--- Syaoran ---
For the rest of the day, Rogue had shown the two around the mansion and told
them all the secrets of surviving at the school, like waking up extra early to get a hot
shower, to coaxing Mr. McCoy to let you out of the Med Lab with baked goods.
They met most of the students in the school; all of them were very nice, and tried
to make them feel at home. Finally, the afternoon rolled around, and with it, afternoon
danger room sessions. Rogue walked them back to their rooms before going back to hers,
telling them she'd meet up with them in the danger room.
Syaoran went to his room, which he found out earlier that he shared with Kurt,
with no idea what to do. Kurt, who had already finished changing, asked him what was
wrong.
"Umm, the professor told to wear a suit like yours, but I don't see any." He
looked around, a little uncomfortable. He could always wear his ceremonial fighting
robes, he thought.
"don't vorry," Kurt said, eagerly bamfing all over the room looking for is outfit.
"I –bamf- know –bamf- it's gotta –bamf- be here –bamf- somewhere! –bamf- Ahh, found
it!" Syaoran opened the closet, hearing the boy's voice coming from around it. The blue
boy was holding up a black body suit with slashes of forest green across it.
"Well, go put it on, before ve are late," the mutant said, going outside of the room
to give Syaoran privacy to change.
Syaoran came out five minutes later, inspecting his outfit. His sleeves went
halfway down his upper arms, which would make it easier for him to parry with his
sword- no cloth restricting him. Slung around his waist were two black belts, held
together and in place with one yellow buckle with the 'X' emblem on it; they were
perfect for holding a few extra items, like a dagger or a few potions. His pants hugged
tight to his legs until a little before his knees, creating some space for him to hide a
throwing knife- perfect. And the last touch was a zip up collar that could unzip one-fourth
ways down his chest- that way, he could keep his ying yang sword pendant hidden.
Finishing up the outfit with light but sturdy boots, he approved of the outfit immensely.
"Hey, Syaoran- wow!" The blue boy looked at his outfit. "Man, zat looks really
good on you- but ve have to get going!"
He was about to grab on to the Chinese boy and bamf them into the danger room
when Syaoran said, "wait a second." Kurt watched stunned, as Li opened his bags and
pulled out, one by one, various weapons and hid them in his outfit.
"Whoa! Do you usually carry around thiz many weapons?" Li smirked.
"No, actually, I usually carry more." The blue boy shook his head at him before
grabbing his arm and bamfing them to the danger room.
Once inside, he caught sight of Eva, who was also wearing a bodysuit, though
hers was ice blue on navy blue, and the cut was different. Hers had a v- neck with a
normal shirt collar, and her sleeves went all the way down to her hands where they
gripped the backside of her hands, giving her protection from attack. She was also
wearing contacts, something she normally did anyways, for dependably better vision.
He noticed a lot of the girls checking him out, as the boys also did to Eva. He
stopped himself from rolling his eyes; he couldn't stand swooning girls. Eva completely
ignored the attention, ready to get to work.
Soon after, the man everyone called Wolverine walked in, looking at the new
recruits with measured ease. The professor came in shortly after.
"Students," the professor began, "I'd like you to greet our two new students, Li
Syaoran and Eva Hiachi, if you have not met them yet." Everyone mumbled their hellos.
"Oh, and I should mention, their powers are very different from ours. You see, these two
are not mutants, they are sorcerers," The group broke out into chatter at that- they were
sorcerers? They mostly thought. "Actually, Li is the head of a prominent group of
sorcerers. Eva also happens to be, from what I understand, a knives master, correct?"
Eva nodded politely. "Like, really? That's so cool!" The chipper brunette said,
excited.
" ...S'makin' my head spin..." Rogue mumbled. "soon enough, they'll be telling
me that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny are real." A few students snickered.
"now if everyone would please in order state their names and powers, giving our
two new students a brief display."
"Hey, I'm Spike," said the dark skinned blond boy whom they had met earlier. "I
can grow out spikes, a shoot them at enemies. He displayed by shooting off two bits of
wood.
"I'm Bobby," said a blond haired boy, "and I can transform into and create ice."
He created an ice heart handing it to Eva, who looked at it with mild interest before
putting it down, discouraging the boy.
"M' Rogue, n' ah already explained about mah powahs." Nobody said anything to
that.
