Institute For The Gifted

Freak, weirdo, abomination, monster, queer, and witch. These were all things Jade had been called, sure her mother had done her best to shield her, but what good was it now that she was dead. She was killed trying to protect her only daughter, the witch of Coach Drive, who hadn’t hurt anything in her life, well not anyone who didn’t deserve it. When she turned 13 her ‘gift’ had shown itself, causing her dog to turn into a white stallion after reading the story of King Arthur. When she was 14 her best friend found out because she had accidentally cursed her cheating boyfriend, but Aisling didn’t care. At the age of 15 her other friends found out, and they didn’t care either, in fact, they enjoyed having a witch for a friend, ‘Traveling is much more fun her way’ they had said. But at 16, the entire town found out, they figured out she was one of them, one of the gifted, not everyone knew her like her friends did so they feared her and her abilities, trying to chase her out of town. And now, 6 months after the town’s discovery, on Jade’s 17th birthday, Macey Darcy was dead, and her daughter, the town witch, was being sent to a school called the Institute for the ‘gifted’.

Nico di Angelo had lived at the Institute for the Gifted since he was 6 when his father and mother died. 6 years later his sister Bianca died in a car crash leaving him alone, unloved, and lost in the hellhole, he mourned his sister even through his hatred for her early passing. After that the 12 year old stopped talking to everyone, all he’d do is not at others, he was the odd one out even here in this ‘safe place’, his abilities were one of a kind, like a dark god had sired him. Everyone soon began to fear the boy the shadows clung to, that is, until Percy came along, Percy was the first to try to talk to him in 3 years. The then 15 year old had been so out of touch with other people that he felt awkward even saying simple things like ‘Hi’ or ‘What’s up’, but Percy got him out of his shell. Then came Annabeth 6 months later, followed by Thalia, Jason, and Lou Ellen, Percy befriended the 4 quickly, but Nico was still hard on trusting others, but he soon warmed up to the 4 and not soon after Percy and Annabeth started dating.
Lou Ellen had become his best friend besides Percy, she too had an odd power, she could use small amounts of magic as long as she had a Grimoire, a rare, but not unheard of gift, unlike Nico’s. The punk girl had many different colored streaks in her hair, and several piercings, her blue-green eyes hard from the prejudices she had faced in her small southern town. Annabeth was a pretty girl with honey blonde hair and striking grey eyes, her ‘gift’ was Innate Combat , or supernatural hand to hand combat skills, she was also very good at planning attack and defense strategies, along with being the smartest student at the Institute. Percy had wild blue-black hair and mesmerizing sea-green eyes, his gift was water generation, meaning he could control all things liquid, he could even talk to some sea creatures, create hurricanes and earthquakes, and heal himself with water, Nico’s reason for constantly calling him Aquaman 2.0. Jason and Thalia had the same abilities, with one slight difference while both could control lightning and create storms; Jason could manipulate the air around him and ‘fly’ if he concentrates hard enough. If you saw the two you’d never dream that they were siblings, Jason has blonde hair while Thalia has midnight black hair, Jason is tan and Thalia is a bit on the paler side, Thalia enjoyed punk clothes like Lou Ellen and Nico while Jason preferred ‘normal’ clothes, the only thing they had in common were their eyes, which were both a startling sky blue color that looked like lightning could cross them at any minute.
The group was sitting outside at a picnic table while the other kids watched them in a mixture of curiosity and fear. Nico was wearing his usual black attire, black converse, black t-shirt, black sweatshirt, and black jeans, Percy always wondered how the boy didn’t roast alive in all that black but he claimed heat didn’t bother him. The pale dark haired boy was twisting his skull ring around on his finger nervously; it was the only thing he had left of Bianca. Thalia and Annabeth were gossiping about what the Stolls had found out using their sneaking abilities.
“Lou, did you hear about the new kids coming in today?” Thalia asked
Lou shook her head “Why should I care, they’re just going to be another flier, or laser vision, or strength, Chiron said we’re the only unusual abilities in the world.”
“That’s not what the Stolls said… they snuck into the office using their chameleon abilities and found their files on Chiron’s desk. They said the girl has Charmspeak and can see into the future if she uses her dagger, and the boy can manipulate and create fire as well as being fireproof and a natural mechanic.” Annabeth grinned
“Wait… correct my math… but that’s only two isn’t it? I thought there were three new kids coming in.” Percy said suddenly interested
Thalia smirked “They couldn’t find the third kid’s file… well they did, but it was empty, all they know is that it’s a 17 year old girl named Jadalyn Darcy. But when Chiron found them looking at the file he freaked out and put them on kitchen duty for a month.”
Nico rolled his eyes, every time a new kid came to The Institute Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Thalia went into freak out mode. They always hoped it’d be another one of them, the more powerful kids who have more than one ability or someone who had a rare ability like Lou Ellen.
“Well Nico?” Thalia said knocking him out of his head
He looked at her confused, his head tilted slightly to the right like a puppy causing his dark shaggy hair to fall over his eyes.
Thalia sighed and shook her head “I asked what could be so important about this girl that the Stolls would get kitchen duty for looking through her file. Chiron usually doesn’t care, he actually encourages the them to look at other students files sometimes.”
Nico shrugged causing Percy to groan.
“Really Neeks, your picking TODAY as one of your silent days… there are new kids like us here for once.”
Nico glared at him and grabbed his sketchbook from his messenger bag. He took his pencil and started scribbling furiously on the page, when he was done he showed it to Percy. The page read: Don’t call me Neeks, I told you before its NICO. And I really don’t care about new kids, most of them run away from me anyway because they’ve been told to fear the ‘Shadow Prince’ or the ‘King of Ghosts’, what makes you think they’ll be any different. They might befriend you but I’m content with the friends I have now, I don’t need any more.
Percy sighed “Nico, come on… don’t be a Danny Downer. You never know, these two might surprise you.”
Nico scowled and wrote something else in the book then showed it to Percy. I KNOW you only used the name Danny because of that stupid Danny Phantom show on Nick all those years ago, and I’ll have you know, the ghost joke is NOT appreciated. Do you know how HARD it is to tune out all the dead people whispering in my ear, it’s like my life is that stupid Ghost Whisperer show or that Sixth Sense movie. Yes I see dead people, yes I try to help said dead people, no I do not like having the dead follow me everywhere a I go. Percy rolled his eyes at the dark boy.
“Your starting to get paranoid, next thing we know you’re going to be concocting conspiracy theories.”
Nico abruptly stood up, stuffing the sketch pad in his bag and walked back to the dorms, flipping Percy off as he walked by.
The dorms at the Institute actually weren’t bad; nothing at this place was rundown or cheap. The reasons being one, Professor Chiron was rich, and two, the government funded a lot of stuff here so that Chiron could teach these kids how to use their abilities without killing anyone. When Nico first arrived here at the age of 6 he hadn’t known what his ability was, the only reason the staff here knew he was gifted is that Professor Chiron’s supercomputer said he had an active X-gene or some crap like that. On his 11th birthday his gift revealed itself, he was just sitting under one of the many trees at Chiron’s Institute when one of the older kids had come by. They enjoyed teasing Nico over his obsession with a card game called Mythomagic; Bianca had gotten him the one figurine he didn’t have for his birthday, Hades, god of the Underworld. He didn’t remember much besides the kid trying to steal the figurine from him, the next thing he knew he was sitting in Chiron’s office with a kid he’d driven insane. For weeks afterward Chiron personally trained Nico to control his emotions, but ever since everyone had found out his powers were of darkness, death, and fear they tried to steer clear of him, besides his sister that is. Then she died the next year, they never found out what her ability was, Chiron assured him that it wasn’t the same as his like it usually is with siblings that have an active X-gene.
He looked at the door across from his room, which was Bianca’s old room; it’d been empty for 5 years now because nobody wanted to be that close to the ‘Prince of Shadows’. He sighed and pushed open his door and walked into his bedroom, posters for various bands lined his walls, from Green Day, to Linkin’ Park, to Three Days Grace. He collapsed onto his bed and just stared at the ceiling, he loved his friends, he really did, but they annoyed him sometimes. They didn’t get what it was like, being the only person who can help the dead, wherever he went he could hear the voices whispering in his ear, begging the ‘Ghost King’ to help them. Wherever he looked he could see ghosts that had been confined on earth until their business was finished, ghosts from so many different time periods, Pilgrims, Indians, British soldiers, Civil War soldiers, murder victims, you name it they’ve come to Nico for help. He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep, the only kind of darkness others welcomed.

