Heyy so here's chapter 3. I was wondering what good X men names there could be for Sam and Ivy. Sam's mutation is that he can turn invisible and Ivy can control plants and earth. Any ideas?

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I drifted in and out of sleep on the plane journey to Xavier's home. My exhaustion was due to a colossal argument with Sam. Needless to say he wasn't too thrilled at the idea of traveling halfway around the world with no real knowledge of where we were going.

Flashback

"Let me get this straight. You are saying that we are following a guy who may or may not be completely insane to a mansion to join his group of mutants."

"In a nutshell …. yeah." I said a bit sheepishly. I knew that Sam wasn't just going to agree to this, I had dropped the bombshell not 5 minutes ago.

"You are mad; I mean you have actually lost your mind!" He was really raising his voice now. Sam rarely shouted; he didn't need to. His voice held natural authority that not many people questioned. Even I didn't usually challenge his judgement, but this time I knew my instinct was right.

"Look I know this is probably the most random thing I have ever come out with. But just once, you have to trust me, and this is our way out of here." I was pleading now. I couldn't just let an opportunity like this pass us by.

He looked as he was starting to protest but a terrified look came over his face. I mentally thanked the professor and left the rest of the explaining to him.

End Flashback

"Ivy, wake up we're here." Sam was shaking me awake with a very tight expression on his face. I felt the need to apologize to him for uprooting our (somewhat) familiar existence in one night. He deserved to feel safe and happy. I just hoped that Charles could deliver on that front.

The car journey was intense to say the least. I started to wonder what this place would be like and more importantly who these people were. We came down a long driveway surrounded by bushes and trees. It looked as if Charles was trying to make sure that no one found his hideaway of mutants. I'll have to ask him about it later. The trees parted and standing there was the biggest house I had ever seen. It looked more like a castle than anything else, with huge stone walls, balconies and huge glass windows. There was lush countryside as far as you could see and beautiful forests and gardens. It looked like a child's story book come to life and I half expected a fairy-tale princess to come walking down the steps with her glass slippers. Instead of the princess 3 guys came walking out of the main door with surprised looks on their faces.

"Your house is so beautiful." I murmured to Charles. I didn't want to speak too loudly, I felt as if it would shatter the illusion of the whole scene. Sam looked in appreciation at the place. I gave him a look that said I told you so.

"Thank you Ivy, my sister and I grew up in this house, it's been in my family for years, I hope you'll like it." A strange look ghosted across his features, as if he was remembering something that he had tried very hard to forget. However it was gone as soon as it came and the three strangers had reached us.

"Ah, hello boys, I would like to introduce you to our new arrivals, this is Sam and Ivy." Charles gave the boys a calculating look as if to measure their reactions to us.

A boy who I guessed was about a year younger than me looked as he had never seen a female in his life. He was about my height with floppy ginger hair and a wide smile.

"Hi I'm Sean or Banshee, whichever you like." He said. It sounded as if he was trying to make his voice sound an octave lower as he was shaking my hand. He held on about 5 seconds too long and I had to pull my hand out of his grasp. Any conversation I have with him is going to be awkward. The next guy looked older than me with blond hair and very lonely blue eyes. He walked up to me with curiosity on his face and was probably one of the hottest guys I had ever seen. I felt a heat spreading on my face when he shook my hand and I wondered why I was reacting like this. It wasn't like me to have such a girly reaction to a guy.

"My names Alex, they call me Havoc as well, nice to meet you." He smiled at me and I think my knees almost gave out. Part of my brain wondered why they all had two names but that question was answered by the last guy. He was at least 2 ft. taller than everyone else and was completely, from head to toe blue. He had some fur on his face and resembled a werewolf a bit. Though his appearance was shocking I couldn't look past his warm smile. Looking at his smile I saw a person, not a mutant. Before, when Charles was explaining mutation to me it was just a word. It had no meaning, it wasn't real. But this stranger, staring at me, was the most real thing I had ever seen and it dawned on me that everything Charles had said to me and Sam was the truth.

"My name is Hank, or Beast, I uh hope you like it here." He seemed to be expecting me to react in some shocked way. But I shook his hand and said thanks.

Charles, who seemed pleased with our introductions ushered us up the stone steps and into something completely unknown.