55 Meeting X-man Eva bell!

Timeline-100BC.

I had heard rumors, of a woman traveling through Greece on a reign of terror. From the sound of things, she had the ability to drain a person of their life with a mere touch. The people began calling her the woman in black. Someone that dangerous, lurking around Greece was a danger to all. I had gone on a journey all throughout Greece, searching for the woman in black.

" Hey man what are you doing?" I turned around and one of the vendors had caught me staring at the note on the wall outside their shop.

" Sorry, just following this." i told the man as I pointed at the note.

" Ahhh, wanna catch the woman in black do ya? Well, stop it. That woman has bought me more business in the few weeks that someone posted that damn note, than I've ever had in my whole life working here. I don't need you ruining business for me or any other of the vendors here in Thebes. We don't get much traffic through here that often anyway." The man spoke. He might have seemed like he was making a threat or being mean by his choice of words, but his tone was at least still respectable.

" Ah, right. Sorry. My bad sir. I understand your woes. I promise, I'll try not to look for her too hard." I told the man,

He scoffed and shook his head.

" Well, don't mind me. She is dangerous. If you manage to catch her, I guess you'll be doing Greece, no maybe the entire world a favor." He spoke.

See there's that Greek hospitality.

" Here why don't you take something for the road." He reached over and handed me a basket of bright red apples.

" Thank you, sir." I reached into my bag and pulled out a handful of Drachmae for the food and offered it to the man.

He stuck his hand out and pushed them away and shook his head no.

" There on the house. Consider it a gift from an old man." He spoke.

I smiled and nodded and then with another thank you, I walked away. I waited a few hours until the man began to close up shop. Once I had the chance to snuck by and placed a bag full of Drachmae in his shop. With that he shouldn't have to work another day in his life.

" Consider this a gift from a god to a good man." I spoke. I then disappeared before he could come back to find me.

After placing my gift to the man, I began walking out of the city. I had searched the place from top to bottom, literally. I even went underground, and I couldn't find a trace of the woman.

" Whoever, she is. She's quite the rat. I can't seem to find any solid lead on her. It's as if she doesn't exist at all. Which I guess is entirely possible. It could be some guy made up a story. But I'd prefer not to take a chance. And it's not like I'm going anywhere any time soo-" I was speaking.

However, before I could finish my sentence a bright blue flash of light appeared in front of me. Sensing that there was something weird about the energy, I jumped back and quickly summoned my Trident.

Torrents of lightning and ripples of water surrounded my body as I prepared to face whatever it was that was coming out of that thing.

The light began to dim, and I raised my Trident ready to strike down whatever foe it was. But when the light cleared all, I saw was a little girl, no older than maybe seventeen, flopped on the ground in strange clothing with strange marks on her face. Her face was wrought with fear and anguish.

" Where... Where am ?!" She asked. She looked around in a panic and started to breathe heavily.

" Easy girl. Easy, you are safe." I told the girl.

She looked up at me in confusion, but when she got close to my face her eyes widened.

" Mr. Thomas?" She asked. " The X-Man? Where are we?" She asked.

" What are you talking about?" I asked the girl " I can't understand you. Can you understand me?" I asked the girl. I had never heard the language she was speaking.

The moment my mouth opened she looked at me like I was crazy.

I slapped myself in the face. She was wearing strange clothes and she was speaking a strange language.

There was only one thing I could think to do.

I reached out my hand slowly, she flinched at first, seemingly still in some kind of shock. I pulled back gently and nodded at the girl. I then began inching towards her again and this time she let me place my hand on her head.

I created a psychic link between us that would allow us to communicate.

It wasn't uncommon to come across a new language and doing this made it easier than learning from scratch.

" Can you hear me?" I asked the girl.

" Yes." She replied.

" Okay, first let me introduce myself. My name is Timaeus. Who are you?" I asked the girl.

" It's me, Eva. Eva Bell. You know me, I was with Cyclops when we came to Xaviers. Remember?" She asked.

" Xaviers? What's Xaviers? And what Cyclops were you with? There are more than one." I asked the girl.

" Not Cyclops as in the giants. Cyclops as in..." She was speaking and then suddenly her eyes widened in shock. " How old are you?" She asked suddenly.

My concern for the girl immediately disappeared and I looked down at her like she was stupid.

" Oh, no. It all makes sense. You don't know who I am... Because we haven't met yet. I'm in the Past!!!"

The past? This can't be good.