Not a Spider But a Dragon

[DragonsEye]

"Wow! So, this is how a magic circle looks."

Everyone, myself included, were amazed by the large magic circle shining brightly before our eyes.

"Ah! You all are finally here. Wait a moment!" Ancient One said these words before turning back to give instructions to the sorcerers who were handling the magic circle.

"Alright! The magic circle will be ready in just a minute. Now, all you need to do is to just enter the circle and use your powers. We will take care of everything else." Ancient One explained what we needed to do after confirming that the magic circle was ready.

"So, which one of you will enter first?" Ancient One asked the question.

Everyone besides me was anxious to enter the magic circle but we all knew who wanted their powers to be analysed the most and thus deserved to go first.

"Rogue! Go, you are the one who requires it the most." Ms. Ororo gave an order to Rogue to go as she knew how much she required it.

"But! But!" Rogue was clearly surprised by Ms. Ororo's order. Looks like she had expected to go first.

"Yeah! You should go, Rogue." Everyone of us supported Rogue in this matter, even Jean who was clearly having some problems because of her mutant ability these days.

"But how will I use this power? You know how my power works." Rogue expressed her worries regarding how would she use her power and on whom?

"Don't worry. Peter had told me about your condition. As such, we had already procurred a good test subject for you." Ancient One gave an order to a sorcerer who went somewhere and came back with something in his hand.

"A turtle!" Indeed, in the hands of the sorcerer was a turtle.

"Yes, a turtle. According to what Peter has told me about your condition, I believe that your powers may be related to lifeforce. As such, the turtle which has a large lifespan should easily be able to withstand your powers." Ancient One explained her hypothesis.

"So, you don't need to worry. You just have to enter the magic circle and touch the turtle. We will take care of everything else."

As per Ancient One's instructions, Rogue went inside the magic circle and touched one of the turtle's legs reluctantly.

Looks like Ancient One's hypothesis was correct. The turtle, upon being touched by Rogue was looking a little uncomfortable but otherwise good.

"I believe that is enough." After about a minute, Ancient One gave the order that the analysis was complete. As soon as she said these words, Rogue immediately put the turtle on the ground as if she was afraid that something would happen to it.

"Looks like it is indeed a complex matter." Ancient One frowned as she saw the results of the analysis.

"Master Wong, fetch me that book about mutant abilities related to the body." Ancient One asked Master Wong and he immediately opened a small portal around his hand to fetch the required book.

"Hmm…" Ancient One's expression seemed to worsen as she looked through the pages of the book and along with it, Rogue's hopes also seemed more likely to dash with every passing moment.

"Your situation is worse than I had thought." As Ancient One said these words, Rogue's expression visibly saddened as her hopes had been destroyed.

"You don't need to be sad, Rogue. I am just saying that it would be difficult to deal with your situation, not that it can't be dealt with." Ancient One reassured Rogue that her condition could indeed be resolved.

"Really?" Rogue's face brightened as she heard Ancient One's words.

"Honestly, your powers look more like a cursed body than a mutant ability. It reminds me of Vishkanyas of an Ancient Indian evil cult who could poison anyone just by touching them." Ancient One explained what she had learnt from the analysis of Rogue's powers.

"As such, it will be quite difficult to deal with your powers. So, we will need to analyse your powers more accurately before we can design anything to restrict them. You just need to visit a few more times with Peter. After some thorough analysis, I am sure that we can develop an artefact which can seal your powers temporarily."

As she heard Ancient One's words, Rogue's eyes grew misty because she finally saw a ray of hope.

Seeing Rogue's misty eyes, Ancient One hugged her in order to console Rogue despite her reservations about anyone touching her.

"So, who is next?" Ancient One asked after Rogue's matter was resolved for the time being.

"Kurt, you should go." Jean said to Kurt, despite her needing it more as she was having headaches these days. This was just like Jean, always trying to be considerate of everyone.

"But, Jean–" Kurt obviously tried to protest but relented after seeing her stubborn look.

"And deactivate the holo watch. You don't need it now." Jean ordered causing Kurt to deactivate it and reveal his true appearance.

Kurt was obviously surprised to see no visible reaction on anyone present's face upon seeing his true appearance.

"Don't worry, Kurt. They have faced much worse looking interdimensional monsters. So, they will not face discriminate against you just because you look a little different." I reassured Kurt that he will face no discrimination in Kamar Taj.

Then, Kurt entered the magic circle ready for analysis. The observation of his powers was simple as he just needed to teleport around in the magic circle.

When the analysis of Kurt's powers was finished, Ancient One had a complex expression on her face as she looked at the data.

"May I ask you, Kurt that from how long ago, you look like this?" Ancient One asked politely.

"Since I can remember," Kurt gave the shocking answer.

"Then where did you live before joining the school?" I asked curiously because anyone who looked this would obviously have already been on the news.

"It was in an isolated facility. Some people used to take care of me there but most of them obviously didn't like me. When my teleportation powers finally awakened about an year ago, I got the chance to escape that place.

Then, I was on the streets for a few weeks but Professor Xavier found me fortunately and offered me a place in the school. It was then I learnt that the facility I was raised in was actually a secret lab which was researching on me."

Kurt explained his lonely life with a sad face. It was the first time I was seeing him genuinely sad. To think that the ever happy Kurt had such a sad backstory.

"Have you ever wondered why are your powers such complex compared to the powers of the other mutants?" Ancient One asked Kurt. It was indeed surprisingly, especially since his appearance was like this from his birth.

"It is because your parents were mutants, likely both of them." Ancient One dropped the bomb that Kurt's parents were mutants.

"But if my parents were mutants, then why did they abandon me?" Kurt said with tears in his eyes.

"Hey! Don't be sad. We are here to support you." We all tried to console Kurt amidst this sudden revelation.

While we consoled Kurt, I had a thought out of nowhere. That mutant woman, Mystique also had blue skin, similar to that of Kurt and the shade of blue was also nearly same.

Although everyone else among the students didn't have a good glance at Mystique because we didn't have time during the mission because of Sabertooth and she was locked away as soon as we arrived at the school, I had a good glance at her.

Could it be that Mystique was Kurt's mother?

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I created a backstory for Kurt since I could not find one on wiki. Also, Peter now has a suspicion about Kurt's parentage.

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Although this was currently just a hypothesis, there was a very good chance for it to be true. As such, I should ask Professor Xavier to check if there was any truth in this assumption when we return.

"I am sorry, Kurt if I caused some of your bad memories to resurface." Ancient One apologized, even if all she had done was explain the results of the observation of his powers to Kurt.

"It is alright, Ancient One. Besides, if you hadn't told me about this matter, who knows if I would ever learnt about it." Kurt said to Ancient One that there was no need for her to apologise.

"Alright. Moving on to your powers, aside from your teleportation ability, you also have a great affinity towards spatial attribute. As such, I would like to offer you the position of an honorary sorcerer in Kamar Taj." Ancient One suddenly gave an offer for an honorary sorcerer to Kamar Taj, surprising all of us.

"An honorary sorcerer! Is this spatial attribute such rare that you would offer an honorary sorcerer's position to me easily?" Kurt questioned, having already heard from me how rare it was for someone to have an honorary position in Kamar Taj.

"Have you seen Peter's storage bracelet?" Ancient One posed a question instead of answering Kurt's question.

"Of course, I have seen it. Its function to store a large amount of goods in such a small space is simply miraculous." Kurt replied, having seen my spatial bracelet's efficiency.

"Then you should know that it was made using the spatial attribute. And the spatial attribute is so rare that we would be considered lucky if we could find someone with it in a century.

Currently, most of the storage bracelets we have were made about a thousand years ago by researching an extremely rare spatial attribute artefact called Tessaract. As such, we are in imminent need of someone who has spatial attribute.

Once you have some sort of mastery over spatial attribute, you can help Peter in making the strongly needed storage bracelets."

Ancient One explained why she had suddenly given such an offer to Kurt.

"So, do you accept my offer?" Ancient One asked Kurt after completing her explanation.

"Hell yes! Who in the world would miss a chance to learn magic?" Kurt agreed excitedly to her proposal, ready to learn some magic.

"Jean, you should go next." Scott said to Jean after it was confirmed that Kurt would be a honorary member of Kamar Taj.

"But I believe that you need it more, Scott. Mine is just a small problem. What if Ancient One could find a way for you to deactivate your powers temporarily? Then, you would not need to wear these sunglasses every moment of your life." Jean argued that Scott's problem was more important.

"Fine. But you have to promise me that you are going next." Scott relented but not before taking a promise from Jean that she was going next.

"Alright. Start the analysis. But where should I focus my lasers?" Scott asked after entering the circle.

"Peter, would you please make some targets? However, make sure that they don't enter the magic circle." Ancient One asked me to create some targets for Scott to shoot.

"With pleasure." I casted the Spectral Wyverns spell, creating wyverns for Scott to shoot.

"So, what are the results?" Scott asked as he came out of the circle after shooting all the wyverns.

"Hmm… Your problem can be said to be the opposite of your friends. Your power is simpler in nature but it is because of this fact that it is difficult to deal with." Ancient One said after seeing the results.

"Your power is an energy emission type which can be considered to be one of the simpler mutant abilities but the problem is that the organ which is used for the emission of the energy are your eyes. As such, it is difficult to deactivate your mutant power especially since it is quite strong."

"Does that mean you can't do anything?" Ms. Ororo asked, worried about Scott's situation.

"It is not that we can't do anything but that it can't be solved in an instant. We can guide him in controlling his powers and even enhance their firepower.

However, if Scott wants to deactivate his power, he would have to gain full control over them. We can just guide him throughout the process. The actual result will depend on Scott himself."

Ancient One revealed that she could not do much in this matter as Scott would have to depend on himself for his condition, all she could do was guide him along the way.

"Could you not create an artefact to suppress his mutant power like you are doing for me?" Rogue asked after hearing Ancient One's words.

"We could have created one if it was any other organ which was the channel for releasing energy. But eyes are too risky. One mistake and Scott could turn blind. As such, we can't do anything." Ancient One explained why they could not do anything in this case.

"You all don't need to worry. Ancient One has already said that she will guide me in controlling my powers. I can do it myself with her help. It will just take some time." Scott told us not to worry as it was not a bad result.

"Jean, it is your turn now like you have promised."

"I know. You don't need to repeat the promise." Jean said, entering the magic circle.

"So, what should I do for testing?" Jean asked Ancient One.

"You just need to float these objects for sometime." Ancient One said while floating some objects inside the testing circle. "If we can't find anything, we will try telepathy."

As per Ancient One's instructions, Jean started floating the objects. At first, everything was good then suddenly something unexpected happened.

Jean's telekinesis started going haywire. The objects floating around her were crushed by the increasing pressure and her psychic powers created a small storm centred around her.

"Jean, stop it!" We all yelled at Jean, calling for her to stop yet she didn't seem to hear it for some reason.

"Ancient One—"

Buzz! Buzz!

Ms. Ororo was just shouting at Ancient One who was observing everything with a calm expression till now to ask what was happening when even the testing circle started sparkling for some reason.

"Stop the testing circle now!" Ancient One gave the order in a loud voice with a horrified expression on her face.

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Well, we all know what had caused that reaction. I don't think that I need to spell it out.

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Just what was going on? I had never seen such a horrified expression on Ancient One's face.

Upon Ancient One's order, the sorcerers shut off the magic circle but unfortunately there was no change in Jean's condition.

"What do we do now to stop this, Ancient One?" Ms. Ororo asked, worried about Jean's sudden change.

"Don't worry. I can still stop it. The situation is not out of control." Ancient One ensured us that nothing will happen.

"We need to ready the Disharmony magic circle and immediately." Ancient One ordered all the sorcerers nearby.

Then, she casted a spell with her hand. Soon after casting the spell, all the sorcerers started carving a new magic circle on the ground altogether with Ancient One. From what I had studied so far, the magic circle seemed to be a psychic one.

From the looks of it, Ancient One had casted a telepathy spell to link the sorcerers and was creating the magic circle as fast as possible.

"Now!" As soon as the magic circle was completed, Ancient One immediately activated it after checking that it had not been carved wrongfully.

Soon after the Disharmony magic circle was activated, the various phenomenon surrounding Jean ceased to exist and she started falling down as if she was a puppet with cut strings.

"I caught her!" Emma said as she caught Jean with her telekinesis and brought her to us.

"Just what happened, Ancient One? The other tests had been normal. Then why had such an incident occurred?" Ms. Ororo asked Ancient One, anxious to know what had gone wrong.

"I will answer all of your questions. But I need to first ensure that what had happened with Jean has not caused any adverse effects on her." Saying these words, Ancient One immediately started analysing Jean's body with her spells.

"Looks like she is good, just somewhat exhausted. I will give her some medicine. She should wake up in just a few hours." After saying these words, Ancient One asked Master Wong to bring her the required medicine.

"Now, let me explain what had happened with Jean. She had said that she has been having some heavy headaches in the recent days. Those incidents and what happened just now was because of an external influence."

"External Influence? But how is that possible? It doesn't make any sense." Scott said after hearing Ancient One's words as he couldn't comprehend what kind of external influence could have such effect on Jean.

"It is because this external influence is not a person but likely some kind of mighty force. And judging from the amount of psionic energy I was sensing from Jean's connection to that external influence, it could even be a cosmic force." Ancient One explained just what kind of force we were dealing with.

"A cosmic force? Just what are we dealing with? How did something like this even get into contact with Jean?" Although my vision was broader than the others because I was a sorcerer and also because my powers were given to me by another version of myself, I still couldn't comprehend what was a cosmic force and how powerful it could be?

Also, it was questionable that how and why did something so powerful contact Jean? From what I knew about Jean, she had a normal life before she awakened her powers.

"A cosmic force is something which is said to be one of the pillars of this entire universe. It is so powerful that it can easily destroy this planet.

As for how something like this get into contact with Jean, it was likely because she was just compatible with this force. Judging from the intensity of the psionic power just now, it had been into contact with her for a long time. Her headaches before were likely because that mighty force was enhancing Jean's psychic powers above her limit.

What happened with her just now was because the testing circle had found the connection between Jean and that force during the analysis. This caused the force to learn that something was interfering with the connection. As such, it overreacted and rapidly enhanced her powers, resulting in the incident which happened to her.

Thankfully, I realised what was happening and immediately created a disharmony circle to cut off the connection between Jean and that force."

All of us were stunned when we heard what had truly happened. A cosmic force was connected to Jean and had tried to enhance her powers so much that her body could not hold it. The situation was so serious that we didn't know what to say.

"In this situation, what can we do?" Ms. Ororo asked the most important question after gathering some courage.

"Although this matter is serious, it is not something too urgent. This can be seen by how easily I had cut the connection between them temporarily. Moreover, these type of forces do not generally interfere in any matter. Although they are not considered to be living beings, they have some sort of consciousness.

As such, all we need to do is to harmonize the connection between Jean and that force for which she will require regular sessions with me.

Once Jean has harmonized the connection, I believe she will be able to have a normal life although she will become a much stronger mutant than before. Still, even after that, we will need to continuously check up on her as we don't know when something unfortunate may happen."

All of us took a sigh of relief once it was revealed that Jean could still be saved and the matter could be resolved even though it included an entity of unbelievable power.

"I will also try to find what entity it is which has a connection with Jean. Although we can solve this situation, it is still a very serious matter. This kind of activity has not been seen on Earth in over a millennium." Ancient One said that she will look into the whole matter as it was the responsibility of the Sorcerers of Kamar Taj. As such, we should not worry much.

"It was truly fortunate that Peter joined your school. Otherwise, I fear to think what would have happened if we hadn't found about this matter today."

That is right! If Professor Xavier had never found me, they would not have known about the sorcerers and never have a chance to use this test which revealed so much.

This could be said to be a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect. All of this happened just because I was saved by Spider Supreme and given these powers.

"Alright, everyone! Although there was an accident, I believe that these girls would be pretty disappointed if they do not get their powers analysed. So, I believe that we should continue the test now." Ancient One asked for the rest of us to take the test even after this incident.

All of us turned to Ms. Ororo, waiting for her answer as she was the one in charge after all.

"Very well. But I hope that there will not be any more accidents." Ms. Ororo agreed to Ancient One's request with a sigh.

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And so everyone learns about the fact that Jean is connected to a mighty force. Ancient One has not directly identified it to be the Phoenix Force because these kind of forces do not appear so casually.

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"It seems that the testing circle is ready. Check if it has been properly overlaid on the disharmony circle." Ancient One said, giving directions to the sorcerers who were carving the circle.

As the testing had to continue, the sorcerers once again carved the testing circle which has been destroyed because they had hastily created the disharmony circle.

Of course, because of what had happened with Jean, Ancient One had decided to be cautious and keep the disharmony circle and overlay the testing circle on it, just in case, something like the incident with Jean happened.

This led to more time being required to ready the testing circle as overlaying of magic circles was a complex job. But it was always better to have it and not need it rather than not have it at all.

"Kitty! It is your turn. Come, the testing circle is ready." Ancient One gestured for Kitty to enter the circle once it was confirmed that the circle was ready.

"Nothing will happen, right?" Looks like Kitty was slightly afraid after what happened with Jean.

"Don't worry. Nothing will happen. It was just a one-off thing." Ancient One said, ensuring that nothing will happen.

Kitty entered the circle after receiving support from Ancient One, her feet a little shaky but her stance got firm once she was at the centre. Looks like she was now ready.

"So, what should I phase out of? My powers don't really work if I don't have a picture of what I have to phase out of." Kitty explained that she could not activate her powers if there was nothing to use them on.

"Let me help!" Ancient One said, casting a spell and suddenly a wall popped out in front of Kitty.

"Alright! Let's finish this!" Saying these words, Kitty put on a determined expression. Then, she activated her power and phased through the wall.

"That's it. You can leave the circle now, Kitty." Ancient One said after Kitty had completed the testing.

"That was it! Looks like I was indeed worried for nothing." Kitty said as she realised that her worries were for nothing.

"Hmm…. It's a very unique result." Ancient One mumbled after seeing the results.

"Kitty!" Ancient One suddenly addressed Kitty in a serious voice.

"I will tell you the results. But first, I would like you to join Kamar Taj as a honorary sorcerer." It seems that the result this time was indeed unique. After all, Ancient One had already given the offer as a honorary sorcerer without even explaining the results.

"Really! Thanks a lot, Ancient One." On the other hand, Kitty was happy that she had got a chance to learn magic and had not even thought about the results which was rather typical of her.

"Your powers are very unique. Whenever you phase your body, you are actually displacing your body temporarily to a different dimension. This can actually be said to be an application of spatial attribute but it is such a rare application that I think has never been done before. As such, we would like you to join Kamar Taj so that we can see how can you develop this unseen power of yours." Ancient One explained just how unique Kitty's powers were.

"Wow! My powers are this much unique. And here I thought that my powers were nearly useless." Kitty was incredibly happy to learn how special her powers were. However, it was the first time I was learning about Kitty's insecurity regarding her powers.

"What's it I am hearing about, Kitty? How can you even think that your powers are useless?" Emma said to Kitty, angry at her for thinking that her powers were useless.

"Sorry! I will not do it again. It is just that my power felt very lame compared to everyone else's power. Besides I have now learnt how special my powers are." Kitty said, apologizing to her best friend for thinking this way.

"Emma, it is your turn. After all, you are the last one among the girls." Ms. Ororo said, reminding her that it was her turn.

"If I am correct, you are the one whose powers were enhanced by Spider Supreme, right?" Ancient One asked Emma politely.

"Yeah! What of it?" Emma said in a rather rude tone.

"No, it's nothing. I am just curious about the nature of your powers. Although we will learn about it anyways in a few moments." Ancient One clarified why she was curious about her.

"So, I just need to do what Jean was doing, right?" Emma asked after entering the testing circle.

"Yes. But before that, I need to analyse that diamond form of yours Peter had told me about." Ancient One replied.

"Alright!" Upon hearing Ancient One's words, Emma entered her diamond form so that it could be analysed.

In this diamond form, it looked like her body was made of translucent crystals thus the name. Although Emma could still be said to be beautiful in this form, it felt more like she was an alien beauty than a human one.

"Hmm… This form was given to you by Spider Supreme, right? It is indeed a powerful form capable of giving you superhuman strength and defence but it is not related to your X-gene." Ancient One explained after seeing the results that this form of hers was not related to the X-gene.

"But you should already have known its demerits, right?" Ancient One asked Emma.

"Yeah! I can't use my psychic abilities in this form. But on the other hand, in this form, I am immune to telepathic abilities which I have already checked with the help of Professor Xavier and Jean. In this form, it is like my skin becomes a complete nonconductor of telepathic abilities." Emma confirmed that she had already figured out the demerits of using this form.

"Well, since you already know, we can move to the main part which is your psychic abilities." Ancient One said, transferring some objects inside the circle for Emma to move.

"Alright! I hope nothing bad happens." Emma said, lifting the various objects with her powers so that they could be analysed.

At first, everything was fine but after a few moments, Emma suddenly started frowning for some reason. A small telekinetic storm could also be felt to be slowly forming around her.

I was about to ask Ancient One to stop the testing but it was not required as she had already realised that something was wrong.

"Stop the testing circle now! And also activate the disharmony circle." Ancient One immediately gave the order upon seeing that Emma was frowning.

"You okay, dear." Ancient One asked Emma as she ran to her immediately after the disharmony circle was deactivated.

"I am fine. I suddenly had a big headache for some reason." Emma explained what had happened.

"I know what had happened, dear. For some reason, you have a connection with the same cosmic entity who is connected to Emma." All of us were stunned when we heard the reason for Emma's headache.

"But how can that be possible? Jean has such a large phenomenon upon testing but I had just a headache." Emma asked as the results of the testing had been much different for her and Jean even though both of them were connected to the same entity.

"It is because your connection is weaker. Honestly, it can be even be said that this connection is artificial. I believe that it was formed by Spider Supreme and it was not there always." Ancient One hypothesized that Spider Supreme was behind Emma's connection to this cosmic entity.

Just what had Spider Supreme even used on Emma for this to happen?

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I know that Kitty's powers are based on Quantum Physics but I decided to make them this way since it was easier to explain. Moreover, I had better ideas for the usage of her powers this way.

So, Emma also has a connection to Phoenix Force. What had Spider Supreme used on Emma? That will be explained much later but I can tell you if you want to know right now.

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"Just what was that damn Spider Supreme thinking when he had connected Emma with this mighty force?" Kitty said while cursing Spider Supreme. This was very rare as Kitty almost never cursed.

"This is something I can't answer. Someone like Spider Supreme who can easily traverse through this vast multiverse has vastly different ideas regarding what he should or should not do." Ancient One replied, having finally decided to reveal to the students that Spider Supreme was actually from a different dimension.

"Multiverse? Are you saying that Spider Supreme was from a freaking parallel dimension?" Emma was flabbergasted to learn this fact as she had hoped to someday meet Spider Supreme and thank him.

"Yes. That's right." This time, Ms. Ororo replied to Emma's question.

"You knew! Then, why did you not tell us? Especially you, Peter. I thought that you were my friend." Emma asked angrily as she was furious that the teachers and me had hidden this fact from her and the other students.