"I'm Jamie, also known as Multiple" he said as one of the other students gave him
a light push and he broke into two replicas of himself. "and this is my power," They said
in unison.
"I'm kitty," said the girl who had showed the in. "I can go through solid objects,"
she said, walking through Spike. Spike looked a little surprised. But it quickly wore off.
"I'm Scott," said shades, staring intensely at Li. " I can shoot laser beams with my
eyes." He picked up the ice heart and threw it in the air, before blasting it into million
pieces. Bobby was glowering.
"I'm Amara, you already met me," she said nicely, as her body turned into fire.
"This is my power."
"As you know, my name viz Kurt," said the blue elf, "But I am also known as ze
incredible Nightcrawler!" a few of his teammates laughed companionably at his
statement.
"And I'm Jean," The tall red head said, avoiding the Chinese boy's gaze. " I have
telepathic powers," she demonstrated by lifting herself into the air.
"Well, now that everyone has introduced themselves," The professor spoke, "It is
time to test our new recruits." He looked at the two Asians. "Before you work with the
team, Logan is going to run a simulation testing your abilities. This way, we can see your
strengths, weaknesses, and ability level. Just wave your hands to tell us when you can no
longer fight, and we will turn off the simulation or Kurt will port you out."
Li nodded in understanding. Eva said a low, "understood."
"Then get ready," Logan said in his usual low growl. Everyone left the room in
exception for the sorcerers.
They heard the computer state, "Simulation beginning in 5-4-3-2-1-"... and that's
when the fun began.
Immediately after countdown, they saw a single robot coming their way. Li
arched his eyebrow. From the way the students went on about this room with fear, he'd
thought it'd be more of a challenge. Eva seemed to be thinking along the same lines, too.
"Let me handle this one," she said, before she chanted and the two gold rings she
wore on each of her middle fingers transformed into small, transparent throwing knives.
The Mutants watched with interest as one of Eva's knives began to slightly glow with
blue light. She made a throwing motion, and the blue energy flew out of the crystal knife,
still holding the shape of a dagger, and hit the robot square in it's chest. It blew apart,
pieces of ice ripping through the droid with uncanny ease.
"Whoa," Multiple finally wheezed, saying what was on everyone's mind.
Eva, on the other hand, looking up to the station, shouted, "How about you give
us a challenge? Skip the easy part." Logan was all to ready to comply. He went directly
to level five, where most of the year-old recruits lost. The older ones could make it to six,
or even seven, and only the adults could make it to eight or nine. Wolverine was the only
one to make it to ten.
The students watched with awe as the two sorcerers ripped through their
obstacles- Eva transporting herself out of danger in a halo of white light only to end up in
a strategically better position to tear apart the machines with her deadly knives. Li, on the
other hand, would simply summon up elements with his hands- throw fireballs, rain
thunderbolts, create wind shields, and shoot water- and all of these elemental attacks
were incredibly destructive.
As time went on, the simulation got increasingly harder- Eva and Li, who had for
the most part been working independently of each other, started working together. Eva's
trick of porting into weak spots no longer worked- whenever she got there, she wouldn't
have enough time to throw a knife before she herself would be hit.
She ported over to Li's side- He was having trouble destroying all the projectiles
flying his way. He had already been nicked by a razor disc on the arm; luckily the cut
was shallow. Once there, she helped fend off the flying objects before grabbing onto his
arm and porting him, too, into the laser's blind spots. While he created a wind shield
repelling all attacks, the knives master worked her magic (literally) and took them out
with a lightning fast barrage of fire and ice knives with deadly accuracy.
She ported them back into a circle of robots, each of them ready to strike with
various weapons, but the Li heir pulled Eva closer before summoning an erratic
downpour of lightning around the two of them, effectively demolishing all the bots.
Then Syaoran let Eva go, only to do a complicated dance around one of the
sentinel simulations, giving the girl time to strike a few decisively fatal blows.
Meanwhile, their onlookers watched with bated breaths- they were at level eight,
a feat in itself, fighting to get to level nine.
But sadly, the twosome were starting to lose- Eva had taken a bad hit to the head,
and Li, who had already been hit several times, but endured it, was getting a little
unstable on his legs. They watched with anxiety as Eva chose to port in a bad spot and
get repeatedly hit by the lasers- she waved her hands in defeat.
"Go get er', fuzz ball." Logan said to Kurt, who quickly complied. He came back
an instant later with a thoroughly beaten up Eva and was nursing a bruised hand.
