"Through the Frosted-Glass, and What Alyce Found There"
Summary:
Who is this woman, who has stepped inside the Looking Glass? Who is 'The White Queen"? The longer she stays, the faster the school falls apart. Soon, an all out Civil War breaks within the school. Tearing apart teams, lovers, friends and family. Once again, Alyce steps into Mutant Land, to unravel the mystery behind The White Queen.
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Prof. Jean Grey 11/05/09. Arch.01287. - 'None of us are really sure where she came from. She was unfamiliar, but familiar at the same time. Her blond hair falling down to her shoulders, her blue eyes looking for danger. But, The Professor was a kind man, and he brought her into the Mansion. She is dangerous...this woman. This woman only known as Emma Frost.'-
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Chapter 1: Modern Day Zombie Horror
It was a typical Monday morning at the Xavier Mansion. Kids of all ages pushed themselves out of bed, dreading the long, slow day that awaited for them. They shuffled to the showers, got dressed and shuffled through the halls. Everyone was a mindless zombie. Especially at 8 o'clock in the morning. The sun shown dull, barely illuminating the zombies that walked about. One of those zombies being Alyce Red.
Still groggy, this girl named Alyce walked to her class, her feet dragging on the floor. Her long black hair was loose, neatly tucked behind her ears. Her sleepy eyes only looked awake because of the concealer that was under them. Alyce had her extremely girly cousin, Bella, to thank for looking pretty this morning. If it wasn't for her, Alyce was sure she would look even more like something out of a horror film. Alyce turned into her class room, groaning her greeting to Ororo Munroe. She lifted her messenger bag over her head, and threw it on her desk, plopping herself down in her seat. With a blank look over her face, her icy blue eyes glazed over, Alyce took on glance at the board and groaned. She slammed her head down on her desk, ignoring the pain that radiated through her forehead.
She still had a few minutes to nap. Alyce was always early to class. When she first started here, which had been about four or five months ago, she would get to class half an hour early. But as the months progressed, half an hour turned into twenty five minutes, which turned into fifteen, which turned into ten. She was never, ever late though. She liked to claim her infamous corner seat, all the way in the last row. Alyce sighed out, hearing Ms. Monroe begin to write something on the board. Which meant class was starting in about five minutes.
No sleep for her.
Alyce sat up, pulling out her Science notebook and flapping it down on her desk. She stuck her pen in her mouth and sat, waiting for the rest of X-Men to shuffle into class. She had been on the team for months now, the same boring routine happening every day, Monday through Friday. The only thing really different, was that her cousin, Bella, was the only human on the team. In fact, the only human in the entire school. The only reason she had come here, was to sit by Alyce's bed side, months ago. When Alyce had gotten ambushed in a movie theater by a lava-making mutant. Boy, was that fun. She had been knocked out for a week straight, her cousin only coming at first, to watch over her as she recovered. But days turned into weeks, weeks turned into a month and before anyone knew anything, Bella was in their lives.
Where was Bella now? Even though the two cousins shared the same room, Bella would refuse to wake up when Alyce did. She would often run into the class half an hour late. Everyday, Monday through Friday.
The second to drag themselves to class was none other than the short Kitty Pryde. The girl who could phase threw anything. Alyce had yet to see her fail at it, either. Kitty smiled to Alyce, and sat down in her seat, taking out her phone and beginning to text. It wasn't a no-brainer who she was texting at this ungodly hour. Her boyfriend from The Brotherhood, Avalanche. Alyce signed, pretending to be enthralled with the spirals on her notebook, hoping Kitty wouldn't shove the phone in her face. Despite Kitty's frivolous texting, the two had learned to get close.
