-- Clarksdale, Pen.

A man falls twenty feet through the air and spears himself on a tent stake like a human shish kabob.  Half an hour later, with most of his blood lying on the ground in pools around him, the man quickly approaching death's doorstep, a woman emerges from a backwoods medical clinic. Astonishingly, within five minutes the man is as good as new and the woman has disappeared.

You hear this and may ask yourself all sorts of questions, like is this for real?  Well folks, prepare yourselves because this story is very real and it happened to none other than America's number one heartthrob, George Hays. (Credits including: top billing in last years three highest grossing movies and Fighter, currently #1 in the box office.)

Hays' newest project, a rural romantic comedy entitled Country Hearts co staring Ashley Dubbs, has been in production for the last two months and is being filmed in various farms around Pennsylvania.  Last weekend, Hays, while posing for promotional photos on an elevated platform, somehow slipped and fell over the side, falling twenty feet.  Spare tent stakes had been propped up against the side of the platform and Hays fell directly onto the sharp point of one of the six-foot spears.  Eyewitness accounts say the point of the stake drove up the left side of his back and gouged into his body.

"There was this huge chunk missing out of his back, you could see right inside of him," stated one crewmember who witnessed the entire ordeal. "There was a lot of damage.  It was so gruesome and everyone had pretty much given him up for dead."

Hays most likely would have perished on that Pennsylvania farm if a certain woman named Sonja Cadlyst had not intervened.  Up until that moment, Ms. Cadlyst had been known simply as the junior partner in the small town's medical clinic.

"[Sonja] has been my family's doctor for two years, and never once did she ever give us a reason to believe that she might not be totally human," commented Mr. Reginald Parker, owner of the field and home where Country Hearts is being filmed.

Immediately after Hays fell, the crews were afraid to move him for fear of complicating his injury further, so a car was sent to Stevenson Medical Clinic, owned by Josh and Julia Stevenson, to fetch a doctor.  (The Stevensons refused to comment on Cadlyst or the accident.)  That car returned with Cadlyst, the only doctor available on that fateful Sunday afternoon. It was quite obvious shortly after she arrived on the scene that Ms. Cadlyst is a member of the genetically advanced race of humans commonly referred to as mutants.

Various eyewitness accounts say Ms. Cadlyst seemed only to do a routine medical check.  She had requested that the crowd move back, so there are few details past that point except that when she moved away, the life-threatening injury had simply disappeared, no bruising or damage of any sort being visible.  In fact, in a medical report filed 24 hrs. later by Hays' regular doctor, it was confirmed that there was absolutely no trace of damage to the area where, one day before, 85 people witnessed Hays' body split open like a melon for all to see.  Make no mistake; this is one of the most clear-cut cases of mutant activity that this reporter has ever seen.

Then, in an incredibly mysterious turn of events that is now also becoming attributed to her mutant abilities, Cadlyst had somehow managed to escape questioning by obtaining the keys to one of the production companys cars and taking off before any in the crowd could react.  The car was later recovered at Cadlyst's house and no charges were brought against her for auto theft.  On request of Hays, the local authorities made instant attempts to locate Cadlyst, but she had already vanished, abandoning her home.

"She's just disappeared.  We left no stone unturned, but all of our efforts to find her have been fruitless," stated Clarksdale sheriff, Matthew Bennett.

Despite local authorities declaring it a lost cause to search for the woman, Hays has made many public declarations about his intentions to find Cadlyst, even going so far as hiring an entire host of private detectives from the well-known firm of Goshen and Stamp.  Hays has also offered a $10,000 reward for information regarding her whereabouts.  When asked why Hays was so intent upon unearthing a woman who was so obviously wishing upon remaining anonymous, his response was unhesitant and laden with emotion.

"If an angel came and brought you back to life at the cost of her own, wouldn't you want to thank her?  Wouldn't you want to show her every gratitude you could?  I don't think I could live with myself if I don't even get to say thanks."

Well, Ms. Mutant angel of healing, this reporter sure hopes you hear this mans prayer.

----P. Morgan