"Ouch!" he cried, rubbing his hand before helping Eva up. "It's a war zone in
there! I was in there for only a moment and I was hit!" Eva merely shrugged as he helped
bring her down to the Med Lab- she hadn't gotten really hurt; she'd just sport a bunch of
nicks and bruises for a few days.
With Eva out of the running, Li was having a bad time of it himself- for every ten
projectiles sent at him now, he was hit by at least one. He set up a wind shield as various
objects barraged him from all sides.
He couldn't hold on to the shield forever, though, and as soon as he dropped it he
was hit by two metal balls and a laser before he could even try to evade them. Halfway
through a backhand spring, he yet again summoned the erratic lightning, though now,
they saw, he himself had gotten slightly singed by one of the smaller bolts. The lightning
gave him a quarter of a second to escape before the onslaught came again- but this time,
he was too tired to evade them. He got hit several times. He followed Eva's suit and
threw up his hands.
"Simulation Terminated" The computer spoke, as all the weapons went lifeless
and hid back in the walls.
While all the students poured out into the room to help Li, Logan read the
computer screen with slight disbelief. In bright red words, it was flashing SIMULATION
TERMINATED: LEVEL NINE. On their first tries, Eva ha made into level eight and the
Li boy had just gotten in to level nine, an impressing feat, especially at such a young age.
He looked out onto the room where Syaoran sat, immobile, surrounded by the team.
"Whoa, man! That was hella cool!" Evan said, falling into his city accent, as Scott
helped Syaoran get to the Med Lab, the team trailing behind them.
"Yeah, you two totally trashed the place!" Bobby laughed, remembering all the
debris on the ground.
Li kept stoically silent, smiling in thanks to their praises, as they entered the Med
Lab, where Eva was sitting, getting checked up by the newly acquainted Mr. McCoy.
Kitty was bubbling. "That was so, like, totally awesome, you two!" she exploded,
jumping around. "You must be the first two students to make it this far- and you did it on
your first day!" she squealed with laughter.
"Shit ya'll two pack a punch," Rogue said. Kitty looked at her reprovingly, clearly
giving her a 'no bad language around the younger students' look. Rogue pointedly
ignored it. "Hey, can I borrow one of ya'll guys power some time, for a test drive?"
"Not today, I'm so beaten up I can feel buises forming over my bruises." Eva
said, uncharacteristically. Usually Eva wouldn't say a thing about her injuries at all even
if she was bleeding to death. She didn't ever like to be seen as weak.
Most of the students laughed. "Too hot to handle," Amara said, beaming at them.
"Yes-very impressive" Jean finally spoke.
"Okay guys, let's give them some room now," said Scott, ever the leader. " They
have to be checked up by Dr. McCoy." Soon, everyone filed out in exception to the two
Asians and the blue doctor.
"Well, Eva," The large blue man said gently, "you'll be fine in no time. I'd like
you just to rest in that room-" He pointed towards a door at the end of the hall, "-for
fifteen minutes, you're free to go."
"Alright. Thank you, doctor, see you later, Syaoran," and with that, she hobbled
off to the appointed room. The Doctor then turned towards his second patient.
"And you are Syaoran, I presume, the new recruit?"
"Yes, sir, I am." Li replied
" Yes, I've heard a lot about you from the Professor. Nice to meet you, my name
is Mr.McCoy. Now just sit over here for a moment, and I'll check you up" The kind
doctor greeted, while ushering Li to a seat.
"N-ah-ice to meet you, too" he said, wincing in pain as the doctor's hand
accidentally brushed against one of his worse cuts.
"my, my, young fellow," he said, examining some of his cuts, "you took quite a
beating in there." He tutted at the boys condition. "Where does it hurt,- I mean where
does it hurt the most?" he asked, seeing that the boy was probably hurting all over.
"Mostly my chest," he said, putting a tentative hand over the sore spot. The doctor
frowned.
"Hmm..." he said, mumbling aloud half to himself, half to Syaoran. "I have to
check to see if you have bruised ribs. Well then, if you'd please take off you're shirt." Li
complied, cautiously peeling off the top half of his danger room outfit to cause less pain.
Meanwhile, the doctor busied himself with antiseptics and gauze to clean the cuts.
When he turned around to look at Li, his jaw dropped: The boy was covered with scars.
