Aiyana Proudstar

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- Aiyana.

Early Years

Aiyana Proudstar is the youngest child and the only daughter to Neal and Maria Proudstar. She was born on the Apache reservation in Camp Verde, Arizona. As a young girl, Aiyana idolized her older brothers, John and James Proudstar, and when John returned from a stint in the Marines, Aiyana was overjoyed to see him again. Unfortunately, their mother revealed to the family that she had cancer, prompting a visit to an amusement park, where James took and Aiyana had her fortune told to her, by none other than Destiny, though James thought she was a fraud. Then, James and Aiyana secretly accompanied John, when he infiltrated Arroyo labs, the clinic that was running tests on their reservation's people and treating them for cancer. Aiyana was discovered by Dr. Edwin Martynec, who revealed himself to be a mutated werewolf. The brothers learned that Dr. Martynec was faking the cancer diagnoses, so he could irradiate his patients and observe the results.

John was soon recruited to the X-Men and was killed on one of the team's first missions. James blamed the X-Men for his brother's death and promised to murder its founder, Professor Charles Xavier. Distraught by James' actions, Aiyana sought out to stop him but proved to be unsuccessful in a heated argument which resulted in her being slapped across the face.

Hellions

Aiyana soon manifested her own mutation, very different from her brothers'. She joined the Hellions, at the Massachusetts Academy, under the leadership of The White Queen, where she was tutored, by the White Queen, and trained in the use of her powers. Aiyana first encountered the New Mutants, after the White Queen invited Doug Ramsey to her school and she captured Kitty Pryde and Doug. Emma Frost was unaware that Kitty and Magik shared a rapport and the New Mutants came to their rescue. Aiyana later donned a costume and went to stop James from kidnapping the X-Man Banshee, to draw the team to Cheyenne Mountain, where their brother John had been killed. Everything was going just as planned for him, but at the last second, James couldn't bring himself to kill Professor X. Aiyana, eventually, convinced James that their brother died a hero's death and James released Charles, stating Professor Xavier was an honorable man. Professor X offered James and Aiyana membership into the New Mutants, but James declined. Instead, James rejoined the Hellions and eventually became the leader.

Rivalry

The Hellions and New Mutants began a rivalry, which both headmasters slightly encouraged, but after the New Mutants were sent to the Massachusetts Academy, James gained a respect for his rivals and a crush on their leader, Dani Moonstar. The New Mutants were returned to the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and later Magneto dressed them elegantly and they all attended a Hellfire Club event, where James befriended the honorable Dani. The pair began to search for Wolfsbane and Catseye, who had run-off in their lycan forms. The event turned sour for the rest of the New Mutants after finding Cypher, drunk, in a bed with Roulette, until Cannonball suggested another duel between the two teams. The duel was for both teams to hunt down the person responsible for selling a member of the Hellfire Club a forged statue of Selene and the losers were to apologize, publicly, for any insults and take the rap for any trouble with their teachers before sunrise. After having Aiyana spy on the Hellions, the New Mutants learned that Viper and the Silver Samurai were behind the forgery and decided to intercept the villains, before the Hellions. Unknown to the New Mutants, Thunderbird assumed that they would spy on the Hellions and led them to the henchmen of the villains, while the Hellions captured Viper and Silver Samurai, winning the competition. Upon returning to the Hellfire Club, while James was positioned to kiss Dani, Aiyana arrived with a letter from Xi'an Coy Manh, for Dani. After hearing of an animal creature that was being mistreated after capture, Emma allowed the Hellions to participate in a contest with the New Mutants to abduct Bird Brain, where Thunderbird was influenced, by Empath, to admit his crush on Dani and the New Mutants emerged victoriously.