to count him. My feet hurt like heck but so long as I keep walking I'll be fine. I'll rest once I find someplace safe.

"Man, I'm fifteen! I shouldn't have to deal with this crud until I'm at least twenty and old enough to buy a gun… you know what I rather have a sword. Yes, a samurai sword! That would be awesome… I need to stop talking to myself." After walking by the road for a few more hours I finally made it to a truck stop. I walked inside and looked around for enough supplies to last me the next few days.

"Water, snacks, hmm, I guess I could use a lighter." Thankfully I saved up a lot of money from my countless odd jobs, sadly they were kid jobs so I had to work twice as hard for decent cash. Mowing lawns, selling lemonade, and paper boy stuff. It was horribly but it was enough to get me over a few hundred dollars. But I was starting to notice that it was not enough to last me forever. After making buying my supplies I asked the clerk if they had any odd jobs I could do for a few bucks.

"Well, I'm suppose to stocks are next shipment of soda but if you'll do it for me I'll give you five bucks." I agreed and went to work; thankfully it was just two boxes so I would be finished with it quickly. While I was stacking a voice scared me and almost made me drop the glass soda bottles.

"Hand me one of those would ya." I looked up to see a man looking down at me, the man looked gruff and tuff like a working man or an army soldier. I nodded to him and handed him a bottle or Soda. "Thanks kid." He walked to the clerk and paid for his drink then left. I sat there and shook my head clear. For some resign he reminded me of the dog but I didn't know why other then he scared me. Anyway I finished up my work, got my pay from the clerk and left the gas station.

/X-men\\\

After a few hours of walking I made it to another town, which was good because it was starting to rain. While running to find shelter I found a bridge that looked perfect enough so I made camp under it. I listened to the rain and smiled, the sound of the water was so peaceful. I just sat there on the grass and watched the river splash about as the rain fell.

"I can't believe I made it three weeks now…" three weeks on my own. I thought it was impossible but I did it. I haven't seen the dog in so long now, come to think of it, I haven't even thought about it since I left the orphanage. Maybe I finally lost it; maybe I'm finally free of it, free of having to be afraid for my life. I wiggled into my sleeping bag and sighed with relief.

I only slept about a few hours when I heard it, the sound of grass rustling. I quickly sat up to see the dog staring at me. I didn't waste any time, I quickly packed away my things and ran in the cold rain. I don't know how far or how long I ran but when I finally stopped I saw that I was clear out of the small town. Taking in a few ragged breaths I began to lose it, I screamed in rage and kicked a nearby tree, I just completely flipped out.

"Why! Dang it!" I slumped under the tree and sighed. "Why? Why do all this to me? Why fallow me around all the dang time?" I curled up into a fettle position and cried.

"Someone, anyone… help me."

/x-men\\\

Deep within a large round metal room sat a man in a wheelchair with an odd device on his head. Suddenly the room flashed and a picture of a young boy appeared, he looked to be a teenager with long black hair tipped with a dark shade of blue that matched his deep blue eyes that seemed to shimmer like starlight. The room filled with the sound of a computer animated voice.

'Mutant signature detected.'

'Name, Devlin Mercer.'

'Age, 15'

'Mutation abilities, Pyrokinesis, Umbrakinesis '

'Status, In Distress'

The paraplegic man smiled and turned to leave the room when suddenly.

'ERROR ERROR'

'Other mutations found within subject Devlin Mercer'

'Ability, ERROR '

'Ability… ERROR'

'Ability now recognized as Genesis'

'Warning, mutant ability Genesis is combining with both Pyrokinesis and Umbrakinesis, causing fulgurations within subject Devlin Crest's mind. Should abnormally continue subject Devlin Mercer will lose all mental functions.' The paraplegic man quickly pressed a button on his wheelchair sounding an alarm though the large room and out into the whole of the building.

"X-Men, report to the Black Bird, immediately!" the man approached the large computer and typed in the location of the young boy. Oddly enough he was very close to another mutant signature. One he recognized. "Logan."

/X-men\\\

"Getaway!" I ran as fast as I could, hundreds of the same dog came rushing after me, it was a whole pack of them. I noticed a few hours ago that more dogs started walking after me one after the other. I just kept walking to try and keep my distance but something happened to make me stop. The dogs started appearing out of fire, big blue fire balls that came out of nowhere. One, then five, then ten, then hundreds came rushing after me. There're eyes held the fire they were appearing out of, and I don't mean figuratively mean literally! There're eyes were burning, as they ran after me. I could only scream and run.

"Leave me alone!" I started to feel week and tired, like I wanted to just sleep and sleep. But I had to keep running; if I stopped I would be dead and food for those dang dogs! I kept running until I made it out of the forest and into the road, it was midnight so I doubt I could get a car but I had to try. I ran down the road in the dark with only the moon to guide me though the night. I looked back to see hundreds of blue lights rushing toured me like a forest fire.

"HELP ME!" as if god answered my prayer, a car came rushing up the road. With tears in my eyes I waved my hands back and forth to flag it down, I was lucky they saw me because I was wearing grey and black. The car slowed to a stop and a familiar gruff man stepped out.

"It's you?" Suddenly the dogs behind me roared so loud that I fell onto my back. They all rushed to the man fangs bared, ready to tear him apart. "NO!" I closed my eyes just wishing I was somewhere else when I heard a weird noise.

SHINK!

I opened my eyes to see the man standing his ground to the dogs, fighting them off with claw like knifes that I didn't see on him before, and I would notice a weapon like that, being the ninja and samurai fan that I am. He almost easily killed them off, or I think he killed them. They seemed to vanish into nothing when sliced with his knifes. Suddenly though more and more dogs began forming and attacking the man, until.

"Ugh… My head…" the world began to twist and spin around me and my body felt like I haven't eaten in days. I fell to the ground cold and scared. All the heat from my body just faded away, like I was a candle being blown out.

"Kid!" that was all I heard as I fell into the darkness.

/X-men\\\\

Falling, all I could do was fall. It feels nice… to fall.

'Murmur'

What?

'Murmur'

I can't hear you, speak up.

"Don't listen to him!" yelled out a deep voice that sounded very familiar, like I always known the owner of the voice. "Just sleep."

Why? Shouldn't I find out what he wants?

"NO! Just keep sleeping, it's safe here."

'MURMUR'

… It sounds important, but you may be right. It does feel nice here.

"Yes, just sleep. You must be very tiered."

Yes… I am… ok I'll just… sleep.

"Good, then you and I will be together soon."

'MURMUR!'

… You know what; this might not be a good time to sleep.

"YES IT IS!"

'W k# u^'

No… no i need to…

'WAKE ^&'

Yes, I need to know… I need to…

"NO!"

'WAKE UP!'

/X-men\\\\

I opened my eyes, the room was bright and it hurt to keep them open to long. I felt around me and noticed I was on an metal table. I tried my best to open my eyes to see where the heck I was but it was useless. It was like I was still sleeping; my whole body was weak and powerless to do anything other than laying there. I heard a noise on the other side of the room. I wanted to ask who was there but to my surprise I didn't have to ask.

"Hello Devlin, can you hear me?" the voice was kind and soft like the woman who worked at the orphanage. I wanted to say something desperately but I could only nod my head weakly.

"Mph…" I heard her moving tired me and rustling some papers.

"It's all right; you don't have to say anything right now. Just rest and regain your strength. You're in a safe place and no one can hurt you here." I felt like I could trust her so I did as she said. "oh I guess you're wondering where you are right?"

"Mph…" that was a good thing to ask. All I really remember is falling asleep…

"You're in the med room in are school, the Xavier Institute for gifted youngsters. My name is Jean and it's nice to meet you Devlin." I smiled and weakly nodded. "Don't worry, Professor Xavier fixed what was bothering you and you should be up in a few hours. Until then just rest you'll be ok."

"Mmmph…" I did as she said and laid back. I don't know how long I was asleep but when I woke up I was starting to feel a little nervous, I was in an odd metal room, nothing like any school I ever seen before.

"Did the lady lie to me?" I quickly jumped out of the metal bed I was on and rushed to the door. I had to find out where I am. The door was large round and metal; it took me a moment to find the button that opened it. I rushed out of the room and found a huge metal hall.

