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Aqua and Luna's Excellent Adventure

by: Amanda (PietrolovesAqua)

Dani (Purity Black)

And Amanda's friend Chri

Dani- I have decided to do this disclamer in rhyme.

Amanda- oh dear god, no. ::knocks Dani out and runs off with mini-Pietro and mini-Elijah Wood::

Chri- ookaaayyyy. uhhhhh, Luna belongs to me and Aqua belongs to Amanda

::Dani wakes up and chases Amanda::

Amanda- you'll never take me alive!!!! ::Amanda, mini-Pie, and mini-Lij jump on Winged Dragon of Ra and fly off::

Dani- damn!! anyway me and Amanda thought up the story line and i wrote most of it. X- men don't belong to us or Amanda'd have Pietro doing strip scenes in every episode.

Amanda- ::jumps off dragon:: damn right i would ::dirty grin::

mini-Pie and mini-Elijah: We don't own Hot topic, the bayville mall or clare's (Chri: thank god)

Amanda- or Smashing Pumkins. that's Billy Corgan's area (God bless him)

all- so enjoy you mutant bunnies!!!

Chapter One

Aquamarine Matthews slumped in her chair and glared at the clock. Two minutes to lunch, she thought, sitting up and reaching down towards her bag.

"Now remember, class, I want that paper on my desk in the morning unless you have an extremely good reason for it not to be." The teacher looked at her and opened her mouth. Aqua grinned. 'Here it comes...' Mrs. Erely loved watching Aqua work on her feet, seeing if her quick wit was up to snuff. "And Ms. Matthews?" She smiled again.

"Yes?" The tension in the room mounted as her classmates awaited the question that was on the tip of the teachers tongue.

"Female hormones will not be an acceptable excuse!"

The class snickered and looked towards the girl who was now smiling smugly.

"Well if you got it, you flaunt it." She winked at the boy sitting next to her, although she didn't even know his name. The lunch bell rang and Aqua hurried into the hall to join her friend Christina for lunch, although the people who knew the girl called her Luna, partly because she was seen more often at night than in the daylight and partly because she'd been called 'Looney' by too many people, with good reason.

"Hey Luna, did you see that new guy in English Lit?"

The other girl played with the chain on her black jeans. "You mean the guy you winked at? I heard he was a real asshole."

Aqua sighed and placed her books in her locker, "All the cute ones are. You know, I really don't wanna do that paper."

Luna leaned against the lockers. "Why not? You're a great writer."

Aqua slammed her locker shut after retrieving her bag that held her CDs, CD player, notebook, and an assortment of blue Bic Round Stic pens and Readysharp pens. "It's not so much the assignment itself, but the time I'll waste on it. Just think. I could be at the arcade or shopping at that really cool store down the street."

Luna looked up in interest. "The one that sells all those spell books and incense and stuff?"

Aqua nodded vigorously as they entered the cafeteria. "Yeah! And they have this Egyptian spell pendant that I've wanted to get my hands on. If I had a job I could get enough money to buy it."

Luna laughed. "Why not just steal it? That's what I'd do."

Aqua gave her a sharp look. "Unlike you, I have a conscience."

Luna paid for her lunch and sat down at a table. "Yeah and by the way, it's a drag."

The boy from English Lit noticed the pair, stopped by their table and snatched up Aqua's CD player. "Let's see what the Goth-punk chick has in her player!" He snickered and opened it. "Ooohhh, Smashing Pumpkins. What's that? A devil cult?"

As Aqua made a grab for her Walkman, he raised it out of her way. "Wow Luna, you were right. He really is an asshole!"

Luna stood up and poked the guy in the chest. "Neither of us worships the devil. I am Wicca and my friend here is a devoted child of God," she said the last part with so much sarcasm that Aqua glared at her. "I'm not one of the crazy ones that come to your door at six in the morning though. I just bite occasionally."

The boy backed away from Luna and took off for the boy's bathroom with the CD player still in his hand. Aqua turned to Luna and grinned. "He's heading for the bathroom."

Luna laughed. "Like that's ever stopped us before. I love new boys!"

The two girls went straight into the bathroom. The boy, who had been laughing, looked up in shock. A second gaped at the female intrusion, checking out the action in the reflection of the mirror. Making a desperate attempt to cause as much damage as he could, the boy threw the Walkman down the toilet, smirking at the two girls as he did so.

