Born with a strange birth deficiency, Echo Camden was called freak from day 1. Doctors mused and were puzzled over her strange appearance. There only theory is, when she was born, she self ignited a light within herself that caused her eyes to glow as if radioactive. Bullied and tormented to the point of depression, Echo looses her color and floats around her small town as a grey and broken soul, only until one fateful night on her sixteenth birthday. Walking through the whispering woods, Echo discovers a breath taking power within herself. Able to conjure breathtaking color and anything her mind can dream of, Echo becomes self aware of her powerful new self. Through awe and fear, things get out of hand, she meets a talking Bob cat named Binx, and releases a live Griffin in her school, we'll that's when Jay Grimm shows up, , whisking her away to the world of Asylum, to discover she's the missing, great and powerful Aurora wielder.