Tolly: This is a short (I hope) fanfic about the characters created by my psychotic Stowie friends, Jess and Georgina. Also featuring my own character, of course.

Disclaimer: I do not own the X-men. However, Pix is mine, Glitch is Georgina's, and Fauve belongs to Jess.

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"Mother, please! Don't do this!" Pix's mother seemed deaf to her pleas, as she dragged Pix from the house. Desperate, Pix looked to her father, glaring down at her.

"Daddy! Listen to me! You can't just abandon me! I'm still your daughter!"

Her father looked away. "I have no daughter."

The door was slammed in her tear-streaked face, but doors posed no problem for Pix. She concentrated and vanished from the doorstep, leaving behind only a puff of iridescent dust. When she suddenly appeared inside the house, she was greeted by a shriek from her mother, and her father's pistol was pointed straight at her.

"Mutants have no place among us." Her father growled.

Pix realized that they would not change their minds, and envisioned a place that was as far away as her powers allowed. One last tear fell from her violet eyes, and she teleported herself away from her home.

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Pix awoke with a start. It had been four years since her parents had disowned her, but the memory of it still haunted her dreams. Stupid dreams.

Getting up from the couch, she checked the clock, wondering how much time she had spent napping. Good, she still had an hour before she had to leave. Pix had recently begun using her power to do magic tricks for money, and tonight, she had scored a gig at a local theatre, which was sponsoring a talent search.

Pix went into the kitchen, turning on the radio as she went by. As country music filled her small apartment, she rummaged through her cupboards, hoping to find something she could use for dinner. But as she opened the fridge, the radio station switched itself, and Toby Keith was replaced by Flogging Molly.

Frowning, Pix changed it back. No sooner had she turned around then the music shifted again. This process was repeated twice more before she realized what was going on. She smiled and called out, "You can come out now, you two!"

"Hello, Pix!" said Glitch cheerfully as she emerged from her hiding place in Pix's bedroom. The English girl had been using her ability to manipulate electronic devices to mess with Pix's radio. She was soon joined by her Irish friend Fauve.

"Took you long enough." said Fauve, helping herself to a bag of chips.

"Yeah, well, I just woke up. My brain isn't properly functioning yet." Pix answered. She glanced at Fauve. "And those aren't yours."

"They are now." Fauve grinned, and turned her back to Pix.

Pix held out her hand, focusing until a small cyclone of sparkling dust formed above her palm. The dust spun faster and faster, and finally scattered as the bag of chips appeared in her hand.

"Hey!" whined Fauve. "You used pixie dust!" She turned to Glitch for support. "She used her powers against me!"

"Are you familiar with the expression 'fighting fire with fire'?" said Glitch suggestively.

With a grin, Fauve turned back to Pix, and held out her hand palm up. In the center of each of Fauve's hands was a knife scar, mementos of the night her parents were killed, and the night she had received her mutant ability. Now, a ball of blue flame spurted from her scar, and it floated menacingly above her palm.

Pix, knowing better than to test Fauve's aim even if she did have teleportation skills, threw the bag back to her. "Fine, be that way. And put that out before you set off the smoke alarm."

"Spoil my fun." Fauve muttered, putting out the flame and happily munching the chips.

Pix stuck her tongue out at her and turned to Glitch. "So, why are you here? Besides wanting to screw around with my radio and steal my chips."

"We're escorting you the show, of course!" said Glitch.

"It's not for another hour, and I can get there fine on my own." said Pix. "On second thought, you could save me a trip or two if you help carry some things."

"I told you she'd put us to slave labor." said Fauve to Glitch.

"No complaining; I only need a few things. For example, Glitch, could you braid my hair?"

"Aye, aye, Captain." Glitch saluted her.

"And, Fauve, I charge you with the responsibility of protecting a magician's best friends." Pix ducked into her bedroom and came back out, carefully carrying a box which was covered by a cloth.

"A magician's best friends? What would that be? A deck of cards? A magic wand and hat?" Fauve guessed. Pix removed the cloth, and Fauve peeked inside. "But-but I thought you said bunnies were too cliché!"

Smiling, Pix took one of the three baby rabbits out of the box. "That's my style of magic. I take something that seems cliché and make it kick ass."

"How can you make pulling rabbits out of a hat kick ass?"

"You'll have to find out with the rest of the audience, won't you?" Pix said, putting the bunny back in the box. "A good magician never reveals her secrets."

"Secrets, huh?" Fauve smirked. "So, you're not going to reveal the fact that you're a mutant, or that you're underage and shouldn't be allowed to own an apartment, or--"

"Fauve?"

"Yes?"

"Shut up."

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Tolly: So there's chapter one. And I have a question for y'all: which of the X-men should be sent to fetch these three young mutants? They may or may not end up as part of Pix's magic show…