Chapter 2- A renaissance of power

Aden walked through the seemingly endless halls of the school, one week since he had first arrived at the mansion and Professor informed him of the mutant war. He then went on and explained the 'X-Men', or a team of mtuants that have been trained to prefection in their powers. Although the name was just a sign of affection from the students, it seemed to grow even to them. The X-Men handles the events Magneto caused, such as the event in New York atop the Statue of Liberty.

He finally found the place he was looking for, the stairs.

Stepping down them he looked around, wondering if there would be a stray student about or something, well, probably not at this hour, after all, it was about Twelve midnight. He walked through the dark, empty halls towards the lounge where he saw the television on, looking around the doorframe he saw a young child blinking every so often, he looked back at the screen and it seemedto be constantly changing, he then looked at the child then back at the screen, then raised an eyebrow, "I don't suppose you could stop that, could you? Or maybe go to bed?" The child seemed amused, "I'm sorry for blinking, oh wait, and I don't sleep." Aden shrugged and lay down upon the couch, falling asleep. The child looked and seemed a bit confused by the concept of, "Sleep" and just let it be, continuing to watch the ever changing TV screen.

Aden awoke at about Six AM, wondering where he could find breakfast.

Stretching he saw that the child was still watching TV, he said a polite, " 'Morning." to the child and he replied back, "Morning to you too, my name is Alex, what's yours?" Aden pulled on a shoe then said, "Aden, but most people know me as Chaos." the boy looked at him with bright big eyes , "Why is that?" he said bluntly, Aden laughed a little, then stopped, "Well, I guess to say it blatantly, I blow things up by looking at 'em." next came something a little unexpected, the child broke out a great big grin, "That's an AWESOME power! I wish I had something like that, but all I got was the ability to control electronic stuff and not having to sleep! You're so lucky!" Aden was taken aback, ready to say something to contradict his statement, but then decided not to, but deciding to be nice he complemented the boy's, "Well, what I wouldn't give to not ever have to find the remote again, and I don't really like sleeping so that'd be a good thing to have. Perhaps we find a mutant that could switch our powers?" The child laughed and Aden walked out of the lounge a bit groggy and flattening his hair while he walked down towards Xavier's office.

Again he knocked politely, receiving the same, "Come in." as the several times that he visited Xavier.

Upon entering the room he was politely ushered to the chair and then Xavier spoke, "Good morning, Aden, I assume you've had a good night's rest?" Aden nodded then the Professor continued, "So, have you decided what you are going to do?" Aden took a deep breath, sighed, then thought for a minute or two, and spoke, "I have decided to take upon your offer, training me to prefect my 'art' although there will be several rules I'd like to set down, Xavier nodded in a slight agreement and said, "Naturally." Having reveived the O.K. from Xavier he said, clearing his throat, "I'd like a room, sleeping in the lunge was nice, but it made me feel like a stranger," Xavier listened intently, respecting his privacy for the set rules placed in his mind, "and I would sometime like to meet members of the so called, "X-Men" the concept piques my interest." The Professor smiled. "Of course, I could have you meet with a specific one or the whole team, depending on what times are good." Aden smiled, "Thank you." with a small tinge of childish excitement, Xavier then spoke, "I'd assume you would like something to eat?" Aden remembered then and nodded, his stomach growling. "We have students that cook breakfast every morning, starting a bit earlier than when you awoke. They'll have plates set out, or they could bring you some kind of cereal or fruit if you would like." Aden started to walk out then turned, "Erm...Where's the kitchen or dining room?" blushing." the Elder smiled and said, "In the lounge, go down the hallway to the right of it and you'll come into the Breakfast nook, there will be a door next to the pantry, in there is the dining room then continuing straight through that room is the main kitchen." Aden nodded in silent thanks and rushed out, hurridly to the Kitchen.

Upon arriving in the dining room, he gaped, it was giant! They had three tables large enough to seat maybe, 3Three-hundered students and teachers, when he noticed a sign, 'MAXIMUM OCCUPENCY: 322!
Over the 322 occupency was written, 'ALWAYS ROOM FOR 1 MORE!' and he smiled, still walking it took him five minutes to get from one end of the hall to the other, and he was rushing, finally entering the kitchen his jaw dropped open.

