August 30th, 1963, 7:30 A.M

Breakfast time, I jumped down the staircase, skipping two steps at a time. I was excited. It would be the first day of school. I turned left and followed the hallway to the doors on the left and entered to find the dining room. The teachers weren't there today, probably busy prepping up their classrooms. I sat in between Charmy and Raven, my recently split..splits.

"Good morning, Echo!" Charmy greeted. Raven just grimaced. When the experiment was finished, she wasn't at all happy about being separated from me. She was placed in the danger room, where we discovered her ability to manipulate shadows and the dark. Basically she sat in the middle of the danger room, a bubble of darkness surrounding her. Finally Charles coaxed her that there was more to life than just to die. She finally left the danger room, but she's been letting people know just how unhappy she was about this. Charmy was happy, and we found that he has the ability to manipulate and produce fire; we saw this after he accidently went to shake hands with Alex and instead burned him. Raven looked like my twin, however her hair was messier than mine, and she dyed it black. Her eyes were like mine, but you could tell the difference just by looking through them. My eyes were gentle, and her's made you feel like you were being analyzed. Charmy also looked like my twin, except he was a guy. His hair was short and messy as well, and he dyed black stripes in his hair just for funsies. Raven wore a very small white blouse, which hung from her shoulders and showed her cleavage, and hung above her stomach. Over it she wore an open black vest, which covered her up a bit. She wore black shorts that were up to her knees. Charmy wore an orange vest over an black t-shirt. Then he wore yellow shorts over black pants, which looked a little silly, but he didn't mind. Charmy, Raven and I shared the same classes, because Charles said that while we were now separated, we still shared a common link, and to try and focus on a different thing would be hard.

We ate with a lot of discussion about what our classes were going to be like. Today we had choir, theatre, speech, history and social studies.

"Oh cool, we have choir together this morning!" Ashleigh told us when we compared our schedules.

"Red seems to be our easy color..." Charmy observed, looking over his schedule once more.

"Must be because its never easy having ten classes." Raven said. I agreed with her, surprisngly. After eating our eggs and toast we stood up and walked with Ash to the choir room. Already inside was Samantha.

"Hi Sami!" I called to her.

"Hey Echo, Ash!"

There were various instruments in the room, and a piano in the center. There were steps leading up around the circular room, where Sam was sitting. We all sat next to her. Sam watched Raven and Charmy suspeciously.

"Who are these?"

"My splits." I replied. I introduced them, Charmy for some reason began to blush furiously and stare, while Raven pretended not to be listening. Banshee walked into the classroom.

"No way." Charmy laughed. I even giggled as the red head glared at us.

"What?"

"Nothing! It's just...your...a guy...I just expected like Professor Tasha to be teaching us, that's all." All of us laughed except for Raven, who gave an evil like smirk.

"Well you know kids, guys can teach choir too." he huffed angrily, and moved a tv in front of the piano.

"So, let me ask you, do you even have a soul, ginger?" Raven asked, her voice dark and mallicously cold. Banshee sighed.

"Yes Raven, I very much have a soul." he answered her cooly. "Don't believe in the whole 'gingers don't have souls!' because if I didn't have a soul, I wouldn't have the right to teach choir now would I?" no body argued with him on that one.

"Now, to start off my name is Professor Banshee, and to start off the year, I would like to show a french movie in english about choir. It's called the Chorus. I thought this would be a fun little thing to come back to school to. We will start rehearsing after the movie's over for the big winter performance we give in front of the school in December." he turned off the lights, making the only available light from the TV and the small windows coming from the door. He turned on the movie and we watched for the entire class, always "awwing" at the cute little Pepinot. Five minutes before the end of class, Banshee turned off the movie so we could talk to each other about our next classes.

"I have theatre next with you guys, so I'll show you were to go!" Samantha said to the three of us, and we all nodded.

"How fun, I have medical next..." Ash sighed, shrugging. "Aw well, it'll be useful for PE."

"What's PE?" I ask her.

"That's where we go to the Danger Room and train." she answered.

"Do we get to kill each other?" Raven questioned.

"No..."

"Hmm. What a shame." the bell rung then, and we got up and left the choir room. We walked to a big auditoriam that was usually used for Professor X to inform us of things going on. Inside were Harper and a boy I haven't met. He had tan skin, dark hair and dark eyes. His face was pretty round, and he was a little wide. He shook Harper's hand in greeting, and she did the same, smiling. Walking past him, I went to Harper.

"Hey giiiirls!" she said to us, giggling. "This is Hector!"

"Hector! It's nice to see you again!" Samantha hugged the boy, and he laughed.

"It's nice to see you too." Sami turned to the rest of us.

"This is Echo, Raven and Charmy."