The third person to walk inside the class was The Rajin' Cajun', known as Remy Lebeau. His hair was messy and unkempt, but he still managed to look handsome. He walked past Alyce, ruffling her hair, and sitting down in the seat beside her. Not caring that class was about to start, he plopped his head on the table and pulled his jacket over his head. In about two seconds he was already snoring lightly. New word around the Mansion, Remy was finally single. He had dropped his long time, on and off again girl friend, Jubilation Lee. Remy was now flirting with Bobby's girl, Rogue, like mad. And it was driving Bobby crazy.
Speaking of the two, Bobby and Rogue walked together into the class. They smiled happily at everyone and sat down in their seats. Why was it only Remy and Alyce that were sleepy this morning? Rogue had made it this ritual, where every Wednesday after lunch, she would sit with Alyce and ask her what to do about Remy. Alyce always shrugged at the question, but tried to give her the best advice that she could. Besides, Bobby still secretly hated Alyce. Why should she help him?
turned around smiling to everyone and clasping her hands together. She greeted Piotr Rasputin as he walked into the classroom, his sketch book in his hand. He turned and raised an eyebrow at Alyce, and she knew what it meant. Monday signaled a new week, which meant a new drawing tournament. Alyce and Piotr rarely talked to each other using words. But with pictures and art instead. Alyce never had a chance to thank him for that. Ever since they had started doing that, Alyce was able to draw new things everyday. Before it was hard for her to even finish a picture. The tournament started by accident when Kurt Wagner, the art teacher, had mentioned that Alyce's picture looked better than Piotr's. The next day, Piotr had drawn a better picture, the next Alyce. And so on.
Jubilation Lee walked in, quickly avoiding the closing door. She said hi to no one and sat in her seat. Ever since Remy had dumped her, her personality had changed 100%. She wasn't the mean girl anymore, and had actually apologized to Alyce about all of the old pranks she used to play on her. Alyce just liked to think she was high that day. Very high. Jubilee used to be popular based on the standards in this school. Every girl liked Remy and wished they were his girlfriend. When the two went out, she was the envy of every girl in the Mansion. But now, they all looked at her, snickering. Alyce even felt sorry for her.
John Allerdyce had stopped the door with his hand, as began to close it. He stepped in, looking tired. But that was the normal. He was always tired. Maybe it was just an elaborate ruse he used. He was the only one out of the entire class, that never got caught for sleeping through a lesson. And he was always sleeping. He gave Alyce a meek smile, and placed a kiss on her forehead before sitting down. It wasn't anything new that the two had been going out.
"Since our lovely, Miss Bella Garland is late, like usual, let's get into the lesson!" Ororo picked up her science text book and flipped it open, signaling everyone else to do the same. She began talking about ionic bonds when the door to the classroom bursted open, Bella huffing.
"I'm here. I'm early!"
shook her head, smiling. "Actually, Bella...." She checked her watch and smiled again, trying to hold back a laugh. "You're five minutes late. At least it's not thirty minutes...."
Bella huffed, checking her watch and glaring at . At least it's not thirty minutes. But she couldn't help that the beds in the Mansion were super comfy. As soon as she would lay down, Bella found herself snoring in under a matter of seconds. Feeling defeated, Bella walked to her seat, but not before giving a Kitty a thumbs up. The two had been talking about a double date for ages. And it looked like today was the day it was going to happen.
Bella had been dating another member of the Brotherhood, Pietro Maximoff. How did that happen? It would simply be too long to explain. Bella looked back at Alyce and winked, and Alyce shook her head. Both Kitty and Bella had been trying to get Alyce to bring John along on their date. But there was no way she was going to do that. Pietro and John didn't like each other much. If Alyce did have to go to the Brotherhood, it was mainly to hang out with Wanda and Blob. How did that come about? An X-Men hanging out with The Brotherhood? It would be too long to explain. Really, it would.
Alyce opened up her text book and her notebook, already jotting down notes. She yawned, rubbing her sleepy eyes. It was just another normal Monday morning here at the X-Mansion. Another normal Monday morning for the X-Team. Another normal Monday morning for Alyce Red.
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