Chapter 1: Newcomers

Jean Grey P.O.V.

Finally, soccer practice is over. Not that don`t I love the sport, but today was just down right exhausting. I had a AP Calc and a AP Physics test. Plus I had to show two new kids around... Oh crud! I forgot to show them around! The principal entrusted me to show two new kids around and I totally blew it. I totally forgot after Duncan tried to get us back together for the billionth time.

I splashed some cold water in my face from my water bottle. Calm down Jean. You can find some way to make up to the two kids you left totally stranded on their first day at Bayville High tomorrow. If you can find them.

I darted across the track before the kids trying out for track came back around. I looked up at the stands that would be filled with people during a game, expecting them to be completely empty, but they weren't. A single person sat in the stands. Her blond head bent over what appeared to be homework. I walked up the steps to her. I knew pretty much everyone at Bayville High and that shade of hair wasn't familiar to me yet. Her hair was long and had a golden quality to it that reflected the setting sun's rays. The air seemed to get cooler as I got closer to her. Like literally, it got cooler. I wasn't feeling any negativity towards me. I sat down next to her on the bleacher.

"Hi," I started. She looked up at me with her eyes, which were strange but beautiful. They were ocean blue with a hazel ring around the pupil. "I'm Jean Grey, a senior here at Bayville. Are you new?"

She pursed her lips for a second, as if trying to figure out what was safe to say. She must be familiar with bullies or the stereotypical popular kids if she hesitant to say anything. Doesn't take a telepath to figure that out. And judging by her skinny build, she would be an easy target. Though it would be a wonder why kids would bully her. I mean, she looked really pretty in a natural, not really trying kind of way.

"Yeah, today was my first day as a junior at Bayville. My sister and I were supposed to get a tour from someone today, but they never showed." She finally said.

"Oh, sorry. I think your guide was supposed to be me. I got harassed by a guy who used to be my boyfriend and I totally forgot. What's your guys' names?" I apologized.

"My name is RoseMarie Leistungsstarke. My friends call me Rosie and sometimes Rose. My sister is Shadow Leistungsstarke. Her friends call her Shade, and I call her Shady."

"Your last name, is it foreign?"

"Yes, our parents came Rüdesheim, Germany. We were born in Oregon however."

"So, what are you doing here so late? Aren't your parents waiting for you to come home?"

A shadow fell over her pale face. "I'm waiting for my sister to finish trying out for the Track and Field team. As for our parents... they were killed two months ago by a relative that went berserk on them. That's why we moved here. We live at an orphanage nearby."

"Sorry, I hope I didn't reopen any healing wounds. You didn't have to tell me if you didn't want to." I commented softly. I was sorry I asked. I mean, the loss of her parents still must sting, but her and her sister must be incredibly strong to have already moved on with their lives.

"It's okay. I wanted to. I have a feeling I can trust you." She replied, her voice soft.

"What grade is your sister in?"

"Freshman. I can almost guarantee you that she'll make varsity though. That girl was born a jock, just like I was born a nerd."

"Polar opposite, eh?"

"You have no idea." She commented and I sensed an almost double meaning to her words. "Look, here she comes."

A girl, only about an inch shorter than RoseMarie was making her way up the stairs. She in fact was the opposite of RoseMarie. She had short brown hair that was in a pixie cut and long bangs that reached to the right side of her face. Her eyes were dark brown with a black ring around the iris. Where her sister's skin was pale she was caramel tan. The air returned to it's earlier temperature as she drew closer. She had thick muscles and she seemed to climb the bleacher's steps with ease.

"Who's this?" She asked, gesturing towards me once she had reached us.

"This is Jean Grey. She was supposed to be our tour guide today."

"You didn't show." Shadow commented.

"Yeah, and I'm really. I was having boy problems."

Shadow gave me a quick look over with a judgmental look.

Then she said, "Come here real quick." She then preceded to take several steps away from her sister as I followed her. The air started to heat up. Man, what funky weather.

"Look here," she said, "My sister has had issues in the past with popular kids bullying her in the past. You try anything on her and you'll be sorry."

"Don't worry. I may be popular but I'm not a royal jerk like some popular kids I know. I'll try to keep those idiots off your sister's case." I assured her.

The tension on her shoulder visibly vanished. "Thank you. I know this is weird since I'm younger than her, but she's a nerd and a bit of a pacifist at times. I do my best to keep the bullies of her back."

