Chapter Four: The approach of father time
Time has caught up with the girls 2 months have past and the girls have become more open with their powers, and learning to control them. Aiona learned that her mind reading abilities also go as far as mind control; she works hard every day with the professor doing mind exercises, and mental training. The professor even got her to bring down a few mind briars that held unwanted memories, with this she seems to be improving in mood physical, mental and emotional. They also learned that Aiona has part wolf in her this would explain her leadership and over protectiveness of her sisters, this also explains her connection with animal and her ability to understand them. This explain why all the girls had this trait, they all had an animal in them, Ceres was part cheetah this would explain her aggressive behavior, speed, sharp teeth when angry and claws. Luna is part fox, this explaining her ability with stealth, keen eyes sight and ability to hid in small spaces. Helen is part Fish giving her the advantage of holding her breath under water longer than a normal human or mutant, Ceres and Luna find it hard not to be jealous for they say that makes her part mermaid. Helen likes this very much for she loves mermaids, and other mythical creatures. The professor discovered that the girls all have a telepathic link to one another, but Aiona is the only one that can voice hers out and control people, with these new discoveries it makes them happy to know that they are opening up to everyone.
Aiona and the girls have even been interacting with the other students more often and have even been accepted by the other students, not just for their remarkable talents, but for their personalities and wanting to be friends with them. With the progress being made and the time they have spent with the girls, the adults and teachers, and even the professor have become attached to them. So has someone else, Henry or Hack the girls now call him have been spending time with Hanck McCoy when ever he comes around. His visits are quiet often now, and the time he spends with them is greater then what he spend with the professor and people seem to be noticing.
Hanck and Chariles walk down the hall leaving from a class room that they had visited, and where now heading to the Professors office. "Have you heard anything on Magneto?" Chariles asked as he stared straight ahead, while rolling down the hall in his chair. "Yes we have but very little in known on his whereabouts and what his plans are for now" said Hanck staring ahead as he walked. "So you don't know…and by your tension dear friends you wish for me to tell you", "would you?" Hanck asked knowing very well that the professor would never; he always wanted them to do things on their own, to learn how people work. "You know as well as I, that if I knew I wouldn't tell, so basically you know my answer" the professor looked up to Hanck, he watched the blue beast that used to be his student look down at him and smile his pearl white toothy smile and a chuckle before they turned the corner of the door to enter Chariles office.
Chariles stopped in the door way and looked at his desk Hanck doing the same, there in the professors spot sat Aiona. Her head was down but she sensed their presents, her head came up as they got closer. When she made eye contact with the professor she broke in to a browed smile, "Good evening professor, Dr. McCoy!" she said cheerfully. "Good evening Aiona dear" said Hanck, "Good evening Aio, may I ask what you are doing here all by yourself and what you are working on?" they watched her smile. "I came here to get away every where seemed to be full in the school so I decided to go where no one goes unless you are here, and I was right no one has come around except for you two. You asked what I'm working on well after classes we watched a movie and I think it to be my favorite of all time", she said revealing to them what she had been working on. It was a beautifully, very detailed, drawling of the two Disney main character's in Beauty and the Beast. It was Prince Adam in Beast form and Belle in her Ball gowned; the picture was of them dancing from the scene in the movie. "This way the only place I know I could have a moment to myself to do this, the other girls where back at the dorm and there I never would have gotten this done" she said sounding a little exhausted. "This is excellent! Every detail from the movie scene is here" said Hanck looking at it and her in amazement, "only saw the movie once and yet you have this picture locked in your brain, why?" asked the professor curiously.
"Simple" she said "It's my favorite scene and here she truly learns to love him, and not see him as a beast but as a man. She found the man hidden beneath the mutant, that is how Storm put it" she said with a smile then looked up at them from the picture and saw them looking at her with eyes of approval to her words, and to why she liked it. "What?" she asked looking between the two, the one that worried her the most was Hanck he was looking at her as if he had never seen her before and the professor had eyes of praise. "A young girl like you able to read deeply in to a child store and see the real meaning" she looked at Chariles and scowled "your not suppose to be reading my mind professor, shame on you!" she playfully scolded. He chuckled at her and said "I love the drawling Aio it's absolutely gorges" she smiled and a light blush came to her cheeks and she said "Thanks". "Have you ever thought about making this a profession?" Chariles asked, "Yes and no" she said sounding a little sad. "I never went to a proper school…I never…even as a child, I haven't had the proper training for this, and the world with its problem with mutants…" she trailed off with a sight. "I don't see myself going to school for a talent that comes so normally to me if the people there don't see it the way you and I do. But see it as a Mutation a bad gene, and not a normal one that any human could have" she said looking at the picture and not them.
