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A/N: My first fic, please be nice and let me know what you think? #?# means telepathic speech.

09 – The Airport

The next morning was chaos, complete chaos. Iona came up to Crystal's room to find Jedda there silently bending over a sleeping Crystal with a knife. Iona screamed and woke up Crystal who saw Jedda and screamed too. She kicked up and sent Jedda sprawling on the floor. Logan, Storm, Rogue, Sam, Vertigo and Wolfsbane burst in to see what the matter was. Logan grabbed Jedda and hauled her away while Sam and Rogue helped Crystal get up. Iona was still shaking and Vertigo had to steady her.

"Are you alright girls?" Storm asked.

"Yeah it's lucky Iona arrived when she did otherwise I'd be toast." Crystal said to Storm walking over to Iona to comfort her.

"I can't believe she did that, I knew she was downright unsociable, but a murderer?" Rogue said slightly confused.

"Hey guys come on already we'll miss the plane if we don't get a move on!" Sam said grabbing Crystal's case and walking out of the room followed by Wolfsbane, Storm, Rogue and Iona being supported by Vertigo. Crystal stayed a moment to check her stuff then followed her friends.

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Despite the mornings action the journey was pretty smooth, Jedda was alowed to come but was kept along way from Crystal. There were twenty students coming altogether and four X-Men, Storm, Blaze, Gambit and Cyclops. Vixen hadn't come back so she wasn't going and neither was Logan.

When they got to the airport and were booked in the kids were allowed to take ten dollars each to spend on things for the journey. They were told not to wander off on their own but to stay with at least one other person. Jedda had to stay with the X-Men. Gambit and Vertigo wore shades to cover their eyes and each of the groups was given a radio, just in case, then they were off.

"Where shall we go first?" Iona asked.

"The book shop or the games shop?" Vertigo asked.

"Book shop. I think we'll be less likely to run into Jedda," Crystal said, "Anyway all my books at home were ruined."

"Okay, but let's not spend too long in there I want to get some sweets," Sam said.

They spent ten minutes of their hour in the bookshop. They agreed to only have ten minutes in each shop so they could visit more. Crystal somehow managed to get the three Artemis Fowl books for only three dollars and Wolfsbane got the latest of 'The Series of Unfortunate Events'.

They next went into the games shop and had a talk to Rogue and her boyfriend Bobby. Iona bought them a pack of cards and a miniature chessboard. They left the shop arguing that by the end of the flight Iona will have lost half her pieces.

Then they went top the sweet shop and Sam stocked up on as many sweets as she could carry. Next the duty free where all of them got a box of chocolates. Vertigo got a bottle of perfume to as she had used the last of hers that morning.

Then they went to the coffee shop and got a round of drinks and cakes before heading to their gate where they were to meet. When they got there only the X-Men were there with Jedda.

"You're here early girls," Storm said when she saw them.

"Yeah well we spent up so we decided to come here rather than look at stuff we can't buy," Sam said.

"Really I didn't think Crystal could spend up," Blaze said, "Do you guys want a game of top trumps?"

"What's that?" Vertigo asked as the five friends walked over.

"It's a card game, watch and learn," Crystal said joining in immediately.

After three games of Crystal beating them, all the final people drifted in and they began to board the plane. The school had got twenty-four seats in the first class section of the plane so they were allowed to board first.

The five girls were sat in two rows of three with, unfortunately, Jedda. Sam volunteered to sit between Crystal and Jedda so they couldn't get at each other. Vertigo, Wolfsbane and Iona started to play cards while Sam and Crystal talked and played chess.