 

So, I'm a bit new to this whole sharing with the world what you write thing. My friend Evil_Chaos_X7 FINALLY convinced me to post one of my MANY fanfics online. For those of you who can figure out what two things influenced this fic, then you get 1000 points. And may I remind you this is a fanfiction, I own nothing but the plot and the main character Jade, everything else belongs to the respective owners.

Anyway, I'd love to hear from you guys, flames are not welcome, constructive criticism is great but if you are just going to insult me, my story, or anyone else you are not welcome here.

~Jade

 

It is one of the things that influenced this, I loved the X-Men Evolution animated series as a kid, and i love the movies now so i decided to play around with the mutant concept a bit.

 

As you can clearly see, I did state that I do not own X-Men, and there will be a different plot than the comics, tv shows, and movies. I am not breaking any laws because this is a FanFIction and i am in no way affiliated with Marvel, i give them their credit for coming up with an amazing series, but please, before you go off accusing someone of ripping off a big company get all your facts.

 

well i'm certainly not making any money off this... all i have right now is the 20 cents i found on the ground walking home

 

THANK YOU CHAOS! FINALLY! PEOPLE SUPPORTING MY CASE FOR ONCE! And a thanks to Warry too

 

smh... i should have known you had an ulterior motive Chaos... not like your going to help me just cause we're friends or anything like that... :roll: