issue #16

"So you're telling me that the child's blood is constantly mutating?" Arthur heard a voice coming from his side, he began to open his eyes little by little, the lights in the room bothered him too much, besides feeling very disoriented

"Oh, it looks like our sleeping beauty is waking up" said another voice, different from the one that asked the question, Arthur managed to concentrate and jumped up, looking around.

"Wow, calm down boy, you have to get used to waking up from a telepathic attack, believe me, it's very painful" said a hairy man, he was short, 1.65 cm, leaning against a wall while smoking a fan

"Who are they, where am I?" Arthur asked with doubt in his voice, at one point he was fighting with a guy with claws and at another he was waking up in an unknown bed

"We, Mr. Arthur, are the X-Men" he said as a man in a wheelchair entered.

"Oh, you're the ones Grace talked about" Arthur said calming down a bit, he remembered some of them for being superheroes, but only the most popular ones.

"Yes, Arthur, and right now we are at my school" said the man as he offered him a hand, Arthur accepted the man's greeting and asked

"Excuse me but, who are you and, a school?" said Arthur with doubt in his voice

"Oh excuse me for not introducing myself, I'm Charles Xavier, but you can call me professor and yes, this is a school for gifted people, like you or Grace, it's a school for mutants" replied the man in a wheelchair

"My friend, if you will allow me a moment, I would like to give you some tests, now that you are awake" said a man who had blue fur, a white coat and glasses.

"I'm sorry for his imprudence, he almost got us out of this lab, this is McCoy's, but you can tell him Hank" the professor said as he looked at his friend who was very interested in testing the boy

"Professor, we need you in her office" said a blonde haired woman who entered the laboratory followed by 3 other people, when she saw Arthur, she grabbed her head with a little pain, and saw Arthur from a strange way

"What's wrong with the child? His mind seems to be that of a child with hyperactivity" said the woman

Arthur looked at her doubtfully, he didn't really know what was happening, he felt very confused.

"Oh yeah, I did some studies on him and basically, his brain's synapse and processing goes very fast, similar to when children consume large amounts of sugar, their thoughts go too fast to follow linearly" Hank said while looking at a report in your hand

"Okay, now everyone, calm down, we're confusing the boy" said a dark-haired woman, dressed in a black suit.

"It's true, Arthur, please, finish the exams with Mr. McCoy and then go up to my office, we have a lot to talk about" the professor said before leaving, behind him all the people in the room, only the blue man with Arthur in the room

"Okay kid, we're just going to do some general exams, I already took a sample of your blood, I'm sorry for doing it without your consent, but we needed to see if you had a problem" Hank said as he apologized for taking Arthur's blood without his consent. consent

"...Okay, by the way, how long have I been sleeping, my arm is almost completely healed, besides my abdomen, and that would take more than 8 days" Arthur said, wondering how long he had been unconscious.

"Well boy, about that, you've been unconscious for 4 days, and your arm and abdomen were almost completely healed by your regeneration powers, but I helped with some medicine, that's why they healed faster" Hank said as he finished with the exams general

"Very well, that's all, you're in perfect condition, looking at it from your perspective of course, your body is very unique" Hank said, putting a lot of emphasis on the last words, Arthur understood what the man meant and nodded.

"Where do I have to go to meet the teacher?" asked Arthur

"Just continue down that corridor, you'll find an elevator, it will take you to the academy, from there just ask any kid I passed, oh and I recommend you not use your arm, even if it's almost healed, it's better to be safe" Hank said while he was going to one of his computers

"Okay, thank you very much, Mr. McCoy" Arthur said before leaving the lab and entering the elevator.

When the elevator opened its doors, Arthur could see a large room, the walls were made of wood and it was very big, perhaps the biggest room he had been in in his entire life, he looked around and saw a lot of children running, some were levitating, others were running on the walls and others were levitating their study books

Arthur was amazed, it had been a long time since he had seen so many people in one place, but he couldn't keep thinking that when he felt a light fall next to his face, Arthur was surprised and turned his head and saw a window, from where The light of the ... sun was coming, it was the natural light of the sun, when when he felt Arthur ran out a door and found himself in the backyard of the great mansion

When Arthur felt the sun's rays fall on his entire body for the first time in two years, he smiled, this sensation felt great, finally after a long time he saw something other than concrete walls, he was no longer locked up, now he was free, for the first time Arthur felt free, and he ran, he ran as he had never thrown him out

He ran throughout the garden, he dropped to the ground and smelled the grass, he approached a tree and felt it, he never thought that he would feel so happy to touch a simple tree, the children who were around looked at him, surprised by his behavior, but Arthur didn't care, he just kept touching the ground and feeling the heat of the sun, it was the first time he was really happy

As Arthur was doing this, Charles was watching him from a window, with a red-haired woman next to her.

"I don't understand how someone can be so happy just touching the ground" said the woman, not really understanding what the boy was doing.

"It's not about the ground itself, it's about what it means to him, everyone would behave the same if they were locked in a bunker of pure stone, you still haven't been able to see inside his mind, but when you do you're going to understand, jean, what you had to do, the mental and physical torture you went through, i don't know i would wish it on anyone and if it hadn't been for a stroke of luck, all those kids would have ended up dead, and we wouldn't have been able to do nothing" Xavier said while getting angry

"We couldn't do anything professor, we didn't know anything about this, we won't always be able to save everyone, it's horrible, but it's the truth" said the woman, who went by the name of jean

"Ignorance will never be justified, jean" said the professor ending the conversation, since they heard a voice coming from the office door

"Hmm, Professor, I'm Arthur, may I come in?" Arthur said from the other side of the door.

"Of course young Arthur, come in" said Charles, a smile on his face.

Arthur entered the room and found a rustic office, everything was made of wood, and on the sofa next to the room was a red-haired woman

"Arthur, this is Miss Jean Grey, Jean, this is Arthur Knight" said the professor introducing both people

Arthur stared at the woman, she was beautiful, red hair, green eyes, and white skin, he had never seen a woman so pretty, except for her mother

"A pleasure, Arthur" said the woman while she wrinkled her eyebrows a little, she entered the boy's mind, but not pleasure at all, everything was going very fast, besides being very messy

"Hello" Arthur said to the woman.

"Well Arthur, you may wonder why I wanted you to come to my office, because I want to offer you a place in our school, a safe place, where you can live, a place to call home" said the teacher giving a typical director's speech

Arthur was surprised, he hadn't had a place to call home since his mother died, that damn bunker was the furthest from a home, the only good thing he had there was his teacher and Sofi, but just when he thought about this he surprised, he had not heard from them, he did not respond to the teacher's offer and hastened to ask

"Sofi, Sofi, where is Sofi, where is Mrs. Cadius" Arthur said as he got up from his chair and began to get anxious

"Calm down, boy, if you're talking about the woman who was rescued with you and the girl who always asked for you, they're fine, they're currently resting" Jean said, she could feel the boy's mind going crazy

"I can see them?" Arthur said

Jean looked at the professor, and since he seemed to know that he wasn't going to receive an answer right now, he nodded towards Jean.

"Yeah, let's go see them" Jean said as she left with Arthur following her.