"Is your sister athletic at all?"

"Yeah, she's pretty good at swim and we learned some self-defense, but that's all. She won't even join swim because she says it might interfere with her studies."

"That girl must love to study. It was cool enough a few minutes ago that I would've put away my pencil and tried to keep my hands warm."

"Yeah," Shadow laughed nervously. "Nothing short of a world wide disaster would keep her from her studies."

I laughed with her.

"Well, I've got to go. See you two later. Maybe I can buy you two lunch to make up for my absence today."

"That would be cool. See ya later."

Scott Summers P.O.V.

The Professor had just called all the high schoolers in for a meeting. My guess is that he might have detected a new mutant at our school, after all, he had just called for high schoolers which means that he probably was going to ask us to keep an eye out for any new mutants at our school.

"They're nice kids, a little cautious, but nice." Jean said as she told me about two new students on our way to the meeting.

"You know, it's kind of weird that you're calling them kids when you're just a year or three years older than them." I teased her.

"Well, it's probably just all that we have gone through. Makes me feel older than I actually am." She joked. Then her expression turned serious. "Though they have gone through a lot recently. Their parents died only a couple of months ago, murdered by another relative."

"Man, that kind of thing leaves you speechless, huh? I never would've known what to say to them."

"I wasn't sure what to say either, but they already seemed to have moved on. They loved their parents though, they must have incredible strength to have stopped mourning already."

We walked past Bobby who was trying to flirt with a younger member of the Institution. The air around him was cooler than the room temperature and I heard him use the line, "Would you like to go out with a cool guy like me?"

I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, "Come on you two, we have a meeting to go to." I commented as I pulled him away.

I looked back at Jean and she had a thoughtful look on her face. "What is it?" I asked.

"It's nothing." She said shaking her head. "Actually, it might be something if the Professor is calling us for a meeting about what I think it might be."

"And that something would be?"

"Two new mutants."

"Two?! Two new ones at the same time? Why would you guess that?" I asked surprised. When new mutants were discovered it was usually only one, not two at the same time.

"I'll explain only at the meeting and only if I'm right."

We fell silent, as we continued our casual walk through the halls to the meeting.

The room where we all were meeting was noisy as ever when all the high schoolers gather in one place. Thankfully, I don't think it was going to get much louder since it looked like we were the last ones to enter, but I forgot that Bobby had just entered the room.

"Hey Amara!" He shouted as he made his way over to talk to her, being as loud as he could be.

I noticed Logan with his usual sneer leaning against a wall nearby and I could only wonder how much time in a room full of loud and obnoxious teenagers he could take. The moment the Professor rolled in things fell silent.

He cleared his throat, "Are we all here? Good. Okay, as most of you have probably assumed by now, this does deal with mutant activity at your school."

Bobby started to scooch towards the door.

"And no, it is not about the mysterious frozen water fountain found at school, yet." Bobby stopped his movement when Logan froze him in place with a single look. "We have detected two new mutant signatures at your school. However, the mutants signatures may be new to your school, they are not new in general. I have detected them before occasionally on the opposite side of the coast. I believe that most of the time they may have been cloaked while over there but now that they are here they have either lost the capability or technology to do so. This causes them to be out in the open and easier to find." He explained.

"Professor?" Jean called.

"Yes, what is it Jean?"

"I may have an idea of who they are. Today I met two new kids from our school. As I drew closer to one the temperature of the air around her seemed to drop, a lot like when Bobby tries one of his "cool" lines. Then when her sister came the air returned to normal. After I apologized for not giving them a tour earlier today the younger one pulled me aside and the air grew hotter. I think the two mutants are them. They appear to be complete polar opposites. One is a nerd, one is a jock. One is a pacifist, the other is hostile. One is an upper classman, the other is a lower classman. One make the air hot, one makes it cold. Together the balance each other out." Jean explained.

Talk about total opposites. It would make sense though. The x-gene is often hereditary and it is common that multiple people from the same bloodline would have an active x-gene.

"See what you can do tomorrow then, Jean."

"Yes, Professor. I have an idea, but I need Bobby and Amara for it to work. You guys have anything planned for lunch tomorrow?" She asked.

"Nope."

"Nada."

"Then I'll see you two at lunch tomorrow."

"Good meeting everyone. You are dismissed." Xavier wrapped up.