"Don't get angry at Peter, Emma. It was us teachers who had asked him to hide this fact as we thought that this fact would be useless to you and only distract you." Ms. Ororo replied, asking her to not blame me.

"Sorry, Peter. I got angry at you for nothing. So, what should we do now in this situation, Ancient One?" Emma first apologized to me and then asked Ancient One about what to do next.

"Actually, having both Jean and Emma connected to the same being can be said to be a blessing in a way. As both of you are connected, anyone of you will not be overwhelmed by that entity's powers as the other one will be able to manage the load.

This situation will also be helpful to us because if somehow this connection makes anyone of you berserk from that cosmic force's powers, the other one will be able to calm her down. It will also be helpful in case you need to negotiate with that mighty force.

However, I can't guarantee if Spider Supreme had this intention in his mind when he connected Emma to this powerful entity or they were something else."

All of us released a sigh of relief when we heard that the situation was not as serious as we had thought and would even be helpful not only to Emma but also Jean. We had feared the worst when we had heard that Emma also had the same condition as Jean.

"Alright, since this matter has been settled for now, let's finish with the testing. Bobby, come." Ancient One called for Bobby so that this testing session could be finally completed.

"Very well. Let's get this over with." Bobby said, agreeing with Ancient One and entered the circle. For the most of the trip, he was mostly silent as he had only joined the school in the recent days. Despite that, he tried to do his best to give some support to us when the matter regarding Jean and Emma occurred.

Bobby tried his best to create some ice once he entered the circle although he still had a little difficulty using his powers as his X-gene had awakened only recently. However, it was fortunate that nothing happened during the testing.

"Your powers although simple have a lot of potential. Although you can only lower the temperature and create ice, the potential of your power is so high that I believe once it reaches its peak, you would be able to create Ice Age in a small area." Ancient One reported the result which was surprisingly very good and greater than even the wildest of our expectations.

"Really! I can't believe that my powers can reach such a point. Whenever I use my power, I can only create some ice which is not even that much." Bobby said, surprised to learn that his powers had so much potential.

"It is because your power has only recently awakened. You will realise the true potential of your powers as they continue to develop. I will write a guide for you which will help you along the process." Ancient One said, reminding Bobby to not underestimate his powers as they had recently manifested.

"Thank you, Ancient One." Bobby thanked Ancient One in advance for the guide.

"Well, it looks like everyone's testing is finally done. Honestly, it was a little too much shocking for me to learn how powerful their powers were. I don't know how I will explain to Professor Xavier that Emma and Jean are connected to a probably cosmic entity." Ms. Ororo said, sighing in relief that the testing was over as it was a little too shocking for her.

"What are you talking about, Ms. Ororo? You are still left." Ancient One reminded Ms. Ororo that her testing was left.

"Me?" Ms. Ororo was shocked to hear about her testing. Looks like she had not expected to have her powers analysed and had thought that it was only for students. Or it could be that she had forgotten about it due to the shock of Jean and Emma's test results.

"Yes, of course you. After all, you are also a mutant and a powerful one at that. I believe that you will learn a lot about your powers from this test."

"Very well." Ms. Ororo finally acquiesced to Ancient One's words and entered the circle to test her powers.

It was honestly a spectacle to see Ms. Ororo's weathermancy as we generally never got a chance to see it. The way she shot lightning reminded me a little of my own lightning bolts. And her small cyclones along with blizzards reminded me of several spells Ancient One had once shot at me although Ms. Ororo's attacks were much stronger in power.

"Well, your weathermancy is as powerful as it is versatile. Although it seems that you are not using its full power and potential." Ancient One gave her opinion after seeing the report.

"What do you mean I am not using my power at its full potential?" Ms. Ororo was shocked to hear Ancient One's words.

"Can you heat your surroundings? Or create mist?" Ancient One questioned.

"Of course, I can." Ms. Ororo answered.

"Then, have you ever created fire cyclones? Or made the mist you created cloudy or freezing?" Ancient One asked in her calm tone.

"No, ah!" As Ms. Ororo answered Ancient One's question, she realised what Ancient One meant when she said that she was using her powers at her full potential.

"Exactly. Your power allows you to create several unnatural environments. You limit your power by using it in a simple way." Ancient One explained to Ms. Ororo the true potential of her powers.

"Thank you, Ancient One. I will keep your words in my mind and try to enhance the way I use my powers." Ms. Ororo thanked Ancient One for giving her such a precious lesson.

Ms. Ororo was about to continue her conversation with Ancient One when a sorcerer came running towards our location.

I recognised this sorcerer. He was not someone from Kamar Taj. He was actually posted at the London Sanctorum. I remembered him because I had seen him previously when he had come to Kamar Taj to give a routine report to Ancient One.

"Ancient One, a dimension intruder has been found!" The sorcerer said, panic easily visible in his eyes.

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The mutant examination is finally finished despite several hiccups along the way. This examination will have a great effect on the story what with many of the students joining Kamar Taj and others receiving some teachings from Ancient One.

Anyways, a dimension intruder has been found! Who is it and how did it get here? Find out in the next chapter.

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"What did you say, a dimension intruder? When did it happen?" Ancient One became serious as soon as she heard the sorcerer's words.

A dimension intruder was always a serious matter and it was especially so in this case because a small scale dimension invasion had occurred not even a month ago.

"It was about half an hour ago. That dimension intruder was so strong and fast that the sorcerers we had sent simply had no chance against it. It was only by luck that we had been able to trap it in the Mirror Dimension." The sorcerer described the whole summary of the situation as fast as he could.

"I see. Wait a moment!" Saying these words, Ancient One created a magic circle and closed her eyes. Looks like she was sensing if there were any cracks in the dimension walls.

It was incredibly important to check the status of the dimension walls as soon as news was heard about any dimension intruder because it could be a prelude to an invasion. If there were indeed cracks in the dimension walls, it would not take even a single day before a dimension invasion would begin.

"Fortunately, there are no cracks present on the dimension walls." Ancient One said with relief evident in her tone as she opened her eyes.

"It seems that when that cosmic entity had hastily channeled its psionic energy through Jean, it had been quite rough in the process. This had caused the hairline cracks which had been present from the previous dimension invasion to widen momentarily this allowing the intrusion of that other dimensional creature." Ancient One explained what had actually happened.

"Now, tell me everything you know about this dimension intruder." Ancient One asked the sorcerer who had brought the news.

"We had felt a dimensional anomaly in the Alps Mountains about half an hour ago. We decided to check the anomaly first before reporting because the energy of the anomaly we had felt was just too low for there to be a big matter.

When we went to the place where the anomaly was felt, the entire region was covered in clouds with thunder and lightning crackling near continuously. That is when we saw the dimension intruder.

It was a wolf shaped creature although it was completely formed of lightning. As soon as we saw the creature, we launched several spells at it. But the creature disappeared before our eyes with a flash. The very next moment, it attacked one of the sorcerers but he was able to defend himself fortunately by creating a shield.

As soon as that wolf shaped creature hit the shield, it immediately retreated. It was just too cautious. We were no match for that monster as it's speed could be described to be as fast as lightning.

We only managed to trick it into the mirror dimension because it got too careless in the end. When it attacked me, I was able to create a portal to the Mirror Dimension right before it hit me.

I can only say that I was just too lucky. I had decided to take a risk because I knew that we would never be able to escape unless we trapped that creature."

The sorcerer finished his tale with a look of horror in his eyes. His face was filled with terror as he described just how powerful and fast this creature was.

"Hmm… It is indeed a rare and powerful creature. Moreover, it is even an elemental one and also a lightning attribute on top of it. Master Wong, bring me the book 'Agamotto's Book of Monsters: Beasts of Lightning'." Ancient One asked Master Wong for a book which described lightning attribute monsters when she heard about the monster's description.

"Here it is, Ancient One." Master Wong picked up the book by creating a small portal as if he was not taking it out from his library but from his own pockets and gave it to Ancient One.

"This is the monster. Thunder Wolf, a lightning elemental monster from Futhrak's dimension. It is a rare monster even there which has the ability to move at incredible speeds with the help of lightning energy." Ancient One showed us the monster's picture in the book which described a wolf shaped creature completely formed of lightning.

"Peter, I think you should go to hunt this monster. With your immunity to lightning, you are the perfect counter to this beast. Also, I remember that you had said that you required lightning attribute materials last time you had come to Kamar Taj. The elemental crystal obtained from hunting the Thunder Wolf would just be perfect." Ancient One proposed for me to hunt the Thunder Wolf as I was its perfect counter and the elemental crystal obtained from hunting this monster would be perfect for me to make my personal artefact.

"I can hunt this Thunder Wolf, Ancient One. But it would be difficult for me to match its speed. Although I can catch it with Thunderclap and Flash, I can only use this mystic art in short bursts while the Thunder Wolf can move at that speed continuously." It was not that I could not hunt it, but it would likely be a protracted battle which could go on for hours.

"Ah! That's right. You should not go alone. Maybe you can take one of the students here along with you. I think Emma would be perfect." Upon hearing my words, Ancient One suddenly proposed for Emma to come with me.

"But why Emma?" I questioned.

"Because the Thunder Wolf is a very unique elemental creature. As such, it would not be affected by most of the conventional attacks. On the other hand, most of these students don't have any defensive means. So, they can't fight against the Thunder Wolf who can easily approach them within a second.

Emma can defend herself with the help of her diamond form and she can also block the Thunder Wolf in its tracks using the telekinetic barriers.

The Thunder Wolf may be an elemental creature but it still moves in the physical realm. As such, it can be affected by telekinesis."

Upon hearing Ancient One's words, I realised that Emma was indeed the only one at this moment who could accompany me for the hunt of this unique creature.

"Peter, I am willing to go with you." Emma agreed to go with me even after hearing what kind of monster we were going to hunt.

"Really." I said, surprised by her willingness.

"Of course, I am willing. After all, where will I get this chance to see and fight such a unique creature. Besides, with you there, I believe that I will not even need to do much." Emma said, expressing her confidence in me that I could easily defeat the Thunder Wolf.

"Since you are going, Emma, let me give you some tips. Only use telekinesis to deal with the Thunder Wolf. Never try to enter its mind. The mind of an other dimensional creature is completely different especially if it is an elemental one. However, you can feel its mind to sense its location. It will give you a little advantage." Ancient One gave Emma some instructions regarding how to fight an elemental creature as a psychic.

"Also, let me give this to you for extra protection." Saying these words, Ancient One created a small portal and took out a bracelet and a ring.

"This bracelet is something I had created for Peter's training although there never came a day for its use. It will create a spherical barrier around you which has great lightning resistance. This ring can release a fireball spell although it only has five charges. It will provide an extra means of combat for you." Ancient One explained the function of each artefact patiently to Emma.

"Shall we depart now, Peter?" Emma asked after she had worn the artefacts and tested them to see if she could use them properly.

"Of course, we should depart as soon as we can. The more we late, the greater there is the chance that the Thunder Wolf will escape the Mirror Dimension." As the Thunder Wolf was an other dimensional beast, it could escape the Mirror Dimension although it would take it a lot of effort to do so.

"Peter!" Ancient One called out to me as both of us were about to depart.

"Although the Thunder Wolf is a lightning elemental, you should try your red lightning at it. Maybe you will be surprised by its effects." Ancient One said, giving me a final advice.

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So, we move on to Peter's first fight with a proper boss monster and it is even an elemental one.

Actually, I had the idea of the Thunder Wolf in my mind even before I had started writing this story and as such wanted to include it somewhere. So, here it is.

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"So, this is the place, huh!" I said as I looked at the mountains covered in dark clouds which crackled with lightning ever so often.

"Yes, this is the place." The sorcerer who had given us the message and accompanied us here, confirmed. Then, he pointed his finger to a specific location.

"This is where we saw and fought that Thunder Wolf."

Even without him pointing at the location, it was easy to see the field of battle by looking at the various tracks of burnt grass. Moreover, the smell of ozone was still thick in the air as it had been less than an hour after the battle.

Just how fast was that Thunder Wolf to create such wide tracks within so much less time. From what I had learnt from the sorcerer, the battle had lasted for less than a minute.

"I will pray for your victory, Dragon Sorcerer. I need to return to the London Sanctorum as we need to scan the whole area under our control to see if there has been another breach." Upon ending his words, the sorcerer opened a portal and then left for the London Sanctorum.

"Hey, Emma. Are you sure that you are ready for this battle?" I asked Emma now that we were alone.

At the Kamar Taj, I had not been able to ask because it was necessary to ready the combat team as soon as possible. Also, Ancient One had proposed herself for Emma to join so I didn't argue with her since we had to leave as soon as we could.

"Of course, I am ready. Why? Do you think I am not?" Emma asked in a challenging tone.

"No, I am more than sure that you are ready. What I meant from my words was that are you nervous?" I asked, this time however clarifying my intention.

"W-What? Why do you think like that? I am not nervous at all." Emma said with a flustered tone. So, she was indeed nervous about the upcoming battle.

"You don't need to hide your nervousness, Emma. Even I am a little nervous about this battle even though I am much stronger than this Thunder Wolf. So, you don't need to be shy and hide how nervous you are." I remembered how much of an ice queen Emma was. Even if she was much more friendly with me compared to others, she still tried to hide those emotions of herself which thought were shameful.

"You are right, Peter. I am indeed a little nervous." Emma finally admitted with a sigh that she was indeed nervous as she listened to my words.

It was always necessary to talk about such matters before an important battle as it helped in lightening one's heart and helped them focus on the upcoming battle. This was something Master Ying Nan had taught me.

"By the way, Peter. Are those Dragon Claws of yours ready?" Emma asked me remembering that little project of mine.

"The enchantments are still not complete, unfortunately. But even if the Dragon Claws were ready, they would not have been of much help in the battle. The air blasts they can launch are of little to no effect to an elemental beast like Thunder Wolf." I explained that even if the Dragon Claws were complete, they would not be enough against the Thunder Wolf.

"Anyways, let's get ready. It's about time we faced this Thunder Wolf." I asked Emma to prepare herself.

"I am ready." Emma said as she clasped her hand with mine as a way to show her confidence.

"Then, I am opening the Mirror Dimension. Always stay close to me after we enter it." I gave Emma one final warning as I opened the portal to the Mirror Dimension. After months of study, I had finally learnt enough that I could open a portal to the Mirror Dimension although that was all I could do currently.

As soon as we entered the Mirror Dimension, we could see a streak of blue lightning flashing from one point to another in front of our eyes. It had already destroyed the entire surroundings in this region while flashing.

After we entered, the streak of lightning stopped moving for a single moment and it was at this moment that we could see its true appearance. It looked just as it had been described by the sorcerer. A wolf shaped creature formed entirely of lightning.

"Woo~."

As soon as it saw us, it moved once again, this time with a howl. With my enhanced eyesight and sharp instincts along with my dragon sense, I was barely able to see and feel it coming towards me.

Seeing it approaching me, I also transformed my right hand into a claw and striked a punch towards it with my full power. I didn't hesitate to attack this creature formed of lightning because I could not feel even the slightest bit of danger from it with my dragon sense.

"Boom~."

As my claw clashed with the wolf's body, the wolf was struck away by the shockwave created by my punch although it was likely not hurt because of it being an elemental creature. The lightning which formed its body hit me when I had attacked but it didn't affect me a single bit.

Although I could launch my red lightning at it like Ancient One had suggested, I didn't want to do it at the start because it was not certain what would happen when it would be struck by my red lightning.

What if it actually absorbed the red lightning and grew even stronger? As such, it was more safe to weaken it first and then try this method.

The wolf retreated after being struck away by the shockwave. Then, it flashed once again, this time not towards me but towards Emma!

"Emma, be careful. It is going to attack you." I warned Emma as soon as the wolf moved towards her.

However, my warning was not even needed. Before the wolf could even reach Emma, it was blocked by a telekinetic barrier a metre before Emma.

As soon as the wolf struck the telekinetic barrier, it immediately retreated once again. It was truly a cautious creature, clearly similar to a wolf.

It started flashing not towards us but around us, trying to find a gap so that it could catch us offguard. In order to counter its strategy, I and Emma stood with our back towards each other so that we could not only cover the whole area but also each other.

Having an opportunity, I casted the spell 'Dancing Fireballs' which caused several fireballs to appear into the air around us, floating around as though they were dancing. Thus, the name Dancing Fireballs.

It was the advanced version of the spell 'Twinkling Stars' and both of them actually worked on the same framework. It was just that the 'Twinkling Stars' was the training spell and 'Dancing Fireballs' was its combat version.

The wolf struck again, once again attacking Emma. This time, however, it struck with its full power, attacking as though it were a massive bolt of lightning.

Emma also sensed the power of the attack this time and immediately created a telekinetic barrier and also activated the lightning resistant barrier from the bracelet.

But the Thunder Wolf easily pierced through the telekinetic barrier this time. As the wolf approached the lightning resistant barrier, Emma transformed into her diamond form as a means of extra protection.

However, the Thunder Wolf was fortunately stopped at the lightning resistant barrier as it could not pierce through it.

As soon as the wolf was stopped by the barrier, I launched all the fireballs revolving around at it. Emma also released the fireball spell from the ring Ancient One had given her.

The wolf was clearly hurt a lot by our continuous fire attacks but it was not ready to give in. It attacked me immediately after our fireballs had finished striking it.

This time, I tried what Ancient One had suggested. I released a weak bolt of red lightning at the Thunder Wolf as it pounced at me.

But when it was struck by my red lightning, I along with Emma were both surprised by what happened next.

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Hope you all are enjoying the fight with the Thunder Wolf! By the way, did you like the spells? You can give me suggestions for the spells if you have any ideas.

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"Grr~."

As soon as the bolt of red lightning struck the Thunder Wolf, it entered its body seamlessly. But what happened after that made it seem as if the wolf had been possessed by a ghost.

Red sparks started appearing on its body formed of yellow lightning. Moreover, the Thunder Wolf was completely still for some reason. Seeing the opportunity before our eyes, I started casting another fireball spell and Emma also pointed her ring at it for a follow up attack.

"Awoo~."

However, before we could shoot our spells at the wolf, it flashed away from us with a howl.

Then, it continued to flash all around the field while howling for some reason. Just from the sound of its howling, it was clear that the wolf was in pain.

After flashing all around for about half a minute, the wolf suddenly stopped. It was at this point that we could finally see its condition clearly.

However, the wolf's condition shocked both of us. Not only were there red sparks emitting from its body, the yellow lightning which formed the wolf's body also seemed to be destabilizing. Honestly, it looked as if the Thunder Wolf's body was breaking down before our eyes.

"I didn't know that Ancient One's suggestion could be such helpful. Do you think you should shoot some more red lightning at it?" Emma asked as I was more knowledgeable than her about these matters.

"I don't think it would be wise to shoot more of the red lightning at it. Just a weak bolt was enough to put the wolf into this condition. If it absorbs more red lightning, it is more than likely that it would explode, causing the elemental crystal to be destroyed. If that happens, this hunt would have been for nothing.

Moreover, there is also a slight chance that the Thunder Wolf could assilimate the red lightning and mutate which would only increase the difficulty in hunting it."

"By the way, do you know what is actually happening to it?" Emma asked curious about what was happening to the wolf.

"I think that the red lightning is acting like a virus for the Thunder Wolf because the nature of both lightning are different. My red lightning is much stronger and unique compared to its own lightning. It would be better for us to ask Ancient One later after we finish hunting it. So, let's finish the hunt while the Thunder Wolf is like this." I said as I casted another 'Dancing Fireballs' spell causing fireballs to float around me once again.

"Yeah! It's about time we finish the hunt. This wolf was seriously getting on my nerves by continuously attacking only me." Emma said as she created the telekinetic barriers and readied the fireball ring.

Afterwards, we continued attacking the Thunder Wolf in order to finish it off. Due to the wolf's condition, the battle now was seriously child's play compared to before.

The wolf not only could not speed up as fast as it was doing previously but also stopped often because of pain. Moreover, Emma could now trap it with the telekinetic barriers as she could make sense of the wolf's position because of its slower speed. This made it much easier for me to hit it with my fireballs.

"Emma, hold it down. I will finish it with a final spell." I asked Emma to hold the wolf with her telekinetic barriers as I charged a powerful spell, forming a concentrated flaming sphere.

The wolf was now on its last legs which could be seen from its dull glowing body.

"Here it comes." I shouted to Emma so that she could remove the telekinetic barriers from the spell's way as I launched the flaming sphere at the wolf.

"Boom~."

The flaming sphere caused a big explosion as it hit the Thunder Wolf. When the smoke was clear, we could see the wolf's body disappearing into thin air, leaving behind just a crystal.

"That wolf is finally dead. It was truly something. However, that last spell was truly explosive." Emma said as she commented on my spell's power.

"Well, this spell is not called the 'Flame Bomb' for nothing." I replied, explaining the nature of the spell.

I then walked over to where the elemental crystal was and picked it up. The elemental crystal was yellow in colour, looking as if lightning was coursing through it. A faint shadow of a wolf could be seen inside the crystal. The crystal also had some strands of red lightning inside it which surprised me. I will have to ask Ancient One about this matter.

"Emma, you alright?" I asked as I approached Emma even though the wolf had not even touched her throughout the entire battle.

"Yeah! I am fine. Just a little shaky as the battle was quite intense. I was on my toes the entire battle because of how fast it was. Still, thanks for asking." Emma said, thanking me for asking.

"Anyways. Since our work here is done, let's lea—" I could not finish my words because Emma suddenly kissed me on my cheek out of nowhere.

"What was that for?" I asked as this was the first time I ever had such an intimate interaction with any girl.

"Just letting you know that I like you and am interested in you. I know that you are currently not ready for a romantic relationship. But I wanted you to know that once you are ready, I want to date you." Emma said in a shy voice. Basically, she was just claiming the first spot for dating me once I was ready for a relationship.

"That's however if you are interested in me. You do like me, right?" She questioned me in such a sweet voice that I had never heard before from her.

"Of course, I like you." I confirmed that I did like her. Just that I was not ready for a relationship.

"Alright, let's return." I said in a bid to change the topic as the atmosphere had become a little awkward after Emma's sudden confession.

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"Jean, you are awake!" The first thing we saw when we returned was Jean who was now awake and looked perfectly normal and healthy.

"You guys are finally here. How did the hunt go? You guys aren't hurt, right?" Before we could ask how she was, Jean instead asked us about our condition.

"We are good, Jean. It was not a dangerous hunt. What we should ask about is how are you? You are the one who is connected to a cosmic entity and had caused such a huge phenomenon." Emma said as she asked about Jean's condition.

"I am good. You all don't need to worry. I had honestly felt nothing when I had caused that incident. I had just felt unconscious. Besides, Ancient One has said that she would hold regular sessions for both of us so that she can help us manage our condition." Jean said, comforting us that nothing serious had happened.

"Peter! You can talk with everyone later. Give me the report about the hunt." Ancient One said, interrupting our conversation.

"The hunt went great, Ancient One. When I did as you had said, this is what happened." I explained everything that happened in the entire hunt to Ancient One.

"Hmm…. You were right in not shooting another bolt of red lightning at the Thunder Wolf. What had happened to the wolf was because your red lightning is not only far more stronger than the wolf's own lightning but the magic signature in your red lightning is also much stronger.

