“The moon used to have a lover, kuakuoku. But when another spirit, the trickster, got jealous of their love, he told kuakuoku that the moon had asked for wild roses. So Kuakuoku came down to earth to pick some for her. But Kuakuoku didn't know that once a spirit left the spirit world and came into ours, they could never go back. So now, every night he looks up at the moon and howls her name. Kuakuoku means wolverine.”
Kayla is a part of a special breed of humans, mutants. She has the ability to persuade others to do whatever she wants them to, just so long as she touches them. Once she gives them an order, or a suggestion, they will follow it even without her touch. But she is not the only one in her family with an extraordinary gift.
Her younger sister, Emma, also has a gift. Her skin becomes that of diamonds and can guard against anything. It is a powerful gift and a very useful one, and others know this as well.
When Emma is taken by Stryker for experimentation and study, Kayla does not willingly let her go. Instead, she strikes a deal with Stryker to protect her little sister. She’ll work for him, complete his mission, and in return he would let Emma go. Kayla didn’t think about the consequences, because at the time there were none for her. All there was to do was protect Emma and bring her home safely.
Meeting Logan had been almost simple for her. Settling into a normal and easy life with him in Canada flowed too easily. Their relationship seemed too comfortable and too right sometimes. At first it had been easy for Kayla to think of Logan as only a mission. But as six years between them went by he became more to her than a mission. The love she felt for him was real. He was the Wolverine to her Moon.
Or so he always thought.
The day came for Stryker’s original plan to be carried out. Victor came for Kayla, and she went along with the plan to fake her death at Victor’s hands. The idea was to anger Wolverine, to give him a reason to return to Stryker. And the plan had worked perfectly. Wolverine began to hunt Victor, knowing that he was tied to Stryker somehow and someway.
When Wolverine finally found Stryker, he allowed him to fuse a new and indestructible metal with his frame so that he could hunt Victor down and kill him. When the operation was a success, Wolverine learned of Stryker’s intentions to wipe his memory and erase Kayla from his past. He ran then, and intended to never look back. But Stryker wanted his creation back and hunted him down, killing innocents around him even. That was when Wolverine realized the only way to escape Stryker’s hold was to kill him.
Wolverine returned to Stryker’s base to kill Stryker and free the other mutants he had hunted down, but Stryker had told him if he chased this path he would find answers he never wanted to know. And he hadn’t lied.
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