Fan Fiction ❯ On the Wings Of A Shadow ❯ Chapter 2

I woke up from that dream again in a pool of cold sweat. I looked at my digital

alarm clock; it flashed 5:45 in its red digital numbers. I smacked myself in the forehead.

"Why do I keep having that weird dream? It's so whacked out. Every night I see a little bit more of it. I mean it's not like my life isn't weird enough."

My names Raven, I don't know my birth name since I was abandoned or some crap like that so my foster mother named me for what I looked like. I have short black hair. I'm 5'1 and weigh 92lbs, but that doesn't mean I can't pack a punch. I'm 14 years old, but man lives hard for a teen with weird mutant powers! So what if I was born with an X gene, it isn't my fault. And since I'm a mutant that labels me as a social reject. I can absorb negative energy into myself and reverse it through my body or into a weapon of my choice. Most often I use my Japanese bow.

I jumped out of bed and walked to the bathroom. I switched the lights on, temporarily blinded and walked into the sink. I turned on the cold water in the shower and grabbed a towel.

Not many people know the full extent of my powers. I mean sure, the whole school knows a little fraction of my powers ever since that little mistake I made while throwing the base ball. I mean it's not my fault that I mistakenly charged that baseball with energy. Nobody got hurt, but it did set the baseball field on fire. That got me out of gym for weeks.

Now I'm a social reject other wise none as a Freak or mutant. There are a lot more mutants than people think, but no one notices since they're too busy believing Senator Kelly. "Mutants are evil, they're here to take over the world," he says, how could anyone believe that?

I try not to use my powers too much, in fear of being found out. I know the government is doing experiments on the mutants that they've captured. I can only hope that no one else finds out. Lucky for me they blamed the baseball field fire due to the drought and the reason it caught on fire was from the friction we made while sliding into the bases. Stupid right? They know what really happened, everyone in 7:10 gym saw, but of course having a mutant in class cant be good for the school reputation, so they had to keep it under wraps.

I jumped out the shower and looked into the mirror. "No wonder nobody talks to me, I am a freak, but that's the ways I like it" I said while pushing back my black streaked blue hair out of my face to get a better look at the bruise on my left eye. "Hope nobody notices that." I grab a tight black tang top, pair of baggy black shorts, and a pair of red gloves with the fingertips cut off. I snapped on my red bracelets and tied up a pair of red vans. I threw them on and ran down stairs.

I could smell French toast on the way down. "Morning mom, what's for breakfast." she was running around the kitchen flipping the French toast. "Hey Cait, it French toast for today."

Unlike other people mom knows all about my powers, I mean it's like a mother's intuition, plus she's nosey and has to know about everything in my life; but she wasn't ashamed to be the mother of a mutant. She actually lets me practice around the house.

I looked at my watch and it said 7:45 "Shit! Mom I have to go to school, no time for breakfast. School starts in 15 minutes!" Time flies when you're going crazy and living past memories! I grabbed my backpack and jumped on my board. "Bye Mom!"