Tolly: Yay! I finally updated! I think there's a tiny LXG reference in here, so I'll use "Disclaim" as a battle cry. Wow, that came out weird.
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Pix woke up on the floor, under a pile of blankets. She opened one eye to see Glitch sprawled on the top bunk and Fauve on the bottom bunk. Turning her head groggily, she looked at the single bed. On that bed was a very contented-looking cat, which had an odd pattern of dots and swirls across its nose and under its right eye. Pix stared sleepily at it for a little, then closed her eyes and snuggled back under the blankets.
"Are you going to be getting up anytime soon?" A girl's voice asked.
"Mm?" Pix lifted her head again, but Glitch and Fauve were still asleep. Confused, she looked around.
"Right here," said the voice again. "On the bed."
Pix stared at the cat again. "Um, are you talking?"
The cat nodded.
"I'm still asleep, then."
"Nope!" said the cat, jumping down and walking right up to Pix's face. "Welcome to Mutant High." The cat transformed into a girl about Pix's age, with the same markings across her face. "I'm called Zue, by the way."
"Who're you talkin' to?" Glitch muttered sleepily.
"A cat," said Pix. "At least, she was a cat."
"Mmkay." Glitch apparently was too sleepy to comprehend anything yet.
The door burst open. "Are they awake yet, Zue?" said the girl who had just entered. She looked around. "Oops, guess not. Have you seen Yuki anywhere?"
"She ran away, died, and I hid her under the floorboards. What?" responded Zue.
Pix, meanwhile, hid her head under the blankets. It was much too early for all this.
"The Professor told me to come and get you all," said the newcomer. She tried waking Glitch and Fauve, but they just groaned and rolled over.
"Just splash them, Rhain," suggested Zue.
"But there's no water to do it with," said Rhain, looking around.
Pix stuck a hand out of the covers, and pointed to her backpack against the wall. Rhain went over and found the water bottle inside it. "Thanks," she said. "Now watch this."
She handed the water bottle to Zue, who then squirted some into the air. Rhain moved her hands in gentle motions and the water didn't fall to the floor, but gathered into a large bubbled in midair. Another motion, and the bubble floated over Glitch. With a wicked grin, Rhain lowered her hands quickly, and the bubbled landed right on Glitch's head.
Glitch yelled and sat up, sopping wet. "Pix!"
"I didn't do it," replied Pix, automatically, and she pointed to the two other mutants.
Fauve woke up and looked around. "What's going on? What'd I miss?"
Glitch merely glared, sparks dancing over her soaking head.
"Well, now that everyone's awake," said Zue cheerfully. "Let's go introduce you to Professor Xavier."
"But I'm all wet!" whined Glitch.
"No problem." Rhain slowly gathered every water droplet off of Glitch and put it back into a bubble. Zue opened the cap on the water bottle, and Rhain poured the water back in. "Get up, get dressed, and get going. We'll be waiting outside."
"On the bright side," said Fauve as she dressed. "It looks like this place will at least be interesting. Up, Pix!" For Pix was still under her pile of blankets on the floor. Fauve kicked the mound.
"I'm awake!" Pix snapped. "And I'm changing, too! See?" She threw the blankets off, revealing her fully-clothed self. She was wearing a tank-top and capris which had, up until a moment ago, been in her backpack. She hadn't even gotten up to get them.
"How did you--?" began Glitch, brushing her short, dyed-plum hair
Pix grinned, held out her hand and teleported one of her flip-flops to herself.
"Cheater," muttered Fauve.
"Why, Fauve," Glitch said in mock-surprise. "Are you jealous?"
"Jealous of what? I don't have to shake pixie dust out of my clothes, do I?" She pointed to Pix, whose clothes were indeed filled with the sparkling stuff. "And my hair is naturally an unnatural color."
Glitch mussed her friend's blue hair. "We could always dye yours, Fauve. What do you think, Pix? Orange?"
"Definitely blonde." Pix answered. "Come on, Rhain and Zue are waiting for us, remember?"
"Hang on. Some of us have to do things to get ready in the morning."
"What's the point? My braid is still good, so I don't need to take it out and brush my hair, and unlike you, I don't wear make-up. Makes my mornings a lot simpler."
"Are you guys coming?" Zue's voice came from outside the door.
"Hold your horses!" Pix shouted back. A whinny and a snort answered her, then the sound of a hoof against the door.
Fauve flung open the door in time to see Zue change back into human form. Peering over Fauve's shoulder, Pix realized that Rhain wasn't present. She spotted her a short distance down the hall, conducting a water bubble over Fauve's head. Pix grabbed Fauve and teleported them both out of the way of the bubble, which splashed harmlessly to the floor.
"Oh, come on!" said Rhain. "That was a perfect shot!"
Fauve set fire to Rhain's sleeve, and Rhain doused it quickly.
"Come on, the professor's still waiting," said Zue. The four of them started down the hall.
"Wait!" cried Glitch, finally coming out of the room. The others paid no attention. Spying an electrical outlet on the wall, she concentrated on becoming pure electricity and jumped into the circuitry. Fast as a bolt of lightening, she sped through the wires and emerged from an outlet just ahead of the other girls.
"Hey!" said a startled Rhain. "How did you do that?"
"Oh, God," sighed Fauve. "Don't even ask. It probably involves physics."
"No! Anything but that!" cried Zue melodramatically.
"Well, my freaky darlings," said Pix, putting an arm over Glitch's and Fauve's shoulders. "I don't know about you, but I think I'm going to like this place."
"You might change your mind after karaoke night," said Rhain with mock seriousness. "I think one of the guys shattered glass last time."
"Of course he did. It was Banshee," said Zue.
"Oh yeah."
"We'll fit right in," said Fauve.
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Tolly: I know it was kind of an odd place to end a chapter, but they'd probably go off on a tangent. More so than they already have, of course. Sorry, Yuki, you'll be in the next one. And Blood, you sleep in the daytime. Any rate, please R&R!