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This very first chapter is dedicated to elle_jontae, because as my sister and closest companion, she was the first every person to ever read this when I started it... 4 years ago :) Don't ever forget the 'metal balls', Elle. Love ya. :*

Water drops from the rain gutter onto the street. I look around, not sure how I got here. I felt like maybe I was in a daze, or maybe this was just a dream. It was hazy in this area. There wasn't any fog, but the setting was eerie. Then the winds suddenly brushed by me, making my long caramel hair leave my shoulders and fall down my back. The wind blew again, but much stronger this time, making me grasp my body, in a futile effort to keep my body warm. The scene was getting more and more eerie, when the water droplets started to get louder, and shivers racked through my body.

Wait.

That isn't water that's-

"Footsteps?" I said aloud and it echoed through the hazy city I was in.

"Hello?" I tried talking to the person who had either extremely big feet, or was stomping around like an elephant because they were extremely angry.

I don't know which one I would prefer.

"Hello, Skye." A man had said and startled me out of my thoughts. I spun around to see who it was. It was the same guy who had been haunting me for weeks.

Magneto.

Everyone knew who Magneto was. He was the crazy mutant who was building a rebellion against the government, and was always using his minions to attack the MRD (Mutant Response Division). I've only seen him on T.V. and in the nightly dreams that I have been having the past couple of weeks.

"What do you want?" All of my dreams went like this. It was an endless vicious cycle of small talk and him chasing me until I fell off a cliff.

"How are you getting inside my dreams?" I said and started to shake.

I thought he wasn't going to say anything like usual and just chase me until I woke up, but this time he actually spoke.

"How nice to see you again, Skye," Magneto said not answering my question, and sending unwanted shivers down my spine.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him again sharper this time, trying to make him answer my question.

"Straight to the formalities I see, Skye. You know that isn't an attractive quality." He sang the last word.

I gave him a hard look. I knew I was being extremely ball-sy, but we were in my dreams, in my head, which I have total control over, and he wouldn't be able to hurt me here--right?

"On the contrary, Skye, I have a friend that can make your dreams not your own," He said reading my mind with a smug look on his face that I wanted to remove.

I rose one of my eyebrows "Excuse me?" I asked.

"What, you didn't think that the only mutants out there are metal-manipulators/magnetism masters did you? I guess that means he hasn't invited you to his nun-house yet..."

"Who is he?" I asked suddenly being wary.

"Oh, you'll know soon enough. He'll come knocking on your door begging and pleading your 'parents' to send you to his institution."

I gave him a weird look. The way he said parents bothered me. "Institution?" I asked starting to feel worried. I had no idea why I was deciding to trust this wanted criminal's answers, but I was asking anyway. "What do you mean by institution? Like as in an asylum? I'm not crazy so that--"

"Oh, don't worry, Skye." He said seemingly calm.

"You'll come to me anyway, soon enough." He said even more calmly.

I needed to get out of here. This was getting to creepy and the fog was getting to thick.

I closed my eyes pushed myself to wake up.

Come on, come on!!! Wake-up from this nightmare!!!

"Don't worry, Skye," he said again smiling evilly, "It will all be over soon," he turned to walk away and then added, "Oh and tell your mother and father I said 'hello'." And he disappeared into the fog.