Disclaimer: Everything in this chapter belongs to me except Kris, Chane, TJ (Theresia), and Kiesha who belongs to MeadowLark4491, Xavier's school and all of the x-men belong to Marvel. Oh ya, Velvet, Brandon, Shara, Nea, and Christine belong to Kangaroobeedoodle. Enjoy!
McDoe
Brandon peeked his head into dorm 6C, "Anybody home?"
"Hey there," said Joel without looking up from the laptop in front of him on his bed.
"How many people are we rooming with?" Asked Brandon stepping into the medium sized dorm.
"Four, including us." As he said this the door opened and a young boy with deep blue fur like Mr. Wagner's entered.
"Hi Brandon," he said "Who are you?" he asked looking at Joel.
"My name's Joel, your name?"
"Chane Wagner."
"Nice to meet you, and you Brandon."
"How long have you been at this school?"
"About half a year." replied the sandy blond haired teen.
"Do you like it here?" asked Chane cautiously
"Yup, wait till you see the Arena, then you'll be impressed."
"Arena?" asked Brandon.
"Ya, It's a practice battle ground, it's real high tech."
"Have you ever battled there?" Chane asked.
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"I don't have offensive powers." said Joel.
"Oh."
"What are your powers?" Joel asked.
"I teleport," said Chane, "and then I have the obvious fur, tail and what-not."
"Cool, and you?" he asked directing his attention to Brandon.
"I phase, have superhuman speed, and I have white energy bolts."
"I wouldn't want to meet you in the Arena."
"Why, what do you do?"
"I have some superhuman abilities as well as superhuman intelligence, nothing all that offensive so I stay out of there, but you two sure could get some training in during PE."
"Sounds good." said Brandon, "But I'm tired,"
"Well pick a bed," Said Joel, "But there's one more person coming I think."
"Hmm, I wonder who it is..." mumbled Brandon as he flopped onto a bed and began to drift off. Then the door was flung open and closed quickly.
"Oh hi, Kris," Chane looked at his brother uneasily, "what's going on out there?"
"I told TJ to cool off and give this place a shot and she blew up."
"And now, you just showed her where we sleep!" exclaimed Brandon sitting up quickly. "I'll never sleep again!" he groaned lying back down.
"I doubt it." snorted Chane. Joel looked at them questioningly. "Oh sorry Joel," said Chane apologetically, "This is Kris my older brother, TJ is his twin sister and she isn't happy about being here."
"Oh, I think she'll like it when she does cool down."
"Once TJ's mad she stays that way for a while." said Kris knowingly,
"Oh well, now that we're all here I think we should hit the sack." suggested Joel,
"What sack?" asked Brandon, Joel rolled his eyes, "Jeese, I was kidding." said Brandon shaking his head as they settled down for the night.
Margret awoke the next morning a strange bed in a strange room surrounded by strangers. She sat up, too quickly, and then laid back down.
"Oh ya!" she said out loud,
"Huh?" asked Shelby, just waking up.
"Oh nothing, just remembering." Margret said sitting up, she glanced over at her clock, 8:00!"
"Oh no!" she exclaimed breakfast was in twenty minutes!
"What now?" asked TJ groggily.
"Breakfast is in fifteen minutes!" said Margret rousing the other girls with her exclamation. Shelby looked at the clock,
"How did we all oversleep the alarm? It's on."
"It doesn't matter," said Margret, "If we don't hurry the boys will get there first!" The room was in a panicked rush as they all got dressed and hurried down stairs to the dining hall.
"We made it!" gasped Shelby it had taken them twenty minutes to get out of the room, "Where is everyone?" she asked seeing no one around. Then a cook poked her head out of the kitchen and said,
"You're ten minutes early."
"How did that happen?" asked Margret, "I set my clock before last night to that one."
"Oh, that one's fast hon," replied the cook, "but since you're up why don't you give me a hand?"
