Raven Darkholme / Mystique

"Keep running. Keep running." I kept mentally screaming at my legs. They couldn't stop. If they did, who knows what could happen. I rounded another corner. There was that shadow, following me. Shaped like a man, but a man wearing a cape. Who wears capes these days? Totally tacky.
I ran and ran, pumping my legs harder and harder. Finally I rounded a corner, my foot found a pothole, and I went down. Hard.
My arm took the brunt of my fall. Still, despite which part of my body hurt the most, I was down. Now that man in the tacky cape hovered over me.
He held out his hand, "Join me child. 당신 have...

A note about when this takes place. I’ve set this sometime between when Hope recruits Pixie to the team and before Schism. This period of time may have only been a few days for all I know but for my purposes it will last as long as I want. This is mostly because I really don’t even want to try and deal with lining this up with Schism.


    Suddenly the voices stopped. The bugs started to dissipate. Mary stood up. Looking around she noticed that there were six people there besides her, her sister, and the red head. There was a girl with blue skin and red hair, a girl with...