Songs Of Power: Chapter Two
Disclaimer: Mattb3671 owns Mally. Someone currently ridiculously rich owns the x-men. Needless to say, I am not that person. I only own Ally and Mia, and do not expect to end up ridiculously rich for owning them or for any other reason.
Shout-outs:
Mugglebuddy: Why thank you! Thank you very much!
Mattb3671: Big thanks to Mally! And you! I appreciate it lots and loads!
And without further ado, the actual story:
The rest of the day was a whirlwind: she was shown around the institute, introduced to the remaining people, assigned a room, which she was sharing with Rogue. She went to bed early, exhausted and knowing that tomorrow was her first day of school at Bayville High.
Mia woke up early the next day. She dressed and brushed her hair, wondering why she had woken up so early, then went down stairs. Looking through the kitchen, enlightenment struck and she remembered: today was the first day of school. Stifling a small scream she raced (as quietly as possible) up the stairs, silently panicking.
She changed into a nicer outfit: a deep green shirt and her nice, less-ripped jeans, the green in the shirt catching the gold in her skin, eyes and hair, drawing them out. Finishing the outfit with anice necklace in gold and green, a beautifully made one that ran right along her collar bone, with extensions that ran down further, she finally felt ready. Rogue was up by then, and dressed in one of her typically goth outfits.
They went downstairs to get breakfast together. Mia, grabbing a piece of toast with jam, ate while going through her backpack to make sure she had everything she needed: binder paper, notebook, reading book, algebra, social studies, history and language arts textbooks, and, finally, (just because it wasn't heavy enough already) a couple of bricks. (A/N: LOL!)
She caught a ride to school, and found her locker okay, went to the office to get registered, got referred to another secretary, then a third, waited for a while, was given a talk/lecture by both the principle and vice-principal, and finally given a note to class and a schedule.
She showed up for her first period class, choir, unsurprisingly late.
"Now class," the teacher announced as she walked in. "Now that I've finished my expectations of you this year and what it is going to be like, I have a question for all of you: do any of you have any prior choir experience?"
Part of the class raised their hands. About half didn't.
"For those of you who haven't done this before, we need to warm up before we sing. We'll start with stretching—legs, arms, back, neck—then do some sight-reading practice, followed by a few warm-ups. Finally we'll sing the do-re-mi song, just so it's stuck in your head each day. Then the real work."
Mia went to her seat and started to stretch, along with the rest of the class, waving at a girl across the room as she did so. The girl had long auburn hair, a mix of every shade of red, gold and fox imaginable, gorgeous green eyes and unfortunately pale skin and a nice smile, which she flashed back at Mia, giving her a "catch you later" look.
The teacher interrupted this silent discussion by announcing that she was going to place them into voice categories. Each member of the class stood in their seats and sang a single line of a song (A/N: it's 'My Country 'Tis of Thee"), then the teacher pointed to their seat. Mia was surprised to see several of the x-men were in the choir: Kitty, Todd, Fred and Jean.
Mia was put into the category she expected, the altos, while Kitty, Jean and the as-yet-un-introduced-red-haired-girl were all sopranos. The only other people Mia knew, Fred and Toad, were both tenors, along with the majority of the boys, excluding two basses.
At this point Mia noticed that about half the class was looking slightly worried; she guessed that this was the half that had signed up for choir expecting a class that didn't involve any actual work. She noticed Fred and Todd were among them.
That took up most of the class, with just enough time for sheet music to be handed out. Homework was to try and figure out the solfege (A/N: you know the annoying song that goes "Do, a deer , a female deer, Re a drop of golden sun! Me, a name, I call myself, etc." ? Well, the do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do is the solfege scale. Therefore, "figuring out the solfege" is filling in which note it is.)
At the end of that periodthe red-haired girl (it's not Jean)waited for Mia, then lept over to her, exclaiming happily "Mia! I haven't seen you in forever its been much too long I can't believe it you look so different OH I've missed you!"
"Uh oh," put in Mia. "Looks like you've forgotten what periods are since I've left you."
"Details."
"Anyways, can you come over after school? I need to catch up on everything! I have permission. Do you need any?"
"Nope. I can make it."
"Great! Gotta go to math, see ya!"
Fast forward to lunch.>
At lunch Mia sat down across from the girl with red hair who had been in choir with her, Ally.
"It's so great getting to see you again!" she put in happily.
"Who's yah friend?" put in Rogue, sitting down next to her.
"Oh, this is Ally. We used to live next to each other before Ally moved, so it's great to get to see each other again. Don't worry, she knows."
"Oh," said Rogue, glad that at least the girl wouldn't freak out at the institute later that day. She had already heard that Mia was bringing a friend home (A/N: temporarily, of course. YOUR best friends don't just move in randomly, do they?)
Mally and Rahne came over and sat down with them as well. All started eating their lunches, excluding Ally, who had a school lunch, and was just poking dubiously at it. The scary thing was that it was poking back.
Mia, noticing her friends' plight, gave her half a sandwich. Several other people donated food items, and the emerging cauldron of civilization on a cardboard lunch tray was relegated to attempting to evolve in the trashcan. Unfortunately it was conquered by the enemy tribe of the Breadsticks. Know that the author is truly sorry about the strange tangent.
Lunch passed peacefully excluding the scene where Ally slapped Pietro for trying to hit on her. Not expecting it, he didn't dodge, and left them alone quite soon after that.
The rest of the day went quite well. Mia's classes all were pretty good, except for math, which was a living hell as always, P.E, which was utterly too much like PE for comfort, and science, which had a mad nut-case teacher in charge of it who started blathering on about "the enemy" at random. Art was great, language arts, social studies pretty good, history livable, and choir was definitely the single most bestest class in all of EXISTENCE!!according to her. Not that she liked it or anything, mind.
Mia and Ally got driven back to the mansion by Scott, and spent the whole time catching up. Letters just weren't the same as talking face-to-face, and Mia couldn't talk for a good portion of the time so the phone was out.
Upon arriving they went to the kitchen to get a snack, then put down their new choir songs on the table and started going over them while munching on apples. They also included a little "debate" about which was better: sopranos or altos.(A/N: Altoslow girls' voice, sopranohigh girls' voice. Tenor is a high or unchanged boys' voice, bass is a low boys' voice. Got it?)
Halfway through they were interrupted by the arrival of Kurt.
"Hello," he said as he bamfed into existence.
"Nice to meetcha!" put in Ally, not put off in the slightest at his less-than-average appearance. He had a bigger reaction upon realizing she was a stranger, not apparently a mutant and that he wasn't wearing his image inducer.
"Calm down," said Ally after a while. "Mia's a mutant and I don't have a problem with her. I got teased and abused when I was younger,and I know what it's like. I'm hardly going to put someone else through the living hell I've endured. Deal with me."
Kurt decided to, and got a snack of his own before leaving.
At this point Freddy walked in. After introductions, he asked for help with his own solfege.
"It's quite simple," explained Mia. "This first note, your starting note, is a do. The next jump, the line above it, is a re. The space above that is a mi. Next come fa, then so, than la, than ti, then finally do again. What you do is you look at which space or line the hole-part of the note is on, then that's what note it is. Therefore your part on this song goes do, ti, ti, la, ti, ti, do, re, mi, fa, do, la, ti. You're filling in the third line down, because you're a tenor. Altos are the second line, sopranos the first and basses fourth. See?"
The big boy nodded, then started to work on his own. Every so often Mia or Ally would look over and check his work. It soon settled into a companionable silence.
All too soon Ally was driven back to her home by Scott, and evening fell. Nothing happened for the rest of the night so, now I give you:
The End (of Chapter Two)