"Mr. Li...How did you..." was all he could say. The young man scowled and
answered his unasked questions.
"I got them in fights," he answered curtly, bending over slightly trying to hide
them. But they were still there, plain as day- the slash across his upper left arm that ran
over a little onto his chest; the deep cut across the right side of his waist; the light white
scar that ran across his stomach.
"Those were quite some fights you had," McCoy said, trying to gain his
composure.
"Yeah, well leading a powerful clan isn't a no-risk business," he said darkly. "In
general, when a new leader is chosen in our family, they are targeted by most of the rest
of the magical community, for one reason or another." He shifted uncomfortably,
waiting. "Well, am I okay?"
The doctor snapped back to the task at hand. "oh, yes. Well, let me just feel how
they are..." The doctor gently touched his ribs, but couldn't help getting distracted by the
scars. How could such a young boy rule one of the most powerful and influential houses
of sorcery? It was a crime, really, to place all that responsibility on such a young man.
Because of it, he probably didn't have a normal childhood- and is now scarred for life,
physically, and emotionally.
"Well, you're just fine. It's a good thing that you're such a strong boy though-
normally when people take a beating like that, they sometimes get hairline fractures in
their ribs, a very unpleasant experience, take it from me." He gave the boy a gentle pat.
"Now just don't work yourself that hard in the danger room again, though, understood?
Doctor's orders"
"Yes. Mr. McCoy" he said, trying to act humble and failing miserably. Humble
was just one of the things he could never be. "Thank you." He got up to leave.
"Excuse me, young sir, but where do you think you're going?" The doctor asked,
tapping his foot, making the blue beast man look rather comical.
Li hid his smile before answering, "Well, you said I was fine, so-"
"I said that you would not have any long lasting damage. Not that you are free to
go. On the contrary, we have those cuts to worry about- you'd leave them that way,
unclean, uncovered?" He looked pointedly at the young heir.
"Don't worry about him," Came a voice coming up from behind the two of
them- Eva. She walked up next to the blue doctor. "Li's a healer, which means he'll
naturally,-or technically,- magically heal faster, without even having to use his healing
skills at all." She smiled wickedly. "I swear, you could beat that boy half to death, only to
find him up and about in a hour. He's like a weed."
"Nice to see that I'm loved," Li bantered sarcastically.
"Oh, really, you're a healer?" the beast asked, forgetting about the undressed cuts.
"Yes, he is, and a very good one at that" Eva responded for him. Li pretended to
look touched. "I think it's half the reason I deal with him. Nothing makes you feel better
after a long sparring lesson than his healing skills- except maybe a cup of coffee."
Eva bit her lip trying to stop herself from laughing at the stubborn leader, who
was at the moment shooting her a death glare. The doctor, oblivious to their teasing,
continued questioning them, eagerly curious.
"Oh, really? Could you please demonstrate this ability, Li? I'd like to watch you
heal yourself." He looked at Syaoran with rapt attention.
Li simply responded, "I can't." The beast looked a little crestfallen.
"Well, if you're too weak right now-" The Chinese boy cut him off.
"No, it's not like that," he persisted. "I can heal others, but I can't heal myself."
"What? I don't understand..." Said the blue beast, pondering. "Would you kindly
clarify why this is so?"
Yet again, Eva answered for Li. "Healing is a completely different system of
magic than the fighting type. In fighting, for the most part, you take the magical energy
from the things around you; like every time he used the element water, he called upon
water for energy, using only a little of his own magic to call for it and form it."
Now Syaoran spoke up, taking over the converation "But with healing, you take
little to no magic out of the environment- all the power fueling the healing process comes
from the healer. Thus, I cannot give my own magic to myself."
The beast smiled, enlightened. "Ah. So then, will you please heal Eva for me?" Li
shot Eva a dark grin.
"No, I won't." He responded obstinately. The beast looked very puzzled, still
oblivious to their baiting each other.
"But I thought you said you could heal others..." He looked quite confused.
"I can," Li responded, "But I won't because she's been teasing me to no end." He
smiled at Eva evilly. This time, she scowled. "Next time you have a patient, though, feel
free to call me in." Li continued, complacently. The doctor chuckled at their torturing
each other.
"Well, your both free to go, then." He watched them walk out of the Med Lab,
still bickering at each other. 'Li may be scarred,' he thought, 'but at last he has a friend to
help him get through it.' He smiled and started filing some papers.
