Hey ppl! back again. Well I hope that you're enjoying my story. (if
anyone's actually bothering to read.... -_-;;) I'll try to update more
often. If anyone is reading this, please review! I need to know if it is
worth keeping up!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with the X-men Ev cartoon or the X- men movies. I only own the charries that I create.
That's probably the only time that I'll have an actual disclaimer. Enjoy it. lol on with the story!
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Opening her eyes with a snap, the girl sat up in bed, her eyes wide in fright, breathing hard.
She quickly looked around the room, noticing it was empty before calming down slightly. She quickly threw off the covers and stood, walking to the window. The girl gently pulled back the chiffon curtain and peeked outside as breeze blew in, now noticing that someone had changed her into a nightgown. She saw all the laughing teenagers and children talking or playing outside, before dropping the curtain and turning back to her room. She took in the light blue room and wooden furniture in a glance, walking to a dresser and picking up a brush. She ran it through her tangled hair before gently placing it down again and opening a couple drawers.
As she opened the second top drawer Kitty burst into the room quickly followed by Kurt, both laughing. The girl gasped and whirled around, slamming the drawer shut, watching them with wide eyes.
They both heard her gasp and noticed her. They looked at her, blinking.
"Oh we're sorry. We didn't realize anyone was in here," Kitty said, and then looked more closely at Kira. "Hey, are you new here?"
The girl just looked between them mistrustfully and slowly backed away.
"Vhat's wrong?" Kurt asked, noticing her fear, "You don't have to be afraid of us!" he said happily, though his eyes were slightly hurt.
Her fear seemed to be lessening, and now she regarded them more curiously, still not speaking.
"Um, ok. Well this is Kurt and I'm Kitty. What's your name?" Kitty asked.
The girl studied her, then Kurt but was silent.
"Vhat, can't you speak?" Kurt asked teleporting to the ceiling above her.
She gasped and quickly took a few steps to the side, her eyes glued to him.
"Or has ze cat got your tongue?" he teased.
She glared and retorted, "Of course I can speak you silly blue elf."
Kitty laughed at this. "Gee Kurt, you sure have a way of making people talk."
The girl glanced at her, then at the grinning Kurt. "Vell if you can talk, vhat's your name?" he asked her, dropping to the floor.
She sniffed derisively but then just looked more curious. When she noticed they were both staring, waiting for an answer, she quickly looked down.
"Kira," she said quietly, studying the floor.
"Nice to meet you Kira!" Kitty said with a friendly smile. "So, when did you get here?"
"I'm not quite sure," she said quietly, looking up at them, "I don't even know where 'here' is."
"'Here' is the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Since you're here you must have a power. So vhat is it?" Kurt asked, jumping backwards and sitting on the dresser.
Her eyes widened. "I don't have any," she said, watching them.
"Now we know you're lying. The Professor wouldn't have taken you here if you didn't have any powers." Kitty reasoned. "Besides, we all do, nothing to be ashamed of."
"I-" she just sort of looked at them before walking over and falling on the bed. "Let's just say I have too many for my liking."
Kitty looked at Kurt but he just shrugged. "Ok zen. But don't you have vun main-"
He was cut off by the entrance of Storm and Jean Grey. "Ah, good to see you're awake," Storm said in her slightly accented voice. "I see you've already met Kitty and Kurt." she smiled at the two other teens. "I'm sorry children but we need to speak with her privately."
"Oh all right. We'll see ya later Kira!" Kitty said before turning and running through the closed door.
"Uh ja, see ya," Kurt said in his accented voice, disappearing from his position on the desk.
Kira sat up and studied Jean and Storm wearily for a moment.
"So your name is Kira?" Jean asked in a friendly tone, as if making small talk.
"Yes.. but I'm assuming your Professor already knew that," she said, her voice guarded.
"Maybe so, but if he did he did not tell us," Storm put in.
After a moment of silence Kira's curiosity got the better of her. "So why are you here? I'm guessing it isn't just for small talk."
They both smile. "Smart girl. You're right, we were sent to see if you felt well enough to take a tour of the institute," Jean answered.
"Oh, uh sure. Just um..." Kira looked down at her nightgown, "You don't happen to have a change of clothes do you?"
Storm's smile widened. "I'm surprised you haven't searched the whole room for some other exit by now."
