The Start of a New Age

Hey yeh'all I hoped you liked the last chapter and if you don't then why are you here reading this find something better. Well let's role onto the next one shall we.

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Chapter 2

The Acolytes entered the mansion and had to whistle out loud. I mean Magneto was loaded but not like this Remy thought.

The wood furnishings looked hand done and the rug was definatly hand made. There were large wood pillars that reached to the ceiling and art work on every wall. But the most impressive thing was the stairs they were exact replicas of the fourteen hundred banisters probably done in England, Remy guessed. He couldn't help to slip a small oriental vase that was probably worth five hundred dollars at least into his trench coat pocket. Hey he was a thief, and letting a thief into a place like this was only an invitation saying take all you want.

That's when Xavier himself rolled out of the many doors in the room. He offered them a warm smile and said "Please join me in the study."

They followed the Professor as he led them through a door off to the right. The study was a small cozy place with shelves built into the walls and piled with books. There was a stone laid fire place in the corner and many large arm chairs and sofas. In the back of the room were large desks and two computers. Probably for students Remy guessed.

They all sat down near the fire place, making themselves comfortable though it's hard to sit comfortable in a house where your used-to-be enemies lived.

"May I start by saying I am glad that you accepted my invitation and- well you're probably wondering why I invited you here, right?"

He waited for an answer but Colossus was the only one who nodded.

"Well since Eri-umm Magneto died I have the understanding that you boys are still living at the base and, well, I was wondering if maybe you would like to join the X-men-and before you refuse the offer I will have you know it will be nothing like Magneto's contracts were over you. I know you have your uncertainties, but I ask only one thing from you that you give this at least a few hours of consideration before you make up your mind. Then you can come back for dinner and tell us of your decision."

There was a long silence and then Remy said "Da ting is Professor Xavier we're not exactly the X-men's favorite people at the moment. You know what Remy means?"

"Yes I can understand that Mr. Lebeau and I agree with you, my students do need a few classes in acceptance but I believe they will come around eventually and take you in as part of our little family here."

"It's the 'eventually we're worried about mate." Pyro muttered sarcastically.

"Well I am wondering about what we would do here." Colossus said suspiciously.

"Ah… how about you come back here and I will have my students walk you through their daily activities and responsibilities so you may see from a student's perspective of how things work here."

"I am most interested in your proposition so I will gladly accept your terms and report here at two am." Piotr said, his accent thickening slightly.

"Me too, sir yes sir." Pyro said again mimicking Piotr.

"Well it looks like we's three amigos goin to stick together, non?" Remy stated with a smirk showing he accepted Xavier's invitation.

"Thank you for trusting me to some extent, I hope I can prove myself worthy of your entire trust in the future. Please I will show you to the door and hopefully tonight I will see you." He said wheeling himself to the door before he opened it he turned to back to Remy and said "Oh and Mr. Lebeau I think it would be best if you left the vase in here it will lighten the décor don't you think?"

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It had been a normal school day for Rogue, normal misled-to-think-that-they-were-better-then-everyone-else Barbie dolls whispering and giggling at her when they thought she wasn't looking, normal brotherhood boys and other random jocks being idiots, normal detention giving, over bearing, teachers who tend give her one look and send her to the principal's office with out an excuse, normal mutant hating, out to get mutants everywhere principal, who almost kicked her out of school. So yeah it was a pretty ordinary day for her.

Today she decided it was better to teleport home with Kurt (who was still avoiding Kitty) then sit and listen to Scott and Jean gush over each other.

They had teleported into the kitchen to find certain red eyed Cajun falling off his chair in surprise.

"What the-." Remy started but Kurt cut him off.

"Vhat are you doing here!" Kurt practically hissed, baring his fangs at the 'enemy' on the floor.

Remy got up rubbing his head where he had bashed it into the wall seemingly unfazed by Kurt's threatening look. "anyon' eveh tell yeh poppin' in and out like dat can give people a serious headache?"

"He asked yeh nicely what the yeh doin' here, Nah Ah ain't gonna be that nahce. What the hell you doin here Swamp rat!" She snarled a snarl that would have made even Wolverine duck for cover and in her eyes you could see flashing signs of 'I'm going to kill you'.

This seemed to catch Gambit's eye and when he realized who Kurt's companion was he let loose one of his drop dead gorgeous grins that sent every girl's heart flying, but he almost went into shock, when the only change in Rogue's killer expression was that she had raised one of her eyebrows menacingly and said

"Do yeh have an answer yet or do Ah have to pry it outta you?" after this she took off one of her gloves slowly, emphasizing her point.

Non girl in his life had ever done that to him (his 'lady's grin' even had effect on most related to him,) this made him falter a little but he quickly retained himself and said in a low suggestive voice "To see a belle southern femme like you of course."

She rolled her eyes then said "Naw the truth bayou boy."

And no fille had eveh done dat neither, Remy thought. That voice always made woman shake with lust. But on the out side Remy just shrugged "da professor invited us for supper."

Rogue narrowed her eyes suspiciously but after a while she put her glove back on, grabbed her bag and walked towards the door.

"Vait you're just going to leave?" Kurt asked bewildered.

"Why not? Ah got a huge history essay teh type up befo' Logan calls us down for runs, and Ah can't afford to fail this one." She answered then turned to walk back out the door where she saw Pyro trying to light the ends of the entry hall rug on fire.

"Nodda flame boy" She growled and snatched the lighter from his hands. "Yeh will not be lighten anything on fire thatchya can't pay for."

She then started walking up the stairs.

"SHEILA! That's thievery! Injustice!" he yelled at her from below.

"Nahw, injustice is what you were gonna do, I'm just preventin' the injustice from happenin!" she called over the edge of the balcony.