For the rest of the day, Rogue had shown the two around the mansion and told
them all the secrets of surviving at the school, like waking up extra early to get a hot
shower, to coaxing Mr. McCoy to let you out of the Med Lab with baked goods.
They met most of the students in the school; all of them were very nice, and tried
to make them feel at home. Finally, the afternoon rolled around, and with it, afternoon
danger room sessions. Rogue walked them back to their rooms before going back to hers,
telling them she'd meet up with them in the danger room.
Syaoran went to his room, which he found out earlier that he shared with Kurt,
with no idea what to do. Kurt, who had already finished changing, asked him what was
wrong.
"Umm, the professor told to wear a suit like yours, but I don't see any." He
looked around, a little uncomfortable. He could always wear his ceremonial fighting
robes, he thought.
"don't vorry," Kurt said, eagerly bamfing all over the room looking for is outfit.
"I –bamf- know –bamf- it's gotta –bamf- be here –bamf- somewhere! –bamf- Ahh, found
it!" Syaoran opened the closet, hearing the boy's voice coming from around it. The blue
boy was holding up a black body suit with slashes of forest green across it.
"Well, go put it on, before ve are late," the mutant said, going outside of the room
to give Syaoran privacy to change.
Syaoran came out five minutes later, inspecting his outfit. His sleeves went
halfway down his upper arms, which would make it easier for him to parry with his
sword- no cloth restricting him. Slung around his waist were two black belts, held
together and in place with one yellow buckle with the 'X' emblem on it; they were
perfect for holding a few extra items, like a dagger or a few potions. His pants hugged
tight to his legs until a little before his knees, creating some space for him to hide a
throwing knife- perfect. And the last touch was a zip up collar that could unzip one-fourth
ways down his chest- that way, he could keep his ying yang sword pendant hidden.
Finishing up the outfit with light but sturdy boots, he approved of the outfit immensely.
"Hey, Syaoran- wow!" The blue boy looked at his outfit. "Man, zat looks really
good on you- but ve have to get going!"
He was about to grab on to the Chinese boy and bamf them into the danger room
when Syaoran said, "wait a second." Kurt watched stunned, as Li opened his bags and
pulled out, one by one, various weapons and hid them in his outfit.
"Whoa! Do you usually carry around thiz many weapons?" Li smirked.
"No, actually, I usually carry more." The blue boy shook his head at him before
grabbing his arm and bamfing them to the danger room.
Once inside, he caught sight of Eva, who was also wearing a bodysuit, though
hers was ice blue on navy blue, and the cut was different. Hers had a v- neck with a
normal shirt collar, and her sleeves went all the way down to her hands where they
gripped the backside of her hands, giving her protection from attack. She was also
wearing contacts, something she normally did anyways, for dependably better vision.
He noticed a lot of the girls checking him out, as the boys also did to Eva. He
stopped himself from rolling his eyes; he couldn't stand swooning girls. Eva completely
ignored the attention, ready to get to work.
Soon after, the man everyone called Wolverine walked in, looking at the new
recruits with measured ease. The professor came in shortly after.
"Students," the professor began, "I'd like you to greet our two new students, Li
Syaoran and Eva Hiachi, if you have not met them yet." Everyone mumbled their hellos.
"Oh, and I should mention, their powers are very different from ours. You see, these two
are not mutants, they are sorcerers," The group broke out into chatter at that- they were
sorcerers? They mostly thought. "Actually, Li is the head of a prominent group of
sorcerers. Eva also happens to be, from what I understand, a knives master, correct?"
Eva nodded politely. "Like, really? That's so cool!" The chipper brunette said,
excited.
" ...S'makin' my head spin..." Rogue mumbled. "soon enough, they'll be telling
me that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny are real." A few students snickered.
"now if everyone would please in order state their names and powers, giving our
two new students a brief display."
"Hey, I'm Spike," said the dark skinned blond boy whom they had met earlier. "I
can grow out spikes, a shoot them at enemies. He displayed by shooting off two bits of
wood.
"I'm Bobby," said a blond haired boy, "and I can transform into and create ice."
He created an ice heart handing it to Eva, who looked at it with mild interest before
putting it down, discouraging the boy.
"M' Rogue, n' ah already explained about mah powahs." Nobody said anything to
that.
"I'm Jamie, also known as Multiple" he said as one of the other students gave him
a light push and he broke into two replicas of himself. "and this is my power," They said
in unison.