"Well almost as soon as I woke up Kitty and Kurt appeared. And when I say appeared I mean it literally."
Jean grinned as Storm walked over to the dresser next to the bed and opened the bottom drawer. "As you've probably guessed, or as the children may have told you, everyone here has special abilities."
"You mean they're mutants," Kira said bluntly, standing.
"Yes. Mutants, special cases, people who have been shunned by the normal world for what they are. We bring those children here to learn how to use their powers and sort of protect them from the real world."
"So this 'Xavier Institute' is actually a mutant training school?" Kira asked, taking her clothes from Storm with an absentminded smile of thanks.
"Exactly. And now if you'd get changed, we can take you for a tour," Storm answered as she and Jean opened the door. "We'll wait outside." She said, and they left, closing the door behind them.
Kira quickly changed then walked to the window, peeking outside. She noticed that they had placed her on the third floor of the building, rather high up though it was a pretty view. Kira silently cursed at the lack of escape routes and turned, walking over and opening the door. Storm and Jean were standing next to the door waiting.
"Good to see you up. Ready for the tour? Good, let's get started then," Jean said, leading her down a flight of stairs. She showed Kira around the third and second floors of the East wing, half of the living quarters, before taking her to the first floor.
"The first floor is where we have the dining hall, though it's more like a mess hall, and all of the classrooms where we hold classes on everything from arithmetic to history to controlling your powers," Jean explained, opening a door to show an empty classroom.
"Since it's Saturday the children get the day off to do what they want. However, they have to be inside for supper by 8."
"I see. Lovely school..." Kira murmured, looking around the huge hall.
"Glad to see you like it. Your classes start on Monday. We'll be sure to have a schedule for you by supper tonight-" Storm said, before Kira cut her off.
"Wait a second. Classes?" She looked back and forth between Jean and Storm, holding her hands up in front of her. "Look, I'm really thankful for you guys taking me in and keeping me from that guy, really I am, but I can't stay here."
"Oh really? Well why not?" Storm asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Uh, uh because... because I just can't. I have a mission to complete and I can't stay here and take classes. It isn't like I ever agreed to stay and go to school anyways."
"Well if what the Professor says is true, then your powers need training. And there isn't any other place you can get the help you need to do that," Jean said.
"The Professor, huh? Well I'm sick and tired of hearing about this 'Professor' and the way he seems to know so much about what I need. Look, no disrespect, but I don't need training for my powers. They aren't all that great and I've been surviving just fine on my own."
"Oh really," Storm said skeptically, "So 'fine' is being chased by Sabertooth through the woods and knocking yourself out because of all the power you used?"
Kira blushed. "That was one time. I don't even know that guy- what'd you call him?- Sabertooth. I have no idea who he is, he just kind of showed up while I was stopping for the night."
"Stopping for the night? What do you mean? Do you travel around?" Jean asked.
"Not that it's any of your business but yes, I do travel around a lot. Searching for-" she stopped, "Something."
"Something? Your sister?" Kira whirled around to face Cyclops.
"Who are you? And what do you know about it?" Kira asked.
"I'm Scott, and you mentioned your sister last night," he explained.
"Oh," she sniffs and watches the three wearily. "Yes, I'm looking for my sister."
"Well, as far as I know, Professor X was looking into it," Scott said, walking over to stand next to Jean.
Kira grinned. "He was?"
"Yea, and as soon as he finds out anything, he'll let you know."
Kira's elated grin slowly faded. "What's the catch?"
"The catch? None. Well..." he saw her disbelieving look. "Actually, he doesn't have all that much information on you, not enough to really do a thorough scan on your sister. If you could provide him with some more then he could find her faster."
Kira felt there was a darker part to the deal. "And...?"
Scott smirked, an idea popping into his head. "And you stay and take classes here in the meantime."
Kira bit her lip, her eyes narrowed, thinking fast. She could always stay for the stupid classes until she got the information on her sister, then she could just slip out when no one was watching.
She finally nodded. "All right. I'll stay and take the classes."
"Good. We'll be sure to have your schedule ready for you by tomorrow," Storm said with a slight smile. "Now, are you hungry?"
Kira nodded, her suspicious look gone. "Yes miss."
"Just call me Storm. And let's go raid the kitchen, shall we?" she led Kira off while engaging her in small conversation.
