The glow from the ball was unlike anything he had ever seen. The misty dark green swirls in the deep purple sphere stunned him. The sphere was hovering in the air a couple of centimetres above the hands of a young girl, with brown hair. Her eyes were closed. He estimated it was about 10 cm in diameter.
"You're getting much better." Scott Summers said as he watched the swirls and the colours. Suddenly the sphere fell on the floor and broke, glass shattering in close proximity of the young girl. She had lost her concentration. It happened every time Scott said anything to her. The green and purple smoke rose up into the air before slowly dispersing and became invisible. Immediately the young girl stepped back and put a hand on her head. "You all right?" Scott asked as he moved over to her, sighing.
"I can't hold it. It just won't hold!" She said angrily and turned away from where the glass was slowly fading out of sight.
"This is the best that I've seen you do. You'll get it soon. You just need time. Trying to improve your powers won't happen over night. It'll take time." Scott had a lot of faith in the power that she possessed. "Come on. Let's give it a rest for now. Let's go and have a drink and resume tomorrow ok?"
"Ok." She said as she looked into Scott's eyes, covered by his red lens sunglasses. He smiled at her and together they left the room. The glass that had shattered had now completely disappeared.
"What was that one? Never seen those colours before."
"Um... I think that one was a… " She paused while she tried to think what the sphere would've done to anyone if it had hit them. "Sleeping potion of some sorts." She finally said. They jumped into the lift and made their way up into the kitchen. 16 year old Judy made her way into the fridge and pulled out a soda.
"Morning Judy." She looked up, spun round to see Bobby Drake sitting the other side of the table eating his way through a tube of rocky road ice cream.
"Hi Bobby." She replied as she sat down opposite him on the rickety wooden stool.
"Want some?" Judy looked at the spoon he was slightly holding out for her.
"No thanks. I'm happy with my soda." Judy was one of the schools most recent students. She was from England but had managed to make her way to New York once her powers first surfaced about 6 months ago. Her whole family was dead; they died in a fire due to lightning hitting their house. She had no where else to go and had heard to Charles Xavier. She had taken up lessons with Scott to try and develop her powers and get confidence, but she never could get enough. Charles Xavier had offered to give her the lessons, but since arriving her trust was always placed with Scott and she preferred him to teach her. Although he was a little reluctant to taking up the training he started with her.
Her eyes were such a bright blue, they had originally been brown, but the when the lightning hit her house the flash did some damage to her eyes, resulting in the colour change. She never blamed herself for her family's death as she knew that she couldn't have done anything to help them.
"You comin' out for soccer later today?" Bobby asked before putting another spoonful of ice cream into his mouth. Judy glanced outside and could see the sun shining brightly on this hot July Sunday.
"Maybe." Judy shrugged her shoulders as she sipped her drink.
"You should Judy. After this morning you should get out." Scott called from the other side of the room. He was looking at a calendar and writing a couple of things in.
"All right. I'll join you. Who's team do you want me on?"
"Your choice. Kick off is at 1."
"I'll be there." Bobby got up and put the ice cream back into the freezer.
"See ya later then." Bobby called as he left through the kitchen door. Judy just waved as he left. Scott turned round and moved over to Judy, taking a seat where Bobby had just been. Scott smiled as his played with the pen in his hand. Judy noticed his smiling.
"What are you smiling at?" Judy asked smiling in slight confusion.
"You."
"Me?" Judy was slightly confused, to her knowledge she hadn't done anything in the last few minutes to make anyone smile. Why are you smiling at me?"
"I know what you're thinking when you're anywhere near Bobby."
"Oh? I thought it was only Jean and the Professor who had telepathic abilities." Scott laughed briefly.
"I'll see you later." He got up and left. Judy watched him in confusion and soon left herself, taking her soda with her.
When Judy had arrived she had found it hard to make any friends seeing as the first lesson she had with Scott resulted in him getting a broken arm from one of the spheres. He had quickly forgiven her but after that the rest of the students became slightly wary of her. But Bobby, Kurt, Evan, Rogue, Kitty, Jubilee and Jean weren't and they were able to make her feel a lot more comfortable being at the school. To her they were like family, the family she had lost 6 months ago.
Since she had first heard about mutants she had always wanted to be one, and have amazing powers she knew that some had. She was unlike any other girl to have that kind of dream… to want to be a mutant… and now it had come true. She was a mutant and she was finding it odd... but fun. At her normal school in England she didn't really have any friends… but here she had managed to make more friends and she really felt welcome.
