The Raven

The X Mansion

A/N - sorry it's a short chapter

I opened my eyes, amazed that I was still alive. I turned my head and saw Elizabeth locked in a bird cage. I started to struggle against the straps on my arms.

"No, please, let her out, she won't leave me!" I croaked.

A girl around my age walked over to the cage and unlocked it. Elizabeth cawed at her with thanks and then flew over to me.

"Sorry, we just had to be sure she wouldn't cause a riot," The girl looked at me apologetically, "I'm Katerina by the way, you must be Raven?"

"Umm.. yeah, my name's Elizabeth though, the same name as my bird," I say.

Katerina nodded and replied with, "I know, I just think Raven would be a good nickname for you, you have raven wings, hair like a raven, you live with ravens and your last name is Ravenson."

"How did you..." I began, but then I realised that I actually didn't care right then about how she knew my name.

At that moment, a man with fairly short, brown hair in a wheelchair wheeled in with a grey-haired women with silver eyes. Katerina looked up at them, then quickly left the room.

"Hello Elizabeth, my name is Charles Xavier and I am a mutant like you, this is my friend Arora, her daughter Ororo goes to this school," He started, "this is a school for mutants, a place where they can learn to control their abilities and to the outside world, we are just a school for the gifted and talented". He went on to tell me more about mutants and he also told me that we were on the verge of war. He wanted me to help him stop the war from breaking out.

And that is how it all began...