'It's not a bad talent Aio' the professor thought to her, she just shook her head and said aloud "I don't even know why I worry about the Human community so…it's not like I have family that were Humans both of mine and the girls parents where Mutants" she sighted. "Well don't worry what others may think about your art work Aio, if they can't see the beauty then they are truly blind" said Hanck, she looked to them both and said "thank you, this coming from the both of you…it means more than you know" she said with a smile. Then it turned in to a frown "Oh no! No!" she said standing and grabbing her bag, and other school stuff. "What's the matter?" asked Chariles, "Ceres and another girl are having a confrontation…I knew I shouldn't have left the girls, only…I can never get a moment to myself with out Her getting into some form of trouble!" she said with a slight growl in her voice. She quickly walked around the desk, and over to a window and through it open "Sorry Chariles but I need to leave this way the quickest way possible for me to get to them would be from here" she said. Aiona watched him nodded in understanding they quickly walked to the window when she jumped, and they watched her fall. When she neared the ground they watched her tensely, Aiona began to spin like a Cyclone and a small tornado formed around her body slowing down her fall. When she landed on the ground safely she looked back up to them and smiled, before taking off in a blinding speed that if you blinked you would miss her. "Did you know she could do that?" asked Hanck when Aiona was out of sight, "No, this is a new one for me too" said Chariles.
"So…she can control wind, well if she has an element power I'm sure the others do" said Storm as she stood in the front of the professor's desk. She was called here because of Aiona's sudden new power reveal, Wind was part of the weather, and if anyone knew weather it was storm and she would be Aio's new teacher for power training. "Alright then, well if I have a new student, then I guess I better get the training under way ready for Aio" she was about to tell the professor she was leaving when she saw a look on his face. "What is it?" she asked, he looked up to meet her eyes "you have something you want to tell me or ask me don't you?" he smiled a weak smile. "How did you know?" he asked "I'm not physic but I know that look…there is more to Aio's visit here then just her power reveal isn't there?" he looked thoughtfully at her and said. "You have an amazing gift for being able to read a person faces Storm, it's about Aiona and her memories, and how vivid they can be" he said letting out a physical sight. As he placed his hands to his temples and rubbed them with his fingers, "I'm telling you that you are working to hard, and you are working the girls to hard…it's time to take a break" said Storm more telling than stating.
"I'm not going to ask you for you probable won't tell me anyway, but…I need to know, where they…bad?" Storm asked. The professor nodded and said "They where past memories and they where about were they came from, and how they came to be homeless" he said. She nodded and said "you don't have to tell me anymore, I can tell just by your face that it was bad" she said sounding even more sad. "Do you remember me telling you about the girls parents?" he asked, she nodded, "Well my suspicions where more then right they where dead on. The girl's Mother is dead and the Mutant male that is coming here is indeed their Father" he watched her sad face lift a little. "So they do have a relative? That's good and he is a Mutant, then he should have no problem excepting them as his children" she said, Chariles watched her. There was more to it but he could tell her that there was more tied in, so much deeper then what Storm thought there to be. So much heart ache so much betrayal that if he where to tell her everything that she might just slip into a comma of depression. He and the girls where lucky that they hadn't themselves fallen into such a state that they couldn't get out, but it's all how you train the mind and how you handle your emotions. "Later professor I have to get down to dinner before it's all gone…which reminds me, Have you seen Hanck? He is supposed to be staying for dinner" she said. "I believe he is with the children, and when I mean by children I mean the Goddess four" he said with a smirk. Storm smirked and said "He has been spending an awful lot of time with them hasn't he?", "I believe that there is more than a friendship between him and the girls they seem to have gotten quiet attached to him, and he them" said Chariles with a knowing gleam in his eye.
Chariles smiled and said "I'll be down soon", "Right" storm said as she walked out of the room and turned the corner to head for the stairwell. Chariles smile faded, he reached down and pulled out a drawer from his desk and inside he pulled out Aiona's drawling book. He placed it on his desk and just looked at it, how could one little girl have such a vivid memory, even after all these years, and how could he not see if before. He said the same thing to Hanck when he was still here standing beside him "How could I haven't seen it before these accident happened over 15 years ago, this was around the time I got Scott and Storm as my first students" said Chariles. Hanck only looked at the drawings, dead bodies every where, buildings destroyed, stone, cement ripped out of the ground to lay in shambles. The girls sitting beside their dead mothers body crying for she wasn't coming back, their father standing watching and then leaving. Aiona chasing him and being lashed out at, blood running down her arm as his metal claws cut her and the wounds not healing properly and leaving her with three claw marks on her left arm. Seeing these gave the professor a full range of what they had been through, and he learning that Aiona only drawled what really touched her. For the rest of the pages where of the disaster and the only two that gave them hope was the one of her parents together with them and the one of the Human Beauty and the Mutant Beast. "Her heart is changing" said the professor, "Yes but not fast enough" said Hanck a little sidetracked.
"We don't want it changing to fast for it could cause more damage than good" said Chariles, "fine but…why would she lie?" Hanck asked. "We do not fully have her trust is this what she is trying to tell us?" he asked again, the professor shook his head and said "No, she trusts us; why else would she leave her book behind. This was no accident we where meant to see it, to interpret it. She couldn't tell us because it is too painful to tell, so she showed us, and she shows us that we are helping her and the girls to improve" said Chariles. "Henry we may have more to the puzzle that we are trying to solve" said the professor to Hanck, The flesh back ended. Chariles was flipping through the book again and noticed a man standing not to far away from the ruble that the girls where sitting next to with their mother. He looked like their father but he seemed much older, as Chariles placed his hand on the drawn picture of the man, he had a flashed vision and he heard a whisper. "Uncle!" said Chariles, so there was more that one relative alive and it seemed their father has an older brother.
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