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Gambit was just talking to the blue boy into a game of poker (which he would undoubtfully have won) when Pyro came in looking like somebody had shot his puppy.

"What's wrong homme?" Remy asked shuffling his cards.

"She took Sparky away." Pyro said his eyes filling with tears. Ouch it was worse then Remy had thought.

"Who's Sparky?" Kurt asked confused.

"His lighter." Gambit explained.

Kurt laughed "your acting as iv someone died."

"But I am dead with out my lighter, I'm a Pyro maniac with out his flame. And that's just not good, not good at all. That's like a dentist with out his drill, a plumber with out his wrench, a pizza with out saridines!"

"Sardines yuck!" Kitty said as she came in the kitchen but when she saw Kurt she sent him a glare and turned quickly to walk out the door.

"Ouch mate what did you do?" asked Pyro having completely forgotten about what he was so sad about and now interested in the scene that had played before him.

Kurt sighed "I think pulled one to many pranks."

"oooo what did yeh do?" Pyro asked now totally intrigued by the new topic.

A devious grin spread on Kurt's face "I filled a vater balloon vith chocolate syrup and put it in her supply cabinet and then glued the door shut vith just a thin layer of glue that's the key thing to remember, then when she pulled the door open with all her strength she causes the balloon to fly at her. Then to top all of it off I filled her slippers with whipped cream." He sighed as he stared off into space seemingly cherishing the moment.

"But that was only because she and Tabitha had put red hair dye in my shampoo and vas purple for weeks." He said defensivly.

"Wow this place is starting to look up." Pyro said with an appreciative whistle.

"vhat do you mean?"

"I mean that was an awesome prank!" Pyro exclaimed.

"He means Xavier invited us to live here." Remy explained. (A/n: exclaimed, explained I could write a poem.)

"Really?"

"yepery matie!"

"So are you?" Kurt asked with a slight touch enthusiasm. He was actually sort of liking these guys.

"Well if yeh haven't noticed we ain't exactly deh most loved bunch around dis joint." Remy said carefully.

"Yeah take that goth Sheila into perspective she stole Sparky!" Pyro moaned finally remembering why he had been sad in the first place.

"Oh Rogue she's always like that vith everyone," Kurt explained "Even me, her own brother." He added with dwinge of emotion catching in his voice.

The Acolyte boys looked at him strangely.

"No offense homme but Remy don' see da resemblance."

"That's because ve are adoptive siblings." Kurt told them.

X-men and guests please meet me in the entrance hall thank you.

"I tink the 'and guests' is us mon ami." Remy said to Pyro and they, along with Kurt, walked out of the kitchen and into the entrance hall.

Already there was, of course, Scott who looked ticked off, and Jean who when seeing Gambit blushed. Then there stood Kitty who was talking to Tabitha and Amara. Then there was Roberto and Ray having a wrestling match, with Rayne cheering them on. Bobby walked in with Sam and Jubilee debating with them whether or not they should sneak into a club tonight. Spyke skated out another door with Orora on his tail telling him to stop. Jamie was reading comic book on the stairs next to Wolverine who was eating an apple. That's when Rogue walked down one of the stairwells.

"Roguey, Roguey, my sweet lil Sheila I now you wanna give Pyro's lighter back now, right?" Pyro begged half dropping to his knees.

"Ah yeh mean this lil ole thang?" She said and slid it out her back pocket then flicked it on in front of Pyro's face.

"Sparky!" Pyro lunged for it but Rogue was to quick and Pyro landed on the floor with Rogue inches away from him.

"Givin a lighteh to eh boy that can manipulate flames in a room full a burnables, that's a tuff decision hmmm……" She said pretending to take the thought into consideration. "Not on your life."

Pyro groaned then tried to grab onto her leg but Rogue kicked him away.

"Uh, uh flame boy why don't yeh ask Amara over there for a light she's literally a livin' flame." Rogue suggested.

"What?" Pyro searched the crowds barely keeping himself from drooling while doing so. "Where!"

Rogue smirked. "The one talking to Kitty, long, dark brown hair."

He literally skipped over.

"Are you sure that's a good idea." Kurt said uneasy about the situation. "I mean we're talking about a girl who can be fire and a boy who can manipulate it."

"No it might not be the greatest idea, but it sure will make thangs interesting, plus it gets that flame aussie off mah back." She grinned as she watched Amara try to pull her hand away from Pyro who was trying to kiss it.

"Now dat wasn't nice chere." Remy said with a grin making Kurt jump (he had forgot Remy was there) but Rogue was just looking at him with disgust.

She rolled her eyes "Ask anyone around here Cajun and Ah can guarantee yeh none of them will eveh use the word nice in describin' me."

"vat's not true Rogue, I vould" Kurt stated.

"Anyone who doesn't think they're related to meh." Rogue countered.

"Kitty vould say you're nice." Kurt protested.

Rogue snorted "Then Kitty would beh lyin'" she said and walked away.

"Mmm… sassy dat one," Remy said checking her ass out as she walked towards Logan.

"Don't even tink about it!" Kurt said in mock growl "She's my sister."

Gambit smirked "Wouldn't even tink about it." He said crossing his fingers behind his back.

"Good." Kurt said and seemed to be satisfied by that.

"X-men please quiet down." The professor commanded as he projected his voice over the crowd. "I have invited the Acolytes for dinner tonight, I know that seems a little strange but they are not our enemies any more and I think you need to learn to accept them. I have also extended my hand so far as to invite them to stay with us permanently, I have asked them to become X-men."

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Well that's done hope you all liked it.

Cherrio

Gotta go

Tatah

Au' revoir

Say my adieu's

And 'I'll miss you's'

Bye

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