"You know that she won't stay once she gets the information on her sister don't you?" Jean asked Scott as they walked down the hall and out the doors.
"Yea, I know. Which is why we need to find a way to convince her to stay."
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After getting food, Kira retreated to her room to inspect it more. As well as to escape from having to go outside and meet other people. She slowly made her bed, a kerchief now holding her long brown hair out of her face, as she thought of what had happened in the past couple of days. As soon as she had finished with the bed, she heard a tapping at the window. Curious, she walked to the window and opened the curtains almost screaming as she was encountered with Kurt's face.
"Hey, open up!" his voice was muffled.
Hurriedly pulling the curtains all the way back she unlocked the long windows and pulled them open, letting Kurt come in. She left them open as she stared at him.
"Why is it that we always meet like this?" she asked with a sigh. "And what were you doing hanging outside my window?"
"Hiding from Kitty," he explained, "She's kind of mad so I just sort of teleported vhere I knew she couldn't find me."
"Which was on a wall over 20 feet in the air? Smart elf boy." Kira said with a smirk, crossing her arms as she walked over to her dresser with the mirror.
"Vell at least Kitty didn't find me," Kurt said in defense. At that moment, an angry scream was heard. "Kurt! Where are you you fuzzy blue elf!"
He winced. "Help?" But then he noticed Kira wasn't really listening.
She was bent over double, laughing for the first time anyone had seen. She could barely breathe as she slowly sank to the floor laughing.
"Vell glad to see you happy about somezing," he said in surprise, walking over and sitting on the bed.
"Ahahaha, sorry Kurt. But you're haha, always in trouble with hahahaha Kitty for something," she gasped out, slowly calming down. "You can't seem to stay out of it."
Kurt was about to reply but Kitty walked through the door. "Kurt!" she screamed. Which only set Kira off into more fits of laughter. "You stupid fuzzy...." she trailed off, staring at the laughing Kira as Rogue and Jean opened the door and quickly walked in.
Jean blinked and stared at Kira, then looked at Kurt and Kitty in question.
They both shrugged as Kira slowly stood, wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry. But you two are so funny sometimes." She sniffed and finally looked up, her grin fading to a smile as she sees Jean and Rogue. "Hi."
"Hello," Rogue responded with a slight smile.
"Oh, Kira this is Rogue. Rogue, Kira," Jean introduced.
Kira extended a hand but Rogue shook her head. "I'm not wearing my gloves."
Kira raised an eyebrow. "Is that your ability? To wear gloves?"
Rogue smiled slightly. "No. But my skin is deadly to the touch so I have to wear gloves to keep from hurting other people."
"That must be terrible," Kira said, eyes wide.
Rogue shrugged. "I've pretty much gotten used to it."
"Speaking of abilities, you never told us yours," Kurt finally said.
"Yea, you never did mention it. All you said was that you had a lot. But you must have one main one, and you can't have all that many," Kitty said. Jean and Rogue listened interestedly.
Kira's smile faded completely. "My main power is elemental control." She said in a flat voice.
"Elemental control?" Rogue asked, "What do you mean by that? There are a lot of elements and they aren't exactly tamable."
Kira smiled slightly. "No, they aren't tamable. But they can be manipulated. Here, I'll show you." Kira turned her head and stared out the window, her eyes suddenly turned silver and a wind began to pick up till it was forcefully sweeping through the room. Then it died to a breeze, then to nothing. Complaints could be heard from outside as Kira turned back to them, her eyes still silver. Then they flashed back to blue-gray. "See?" she asked.
Jean nodded. "And like what you did last night with the ground. That rock spire."
Kira sighed. "And a dirt wall before that."
Kurt blinked. "Vow, zat vas amazing. Can you do anyzing else?"
Kira shrugged. "Some things. Mini water spouts, small tornados," she lifted her hands and let them fall, "Fire spouts if I'm near a source of fire. Mostly little things."
"But with some control you can make the bigger things," Jean says, "Which is what some of your lessons will help you do, learn control. By the way, I was sent to take you downstairs. Storm has your schedule ready and Professor Xavier would like to speak with you about some information."
Kira nodded then looked over and smiled at Kurt and Kitty. "I'll see you guys later." Then, despite still being shy around everyone added, "Try not to kill each other." She turned and followed Jean out of the room, smiling at Rogue as she passed. As she walked down the hall she could hear Kitty yelling at Kurt again.
