CHAPTER TWO: A PLACE TO CALL HOME
The other three girls still did not reveal them selves to Storm or Scott as they sat in the seats of the jet they used to get to Washington, and back. The girls did not like the fact that they where separate seats they wanted to have seats together so that was they each could rest their heads upon Aiona, the girls wanted to be comforted by her, but Scott who nearly blew up and who nearly got his ass kicked by Aiona. Who saw that he was going to be a bit short after the incident in the woods was prepared like a mother wolf waiting for her enemy to pounce if they attacked her babies, Storm and to handle that because Aiona was about to change her mind and take the girls and run for it. However Storm made sure that Scott stayed away from the younger girls and Aiona agreed to stay as long as Scott stayed away, in the back of the jet. Aiona could see Scott was still fuming and Storm was trying her best to keep him from exploding, Aiona decided to break the rules anyway and get out of her seat. She unbuckled her self and went around to all of the girls to see if they where fine when she was done she got back in to her seat and buckled back up again.
She checked on the girls every hour so that way her and their anxious levels of emotion didn't spike their powers and cause any problems. Finally after what seemed like forever they had arrived at their destination, Aiona decided to be funny for the kids and said "We have arrived at are destination please remain seated till the jet has completely stopped." The girls broke in to fits of giggles and they even heard Storm and Scott chuckle, 'ok good the guys got a sense of hummer' Aiona thought. 'Yeah that sure does seem to be one of his good perks' thought Ceres sarcastically, 'you never know Ceres it could be and could be his only good one' Aiona thought back. The girls broke in to another fit of giggles and it kept going when they heard Aiona say "Thank you for flying Mutant Express, please come again and don't forget to pick up your luggage". The girls all unbuckled and they all instantly clung to Aiona's sides and they did not dare leave her sight or mind distance for that matter, Storm walked to the girls while Scott lowered the steps to the jet and walked out.
"Were is Mr. Summers going?" asked Ceres, "He is going to tell the professor that you are here…although I have a feeling that he already knew you where coming, and are here now" said Storm. She turned the exit the jet and called over her shoulder "This way girls we had all the student go to their dorms so that way you wouldn't feel threatened by their presents!" she said as she descended the jets stairs. She waited at the bottom of the steps for them and finally when they emerged all of the girls had finally decided to show them selves and Storm had gotten the biggest shock of her life.
Scott was finally in the professor's office and he announced that the new Mutant students had arrived and that they where a little finicky and very untrusting. But Scott's attention was pulled from the professor to the large blue beast like man standing beside the professor's desk, "Well I'll be if it isn't Hanck McCoy or should I call you Doctor…oh! No, I know what it is now Mr. Secretary." Scott said walking over to Hanck and shacking his large furry blue hand with a chuckle, "Hello Scott! How have you been?" Hanck asked chuckling at Scott for he has always been boastful even as a child. "I'd be better if these kids we just picked up weren't such…". "Ah! Storm you finally made it" said the professor as he shot Scott a glair, for what he was rudely about to say about his new guests and students. "Professor I'm sorry I tried to get them to come out again but they are still quite shy and their trust is something to be desired" said Storm, "Again?" asked the professor. "They revealed them selves to you!" said Scott amazed "Yeah after you left, and they came off the ship…they are all so beautiful" she said with a smile on her face. "Where are they now?" asked the professor, "we are here" said a sweet comma voice of a person that Scott and Storm did not recognize. "Aiona is that you?" asked Storm looking to see the clear blur like shadows standing beside her, "Yes and this is my real voice, my physical voice."
