Mutant Rising

Synopsis: Ryo, Seto and Joey develop mutant powers, the Xavier institute tries to contact them while the Brotherhood of Mutants coverts their powers. The mutant duelists must make a decision, join the X-men or face an uncertain destiny.

Chapter 1) Hidden powers, Hidden abilities

Bakura's POV:

Bakura winced and rubbed his eyes, he knew he shouldn't have stayed up all night revising for the days test, but old habits die hard and all that. He chanced a glance at Kaiba who had almost finished by the looks of things, everyone who knew Kaiba could have told you with conviction that he was going to pass the test he was after all the top of the class not to mention a genius who had been running his own highly successful company from the age of twelve. It was really a waste of his time even coming to school but he was expected and required to graduate from high school even if he already was a multi-millionaire.

Bakura didn't know why he'd bothered revising all night ever since he'd accidentally bumped into Kaiba the other week Bakura had suddenly found it easier to handle his work load, it was as if he could remember everything he learnt…maybe he was developing a photographic memory?

Kaiba's POV:

Kaiba scowled as he jotted down the answer to the final question he didn't want to be stuck in here completing a test he could have scored a 100 percent on while blindfolded with his right arm tied behind his back, and yet here he was. His mind kept wandering to more pressing matters; he'd always known he was different, better, faster, smarter, superior…but recently he'd begun to question how he was faster, how he was smarter, how come he was superior?

He could read Ancient Egyptian text which even a state of the art super computer couldn't decipher, he was better, faster, smarter, he was…a freak. He was smarter than everyone else, faster than everyone else, better than everyone else, technology sang to him and he listened, it seemed so obvious how to improve on them. His first thought had been Gorzaburo but having gone over Kaiba corps archives with a fine tooth comb combined with a series of tests he'd performed on himself in Kaiba corps medical section and having found nothing out of the ordinary he'd been forced to conclude that this had nothing to do with that man whatsoever.

He was worried about his new found ability but hadn't told Mokuba, how do you tell your brother that you're a freak? He wasn't about to confide in Yugi or the geek patrol either they'd just babble on about friendship and mystical mumbo jumbo, and he doubted very much that his current problem was magic related.

Glancing up he caught sight of Bakura one of Yugi's friends staring at him, he quirks an eyebrow Bakura blinks his eyes and returns his attention back to the test, a crimson blush appearing across his cheeks, over the last week Bakura had gone from dead average to second to top of the class almost instantly, although he could hardly take Kaiba's position away from him, not since Seto Kaiba had funky mind powers that made him a super genius.

Joey's POV:

I hate test day, I always finish dead last in bottom place while Rich Boy's always top of the frickin' class, s'no justice. Although he was doing well in Phys Ed, he'd always been good at sports, but for some reason recently he'd noticed that he was a heck of a lot stronger and more agile than usual, he'd also been getting more aggressive, when he almost got into a fight with Kaiba the other day he'd much to his mutual confusion and embarrassment growled at the brunette, his heckles raised. His senses also seemed a lot more sensitive he could see a pin head at forty paces, hear a pin drop, and smell…well right now the scent of nervous sweat and tension, not all of it his own.

Glancing up from his hasty scribbling he catches sight of Bakura and Kaiba exchanging glances he wonders briefly what was up with that? But before he can think about it the teacher calls out with a warning "five minutes left" and in his rush to fill in the rest of the test he promptly forgets all about it.