"What's up, man?" Charmy said, reaching out his hand and Hector grabbed it in a firm grasp and shook it.

"Nothin' much." he then turned to me, with a strange look in his eyes. "Hi."

"Hi." I grinned slightly, then turned to go to my seat. The seats were wooden, not very comfortable but they had one of those removeable desks that swing to the side when unneeded. When class started we met Miss Dhylen. She was apparently a human, but loved to teach children of any kind, so she decided to sign up with Professor X. She had dark brunette hair that were put in pink pig tails, with light brown eyes. She wore no make up, yet her lips were a very dark shade of brown in contrast to her pale skin. She wore a pink collar shirt underneath her brown jacket, and she had strapped over her shoulder a brown leather bag, that was darker than the skirt she wore. Her shoes were regular black sandles. We spent the class discussing and reading the "History of Theatre". She also ended the class early so that we could all talk to each other.

"Well, looks like this is where we part ways..." Sami told us, looking at her schedule. "I have history next with Professor X."

"Well doesn't that suck...you know what, I'm going down to Professor X right now and getting our schedules remade so that we can be in the same class together!" Sami giggled.

"Aw, your so cute!" Charmy smiled at that.

"He has a crush on her." Raven whispered to me. I turned my head slightly to acknowledge her. "It's disgusting."

The bell rang, and as Hector passed me he said good bye, and I said bye back. He was really rather cute, with his glasses and all. We were just about to leave when Miss Dhylen caught us.

"You three are in speech, yes?" we all nodded simotanously.

"Then you stay here kids, this is the speech room!" we stayed and waited for any other kids to show up, but no one else did.

"Why isn't there very many students?" I asked.

"This school isn't very widely known yet. I'm sure once it becomes more popular we'll have more. Besides, most tend to come in the middle of the school year." Miss Dhylen answered.

"For your first assignment I would like to do a radio speech. It's the easiest really, you basically do a broadcast informing about something that has to be 3 minutes to 3 minutes and 30 seconds, NO LOWER OR HIGHER. I'll give you some notes for the broadcast." so she got out a chalk board and began writing on it all the stuff we needed in the radio and we wrote it down. When class ended it was time for lunch. We headed down to the dining room, where everybody was already talking.

"I can't believe this, Professor Tasha has already given us an assignment, and school just started!" Kate was ranting.

"Miss Dhylen gave us homework too." I said, sitting in my seat next to Raven and Charmy, where we were served PB&J with cookies and carrots.

"Cookies and carrots..? Who serves in the kitchen?" Charmy asked as he looked down.

"All of the teachers." Kate replied.

"You won't believe who's teaching cooking!" Kaja squeeked. We all turned to her. "Alex!" all the girls started giggling. "AND HE WAS WEARING AN APRON!"

I burst out laughing. Tough guy Havok wearing an apron? I wished I took cooking class.

"I've always wondered if Alex was gay with Sean or something..." Charmy laughed.

"Everyone beware of French..." Ash sighed. "We have a pop quiz..."

"No way?" Roxy said. "You can't give a French quiz when you JUST started."

"It's true." Alek said. "She gave us a pop quiz and it's even graded! I hate Miss Winter..."

"Oh believe me, if you think she's bad now? You just met her!" Angelia told Alek, shaking her head.

"She's an awful woman..." Ace agreed. "I swear she hates mutants, I don't know what Charles sees in her."

Aaron groaned loudly at the table, and we looked at him. "I have math next...I suck at math..."

"Pop quiz Aaron! What's 2 + 2?" she asked, holding her hand up as if it were a gun and she was going to shoot him if he didn't answer. Laughing and playing along, he put his hands up.

"I don't know!"

"BLUE!" Charmy answered for him.

"Wrong answer!" Harper said, smacking Charmy across the head.

"Ow! No need to hit, Christ!"

"Don't say Jesus Christ in vain." a voice said, and when we looked at the edge of the table we found about a nineteen year old boy sitting there. He had dark blond hair with gray eyes like steel. His nails were like claws and he had long canines that showed when he spoke. Poking through the hole of the chair was what looked like a cheeta tail. He was tall, taller than Alek even and Alek was about 6'1". He wore a black tank top with gray sweat pants. Charmy watched him for a second before saying "Ooookay..." and dropping it.

"Be careful of that one, Charmy." Rema smirked. "Dylan doesn't like rivals."

So that's all I'm writing for right now, and I'd like to thank sevenvoyager for Dylan. The day isn't complete! But this chapter is pretty long so I thought I'd give it to you guys to digest over while I think of the rest of the chapter. Don't forget to go to the forum to role play your character and such! The link is in Chapter 6, or if you want to do it the manual way, its under X-men movie category with the same title as this story.