Chapter four
I felt groggy. My arms felt like someone was constantly pushing them down. I could barely move my eyelid, not that I wanted to know where I was. Better to be unaware and hope for a while, as I always said. Hearing this faint gibberish, I tried to listen to figure out what language it was, but my brain wasn't up to the task just yet, which it made painfully obvious. I tried to relax, and was amazed to feel that my arms were free of any restraints. I decided to try and go back to sleep, hoping that the side effects of what ever drug they used on me were gone, and I could formulate some sort of plan, maybe to escape, maybe to find some place to hide. Drifting on the waves of consciousness, the people's word became clearer, but I soon found myself sleeping. A quite restless sleep, I found out when I awoke. Someone had place there hand on my forehead and was saying something. When I concentrated hard enough, much to the pain of my brain, I could make out what they were saying, and assuming from the sound of the voice, I assumed it was a female, probably 17 or 19.
"This is odd. Shouldn't the drug have worn off by now?" The girl asked, and I assumed that someone else was in the room. I heard the motion of wheels, and a stern voice spoke to the girl.
"It was, can't you feel it Jean? Our young friend is barely awake, and right now is trying to form a plan to escape." The stern voice said. I was amazed at this, somehow that voice could read my mind. I did the first thing I thought I could do, and that was open my eyes and jump. Jumping near the vicinity of the female, who had red hair, I grab her and shoved her to the man, who was old and in a wheel chair. I felt bad, and then I saw she stopped, somehow, in midair. Horrified, I ran towards what looked like a door. It opened, and I ran into a man, with a broad chest, and a not so pleasant look on his face. I thought he looked like a wolf, but I decided it was not in my best interest to stay and find out. He glared at me and he watched me run off. Down a corridor, one after another I ran, praying that there would soon be a window where I could fly away.
"Relax, we are not trying to hurt you." A voice in my head said, and it sounded like that girl. I turned around, looking for the source of the voice. There were some confused students, but not the red head. I tried to run away, but suddenly I went flying, and not by my on vocation. I tried desperately to fly away, even though it was indoors, but I was stuck in midair, hanging. The students just passed me by, barely even noting me. I floated in midair, while the red head and the wheeled chairman went to me.
"Its ok, you can relax, no one here is going to hurt you." The man said. I followed his instructions, due to the fact that I couldn't do anything. "Its ok, this is a school. We've contacted your parents, and though we said nothing about your power, they found our school interesting. We are a home for the gifted students, and you are certainly gifted."
I slowly nodded, getting the feel that he was telling the truth. I was slowly let down on to the floor.
"Ok, well, then, ummm, ok. Sorry about that whole thing." I said, very embarrassed at what I did.
"Well, I want to see your power in action, not just in the newspaper. I have two other new students, and I also want to see their power. Together, I believe you can take on the lowest level on the Danger Room. Follow me." The man wheeled about.
"Firstly, can I ask you both your name?" I asked quietly.
"Jean Gray." The red hair woman said.
"Charles Xavier, but you can call me Professor."
As we passed rooms, I noticed they were dorms. Some had posters, some had doors closed, some were having 'study' time with other people, and I blushed a complete shade of red. As we stopped, I saw an automatic door, and I turned to the Professor, confused.
"We are waiting for the other two new recruits, who shall join you in this challenge. Ah here they come." I said, and was completely awed by the girls, and managed to keep my mouth shout. The shorter woman had long brown hair, which was thinning at the end. She wore just everyday clothes, jeans and a white t-shirt, that looked very good on her. She had broad shoulders, and no hips it seemed, but that didn't seem to bother me. She had some freckles on her, with gray eyes that I could stare at all day. Looks didn't really matter for me, but I found that she had stopped my heart. The taller one was very thin, that concerned me a little, and I made a mental note to ask her if she was anorectic. She showed off her skin, with a tank top that was only on one shoulder, and it curved just barely above the bosom (That female part, you know, I'm a guy and shy, so I won't actually say it, but it's the chest). As I looked down, her stomach was very flat, and her shorts were a little short, barely covering her thighs. It looked like she had deliberately cut off some of the short, to show more of her legs, which were long. She was also very beautiful, which was odd, because the two girls didn't have very similar figured, but I found both attractive, although one a lot more than the other. I found myself completely at the mercy of them both, wondering how would I ever talk to these women.
