Chapter One: Day in the life of a troublemaker
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Chi, Chu and Dil are OC's.
This is a sequel to "Chi the Walking Static Charge". Read that one first for this one to make sense. Review if you love it... Don't if you don't... Hah, Pyro would have a ball with all the flames the fly around! So, since I don't want to get burnt, please don't send any. If you hate my story enough to want to flame me over it, then just stop reading. Please.
And the story begins...
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"Hello. I am Chi. You killed my father... Prepare to die." Okay, so my father wasn't dead, and I'm wasn't about to kill anyone. But I thought it was such a nice introduction. Evidently, Ms. Munroe didn't take it so well.
"Chi, is that how you want to be remembered?" She asked.
"As the person who uses weird quotes all the time? Evidently so." I smiled. This was my first day trying to attend "regular" classes at the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children. Ms. Munroe, or rather, Storm, was having me introduce myself to the class.
Most of the students knew me by reputation. I was Chi, the Walking Static Charge who you didn't dare go near, lest you be electrocuted. Just because I had some difficulties controlling my powers...
"Please, sit down." She told me with a sigh.
"Sure." I looked around. There were several empty seats, but the people next to those empty seats seemed to be sincerely hoping that I wouldn't pick the one by them. I swept my gaze around the room once more, confirming that the people were actually cringing as I looked to the seat near them. "Forget it. Bye."
"Chi!" Storm exclaimed as I turned to leave the class. I looked back to her.
"What?" I asked in a tone that somehow reminded me of Inuyasha.
"There's a seat between Chu and Dil. You don't mind sitting with them, do you?" She asked, knowing full well that those were the only two people who I hung out with. Chu was my sister, and Dil was a friend who was also a manga collaborator with me. So we actually went around as a trio most of the time.
"Yes, but what of the others?" I asked patiently.
"Others?" She frowned. "What are you talking about?"
"Them." I pointed to the others who were around the empty seat. They actually flinched as I pointed, almost like they were afraid of me shooting them with a lightning bolt. And I sincerely wanted to.
"Pay them no attention." Storm said, giving them a dark glance that I assumed I wasn't supposed to notice.
"It's on your head, not mine." I said with a shrug, and sat down there.
"It really will be, won't it." Chu whispered as I opened my notebook.
Storm began to talk about Henry VIII of England, who I personally found a very strange ruler. But since I had heard this before, I was bored. I began to draw in my notes, ignoring the whispers behind me.
"Professor says Chi can control her powers now."
"No way! She still acts the same!"
"I think she's doing in on purpose now."
BZZZZZZZZZZT!
The people who had been talking jumped, and Storm stopped her lecture to look back at me.
I turned to the people sitting behind me and said in a very disingenuous voice, "Sorry, it slipped." I turned to Chu. "Must've had something to do with back-stabbing liars."
Chu nodded, obviously giving full approval to my actions.
Chi, will you come to my office? I heard Xavier.
"I'm in trouble now." I gathered up my stuff and left the room. "I told you it wasn't worth the time..."
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When I got to Xavier's study, there was another class in there. However, they were just getting done, so they left.
I actually tried to leave with them, in a vain effort to escape the scolding that I knew I had brought down upon myself.
Chi. He said/thought firmly, and I turned around.
"Well what did you expect? No matter what happens, I'm still me!" I whined, turning around to face him.
"Please, have a seat." He gestured to the seat across from his desk.
"You aren't going to knock me out again, are you?" I asked, sitting down reluctantly. "It's really annoying to be doing something and wake up three days later, you know."
"Would you like some tea?" He offered, smiling kindly.
"No. I don't like caffinated things." I answered. I didn't think caffinated was a word, but if you had decaffeinated things, wouldn't the opposite be caffinated?
"Chi, I understand that you are having some difficulty adjusting to life here again." He said as though he were speaking to a child. Or a mental patient. "Would you like to talk about it?"
"No. You guys kidnapped me, and that's all there is to it." I said shortly, crossing my arms and waiting for a lecture to break out.