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Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with the X-men Ev cartoon or the X- men movies. I only own the charries that I create.
That's probably the only time that I'll have an actual disclaimer. Enjoy it. lol on with the story!
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Opening her eyes with a snap, the girl sat up in bed, her eyes wide in fright, breathing hard.
She quickly looked around the room, noticing it was empty before calming down slightly. She quickly threw off the covers and stood, walking to the window. The girl gently pulled back the chiffon curtain and peeked outside as breeze blew in, now noticing that someone had changed her into a nightgown. She saw all the laughing teenagers and children talking or playing outside, before dropping the curtain and turning back to her room. She took in the light blue room and wooden furniture in a glance, walking to a dresser and picking up a brush. She ran it through her tangled hair before gently placing it down again and opening a couple drawers.
As she opened the second top drawer Kitty burst into the room quickly followed by Kurt, both laughing. The girl gasped and whirled around, slamming the drawer shut, watching them with wide eyes.
They both heard her gasp and noticed her. They looked at her, blinking.
"Oh we're sorry. We didn't realize anyone was in here," Kitty said, and then looked more closely at Kira. "Hey, are you new here?"
The girl just looked between them mistrustfully and slowly backed away.
"Vhat's wrong?" Kurt asked, noticing her fear, "You don't have to be afraid of us!" he said happily, though his eyes were slightly hurt.
Her fear seemed to be lessening, and now she regarded them more curiously, still not speaking.
"Um, ok. Well this is Kurt and I'm Kitty. What's your name?" Kitty asked.
The girl studied her, then Kurt but was silent.
"Vhat, can't you speak?" Kurt asked teleporting to the ceiling above her.
She gasped and quickly took a few steps to the side, her eyes glued to him.
"Or has ze cat got your tongue?" he teased.
She glared and retorted, "Of course I can speak you silly blue elf."
Kitty laughed at this. "Gee Kurt, you sure have a way of making people talk."
The girl glanced at her, then at the grinning Kurt. "Vell if you can talk, vhat's your name?" he asked her, dropping to the floor.
She sniffed derisively but then just looked more curious. When she noticed they were both staring, waiting for an answer, she quickly looked down.
"Kira," she said quietly, studying the floor.
"Nice to meet you Kira!" Kitty said with a friendly smile. "So, when did you get here?"
"I'm not quite sure," she said quietly, looking up at them, "I don't even know where 'here' is."
"'Here' is the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Since you're here you must have a power. So vhat is it?" Kurt asked, jumping backwards and sitting on the dresser.
Her eyes widened. "I don't have any," she said, watching them.
"Now we know you're lying. The Professor wouldn't have taken you here if you didn't have any powers." Kitty reasoned. "Besides, we all do, nothing to be ashamed of."
"I-" she just sort of looked at them before walking over and falling on the bed. "Let's just say I have too many for my liking."
Kitty looked at Kurt but he just shrugged. "Ok zen. But don't you have vun main-"
He was cut off by the entrance of Storm and Jean Grey. "Ah, good to see you're awake," Storm said in her slightly accented voice. "I see you've already met Kitty and Kurt." she smiled at the two other teens. "I'm sorry children but we need to speak with her privately."
"Oh all right. We'll see ya later Kira!" Kitty said before turning and running through the closed door.
"Uh ja, see ya," Kurt said in his accented voice, disappearing from his position on the desk.
Kira sat up and studied Jean and Storm wearily for a moment.
"So your name is Kira?" Jean asked in a friendly tone, as if making small talk.
"Yes.. but I'm assuming your Professor already knew that," she said, her voice guarded.
"Maybe so, but if he did he did not tell us," Storm put in.
After a moment of silence Kira's curiosity got the better of her. "So why are you here? I'm guessing it isn't just for small talk."
They both smile. "Smart girl. You're right, we were sent to see if you felt well enough to take a tour of the institute," Jean answered.
"Oh, uh sure. Just um..." Kira looked down at her nightgown, "You don't happen to have a change of clothes do you?"
Storm's smile widened. "I'm surprised you haven't searched the whole room for some other exit by now."
"Well almost as soon as I woke up Kitty and Kurt appeared. And when I say appeared I mean it literally."