So, when the Thunder Wolf was hit was by your red lightning, it acted as though a virus had entered its body. As the Thunder Wolf's entire body is made of lightning, its body simply can't absorb another lightning which has a much stronger magic signature compared to it.

If you had shot more red lightning at it, it was very likely that the wolf's elemental crystal would have self-imploded."

"But then why are there some strands of red lightning in the elemental crystal?" I questioned.

"That's because the red lightning you had shot at the Thunder Wolf was assimilated after it died as the crystal's assimilation ability is much stronger compared to the Thunder Wolf.

In fact, if you want to use this crystal to create an artefact, you have to slowly assimilate your red lightning in it. Only then would you be able to channel your red lightning through it."

Ancient One then continued to patiently tell me everything I needed to learn about handling the elemental crystal. However,I will not make an artefact from it before I have consulted Hye-rin and her grandfather as they were more knowledgeable in this field.

"This is all you need to know. Now, go and enjoy the rest of the trip with your friends. After all, there are only a few hours left before they have to return." Ancient One said, telling me to enjoy the trip before leaving.

And so, I went to where everyone was, ready to enjoy the remaining trip.

Honestly, this trip was truly a wild one with mind blowing revelations. However, it was also beneficial to everyone.

Rogue would soon be able to touch anyone, Kitty and Kurt became honorary sorcerers and Emma and Jean would also be mentees of Ancient One. It could be said that our school was now personally tied to Kamar Taj.

"What are you thinking about, Peter? Come, everyone is going to spar with Master Mordo." Emma said, seeing that I was lost in my thoughts.

"I am coming." That's right. There is no need to think too much. After all, despite all these hiccups, everything went well.

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Hope you all liked how the fight with the Thunder Wolf ended! This chapter marks the end of the school trip as I don't want to stretch it any longer.

Also, it is now confirmed that the pairing will be Peter and Emma unless my mood takes a drastic change. Moreover, this story will likely not be a harem.

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The Shock gauntlets or rather Dragon Claws as they had been modified and renamed by me, were currently glowing under the light of the enchantment circle as runes of various colours swirled around it.

As the Dragon Claws had not been ready when the sudden intrusion of the Thunder Wolf had happened, I had decided to finish them as soon as possible so that I could be ready in case any other emergency ever happened.

Although I doubt that I would actually use them in case of an emergency. After all, I had made the Dragon Claws for those cases where the use of my tremendous powers could be dangerous.

In order to make the Dragon Claws, I had made another trip to Kamar Taj the very next day to ask for the magically enhanced metals which I had planned to use in the modification of the framework of the gauntlets.

As I had just hunted the Thunder Wolf yesterday, Ancient One easily gave the materials I required. Moreover, she had taken a look at my sketches of the Dragon Claws herself and made some little changes to it so that the enchantments combined well with each other.

She also advised me to ask Hye-rin to take a look at the sketch so that she could help me plan the whole enchantment process. When I visited Hye-rin to ask for her help, she not only helped me plan the whole process but she also made some outer changes to the gauntlets, giving them a unique design.

Now, the fingers of the gauntlets were pointed and the gauntlets now had a black scaly design. So, the Dragon Claws now truly looked as they had been named. However, I had been curious about why she had made such changes which would have had no functionality at all. But her answer had surprised me.

"I just thought that they would look cool with your suit." Hye-rin had answered with a smile. It was then she had revealed to me that she was also interested in fashion designing.

Still, Hye-rin had helped me so much that it would not have been too far to assume that she was interested in me. But I don't think that it was like that.

My dragon sense gave me some sort of insight when it came to the matter of emotions, although it was not much. And all I could sense from Hye-rin was pure admiration for me.

"Phew! It is finally complete." I let out a sigh of relief as the enchantment process was finally complete. All that was left to do was to check if it was working.

I wore the Dragon Claws on my wrists and they fit perfectly which was to be expected as I and Hye-rin had made them to fit me after all.

I channeled my magic into the gauntlets causing them to glow. So far, they were working perfectly. It was now time to check their offensive power into the danger room.

As I left my room and started moving towards the basement, I ran into Kurt, Kitty, Emma and Jean.

"Peter! You are finally out. What are you wearing on your hands?" Emma asked as she saw the Dragon Claws on my hands.

"Oh! It is the project I was working on in the recent days. The one I was telling you about, the Dragon Claws. It is finally complete. So, I am going to test it at the Danger Room. By the way, when did you return?" I asked.

Because I was busy in rebuilding the gauntlets the last few days, I could not join them in their sessions at Kamar Taj which Ancient One had started for them.

Ancient One had also made Jean and Emma honorary sorcerers because both of them in her words, simply couldn't be left unchecked.

"Just now. In fact, Master Wong left a few moments ago." Kurt explained. Since I could not take them to Kamar Taj these days, Master Wong was the one who took this role.

"So, how is it going?" I asked about their mystic arts studies.

"It was great. We started learning portal creation today. I was able to create a portal in just three attempts." Kurt said while grinning.

I would not say that I was not a little jealous of this accomplishment of Kurt's. After all, it had taken me more than a month to learn how to create a proper portal and that was after rigorous training.

"My studies are also going great. Although I could not create a portal, according to Ancient One, I would be able to surely in a few days." Kitty said happily.

"Don't even mention it." Emma said in an irritated tone. Looks like her mystic arts studies hadn't gone greatly.

"Although both of us learnt a lot from Ancient One regarding our psychic powers, the same can't be said about our mystic arts studies. Our attempt at portal creation had gone just too badly.

It could even be compared to your initial attempts. It is just that our portals collapsed before even forming instead of exploding like yours did. According to Ancient One, we have little to none talent in this part of mystic arts."

Jean explained how bad was their experience at portal creation. So, that was why Emma was so irritated.

"By the way, why don't you join me in testing this new weapon of mine?" I asked while showing the newly created Dragon Claws.

"Sure, why not?" Emma easily accepted my proposal with a smile on her face.

Soon, we were in the Danger Room, ready to check the Dragon Claws' power.

"I hope you don't destroy them too much this time, Peter." Mr. Hank's pleading voice came from the speaker.

"Don't worry, Mr. Hank. We are just here to test something. Afterwards, we will leave. Anyways, release the robots." I asked Mr. Hank to release the robots after assuring him that we will not take much of our time.

Soon, the robots had been released and they were approaching us with the intention to attack.

"Let's see what can you do." Saying these words, I launched an air blast from the gauntlets.

As the air blast hit a robot,it pierced through its armour and left a hole in its body.

"Hmm… It sure was worth it to enhance the gauntlets with the wind enchantment." I mused as I saw the result.

But now was the time for the main event. I channeled my red lightning through the channeling disc on the gauntlets and launched a red lightning bolt at another robot.

Obviously, the bolt easily finished te robot. But my eyes were on the condition of the gauntlets after firing the bolt.

To my relief, the gauntlets had not been damaged by the flow of red lightning through them. Thankfully, I had put as much lightning resistant enchantments as I could on the gauntlets.

Now, it was time for the final test. I channeled my red lightning once again through the gauntlets, this time trying to create a red lightning spear.

Although the gauntlets held against the power of red lightning, the creation of the spear was much slow because it was created from a large amount of red lightning which was then concentrated. Still, the red lightning spear was finally created after about 15 seconds.

"Hey! You had told me that it is just a small test. Then, why are you creating a red lightning spear, Peter?" Mr. Hank said in a panicked voice through the speaker.

"I was just testing the endurance of the speaker. I am not going to fire it." I dismissed the spear to show that I had said the truth.

"Now, is anyone hungry? Because I sure am." I asked after finishing the testing of the Dragon Claws.

"I am. Let's order pizza." Kurt suggested as soon as he heard my words.

"We will see. Let's see first if there is anything in the kitchen." Jean suggested that we should first check the kitchen.

"Sure." And with that we left for the kitchen.

Ring! Ring!

Just as we left the basement, my phone rang. I looked to find that it was from Gwen.

"Hey, Gwen! What's up?" I said greeting her.

"Peter! Is the proposal you had offered on the first day you had returned still open?" Gwen asked, surprising me.

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So, the Dragon Claws have been completed. But since they would not see much action in Peter's hands, they will soon be in another one's. Who will get them? You will see later.

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"Oh! You are talking about that proposal. The one I had offered you before we were interrupted by Professor Xavier."

At first, I didn't realise what proposal she was talking about. But then I remembered that I had asked Gwen if I could join her on her patrol that day.

"Yes, that one." Gwen confirmed that it was the same one. She must be talking in such a cryptic tone because she didn't want to reveal her identity as Spider Woman in case anyone was listening.

"Are you sure?" I asked because I knew what it implied. Captain Stacy already knew about my powers as well as my suit.

Once he saw me together with Spider Woman, he would easily put it together that Gwen was Spider Woman.

"Yes, I have thought a lot about it. Seeing father's reaction when he saw you fighting against Sabertooth on the television, I realised that I could trust him about my identity.

Moreover, I am sure that MJ and Harry would also have no problem when they learn of this. I know I can trust them."

"Then, why not?" I agreed as the patrol would just be perfect to test the newly created Dragon Claws. Moreover, I didn't have a good talk with Gwen in the recent days.

"Alright, meet me at your home tonight. We will continue our talk then." Looks like her father was busy today. That's why she would be at my home tonight.

"Okay. She ya later!" I bid her goodbye and ended the call.

"So, what was that proposal you were talking about with Gwen?" Emma asked me in that icy tone of hers she usually used at those people she was annoyed with or just didn't like.

This icy tone of hers was something which was rarely used at me since she was interested in me. Looks like Emma felt jealous after hearing me talk with Gwen.

"It is not what you think, Emma. So, don't be jealous." I clarified to Emma that it was not for a romantic escapade that I was meeting with Gwen.

"Sorry! I got a little overprotective." Emma apologized with a blush on her face.

Although not much had changed after her confession to me, Emma was now openly affectionate with me and didn't hide that she was interested in me.

"Now, now, Peter. Don't be too hard on Emma. You know that it is all because she likes you." Kitty said in a teasing tone upon hearing our conversation.

"Alright, enough teasing Emma." I stopped the teasing of Emma when it had just started because I knew how much it could escalate.

"Anyways, about the proposal I was talking about with Gwen, I can't tell you about it. But you will learn what it was about tomorrow." They would obviously learn about Gwen's identity as Spider Woman but after living with them for a month, I knew that I could trust them.

"Alright, since we will learn about it tomorrow, there is no need for us to ask you anything. Let's keep it a surprise." Kitty said.

"By the way, Professor Xavier asked me for my blood sample today morning. When I asked what it was for, he said that he will tell me later. Do you know anything about this matter, Peter?" Kurt asked.

After I had returned from the trip, I had told Professor Xavier about my hypothesis that Mystique was the mother of Kurt.

He had been truly surprised when he had heard my hypothesis. However, he had said that there was actually a good chance that this hypothesis was true and that he will look into it. Looks like he was finally checking if the hypothesis was true.

"I don't know anything about this matter. But since Professor has said that he will tell you, then he will definitely tell you. You just need to be patient." Unfortunately, I could not tell Kurt about this hypothesis. After all, whether this hypothesis was true or not, Mystique had been our enemy and was currently our prisoner.

"Well, enjoy your night trip, Peter if you can. We have to go learn the freaking Sanskrit language. Who knows if I would even be able to learn it?" Kurt said, afraid that he will not be able to learn it as he was only average in his studies.

"Seriously, when I had started learning magic, I had not expected that I would have to learn such an ancient language." Kurt said as all of us headed to the kitchen as was our original plan. And all the way Kurt was whining that he had to learn Sanskrit to continue his studies into mystic arts.

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I was now at the rooftop of a house near my home, watching the windows of a specific room of my home. It was already more than 11pm at night.

Just as I was waiting, a feminine figure clad in a familiar white and black coloured suit flew out of the room with the help of a web and swinged towards me.

"Long time no see." I said, greeting Gwen.

"And whose fault is that?" Gwen questioned.

"Sorry. I was busy crafting my personal artefact so I didn't have time to meet you recently." I apologized.

"So, have you finally decided to do this?" I asked Gwen if she was confident in her decision since it felt quite sudden to me.

"Yes, I have decided to finally do it. You don't need to worry. I have thought a lot about it.

You know how lonely it was for me to be Spider Woman, always trying to save people while facing scolding everyday from Father. It was only because you were with me that I could bear it.

The few days I thought you had died were the worst for me. I had almost decided to quit being Spider Woman. I can't say how glad I was that you survived.

As such, after much thought, I have finally decided to reveal my identity to my loved ones."

As Gwen explained why she had decided to take this decision, my heart was clenched with pain. Gwen often didn't reveal her thoughts so I didn't know clearly how much in pain she was from that incident which almost took my life.

To think that she had almost quit being Spider Woman because of that incident.

"By the way, it was great that you decided to call me. I have just finished testing my new artefact and was waiting for an opportunity to use it. This is just a perfect opportunity to use it since I could not unbox my suit last time." I said as I tried to change the topic.

"That's great. But are you just going to talk about your new artefact or show it to me?" Gwen asked.

"Sure, why not?" Saying these words, I activated the transformation bracelet and equiped the Dragon Claws.

"They look cool but I hadn't realised that you were a fashion designer." Gwen commented upon seeing the appearance of the Dragon Claws.

"Oh! Hye-rin made the outer design of these gauntlets. I had told you about her, right?" I explained why the Dragon Claws looked like this.

"Yes, I remember. The Korean sorcerer you had saved." Gwen confirmed.

"Well, it is good that you will get the chance to unbox these gauntlets. But would you even be able to catch me while I am swinging around the city?" Gwen asked in a challenging tone.

"Is that a challenge I hear?"

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So, it's time for some web swinging, well not in Peter's case since he doesn't have web shooters.

I know that many readers will not like me revealing Gwen's identity to her loved ones. But I will only say that she had Peter's example in front of her which helped her make this decision. Moreover, the lizard incident was also a major factor for this decision.

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"Of course, I am challenging you. After all, you have seen how fast I can swing with the help of my web shooters. Would you be able to catch up with me?" Gwen asked me with pride in her tone.

This was the first time I was seeing this face of Gwen. Looks like she had quite a lot of confidence in her ability as Spider Woman and she just can't accept that I am stronger than her. That is why she is trying to compare with me in this ability where she feels that she is stronger.

But that doesn't mean that I will admit defeat. After all, there was a reason the sorcerers were known for their versatility.

"Well, there are many ways to catch up with you." I replied to Gwen.

"What! How is that possible? Show me those ways. Only then would I believe it." As expected, Gwen was flabbergasted to learn that there were too many ways for me to catch up with her.

"As you wish. Let's show you the way number one." Saying these words, I created an energy construct which looked exactly like a web from Gwen's web shooters and then used it on a brick which was lying down on the terrace and then sucked it to my hand using the energy construct web.

"Oh! Did you somehow copy my web shooters?" Gwen asked, surprised upon seeing the energy construct web.

"Well, I was the one who made your web shooters. So, you can't say that they are yours. But yes, I applied the effect of the webs on the energy construct." I replied.

This was something I had learnt under advanced energy constructs. Now, I could grant special effects to my energy constructs. For example, I could make them heavy or light or in this case, sticky like a web.

"But you can't use these energy constructs to follow me. They glow like a lightbulb." Gwen argued that I could not use my energy constructs as they were just too eye catchy.

"I was not going to use them anyways since it is not allowed to use magic in public areas unless it is an emergency. I was just showing you. Now, let's move to way number two." Saying these words, I simply unfurled my wings.

"Are those fucking wings?" I could see how surprised Gwen was even if her face was hidden under the mask.

"Wait a minute! Did I forget to tell you about my wings?" As I saw Gwen's surprised expression, I realised that I had forgotten to tell Gwen about my wings.

It was not that I didn't want to tell her. It was just that ever since I had returned, there were just too many things to talk about and the topic of the wings along with my draconic form just never came.

"Yes, you did! And just what else were hiding from me?" Gwen asked in a demanding tone.

"Well, I can also do this." I unequipped the Dragon Claws and then transformed my hand into a claw to show her.

"Can you do that with all of your body?" Gwen asked with a barely contained rage.

"Not all the parts but I can transform most of them. I can grow scales on my skin and also grow horns on my head." I answered Gwen realising that I could not hide this matter.

"You can transform your body into that of a monster and you didn't think that it was necessary for us to know?" Gwen said while yelling at me.

"I can only say that I am sorry. It slipped out of my mind." I apologized sincerely.

"Fine! We will talk about this later as we are getting late for the patrol." Gwen decided to end this argument for the time being as we still had to do patrol.

"But how did you think that you could use your wings in freaking New York? With your wings, you will attract so much attention that it will be impossible for us to do patrol." Gwen argued that I could use my wings as it was also eye catchy.

"That's true. Although I can use the enchantments of my suit to turn my wings invisible, I think that me flying without the use of any equipment would attract greater attention than me using wings. So, let's put the use of the wings for the emergency situations." I decided to use the wings only if there was an emergency.

"Didn't know that your suit had so many features?" Gwen was surprised to learn about the invisibility feature.

"The suit had been made especially for urban combat. As such, there has been various kinds of enchantments put on it for different situations." I explained. When my suit was my developed, I had wanted it to be as perfect as it could be. So, I had put as many enchantments as I could on the suit with the help of Hye-rin's grandfather.

"Anyways, it is getting late. So, tell me how will you catch me with me?" After seeing the obsolete ways, Gwen asked for a way which I could actually use.

"Well, then I have to use the old fashioned way." I said to Gwen.

"The old fashioned way?" Gwen said, puzzled by my answer.

"Yes, Parkour."

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"You sure you want to parkour to catch up with me." Gwen asked, surprised by my answer.

"You will see. Let's start now. It is getting late." I said, telling Gwen to just watch.

"Fine! It is not that you will be hurt anyways because of your body." Gwen relented although she didn't seem to believe my answer.

"Catch me if you can!" Saying these words, Gwen shot a web and swung up.

"Hah! That will be easy." I said as I ran after her and jumped from the rooftop.

My enhanced body carried me over the rooftops, the suburban area providing me a perfect platform for parkouring. Although there were still some ways for me to chase after Gwen without parkouring, I decided to do parkour because it would provide a good workout.

Honestly, even though I had now my instincts completely understand my control, I still wanted a good workout every now and then, no matter in what form. Perhaps I had been influenced by my instincts somewhat while working to control them.

"Let's see how will you chase me now?" Gwen said as we reached the main streets of New York which was full of high rise buildings and skyscrapers making it impossible to parkour. Moreover, the road was too wide for me to jump.

"That's no problem at all." I said as I jumped from the building without any hesitation.

As soon as I jumped, I activated the Dragon Claws to create small wind blasts which carried me over to the next side. And then I used the sticking function of my boots to stick to the walls of a high rise building to continue my run.

I could already see quite a few people looking at my stunts from beneath me at the road.

"So, what do you think?" I asked Gwen as I neared her.

"It is indeed surprising. But that is just not enough." Gwen said as she swung harder to increase the distance between us.

Looks like she was too prideful to admit defeat. So, the only way to end this needless competition was to surpass her.

As we reached a suburban area once again, I dropped down to the rooftops. And then I channeled lightning energy through my feet. When I had decided to join Gwen for today's patrol, I had not thought that I would need to use 'Thunderclap and Flash' and in this way.

"Well, let's end this competition." I activated the mystic art at a relatively low power, boosting my speed just more than enough to surpass Gwen.

"So, do you finally admit defeat now, Gwen?" I asked as I turned back to look at her after surpassing her.

"Huh! Where is she?" To my surprise, I could not see Gwen behind me at all.

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So, did you like how the patrol is going? I described this many ways because they were what I came up with when I was thinking of how Peter could patrol with Gwen. In the end however, I decided to make it not too flashy and went with Parkour.

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A few moments ago ……

Gwen's POV

As I swung through the streets of New York and looked back at Peter who was chasing me using various tricks, I felt quite some amount of guilt. I should not have asked Peter for such a meaningless competition.

Perhaps it was because of my insecurity towards him that I had challenged him. Although I had changed in many ways since I had became Spider-Woman, I used to feel rather insecure towards Peter before I had gained these powers even though he was my best friend.

"Why can't you be more like Peter?" These words, my father had told me far more times than I had ever wanted to listen.

Even though Peter used to be a shy, nerdy guy with a weak body, he was everything my father wanted his child to be. And I used to disappoint him those days far too many times which I regret now greatly.

It was only after I became Spider-Woman that I could feel the responsibility he had on his shoulders. Why he could not come home at night and never had time for me?

I realised that it was hypocritical of me to blame him once I felt how much one had to sacrifice to walk this path.

This led to me maturing in ways I had never thought I ever would. But then the whole incident with Peter happened.

I would not ever be able to forgive myself for nearly killing Peter. Even now, I can remember that face of Peter filled with sorrow realising what he had done while trying to become like me.

Although I knew about Peter's desire to help me, I had never thought that this desire was so much that he would take such a reckless decision and create a serum to gain a superpower all by himself.

It had truly felt like the weight of the world had been removed from my shoulders when I had learnt that Peter was alive. However, when I saw Peter again, I could clearly see how much he had changed.

Like the old Peter had died and in front of me was a new Peter. And this feeling was further enhanced when I saw his new appearance.

And if even that was not enough, he had much stronger powers than mine and he also knew magic. The growing dissimilarity with Peter and his powers being greater than mine once again that seed of insecurity inside me, causing me to challenge him to this stupid competition. I will have to apologise to him once this whole competition is over.

'Huh!' I was brought out of my thoughts as I saw a red streak of lightning pass by me. Looks like Peter decided to use that flash or whatever it was called magic he had told me about to surpass me so that he could end this competition.

I was about to go to where he was and apologise when I heard something.

"What was that red light—Ah!" A man's rough voice was heard which soon transformed into a scream.

"Help!" A woman's loud voice asking from help was heard from a secluded corner which was not easily seen from the sky.

All my other thoughts disappeared as soon as I heard the scream. Thus, I immediately rushed over to where the scream was coming from.

"You bitch! How dare you hit me? You will pay for that!" I could see two men rough handling a woman who was dressed in office clothes. One of them had put his hand on the woman's mouth to prevent her from screaming.

It was obvious that the two men were trying to rape the woman. Once the woman had seen the red light from Peter's flash magic, she had seen a chance and bit the man's hand causing him to remove his hand from her mouth. Seeing the opportunity,the woman had then screamed for help.

I was about to engage the men when one of them unfortunately saw me clinging on the wall.

"Shit! It is that bitch Spider Woman." He warned the other man of my presence causing him to put a knife on the woman's neck.

"Hey, back off bitch! Otherwise, say goodbye to this beautiful lady." The man held the woman hostage in a bid to escape from me knowing that he was no match for me. The other man also put out a knife and guarded the first man to increase their chances of success against me.

I always disliked this kind of situations. Although I could still deal with them using my web shooters to pulling the man who held the woman at knifepoint towards me, there was a risk that the woman could suffer a fatal injury.

"N-Now, let us leave. If you don't do so, I will kill her." The man who held the woman at knifepoint said to me while stammering and slowly started to me away from me along with his ally.

Damn it! There was no time. I would have to risk it!

