This is my first SHAPESHIFTER FIC!!!!! YAYS!!!!!

WARNING: This chapter contains LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: I own nothing.....if I did Jenny would be dead. I do so hate Jenny.

Among the breathtaking backdrop of the Cumbrian fells, hidden from humanity in the haven of Fenton Lodge, were eleven of the most amazing beings in the world. And on that particular day, eleven of the most amazing beings in the world were having double geography.

Dax lolled across his desk, grinning. He was trying to concentrate on what Mrs Dann was saying, but this was virtually impossible due to Gideon levitating a whiteboard pen to write on the board several swear words, which was leaving the entire class in fits of laughter. So far Mrs Dann hadn't noticed but as soon as this thought went through his head Mrs Dann had whipped out a klaxon from the "Cola Control" draw of her desk and sounded it. Simultaneously, eleven of the most amazing beings in the world squawked and put their hands firmly over their ears.

"Better," smiled Mrs Dann tightly. "Now, who can tell me what I've just been talking about for the last five minutes, hmm? Dax, why don't you sta…" A sharp knock at the door alerted them to Principal Satre's presence. "Good morning, everyone."

"Good morning Principal Satre," they chorused in reply.

"I would like you all to meet Sophia. I believe she is a COLA like you." Silence. Open mouths. Not exactly the best of greetings. A tall skinny girl in equally skinny jeans stepped into the room. Dax could tell she was nervous – she was trying to hide behind her fringe and she was looking quite decidedly at the floor.

"Mrs Dann, would you mind if Sophia came and joined in on your lesson?" said Principal Satre pointedly.

"No, of course not. Sophia, why don't you come and sit down. There, there's an empty seat next to Dax." she said. "I'll just get you some paper.

"Hey," Dax said. "Whats up?". Startled, the girl snapped her head up and looked at him in surprise.

"Oh, um, hey," she said nervously, flicking her fringe out of her eyes. Dax, in an attempt to be friendly gave her a quick smile before turning back to his work. Sophia paused, just for a second, and smiled as well.

Dax blushed.

"Sophia, you have to tell us what you can do!!!!" Mia begged, slumping down next to the new addition to COLA club.

"Jesus, people, give the girl a break, shes only been here two minutes!" chided Lisa.

"Um...guys, yo-you don't, um... my name's not actually Sophia. Its Sophie, okay? It says Sophia on my birth certificate, but I'm called Sophie," the girl said. "And I have no idea what you mean by what I can do, I- I mean all I did was beat the crap out of some girls at my school and I end up on the other end of the country! I mean p-please, would someone care to tell me what the hell is going on?!""You beat up the kids at your school?" asked Darren "Cooool."

"Hey, their fault, not mine" Sophie muttered.

"But you still haven't told us what you do!" cried Jennifer. "Oooh, I know, I'll introduce everyone!!!! Ok, I'm Jennifer, and I'm a glamourist, so I can go invisible, Barry, the one with his face in the biscuit tin, can do that as well," Barry gave a sheepish wave. "The one with his face in a book is Clive, hes our resident math geek, but he's got no powers, "The bespectacled boy in question gave a small squeak of indigence but smiled warmly. "Spook and Darren are illusionists, they can can make you see...um...well, illusions," Spook flounced over and thrust out his hand to shake, which Sophie looked at very warily. "Lisa is a medium, Jake and Alex - best mimics everand telepathic, erm, those too are Luke and Gideon, they're telekinetics, Mia's a healer and Dax is a shapeshifter!"

Sophie raised an eyebrow. "Oh my god, I knew it! They've taken me to the wacky shack!"

"No honestly,"said Lisa. "We can actually do that stuff you know. Dax, show her!"

Dax smiled inwardly and flickered into fox form.

"HOLY MOLEY!!!" yelled Sophie. "BLOODY HELL!!!!! H..h..how..did y..ya..."

DAx grinned to himself and turned back, looking sheepish.

"So what do you do? he asked, trying (and failing) to be casual.

"Yeah, what did you do to those girls?" asked Darren, eagerly.

"I may or may not have blasted them through a wall...."

"HOW?!" persisted Darren, getting worryingly excited.

"Well, they nicked my purse...and I got kinda pissed off and I freaked and, they went through a wall....."

"So, you're a telekinetic?" said Gideon, delight obvious on his face.

"No, I don't think so, 'cos look, when I ..erm, chucked them, I kinda told to like....to "go get your ass kicked" and then there was a crash, and they were in the next classroom crying..."

"Awesome...."said Lisa, eyes wide.

"My teacher obviously didn't think so, I would have been expelled if Mrs French-lady hadn't dragged me to the other end of England. So yeah, anyone mind telling me what the hell is this place?"

Dax clambered down from his lofty position on the roof of the tree-house, attempting to ignore the biting northen winds as it buffeted the branches on which he was so precariously balanced. Glancing briefly at his watch he realised it was past six, and he had missed dinner. With a groan, he leapt down from the platform . He was so going to get it when he got back up to the lodge. He was about to shift to falcon and take the short cut back up to the hall where he could hopefully fix himself a snack, when he saw a vaguely familiar figure wandering towards the lake, looking decidely lost.

"Hey, Sophie!" he called, jogging over.

"Thank god!" she cried. "Gideon told me to go see the treehouse which apparently is just behind Fenton Lodge. Here I am, two hours later, no treehouse in sight!"

"Um, Sophie?" Dax pointed somewhat guiltily over his shoulder. "Its over there,"

The girl took a second to glance at the tree in question, before looking really, really embarassed. Dax laughed. "C'mon, I'll show you the adventure playground."

"You people have an adventure playground? Is there anything you people don't own?" Dax grinned and showed her the playground, an extenisve set of apparatus snagged through the trees.

"Hey, try this one! Its really fun!"

"Um, dunno 'bout you, but that one looks kinda high...." Dax laughed.

"Don't be silly, c'mon!" Doubtfully, Sophie began to climb up the side of the tree after Dax, until she let out a sudden scream.

"NO!! LET ME DOWN!!!" she shrieked, gripping tightly onto the metal pegs.

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down. Look, give me your hand, ok? I'll help you up." Dax gripped her shaking hand. "Ok?" he asked softly. Sophie bit her lip, and again tried to scramble further up the tree. But, somehow, her foot managed to miss the next spike and the girl twisted. Dax felt his wrist twist also, and failed to maintain his grip on her skinny wrist. There was a sickening thud as she landed on the pine needle covered ground having fallen a good six or seven feet.

"SOPHIE!!"

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