"You revel them now!" said Scott "typical I would and should have guest", "Scott!" said the professor in a warning tone. Scott said nothing he just huffed and left the room with the best of his ability not to say a word to them as he did so, when he was out and around the corner the girls broke in to laughter. "I love picking at him" said Ceres still in her disguised voice, the laughter stopped when the professor said "Why does only one person reveal her true voice and the rest of you hide?". They all went silent "They are under my orders" said Aiona, "and why is that?" he asked. "Because I…" she said revealing her self at last "told them to and they only listen to me". The professor smiled and he looked over to Hack and saw that he was not with them any more, he was with them physically but he was long gone mentally. Hanck was looking at Aiona as if he had never seen beautiful girl in his whole life, "Henry" said the professor but he was still not responding. "Well it seems Miss. Aiona that you have put are good doctor in to a trans of some sort" said the professor as he looked form Aiona to Hank, Aiona looked at Hank and smiled a sweet, beautiful smile.
Hank's reaction to that made the other girls laugh and Hank turn a darker shade of blue than his skin already was, his embarrassment even seemed to amuse the professor and Storm for they where chuckling along with the children. Aiona spoke out and said "It's okay Dr. McCoy I get that all the time and it never gets old their reactions are always different, and always amusing", Hank looked up at her and said "How did…" his voice trailed off at the sight of her smile. "She is like you Chariles" he said as he looked over at the professor, "I can see that clearly now" said Chariles. Aiona looked over at the professor and said "You are a telepathy user as well?", the professor smiled and raised an eyebrow "Naturally" he said. She smiled for he had read Storm and Scott's minds and saw the event that had taken place and he had used her line as a joke, Aiona chuckled and said "You are definitely a strong one and an intelligent one." "Same to you young lady" he said they heard one of the girls giggle, "He plays mind games just like you Aio" said Luna.
Aiona smiled and said "I would like to thank you Professor Xavier for sending Storm and Scott to us so that we may speak." "You are most welcome but if I say so it seems that I am speaking to you and not the others" he said, "They will speak when they are ready for now they wish for me to speak for them" she said narrowing her eyes at the professor. "Girls shields up and keep them up!" she aid with a knot of authority in her voice, Chariles felt their shields go up and he pushed out of their minds. "You know Professor Xavier, for a man that has said this too many Mutants with our ability that it is very rude to read ones mind. You seem very keen not to take your own advice" said Aiona with her eyes still narrowed as she concentrated on kicking the professor out of her own mind, "let me in!" he said mentally with great authority. "You are not allowed here!" she said mentally to him "Get out!" with great force she pushed him out, and that force was so strong that it projected form her mind and sent the professor wheeling back words tordes the wall. Aiona gasped and with great speed stopped him by grabbing the front of his chair before the force sent him through the wall, "You didn't have to do that you know? I could have stopped my self" he said with a kind and knowing smile.
She down casted her eyes and said "I know but what was going to happen would have been my fault and you are disabled…I don't attack people or Mutants like that normally but…you where medaling in private affairs. Mine and my…", "Sisters" said Chariles Xavier as he finished her sentence for her. "Sisters?" said Hanck as he looked over at the group of girls as he stood form his pouncing position from where he would have attacked Aiona if it wasn't for Storm who had stopped him. The invisible shadows that where there where now people and the girls they where just like their sister matching beauties the lot of them. They where in pouncing position to attack Hanck If Storm had not stopped them by her stopping Hanck, "My, they are very protective aren't they!" said Hanck surprised at their fighting stances. "It would seem that way Henry" said Chariles as he was pushed back over to his desk by Aiona, Aiona walked to the front of his desk and stood there with her face to him but her eyes down casted. "Well at least this girl knows humility and respect in some form of way" said Hanck as he watched Aiona's actions tordes Chariles, after her attack and out burst.