"Ahhhhh!!!"

I was just about to use my web shooters when both of the men suddenly screamed and then fell unconscious.

"Now, now. That is no way to treat a lady." A robotic voice which could easily be recognised as a modulated one sounded and soon after Peter appeared in his unique suit.

Thank God that Peter had arrived. Otherwise things could have turned dangerous.

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Peter's POV

"You should have called for me before engaging them, Spider Woman." I said to Gwen, calling her with her alias.

It was only because of the remnants of the webs I had found that I could trace where she was. As soon as I heard the men threatening Gwen, I immediately activated an invisibility spell and when I found the opportunity, I struck them down.

"Sorry, when I heard her scream, I rushed immediately without thinking about anything else." Gwen said, apologising for rushing without asking for my help. In a way, this was just like Gwen as she was often bullheaded in what she did.

"Thank you, Spider Woman for saving me. And thank you too, ur… you are Red lightning right?" The woman called me surprisingly by a name I had never heard.

"Is this what they call me now?" I asked Gwen.

"Yeah! Although there are several other names such as Thunder Cloak and Thunder Fist, this is the most famous one. You didn't see it on the social media?" Gwen was surprised that I didn't know about these various names of mine.

"You know how much I was busy recently. Besides, I am not that much active on social media." I didn't like social media as the community there was sometimes too toxic.

"I will take my leave now. Thank you once again for saving me from the hands of these vile men!" The woman started leaving after thanking us.

"Be safe. Hope we don't see you later as that would mean that you are once again in trouble." I said, biding her farewell.

"Alright, let's start our patrol again. We would get late at this rate." I said, reminding Gwen that we had to continue the patrol.

"Pe– I mean Red Lightning!" Gwen suddenly spoke, calling me out with the name social media had given me as she could not use my true name in public.

"Yeah! What is it?" I asked.

"Sorry, I should not have asked you for such a meaningless competition. It was childish of me." To my surprise, Gwen apologized for her previous behaviour. Looks like she was growing mature after taking up the mantle of Spider-Woman.

"Alright, I accept your apology. Still, it was not something you had to apologise for."

And with this matter resolved, we went on our way, ready to fight the criminals we would find during the patrol tonight.

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And so the patrol continues! We gain some more insight into Gwen's emotions regarding Peter. And you all don't need to worry as the name Red Lightning is only temporary.

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Buzz! Buzz!

As I and Gwen continued on our patrol, the receiver in Gwen's pocket started vibrating.

This receiver was something I had made using an old smartphone which contained an app which I had personally made.

This app provided notifications on any crime in New York as soon as it was posted on the web. Of course, this criteria was too large. So, I had narrowed this category to show only those crimes on which the police was taking action against the criminals and chasing them.

This enabled Gwen to help the police officers in catching the criminals. Of course, it didn't work as perfectly as I had imagined. Often times, when Gwen reached where the police was, the criminals had either been arrested or had escaped. There was even a time when a false story had been posted and the app had given a notification on it.

"Looks like there has been a store robbery in the north. The police had been informed by a passersby and are now chasing the robbers. Let's help them." Gwen suggested upon seeing the notification.

"Sure, why not?" I agreed.

Buzz! Buzz!

We were about to depart when the receiver rang once again.

"Umm… There has been another robbery. But this time, it's in the east direction. What do we do?" Gwen had a confused expression on her face as she looked at the notification she had received on the receiver.

"Let's take one each. I will handle the one in the east direction and you take care of the north one. We can also patrol those areas while we are there." I suggested.

"Hmm… It is a good idea. Let's meet again in an hour after finishing everything in our respective areas." Saying these words, Gwen shot a web and swung away immediately to confront the robbers.

After Gwen went away, I looked around to see if there was anyone watching me. Although I could find no one, I still entered a nearby alley just to be safe. Then, I opened a portal which would take me around where the robbers had been last spotted.

In this kind of cases, it was necessary to reach the scene as soon as possible otherwise the whole case would already be finished by the time I reached the scene. As such, I opted to create a portal instead of rushing to the scene on foot.

The portal opened to an alley. As soon as I emerged from the portal, I ran on the walls and climbed to the rooftops to see the whole scenario.

Looks like I was just on time. There was a heavily modified car running on the road at a very high speed while a police car was chasing it although it was already quite behind on the chase.

I immediately started running on the rooftops and soon reached the road where the car was passing through. I then ran on the walls to catch the car. Now, I had a clear view on the car.

"Who is that guy? Don't tell me there is another one in this city like that bitch." A guy in the car cursed when he saw me running on the walls as though the gravity didn't matter.

I was about to jump on the car when I noticed something. The car was swaying too much. It seems that the modification of the car had not been carried out perfectly.

I had an idea as I saw the car swaying. Looks like I won't need to engage these petty robbers personally.

I activated the Dragon Claws and instead of directly launching a wind blast, I lessened the power of the attack and also concentrated it. At this point, it was not a wind blast but rather a wind bullet.

I shot the wind bullet at the car's front tire. As the wind bullet hit the tire, it punchered through it. The car which was already swaying couldn't handle the sudden punchering of its tire and thus— Crash!

The car lost its balance and crashed into a nearby house after rotating a few times in the air. I had not thought that the reaction of my attack would be this strong.

So, I decided to check on those who were in the car even though they were robbers. When I looked inside, I could see that most of the robbers were unconscious.

"W-What just happened?" Just as I was about to return, I heard someone moaning from the back seat. Although I felt bad for causing the accident, in the end they deserved it.

"Please help me." The man said as he saw me.

"Sorry man. You reap what you sow." Saying these words, I gave a small shock to that man causing him to fall unconscious.

"Hey, who is there?" A voice sounded from behind me along with the sirens of a police car. Looks like the police had finally caught up.

I need to get out of here. After all, there was no way that I could have a long talk with police in a police station. I immediately stepped away from the car and rushed up the walls to reach the rooftop of a nearby building.

"Hey! You are umm… Red Lightning, right?" I was about to leave when I heard a familiar voice. I looked back to see that it was Captain Stacy. From his expression, it was clear that he had recognised me.

"Well, that is what everyone calls me. I have still not decided on my own name yet." I replied to Captain Stacy.

"Have you decided to become a vigilante like Spider Woman?" Captain Stacy asked.

"No, of course not. I am just accompanying her for today. There was another robbery so she is not here." I answered. I knew that after this answer, Captain Stacy would definitely question Gwen. But it was something which was already fixed in place once I had decided to join Gwen for today's patrol.

"Well, see ya later." I bid farewell to Captain Stacy so that I could continue the patrol.

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"So, how was your patrol?" I asked Gwen once I met her again.

"Thankfully, they were only some robberies I had to stop along with some thugs I had to beat. Ever since I became Spider-Woman, there have been far less crimes in night than before." Gwen said, thanking that there were not many crimes she had to stop.

"That explains why I also didn't find that many crimes being committed. By the way, I met Captain Stacy when I went to stop the robbers. He recognised me." I explained to Gwen the entire situation.

"It's okay. I have long since prepared for him to find out about my identity. Besides after seeing his reaction upon seeing you saving the protestors from Sabertooth, I know that he will likely not object too much about me acting as Spider Woman." Gwen said, once again reassuring me that she was now ready to talk with Captain Stacy about this matter.

"Let's finish this patrol. You also have to sleep after all." I said as it was already nearing 1am.

And thus, we continued our patrol. The patrol was about to end when we stumbled upon a unique scene.

A grappling hook came flying from the window of a mansion and along with it came a woman which looked more a cosplayer than a thief.

She was wearing a black leather, skintight suit and she had silvery white hair which I clearly recognised as a wig. Having seen Emma's silver hair, I knew exactly how it looked.

"Peter, you have to help me catch this bitch." Gwen asked me in an angry as well as flustered tone while also cursing her.

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Looks like a Black Cat has crossed Peter and Gwen's path this night.

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"Who is this girl?" I asked Gwen, curious about her reaction upon seeing this cosplayer thief.

"I will tell you later. We must catch her first. Last time she had narrowly escaped from my hands. As such, it is a must for me to catch her." Gwen said in a flustered voice. Looks like she was ashamed to talk about her as she had not been able to capture her.

"As you say." I decided to stay this matter for now as it was more important to capture this thief. If this girl had escaped previously from Gwen, she was obviously skilled.

Gwen launched a web at the girl's back as she was escaping. But to my surprise, as soon as the girl felt the presence of the web on her back, she took out a knife from her pocket and cut the web. It seems that her instincts were top notch, something rarely found in a thief.

"If it isn't my dear beloved Spider Woman. Did you miss me, my dear?" The girl asked in a flirty tone. It was clear just from her words why Gwen didn't want to talk about her.

"You! I will have a talk with you later once I have caught you." Saying these words, Gwen launched a series of webs at the girl thief but the girl dodged most of them with incredible flexibility and cut the rest of them with her knife.

"Oh! come on, dear. How can you treat me like this? Did you forget about our kiss?" The girl thief taunted Gwen once again, this time however, reminding her of a kiss!

"Damn you, Black Cat! You are definitely going to jail this time." Gwen said, obviously enraged by the girl thief's words who apparently went by the name of Black Cat.

Honestly, it was quite amusing for me to see Gwen like this. I could enjoy this moment without worrying about Black Cat escaping because I could easily deal with her if she tried to escape.

This Black Cat was a girl who obviously knew how to use her sexuality as a weapon and flirted with Gwen so that she could distract her. And it was actually working. Gwen in her anger, fell in the Black Cat's rhythm and even forget to take advantage of Black Cat's openings in order to subdue her when they appeared.

I didn't interfere till now because I wanted Gwen to learn from this so that she didn't fall for someone's taunts next time. Although it was actually a rare occurrence to find an opponent like Black Cat who flirted with you in order to distract you.

"Peter, help me take care of this bitch! Why are you just standing there?" Gwen asked for my help, frustrated by a lack of result in her attempt to subdue Black Cat.

"Who is this guy, Spider Woman? Is he your secret boyfriend? And here I thought that you loved me. Wait a minute! Could it be that you wanted to show me your boyfriend so that you could tell me that you are off the market? That is so considerate of you."

Let's take care of this bitch! Although it was amusing to see Gwen falling for Black Cat's taunts, I got angry as soon as I became the target of her taunts. Because I didn't like this false flirting of her a single fucking bit just like Gwen.

I rushed at Black Cat the moment she dodged a punch from Gwen and struck her on the back of her neck without giving her any chance at all, making her fall unconscious.

As soon as she fell unconscious, Gwen webbed up her entire body so that there was no chance for her to escape.

"Well, this matter is solved. So, where did you meet this unique piece?" I asked Gwen.

"It was during a late afternoon patrol I was doing after just returning from school. It was then that I found her stealing an antique item. During my attempt to catch her, do you know what she did?

As I tried to catch her, her balance broke at one moment and she fell. So, I caught her in my arms as any hero should. But she actually kissed me once I caught her.

And while I was distracted by the kiss she had given me, she pushed me away and escaped. As I was short on time, I could not even attempt to catch her again."

Gwen explained just how unique her experience was with this Black Cat.

"So, what should we do with her?" I asked.

"What is there to ask? Just call the police and leave her here." Gwen said, clearly angry at the Black Cat.

"Let me check what she stole first." I opened the bag to see what was stolen. But to my surprise, there was nothing valuable inside the bag, just some papers.

My eyes widened when I looked what was written in the papers. In the papers, it was written several accounts of corruption a famous politician had done along with some of his associates.

"Gwen! Look what was Black Cat stealing." I showed Gwen the papers.

"Never thought that Black Cat was this kind of girl. Was she trying to become Robin Hood or something. So, what should we do now?" Gwen asked as it was difficult for her to make a decision in this situation.

"Let's wake her first." I casted an awakening spell on her, something I had learnt in case its use was required in future missions.

As Black Cat slowly opened her eyes, she felt the webs which restricted her and became aware of her current situation.

"I had thought that you would have thrown me to the police without any thought, Spider Woman. I am surprised that I woke up in your custody." Black Cat said seriously, completely unlike her previous demeanor.

"We were going to. But then we saw this!" I took out the papers and showed them to her.

"So, you found them. Huh!"

"What did you want to do with them?" I asked.

"Leak them to public like I had done previously with the papers I had found related to John Kipling." Black Cat replied.

To think she was the one who had revealed politician John Kipling's corruption six months ago. This complicated things.

"If you were the one who leaked John Kipling's papers, then what were you doing with that jewelry?" Gwen asked in a demanding tone.

"Well, just because I am a honourable thief doesn't mean that I am not a regular one." So, in addition to being a thief who exposed corruption, this Black Cat also sometimes did regular thieving. Don't know if I should treat her as a honourable thief or a regular one.

"So, what do you plan to do with me?" Black Cat asked.

"Yeah! What should we do now?" Gwen asked in a worried tone.

"I think we should release her." I revealed my thoughts.

"Pe– Red Lightning! She is a thief. We can't release her." Gwen argued, almost calling me by my name due to her anger.

"But she is also someone who works for the betterment of the society. As long as she swears that she will not do any normal thieving, I have no qualms about releasing her." After joining Kamar Taj and becoming a member of X-Men, I knew that there were several ways one could work for the betterment of the society. Just like Black Cat did it through thieving.

"Fine! But only because you say so!" Gwen relented in front of my logic.

"I thank you, Red Lightning for releasing me although you were the one who had caught me first." Black Cat thanked me after I released her from the webs which bonded her.

"Just know that you have acquired a fan today, Red Lightning. Also, if both of you ever want a threesome, I am willing." Black Cat said with a wink and then released a grappling hook to fly away. Damn, this girl! She will never learn.

"Let's return. It is already too late." I asked Gwen to end the patrol.

"Yeah! You are right." Gwen also agreed.

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"So, I think this is goodbye for now." I said as we returned to the same rooftop from where we had started our patrol.

"Peter, before you go, I need to talk about something with you." Gwen said.

"Yeah! What is it?" I asked.

"Although Black Cat was just flirting with me so that I would be distracted, it reminded me of something important." Gwen took a deep sigh and then said the words I had never thought that I would hear from her today.

"I used to have a crush on you."

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Peter's way of dealing with Black Cat shows that he is rather flexible if the matter is not too serious. And now, it's time for Peter and Gwen to have some relationship talk.

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"I used to have a crush on you."

As soon as I heard these words, I remembered the days where both of us didn't have any powers. I was just a shy nerd and Gwen was a passionate girl, albeit a little misguided one.

In those days, both of us were often each other's support. Whenever I felt weak and lacking in courage because of the incessant bullying, it was Gwen who encouraged me.

And whenever she felt insecure because of Captain Stacy's scolding when she couldn't meet his standards, it was me who told her that she wasn't wrong.

"I also used to like you." I replied after sometime.

I could now tell her my feelings regarding her easily because those feelings were already a past thing. It just wasn't possible for us to get together now.

"Then why did you take that step? Secretly creating such a dangerous serum and you even used it on yourself without a single thought. Just what were you thinking?" By now, Gwen was shouting and even had tears in her eyes as she said these words. She was obviously affected a lot by that step I had taken.

"I guess this is just how we men are. We often try to hide the difficulties we face in our life and try to defeat them ourselves. I just wanted to become special, like you are." I replied.

"But you didn't have to take such a drastic step." Gwen argued.

"That's true. I will never argue with the fact that it was the most stupid decision of my life. Now that I look back at myself, it was definitely the worst decision I could have made in that situation.

But at that time, I was not what I am now. I don't know when the crush I had on you combined with the admiration I had for Spider Woman. Combine that with the constant bullying I suffered, all I wanted was to be someone special, no matter how. I was just that desperate."

I explained to her all the emotions which led to me taking the worst decision of my life.

"And what you did nearly destroyed everything that existed between us. Now, we can never go back to how we were." Gwen said after listening to my words.

"Yeah! That's true. If it was just you who had superpowers, it could still work. But now, after that incident, I have changed as you often say. There are just too many complications now between us."

"Speaking of me having powers, you didn't have to be jealous of my powers and try to become like me. You know that I could never have become Spider Woman without you.

It was after all you who designed my suit as well as the web shooters. Without you, I could not have even thought about becoming a vigilante."

Gwen started talking about how I was with her every single step on her journey of Spider-Woman. That, without me, Spider Woman would never have existed.

"In the end, both of us just became too far apart for there to be anything between us." I said with a deep sigh.

"Yeah! That's right. You are far different from the Peter I used to know even if you don't feel like that yourself. Combined with how I had almost killed you, my best friend and my crush, I don't think there can ever be something between us." Gwen said, accepting that we can't be together.

"Still, I hope we can remain good friends." Gwen asked.

"Of course, you are still my best friend. How can you think that we will not remain friends?" I said.

"Sorry! I just remembered that day when the incident happened and started feeling guilty again." Gwen said, apologizing.

"By the way, have you ever used the ring artefact I had given you for your protection? The one which created a shield." I asked.

"I have tested it in private. Fortunately, there never came a chance for me to use it." Gwen replied.

"Since we are talking about romance, anyone you are interested in." I asked curiously.

"How can you even ask that?" Gwen said with a little anger in her voice and even punched me lightly on my shoulder for my question.

"I barely have time these days to have enough sleep because of my Spider Woman duty and you are talking if I am interested in anyone. I could only ask you to join me on a patrol because tomorrow was Sunday. Otherwise, I could not even have thought about it." Gwen said, frustration regarding her daily life evident in her tone.

"Say, what about your romantic life? After all, there are quite some beauties in your school as you have told me." Gwen asked teasingly.

"Actually, there is a girl romantically interested in me and has even said that she will wait for when I am ready for a relationship." I replied as everyone in the school already knew about this matter. So, there was no harm in telling Gwen about it.

"Who is it? Is it Kitty or Jean?" Gwen questioned as they were the ones who matched well with my personality.

"No, actually it is Emma." I answered.

"That ice queen! Although you had told me that you got along quite well with her, I had never thought that she would actually be interested in you." Gwen said, surprised to learn that Emma was the one interested in me.

"Anyways,it is getting late. So, go get some sleep." I said as Gwen honestly needed as much sleep as she could.

"Then, it is goodbye for now." Gwen said, giving me a last hug before swinging back to her room.

Well, it's time to return. I created a portal after looking around to see that nobody was around and then entered it to arrive at the front gate of X-Mansion.

Although I could directly enter my room, there was no need to activate the various security measures of the mansion. Mr. Hank, having free time on his hand had put a little too many security measures, making it impossible for anyone to enter the mansion without being found.

"Professor! Mr. Logan! Ms. Ororo! Why are you all still awake?" As I entered the mansion, I was surprised to find Professor Xavier along with Mr. Logan and Ms. Ororo in the lobby.

"Well, we were going to sleep. But then we saw this picture on the social media." Professor showed me a picture which showed me in my suit running on the walls and Spider-Woman was also in the picture swinging aside me.

"You had said that there was something you had to do with your best friend Gwen. Looks like this is what you were doing. So, is Gwen Spider-Woman?" Professor Xavier asked.

"Yes." I answered without any hesitation. When Gwen had taken this step, she already knew that those who were close to me would know her secret. But she also knew that those people who would learn this knowledge were not the kind of person to take advantage of it.

"Then, if she ever requires any help or training, you can tell her that she is welcome here. I honestly admire her desire to fight against crime even if she has to break a few laws in the process." Professor Xavier offered.

"Really! Then, I will thank you for this, Professor." I thanked Professor for giving such an offer.

"But I also need to talk to you about something important." Professor said in a serious tone.

"What is it, Professor?" I asked.

"Your hypothesis was correct, Peter. Mystique is indeed the mother of Kurt."

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Hope you all liked the heart to heart talk! Anyways, Peter's hypothesis was surprisingly correct.

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To think that this hypothesis of mine was actually correct. And here I thought that it was just an outlandish guess.

"So, what should we do now?" I asked as the matter was quite complicated since she had been our enemy.

"This situation is actually in our favour as we were thinking of recruiting Mystique. This whole situation will increase our chances tremendously." Professor Xavier said, revealing their motives regarding Mystique.

"You want to recruit Mystique. But wasn't she working for that mutant supremacist brotherhood." I could not understand why would they want to recruit Mystique.

"Actually, the relationship between me and Mystique is quite old. She is old, in fact much older than Wolverine. It was actually her who guided me when I first awakened as a mutant.

As expected of someone of such old age, she is quite a chaotic person, often working purely for her self-interest. But from what I know about her, she is definitely not a mutant supremacist. There must be some reason why she joined the Brotherhood of Mutants."

Professor Xavier explained his history with Mystique, about how she had introduced him to the world of mutants.

"Then, let's go talk to her. What are we waiting for? This will finally get her to talk." Ever since Mystique had been brought to the X-Mansion, she had not spoken a single word with us. Fortunately, after this revelation, she would finally be willing to talk.

"No, Peter." To my surprise, Professor Xavier declined my suggestion.

"The first one who has the right to talk with Mystique is her son, Kurt. We should not take that right away from him." Professor Xavier said, reminding me who had the right to first talk with Mystique.

"Yeah! That's right. I had seriously forgotten it in the excitement." After all, this was something extremely important for Kurt who didn't have any parental influence in his life till now.

"Now, go and get some sleep. We will talk about this matter with Kurt in the morning. Have a good night."

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"Hey, Peter! What's up? How did that night out went with Gwen?" Kurt asked in an upbeat tone like he did always.

We were currently at the dining table for breakfast, ready to start the day. I just hope that he will be able to maintain that upbeatness after he learns about Mystique.

"You will learn in a moment!" I said as I looked at Kitty coming towards us with her phone in her hand. Looks like she saw my picture with Spider Woman on the social media.

"Peter, what is it I am seeing? You were with Spider Woman yesterday night." Kitty said revealing that I was on a patrol with Spider Woman last night to everyone.

"What? But Peter, you had said that you would be with your friend Gwen last night." Jean said, remembering my plan with her.

"This just means that Peter's friend Gwen is actually Spider Woman." Emma said as she realised the meaning of the picture she was seeing.

"Wow! It is amazing that your best friend is also a hero, right Peter? Moreover, she is Spider-Woman! You have to bring her to X-Mansion someday, Peter. I am a big fan of her." Kitty said with literal stars in her eyes.

"I didn't know that you were such a big fan of her, Kitty." I was surprised to learn this fact as Kitty had never talked about this matter with anyone before.

"Of course, I like her. She is also a girl around my age with superpowers and she uses them in order to fight crime. By the way, are her webs a part of powers?" Kitty asked, curious about Gwen or rather Spider Woman.

"No, they are not a part of powers but instead a gadget called web shooters. In fact, I was the one who had made her web shooters along with her suit." I proudly revealed the fact that I was the one who had created everything which Spider Woman used.

"No wonder you are so much gifted in enchantment. You were already able to create gadgets such as web shooters even before you joined Kamar Taj." Emma said after learning about the fact that I was the one who created web shooters.

"But Peter, is it okay for us to learn about the fact that your friend Gwen is Spider-Woman? Although none of us are the kind of people to take advantage of this fact, aren't there others who know that it was you in that suit? So, why did Gwen decide to take this decision?" Emma asked, concerned about Gwen.

"You don't need to worry. The few others who know are also not that kind of people. Also, Gwen took this decision because she had finally decided to reveal her identity to everyone who was close to her. She wanted to reveal this fact for a long time but was afraid of the reaction.