"I'm kitty," said the girl who had showed the in. "I can go through solid objects,"
she said, walking through Spike. Spike looked a little surprised. But it quickly wore off.
"I'm Scott," said shades, staring intensely at Li. " I can shoot laser beams with my
eyes." He picked up the ice heart and threw it in the air, before blasting it into million
pieces. Bobby was glowering.
"I'm Amara, you already met me," she said nicely, as her body turned into fire.
"This is my power."
"As you know, my name viz Kurt," said the blue elf, "But I am also known as ze
incredible Nightcrawler!" a few of his teammates laughed companionably at his
statement.
"And I'm Jean," The tall red head said, avoiding the Chinese boy's gaze. " I have
telepathic powers," she demonstrated by lifting herself into the air.
"Well, now that everyone has introduced themselves," The professor spoke, "It is
time to test our new recruits." He looked at the two Asians. "Before you work with the
team, Logan is going to run a simulation testing your abilities. This way, we can see your
strengths, weaknesses, and ability level. Just wave your hands to tell us when you can no
longer fight, and we will turn off the simulation or Kurt will port you out."
Li nodded in understanding. Eva said a low, "understood."
"Then get ready," Logan said in his usual low growl. Everyone left the room in
exception for the sorcerers.
They heard the computer state, "Simulation beginning in 5-4-3-2-1-"... and that's
when the fun began.
Immediately after countdown, they saw a single robot coming their way. Li
arched his eyebrow. From the way the students went on about this room with fear, he'd
thought it'd be more of a challenge. Eva seemed to be thinking along the same lines, too.
"Let me handle this one," she said, before she chanted and the two gold rings she
wore on each of her middle fingers transformed into small, transparent throwing knives.
The Mutants watched with interest as one of Eva's knives began to slightly glow with
blue light. She made a throwing motion, and the blue energy flew out of the crystal knife,
still holding the shape of a dagger, and hit the robot square in it's chest. It blew apart,
pieces of ice ripping through the droid with uncanny ease.
"Whoa," Multiple finally wheezed, saying what was on everyone's mind.
Eva, on the other hand, looking up to the station, shouted, "How about you give
us a challenge? Skip the easy part." Logan was all to ready to comply. He went directly
to level five, where most of the year-old recruits lost. The older ones could make it to six,
or even seven, and only the adults could make it to eight or nine. Wolverine was the only
one to make it to ten.
The students watched with awe as the two sorcerers ripped through their
obstacles- Eva transporting herself out of danger in a halo of white light only to end up in
a strategically better position to tear apart the machines with her deadly knives. Li, on the
other hand, would simply summon up elements with his hands- throw fireballs, rain
thunderbolts, create wind shields, and shoot water- and all of these elemental attacks
were incredibly destructive.
As time went on, the simulation got increasingly harder- Eva and Li, who had for
the most part been working independently of each other, started working together. Eva's
trick of porting into weak spots no longer worked- whenever she got there, she wouldn't
have enough time to throw a knife before she herself would be hit.
She ported over to Li's side- He was having trouble destroying all the projectiles
flying his way. He had already been nicked by a razor disc on the arm; luckily the cut
was shallow. Once there, she helped fend off the flying objects before grabbing onto his
arm and porting him, too, into the laser's blind spots. While he created a wind shield
repelling all attacks, the knives master worked her magic (literally) and took them out
with a lightning fast barrage of fire and ice knives with deadly accuracy.
She ported them back into a circle of robots, each of them ready to strike with
various weapons, but the Li heir pulled Eva closer before summoning an erratic
downpour of lightning around the two of them, effectively demolishing all the bots.
Then Syaoran let Eva go, only to do a complicated dance around one of the
sentinel simulations, giving the girl time to strike a few decisively fatal blows.
Meanwhile, their onlookers watched with bated breaths- they were at level eight,
a feat in itself, fighting to get to level nine.
But sadly, the twosome were starting to lose- Eva had taken a bad hit to the head,
and Li, who had already been hit several times, but endured it, was getting a little
unstable on his legs. They watched with anxiety as Eva chose to port in a bad spot and
get repeatedly hit by the lasers- she waved her hands in defeat.
"Go get er', fuzz ball." Logan said to Kurt, who quickly complied. He came back
an instant later with a thoroughly beaten up Eva and was nursing a bruised hand.
