It's already time for chapter 6! Wonderful! (said just like how C3PO would say 'wonderful!') Wow! I have to say thank you for all of these reviews! You have no idea how inspiring a good chunk of reviews can make you feel -- well, I bet a lot of you can.

Uh... in regards to some questions - Kelly DOES have the ability to personify parts of her personality. I guess I didn't really make that clear. Sorry! Uh... what else... in the chapters to come, there are going to be more mutants with more powers, and much much much more excitement to come. Just wait and see.

So, yeah, in other news - I just started beauty school (eee!) so it might be a while for me to update. The only day that I have to write is Monday - which is the only day that the other 4 of my room mates are at work and I have school off.

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Chapter 6
Adrian Nickels could not sleep. That was expected, because Adrian had exceptional hearing. All of his senses were much greater than that of normal people, and he could hear any noise being made through out the whole school - right now someone was downstairs watching TV. It was probably Jones.
Adrian laid awake, staring at the ceiling above his head trying futilely to block out the noise by concentrating on the detail in the paint job. It appeared almost perfect, but Adrian had noticed long ago the slight imperfections of brush strokes that only his eyes could see. But he couldn't block out the noise with the short comings of the ceiling paint. Adrian cracked a smile as he recognized what he was hearing - it sounded like there was an infomercial on.
Why the hell are you watching that? Adrian thought as he rolled his eyes and got out of bed.
He tip-toed across the room to where his room mate was sleeping, even though he didn't have to tip-toe. His hearing was so sensitive that he had trained himself not to make a noise that he - or anyone else for that matter - could hear. That, and his room mate was sleeping underwater.
It must have been a strange sight for someone who wasn't expecting to see this - a boy about 17 years old with skin that was the same bright red color as a fire engine who was sleeping quiet comfortably in a bed that could have been mistaken for a fish tank. But Adrian was used to the sight.
He reached his room mate's 'bed' without making a noise, and for a moment he paused, looking at Rob Vincennes. Rob was desperately asleep. Slowly, Adrian raised his hand up to the glass, and knocked on it with his knuckles.
Rob's reflexes worked fast even when he was asleep. In what seemed like only a flash, Rob jumped out from the water and was standing next to Adrian, grabbing his hand as though to break it off.
" They tell you not to tap the glass at the pet shop, they tell you not to tap the glass at the zoo, so don't do it here!," Rob barked at him. Adrian laughed. His prank had worked, as it had every other time he had done it. But Rob wasn't really mad - he rarely ever was.
" You couldn't sleep again?," Rob asked as he got dressed, his skin already dry. It only took him a few moments to change into his clothes - he always wore the same thing, a gray zip-up hoodie and green cargo shorts.
" Jones is watching an infomercial," Adrian said in a whisper. He always spoke in a whisper.
" Great. I always suspected him of being a late-night shopper," Rob replied playfully as though they were talking about a murder suspect, " What are we doing tonight?"
On these kind of nights, the two boys usually spent hours exploring something about the school or the grounds around it only to go to classes the next morning absolutely spent.
Adrian shrugged. It was deep into a thunderstorm, which would not have bothered Rob one bit, but Adrian's hearing made it just about unbearable. Any exploring they would do would have to be limited to the building, or so he hoped.
" I don't know. I'm pretty hungry though. I heard a rumor that Bobby's got a big stash of Doritos in his room," Adrian said. Every student at Xavier's knew that junk food was really very hard to come by as almost everything in the kitchen was healthy food. But the greatest thing about the plan was that Adrian never made a noise when he moved, making the art of sneaking around absolutely flawless.
Rob's reply was a series of stretches. Sleeping underwater was incredibly comfortable, but waking up in the middle of the night wasn't. And now that he knew what had caused Adrian to wake him up, he could go back to feeling sleepy again. Rob prolonged the stretching into a ridiculous time, as though testing Adrian's patience.
Adrian, however, was very patient, and Rob quickly got bored with the idea. Rob pointed one hand in the direction of his nightstand, and a little fairy girl fluttered to his hand.
" 'ello, Scoot," Rob said, yawning, " Don't you ever sleep?"
" No," Scoot replied, but Rob already knew that.
And so the plan was settled - and the adventure of the night was to steal the stash of Doritos from Bobby Drake's room and eat them victoriously until morning. It was a perfect crime, but they were also perfect suspects. Since Rob arrived at the school five months ago, him and Adrian had been notorious for pulling pranks and executing (sometimes terribly failed) adventures. They had become a team, they worked together perfectly, and all the students knew it. Many of them had already fallen victim to Rob and Adrian's jokes.
The funny thing was that Rob had never acted like this when he was still just a normal teenager living with his parents. But then he found out that he was truly a red-skinned, water loving mutant and he was forced to move to Xavier's school. That's when he became room mates with Adrian, and somehow he fell perfectly into the role of sidekick . His concern for others went hand in hand with Adrian's quest for humor, and their combined optimistic nature made even the most anal students take one of their pranks in good measure.
Adrian had a knack for adventure and a delightful desire to pull pranks on everyone. He always meant well, and all the students thought that he was funny. The teachers could do whatever they could, but in the end they just had to roll their eyes and remind themselves that ' boys will be boys.'
And so they found themselves sneaking down the hall, Adrian in the lead as always, Rob following slowly, keeping both eyes open for teachers or students, and Scoot fluttering after them.
Sneaking was an art form for Adrian, but horribly lacking in Rob. Rob had grown accustomed to the grace that presented itself beneath the water, and as a result, he lost touch with any form of equilibrium on the ground. This was why most of their adventures were cut short by a prowling teacher.
Adrian could only roll his eyes but he wished he could tell Rob to walk straight - to him, this was mission time and not a breath was to be spared on talking. Adrian could have probably made an exceptional secret agent, if only playing jokes on the president was part of the job description.
They crept on.
Both Adrian and Rob knew where every student's room was - and finding it in the dark was hardly an effort at all. They reached Bobby's door in no time at all.
They stood before the door for only a moment - Adrian reached down and grabbed Rob's wrist and in a flash, they were inside of the room. That was another one of Adrian's abilities that made their pranks so much easier - Adrian could teleport. Add that along with his super-stealth and Rob's ability to convince others of just about anything, and they had the perfect combination of skills to pull of just about any prank. As long as they didn't get caught.
Rob had grown accustomed to the feeling of teleporting, though at first he had ruined perfect prank set-ups because of the vertigo feeling that he got afterwards. Rob had only felt that terrible once before - when he had held onto his power so long that he slipped into an uncomfortable vertigo and ruined yet another adventure.
Adrian looked about the room - both Bobby Drake and his room mate were fast asleep - completely oblivious to the fact that anyone else was in the room. A perfect entry. Adrian began to tip toe around the room. Rob didn't move, he just looked around for those Doritos in the spot where he stood.
Maybe it was just a rumor, Adrian thought as he peered around the room. Under the beds, hidden in dressers, inside the closet - he opened doors and rummaged through drawers without making a sound, but there was no sign of the allusive Doritos.
Adrian looked back at Rob and Rob held Adrian's stare. They exchanged identical shrugs. Maybe this wasn't going to be an all-night-long-Doritos-eating feast, but why?
They got their answer soon enough.
Bobby jumped out of his bed with speed that would have caught any one off guard, and with amazing accuracy for someone who just jumped out of a bed - he shot a stream of ice at Rob. Rob was hopelessly slow at realizing even what had happened until it was too late. He stood frozen to the spot.
Adrian stood like a statue, having no idea what he was supposed to do now.
" Ha!," Bobby exclaimed softly at the two boys, " I knew it'd work on you."
" What do you mean?," Adrian replied innocently, as though Bobby had thought they were someone else.
" There were no Doritos!," Bobby answered, and it had the tell-tale signs of a threat to their reign of prankster superiority. Adrian answered the threat like one would react to a murder sentence.
" No!," Adrian returned the challenge, and he dove for Bobby. He missed completely, and he hit the ground without making a sound, laughing so hard that he couldn't stand up again. Bobby laughed with him too - for once he had gotten back at them.
The only person who wasn't laughing was Rob. For a moment he stood forgotten - frozen in place, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was that Rob's body needed water far more that normal people did. He was constantly in water, around water, or drinking water. The problem with ice was that it
constricted the flow of water, which would have been uncomfortable for most people, but for Rob, the effort worked ten fold. The water that he preciously needed was freezing.
He was screaming, but no one could hear him.
Bobby and Adrian were still laughing, and Adrian was coming to terms that he had been had, but as long as they could laugh about it, there was no hard feelings. Bobby had completely forgotten about Rob, laughter being a far more stronger emotion than concern, but now he had returned to the present. He could control ice like Storm could control the weather, with the slightest of efforts, the ice around Rob was gone.
Rob fell to the ground.
Adrian stopped laughing, noticing that Rob's body had turned to a sickish pale tone.
" Rob?," Adrian asked, and he teleported to Rob's side. Rob was shivering beyond control, but his color was returning for the room was really warm.
" Are you okay?," Bobby asked, realizing that he shouldn't have gotten so carried away, but Rob was not responding. For a few moments, there was no other emotion in the room except for pure terror.