But once she saw the reaction of everyone when they saw me fighting Sabertooth, she finally got the courage to reveal her identity."

I explained to everyone that there was no need for them to worry about Gwen as it was her decision.

"Good morning, everyone!" Professor Xavier along with the other teachers entered the room and greeted us.

"Professor, did you see this picture?" Kitty said, showing Professor that picture with me and Spider Woman.

"I had already seen it a few hours ago when it was first posted. I have already talked about this matter with Peter. And I have also told Peter to tell Gwen that she is welcome to join us in the X-Mansion should she ever require any help." Professor Xavier explained to everyone what he had talked with me last night.

"Really! That's great. Thank you, Professor!" Kitty said, thanking him for giving this offer.

"So, Peter. You got any special plans for today. After all, it is Sunday." Kurt asked after finishing the breakfast.

"You can talk about today's plans later, Kurt. I have something important to tell you." Professor Xavier said to Kurt. Looks like he had decided to tell this fact to Kurt as soon as possible.

"What is it, Professor?" Kurt asked curiously.

"We have found who is your mother. It is Mystique!" Professor Xavier said, revealing the fact directly.

As Kurt heard these words, his face took a shocked expression. Everyone else was also shocked by this sudden revelation.

"You okay, bub!" Mr. Logan asked after a few minutes when he saw that Kurt was still silent.

"If she is my mother, then why did she left me at that lab?" Kurt said with tears in his eyes. "Why had I never seen her before in my whole life?"

"That is something only she can answer. If it was not for Peter's speculation, we would never have found this fact. Come, it's time for us to talk to Mystique once again. We have not talked with her ever since we learnt about this fact because you deserved to be the first one to talk to her." Professor beckoned us to follow him to where Mystique had been imprisoned.

"Hey, Peter. Thanks! Without you, I don't know if I would ever have learnt this fact." Kurt thanked me as we moved to the underground facility.

"You don't need to thank me. I was just looking out for my friend. Besides, when I had this speculation, I had thought that it was rather outlandish." I said while smiling.

I was happy that I could do something for him. I hope that this meeting between mother and son goes smoothly and Kurt's heart doesn't break from this conversation.

"So, you ready to meet her, Kurt." Mr. Hank asked as we reached where Mystique had been imprisoned.

"Yes, I am." Kurt said with determination in his voice.

"Hello, Mystique." Professor Xavier greeted Mystique as we approached her. Although she didn't say a word just like she had since she had been imprisoned here.

Mystique had been imprisoned in a special prison with bars made of special alloys as well as hardened glass between the bars.

Sensors were covering every area both inside and outside the cell. Even I had put a warning spell on the cell out of caution.

Moreover, a shock collar had been put on Mystique's neck in case she tried to use her powers. As Professor Xavier already had data regarding Mystique's powers, it was not that hard to make such a sensor which could detect when she tried to use her powers.

"Mystique!" Kurt said, stepping out and addressing her.

He deactivated the holo watch, causing him to revert to his true appearance.

"You are my mother, right?" He asked, his voice full of emotions.

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So, it's time for Kurt's confrontation with Mystique. Also, Mystique will now be joining the X-Men. Hope you all like this decision.

I know that Mystique's personality is quite chaotic in the comics but I am afraid that I would not be able to capture that personality since I have never read the comics and it has been a long while since I have watched an X-Men show. As such, Mystique's personality in this comic can be said to be chaotic good.

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"Yes, it's true. I am indeed your mother." Mystique confirmed Kurt's words with a deep sigh.

"But I am curious about how did you find this fact." She asked us in a serious tone.

"It was just a guess of one of our students. I just checked the speculation and surprisingly found it to be true." Professor Xavier said.

"If you are my mother, then where were you my entire life? Why did you abandon me in that secret lab?" Kurt asked her while shouting.

"Why can't I remember ever seeing you?" Kurt finished his words in a low tone, tears dripping from his eyes.

Hearing Kurt's words, Mystique's eyes had also gone misty. It seems that she in fact, had feelings for Kurt despite most of us thinking otherwise.

"Ah!!" Suddenly, Mystique screamed for some reason. When I focused, I could see that the shock collar had been somehow activated.

"She tried to use her shapeshifting powers for some reason." Mr. Hank reported what had happened.

"Charles, can you allow me to use my powers for just a moment? I need to show Kurt something. Can you indulge a mother's request?" She asked, her eyes misty and voice tinged with sorrow.

"Hank, deactivate the collar. But be ready to reactivate it at any time." Professor Xavier gave the order.

As soon as Mr. Hank deactivated the shock collar, Mystique shapeshifted into an appearance which was quite similar to her true appearance except that it was just not blue in colour.

"Anna?" Kurt said, this time recognising her.

"Yes, that is right. I was Anna. I didn't abandon you. I…. I was there for you." Mystique said, her voice crackling.

"Who was Anna, Kurt?" Ms. Ororo asked the question which was in everyone's mind.

"You know that I was raised in a secret lab right. When I was there, nearly every caretaker who was assigned to me didn't like me. The only caretaker who took care of me genuinely was Anna.

But for some reason, she was only with me a few days per month and sometimes even disappeared for several months. In fact, I had the motivation to escape that lab because Anna used to tell me about the outside world which made me curious enough to escape. Now, I know why she often took care of me when everyone else hated me. It was because she was my mother."

Kurt was obviously happy to learn that his mother had not abandoned him entirely and had been with him the whole time even if she could not reveal it.

"If you could take care of your child even when he was in a secret lab, then why did you try to manipulate me and make me hate the X-Men?" Rogue suddenly interrupted the conversation between mother and son, saying words which shocked me.

"When did that happen?" I asked when I saw that only me and Bobby didn't seem to know about this matter.

"Oh! I had forgotten that both of you didn't know about that matter as you had joined later." Professor said, realising that we didn't know about this matter. Then, he started telling us the whole story about Rogue.

Apparently, when Rogue had first awakened her mutant powers, she had nearly killed someone. The shock of this incident led her to escape her home.

Later, she was found by Mystique who taught her about her powers and even took the role of a motherly figure to her. However, Mystique also tried to manipulate her to join the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Mystique even tried to foster hate in Rogue's heart against the X-Men by transforming into them and then attacking her.

It was only when the students accidently met Rogue that she became aware of the reality. This made her leave the Brotherhood and live in the X-Mansion after an offer from the Professor as she had nowhere to go.

Later, after seeing the true face of the X-Men and realising that there was a place in this world for her to live without anyone fearing her for her powers, Rogue finally joined the school as well as the X-Men.

"This is not something we can tell generally as it is Rogue's dark past. I am only telling both of you because you won't be understand what is going on without this knowledge." Professor Xavier explained why we didn't know about this fact.

"I sincerely apologise for how I treated you during that period. But I had no other choice." Mystique said, surprisingly even bowing her head to apologise.

"No other choice! How can you say so? You literally played with my life." Rogue said furiously as she heard Mystique's words.

"If I hadn't done that with you, he would have killed Kurt." Mystique explained her situation, shocking us all.

"Killed me?" Kurt said, realising that Mystique always wanted to protect him.

"Yes, he would have killed you if I didn't obey his orders. In fact, the reason I could not raise you and you were raised in that secret lab was because he had captured you soon after you were born.

As such, I had no choice but to join the Brotherhood of Mutants and obey his words. He also wanted to research on someone like you who was born a mutant. That is why he had put you into that lab." Mystique explained the whole matter.

"So, in the end, you didn't abandon me. You always tried to protect me and were even there for me when you could. Thank you, Mother!" Kurt said, thanking Mystique and even calling her mother.

It was something truly special for Kurt who had been raised without any parents to learn that his mother had not abandoned him and had even been there for him whenever she could.

"Who is this he, Mystique? Is he who I think he is?" Professor Xavier asked in a serious tone.

"Yes, it is who you think. Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants." Mystique revealed who was behind this whole situation.

"To think he would become so much cruel." Professor Xavier said with anger in his voice, something we had never seen before. His grip on his wheelchair had tightened and even his knuckles were turning white.

"I had told you before, Charles. Erik is now long gone. There is only Magneto left." Mr. Logan said to Professor in a serious tone.

"Just where did that guy who only wanted to give mutants equal status went?" Professor said with sorrow in his voice as he seemed to remember past memories.

"That guy is long gone, Charles. He now wants to make mutants the new rulers of this world with normal humans as their slaves." Mystique said, shocking all us students regarding how tyrannical this Magneto was.

"Just who is this Magneto, Professor?" Jean said, asking the question which was on our mind.

"I think it is time for you to learn about Magneto. With the capture of Sabertooth as well as Mystique,it is likely that he will make his move as both of his aces have been captured."

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It's now time for everyone to learn about Magneto. Moreover, the confrontation with Magneto will come soon. I hope you all liked how I dealt with the situation between Mystique and Kurt.

I could have made Mystique's personality similar to that of comics but I decided to make it this way since I didn't want to stretch this arc too much.

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"Erik Lehenserr was a Jew born in a small town in Germany. What was surprising about that town was that it harboured Nazi thoughts even after decades of World War 2. This had great effect on his upbringing and perhaps it was the harassment he felt while growing up that led to him becoming the cruel man he is today.

Later, upon some research, I had found something shocking about that town. It was actually a secret Hydra camp. If only Erik had not suffered this much in his childhood, then he would have been a much different person." Professor Xavier said as he started the story of Magneto in a sorrowful tone.

"When Erik's mutant powers activated and it became known that he was a mutant, he felt even more discrimination from that community. Even his mother had been killed by an officer who had tried to control him. This led to him fleeing from Germany and arriving in America. After a few weeks surviving on streets,he met me through a coincidence.

At that time, I didn't have much control over my telepathic powers and thus I often read the surface thoughts of nearby people. But it was only because of this that I found Erik. As he had nowhere to live at that time, I gave him a place to stay and slowly we became good friends." Professor Xavier continued the story in a wistful tone as if remembering those days.

"Later, Mystique found both of us and taught us everything about mutants. It was because of her that we could gain confidence in our powers and start viewing them as a blessing rather than a curse. Although, it seems that Erik has now taken that thought to a whole new level." He said with a deep sigh.

"At that time, I had finally found mutants after whole decades. You both were so confused about your powers and how to deal with them. Seeing your condition, I just knew that I just had to take you under my wing." Mystique said upon hearing Professor's words as she also remembered those days. Honestly, as they talked about those past days, it didn't look like they had been on opposite sides for years.

"But then came the 1990s. I don't need to tell you what happened those days, right?" Professor said with a dark expression on his face.

"We know, Professor. Those were the darkest days for the mutants." It was at that time that mutants had been publically revealed to exist for the first time.

At that time, a few mutants had even been burnt alive even though they had very weak powers. All of this had started due to the assassination of a major politician by a mutant.

"But everything had been resolved when the government changed. Right, Professor?" Kitty said in a bid to cheer Professor up.

"That is only on the surface. It was only because of our efforts during that time that we had stopped that conflict. But it had been too close. If we had not interferred, there could even have been a World War 3 by a few mutant supremacists." Professor Xavier said, shocking us all.

"But what kind of person would want to cause World War 3?" Jean asked.

"It was a guy named Sebastian Shaw, a mutant with the ability of energy absorption. He was the one who had sparked the entire conflict by assassinating that politician. In fact, he was the same person who had killed Erik's mother.

To combat him and his team of mutants, the government had created a team of mutants of its own which we had joined. But Sebastian turned out to be one step ahead of us. Using the fear in the mind of mutants of our team, he made nearly of them defect and join him which also included Mystique."

"How could you join someone like him?" Kurt asked Mystique accusingly.

"I just wanted to have a place where I could live without being discriminated against. I was too tired of running around from one place or country to another. His words combined with the fear I had for my future caused me to join him. However, I realised his true nature soon after. But it was unfortunately too late for me to return." Mystique said, explaining why she had left Professor's team.

"After that incident, the only one left in our team was me, Erik and Hank who had met during the recruitment. Even Erik would have left if it was not for the fact that Sebastian was the one who had killed his mother." Professor continued the story.

"In the end, we did a final attack on Sebastian and the others in an attempt to defeat them. We only managed to win because of Erik's tremendous mutant powers.

But it was after Erik killed Sebastian that he revealed his true colors. He shared the same ambition as Sebastian and had only not joined him because he had killed his mother. I tried to convince him but it was too late. Erik was not going to move from this path. Since then, we got separate."

Professor finished the hidden story of the 1990s where he was an unsung hero along with Erik aka Magneto. To think that he had done this much for the mutants.

"During that battle, my legs got damaged. Erik who now only called himself Magneto had already taken the surviving mutants with him. The only ones left were me and Hank. So, I retired along with Hank and came to this mansion I had inherited from my family.

I had thought that it was over and I would never be able to battle Magneto. But then SHIELD saved Logan a few years later and left him in my care because of his amnesia. The three of us formed the initial X-Men although it was only Logan who went on operations. And some years ago, Ororo joined us. Once we had enough funds and clout that we could protect the young mutants, we started Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."

As the story reached its end point, all of us were greatly impressed by Professor's efforts for the mutant kind. He tried to work for a peaceful solution no matter what and didn't lose any hope despite losing his legs.

"By the way, how many other mutants are there in the Brotherhood?" I questioned, wanting to learn about the enemy's strength.

"Not many, kiddo! I had killed every single one of them I had encountered during my missions except Sabertooth." Mr. Logan said proudly.

"Don't get too cocky, Logan." Ms. Ororo said.

"Remember what had happened when we had encountered Magneto just last year. You would have died if it was not for my quick thinking that allowed us to escape that abandoned Hydra facility." Ms. Ororo reminded Mr. Logan.

"Since we are talking about Hydra, I think you should know that Hydra is still alive. It was never destroyed." Mystique revealed this shocking fact after hearing Professor's words.

"How can this be? Wasn't Hydra destroyed decades ago?" Emma said upon hearing Mystique's words.

"Actually, Hydra was only destroyed about a decade ago as there had been many fringe groups left. But I can confirm that it has already been destroyed. I myself had been deployed in the last mission involving Hydra." Logan said, clarifying the matter.

"No, Hydra is still alive and working. I can confirm it because Magneto had dealings with Hydra." Mystique said, confirming that Hydra was still alive.

"Moreover, they even have many agents in SHIELD and in high ranks at that. I also know that both Hydra and the Brotherhood had been doing various unethical experiments to further their ambitions. Although I don't know anything more as Magneto didn't trust me with this information." Mystique said, once again shocking us all.

"This is very dangerous news. It seems that I must call Director Nick Fury and tell him this information in person." Professor Xavier said, ready to inform SHIELD as fast as possible.

"So, what are you going to do with me now?" Mystique asked about her fate.

"Since you are Kurt's mother and also willing to tell us everything you know about Magneto and the Brotherhood, I would like you to join the X-Men." Professor Xavier said, offering her a position in the X-Men.

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I decided to show X-Men's backstory in this chapter as I would not get another chance. Also, with Mystique revealing that Hydra still exists, the Winter Soldier arc will be much different.

The relationship between Professor Xavier and Mystique is quite different in this story since Mystique was a mentor for Professor Xavier. As for what experiments Magneto and Hydra have done, they shall be revealed with time.

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[DragonsEye]

"You are asking me to join the X-Men? Someone who had betrayed you when you had needed her help the most. If someone had done that to me I would never have trusted him." Mystique was surprised to obtain this offer from Professor Xavier after she had abandoned the team during the 1990s when the team needed her help the most.

"Yes, I am." Professor Xavier affirmed that he was indeed giving her this offer.

"But why?" Mystique asked, confused.

"Because I can see how much you care about Kurt and also that you are only on Magneto's side because he had captured Kurt. Moreover you are willing to give every information you had regarding Magneto. As such, it would not be too much of compromise for me to allow you to join the school and the X-Men although not without putting some measures on you so that you do not defect again." Professor Xavier said that he would give Mystique a chance.

"But still how can you trust me so easily? Just because I care about Kurt doesn't mean that I can't betray you again. Wait a minute!" Mystique was arguing about how Professor could trust her so easily when she realised something causing her eyes to narrow.

"You were quite fast to give me this offer. Moreover, you are also ready to trust me once again quite easily. Charles, don't tell me you read my mind." Mystique accused Professor of reading her mind.

"No, I have not read your mind. How could I do so?" Professor said that he hadn't read her mind but his expression clearly seemed more nervous than before.

"Charles, don't try to like to me. I have known you since you had started learning how to use telepathy properly. You have definitely read my mind." Mystique said, this time convinced that her accusation was true.

"Fine! I had read your mind yesterday night while you were asleep. Once we had confirmed that you were Kurt's mother, I needed to learn how you felt towards Kurt as I didn't want to hurt him if you hated him or treated him like an unwanted child.

I was fortunately able to learn that you clearly had a motherly feelings towards Kurt. I also learned that you didn't have any negative feelings towards us. Thus, furthering my resolve to recruit you."

Professor Xavier finally relented and told Mystique why he needed to read her mind. And here I had thought that he was too hurried in telling Kurt about Mystique and taking him to meet her.

"Alright! Since I didn't feel any problem during my sleep last night, you likely didn't try to manipulate my memories. So, I will forgive you just this once." Mystique reluctantly forgived Professor once she learnt why he had read her mind.

"I will take you on your offer, Charles. After all, anywhere is better than this dull prison. Moreover, I will also be able to finally create a bond with Kurt." Mystique said, accepting Professor's offer.

"Umm… Mother." Once it was confirmed that Mystique would be joining the X-Men, Kurt addressed Mystique, calling her mother which obviously felt foreign to him but put a smile on Mystique's face.

"Who was my father? From what I have found, he was also a mutant." Kurt asked, curious to learn about his father.

"It was Azazel, right Mystique?" Professor Xavier said, taking a guess.

"Yes, it was Azazel. But you don't need to worry about that cunt." Mystique said, her voice full of hatred.

"Did something happened between you two?" Kurt asked curiously.

"Don't even ask! That bastard refused to acknowledge that even existed once he saw how you lived. As such, only I was left to fight in order to protect you from the hands of Magneto. He also had teleportation powers like you, Kurt. If he had just cooperated with me I could have escaped with you long ago." Mystique explained how much of a bastard Kurt's father was.

"So, where is he now?" Kurt asked hesitantly.

"He is dead now. I made sure of it. So, you don't need to think of him." Mystique revealed Azazel's fate, scaring all of us. But it at least confirmed that Mystique indeed cared about Kurt.

"But why didn't you tell Professor that you are my mother. He would definitely have treated you better if he knew that you are my mother." Kurt asked.

Mystique's eyes softened as she heard Kurt's words.

"I didn't know what was in my future after I was captured. And then I saw you talking happily with your friends. As such, I knew that you would be happy here and didn't want to make you worry for me. So, I didn't say anything."

"But didn't I deserve to know about you" Kurt argued after hearing her explanation.

"Of course, you did. But I just feared that you won't accept me after how much you had suffered at that lab."

"Alright! That is enough argument." Mr. Logan said, stopping their conversation.

"You will get time to talk with her later, bub! She is not going anywhere after all. Now, go and understand studying. From what I have heard, you are behind everyone in your magic studies." Mr. Logan said.

"Magic?" Mystique said, surprised by Mr. Logan's words.

"Ah! Since you are likely going to stay here, I can tell you about this matter. Magic in fact, exists and many students of our school are already taking classes in it. Kurt, why don't you give a demonstration to your mother?" Professor Xavier asked Kurt.

"With pleasure, Professor." Kurt said, excited to show magic to his newly found mother.

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"Peter!" Professor Xavier addressed me after we returned to the lobby.

"Stay behind, I need to talk to you about something." Looks like he wanted to talk about something with me privately.

"Can you ask Ancient One if she has any artefact which are used for prisoners or refugees?" He asked, shocking me.

"Do you not trust Mystique?" I questioned.

"I do not trust her fully. As such, I need a measure which will make her reluctant to betray us. I would have used a tech gadget but amazing artefact would be better as she doesn't know anything about magic or how it works." Professor Xavier explain why he needed such an artefact.

"I will ask Ancient One." I agreed as it was a matter of security.

Ring! Ring!

As I was about to join everyone, I received a call from Gwen.

"Hello, Peter!" Gwen's voice came from the other side.

"So, how did it go with Captain Stacy?" I asked, knowing why she would have called me. By now, she should already have had a talk with Captain Stacy regarding her identity as Spider Woman.

"He agreed to let me continue as Spider Woman." Gwen said the good news in a joyful tone.

"Really! That's great. Congrats, Gwen!" I said, congratulating Gwen. Honestly, I had not expected that he would actually agree.

"He said that although the way I worked was unconventional, I was fighting on the side of justice. So, it was okay for me to work as Spider Woman. Of course, he laid down several regulations on my daily routine and my conduct as Spider Woman but at least he agreed." Gwen started talking about everything she had discussed with Captain Stacy.

"He even said that he was proud of me. Something he had never said to me before. He thought that I was going down the wrong path so when he learnt that I was Spider Woman, he took a sigh of relief that at least I was not on the wrong path." Gwen seemed really happy to hear from her father that he was proud of her.

"By the way, Professor Xavier has said that you are welcome to join us here for training if you want." I relayed the offer Professor had given to her.

"That's great. I will see if I can clear my schedule in the following days to visit for training." Gwen agreed to the offer, realising that she still had a lot to learn.

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I know that Azazel was a demonic mutant but I thought that this entire plot would be too much of a hassle to include in the story so I decided to erase it instead.

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[DragonsEye]

"Gwen, you are hit! You have to try again!"

Mystique's voice sounded from the control room as Gwen was hit by a hologram laser on the obstacle course.

It had been a whole month since it had been revealed that Mystique was Kurt's mother and she had accepted Professor's offer to join the X-Men. She was released a week after that event although not without a bracelet artefact being clamped on her right hand which would constantly monitor her and could even release a shock attack through remote control.

Soon after she joined, she took over the training of the students. She was truly a hard master, often running all of us ragged in the danger room.

According to her, since we were going to participate in the missions, it was better for us to be fully prepared and trained so that we didn't risk our life in case anything untoward happened.

"It is just two difficult for me to run through the hologram obstacle course. The holograms do not give me a sense of danger making me unable to use my Spider Sense." Gwen said as she failed the obstacle course once again. She had joined us today for the training as it was another Sunday.

"That is why I am making you go through the hologram obstacle course. You depend too much on your Spider Sense, making it impossible for you to take decisions in urgent situations. As such, you need to learn how to take urgent decisions without the help of your Spider Sense as it will not come in handy every single time." Mystique advised.

"Now, go. Run through the obstacle course a few more times till the others come for combat training." Mystique said.

She had also started giving combat training to us students so that we would not be without options in case a situation arose where our powers were not helpful.

After all, the mutant powers of some of us were just too powerful such as Scott's energy beam while others just didn't have any combat applications such as Kitty's phasing and Kurt's teleportation.

"Hey, Peter! How is it going?" I was greeted by Emma who grabbed my hand in her arms as soon as she arrived in the control room. This girl was seriously getting more and more flirty as time went on.

"Oh! Hello, everyone!" Gwen also greeted everyone as he came out of the danger room after everyone arrived.