"Ouch!" he cried, rubbing his hand before helping Eva up. "It's a war zone in
there! I was in there for only a moment and I was hit!" Eva merely shrugged as he helped
bring her down to the Med Lab- she hadn't gotten really hurt; she'd just sport a bunch of
nicks and bruises for a few days.
With Eva out of the running, Li was having a bad time of it himself- for every ten
projectiles sent at him now, he was hit by at least one. He set up a wind shield as various
objects barraged him from all sides.
He couldn't hold on to the shield forever, though, and as soon as he dropped it he
was hit by two metal balls and a laser before he could even try to evade them. Halfway
through a backhand spring, he yet again summoned the erratic lightning, though now,
they saw, he himself had gotten slightly singed by one of the smaller bolts. The lightning
gave him a quarter of a second to escape before the onslaught came again- but this time,
he was too tired to evade them. He got hit several times. He followed Eva's suit and
threw up his hands.
"Simulation Terminated" The computer spoke, as all the weapons went lifeless
and hid back in the walls.
While all the students poured out into the room to help Li, Logan read the
computer screen with slight disbelief. In bright red words, it was flashing SIMULATION
TERMINATED: LEVEL NINE. On their first tries, Eva ha made into level eight and the
Li boy had just gotten in to level nine, an impressing feat, especially at such a young age.
He looked out onto the room where Syaoran sat, immobile, surrounded by the team.
"Whoa, man! That was hella cool!" Evan said, falling into his city accent, as Scott
helped Syaoran get to the Med Lab, the team trailing behind them.
"Yeah, you two totally trashed the place!" Bobby laughed, remembering all the
debris on the ground.
Li kept stoically silent, smiling in thanks to their praises, as they entered the Med
Lab, where Eva was sitting, getting checked up by the newly acquainted Mr. McCoy.
Kitty was bubbling. "That was so, like, totally awesome, you two!" she exploded,
jumping around. "You must be the first two students to make it this far- and you did it on
your first day!" she squealed with laughter.
"Shit ya'll two pack a punch," Rogue said. Kitty looked at her reprovingly, clearly
giving her a 'no bad language around the younger students' look. Rogue pointedly
ignored it. "Hey, can I borrow one of ya'll guys power some time, for a test drive?"
"Not today, I'm so beaten up I can feel buises forming over my bruises." Eva
said, uncharacteristically. Usually Eva wouldn't say a thing about her injuries at all even
if she was bleeding to death. She didn't ever like to be seen as weak.
Most of the students laughed. "Too hot to handle," Amara said, beaming at them.
"Yes-very impressive" Jean finally spoke.
"Okay guys, let's give them some room now," said Scott, ever the leader. " They
have to be checked up by Dr. McCoy." Soon, everyone filed out in exception to the two
Asians and the blue doctor.
"Well, Eva," The large blue man said gently, "you'll be fine in no time. I'd like
you just to rest in that room-" He pointed towards a door at the end of the hall, "-for
fifteen minutes, you're free to go."
"Alright. Thank you, doctor, see you later, Syaoran," and with that, she hobbled
off to the appointed room. The Doctor then turned towards his second patient.
"And you are Syaoran, I presume, the new recruit?"
"Yes, sir, I am." Li replied
" Yes, I've heard a lot about you from the Professor. Nice to meet you, my name
is Mr.McCoy. Now just sit over here for a moment, and I'll check you up" The kind
doctor greeted, while ushering Li to a seat.
"N-ah-ice to meet you, too" he said, wincing in pain as the doctor's hand
accidentally brushed against one of his worse cuts.
"my, my, young fellow," he said, examining some of his cuts, "you took quite a
beating in there." He tutted at the boys condition. "Where does it hurt,- I mean where
does it hurt the most?" he asked, seeing that the boy was probably hurting all over.
"Mostly my chest," he said, putting a tentative hand over the sore spot. The doctor
frowned.
"Hmm..." he said, mumbling aloud half to himself, half to Syaoran. "I have to
check to see if you have bruised ribs. Well then, if you'd please take off you're shirt." Li
complied, cautiously peeling off the top half of his danger room outfit to cause less pain.
Meanwhile, the doctor busied himself with antiseptics and gauze to clean the cuts.
When he turned around to look at Li, his jaw dropped: The boy was covered with scars.