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Lauren and Ann were talking amongst themselves about pointless stuff, as they always do, when Storm stopped them. There, stood Jean, the Professor and this boy, who looked about their age. He wore baggy clothes, a sweatshirt and jeans, that looked very worn and that could have had holes in them. He had short dirty blond hair, a little longer than a buzz cut, which seemed to be unkept, although that was odd considering that it looked clean. It just seemed in a way, that he cuts it short so that he doesn't need to do anything to it. He had deep blue eyes, sky blue in the right light. He was of solid build, with very tan skin, although he looked like he should be white. He was completely ogling the site of Lauren and Ann, although they couldn't figure out why. They thought maybe he was looking at Jean Gray, and then had looked at them, although that didn't make sense. They let the issue go, and looked around confused.
"Well, time for you guys to start the training. Be careful in there, the things do hurt, not that they won't kill you, but they sting." Jean said, breaking the awkward silence. Lauren and Ann nodded, looking ready for whatever was ahead of them. I sighed, wondering what they planned to do with us. "Your objective is to work together and get to the platform. Oh wait, you guys don't even know each other's name. David, this is Ann and Lauren, Lauren and Ann, this is David. David can fly, Ann has air manipulation, and Ann is a fiery creature. Good luck." Jean smiled, and shoved us into the room.
The doors hissed behind us. I looked around the room. It was huge, circular, with many different shapes of blocks; I assumed that things come out of. I looked at Lauren and Ann, and I watched, as suddenly the room became a cavern, with a platform in the center.
"Well, shall we go?" I stated, walking forward. Two balls came flying at me, at high speeds, looking like they wanted to take out a rib or two when they hit me. I ducked down, and watched as Ann grew black fire from her nails, and slashed one into pieces. Lauren, on the other hand, thrusted her hand out, and a barely visible stream of air shot out, and stopped the ball. After a second, both balls exploded, causing dust to rise up, as well as scaring Ann and Lauren. "Well, I guess I ate my words." I said, and then walked back to the girls, and fell with the girls pace. We walked for a brief ten seconds, before encountering another set of balls, this time three. I flew into the balls, and then grabbing two of them and spun them around, so they came with me, I stopped, and made sure that the balls didn't blow up. Ann had taken care of the last one. A brief trickle of sweat was on my forehead.
"So I hope this is the only obstacle." Ann said, and as if right on cue, a gun came out the wall, and fired at Lauren's feet. She quickly hopped, dodging. She tried to get time to concentrate and hit the gun, but it wouldn't let her. I throw one of the balls at it, and it went wide, hitting another portion of the now invisible wall. I blushed, and this time took off, going straight for the gun, which I realized, a little late, was a bad idea. The gun took a shot at my shoulder, and I had just enough time to rotate my body so it only scrapped my shoulder. This was enough to messed up my flying, so I went spinning out of control, and manage to land on my feet against the wall. I throw the ball at the gun, and at this close of range, I hit it. It exploded, sending bits of metal everywhere, which one piece managed to hit my hand, and the cut began to bleed. I shrugged, and headed back to the girls. We continued along the path, until it collapsed on us. Ann managed to grab an edge, I jumped, but Lauren was distracted so she fell. I raced after her, not knowing what kind of bottom there was. I grabbed her hand, and was suddenly jerked by the new weight. We hovered before I could start moving again, and after a few seconds, we reached the top. She thanked me and then started giggling like mad, and whispered something into Ann's ear, and then she started giggling, which left me all confused.
"What?" I asked, looking around.
"Oh, nothing, that just reminded me of Escaflowne, with Van and Hitomi, if only you had have been topless then that would have been great…" Lauren's voice faded with the giggles. I shrugged, giving up hope of understanding anything. I looked down on my sweatshirt, making sure that it was still there, and waiting for Ann and Lauren to stop giggling, which took some time, so I decided to poke Ann, which made the problem worse; because it turned out she is very ticklish. I decided to just wait, so I waited a few seconds, and then took off.
"Wait …… stop…….can't…..stop…laughing…need…air" Ann managed to say in-between laughs. I turned back, and landed, the girls managed to compose themselves. We walked again, and we were about to get to the platform when something happened.
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