She had become quite fast friends with everyone as this was the first time she could be fully open with everyone without hiding anything. It also helped that everyone here had powers.

"Hey, Mum!" Kurt said, greeting Mystique.

"Are you really not having any problems from that artefact?" He asked, worried about her. Their relationship was now quite close, much different from their first conversation when they just new about each other. Much of this closeness was due to Mystique's attempt to get closer to Kurt although there was still some awkwardness between them.

"Yes, there are no problems from the artefact. Most of the time I have not even conscious of the fact that it is a magical artifact. However, I am surprised by the versatility of magic. The sorcerers were able to make this small artifact just by embedding some runes on it. It honestly surprises me." Mystique said, surprised by the ingenuity of magic.

"You can think of the enchantment on the artefact like coding which guides the magical energy." I explained after hearing her words.

"But I still don't get it at all. Then again, I do not know much about this part of magic. After all, I still have not learnt the Sanskrit language. I have to ask others' help for it as even translation apps don't know about the variant of Sanskrit used in the books." Kurt said, lamenting that he hadn't learnt the language yet.

"Speaking of learning, how are your studies going, Kurt? You know how much I had to hear from the teachers about your underperformance when I went to the Parent Teacher Meeting." Mystique said, asking about Kurt's studies.

Mystique had accompanied Kurt to the Parent Teacher Meeting which was held last week. Kurt had been extremely happy to have his mother Mystique with him but that soon turned to horror when the teachers berated Kurt for his bad performance in his studies in front of her which had caused Mystique to be quite disappointed in him.

"They are going alright, I promise." Kurt said resolutely.

"How is your artefact working, Rogue?" Mystique asked Rogue who had obtained the power resting artefact's prototype which had been created finally just the last day.

As it was still a prototype, it was actually a whole set of artefacts instead of a single one. The set consisted of a choker on her neck, bracelets on both of her hands, a belt on her waist as well as leg clasps on both of her legs. The set was a little uncomfortable to wear but worked well.

"It has been working fine although its control over my power sometimes fails. You don't need to ask, however." Rogue said in a sharp tone. Due to the past relationship between Rogue and Mystique, Rogue didn't like to associate with her.

But it seems that Mystique actually had some motherly feelings for her as you often checked on Rogue. Although Rogue didn't seem to like Mystique's affection, she didn't rage against it. As such, the relationship between them was an awkward one.

"You don't need to worry, Teacher. Rogue is doing fine. See!" Kitty said, putting her arm around Rogue's shoulder to show that the artefact was still working.

"Hey, at least be a little careful. You are just too lax, Kitty." Rogue said to Kitty as she removed her hand from her shoulder.

"I know that you wouldn't harm me intentionally, Rogue. And besides, I can just phase through your body in case anything happens." Kitty argued that there was no way she could be hurt by Rogue's power.

"Alright, everyone. I will go as I have something to ask Mr. Hank. I hope the training goes well." I said, bidding farewell to everyone.

As I already knew the Ta Lo martial arts and also trained regularly, I had no reason to join the combat training. As I had some free time recently, I was learning about tech and science from Mr Hank so that I could learn how to create various tech gadgets. I was thinking of creating enchanted tech but it would likely take a very long time before I could create one as it would require mastery in both science and magic.

Ring! Ring!

As I returned to the lobby, I received a call from Harry. Moreover, I could see many missed calls from him.

"Where were you, Peter? I was calling for a long time." Harry asked as I picked up the phone.

"Sorry, I was in the basement. There is no network there." I apologized for causing Harry needless worry.

"Anyways, MJ and her band have a concert in a club today. Wanna come? MJ has asked especially for you. Besides, we have not hanged out in a long while." Harry asked.

"Of course, I would come. I have some free time these days anyway. By the way, Gwen didn't tell me about this even though she is currently here at the X-Mansion." I asked, confused why Gwen didn't tell me.

"Oh, she is there for that training she had been offered, right?" Harry asked.

After that night patrol, MJ and Harry had also found Gwen's identity as Spider Woman but they also supported her for doing this job of a vigilante.

"Maybe it just slipped her mind? You know how much busy she is, juggling the life of both a student as well as Spider Woman. Combine that with the band, she just has no fucking time for herself." I guessed as it was indeed possible.

"By the way, can others also come?" I asked as I could also invite the others if they were interested.

"Of course, why not? The more, the merrier." Harry readily agreed.

"Then, see ya later at night." I said and ended the call.

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So, Peter is going on an outing with his friends which we all know will go well, right?

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[DragonsEye]

"It's clear. We can enter." I said as I made sure the alley and its surroundings were empty by creating a portal above the ground.

Soon after hearing my words, everyone entered the alley after I recreated the portal on the ground.

But seriously, I had not expected everyone to be so fed up by their daily schedule that they literally jumped at my offer when I asked if anyone wanted to join me on my outing today.

It was mostly because of Mystique's hardcore training in the recent days which was running them ragged. Adding that to the mystic art studies some of them had to go through as well as the mutant power training designed by Ancient One, they were all too fed up and wanted a release. So, they immediately got ready to accompany me once I asked them if they wanted to come.

Speaking of which, everyone was quite jealous of me because of my schedule these days. Even Emma who liked me said how lucky I was that my daily schedule was much less tight compared to theirs.

After all, I didn't have to go to school like them. And I didn't have to go through combat training as I already knew martial arts.

Then came the main reason for their envy towards me. The training in the danger room was nothing for me because of my Dragon Sense as well as my enhanced body. This, of course caused jealousy as others didn't have an enhanced body causing them to suffer in the training.

The mystic arts studies also called the schedule of Emma, Jean, Kurt and Kitty to be even more tight although I tried to help them whenever I could. Especially Kurt, who couldn't even read the books if I didn't translate them for him. The girls had by now pretty much learnt Sanskrit.

"Peter! You are finally here!" Harry said greeting me once we reached the club where the event was held.

"You guys must be the friends Peter had made in his new school. I am Harry, Peter's best friend." Harry introduced himself, putting his right arm around my shoulder to show the closeness between us.

"I think Gwen would like to argue about the best friend part." I said after hearing his introduction.

"That's true. Ha ha ha ha!" Harry said while laughing.

"Nice to meet ya, Harry!" Everyone greeted Harry and started introducing themselves.

"By the way, is that a Porsche?" Scott asked upon seeing Harry's car. Didn't know that he was a car enthusiast?

"Yes, it is." Harry replied proudly.

"How could you afford it?" Scott asked, surprised to see such an expensive car in the hands of someone his age.

"Ah! I forgot to say my full name. Let me reintroduce myself. I am Harry Osborn." Harry said, revealing his full name.

"Oh my god! Peter, you are friends with the heir of Oscorp." Kitty said, surprised by Harry's true identity.

"How did you befriend someone like him?" Emma asked from beside me, curious how friendship started.

"You don't need to ask. After all, it was actually me who had started our friendship. He was such a shy guy back when I had first met him." Harry replied before I could answer.

"Alright! That's enough talk. We need to enter the club now otherwise you will get late. You don't want to miss MJ's performance now, right Harry?" I said, interrupting the conversation. After all, if I let Harry continue the conversation, he will likely open our entire history.

"Yeah! That's right. We will get late. Come!" Harry said, asking us to follow.

"Kurt, Bobby! Check if your holo watches are working well. I don't want an accident." I asked them as we started entering the club.

Bobby had also required a holo watch since his face was quite famous after the whole Sabertooth incident. As such, he needed to use a hollow watch which changed his appearance whenever he had to attend school or go outside.

"You should check your illusion spell too, Peter. Professor had said that it had been broken the first time he had made you when he had tried to enter your mind." Jean said, reminding me.

"You don't need to worry. At that time, I was inexperienced in that spell. After that incident, I have practiced this spell a lot. There will no such accident." I reassured her as we finally entered the club.

"We are just in time. Their programme is just about to start." Harry said once we neared the stage.

"By the way, MJ and Gwen have a special surprise for you, Peter."

"Huh! A surprise?" I wonder what it would be.

"Hello, everyone!" MJ said as she came up on the stage with the rest of the band. She also waved her hand in our direction upon seeing that we were here.

"Today is a very special day for the Mary Janes. Because we are going to release our first original song today." MJ said, causing an uproar amidst the audience.

An original song! It had only been about half an year since the band had been established. And every member of the band was still in school. To think that they would release an original song this early.

"Without any further ado, let's begin." Saying these words, MJ started the performance along with the rest of the band.

"Huh! Peter, you are not going to dance." Emma said as she noticed that I was not headed to the dance floor like everyone else.

"Actually, I have only been to clubs a couple of times before and that was only because MJ and Gwen had dragged me there. I was a shy and nerdy boy back then and as such, didn't like the clubs much. So, you can say that I am not accustomed to the clubs." I explained the reason.

"But you have changed from back then. Besides,MJ and Gwen would not like it if you didn't dance on this occasion. Come on, I want to dance with you." Emma said, inviting me to dance with her.

"Fine!" I agreed and headed to the dance floor with her.

As I started dancing, I realised that I was wearing too much. Perhaps I should not worry and just have fun like everyone else.

Moreover, as I looked at Emma's enchanting smile while dancing, I thought that maybe it was about time for me to accept her offer.

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"Phew! That song was great. Right, Peter?" Harry asked as we moved outside the club.

"Yeah! It was quite good." I said, agreeing with him.

"By the way, do you all have to return so quickly? It has only been an hour and half." Harry asked.

"Professor Xavier had given strict orders that all of us had written quickly. Besides, everyone has school tomorrow." I said, explaining the reason we had to return quickly.

"Don't go around saying that we have school when you yourself don't need to go to—" Scott was complaining about how unfair it was that I didn't need to go to school when he suddenly stopped speaking upon seeing someone approaching us.

It was a man with quite a ridiculous getup. He was wearing a leather suit along with a metal helmet as well as freaking cape. It honestly look like he was some sort of cosplayer.

"Greetings, young mutants! I am Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants." All of us were shocked by the identity of the man.

Now I realised why this man's outfit was like this. Professor Xavier had mentioned that Magneto wore a helmet which blocked telepathy. But he hadn't told us that he wore a freaking cape.

But how the hell did this guy find us so fast? It had only been an hour and half since we were in the city.

"As an adult mutant, I advise you that as superior species, you should not mingle with the inferior ones and treat them as equal." Magneto said while looking at Harry when he said inferior species.

Who the hell believed in such propaganda in these times anyways?

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Magneto is here! To be honest, I had to do this sudden encounter because I wanted to finish the X-Men arc as soon as possible but couldn't think of a proper way for the Magneto fight. Of course, I will explain the reason for the sudden encounter in the next chapter.

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[DragonsEye]

Fuck! How do I deal with this situation?

In the first place, how did Magneto even find us? Our outing was a decision we had made on the spur so he could not have known that we would be here at this moment. But now was not the time to think about it.

The topic which mattered most was how to deal with Magneto now. With my powers, it was not hard to defeat him.

Professor Xavier had taught us everything he knew about Magneto and how he used his powers especially for this kind of situation.

But the main problem was that Magneto would clearly not be taken down on the first hit. I could already see Magneto's eyes scanning the entire surroundings so that he could react swiftly in order to block our attacks in case we attacked him.

He had purposely placed himself near some metal dumpsters so that he could use them to block any sudden attack coming towards him.

And if he blocked the first attack, it would be much easier for him to stall our attacks and counterattack using the various metallic objects in the area.

This would make fighting him extremely dangerous especially since we had Harry, a normal human along with us.

"As the leader of theBrotherhood of Mutants, I would like to invite you mutants to join me on my quest to usher in an age of mutants. As a mutant, it is both your right and duty to stand above the lesser humans and rule over them." Magneto said, once again spouting his mutant supremacist propaganda and trying to get us to join the brotherhood.

"Why are you saying this kind of uhh… racist propaganda to us? You know that we will never listen to your words." Kitty said, furious at Magneto's words.

"Of course, I know that you will not listen to my words. Charles has put this idea in your mind that mutants are equal to normal humans when in fact, you are actually superior to them. It seems that I will have to teach you this fact slowly once you have joined the Brotherhood." Magneto said.

From his words, it was clear that he wanted to take us along with him whether it was voluntary or by force.

Seeing that a battle seemed imminent, Harry slowly started moving backwards so that he could escape the soon to be turned battleground. After all, he was the most vulnerable of us.

"Don't even think about leaving, inferior." As soon as Magneto saw that Harry was trying to escape, he shot something towards Harry from his armour.

Seeing something moving towards Harry, Emma and Jean immediately used their telekinesis and stopped the object in its tracks in mid-air. The object was revealed to be a small size sharp metal rod although its direction was clearly not towards Harry but near him. Clearly, it was just a warning shot.

"However, I must thank you, Harry Osborn. After all, if it was not for you, I would never have found these young mutants." Magneto said, giving Harry credit for finding us for some reason.

"What are you talking about?" Harry had a horrified expression on his face as he heard Magneto's words.

"If it was not for someone capturing a picture of your car with these young mutants and posting it on social media out of jealousy, our system would never have scanned our dear Rogue here on it. It was also a coincidence that I was also in New York today, allowing me to have this meeting with you." Magneto explained how he found us.

To think that Magneto found us because of a fucking coincidence. Just one picture by a passersby on social media and he found us. And it was just our fucking luck that he had to be in New York today.

"You do know that you alone can't defeat us." I argued with Magneto.

It was actually no bluff. Before we had left the X-Mansion, I had given shield bracelets to everyone for protection. Adding that to Emma and Jean's telekinetic barriers, Magneto's attacks would never be able to reach us. Leaving him open to the powerful offensive by both me and Scott.

"Of course, I know that. I do not need children like you to teach me. That is why I have not come alone."

As soon as Magneto said these words, two figures appeared, one from behind us and another from an alley on our right side. They wore black combat gear as well as masks to cover their faces.

Slick!

To our surprise, three metal claws released from their knuckles just like Mr. Logan's.

"Are those Wolverine's claws?" Jean said, surprised upon seeing the claws appearing from their knuckles.

"Surprised to see them with Wolverine's claws. In fact, you should. After all, they are Wolverine's clones with the same power as him." Magneto revealed their identity while laughing.

"I can't read their mind. Something is blocking me." Emma said from beside me. It was clever of her to try to read their mind as soon as they appeared. Unfortunately, her attempt failed.

"Don't even think about trying to attack their mind. They have a special chip implanted in the brain which blocks telepathy." Magneto said as he heard Emma's words. He seemed to be completely sure of his victory which was why he was revealing his secrets in order to discourage us.

"But that is not possible. If this chip was indeed so incredible then you would be using it yourself instead of that helmet." I said, pointing out the fallacy of his words.

"That's right. This chip is actually only in its experimental phase. As such, whenever it blocks telepathic attacks, it causes severe pain to the user. But even if it does cause pain, what can mere clones do? They are mere puppets, broken, trained to have no emotions and only follow my words." Magneto said, revealing just how heinous he actually was. To think that he would use this clones as mere tools, not even caring if they felt pain.

"Now, I ask you for a final time. Would you join the Brotherhood or I would have to take you there myself? Because if you resist, I can't guarantee that I will care enough to make sure that this inferior human survives." Magneto said, threatening to kill Harry if we didn't follow him.

Moreover, it was actually quite easy for him to kill Harry since we wouldn't be able to protect him properly while fighting. Magneto was putting Harry as a hostage to make us join the Brotherhood.

Fortunately, I had a plan. Although it would depend heavily on the element of surprise. I put my right hand in my pocket and stealthly equipped the sling ring.

I grasped Emma's hand and put some pressure on it to draw her attention. When she looked at me, I gestured with my eyes to tell her that I was planning something.

As telepathy was useless against me, it was the only way for me to communicate immediately.

"Fine! We will follow you. But you have to release Harry." I said to Magneto, causing everyone to be surprised.

"Looks like there is actually someone who knows what is—"

While Magneto was speaking, I released a bolt of red lightning at him. But it seems that he was ready for a surprise attack because as soon as my hand moved, he immediately levitated the iron dumpster by side in front of him.

Boom!

As the dumpster blocked the lightning bolt, a blast happened causing some smoke. As the smoke started to clear, every metallic object in our surroundings had started to vibrate.

From the electric poles to the shutters of the nearby shops, everything was vibrating as if quaking because of Magneto's rage.

"I have seen better surprise attacks, kid! Now, get ready to face my wra–"

Gotcha! As Magneto was spouting the cliche villain lines, I created a portal right under him, causing him to drop down.

"What the hell?"

Unfortunately, the plan didn't work perfectly as Magneto had instinctively stopped himself from dropping down by levitating his suit, causing him to be half stuck in the portal.

"Emma, now!" I said to Emma who was ready to act.

"Got it!" Emma said as she gave a telekinetic push to Magneto who finally fell down the portal.

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Well, I had to make the Magneto encounter a coincidence since I wanted to finish this arc as soon as possible. By the way, did you like the Wolverine's clones?

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[DragonsEye]

Phew! Magneto had almost escaped my trap.

Thankfully, I had learnt how to remote cast a portal a few days ago which allowed me to catch Magneto off-guard otherwise the situation could have gotten messy.

Still, he had been too vary of us even when trying to get us to join him. This had caused him to almost escape my trap. Thankfully, I had already signalled Emma whose push at the main time had led to the trap being successful.

"Thank god, that bastard is gone. I was sick of that guy's stupid propaganda already. Whoa!" Harry was speaking when the two clones started moving. They had been still for a moment when Magneto fell into the portal.

"You are not going anywhere." Emma said, immobilizing one clone and simultaneously Jean immobilized the other one with her telekinetic powers. The synchronisation of their abilities had increased greatly ever since they had started receiving teachings from Ancient One after the examination of their powers.

"Whew! I had almost forgotten about these clones because of how silent they were. What should we do with thes clones, Peter?" Kitty asked.

This was indeed a dilemma. They were Wolverine's clones after all and all of us knew just how strong Wolverine was.

"We have to kill them." Scott suddenly said in a grim tone, shocking us all.

"How can you say that, Scott? They are living people even if they are clones." Kitty said furiously, rejecting Scott's proposition instantly.

"I agree with Scott. It is simply too dangerous to keep them alive." Rogue said, surprisingly agreeing with Scott.

"But, why?" Jean asked, concerned about the reason for Rogue and Scott's stance.

"Who will we hand them over to? The government? So that they can create even more of these clones and use them as weapons.

Besides, Magneto has already told us that their minds are broken. Just look at them. How their movements are too mechanical and that they have not said a single word till now? They have been turned into puppets. They have no future. It would be a blessing for them to die."

Scott explained why he thought that it was better for these clones to die. He thought them to be a threat to mutantkind since their existence proved that mutants could be used as weapons.

I honestly admired Scott for taking this hard decision which none of us could ever take. Rogue was supporting his decision because she had seen the dark reality of the world and could see what would be the better decision.

However, it was too early for us to stain our hands with blood. If anyone had the right to make this decision, it was Professor Xavier and the other teachers. Especially Mr. Logan, since they were his clones.

Before we could make any decision, I needed to learn something first.

"How long can you hold these two?" I asked Jean and Emma.

"Not for too long unfortunately. If they were normal humans, we could hold their bodies almost indefinitely. But they have enhanced strength and are constantly trying to fight against the force restraining them." Emma explained that they could not restrain the clones for too long.

So, we had to take a decision on what to do with this clones immediately. Magneto had already destroyed the nearby security cameras before he even approached us. And any remaining pedestrian had run away immediately upon hearing about mutants.

But it was likely that anyone could appear and inform the police upon seeing the scene here.

"We can't decide what to do with this clones. Let's make them unconscious. Professor and the others would decide what to do with them." I suggested.

"But, Peter!" Scott objected.

"I am not saying that your words are not true, Scott. These clones can indeed be used against us. But we should not be the ones to make this decision." I started explaining why we should not kill them immediately.

"We should not get blood on our hands. We are too young for it. Besides, there is still a lot we can learn from this clones.

These clones have been formed from Wolverine's DNA which could only have been obtained when he was captured. And who had captured Wolverine?"

"It was Hydra, not the Brotherhood!" Emma said with an expression of realisation on her face.

"Exactly! And these clones were with Magneto. There is no guarantee that there are not other clones out there. As such, gaining knowledge about these clones through research would actually be a better choice." I argued.

"Fine! You win." Scott said, realising the truth of my words.

"Alright! Let's make this guys get some sleep so that they do not cause any problems for us." Saying these words, I moved over to the clones and channelled lightning through their bodies in order to make them unconscious.

This was the most efficient way they could be made unconscious since they were immune to telepathy and their body was too resilient. As lightning coursed through their body, the clones started quivering due to the shock yet they didn't let out a single scream.

Due to their enhanced bodies, I had to release a strong current through their body yet not a single sound came out of their mouth. No wonder Magneto said that they were mere puppets.

"Let's call Professor now." I said to everyone after rendering them unconscious and they agreed.

Ring! Ring!

"Hello! Peter, what happened? Why did you call?" Professor's worried voice sounded from the phone.

"Professor, we defeated Magneto." I said. It was better to go directly to the point especially since we didn't have much time.

"What?"

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"Are all of you alright?" Professor Xavier asked after I told him the entire matter.

"Yeah, we are fine! Not a single scratch. You don't need to worry." I replied.

"What about those clones of Logan Magneto had with him?" Professor questioned.

"We have made them unconscious. Although it seems that their mind has been fucked up too much." I explained the clones' condition.

"Return immediately with the clones. We will continue our talk upon your return." Professor ordered, concerned about us.

"As you say, Professor." I said and cut the call.

"Alright, everyone. We must return now." I said to everyone.

"Harry! You take your car and go home. We will talk tomorrow. Do not tell anyone what happened today." I said to Harry.

"By the way, Peter. Where did you send Magneto? The Mirror Dimension?" Emma asked as I was about to create a portal.

"I wish I could. But unfortunately, remote casting to Mirror Dimension is a much harder job. If I could, it would be like he was in my own pocket."

"Then where did you send him?" Emma asked. I could see that everyone was curious to learn about this matter.

"It's a deserted island. That bastard would not find a single piece of metal there."

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This chapter shows a bit of Scott's mentality that he is willing to do anything for what he thinks is right. Anyways, the rematch with Magneto is next although it would obviously be easier what with him being on a deserted island.

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"Is everyone alright?"

Professor Xavier and the others came rushing towards us as soon as we emerged from the portal.

"You alright, Kurt?" Mystique even forgot about any sense of decorum as she rushed to hug Kurt as soon as we appeared.

"I am alright, Mom. You don't need to worry." Kurt assured her, even calling her mom which he rarely did.

"From what I can see, all of you are healthy without a single scratch. This calms my heart but you must tell me now what had actually happened." Professor Xavier asked about the actual incident since I had only given him a summarised version.

"I will tell you the whole matter, Professor. But first, take care of this clones. Although I shocked them unconscious, they are in the end Wolverine's clones. Who knows for how long they will remain unconscious?" I said, reminding Professor about the more imminent matter.

"Oh! That's right. I was so focused on Magneto and all of you that I could not give them proper attention. Hank, take out the stretchers you had prepared." Professor said to Mr. Hank.

As per Professor's words, Mr. Hank took out the stretchers he seemed to have specially prepared for the clones.