"Yes that is a good thing and not many young Mutants have that today because of how they where raised or treated" said Chariles, as he looked at Aiona's down casted eyes. "Thank you my dear" he said to her Aiona raised her eyes and said with a kind smile "You are welcome Professor", "Chariles Xavier but you can call my Chariles" he said extending his hand. "Aiona Aphrodite but you can call me Aio", she said as she shock his hand. "My, What a pretty name" he said to her as they ended their hand shack, he watched Aiona smiled and blush. "Thank you and pardon the reaction I don't usually tell people my real name unless they are a friend or I'm about to kill them" she said watching his face as she told him this, "Straight forward I like this girls already Chariles" said Hanck as he fixed his suite. They heard Aiona chuckle and she turned her head his way and said "yes Mr. McCoy I love that fact that you put that in right after you where going to attack me", he chuckled at her words. "Can't be to cautious Miss. Aiona and…" he said turning his head to her sisters, "I see you do the same thing" Aiona followed his yellow eyes as they gazed at her sisters.
"Girls would you stand for me please" she said and at the very words she spoke they followed her very gentle command. "Ceres you can stop growling at the doctor he isn't going to hurt me", "No, but he was going to!" she said still keeping her eyes on him as she said this in a hiss of her voice. "Yes but he hasn't so please" Aiona said in a gentle, comma spoken voice, they all watched Ceres stand and her growling cease when she did so. They watched as Ceres turned her face form Hanck's and look at her older sister, with comma, cool eyes that where now a melted chocolate brown. "Good girl" said Aiona in a loving whisper and they watched as Ceres's cheeks flushed red and she giggled like a little girl and looked away with a smile on her face. "Wow" said Scott as he walked back in to the room no one had heard him come in accept for Aiona and Chariles, they all saw his face and they all broke in to laughter at the look of dumbstruck stupidity that he couldn't shack off. "I told you they where beautiful" said Storm, "Yeah…I know I just didn't know that they looked like…like her!" he said pointing at Aiona.
"Shocked are you Mr. Summers?" said Ceres as she smiled at him, "You're the smart mouth brat!" he said irritated. "Oh there he goes again" she said with great sarcasm, "Can't you come up with anything new" she said sneering at him. "Can't you…", "Mr. Summers if you are done arguing with my younger sister who is a child you could be getting filled in on some of the already given information" said Aiona. The remaining adults in the room chuckled at her joke, Chariles turned to Storm and said "Storm would you quickly give Scott a recap so that way we can continue?". "Right" she said Storm took Scott aside and began filling him in on the beginning of the conversation, when she was done Scott looked even more dumbstruck than before when he came in. "I…didn't learn much except for the fact that you are all sisters, you…" he said looking over at Aiona "are really strong and you aren't the disrespectful kids I thought you all to be well…except you!". He said looking over at Ceres she did a mock bow with her head and said "Take me as you see me sir or don't accept me, for I am all that you will get" she said with a sly smile. "Ooo, strong and yet wise words" said Hanck as he looked at Scott who gave him a shocked look, the girls and everyone else in the room broke in to laughter.
When the laughter died down the attention fell upon the four girls who now stood in the center of the room looking at Chariles, who was waiting for them to properly introduce them selves for he could not find out who they where for they had closed their minds to him and everyone else. "Well you know who I am" said Aiona "But you don't know us" said Luna after quite a while. "I'm Her Demeter but friends call me Ceres, that's my nick name" she said smiling, they then turned to Luna. "My name is Selene Andromeda, but you can call me Luna that is my nick name" she said happily looking at them all. Then their attention fell upon the smallest of the group, "Her name is Helen Psyche and we all call her Helen" said Aiona as she looked down at her youngest sister. Helen smiled up at her and held out her arms, Aiona picked Helen up and balanced her on her hip. "And why may I ask do you speak for her?" asked Chariles, "she can not speak" said Aiona as she held her little sister close.