Jean grinned as Storm walked over to the dresser next to the bed and opened the bottom drawer. "As you've probably guessed, or as the children may have told you, everyone here has special abilities."
"You mean they're mutants," Kira said bluntly, standing.
"Yes. Mutants, special cases, people who have been shunned by the normal world for what they are. We bring those children here to learn how to use their powers and sort of protect them from the real world."
"So this 'Xavier Institute' is actually a mutant training school?" Kira asked, taking her clothes from Storm with an absentminded smile of thanks.
"Exactly. And now if you'd get changed, we can take you for a tour," Storm answered as she and Jean opened the door. "We'll wait outside." She said, and they left, closing the door behind them.
Kira quickly changed then walked to the window, peeking outside. She noticed that they had placed her on the third floor of the building, rather high up though it was a pretty view. Kira silently cursed at the lack of escape routes and turned, walking over and opening the door. Storm and Jean were standing next to the door waiting.
"Good to see you up. Ready for the tour? Good, let's get started then," Jean said, leading her down a flight of stairs. She showed Kira around the third and second floors of the East wing, half of the living quarters, before taking her to the first floor.
"The first floor is where we have the dining hall, though it's more like a mess hall, and all of the classrooms where we hold classes on everything from arithmetic to history to controlling your powers," Jean explained, opening a door to show an empty classroom.
"Since it's Saturday the children get the day off to do what they want. However, they have to be inside for supper by 8."
"I see. Lovely school..." Kira murmured, looking around the huge hall.
"Glad to see you like it. Your classes start on Monday. We'll be sure to have a schedule for you by supper tonight-" Storm said, before Kira cut her off.
"Wait a second. Classes?" She looked back and forth between Jean and Storm, holding her hands up in front of her. "Look, I'm really thankful for you guys taking me in and keeping me from that guy, really I am, but I can't stay here."
"Oh really? Well why not?" Storm asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Uh, uh because... because I just can't. I have a mission to complete and I can't stay here and take classes. It isn't like I ever agreed to stay and go to school anyways."
"Well if what the Professor says is true, then your powers need training. And there isn't any other place you can get the help you need to do that," Jean said.
"The Professor, huh? Well I'm sick and tired of hearing about this 'Professor' and the way he seems to know so much about what I need. Look, no disrespect, but I don't need training for my powers. They aren't all that great and I've been surviving just fine on my own."
"Oh really," Storm said skeptically, "So 'fine' is being chased by Sabertooth through the woods and knocking yourself out because of all the power you used?"
Kira blushed. "That was one time. I don't even know that guy- what'd you call him?- Sabertooth. I have no idea who he is, he just kind of showed up while I was stopping for the night."
"Stopping for the night? What do you mean? Do you travel around?" Jean asked.
"Not that it's any of your business but yes, I do travel around a lot. Searching for-" she stopped, "Something."
"Something? Your sister?" Kira whirled around to face Cyclops.
"Who are you? And what do you know about it?" Kira asked.
"I'm Scott, and you mentioned your sister last night," he explained.
"Oh," she sniffs and watches the three wearily. "Yes, I'm looking for my sister."
"Well, as far as I know, Professor X was looking into it," Scott said, walking over to stand next to Jean.
Kira grinned. "He was?"
"Yea, and as soon as he finds out anything, he'll let you know."
Kira's elated grin slowly faded. "What's the catch?"
"The catch? None. Well..." he saw her disbelieving look. "Actually, he doesn't have all that much information on you, not enough to really do a thorough scan on your sister. If you could provide him with some more then he could find her faster."
Kira felt there was a darker part to the deal. "And...?"
Scott smirked, an idea popping into his head. "And you stay and take classes here in the meantime."
Kira bit her lip, her eyes narrowed, thinking fast. She could always stay for the stupid classes until she got the information on her sister, then she could just slip out when no one was watching.
She finally nodded. "All right. I'll stay and take the classes."
"Good. We'll be sure to have your schedule ready for you by tomorrow," Storm said with a slight smile. "Now, are you hungry?"
Kira nodded, her suspicious look gone. "Yes miss."
"Just call me Storm. And let's go raid the kitchen, shall we?" she led Kira off while engaging her in small conversation.
"You know that she won't stay once she gets the information on her sister don't you?" Jean asked Scott as they walked down the hall and out the doors.
