Whee! New chapter! I hate this chapter! Whee!
Big thanks for all the nice reviews! An extra thank you to Scribbler. Yup, makes me feel loved, too. Is there anyone else out there who has this story under Favorites?
Very Big Thanks to Death Lord La for beta reading!!!
Warning the first: My muse for this fic has died. Yes. It was fading more and more starting sometime right before Christmas, before finally exploding along with my TV the day before my eighteenth birthday (yes, my TV frickin' -exploded-. Now my room has a new funky smell that clashes with the old funky smell). So I had to chase for a new muse. My slash muse just growled at me, claiming it was too early for slash (but it's not! It's -never- too early for slash!). My angst muse committed suicide a couple of months ago (but she will be back. She always comes back) and it didn't fit with angst here anyway. And my dream muse has been weirdly absent for a while. Yes, I've got muses coming out of my ears, but none for this fic (pretty much the same as with OCs). I finally managed to catch one muse, the boring-but- necessary-foreshadowing muse. Yup. All my muses that were even remotely funny have eloped to Spain to look for buckets.
Warning the second: I'm screwing around with Rahne's accent in this chapter.
Well, on with the chapter that exists mostly to explain some insignificant stuff . . . and is just lots o' dialog and pointless things. Ack!
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Chapter 5
The five young girls, clad in identical uniforms, sat in the grass, looking extremely tired. They were idly watching the four teenage boys that were training a bit further away at the moment, under the supervision of Wolverine.
"Ya know," Tabitha Smith said, yawning, "This is something I -didn't- miss while living with the Brotherhood. Getting up almost before sunrise, just to train."
"Why do we have to get up so early anyway?" Amara Aquila complained. "It is not like we have anything planned for the rest of the day since we are not allowed in school. And we are just sitting here watching the boys right now."
"I don't mind watching the boys," Tabitha mentioned. "Even if they're not the best lookin' guys around."
"Bobby's kinda cute, don't ya think?" Jubilation Lee absentmindedly noted, following said boy with her eyes. No one really paid any attention to her, since her crush was well known among the female half of the students of the Xavier institute anyway.
"Why ain't we trainin' -with- the boys?" Zander asked, scowling. " Do they think we can't handle it just 'cause we're girls?"
"No, tis not like that," Rahne Sinclair quickly answered. Zander had only been at the institute for a week, but the tomboy's reaction to being treated weaker just because she happened to be a girl was already very well known.
"We're usually training in the Danger Room," Jubilee explained. "And there we can train all at once. But since it was destroyed in the explosion it has to be rebuilt, and the adults though we shouldn't hold off the training any longer. After all, we haven't trained at all since the mansion blew up, and we need to be more trained now that everybody knows about mutants. Since the others are training at a harder level somewhere else, Wolverine is the only one to train us newer recruits, and he can't train us all at the same time. So we split up and have to wait." Jubilee stopped her ramblings to gawk some more at Bobby.
"Oh. Okay." Zander seemed pleased with that answer, even if it was somewhat incoherent and severely overused the word "train".
"I still do not understand why we have to get up so early," Amara muttered. "It is seven in the morning!"
"Tis because we usually do this before school," Rahne pointed out. "Ye know that."
"But we're banned from school," Jubilee mentioned, still watching Bobby. The spandex uniform did amazing things for his butt.
"Yeah, but the Professor is talking t' the principal and some other important people. That's prolly why he's been away so long. He's doing his best t' make sure mutants have all the rights normal humans have. And since he returned yesterday, we might be accepted back in school any day now."
"Ohh, I can't wait," Tabitha said, bringing forward every ounce of sarcasm she could muster at this early hour.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm kinda scared of going back," Jubilee said, finally paying full attention to the other girls. "Especially after what happened yesterday."
"What happened yesterday?" Zander asked. The only thing she could remember was that she got kitchen duty for a week because she had put spiders in Kurt and Bobby's beds, to get back at them for having the nerve to throw her into Rogue's room.