"She has been mute since the day of her birth…and the people!" Aiona said the last part bitterly. "Those people that we came form did not like her they…wanted her to be killed because she was not…perfect! Like we where…just because she could not speak!" she spat out her words with poison in everyone. "So how does she speak?" asked Storm, "She was talking to you in the woods how was she doing that?", Scott then said "Yeah I remember that too". "She depends on me to interpret what she says…she can use sign language, like the human people do when they can't speak" said Aiona with a hint of pride. "Really?" said Chariles as he looked at the little girl, "And who taught her to do this?" he asked. "I did of course, I had to be trained and skilled at a many variety of things if something like this ever did happen and I could not communicate with them, they all have learned it" Aiona said watching the girls make signs with their hands to Helen and maker her smile. "That is very clever indeed!" said Hanck he sounded exited at the fact that mutant children that rarely learned things like this was being taught, "And who taught you?" Hanck asked. "Our mother, before she died" said Aiona sadly, "earlier you said that those people wanted to have your sister killed" said Chariles.
They watched Aiona's reaction to the word 'kill' as she flinched and her sister hugged her tighter. "Where they not your parents?" the professor pressed, "NO!" Aiona said defensively "My mother loved us and so did our father! They died for us…" she said her voice breaking at the end. Aiona slowly sank to her knees as tears fell down her face and she tried her best to not sob, but a few every now and then would escape. "Aiona!" said Ceres as she pulled her two little sisters back just in case something where to happen, "Aio look at me! You can't break down here you have to keep your self to the present do not dwell on the past!" Ceres stated firmly. "Put you human emotions aside and pull forth your mutant ones" said Ceres more softly this time, Aiona just pulled away from her. Ceres sighted "I'm not getting anything Luna you…Helen no!", but Helen pulled away form her older sisters and sat down beside her eldest sister. She put a hand on her sisters' face Aiona still having a struggle to put her emotions away looked at her, her other hand came to the side of Aiona's face. Their eyes held contact and stayed like that for five seconds before Helen's eyes began to glow.
Aiona's then did the same and the sobs that Aiona was letting escape her stopped and her tears stopped, "What is she doing?" Storm breather out as she watched the scene unfold before her and the rest in the room with her. "If I'm not mistaken" said Chariles "She is erasing her memory of the ending peace of our conversation seeing how it brought her great pain, Helen wants to take away Aiona's pain. Just as Aiona has always done for her and her other sister's" said Chariles watching transfixed, "How do you know that?" asked Hanck. "Have you forgotten that I can read minds already Henry?" Chariles asked with a slight chuckle, "But I thought she put up her barrier?" said Scott watching amazed. "She did, but she had to take it down to do this" said Chariles, "If You keep doing that Professor you'll end up losing their trust" said Storm stating the truth. "Maybe so Storm, but there are things that she is not telling us that we need to know in order to help them fully." They all knew the professor was right and they did not want to admit it but this was going to be the only way to get answers was be entering their minds, and interrogation.
Finally after what felt like and hour was only a minute, Helen and Aiona's eyes stopped glowing, and they both turned back to chest nut brown. Aiona blinked and looked around herself she noticed that her other two sister's where standing a few feet away and Helen was in front of her still holding her face, then it hit her "OH-NO!" she said jumping to her feet. "Not again how could I let this happen!" she said she was greatly frustrated with herself; Helen grabbed her arm and turned Aiona to her when Aiona looked down at her. Helen was making hand signs and at a very fast pace finally when they ended, Aiona brought a hand to her face and covered her eyes. "Please tell me I did not break down again?" begging was in her voice, "Sorry sis but you did" said Luna. "How bad was it?" she asked, "Better than last time" said Ceres, "this time you hand more control…last time you made the whole forest shack the people in town thought they where having an earthquake." Said Ceres with a giggle, "Hera this isn't funny!" Luna snapped "You know how close Aio was with mom and dad! And you know that this is no joking matter but you always make it out to be, Why in the name of all man kind can't you for once in your life be serious about a serious situation?".