The room was completely chrome, everything was in a short of sleen sheak that made it look like the radiance of hundreds of pieces of technology when he noticed about fifteen working over a stove that could of held it's pwn against one of the tables in the main Dining Hall. One thing was for sure, they had room, and they needed all of it!
Aden walked up to a student, wondering if they would be frightened, but then again, most of them were in their early teens, and only two looked older than sixteen. As he got ready to ask a student he jumped as he heard glass shattering on the ground.

A student who was cooking laughed, "Nice one, slick!" in a playful way, the small child grinned and held his hands out, all of the glass coming into a neat pile, then being contained and smashed into a fine powder. "Where's Emily?" A girl about fifteen years of age then rushed in and looked at the glass, raising an eyebrow at the child, "Well, Gus,lucky I was cooking today. " She touched the powder and it melded into a perfect replica, no, the same plate as it was before the child broke it, "Honestly, sometimes I'd wonder what this school would do without me." Aden suddenly remembered why he was there, "Erm, Emily, that's your name, right? Is there a plate of food I could have or something? The Professor said there would be food in here. The girl nodded, "Yes I am Emily, and yes there is food, what would you like?" Aden scratched his head for a moment, "Hmm.... If you have it I would like bacon and eggs, and maybe some hash browns, if that's not too much..." The girl took a plate then reached for the foods, eventually handing him a plate and a roll of a paper towel that he assumed held the eating utensils. "Thank you." the girl smiled, "It's m' job to feed hungry people, oh, and to fix whatever is broken, which seems to be used a lot..." she laughed, "You could sit down in here at one of those stools, or in the main dining room, or I guess in the lounge if you felt like it..." He said quickly, "Here is fine." and walked over a table where he started to eat somewhat fast when a huge shatter echoed through the kitchen and he fell of of his seat, banging his head against the ground, "Oooowww...." Emily shouted, "Not again!" dazed he got up wobbiling and nearly falling over again, Emily rushed over to him, "That tends to happen a lot, oh, and I can fix that." she placed a hand on his head and the soreness went away, but he still hurt, "No, I think I'd like your power more..." Emily gave him a strange look, "Riiight, it's not that glorious. I have to fix everything that is broken here, which gets real old real quick."

He stepped up again on the stool and started to chow down on his food, unexpectedly hunger rushing through him he went and received another plateful, satisfying his hunger he brough his plate over to Gus and he took it to a machine of some sort and set it in, walking back around, a beeping started to ring on Gus's watch, "Oi! Emily! Breakfast rush arrives in T-Minus 80....79...78...." Emily grinned, "Now the real fun begins!" she started to rush around, "Everybody to their battle positions!" the Children rushed to make a line, Emily inspecting them, "Alright, power check!" She said, "Alice: Kinetics!" a rushed, 'Check!' came and she kept saying them, featuring some different powers, such as controlling the temparature, Telekinesis, Control of Air currents, Transmutation, Aden lost notice until he heard a second, louder beep, "Thirty seconds!" Emily then said edgily, "Everybodies' been checked?" all of them said yes then she said, "Resume positions!" The boy with telikenesis placed a roll of utensils on every plate with the assitance of Gus condensing the air so the plates were hovering four feet off of the ground, Emily's eyes narrowed as Gus began the Ten countdown, "T-Minus 10....9....8....7......6.....5......4......" He cut off and suddenly a bell rung louder than the glass break, loud enough it couldbe heard all over the school, Aden heard nothing at first, but then it came, sounding like a tidal wave rushing through the rooms was the pitter-patter of feet, then it grew louder and louder and Gus lifted the plates up almost to the ceiling as several students rushed out, a loud "HALT!" was heard as Emily stepped out and screeches were to follow, "One by one, you may enter....Now!" a line formed and a second door opened, allowing a second access into the Dining room, but only to enter the Dining room from the Kitchen.

Aden was awestruck at how many students there were, so many with so many different powers! He could only imagine the things they could do.