"This is definitely not a school." I rushed for the nearest door and rushed inside. I stood there with my mouth open wide. The room was not a room at all, it was a city. Burning buildings towered all around me. I somehow made it outside but it looked like a war was raging. Just how long have I been asleep? I didn't have time to think because a loud bang echoed behind me. I turned around and saw a large… thing. It looked like a mechanical spider; it was as big as a car and moved just as fast. The robot turned to me and started buzzing; I quickly ran scared for my life. I didn't get very far; I tripped on a rock and tumbled over. I held on to my leg in pain.

"My ankle!" I really hope it's just a sprain. I tried to get up but it was no use. The robot came closer and a gun barrel popped out of its back, the buzzing stopped and a net shot out of the barrel pinning me to the ground.

"Agh!" I struggled but it was starting to feel hopeless. There was nothing I could do, I'm just a kid! What can I do what could I do but sit there and wait to get killed by this robotic spider?

"No…. please." I thought I was free. That I was finally free from the wolf and all my worries were over. And now I'm about to die because of this thing.

"No… it's not fare." I never felt so helpless, even when… when brother.

"Sky…." What do I do? I need you; you were the strong one, the smart one the one who was always there! What do I do!

"Dang it!" why did you have to go away! I needed you! I still need you!

"Someone…" anyone. The robot was now right next to me, it rose its metal leg up menacingly ready to spear me though.

"HELP ME!" just as I screamed a red beam of light blasted at the spider and pushed it back a few inches as its leg hit the ground missing me. I turned around and saw a group of people; they looked odd standing there like superheroes in a comic book. I guess they were because they did just save me. there were five of them one seemed very familiar to me.

"NOW!" shouted a young man with a red vizier. He pressed a button on glass and the red beam of light shot at the robot again as the others ran toured me.

"Are you like, ok?" said a young girl with brown hair in a pony tail. She looked around sixteen, and smelt like she was bathing in strawberry juice. Another girl with short brown hair with a white streak held her nose probably thinking the same thing as me.

"Not if your perfume doesn't kill him first. What did you dump the whole bottle on you?" the pony tail girl frowned and pointed at a boy next to her.

"Its Kurt's fault! He ported into the bathroom and made me break the bottle!" I tuned to the boy and gasped he was completely blue with light fur on his skin, a spaded tail wagged behind him.

"I said I was sorry, what more do you want from me Kitty?" she punched him in the arm and shouted.

"To not do it again!" he whimpered and rubbed his arm sadly. I sat awestruck.

"Why are you all so calm!?" they turned to look at me surprised at my outburst. "The world looks like it's about to end and your complaining about perfume!?" tears started falling from my eyes. I felt so scared that I didn't know what was happening. But a loud noise shook me from my stupor and made all of us look in the direction of the robot spider. It fell to the ground in peaces before a man with metal claws in his hands.

"It's Him!" just as I spoke the world shifted and changed until we were all in a large metal room. "What happened where are we!?" as if to answer my question a metal door opened on the other side of the room and a bald man in a wheelchair came inside.

"We are in the institute for gifted youngsters, and more precisely the danger room. Hello Devlin, I'm glad you are finally up and about, but I didn't expect you to enter this room." A young woman entered along with the professor. She was the girl who I met while still asleep.

"You, your jean right?" the girl nodded and turned to the man in the wheelchair.

"Sorry professor I thought he was still asleep." He nodded and held his hand up to stop her.

"It's alright Jean, you did well looking after Devlin." The professor 'I think she called him' came up to me with a clam smile.

"I think you have many questions that need answers. Please fallow me." Boy was that an understatement! Still scared out of my mind I turned around and saw the man with the knifes in his hands. I ran to him and hid behind him holding on to his waist. He made a confused noise clearly not knowing what I was doing yet I held on. I didn't understand that myself actually… I just acted… the Professor smiled knowingly and spoke calmly. "Don't worry, Logan will be joining us." the man looked up shocked.

"I will?" the professor gave him a look I seen before when the orphanage teacher was talking to a student who was going to detention. "Yah I guess I am… thanks a lot Chuck." Logan spoke in a low growl that rippled though his body. Oddly enough I didn't feel scared… just safe.

/X-men\\\\\