But, of course, that's the luck of having the power of convincability AND being a prankster.

In a flash that made Bobby jump as if he was going to be killed - Rob was up on his feet, skin a blazing red. And Bobby couldn't move. He was frozen - just as Rob had been frozen - but this was much worse. Bobby always had the power to control ice, but this time he couldn't. Because in all actuality, there wasn't any ice. It was all in his mind, but Rob was so powerful that no one could defend themselves against such an attack, unless they had telepathic abilities.

Just the thought that he couldn't control the ice that had imprisoned him was scaring him beyond anything else. He couldn't even tell himself that it was all just an illusion.

Just as suddenly as it had begun, though, Bobby was free. He was no longer cold, he was no longer trapped - just as he had been. It was as if someone had merely turned off a light.

Bobby was silent for a moment, taken aback as if in insult. He had just been FROZEN. " Jerk," Bobby muttered in a joking voice. Adrian was laughing uncontrollably - because they had gotten back at him for the Doritos.
" Yeah," Rob said smiling broadly in victory, " and I hate the cold."
" I'm sorry," Bobby replied, but Rob was surely going to be alright, " I got you guys, though. That was perfect."
But something wasn't perfect, because there was the sound of someone coming down the hall. They had made too much noise.
" Later," Adrian added, and in a flash, they were gone. Rob and Adrian were soon in their own room, and Rob stumbled to his bed of water. There was a dial on the side of the 'bed' where Rob could control the temperature of the water, and he turned it up to 95 degrees.
" Good night," he mumbled, and soon he was immersed in the warm water, the brilliant red once again returned to his skin. Within moments, he was fast asleep.
Adrian walked over to his own bed and laid down. He listened for a few moments and realized that the TV no longer was on, which meant that he could get some sleep this night. He curled up under the covers and smiled as he drifted to sleep.
Another adventure accomplished.
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Yes, I know - Bobby is the cutest mutant in the world. Hands down. No way around it.
Uh... me being a girly girl.
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