4: Confrontations

Bobby Drake opened the door to Cyclops's office without knocking. There was no need to. Only the students ever knocked.

"You wanted to see me Scott?" He asked, sitting in an overstuffed love seat.

"Yes, our new student requested you as their Advisor." Summers cut right to the chase.

"Really!" Bobby sat up straight, "I'll accept, of course." Bobby didn't bother to hide his glee. Even though he was in his mid twenties, everyone on the X-men treated him like a kid. This might give him more respect.

"I know you will," Summers voice changed. It was now grave, and very father like, "I'm not too sure your ready."

Bobby looked fiercely at Summers. "I've been waiting to do this forever. Even Gambit has a student." Bobby didn't scream, but was on the verge of it. He was so goddamn tired of this crap.

"Ok, but this is a large responsibility. And once one student joins, there will be others. You need to be prepared."

"I will be."

Blood was seated between the gold skinned boy and Dave/Prodigy by Mr. McCoy. He could feel tension in the air. Blood guessed that the gold skinned boy had some sort of grudge against him. Or Blood had done something wrong by not choosing a squad. Did everyone already know about what he had said? Did news travel that quickly here?

"Hey, your that new kid, right?' The gold skinned boy asked with a New York accent.

"Yeah," Blood responded emotionlessly.

"You sat with Laurie at lunch?" The boy said, more of a statement than a question

"Yep." Blood studied the board.

"How did you get past her...Never mind… You know, she's an outcast."

"I figured that much." Blood smiled a bit at his rudeness.

"Take care of her. We used to be friends…" The gold boy said, looking forward.

"Really? Why aren't you know." Blood asked, now a bit interested.

"I can't get near her. She put of a fear wall. We dated for a while and I cheated." The gold boy looked ashamed, "Just take care of her…"

"I will." Blood patted the boy's shoulder.

"By the way... I'm Josh Foley." The gold boy smiled, "You can call me Elixir if you like.

"Blood Wolf." Blood took his hand away form Josh's back and returned to his work.

"Is that your real name?" Elixir asked.

Blood left Mr. McCoy's genetics class and headed for the courtyard where Iceman was waiting for him. Blood opened the mansion side door and stepped out and was met by a warm sunlight. He smiled, breathing in the fresh air, then walked to the courtyard greenhouse. He was halfway there, when he was intercepted by Julian and the rock boy.

"Hew Newbie." The rock boy said aggressively.

"Hey new kid. Rockslide here is looking for some practice before we head for the D room. Wanna help?" Julian smirked.

"I would, but I'm late." Blood tried to push past them.

"Then I guess you'll be late." Julian gave another smirk, then Rockslide stood close to Blood, blocking the sunlight. Rockslide tried to push Blood, but Blood easily dodged the feeble attack. Blood continued to walk to the greenhouse when he was sent flying forward. He stumbled, then turned on his back to see Rockslide's hand next to him. Now Rockslide was charging at Blood, one hand missing.

Blood slipped to the side as Rockslide smashed the ground. Blood then jumped into the air, pulling out a switchblade. He cut a small incision into each of his hands, letting a couple drops of blood cover his palms. Blood landed and opened his hands, palms up. In each palm, the blood expanded from it's original size and formed the shape of an Katana. The blood solidified, and Blood stood in a crouching position, waiting for the next attack.

"You wan to play with swords huh?" Julian held out his palm, and another katana flew towards him. Julian leveled it and stepped towards Blood. "Well, I'm an expert swordsman."

Julian made a slicing motion at Blood's chest, but Blood turned and cut into Julian's shoulder. Julian's sword clashed against Blood's, and it became a battle of strength. Blood pushed against Julian's sword, waitng for the right moment. Julian was winning the battle of strength, with his sword almost at Blood's neck. Blood smiled.

Blood's sword liquefied, and blood parried behind Julian, Julian's sword narrowly missing his neck. Then the sword re solidified and Blood had his sword aimed for Julian's back.

"Yield." Blood said. Julian dropped his sword and spoke, "Good job." Julian laughed and walked off, after Rockslide reattached his own hand.

Blood continued to trudge on, his back now hurting from were Rockslide had launched his arm at him. He found the greenhouse and slowly opened the door.