I went with Charles and Erik back to my house briefly, to get some things like clothes, and say goodbye to my mother. She couldn't even look me in the eye. On our way to the airport, Charles started to tell me all about how I'll be accepted here and have my gifts cherished and nurtured. I smiled and looked away, thinking about how that sounded. I liked the feeling quite a bit. When we got to the facility that Charles told me about, I started to feel nervous and self conscious. He looked at me with a smile.
"No need to be worried Aubrey, Everyone here is just like us" He said and I nodded.
"Okay, I'm ready" I said with a confident smile. We walked inside the building and towards a room with a man and woman sitting inside. The woman was young, a bit older than me and the man was older and much wider. We walked in and they both stood up.
"We were downtown London earlier today when we saw her" Erik said pointing to me,and i glared at him. I was really starting to dislike this man. Charles quickly jumped in.
"She's shy though, so don't freak her out any more than she is" He said softly and I frowned. He was treating me like a child.
"I'm fine Charles. I just can't control myself. Hello I'm Aubrey" I said with a smile and reached out to shake the girl's hand. She grasped my hand and smiled.
"I'm Raven" She giggled and already I really liked her. I saw Charles smile out of the corner of my eye.
"So, Raven... What can you do?" I smiled playfully and she giggled. As soon as the words left my mouth she turned blue. I gawked for a second then clapped my hands.
"Brilliant" I smiled and she turned back into herself with a smile too. As me and Raven were talking, so were the men. After we were all done, Charles led me and Raven down a hallway to a big room with closed doors. I grabbed Raven's hand and she gave mine a squeeze.
"So far we've managed to gather up some of the other mutants out there. Get to know each other, you are a team now" He smiled then pulled us into the room. Everyone who was in there stopped what they were doing. There were 5 in there, four guys and one girl, who all looked around our age. They were all sitting on the couches available. Charles smiled at everyone then walked out. Me and Raven walked over to the couches and sat down together. There was an awkward silence before a guy with red hair spoke up.
"Why don't we all go around and introduce ourselves, then maybe show their powers?" He asked and I looked around. Everyone was looking around, pretty into the idea. The red head spoke up again.
"I'll go first then. I'm Cassidy. And you all might want to plug your ears" He smirked and as we plugged our ears, he screamed across the table, but it was more of sonic waves. I clapped with a smile. The next guy to speak up was sitting beside him.
"Everyone calls me Darwin, and I'll show you what I can do" He got up and went over to the fish bowl. He quickly smirked at us before putting his head straight in, and growing gills.
"I evolve to survive" He said and everyone clapped this time. The girl beside him spoke up next.
"Angel, and this is my talent." She pulled off her jacket and slowly beautiful butterfly wings grew from her back. She then spit acid onto the table. Everyone cheered. Raven stood up next.
"I'm Raven" She said then sat back down and I looked at her before realizing that she was as afraid as I was of being judged. Cassidy looked over at her.
"What's your talent?" He asked anxiously curious. Raven stood up and turned into Cassidy, and the real Cassidy gasped before laughing.
"Cool!" He laughed and she smiled shyly before sitting back down. The guy across from Raven stood up.
"I'm Hank, I work here but I am a mutant too" He said and then pulled his shoes off to reveal hands! Handlike feet. We all clapped again then looked over at the last guy in the room. He sat at the far end of the room. Our eyes met briefly and all the air inside my lungs disappeared. He sighed then stood up.
"I'm Alex and I really don't think you want to see my trick" He said with an emotionless voice, the voice of someone who had been told he was different all his life. I knew the feeling. After pleading for him to show us, he went outside and shot huge laser rings from his chest and broke the statue out there. We all laughed and cheered together, everyone gathering on the couch again. The all looked at me and suddenly I was super anxious. What is they didn't like me, or thought I wasn't good enough for them. Slowly I stood up.
"I'm Aubrey, and I only just discovered my power thing yesterday, so I can't really control it..." I said as I sat down.
"What do you mean you can't control it? That's retarded" Alex said, in a emotionless voice again and I felt myself swallow back the tears that suddenly threatened to come.
"Yeah, seriously? You can't control them?" Angel said in a prissy voice. My head started to hurt and suddenly I wasn't sad, but angry. I heard a collective gasp and knew they couldn't see me anymore, but I was still angry. Suddenly everything in the room started to shake and anything not weighed down was lifted into the air and smashed into the wall behind me.
"Aubrey, calm down" Raven whispered and reached out for me. I looked down and I was seen again.
"Wow, I can see how that would be hard to control, sorry for doubting you Aubrey" Angel smiled and I nodded. I glanced at Alex again and noticed he was already looking at me. I could feel myself blush and looked down at my hands, noticing that my fingers weren't there. I gasped and shoved them underneath me.
"It only happens when I have really strong emotions coming over me.." I whispered and they nodded. After sitting there for a minute everyone suddenly got up, Raven pulling me onto the couch and we started jumping.
"Come on guys, live a little" Raven shouted and everyone started to jump or fly around, testing out their powers and just having fun. Already I could tell that we were going to be a great team. Everything was going fine until suddenly a loud bang was heard and everyone in the room fell over in screams.
A/N: Oooh cliff hanger! Please comment on how you feel, if I get 5 comments, then I'll update the next chapter! Hope you're enjoying and please read, review, comment, share, follow, favourite and enjoy :O)