"Well, ye see, we went t' the movies," Rahne said. "And then we met these guys from school. They were really awful, harassin' us about being mutants and stuff. It was horrible."
"Ray almost got into a fight with them," Tabitha said.
"You didn't exactly help things," Jubilee pointed out. "Threatening to blow them up and everything."
"Hey, we're the ones with the powers. They should be scared of us."
"That's what they prolly are," Rahne said. "And tis not good. There will most likely be trouble, no matter what we do."
"Yeah, going home again won't help," Jubilee said. "My parents wanted to take me away from here, but it'll be the same everywhere."
"Except that almost everyone in Bayville knows that this is a mutant school," Zander mentioned.
"They do?" Amara asked, horrified.
"Well, yeah. Ah found out after bein' in town for only an hour or so."
"But we're safer here," Jubilee said, evidently intent on getting everyone to see the light. Or at least the reasons to stay.
"Well, duh, we've got lots of security and stuff here," Tabitha frowned. "And it's not like I'm longing to go home again."
Amara opened her mouth to say something else, but apparently the boys's training time was over. They were now walking over to where the girls were sprawled over the grass, most of them zooming in on the water bottles present in that general area.
"Man, that was tuff," Bobby muttered, flinging himself down next to Jubilee. "Wolverine must be in a very bad mood today."
"Yup, you girls better be careful," Ray Crisp said, reaching for a bottle. Upon noticing the look Zander was sending his way, he quickly shut up. Roberto DaCosta, obviously too cool for the grass, just leaned against a tree, while Sam Guthrie sat down a bit from Rahne, giving her a quick glance which she managed to miss entirely.
"Girls, get over here immediately!" Wolverine barked from where he was standing. He was clearly annoyed with the fact that none of the girls had enough telepathic powers to understand that they should start their training session the very second the boys had stopped. The girls just gave up a collective sight and rose, trotting over to the grumpy mutant.
Amara, Tabitha and Jubilee were moving at a brisk pace, but Rahne was walking rather slowly, in deep thought about something. Zander fell into step beside the fellow changeling.
"Ya okay?"
"I guess," Rahne answered. "I think tis unfair that we should be treated like monsters, 'cause we can do things others cannea."
"Life's unfair, get used to it. Some people have good lives, some people have bad lives, and we're mutants. There's nothin' we can do about it."
"I just donnea get why tis such a big deal. So what that I can turn into a wolf and you can turn into a tiger and that Jubes can shoot fireworks from her hands. Why won't they just accept what we are?"
"That ain't gonna happen, so ya can stop wishin' for it. Ya'll just get disappointed. People will always pick on the weaker to seem more powerful themselves. If we hadn't been mutants, they'd find somethin' else wrong about us. Trust me, ah know."
"Hm." The two shapeshifters walked in silence for a little while.
"Wolfsbane! Bengal! Hurry up!" Wolverine yelled. The other three girls were standing with him waiting for them, already powered up, Amara in her firery shape, Jubilee shooting tiny sparks from her hands, and Tabitha creating her cherry bomb thingies. Wolverine stood with his arms crossed, looking extremely irritated.
"Hey, was he so far away from the beginnin'?" Rahne frowned, noticing that they still had quite a bit to go. Zander just shrugged. Rahne frowned again, then she also shrugged. "Race ye to them," she said, turning into her werewolf form and starting to run toward the others. Zander quickly turned into her other shape, a humanoid white tiger, and set off after the younger girl.
tbc
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Suing me will do no good, since my education will provide me with no job opportunities whatsoever once I graduate. I will be poor all my life.
Well. Wasn't that horrible? And I know I say this about pretty much every chapter (can you say "low self-esteem"?), but this is the truth. Oh well. If you thought this was awful to read, look at the bright side. It could be worse. You could be writing this frickin' thing!
I truly despise this chapter. There's only one line I like. Extra brownie points if you can figure out which one that is! But you did get some info about stuff, and now you know Zander's power and codename! Yay!
On another note. My spellchecker wants me to change Rahne to Rhino.
Next chapter: The Acolytes! Whee! More Pietro! I like Pietro.
