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Professor was amazed, NM you have learned a lot more since the last time... Tomi heard his thoughts and looked over and smiled at him nodding. Cyclops seeing that she was distracted ran towards her short blasts before him. She dodged them, and quickly thinking shifted into Mystique, letting her smooth body take over and using her agility to dodge the blasts. Cyclops saw this and almost choked, 'She turning into one of our most hated enemies? Can she be really...Nah...she's just a girl'

'Yep,' Tomi thought, hearing his unspoken comment, 'I am just a girl, but I have so many surprises up my sleeve...'

As they met together, he tried to fist fight with her but she changed into ninjitsu, feeling the familiar flow of chi going through her body as her teacher, Chi-yang had taught her. Cyclops was again amazed at her skills. She moved effortlessly through the moves blocking, dodging, and sending high kicks and punches that sometimes Cyclops had trouble dodging himself. Logan looked on goggled-eyed as she moved. Everyone else was astonished. Then Tomi shifted back into her own body and a red flash passed over her eyes as she began to shoot optical blasts right at Cyclops! Scott was completely dumbfounded. In front of him this girl was using his own power against him! This brought his anger and pride up a notch. He dodged all her attacks and began to fight back his own fists and feet flying in the air. There was a wisp of a smile on Tomi's face that got Scott even angrier. His red eyes burned furiously, and Tomi felt his wonder, disbelief, and anger through it.

She glanced at Logan out of the corner of her eyes and looked at his knuckles. Logan just gave her a puzzled look. Then his own mouth gaped open as his own 6 inch claws came out of her knuckles. Cyclops was not happy.

"Let's see how you do now Cyclops."

She gave him an evil smile as he set his face in grim determination. 'Hmmm...if I beat her it will be just like beating Logan. Maybe then he'll understand his place. ' To her he said,

"Let's rumble."

And so the rumble began. At some point of this battle, Jean cried out "Scott!" and rushed to him. But a strong gust of wind blew her back. Tomi scowled and sent her thoughts to Jean.

This battle is between me and Scott. Not you. Jean clenched her fist, her own scowl evident, Fine.

By the time they were done, Scott had shallow cuts and more bruises on his body and Tomi had some optical blast burns and bruises on her. But now she knew she had to give him the last test of all. She sent him one high kick that sent him into the dust. She retracted her claws. Then everyone saw her eyes spark, and lighting flashed across the sky. As Scott got up, lighting struck down around him trapping him in electric bars, and everyone stood stock still not knowing what to even the weather goddess herself. Tomi stood where she was and spoke,

"Scott? I would not touch those or try to blast those if I were you; you'll fry immediately."

Scott looked at her hatred burning in his eyes, "I'm gonna..."

"Goodbye Scott." And before anyone could make a sound she clapped her hands and the lighting came together in one giant boom. The X-men stood bewildered. Jean immediately went on her knees and began to cry. Storm came up to her and comforted her as they both knew he was gone. Dust began to rise from the explosion, and Tomi walked away from it. Jean got up, her anger burning in her eyes. She rose up in the air and seeing Tomi,

"NM, you will not leave here alive." No one said a word or moved a muscle to restrain her. She used her telekinesis to rise into the air and fly straight to NM. Tomi just turned, and flicked her finger blowing Jean back into the dust, and into a pair of strong arms...

"Scott?" Jean whispered.

The dust cleared leaving Jean in the arms of a very alive Cyclops, who was as taken aback as the rest that stood there. In everyone's mind they had all registered him as dead and Mother Nature as dead. Now that he was alive they all stared at her as she walked away, the hazy bubble dissolving around them. Tomi turned and looked straight at him but everyone heard her unspoken words,

Congratulations Scott, you've passed the test. And as she walked, she disappeared into the wind. All the students who were curious looked on amazed. Evan came jogging up to Cyclops and Jean.

"So I see she gave you the 'Leader Test' too." Jean looked down, astonished into silence, finally understanding Mother Nature's intent, Scott understood by nodding.

"Where did she go?" He asked her team. "Into the hills to be alone," said Nova, Cyclops only knew her so far as the one with the wings,

"Let's go inside." They all did except for the curious students who went back to their original business.

Tomi sat, feeling the wind's kisses and caresses as it passed over her, calming her very existence, she heavily sighed, even now the wind could not comfort her. With that simple battle with Cyclops she had been disturbed by Jean's show of affection towards him, her mind played it over and over in her head, making tears come to her eyes,

'Girl you should not be crying, not like this.' But her mind argued with itself, 'Well do you expect her not to, never has anyone done that for her? No one. She has been there, for everyone around her but who was there for her? No one. You know what her fa—'

'Yes...we know already' her other side injected, sighing, '...but I wish...'

'Wishing will get you nowhere.' Tomi looked up seeing the mansion from the hill she was sitting on. The grass rolled and swayed under her, dancing for her, trying to cheer her up. She gave the grass a wistful smile but the tears still came flowing down her cheeks as if they were the tears of the sky. Another wind blew up, wiping away the tears that stained her soft face at that moment. At this she genuinely smiled knowing what the wind was trying to tell her.

"Alright, alright my old friend, you win no more crying for me."

She felt the wind smile and whisper a word into her ear,

::Sleep...::

Sleep would feel good right about now, she had finished her moping, she could no more about her past except for trying to keep herself as far away from it. But, although she had just hoped...

"Bah! Humbug! As good old Scrooge would say. Can you find me a place to sleep in the sunshine my green friend?" She patted the earth under her.

The earth responding to her question, lifted her into the air, she laughed, feeling quite giddy and childish at the same time, the ground led her to a much higher hill which the afternoon sun shone down more brightly at the spot and warmed the ground. NM sighed softly and curled herself into a snuggled fetal position sighing in contentment and slipping into slumber, feeling suddenly weightless, as if all the problems of the world were handed to another. The grass, knowing how fast she fell sleep slowly crept over her, providing a blanket for her. NM sighed again in her sleep, and the grass was now content. It asked the wind to watch over her and to warn her if anything. The wind agreed, dispatching a small wind from itself to watch over her. The smaller wind blew through her hair, playing with it, as it watched and kept guard.

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