Surprisingly, the lecture didn't come. Instead, the door opened, and Jean came in carrying a tray with tea on it. I noticed that there was a can of Coke as well, which Jean handed to me through telekinesis.
"I just said I didn't like caffinated things..." I grumbled, but I opened it anyway. I could tell that they were trying to be nice, which made me very suspicious. Professor Xavier poured himself a cup of tea once Jean set the tray down on his desk, and began to speak to me.
"I realize that you are not pleased with being here, Chi."
"Good!" I exclaimed, waving the can of pop around. "So you're going to let me leave, right?"
"Unfortunately, we can't do that, Chi." Jean interjected. "We feel that it is not wise for your to be in human society yet."
"I know, humans are all fools. Say, when did you cut your hair? Looks dashing." I paused thoughtfully, turning my attention back to Xavier. "So what exactly are you saying?"
"I am going to visit Eric soon. I am asking if you would like to come with me." Xavier stated. It took me a few moments to connect the name Eric with Magneto-sama, but once I did, I was completely and utterly shocked.
"REALLLY?!!!!" I squealed. Then my suspicion returned. "You're not lying, are you?"
"No, I am not lying." Xavier smiled weakly. "However, you are expected to behave yourself until then."
"Of course!" I stood up and started dancing around the room. "I ca-an se-e Mag-ne-to-sa-ma!" I sang as I danced. "Uh... Can I go now?" I asked once I had danced near to the door. Xavier nodded, and I took off running.
As they watched me run down the hall, Jean posed a question. "Is it really a good idea to take her, professor?"
"There is something quite odd about it." Xavier spoke as one who had troubled thoughts. "I had thought that Chi simply enjoyed Eric's company, but I sense there is more to this than meets the eye."
"Something related to her powers?" Jean asked.
"That too. I will take her in order to see if my assumptions are correct." Xavier looked up at Jean. "Thank you for the tea. It was very good."
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At lunch, I had decided that I wanted to eat by myself, and took a tray of food to the rose garden in the back yard. However, Chu and Dil found me fairly quickly.
"What's up?" Chu asked, sitting by me. "Did you get in lots of trouble?"
"I kind of thought they deserved that too, but I don't think you had to be quite that excessive..." Dil commented, picking up a hamburger from his tray.
"Feh. Mr. Happy-go-lucky here thinks I shouldn't have zapped them." I commented to Chu. Dil made a wounded expression.
"I said it was excessive." His expression changed to look a little more impish. "I would have snuck up on them in the dark while posing as a Gundam or something."
I smiled. "Sounds just like you."
"So did you get in trouble or what?" Chu asked, picking up the apple from her tray. She was in the process of removing the water from the apple, effectively creating a dried apple.
"Nope!" I grinned hugely. "I get to go visit Magneto-sama!!"
They were both shocked. Chu was the first to recover.
"I thought he was still in jail!" She commented, then put the dried apple on to my tray. "Here, you can have this."
"He is, and why would I want your garbage?" I asked, but I ate the apple anyway.
"So when are you going?" Chu asked.
"I dunno." I shrugged. "I hope it's soon..."
There was a long pause during which I started eating the ham sandwich I had brought.
"Hey, did I show you my new form?" Dil asked, looking like he was going to burst from excitement.
"Nmph." I shook my head. My mouth was full, or I would have asked him what it was. So I reached for my glass of water.
"Like this!" He exclaimed, and his head turned in to Xavier.
I promptly tried to burst out laughing, but I was also trying not to spit out my water, so it came out through my nose instead. Chu had also started laughing.
"That's too much. Like we need to be scolded by you too!" Chu commented once she could speak again.
"Chu, Chi, you must be more responsible." He scolded us in a very jocose tone.
That's when all three of us burst out laughing, and Dil's face reverted to normal. It was just too much.
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Well, my other first chapter really didn't have a lot to do with the movie itself either... But I guarantee the next chapter will! ^_^
