Chapter 9

I spent some time getting bossed around by Emma that day. By the end of it, she was the one who regretted taking me under her wings. "You learn incredibly fast!" she sighed as she fell on her knees. We had just been practicing using telepathy to fight. She had tried to teach me in steps, but I figured it out a lot quicker than she expected.

"Okay," she said getting to her feet again. "This is your final thing for the day. This time, we fight and I'm not going to hold back because I think you're too new to know some of this stuff," she said as she stood confidentially.

I took my stand opposite her and prepared myself to fight. My telepathy apparently liked being used so much that it was starting to give me a serious headache.

I then felt her prepare to land the first blow. She was determined like that. I managed to block it. Mental attacks were different to physical. You either had the ability to win or you didn't, there was no easiness level.

I managed to strike through my blocks. She defended it like it was just child's play. "Is that all you've got, Roxanna?" she said teasingly. I hated her more and more after all the fights we had been practicing.

I felt her land her blows. It hurt me like a sword being stabbed through my body. "Are you going to give up on me?" Emma said again. She walked closer to me. She then summoned a giant mental blast of energy. "ARE YOU?" she yelled teasingly at me.

I fell over slightly and I felt sweat drip down my face. "Does the poor little girl want to quit? Does she want to go back to learning how to read people's minds? Does she want to give in? I am the ultimate telepath here," Emma said, her voice dripping with anger.

I groaned quietly to myself. She struck me again as I tried to stand up. She expected it to hit and send me down. But I stopped it. I looked her in the eye as I stood up. "This girl isn't little anymore. I am Roxanna. You aren't the ultimate telepath," I said mockingly. I used all my power and sent a full blast of mental power at her.

I yelled with the pain that came with releasing it. It struck her and she fell. I fell to my knees and breathed a sigh of relief. "YES!" Emma said as she rolled over on the ground. "You did it!" She said happily. "I knew you could, Roxy! I hope you didn't take me seriously back there," she said looking me in the eye.

I looked at her. What was she talking about? "Yeah. I know you were only trying to encourage me," I said.

"Well, I have to go! Scott, Bobby, Forge, Kitty and myself are going to go help some mutants in New York," Emma said as I helped her up. She brushed some of her blonde hair behind her ears. "Thanks for teaching me," I smiled. I secretly wondered why Logan wasn't going. "That's no problem, Roxy. Just keep practicing when you can," she said and with that she disappeared, running off to take the Blackbird to New York.

I sat in the gardens and leant my back against a tree. I sighed a deep breath as I relaxed my mind. I heard Shenne come up next to me. "That was so much fun!" Shenne said as she collapsed in the grass next to me. "Troy is such a powerful mutant! He can lift ten times his own body weight and he can control technology, if he really concentrates and he can only construct or deconstruct it," she added and then turned to me. "So how was you lesson?" she asked. I was about to answer when I heard a loud crash from around the front of the Institute. Someone was here…