--- 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.