Big thanks for all the nice reviews! An extra thank you to Scribbler. Yup, makes me feel loved, too. Is there anyone else out there who has this story under Favorites?
Very Big Thanks to Death Lord La for beta reading!!!
Warning the first: My muse for this fic has died. Yes. It was fading more and more starting sometime right before Christmas, before finally exploding along with my TV the day before my eighteenth birthday (yes, my TV frickin' -exploded-. Now my room has a new funky smell that clashes with the old funky smell). So I had to chase for a new muse. My slash muse just growled at me, claiming it was too early for slash (but it's not! It's -never- too early for slash!). My angst muse committed suicide a couple of months ago (but she will be back. She always comes back) and it didn't fit with angst here anyway. And my dream muse has been weirdly absent for a while. Yes, I've got muses coming out of my ears, but none for this fic (pretty much the same as with OCs). I finally managed to catch one muse, the boring-but- necessary-foreshadowing muse. Yup. All my muses that were even remotely funny have eloped to Spain to look for buckets.
Warning the second: I'm screwing around with Rahne's accent in this chapter.
Well, on with the chapter that exists mostly to explain some insignificant stuff . . . and is just lots o' dialog and pointless things. Ack!
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Chapter 5
The five young girls, clad in identical uniforms, sat in the grass, looking extremely tired. They were idly watching the four teenage boys that were training a bit further away at the moment, under the supervision of Wolverine.
"Ya know," Tabitha Smith said, yawning, "This is something I -didn't- miss while living with the Brotherhood. Getting up almost before sunrise, just to train."
"Why do we have to get up so early anyway?" Amara Aquila complained. "It is not like we have anything planned for the rest of the day since we are not allowed in school. And we are just sitting here watching the boys right now."
"I don't mind watching the boys," Tabitha mentioned. "Even if they're not the best lookin' guys around."
"Bobby's kinda cute, don't ya think?" Jubilation Lee absentmindedly noted, following said boy with her eyes. No one really paid any attention to her, since her crush was well known among the female half of the students of the Xavier institute anyway.
"Why ain't we trainin' -with- the boys?" Zander asked, scowling. " Do they think we can't handle it just 'cause we're girls?"
"No, tis not like that," Rahne Sinclair quickly answered. Zander had only been at the institute for a week, but the tomboy's reaction to being treated weaker just because she happened to be a girl was already very well known.
"We're usually training in the Danger Room," Jubilee explained. "And there we can train all at once. But since it was destroyed in the explosion it has to be rebuilt, and the adults though we shouldn't hold off the training any longer. After all, we haven't trained at all since the mansion blew up, and we need to be more trained now that everybody knows about mutants. Since the others are training at a harder level somewhere else, Wolverine is the only one to train us newer recruits, and he can't train us all at the same time. So we split up and have to wait." Jubilee stopped her ramblings to gawk some more at Bobby.
"Oh. Okay." Zander seemed pleased with that answer, even if it was somewhat incoherent and severely overused the word "train".
"I still do not understand why we have to get up so early," Amara muttered. "It is seven in the morning!"
"Tis because we usually do this before school," Rahne pointed out. "Ye know that."
"But we're banned from school," Jubilee mentioned, still watching Bobby. The spandex uniform did amazing things for his butt.
"Yeah, but the Professor is talking t' the principal and some other important people. That's prolly why he's been away so long. He's doing his best t' make sure mutants have all the rights normal humans have. And since he returned yesterday, we might be accepted back in school any day now."
"Ohh, I can't wait," Tabitha said, bringing forward every ounce of sarcasm she could muster at this early hour.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm kinda scared of going back," Jubilee said, finally paying full attention to the other girls. "Especially after what happened yesterday."
"What happened yesterday?" Zander asked. The only thing she could remember was that she got kitchen duty for a week because she had put spiders in Kurt and Bobby's beds, to get back at them for having the nerve to throw her into Rogue's room.
"Well, ye see, we went t' the movies," Rahne said. "And then we met these guys from school. They were really awful, harassin' us about being mutants and stuff. It was horrible."