"Um. Ok." said Shelby looking at the others. They followed the cook back into the kitchen.
"Will you just set up this food on that table over there," she directed, "start with the fruit and end with the donuts." she added.
"Humph." was all that TJ said. After about five minutes of set-up a line began to form at the beginning the the tables.
"You five go first." said the lunch lady, "I appreciated the help."
"You're welcome." said Nea politely. They went to the front of the line and unhooked the ropes keeping the kids from the food then led the line along the tables. When Margret had filled her plate to its limits she went to the table where TJ sat with a couple others Margret guessed to be her friends from Xavier's one girl had layered red hair, there was another girl with white hair and dark skin like Ororo's. Over to one side of them Katrina and Velvet sat with the rest of the girls from her room. She sat down across from TJ and smiled.
"Hi I'm Margret." she said introducing herself to the other two girls.
"I'm Kiesha Wagner." replied the white haired girl.
"Hi..." said the red haired girl, "I'm Shara."
"Nice to meet you all," said Margret, "Good morning TJ."
"Go away." snapped TJ irritably. Margret eyed her thoughtfully.
"Ok, I will." she smiled, but before she could get up a boy with dark skin black hair, and blue eyes came over.
"Hi Teej. Mind if I sit here?" he asked Margret gesturing to the seat next to her."
"Actually I was just leaving to find a more friendly bunch of people."
"TJ!" cried Kris. "You don't have to take your anger out on everyone else!"
"Yes I do." replied TJ flatly.
"Sorry about my sister, I'm Kris Wagner." he said extending his hand.
"Oh, you don't need to apologize, I'm Margret McDoe."
"Wait." said TJ suddenly, "did you just say your last name is McDoe?"
"You're the headmistress's kid?" said Kris slowly, processing this new bit of information.
"And you're TJ's twin."
"Uh, yeah."
"I room with the headmistress's kid!" cried TJ.
"Um, I'll be going now." said Margret getting up, "Nice meeting you Kris." Margret walked over to the rest of the girls and plopped down next to Shelby.
"You're not wanted over there?" Shelby asked.
"Nope, it seems that TJ thinks I'll rat her out if she does anything."
"Why?"
"I'm the headmistress's kid remember."
"Oh."
"Do they think that just because I'm the headmistress's kid that I don't do pranks?"
"I don't know but I'm sure once they get to know you they will be more friendly." That's Shelby for you thought Margret to herself, hoping for the best. Not that there was anything wrong with that, if only there were more people like her... Margret was pulled out of her thoughts by a clatter behind her. She turned to see Katrina picking herself off the ground wincing, and she could hear Nicole's wicked laughter.
"Oh, I'm going to hurt that girl." said Margret getting up oblivious to Shelby's subtle warnings.
"Hey Nicole!" called Margret.
"What do you want McDoe?"
"I want you to leave Katrina alone."
"Why should I?" She sneered.
"Why do you pick on people smaller than you?" Margret asked.
"Because I can."
"Why don't you pick on someone bigger than you."
"Uh-"
"Do you have emotions inside you need to talk about?" asked Margret mocking her. Nicole stared at her open mouthed, then snapping her jaw shut she turned and stormed off. Margret turned around to Katrina,
"Are you ok?"
"Yes."
"What did she do?" asked Margret.
"Tripped me." She winced as Margret helped her to a bench.
"What hurts?"
"My wrist." Margret saw a purple bruise forming. Shelby rushed over followed discreetly by Velvet,
"Katrina are you ok!" asked Shelby. Katrina nodded wincing. "Here, let me see." she reached out her hand and touched Katrina's arm. Velvet, who had been looking over Shelby's shoulder held her breath as the bruise disappeared. Katrina flexed her hand and smiled at Shelby.
"She says thank you." said Margret.
"Anytime." Shelby smiled.
"Well, I for one have not finished my breakfast," said Margret, "And we have about five minutes." They hurried through the rest of their meal and they all headed off to their first classes.
