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Chapter Three: No longer alone
Tiger cursed herself under a breath for the seventh time after entering the room of cold metal and wires. Icy claws sliced the skin of her cheek lightly with little effort as she dodged so carefully. She should have seen it coming or at least been more careful. Her opponents claws where longer then hers, though fewer. Tiger would have to get closer to him in order to his an affective blow and leave a mark. Then she would have just a little time to get herself back far enough before being knocked away. No such luck. Being able to slip passed Wolverines next move she struck out and left five long trails of blood on his chest and neck. The wonders of him healing right before her however had made her pause in aww. Hesitation was her biggest mistake. At sight of this her teacher took opportunity to kick out her legs and knock her aside painfully.
"Enough for today...see ya later kid." Logan told her somewhat coldly before walking out.
Tiger was to stunned to move from where she had fallen. She held her side and watch her claws recoil underneath her fingers slowly popping back into the bone. He had the gift to heal almost instantly...while she took at least one or two days at least. Or maybe a couple hours if she was lucky. Yet, still it took time. Not just a second so you could see it healing before your eyes. That was...amazing.
After nearly half an hour she pulled herself up from the floor a hand on her side softly caressing the bruising ribs. Tiger found it hard to believe a teacher had actually hit her without caring at all and left her there to lie in pain not even asking if she was okay. To think this was only the first day of her training. Who knew what was to come from here? Limping her way too the room she called her own Tiger took to wrapping and mending her wounds. Covering them well before making her way out into the halls on her way to where the sweet smell of flowers found the way to tickle her senses from. The halls where strangely dark and big though well lit by the sunlight that found a way though the large windows on either side of the halls. She never noticed how long they where before, but wounded they seemed forever long. As did the steps, all though it wasn't so bad walking down the halls then the stairs when it felt you might fall at any given moment.
Just as she might have made her way out the door a girl calling her name and a hand on her shoulder interrupted her. Turning around Tiger was face to face with a girl she knew as Jubilee. A somewhat quite girl as she had come to know her that was very interested in evolution.
"Jubilee..." Tiger said in a mellow toned voice with little interest, just wanting to get away.
"You shouldn't move to much like that you know? Come on...get to bed or something. Training had to be hard even on you right?"
Normally Tiger would have brushed the girl away without caring. With Jubilee however something was different. It was as if they had an unknown connection that she couldn't exactly pinpoint just yet. Obviously the other girl felt so as well otherwise she wouldn't care so much about whether she had rest or not. So even though every bit of herself wanted her to go to the flowers she allowed the young Asian looking to pull her the whole way up to her room and look after her wounds without argument. Estranging bits and pieces about their lives. There was nothing to say. Perhaps this Pyro would forgive her for not showing this one time. If not there was nothing she could do.
John had waited for almost the whole day since lunch, not being the usual prince of patens it was a rather big deal when she hadn't shown at all. Running a hand a crossed his slicked back hair he amused himself awhile longer playing with his fire making it roll along his hands before finally putting it out in anger. There was no gap in his emotions, they went from sadness to anger in mere seconds. Moving with the grace of a fire he made his way in for dinner and to find his friends.
The sun had faded spreading its colors a cross the skies for one last brilliant glow a cross the land. It was late evening now and the lights where turned brighter in the academy so that the students could see around the large inner works of the school. At any rate, John's mood didn't seem to improve over dinner noticing that the new girl wasn't there either. So he never even had a chance to speak with her about why she hadn't come. It would be more her explaining and him getting vastly annoyed rather then him speaking with her but that was his ideal of it anyway but what did that matter.
Bobby leaned over so he was in his friends sight looking him in the eyes, "Hey John, you listening man?" he asked knowing already that he hadn't been.
"Oh...yeah. Continue..." John recovered quickly form his thoughts and turned his attention to whatever Rouge had been saying as she tucked stripe of white hair behind her ear.
Jubilee had been a lot like her before coming here Tiger liked that. It seemed that trust was easily found between the two girls and not so much questioned as it was on the streets. Jubilee had missed dinner to stay and make sure Tiger was all right slowly the aches in her side seemed to evaporate or vanish as the other girl talked. Telling more about the school and kid there. However, the meeting with Pyro did not easily disappear from her thoughts, as everything else seemed to. And as the other girl went to go Tiger found herself asking about the one known as Pyro.
Jubilee looked as if she had just been struck as she turned to face her new friend, "Pyro?" She repeated as if to make sure she had heard correctly. Once she was sure she had she continued, "I won't say anything about him good or bad. You have to decide for him yourself. He's a fire master that goes by the name John. A little rough around the edges but he have reasons to be like everyone else. Why so interested in him?"
"I'm not I just received a thing asking to meet him...not interested at all. Good night then." Tiger answered coolly, making it perfectly clear she didn't intend on talking more.
As Jubilee left however with a quite good by of her own her mind started to put the information together. So Pyro was interested in getting to know Tiger hmm? And Tiger was heading somewhere before Jubilee had stopped her. They must have had some kind of arrangement set up. She would just have to have a talk with John if he didn't except Tiger's reasons for missing. It all depended on how tomorrow goes. She thought to herself smiling. Her talk with John would not be a fun one for him. Electricity jumped from finger to finger playfully as she made herself to her room.
Okay...done with chapter three. Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for all the reviews everyone. I tried to put as much of the advice given from them in this chapter. Tell me what you think please...am I doing well so far? Forgive me from my many mistakes in this I'm not so good at grammar and such. Also I'm kinda just learning this whole system thing. I hope you like the story anyway. Well got to get going on the next chapter so see you all again soon. Bye byes