"It's my nature and if you can't accept me for who or what I am then you can take it and shove it, just like Lazar jockey!" Ceres said in retaliation. Luna opened her mouth to say something when "Enough! Hera you are a girl, there for that makes you have some form of class, and there for that makes you a lady. I want you to start acting like one that means no more name calling, no more bad language and NO MORE SASSY MOUTH! Do I make my self clear?" Aiona asked with authority that was too strong and to high for a teenager. "Yes ma'am" Ceres said down casting her eyes. "Good, and as for you" she said looking at Luna, "I know you are trying to help but don't make it out to be a fight between each other. You two are sister's and the last thing I need is for family turning on each other now…I want you two to kiss and make up…right now!" She said the last part forcefully when she saw their faces. Ceres and Luna looked at each other and then they hesitantly hugged one another, "I'm sorry" said Ceres first, "So am I" said Luna as their hug now was more meaningful. When they released they saw Aiona with a smile on her face, "Better, much better" she said happily.
Aiona then brought her eyes upon Helen and said "and as for you!" she said they all watched Helen down cast her eyes, and lower her head. "When Ceres says not to come near me when I am in that state you listen to her, for if I where to hurt you…" she said sliding a hand under her little sister's chin and lifting her face up to hers. "I couldn't and wouldn't forgive myself, for you and the girls are my greatest treasure and with out you three I would have nothing to live for." Helen brought her eyes to her oldest sister's and she had tears in them, "But I thank you for your help all them same Helen and Ceres" Aiona said with a sweet smile. Aiona whipped away Helen's tears with a single brush of her hand and said as she placed a kiss upon Helen's forehead "No more tears Helen darling at least…not for me, and the same thing goes for you too Mrs. Storm." Aiona said standing and pulling all of her sister's in to one big hug all of the girls giggled as they where being hugged be their older and beloved sister. They all turned to face the professor, Scott, Storm, and the good doctor, when Aiona said "I have enough when three cry for me I don't need four" she said with a kind smile to storm.
Storm whipped her eyes and said "Right", Aiona's eyes fell upon them all and she turned red a little and said "Sorry you had to see that emotional wreck side of my self but it is true…I was very attached to my parents and frankly…I don't know a person in this world that wouldn't be attached to their parents." The adults all had smiles on their faces and they had a good reason too, they had just witnessed the affection and love that they all have for one another, the respect, and trust that they share as a family and a whole. "That is quite alright" said Chariles as he watched them; "It is actually a good thing that this has happened so that way we can work on your weaknesses and point out your strengths" said Hanck. "To know what must be done and what already has" said Aiona as she looked at the adults that stood before her, she clicked her tongue at them all and said "you all are good aren't you?", "My dear you have no Idea" said Hanck as he chuckled. "I like them!" said Luna excitedly to her older sister. "Me too Selene, Me too" said Aiona, "So does that mean…that this is home now?" Ceres asked. Everyone looked at Aiona now, Aiona closed her eyes and raised her head to the ceiling and then opened her eyes again.
Pretending to mull it over, "What colors do you want for the new bedroom?" Aiona asked her sister's as she looked down at hem now. Her sister's smiled broadly and they all shouted "Yeay! We get to stay here! We get to live here!" they shouted till they all fell to the floor from jumping on Aiona who could not support all of their weight. The adults broke into laughter along with the children, 'I'm so happy that you have decided to stay with us' Chariles thought to Aiona. 'Well I'm doing this for them if I had a choice I would have declined your offer and went back to where I was before' she thought truthfully to the professor, 'Hmm? That is something we are going to have to discuss later, for now enjoy your happy feelings with your sister's and might I add you handled that situation quite well.' 'That is just what I do it's an every day life thing with me and them, and besides they're family I don't want them fighting they need each other. Not anger, not sadness, and not war for what would fighting solve and what would it bring? Nothing but more pain that does not need to be there.' 'Rightly put, I like you way of thinking' Chariles thought smiling at her, 'your not so bad yourself Chariles' she thought winking at him physically. The professor let out a physically chuckle before he turned to Storm he instructed her to give the girls a room and let them sleep for the remainder of the day.