"Mr. Li...How did you..." was all he could say. The young man scowled and
answered his unasked questions.
"I got them in fights," he answered curtly, bending over slightly trying to hide
them. But they were still there, plain as day- the slash across his upper left arm that ran
over a little onto his chest; the deep cut across the right side of his waist; the light white
scar that ran across his stomach.
"Those were quite some fights you had," McCoy said, trying to gain his
composure.
"Yeah, well leading a powerful clan isn't a no-risk business," he said darkly. "In
general, when a new leader is chosen in our family, they are targeted by most of the rest
of the magical community, for one reason or another." He shifted uncomfortably,
waiting. "Well, am I okay?"
The doctor snapped back to the task at hand. "oh, yes. Well, let me just feel how
they are..." The doctor gently touched his ribs, but couldn't help getting distracted by the
scars. How could such a young boy rule one of the most powerful and influential houses
of sorcery? It was a crime, really, to place all that responsibility on such a young man.
Because of it, he probably didn't have a normal childhood- and is now scarred for life,
physically, and emotionally.
"Well, you're just fine. It's a good thing that you're such a strong boy though-
normally when people take a beating like that, they sometimes get hairline fractures in
their ribs, a very unpleasant experience, take it from me." He gave the boy a gentle pat.
"Now just don't work yourself that hard in the danger room again, though, understood?
Doctor's orders"
"Yes. Mr. McCoy" he said, trying to act humble and failing miserably. Humble
was just one of the things he could never be. "Thank you." He got up to leave.
"Excuse me, young sir, but where do you think you're going?" The doctor asked,
tapping his foot, making the blue beast man look rather comical.
Li hid his smile before answering, "Well, you said I was fine, so-"
"I said that you would not have any long lasting damage. Not that you are free to
go. On the contrary, we have those cuts to worry about- you'd leave them that way,
unclean, uncovered?" He looked pointedly at the young heir.
"Don't worry about him," Came a voice coming up from behind the two of
them- Eva. She walked up next to the blue doctor. "Li's a healer, which means he'll
naturally,-or technically,- magically heal faster, without even having to use his healing
skills at all." She smiled wickedly. "I swear, you could beat that boy half to death, only to
find him up and about in a hour. He's like a weed."
"Nice to see that I'm loved," Li bantered sarcastically.
"Oh, really, you're a healer?" the beast asked, forgetting about the undressed cuts.
"Yes, he is, and a very good one at that" Eva responded for him. Li pretended to
look touched. "I think it's half the reason I deal with him. Nothing makes you feel better
after a long sparring lesson than his healing skills- except maybe a cup of coffee."
Eva bit her lip trying to stop herself from laughing at the stubborn leader, who
was at the moment shooting her a death glare. The doctor, oblivious to their teasing,
continued questioning them, eagerly curious.
"Oh, really? Could you please demonstrate this ability, Li? I'd like to watch you
heal yourself." He looked at Syaoran with rapt attention.
Li simply responded, "I can't." The beast looked a little crestfallen.
"Well, if you're too weak right now-" The Chinese boy cut him off.
"No, it's not like that," he persisted. "I can heal others, but I can't heal myself."
"What? I don't understand..." Said the blue beast, pondering. "Would you kindly
clarify why this is so?"
Yet again, Eva answered for Li. "Healing is a completely different system of
magic than the fighting type. In fighting, for the most part, you take the magical energy
from the things around you; like every time he used the element water, he called upon
water for energy, using only a little of his own magic to call for it and form it."
Now Syaoran spoke up, taking over the converation "But with healing, you take
little to no magic out of the environment- all the power fueling the healing process comes
from the healer. Thus, I cannot give my own magic to myself."
The beast smiled, enlightened. "Ah. So then, will you please heal Eva for me?" Li
shot Eva a dark grin.
"No, I won't." He responded obstinately. The beast looked very puzzled, still
oblivious to their baiting each other.
"But I thought you said you could heal others..." He looked quite confused.
"I can," Li responded, "But I won't because she's been teasing me to no end." He
smiled at Eva evilly. This time, she scowled. "Next time you have a patient, though, feel
free to call me in." Li continued, complacently. The doctor chuckled at their torturing
each other.
"Well, your both free to go, then." He watched them walk out of the Med Lab,
still bickering at each other. 'Li may be scarred,' he thought, 'but at last he has a friend to
help him get through it.' He smiled and started filing some papers.