"Emma, Jean!" I addressed the girls who had been carrying the clones with their telekinesis till now. Since they were Logan's clones and we knew how strong his healing factor was, we decided to not be in direct contact with them just for the sake of safety.

"Put the heaviest sedatives you have in the system, Hank. Do not give them a single chance to wake up." Professor said seriously. We rarely got to see this side of Professor who could be so ruthless.

"Now, tell me what happened actually." Professor Xavier asked.

"This is what happened, Professor." Jean started telling everyone here about how our encounter with Magneto was just because of a fucking coincidence.

"To think Magneto had found you just because of a single picture. And it was just our bad luck that he happened to be in New York at the same time. This coincidence is such as if the fate itself was against us. Fortunately, nothing happened." Professor released a sigh of relief that nothing had actually happened despite the odds being against us.

"Also, Scott, in a way was correct that these clones were better off dead than alive. The existence of mutant clones is something which will only lead to the mutants be used as tools.

Even we will have to kill these clones after we have finished the research on them. From what I have heard about their condition, they would indeed be better of dead."

Professor Xavier gave his opinion on Scott's take on matter, supporting his line of thought.

"I had told you that it was the right thing to do." Scott said after hearing Professor's words.

"But that doesn't mean that Peter is not correct." Professor continued his words, surprising us.

"You all are indeed to young to get blood on your hands even if these clones have to be killed for the greater good.

It is the duty of us adults to take care of it. It is good that you are mature enough to realise what should be done but it doesn't mean that it is you who have to do it. As long as we are here, you need not worry about such matters."

"Professor, how should we deal with Magneto?" I asked, knowing that we would not get a better chance to capture Magneto.

"Peter, you had said that you trapped Magneto on a deserted island. In that case, it is indeed a golden chance for us. We will send a team to capture him immediately. After all, it is not everyday that we get to have Magneto alone and in such a favourable condition for us." Professor confirmed that he would immediately ready a team to capture Magneto.

"Then, which one of us will we going to capture that bastard?" Rogue asked her voice spiteful as she mentioned Magneto.

After all, it was because of him that she had suffered in the Brotherhood. She could also be feeling guilty that it was because of her that Magneto had found us.

"Actually, none of your students will go for this mission except Peter." Professor said that none of them except me would go to capture Magneto.

"But why, Professor?" Jean questioned Professor's decision.

"You all don't know Magneto like I do. As he is cornered now, he will not hold back even a single percent of his strength in order to escape when the team will go to capture him. He will be ruthless, ready to kill anyone who will be in his way to escape." Professor explained why he couldn't send a student.

"Won't we need a psychic at the very least, Professor? After all, we can counter magneto's control over metal especially since there will not be any metal on the island." Emma argued.

"I can't risk it." Professor said seriously.

"Have I ever told you how Magneto had killed Sebastian Shaw? It was with a single fucking coin. And he will be just as ruthless now, if not more." Professor said, giving an example of Magneto's ruthlessness.

"Come on kids, don't be too sad. Even I am not going. Because of the metal in my body, I won't be able to stand against Magneto for even a second." Mr. Logan said in a bid to calm the students' desire.

"Wait! Since we are not going along with Mr. Logan, that leaves only Peter and Ms. Ororo, right? After all Professor can't go and Beast doesn't go on missions." Kitty said as she realised that only Ms. Ororo and I were left.

"That's right. Peter and Ororo would be the ones who would go to capture Magneto." Professor Xavier said, confirming Kitty's words.

"But would it be enough to send only the two of them?" Scott questioned.

"I would have hesitated to send even Ororo if she hadn't received a shield artifact from Peter recently. Peter can handle himself because of his outstanding defence and he also has to go because he is the one who will create the portal."

"You don't need to worry, Professor. I have learnt some new tricks recently after getting advice from Ancient One. Besides, Peter is also with me. It would be easy for us to capture Magneto." Ms. Ororo said, reassuring Professor.

"Alright, everyone! Go and get some rest. Peter, you should also get some rest. You will leave in an hour." Professor ordered.

"But, Professor. There is no need for me to rest at all. We can get to that island for the mission right now." I argued as I was not feeling tired at all.

"Still, Peter. Get some rest so that you will be in perfect condition when you depart. One hour will not change anything." Professor advised.

"Fine!" I said, relenting to his words.

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So, the team is ready although it is rather small to be called a team. Sorry for the filler chapter though. I wanted to finish Magneto subjugation this chapter but the chapter continued to get longer.

But I promise that the next chapter would definitely be action packed. Also, the existence of X-23 is pretty much confirmed with the existence of Wolverine's clones.

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"Get your shield up! Who knows when Magneto will do a sneak attack?" I asked Ms. Ororo who activated the shield artefact like I had asked her to, causing a spherical shield to envelope her.

"It is going to be a problem finding Magneto here." Ms. Ororo said after seeing the entire scene before her eyes.

We were currently on the beach and could clearly see footprints going from the beach to the forest. Magneto had clearly hidden himself in the forest because he knew that he would have an advantage if he fought while hiding.

"How will we even find Magneto in this forest in such darkness? It will be a huge pain even if Magneto does not attack us while we search for him." Ms. Ororo commented as she realised how difficult it would be to search for Magneto in night.

"Let me take care of the darkness." I said as I casted a spell.

As soon as the spell was casted, several balls of light started floating around us, illuminating the area.

"That takes care of the— Watch out!" I warned Ms. Ororo as I sensed something with my Dragon Sense.

My hand instinctively turned into a claw and I caught something with it.

Clang!

Something also striked Ms. Ororo's shield, creating a sharp sound. I opened my hand to see that it was a small iron spike. Looks like Magneto had hidden a lot of insidious things in his suit.

"Now, let's see where you are, Magneto." I casted a life recognition spell to find a Magneto's location.

Damn! This guy is quite smart. Magneto was continuously moving throughout the forest which prevented me from getting his accurate location.

I had not learnt an advanced version of the life recognition spell which granted me continuous tracking as I was busy studying other spells. The one I knew only provided me the location for a single moment and could not track the target continuously.

"What's the matter, Peter?" Ms. Ororo asked upon seeing that I had difficulty tracking Magneto.

"Magneto is currently moving from one place to another and my spell can only identify one's location at a single moment. So, in the end, I can't track Magneto." I explained the reason why my tracking unsuccessful.

Clang!

Magneto attacked once again, this time focusing on Ms. Ororo, shooting a total of three spikes at her, each one moving along a curved path to attack her from different directions. Perhaps he had not attacked me because I had easily caught the iron spike he had thrown at me.

"Damn it! At this rate, we will be just sitting ducks. Ms. Ororo, you wait here. I will go and catch that bastard." I said, incensed by Magneto's sneak attacks.

"Wait a moment, Peter!" I was about to rush into the forest when Ms. Ororo suddenly stopped me.

"Do you have any idea how we can bring Magneto outside?" I asked.

"Yes, I have. It is something I have learnt recently. First tell me how far Magneto is?" Ms. Ororo asked.

"About 200 metres away." I replied after checking.

"Alright! Now, just watch." Saying these words, Ms. Ororo pointed her hand towards the ocean.

Suddenly, I felt heat in the air as water in the ocean started vaporising and became clouds right in front of my eyes.

Then, Ms. Ororo moved her hand towards the forest and the clouds started entering the forest just as she had gestured. Soon after the clouds entered the forest, they somehow turned into fog, causing the entire forest area to be shrouded in a thick fog. Honestly, this entire process looked quite mystical.

"That's great, Ms. Ororo! The fog will prevent Magneto from moving throughout the forest as smoothly as before. This will make it much easier for me to catch Magneto." I said, excited to finally catch him.

"No, it has not ended yet, Peter. The show is still left." Ms. Ororo said upon hearing my words.

Soon after she said these words, another wave of heat hit me from the front. Now, I realised what Ms. Ororo had been trying to do.

The fog was only for increasing the humidity of the area. As soon as the fog settled, she created a heat wave inside the forest. Moreover, she was continuously increasing the temperature even now.

This much heat combined with humidity will pretty much cause Magneto to literally boil inside his suit. He will have to leave the forest region if he wants to escape The heat otherwise he will simply fall unconscious due to heatstroke.

"This method is great, Ms. Ororo. But what if Magneto goes deeper inside the forest instead of coming out of it." I asked as it was a possible outcome.

"If that happens, I will simply cause the entire forest to be covered in fog so that you can hunt him down.

Honestly, I did this long trick because I wanted to test how much my powers had grown which I couldn't test inside the X-Mansion.

But I don't think that Magneto will actually retreat. His resources are already few. He knows that the longer the battle stretches out, the lesser will be his chances of victory. So, he will probably do a final attack in avoid to defeat us."

Ms. Ororo explain why she thought that Magneto would probably not retreat. She had fought with him before so her assumption was likely going to be correct.

"It is as you have said. Magneto is moving in our direction." I said after checking his location once again.

Soon after my words finished, Magneto burst out of the forest, his face full of sweat.

As soon as he appeared, Magneto pointed his arms towards us. Several small iron rods released from the gauntlets on his hands and many holes also appeared all over his suit which launched several spikes towards us as well.

"Just this much, Magneto?" Ms. Ororo said as she saw Magneto's barrage and created a fierce blizard which rushed towards Magneto and also served as a barrier against the iron barrage.

I, on the other hand, didn't create a barrier to stop the barrage coming towards me. Master Ying Nan had taught me how to fight in this kind of cases. If possible, one should attack the caster rather than block his attacks.

I immediately took the stance of 'Thunderclap and Flash' without giving any attention to the barrage of iron coming towards me and then flashd to escape the iron assault.

As soon as I escaped the barrage, I shot a weak bolt of lightning at Magneto, causing his attention as well as his control to falter. Whatever spikes still remained in the air immediately slowed down and some even dropped on the ground.

I then flashed again towards Magneto and struck the back of his neck, causing him to fall unconscious. This also lead to the remaining iron spikes floating in the air to finally drop down.

"Phew! Magneto was truly relentless. No wonder Professor said that he would be ruthless." Ms. Ororo commented as she came close to Magneto's unconscious body.

"Anyways, let's leave now. It is quite already late at night." I said, ready to departure now that Magneto had been captured.

Clap! Clap!

I was about to create a portal when I heard the sound of clapping from somewhere. I moved the searchlights towards where the sound of clapping was coming from to see who it was. But when the lights illuminated that person, I could not believe who it was.

"Hello, Peter! Long time no see." Spider Supreme was standing there clapping at my battle against Magneto. Moreover, he was not alone.

There was a young petite girl around 15 or 16 year old with him. She had long flowing silver hair that cascaded down her back and framed her face with straight bangs. Her eyes were surprisingly a piercing golden. She wore a white and blue dress with intricate designs.

"So, this is my little brother, huh!" The young girl suddenly said while facing me.

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What is Spider Supreme doing here? And who is this little girl who calls herself Peter's big sister? Well, fate fans should have already realised who she is.

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I didn't know who this little girl who was calling me little brother was but I could feel the sheer amount of power radiating from her small body with my Dragon Sense.

I was sure that I would not be able to defeat her even if I used every single ounce of my power. This was something I had never felt ever since I had gained my powers from Spider Supreme.

But then again, I believe it was something to be expected. If Spider Supreme could give me such incredible powers just for research, he was sure to have even more powerful people with him.

Fortunately, she didn't seem to have any hostile intentions towards us. I could even feel some sort of familiarity with her but I didn't know why.

"Excuse me. Who are you and why are you calling Peter 'little brother'? After all, you look even younger than him." Ms. Ororo questioned as she heard the girl's absurd way of addressing me.

Ms. Ororo, I know you are looking out for me as my teacher but you don't understand what kind of existence this little girl is.

"Who are you calling little girl, huh? I am several times older than you." The little girl said angrily as she heard Ms. Ororo's words.

"So, you do admit Melusine that you are an old grandma." Spider Supreme said teasingly to the girl who was apparently named Melusine. It was quite an iconic name, clearly one I had never heard before.

"Ow!!" Melusine didn't say anything in response to Spider Supreme's teasing and instead punched him lightly on his side causing him to yelp.

"I don't need to tell you that my race doesn't have any concept of age. As such, I am forever young." Melusine said in a self righteous tone.

"Why are you here, Spider Supreme? And who is this girl?" Ms. Ororo asked once again upon receiving no answer to her question.

"Unfortunately, that is something I can only answer to Peter, Ororo Munroe. So, you have to go." Spider Supreme suddenly snapped his fingers and both Ms. Ororo and Magneto disappeared before my eyes.

No way! Was that spatial displacement? How did Spider Supreme perform it so smoothly that I couldn't perceive the slightest ripple?

"You don't need to worry about them. I sent both of them back to X-Mansion." Spider Supreme said, assuring me that both of them were alright.

There were a lot of things I wanted to ask Spider Supreme but first I needed to say something to him.

"Thank you for saving my life." I thanked him because if it was not for him, I won't even be here. I could thank him freely now that we were alone.

"Hey! Enough of that kind of serious talk. Focus on this big sis of yours. Do you know how much hard it was for me to get him to take me along?" Melusine said with a pout.

"Why do you call yourself my big sister?" I asked the biggest question currently on my mind.

"Have you ever had a vision about the dragon from which your powers are descended?" Melusine asked.

"Yes, I had seen it in a dream. It was a giant dragon of unimaginable size with shining white scales. Moreover, I had even seen how it died in the dream." I answered.

"That dragon was Albion. It is a dragon from Irish and British mythology. Although there are several variations about how powerful that dragon was, the version of Albion from which your powers came from was actually much more stronger than any description of it.

You must have already felt how powerful it was in your dreams. Albion was a primordial dragon, powerful enough to go toe to toe with gods and even kill them."

Gods actually exist in this world! And this dragon was capable of killing them. I was shocked by Spider Supreme's description of Albion.

"And I was born from Albion's corpse after it died. In fact, it was because of his research on me that Spider Supreme could create the serum which granted you this power. Since you used the serum which contained Albion's DNA, you are therefore my little brother." Melusine cheerfully explained why I was her little brother.

"Can you release your full power, Peter? I need to analyse your body to see how much it has adapted to your powers. Also, remove your suit. It will obstruct the analysis." Spider Supreme asked for my cooperation.

"Sure!" I complied with his orders and transformed into my draconic form after switching to my casual clothes.

"Let's see what is your condition." Spider Supreme casted a spell which started analysing the condition of my body.

"Hmm… You have achieved control over your rampant instincts quite fast. Very good! Overall, the synchronisation of your body with the Saint Graph is quite great, especially considering its condition." Spider Supreme said after completing the analysis, saying a word I couldn't understand the meaning of, 'Saint Graph'.

"What is Saint Graph?" I asked since I didn't know what it meant.

"It is the foundation of your dragon powers. You can think of it as a spiritual program inside your soul which contains your powers. It is what transforms your body and grants you these powers." Spider Supreme explained.

Well this explained why Rogue couldn't absorb my powers. It was because her powers were biological in nature while mine were actually spiritual.

"But was it really necessary to leave the Saint Graph with just barebones?" Melusine said as she suddenly appeared besides me and poked my body.

"Just look at him. Although his strength and attack are passable, he has got no speed. How can I call him my little brother with just this much speed?" Melusine complained.

"This much power is just the barebones!" I was shocked to hear that my Saint Graph was only barebones as even with this much power, I had never met my match till now.

"Yes, it is actually barebones. When I had grafted the Saint Graph into your body with the Albion Serum, I had only provided it just enough energy to barely function. I would say that you are only using about 10% of its true power currently." Spider Supreme said, shocking me once again.

"Well, that explains why I only had this much power when Albion was so powerful." This fact was shocking but it actually explained a lot of my questions.

"As for Melusine's question, it was extremely important to leave the Saint Graph with only this much power as it was after all the Saint Graph of a dragon. If it was at its full power, Peter would have turned into an actual dragon instead. Peter, you must have felt a surge of wild instincts inside you once you woke up, right?" Spider Supreme questioned.

"How can I forget about that time? It felt like my body was not my own. It took me months to finally have my body fully under my control." I still shuddered whenever I thought about those times.

"Those wild instincts were due to the power of a dragon seeping into your body through the Saint Graph. If your Saint Graph had been at full power, it would have turned you into a mindless, berserk dragon." Spider Supreme explained the true potential of the Saint Graph inside my body.

"Then, I thank you once again for your consideration." I thanked him once again because such meticulousness deserved praise especially when the test subject was my body.

"However, the time has finally come to amplify the power of your Saint Graph. I have found a way to increase the power of your Saint Graph without turning you into a dragon. This will do the job!" Spider Supreme explained the reason for his appearance here and revealed something from his suit.

"A card!"

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So, my dear readers! Did you like the way I dealt with the origin of Peter's powers? An empty Saint Graph will make Peter slowly grow stronger and also make the story more interesting.

After all, if Peter's Saint Graph was at full power, he would be too much overpowered and the story will not be much interesting in the future. After Peter's powers are enhanced, I would say that he would be around Thor and Hulk in terms of power.

Also, that card is unfortunately not a Class Card but still it is something close to it.

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[DragonsEye]

In the hands of Spider Supreme was a silver card which seemed to be covered with magic circles.

"What can this card do?" I asked, puzzled about the function of this card.

"This card is no ordinary card, Peter. It contains a special Saint Graph I have built just for you. You have no idea how much hardships I had to endure just to learn how to make this kind of cards." Spider Supreme said in a sorrowful tone, as if remembering those hardships.

"Come on, Zelretch was not even that hard of a teacher." Melusine said, countering his claim and revealing the name of Spider Supreme's teacher, Zelretch.

"You are saying this because you didn't learn under him. You have no idea how much of a troll that millennia old coat is." Spider Supreme said while cursing Zelretch.

"Anyways, we are talking about the function of this card. This card contains an empty human Saint Graph which will merge with your original Saint Graph.

Once it has been merged, it will turn your body into a receptacle of your dragon powers, allowing you to use more of your Saint Graph's power without turning into a dragon. That is why, I have also injected enough energy in this card to boost your Saint Graph's power to about 25% of its true potential."

"Wait a minute! Before you use this card on me, I have a few questions." I interrupted Spider Supreme and asked.

"Sure! You deserve to know what is going on. I will try to answer any questions you may ask." Spider Supreme agreed readily.

"Why are you giving me this much power? What are your motives?" It was something I needed to know before I accepted this card.

"I just need you to do a few things for me once I deem you strong enough. Although it will likely not be for a few years. Don't worry though. It is nothing evil. Unfortunately, I can't tell you the details now." Spider Supreme said, answering my question quite vaguely.

"Can you not do it by yourself? You are so powerful. After all, it was you who gave me these powers. And even if you can't, there is still Melusine here who has the powers from the same dragon but is much stronger than me." I questioned.

"Melusine has quite some restrictions placed on her in this case. I will try my best but I believe that I will not be enough. As such, I need your help. I can't tell you more than that for now." Spider Supreme said, giving again a vague explanation.

"Since the experiment on me was successful, can't you give yourself the same Saint Graph as mine. After all, you are the one who made it." I questioned since it made sense.

"This is one of the restrictions I have as a Spider Person or rather a Spider Totem as is the actual term. I will always be a Spider no matter what more I become. As such, I can't transform into a Dragon from a Spider." Spider Supreme explained his helplessness in this matter.

"I can tell you, however, what made me choose you specifically. I needed a Peter Parker who was not a Spider Totem. And this was harder to find than you would think."

"Is it really that hard?" I questioned as I thought it would not be too difficult to find someone like that in the multiverse.

"More than 80% of the Spider Totem you would find in the entire multiverse are Peter Parker or a variation of him. Those who are not, they often die in the journey of a Spider Totem." Spider Supreme said in a sorrowful tone, shocking me.

"Does that mean the decision I took back then to use the Lizard Serum was one of those cases?" I said as I connected the dots.

"More likely than not. You probably would not have taken this drastic decision if fate had not willed it to happen. I have seen it too many times.

A Spider Totem's life is filled with many tragedies. And one tragedy which is confirmed to happen at least once in their life is the death of a loved one."

Does that mean that I was just a puppet of fate?

I quickly shook my head as this thought filled my mind. What had occurred was already in the past? There was no need to ruminate over it or blame it on something else. I just needed to look forward.

"But it is possible to circumvent these tragedies. Like you did with mine." I said, realising just what had he done when he had saved my life.

"Yes, I did. But it took me several experiments before I could do it perfectly. Even then, more often the not, I could not save them because I was just not on time." I could feel genuine sorrow in his voice as he explained how much he had done so that he could save those like me.

"Why does this even happen?" I said as I could not understand the purpose of this fate thrusted upon those like me.

"The reason is very complex. Just know that it is related to the working of the entire multiverse and can't be easily broken. I will explain it to you next time."

"Enough of this sad talk. It is about time Peter used the card." Melusine said, reminding us of Spider Supreme's actual purpose for coming here.

"So, you ready?" Spider Supreme asked as he got ready to use the card on me.

"I will not be unconscious for four days like last time, right." I asked as I didn't want to disappear again out of nowhere.

"Don't worry. It will not take that much time. I think it will take only about half an hour. Moreover, it will be painless." Spider Supreme said, assuring me.

"Alright! Use it then." I said, giving my affirmation.

"Okay! I am starting. But I would advise you to remove your clothes and artefacts so that they are not damaged by the energy released during the procedure." Spider Supreme said one last advice.

As he said these words, Melusine turned her back to us so as to not peek on me.

"If you say so." I stripped naked using the transformation bracelet and then give all the artefacts I had to Spider Supreme.

"I am starting now." As he said these words, the silver card started floating and then entered my chest without any interruption.

As soon as the card entered my body, I could feel the dragon I had seen before while meditating, roaring inside me.

I became aware of the Saint Graph inside my soul Spider Supreme was talking about. I could feel its power growing and soon I was enveloped in a cocoon of red lightning.

But I didn't lose consciousness. I could feel the power of the Saint Graph entering my body and modifying it, strengthening it to another level.

However, this enhancement was not a wild one like it was when I had obtained these powers. This time, every bit of power entering and enhancing my body felt obedient. I could control my body just as smoothly as I could before.

Just as Spider Supreme had said, after about half an hour, the enhancement was completed and the cocoon of red lightning was absorbed by my body.

"Here, dress up now." Spider Supreme said, throwing my transformation bracelet to me.

I immediately changed into casual clothes using the bracelet and wore the rest of the artefacts.

I had a lot to ask Spider Supreme after this enhancement but I felt restless as I wanted to check how much my body had improved.

So, I moved across the island and punched a tree. As soon as I punched the tree, it was immediately uprooted and flew away because of the strength of my fist.

Although I was impressed by my enhancement in strength the main improvement was in my speed. Just now, when I had moved, I had easily reached the speed I could only achieve using a low powered flash. Now, I could understand why Melusine had said that I had no speed.

"Now this is what I was talking about. I can now proudly say that you are my little brother." Melusine said, praising my speed.

"Say, wanna have a flight together?" Melusine suddenly offered.

"Sure, why not?" I agreed as I also needed to check how much my flight capability had improved.

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So, Spider Supreme was actually taught by Zelretch! We get another peek into Spider Supreme's past. We also gain knowledge in the inner workings of this multiverse.