Aqua saw the smug grin on his face and clenched her fists furiously, feeling the urge to flush his damn face down there - and suddenly, the water rose out of the bowl and soaked him, miraculously missing the other boy who was staring in wonder at the scene. More water backed out of the toilet, darkening as the clean water ran out. Luna laughed hard as the boy screamed in disgust. Aquamarine calmly retrieved her walkman and manipulated all the water out of the electronics, picking the Smashing Pumpkins CD out of it and placing it back in it's correct sleeve in her CD pouch.

"You did this!" The soaked boy pointed at her, hand shaking. "You're one of them! You're a mutie!"

"So now you know not to mess with me," replied Aqua recklessly.

"I'm gonna tell everyone you - you freak! You won't be able to show your face around here again!" And with that he ran out of the bathroom, followed closely by the second boy.

"Damn!" Luna whispered. "Your secret's out!"

Aqua screamed and slammed her fist into the wall. "WHY did I have to admit it!? Why couldn't I just keep it secret like you do with your powers?"

Luna put a hand on the other girl's shoulder. "I can keep my powers in check because I can keep my temper, but you have a natural fire. When you're really mad at someone, all the water within ten feet of you boils. You need to learn control."

"No." Aqua looked at her closest friend. "I need to go where I don't have to hide my powers from other people, like that place on the news where all the mutants live. I need to go to Bayville"

Later, Aqua sat in her last class of the day glad it was nearly over. The boy she had soaked had been as good as his word and news of what had happened in the boys' room was all over the school.

The intercom screeched on and the scratchy voice of the school's secretary announced, "Aquamarine Matthews to the office, please. Repeat, Aquamarine Matthews to the office."

Aqua stood and grabbed her bag.

Luna asked the teacher if she could use the bathroom and followed her friend. "Are you gonna go to the office?"

Aqua's face was stony. "No."

Luna smiled. "Then where are you going?"

Aqua glanced towards the girl. "The bus station, I'm leaving New Jersey."

Luna sighed, she knew this was coming and she also knew she couldn't stop her. "Got enough money?"

"You know I never leave my funds lying about." Aqua pulled out her purse and showed about a hundred dollars in cash to the other girl.

"When does your bus leave?"

The girl pulled a bus schedule out of her pocket and looked at it. "Two forty."

"Must have been thinking about leaving for a while if you went to the trouble of getting the schedule."

Luna put out and arm and stopped her. "Want me to come with you?"

Aqua smiled. "You know damn well I can't say no. You're my fucking sister. If not in blood, in other ways."

Luna put a hand to her heart. "You touched a nerve, I have the impulse to hug you."

Aqua continued walking. "Please don't."

When a hall monitor approached them to ask for a hall pass, Luna raised a black mist and grabbed Aqua's hand. "Come on, no one else can see us, or anything else for that matter."

Not daring to waste time, they hurried back to the home they lived in just long enough to grab the bare necessities, a few clothes and other things they couldn't bear to leave behind before heading off to the bus station and hoping that no one they knew would see them.

"I still have no idea why you named that cat after me." Luna looked at the black kitten sat on Aqua's knee. The two had found it wandering in a back alley almost a month before and not being allowed to keep it inside hadn't really expected to see it again. Instead it had hung around near where they lived and they had taken to feeding it, buying tins of food from their own money. "It looks nothing like me."

Aqua stroked the cat's head and heard it purr. She was glad she'd resisted Luna's suggestion to take the animal to a shelter. She hadn't known why it seemed like the wrong thing to do, the cat would be well looked after and found a good home, but for some reason it had seemed like a very bad idea. "Because when it's name was Cutie Pie. I kept calling it Luna and you Cutie Pie, so I just called her Luna."

"Whatever, here comes the bus. Put her in the box, I seriously doubt they'll let you have her on your shoulder the whole ride."

Earlier, in the school office…

Professor Xavier opened hid eyes and smiled. "She will not be coming," he informed the principal. "But don't worry, we'll see that she and her friend are safe, for they will not be returning to the orphanage."

The principal frowned and called the orphanage, for some reason the caretaker seemed unfazed by this news and agreed that Xavier would provide the girls' new foster home or at least make sure that they wouldn't get into too much trouble. As Xavier wheeled out of the office, he smiled to himself. 'A pity,' he thought. 'We could have saved them a few dollars'

A/N DANI – hi! I fixed all the problems with the run-together texts, so now that's all done, don't forget to add your reviews!