Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men
A/N: My first fic, please be nice and let me know what you think? #?# means telepathic speech.
12 – Discovery Cove
The following morning the X-Men and their charges left to go to Discovery Cove, this over all other parks was the one Crystal wanted to go to, It truly was a dream come true for Crystal, for there you could swim with a dolphin...
"Hey Crystal! Hello! Wakey wakey! Fine are you just going to sit there all day? 'Cos if you are I'll go talk to someone else," Sam said as they waited for the all clear to go explore the park.
"What? Oh no I'm just thinking about the first time I ever saw a dolphin. That was only last year and now I'm going swimming with one." Crystal replied coming out a daze.
"What's so good about a fish anyway?" Sam asked impatiently, itching to disappear off out of the adults reach.
"They aren't fish, they are mammals. And one of the cleverest animals in the world." Crystal replied.
"Mammals. Fish. Same thing." Sam replied.
"Not really, fish don't have lungs, mammals do. Fish are cold blooded, whereas mammals are warm blooded. Fish lay eggs, mammals don't..." Crystal informed her.
"For a ten year old you now a lot about dolphins," Sam said surprised.
"Well since I first saw a dolphin I've always loved them and I decided to learn as much about them as I could so when I was older I could go study them in the wild." Crystal replied as Storm approached.
"Right, seeing as this park is so small we are going to let you of on your own, we will meet for lunch here at eleven thirty and the dolphin swim is at one. Please keep your passes on you at all times. Your snorkels are here next to Gambit." She said before grabbing a set herself and walking off with Blaze.
"Finally, come on guys lets go round the river," Sam cried to her friends.
"I am so glad Jedda wasn't allowed to come here this place is so perfect I don't want her spoiling it," Crystal said as they were swept away by the fresh-water river.
By the time they stopped for dinner everyone was extremely excited, even the X-Men, though they weren't actually swimming with the dolphins
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"So where are all you guys from?" the trainer asked the group of kids, "Are you all together then?"
"Yes, we are these are students from a boarding school in Westchester, New York. They are here on a school trip, we are their teachers." Storm said to the trainer.
"Wow, impressive. You must be a rich school to be able to send so many students here," the trainer replied.
"The headmaster has a substantial account." Storm replied, "Now may we begin?"
"Certainly, you have been split into four groups, three of five and one of four. Each group will be allocated to a dolphin. Please obey the safety rules. Now Crystal, Wolfie, Ver, Sam and Iona you are group D for dolphin will you please follow Sarah down to the lagoon." The trainer said. The five girls stood up and went to the trainer waving to them.
"Interesting names you guy's have," Sarah the trainer said.
"Yeah at our school everyone has nicknames, Wolfie's called that because she eats like there was about to be a famine, constantly. Ver is short for Vertigo 'cos she's terrified of heights." Sam explained, quickly making up stories so the trainer wouldn't get to suspicious.
"Cool, I wish our teachers used our nicknames at school," Sarah said admiringly.
"Yeah well it is a private school and a boarding school so it's like we are all family rather than teachers and students." Wolfsbane said catching on.
"Nice. Anyway here we are and this is our dolphin, Calypso." Sarah said leading them into the water, "She's a four year old Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, now first we are going to say hello, so if you just wave your hand like this..." Sarah raised her hand to her shoulder and wove it side to side. The five girls mimicked her action and Calypso waved her fin and waved it around. Iona gasped as Sarah gave Calypso a fish as a reward.
"Would you like to give her a fish?" Sarah asked Iona turning round and offering her the bucket full of fish. Iona glanced anxiously to her friends then to Blaze and Storm on the beach.
"Go for it Iona," Sam encouraged her. Iona took a fish and threw it to the waiting dolphin. Calypso rose into the air then dashed off under water leaping into the air and doing a backspin. Everyone stopped to watch as dolphin after dolphin joined in until all four in that lagoon were jumping simultaneously.
All to soon it was time to leave and the nineteen students climbed into the coach to go back to the hotel. When they arrived back at the hotel Scott rushed out to meet them.
"She's gone, Jedda has run off!" Scott gasped as Ororo climbed down the steps to meet him.