Actually, back when I had written about 'Thunderclap and Flash', I hadn't read Melusine's wiki page. As such, I didn't know that her main advantage was her speed.

So, with Peter's speed being heavily boosted with this enhancement, there will be fewer chances in the future for him to use 'Thunderclap and Flash'.

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"Release your wings now! I want to see how they look." Melusine demanded.

"Sure!" I said and released my wings since I also wanted to see how much they had changed. As my wings unfurled from my back, I was surprised to see how much they had evolved.

Although my wings had a metallic texture before, they now had a fully aerodynamic design. If seen from afar, I think they would not even seem to be wings.

Curious about how much I had changed, I entered into my draconic form completely with a burst of red lightning. My horns were much slicker now and also coated with my unique red lightning.

The scales no longer appeared randomly over my body. I had now full control over where they appeared. Moreover, the scales also had a complete metallic texture now. Overall, my draconic form now had a more metallic feel than a reptilian one.

"Now this is what I was talking about. Let me show you my wings." As she said these words, Melusine was suddenly covered in a blue light.

When the blue light disappeared, she looked much different from before. She had wings similar to mine on her back, the only difference being blue glowing lines on them instead of red ones like mine.

She now wore a skin tight uniform although I could see blue lines on some parts of her body where her skin was exposed. But the most unique part were her horns.

She had a crown of quite small horns on her head which glowed a soft blue. Moreover, they were bent so much that they looked more like a hair ornament than actual horns.

"How do I look?" Melusine asked excitedly although I could see some nervousness in her tone.

"You look awesome!" I said and even followed with a thumbs up.

"By the way, why does your body glow blue instead of red like mine?" I asked curiously.

"That is something we can talk about later. Come, it's time for us to have a flight." Melusine said, looking excited for the flight with me.

"Follow me." As she said these words, Melusine's wings started glowing and then she was off, her wings blasting energy as though they were jet engines.

"See ya later, Spider Supreme." I said to Spider Supreme as I took off after her, boosting my wings to catch her, causing them to also look like jet engines.

I was surprised by how fast I was compared to before. I reckon that I could catch up to actual jets. Moreover, I could maneuver smoothly without loosing any control.

"Liking it so far, little bro? Melusine asked with a grin. She had slowed down her speed so that I could catch up to her.

"Of course." I answered with a smile.

As both of us flew over the sea shimmering in moonlight at high speeds, it just felt surreal.

"Catch me if you can." Melusine said after about a minute and then boosted her wings to fly farther away from me.

I just grinned at her challenge and also boosted my wings to catch up to her.

For a few moments, my speed was good enough to catch up to her but soon I hit my limit. I could not boost my wings anymore.

"I can't increase my speed more." I shouted to Melusine as I admitted my defeat.

"Use Mana Burst!" Melusine shouted back, asking me to use something I had never heard of before.

"What is Mana Burst —Oh!" Just as I was about to ask about Mana Burst, its information suddenly appeared in my mind.

It was a Skill, although I didn't understand why this term was used here. However, it was a process to enhance one's physical prowess in a burst using high amounts of magical energy. Because it required a huge amount of magical energy, only those with a huge reservoir like my Dragon Heart could use it.

Although it didn't fit right with me to use such a powerful Skill for just boosting my flight speed, it was actually a good chance to test this Skill.

So, I used Mana Burst, causing huge amounts of magical energy, much more than I had ever used at once to flow through my body and enhance it. And consequently, my flight speed increased once more as my wings burnt through a huge amount of magical energy.

As I came closer to Melusine, I could see her smiling at me.

"Now, this is enough speed that someone with Albion's power should have." She said with a smile. Her smile looked exceptionally beautiful in the moonlight.

As we flew together at speeds rivalling that of fighter jets, I could feel a bond forming between us. After all, she was the only one who are similar to me.

"That was one great flight. I never had a chance to fly like that with anyone else." Melusine said as we returned to the island after a few minutes. She seemed truly happy after flying together with me.

"You know, I was the one who had personally asked Spider Supreme to add Mana Burst in that card. So that you could fly even faster." Melusine said while smiling.

"Then, I would have to thank you for this amazing skill." I said, thanking her.

"I am very happy that Spider Supreme gave you Albion's powers. For the first time, I have someone who is similar to me." Melusine said with an enchanting smile.

Although I was happy to hear these words from Melusine and a bond was forming between us, I felt hesitant to be the reason for happiness as I remembered what had led to me obtaining these powers.

"You must have heard what led to me accepting Spider Supreme's proposal and transforming into my current state. Can you accept me as your little brother even after hearing what had actually happened?" I asked after gathering some courage.

"You had not done anything wrong. You just wanted to be strong. There is nothing wrong with that. The weak always want to grow stronger. It is the law of the world." Melusine said philosophically, surprising me with her words.

"You know what, Peter. You remind me of my other little brother, Percival. He was just like you, righteous and wanting to grow stronger so that he could protect others." Melusine said, talking about another brother of hers.

"We have another brother!" I asked, surprised by her words.

"He was actually just a human. However, he was raised along with me so I was his big sister. He is …… no more." Melusine reluctantly shared Percival's fate with a sad face.

"Sorry! I didn't know that this had happened." I apologized.

"You don't need to be sorry. But Percival and you would have definitely gotten along. Both of you are so much similar." Melusine said with sad smile.

"So, how was your flight?" Spider Supreme said, breaking the sad atmosphere as he arrived.

"So, how was your first experience with Mana Burst? Did you like it?" Spider Supreme asked.

"It went great. But what are Skills?" I asked.

"Skills are a kind of power which is embedded in a Saint Graph. They can perform a large variety of functions, ranging from attack and defence to even enhancement." Spider Supreme explained.

"Since we are talking about several functions of Saint Graph, let me explain to you the bread and butter of Saint Graphs, the Noble Phantasms."

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Guess what Noble Phantasm Peter has?

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"What are Noble Phantasms?" I asked curiously.

"Not only are they the most powerful and important part of a Saint Graph, they are also its very identity." Spider Supreme explained to me the importance of Noble Phantasms.

"Their very identity?" I questioned, confused by his explanation.

"To explain Saint Graph properly, I must tell you about their history. It originated in a universe which was very similar to our own but with very different underlying laws.

People who are famous enough there that they were written down in History could ascend to a higher form of existence called Heroic Spirits after their death to a different dimension called Throne of Heroes.

Actually, the term 'Heroic Spirit' is a bit of a misnomer as not all Heroic Spirits were actually Heroes. One only needed to be famous enough for their fame to last centuries to enter the Throne of Heroes. You can find a large variety of famous people there, ranging from villains, heroes, scientists to even authors."

I was astonished to learn about the Throne of Heroes. A place where every famous person in history from heroes, villains, kings and even scientist and others gathered.

"The mages of that world managed to create away to someone those Heroic Spirits in a diminished form who they called 'Servants' in their arrogance.

These Servants were actually a spiritual body formed completely of magical energy in which the Heroic Spirits descended. And the foundation of their spiritual body was the Saint Graph which contained all their powers.

The Noble Phantasms are what made these Heroic Spirits famous when they were alive and is thus a vital part of their identity. Often times, it is a weapon such as a sword or a sphere which was used by the Heroic Spirit. A perfect example would be King Arthur whose Noble Phantasm would be Excalibur along with various other weapons he had used in his life such as Rhongomyniad."

Spider Supreme explained everything about Heroic Spirits and Noble Phantasms patiently. I was honestly in awe as I heard about Heroic Spirits from him.

"But Albion was a dragon not a human. How did you create its Saint Graph then?" I asked as I was confused by this fact.

"Be patient, I am explaining it now. Actually, the Saint Graph is quiet flexible and can be modified by powerful spells. Moreover, it can even be grafted into a human through various means. In fact, a lot of higher beings had Saint Graph in that universe.

As such, I had created Albion's Saint Graph using the DNA I had obtained from its corpse and reference data for research on Melusine's body. Even then, it was not an easy task and took several years."

"In fact, I also have a grafted Saint Graph. Let me show you my Noble Phantasm." Melusine said excitedly.

Her hands became covered in a blue light and when the blue light disappeared, there were gauntlets on her hands on which swords for fixed. The swords were not normal swords either. I could see several words engraved on the swords in an unknown language.

"This is my Noble Phantasm, [Innocence Arondight]." Melusine told me proudly.

"Arondight, where have I heard that name before?" I had heard this name clearly somewhere but I seemed to miss the source.

"It is Lancelot's sword from the Arthurian Legends. Mine is a modified version of that sword. Lancelot's Saint Graph vas grafted on me by Her Majesty, thus giving me the name Faerie Knight Lancelot." Melusine said triumphantly.

"Faerie Knight? Faeries actually exist and you are a faerie? Weren't you born from Albion?" I was a truly surprised by Melusine's sudden proclamation.

"They do not exist in this world. Melusine is from a world with actually existed. Since she was raised by Faeries, she also has the traits of a Fae.

But you should be thankful that the Faeries do not exist in your world. Because they were one bloody hell of cunts who actually enslaved humans."

Spider Supreme told me the true nature of the Faeries, shocking me. And here I had thought that the fairies were actually pure of heart as was taught in the stories. If they were truly like what Spider Supreme said them to be, then this world was indeed better off without them.

"Hey! Not all of us were evil. Just look at me, how I turned out. Besides, you yourself are married to Her Majesty, Faerie Queen Morgan Le Fae." Melusine said to Spider Supreme in an accusing tone.

"Huh! You are married and your wife is Morgan Le Fae!" I may not be too familiar with Arthurian Legends but the name Morgan Le Fae was just too infamous.

"Don't look so surprised. This Morgan Le Fae has nothing to do with Arthurian Legends. In fact, the Arthurian Legends had not even taken place in that world. Here, let me show you my wedding photos." Spider Supreme happily took out his wedding photos to show to me.

As soon as I saw the pictures, I was shocked. Because, I could see a mature version of the old me in the picture along with a silver haired, blue eyed beauty, both of them looking happy married.

This just reminded me of my relationship with Emma. Although the silver haired woman, Morgan Le Fae in the picture looked quite different from Emma, her silver hair as well as the cold expression on her face reminded me too much of her.

Spider Supreme showed me various pictures of his wedding joyfully, some where he was with just his wife and others which were group pictures. However, I noticed one thing in all these pictures.

"Where are Uncle Ben and Aunt May?" I asked as there was no chance they would not be at the other me's wedding.

"Ah! I guess I forgot to tell you about this fact." Spider Supreme said, his voice taking a sorrowful tone. I suddenly dreaded the answer to my question.

"I am more than 200 years old at this moment. So, you can understand what had happened. Everyone I used to know when I was young has already passed on." Spider Supreme said this fact sorrowfully.

"Did your age not affect your marriage?" I asked in a bid to change the topic.

"Of course, it doesn't. After all, her Majesty is already more than 2000 years old." Melusine answered this time.

"Really! She doesn't look like she could be any more than in her late 20s." I was surprised to learn about this fact. Magic sure was convenient in this case.

"Anyways, we are going off the topic. We were talking about Noble Phantasms." Spider Supreme said, returning to the topic.

"Actually, you already have a Noble Phantasm which you are using."

"Then, why do I not know about it?" I asked, surprised by Spider Supreme's words.

"Because it is actually a passive Noble Phantasm called [Armour of Albion]. The incredible defence you have is because of this Noble Phantasm.

It had taken a lot of time and effort for me to include this Noble Phantasm in the serum. It works by giving your skin the same defence as Dragon Scales."

No wonder, my defence has always been this strong ever since I had gained this Saint Graph.

"Actually, you have another Noble Phantasm but that one can only be used when your Saint Graph's power is at 100%.

Anyways, I had not told you about Noble Phantasms just for explaining about them. I want you to develop another Noble Phantasm, the details of which I have already transferred to you when I had given you that card."

As Spider Supreme said these words, the name of the Noble Phantasm he wanted me to develop manifested in my mind.

"[Blessing of Albion]!"

"Yes, [Blessing of Albion]. As Noble Phantasms are something originating from a different world with different underlying laws, it is quite difficult to create new ones. Moreover, it is still likely that they will not very strong. However, I am confident about this one.

Albion, the dragon had a history of blessing those who garnered its attention. This Noble Phantasm is something which emulates that act of his. It is a support type Noble Phantasm through which you can grant Dragon factors to someone temporarily."

As I heard Spider Supreme's explanation, I realised how much of a broken skill it was. With this Noble Phantasm, I could give anyone the same powers as mine temporarily.

"But what do you mean by developing this Noble Phantasm?" I questioned.

"As I have said before, this power works on different laws. So, you have to make this Noble Phantasm fit with the current laws.

There is not much you have to do. The framework of the Noble Phantasm has already been transferred to you and all you have to do is to make it fit. I have also installed instructions on how to do it. It should not take more than a week."

Spider Supreme explained what I had to do patiently as I was unaware of the inner workings of the Noble Phantasms.

"Anyways, since discussion is finished I need to ask you something. What is the cosmic force which is connected to Emma and Jean?" I questioned because if there was anyone who knew everything about this matter, it was definitely this guy since he had connected that causing force to Emma.

"Ah! You mean the Phoenix Force." Spider Supreme answered.

"It is actually the Phoenix Force." As I heard the answer, I was truly shocked. Phoenix Force was literally one of the strongest cosmic forces in the universe which had complete control over psionic energy.

The sorcerers knew little about this force as it was only documented by the first Sorcerer Supreme Agamotto.

"You don't need to worry. It is not that had to negotiate and control this force. Here, take this! It contains everything you need to know about the Phoenix Force." Spider Supreme said, handing me a USB drive.

I took a sigh of relief as I realised that with the knowledge regarding Phoenix force in our hand, Emma and Jean would not have a hard time dealing with it.

Beep! Beep!

I was about to continue the conversation when suddenly Spider Supreme's wristwatch rang.

"Oh! It seems that our time to return has come." Spider Supreme said.

Damn! Why did he have to go so quickly? I had a lot to ask him such as what he had used on Emma.

"Before I go, Peter, take this!" Spider Supreme said, giving me another silver card which had an image of a dragon's head similar to that of Albion on it.

"This card will temporarily charge your Saint Graph to 100% and enable you to enter your dragon form." Spider Supreme explained the purpose of the card, shocking me.

"But where would I even use this? I have never had a situation where I even had to use my true strength which has been enhanced even more now. I would literally never have to use this card. Beside, would I even be able to control my dragon form?" I questioned as I was already too damn overpowered.

"You don't need to worry. Since it is a temporary power up, there should be no problems. Besides, that time will come very soon. Till then, Adios!" Saying these words, Spider Supreme created a rainbow portal and left with Melusine before I could ask what he meant when he said that the time will come very soon.

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So, we learnt of Peter's Noble Phantasms. And we will see Peter's dragon form soon. Guess where it will be?

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[DragonsEye]

Spider Supreme's POV

"So, what do you think about Peter?" I asked once we returned to my dimension.

"My little brother is a good and honest kid. But honestly, he reminds me a lot of Percival like I have said before." Melusine said, giving her assessment in a sad tone.

"By the way, I still have difficulty believing that something like this exists. A being which is born out of a planet, a Celestial. And you all killed it and even made it your headquarters." Melusine said as a looked at the huge face of Tiamut, the Celestial in which Avengers had made their headquarters for more than a hundred years.

"It was something necessary. I can't believe those idiotic Celestials actually put a seed of a Celestial in Earth. Earth is the dimensional nexus of any world in this multiverse. If it is destroyed, the secondary dimensions will literally start overlapping with the main dimension. It will invite so many dimensional invasions that the entire universe will destroyed in a few years." I explained the reason Tiamut had to be killed.

"By the way, do you regret not dying that day?" I asked Melusine hesitantly.

"Everyone wants to live in this world. I just regret that my entire world was destroyed even though it was a cruel one. Everything I used to know vanished like it never even existed." Melusine said sorrowfully.

"It was something unavoidable. Even though the British Lostbelt had evolved to a Lost World, that doesn't detract the fact that it was a world which should have been destroyed long ago. We could do nothing as it was just that world's fate."

"But Her Majesty had prevented that destruction for thousands of years even though she hated nearly every faerie. You can't just dismiss her efforts. Still, I can't be that it was you, someone who are so weak in front of us that time was the one who had saved all of us." Melusine said, remembering how I had been the one who had saved everyone from their death.

"Well, you can thank Morgan for that. Who would have thought that she would catch me while I was snooping around in my Astral form?" How can I forget that fateful meeting which had led to me saving her as well as her Knights' life?

"And she was intelligent enough to take advantage of you upon realising that you were not from our dimension. If it were not for Her Majesty creating backup bodies for us and you transferring our souls into them, we would not be alive." Melusine said, reminiscing about the past.

"At that time, I had no other options. I needed to escape that dimension no matter how, but the dimensional barriers were too strong and my powers were too diminished there. And after what happened with me in the Indian Lostbelt, I feared going to any other lostbelt. It was fortunate that I went to the British one." Those times were really tough for me. Fortunately, I managed to find some good comrades even though trust was not actually formed between us before we left that world of Lostbelts.

Still, I had never guessed that I would marry Morgan one day. After all, she was always so cold and distant. Even after the destruction of British Lostbelt, there was only a business relationship between us which was only because everyone of us wanted to escape that dimension at that point.

But after a point, trust started forming between us and they decided to accompany me even when I came back to my own multiverse.

"Hello, Father!" I was brought out of my thoughts as I was greeted by Baoban Sith, my stepdaughter.

She was a red haired beauty wearing a Victorian era red coloured dress. She was the adopted daughter of Morgan and the only one with whom I didn't have a good relationship for a long time.

I never liked how cruel and sadistic she was. But everything changed when Morgan helped her regain her memories of her past lives.

Baoban Sith was so confused and broken by her memories at that time because the memories of her previous and present lives painted a completely different picture of who she was.

It was at that time that I had helped her face those memories and rebuild herself, creating upon between us in the process. She was now a fusion of her present and past life personalities, generally kind although her sadistic streak appeared quite often.

As a result, she was quite accepting of my marriage with Morgan and had even recently started calling me 'father'.

"So, how was your day?" I asked Baoban Sith.

"Oh! It was great. I had went to the Moon and am just returning now. I had a lot of fun visiting all the various cities on the Moon. Let me show you the pictures." Baoban Sith said excitedly.

"I will see them later. But you are not abusing your privileges again, right?"

Although I didn't generally interfere with the government authorities, I was actually the de facto leader of the entire solar system. This was necessary so that I could have complete control over all the technology and other knowledge I had obtained from all over the multiverse as I could not risk them falling into wrong hands.

"Of course, I am not doing so. I promise!" Baoban Sith said, trying to convince me that she had not done anything of that sort.

"By the way, where are Kirschtaria and Ophelia?" I asked for their current locations.

It was fortunate that I had been able to obtain their souls while I was checking on Chaldea's journey during the free time I had while serving Morgan. They had been of great help, especially Kirschtaria, who only wanted to help humanity even though had not chosen the right path for it.

"They are on a date in Venice." Baoban Sith replied.

"Alright! When they return, ask them to give me a report regarding the Artificial Valkyrie Project's progress." I gave the directions to Baoban Sith.

The artificial Valkyrie project was based on the artificial Valkyries from the Scandinavian Lostbelt. Even though we had only an artificial Valkyrie's body for research when we had started the project, Kirschtaria and Ophelia had been able to make amazing progress. The artificial Valkyries they had created could already show about 60% of the original's power and a Valkyrie Saint Graph project was also in the working.

"You girls get going. I have work to do." I said and left the girls' company.

"Try to complete your work early, Father. You know how angry Mother becomes when you don't give her enough attention." Baoban's voice sounded from behind me, reminding me of Morgan.

I entered a restricted corridor which only I along with a few others had the authority to enter. After going through several scans, I entered a lift which took me near the Celestial's heart, i.e. near the Earth's core.

When the lift came to a stop, I could see a large mechanical pillar in the middle of the control room which controlled the entire headquarters.

"Give me a report of your observation in the recent week, Hephaestus. Show me what is going on around the multiverse nowadays?" I ordered Hephaestus who now ran much of the systems in the Celestial base.

The remnant of the Machine God Hephaestus was yet another advantage I had brought from that world. I was lucky that our thoughts aligned and Hephaestus agreed to transfer his remaining consciousness so that he could come with me.

It can be said that Hephaestus was fortunate since the clone he had left behind in the terminal had been killed by that evil bastard Ashiya Douman in just a few days.

"It is as you have guessed. Enemies of the web are moving. As you know, the minions of Knull have conquered yet another Earth just last week. Even Chthon's movements can be felt." Hephaestus reported the grim news.

"What about the Spider Society Miguel O' Hara created?" I asked.

"They are still working on the canon events, not knowing that a huge number of their problems are not even because of the canon events. They have no clue of their true enemy."

Damn it! If it was not for the fact that I would be discovered by our enemies the moment I contacted Miguel, I would have given that idiot a big slap on his face.

"What about the Klirinomia I had brought? Have they been optimised yet?" I asked about the Klirinomia I had stolen from Olympus.

"The Klirinomia have been optimised. But you have not told me who will you use them on." Hephaestus asked.

"Their users will be chosen when the time comes." I replied.

At least, the preparations were going on well. The one major advantage I had was that the enemies of the Web not aware of me as I was assumed to be dead when I fell into the other multiverse.

Combined with everything I had brought from the other multiverse, I had more than a decent chance against them. But I could not reveal myself carelessly as it would be disadvantageous for us.

As such I had no choice but to watch silently as they started moving. However, I would have to move one day and at a critical point otherwise this could turn into a multiversal war.

"Don't worry too much. You are doing as much as you can." Hephaestus said, cheering me up.

Beep! Beep!

"Look, your wife is already calling. Go and spend sometime with her." Hephaestus said upon receiving Morgan's message.

"Morgan, dear……!" I greeted Morgan as I arrived at my room but was stunned at the view before my eyes.

Morgan was on the bed wearing a stunning black lingerie, her piercing eyes staring at me with a sultry look.

"What's the occasion?" I jokingly asked.

"Do I need an occasion to dress up for my husband? Besides, you looked quite worried these days. So, I decided to cheer you up." Morgan answered.

"You know what is going on these days. The situation can easily turn into a multiversal war in just a few years. As one of the strongest Spider Totem in the entire multiverse, I have a lot of responsibility. Like my Uncle Ben had said long time ago, 'With Great Power comes Great Responsibility'." I said, revealing my thoughts to her as I sat down on the bed.

"I know! But you along with all of us are you doing everything we can. As such, worrying needlessly will not do anything." Morgan said, asking me to not worry too much.

"Now, remove your suit! This is our bedroom, not any other place. After all, I have worn this lingerie especially for you." Morgan ordered.

"Alright!" I removed my suit using the transformation belt I wore and then transferred all of my artefacts into a spatial pocket dimension.

"Now, come here, dear!" Morgan said, placing her arms around my neck as soon as I removed my clothes.

As our lips kissed and we fell on the bed, I realised once again how lucky I was to have such an incredible wife.
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I hope you all liked the first interlude! This chapter shows Spider Supreme's side of the story and the people and knowledge he has brought from the Nasuverse.

What kind of effect they will have on this multiverse will be seen later as the story progresses.

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