"Yea, I know. Which is why we need to find a way to convince her to stay."
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After getting food, Kira retreated to her room to inspect it more. As well as to escape from having to go outside and meet other people. She slowly made her bed, a kerchief now holding her long brown hair out of her face, as she thought of what had happened in the past couple of days. As soon as she had finished with the bed, she heard a tapping at the window. Curious, she walked to the window and opened the curtains almost screaming as she was encountered with Kurt's face.
"Hey, open up!" his voice was muffled.
Hurriedly pulling the curtains all the way back she unlocked the long windows and pulled them open, letting Kurt come in. She left them open as she stared at him.
"Why is it that we always meet like this?" she asked with a sigh. "And what were you doing hanging outside my window?"
"Hiding from Kitty," he explained, "She's kind of mad so I just sort of teleported vhere I knew she couldn't find me."
"Which was on a wall over 20 feet in the air? Smart elf boy." Kira said with a smirk, crossing her arms as she walked over to her dresser with the mirror.
"Vell at least Kitty didn't find me," Kurt said in defense. At that moment, an angry scream was heard. "Kurt! Where are you you fuzzy blue elf!"
He winced. "Help?" But then he noticed Kira wasn't really listening.
She was bent over double, laughing for the first time anyone had seen. She could barely breathe as she slowly sank to the floor laughing.
"Vell glad to see you happy about somezing," he said in surprise, walking over and sitting on the bed.
"Ahahaha, sorry Kurt. But you're haha, always in trouble with hahahaha Kitty for something," she gasped out, slowly calming down. "You can't seem to stay out of it."
Kurt was about to reply but Kitty walked through the door. "Kurt!" she screamed. Which only set Kira off into more fits of laughter. "You stupid fuzzy...." she trailed off, staring at the laughing Kira as Rogue and Jean opened the door and quickly walked in.
Jean blinked and stared at Kira, then looked at Kurt and Kitty in question.
They both shrugged as Kira slowly stood, wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm sorry. But you two are so funny sometimes." She sniffed and finally looked up, her grin fading to a smile as she sees Jean and Rogue. "Hi."
"Hello," Rogue responded with a slight smile.
"Oh, Kira this is Rogue. Rogue, Kira," Jean introduced.
Kira extended a hand but Rogue shook her head. "I'm not wearing my gloves."
Kira raised an eyebrow. "Is that your ability? To wear gloves?"
Rogue smiled slightly. "No. But my skin is deadly to the touch so I have to wear gloves to keep from hurting other people."
"That must be terrible," Kira said, eyes wide.
Rogue shrugged. "I've pretty much gotten used to it."
"Speaking of abilities, you never told us yours," Kurt finally said.
"Yea, you never did mention it. All you said was that you had a lot. But you must have one main one, and you can't have all that many," Kitty said. Jean and Rogue listened interestedly.
Kira's smile faded completely. "My main power is elemental control." She said in a flat voice.
"Elemental control?" Rogue asked, "What do you mean by that? There are a lot of elements and they aren't exactly tamable."
Kira smiled slightly. "No, they aren't tamable. But they can be manipulated. Here, I'll show you." Kira turned her head and stared out the window, her eyes suddenly turned silver and a wind began to pick up till it was forcefully sweeping through the room. Then it died to a breeze, then to nothing. Complaints could be heard from outside as Kira turned back to them, her eyes still silver. Then they flashed back to blue-gray. "See?" she asked.
Jean nodded. "And like what you did last night with the ground. That rock spire."
Kira sighed. "And a dirt wall before that."
Kurt blinked. "Vow, zat vas amazing. Can you do anyzing else?"
Kira shrugged. "Some things. Mini water spouts, small tornados," she lifted her hands and let them fall, "Fire spouts if I'm near a source of fire. Mostly little things."
"But with some control you can make the bigger things," Jean says, "Which is what some of your lessons will help you do, learn control. By the way, I was sent to take you downstairs. Storm has your schedule ready and Professor Xavier would like to speak with you about some information."
Kira nodded then looked over and smiled at Kurt and Kitty. "I'll see you guys later." Then, despite still being shy around everyone added, "Try not to kill each other." She turned and followed Jean out of the room, smiling at Rogue as she passed. As she walked down the hall she could hear Kitty yelling at Kurt again.
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