"Ray almost got into a fight with them," Tabitha said.
"You didn't exactly help things," Jubilee pointed out. "Threatening to blow them up and everything."
"Hey, we're the ones with the powers. They should be scared of us."
"That's what they prolly are," Rahne said. "And tis not good. There will most likely be trouble, no matter what we do."
"Yeah, going home again won't help," Jubilee said. "My parents wanted to take me away from here, but it'll be the same everywhere."
"Except that almost everyone in Bayville knows that this is a mutant school," Zander mentioned.
"They do?" Amara asked, horrified.
"Well, yeah. Ah found out after bein' in town for only an hour or so."
"But we're safer here," Jubilee said, evidently intent on getting everyone to see the light. Or at least the reasons to stay.
"Well, duh, we've got lots of security and stuff here," Tabitha frowned. "And it's not like I'm longing to go home again."
Amara opened her mouth to say something else, but apparently the boys's training time was over. They were now walking over to where the girls were sprawled over the grass, most of them zooming in on the water bottles present in that general area.
"Man, that was tuff," Bobby muttered, flinging himself down next to Jubilee. "Wolverine must be in a very bad mood today."
"Yup, you girls better be careful," Ray Crisp said, reaching for a bottle. Upon noticing the look Zander was sending his way, he quickly shut up. Roberto DaCosta, obviously too cool for the grass, just leaned against a tree, while Sam Guthrie sat down a bit from Rahne, giving her a quick glance which she managed to miss entirely.
"Girls, get over here immediately!" Wolverine barked from where he was standing. He was clearly annoyed with the fact that none of the girls had enough telepathic powers to understand that they should start their training session the very second the boys had stopped. The girls just gave up a collective sight and rose, trotting over to the grumpy mutant.
Amara, Tabitha and Jubilee were moving at a brisk pace, but Rahne was walking rather slowly, in deep thought about something. Zander fell into step beside the fellow changeling.
"Ya okay?"
"I guess," Rahne answered. "I think tis unfair that we should be treated like monsters, 'cause we can do things others cannea."
"Life's unfair, get used to it. Some people have good lives, some people have bad lives, and we're mutants. There's nothin' we can do about it."
"I just donnea get why tis such a big deal. So what that I can turn into a wolf and you can turn into a tiger and that Jubes can shoot fireworks from her hands. Why won't they just accept what we are?"
"That ain't gonna happen, so ya can stop wishin' for it. Ya'll just get disappointed. People will always pick on the weaker to seem more powerful themselves. If we hadn't been mutants, they'd find somethin' else wrong about us. Trust me, ah know."
"Hm." The two shapeshifters walked in silence for a little while.
"Wolfsbane! Bengal! Hurry up!" Wolverine yelled. The other three girls were standing with him waiting for them, already powered up, Amara in her firery shape, Jubilee shooting tiny sparks from her hands, and Tabitha creating her cherry bomb thingies. Wolverine stood with his arms crossed, looking extremely irritated.
"Hey, was he so far away from the beginnin'?" Rahne frowned, noticing that they still had quite a bit to go. Zander just shrugged. Rahne frowned again, then she also shrugged. "Race ye to them," she said, turning into her werewolf form and starting to run toward the others. Zander quickly turned into her other shape, a humanoid white tiger, and set off after the younger girl.
tbc
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Suing me will do no good, since my education will provide me with no job opportunities whatsoever once I graduate. I will be poor all my life.
Well. Wasn't that horrible? And I know I say this about pretty much every chapter (can you say "low self-esteem"?), but this is the truth. Oh well. If you thought this was awful to read, look at the bright side. It could be worse. You could be writing this frickin' thing!
I truly despise this chapter. There's only one line I like. Extra brownie points if you can figure out which one that is! But you did get some info about stuff, and now you know Zander's power and codename! Yay!
On another note. My spellchecker wants me to change Rahne to Rhino.
Next chapter: The Acolytes! Whee! More Pietro! I like Pietro.