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Chapter Three: New girl
She woke up this morning, feeling a little hot. When her foster mother checked her forehead, she said that the girl had a fever.
"Lilly, you should stay home dear. You're burning up," the foster mother said.
"No mama, I have finals today, I need to take it so I can pass and get into a good college," Lilly replied. She had light blond hair and bright blue eyes. She was average height and weight, with an ivory complexion, almost looking like porcelin. She wore a knee length black skirt, black flats, and a light blue peasant blouse. She put her hair into a braid, kissed her foster mother goodbye and went to school.
The morning went by peacefully, with only a little dizziness. Lilly still felt hot. At lunch, she decided to eat outside in the football field, hidden from other people. Ever since she had helped that little girl Ophelia, she had been called a "mutie lover" and was constantly bullied by the other kids at school. She just didn't feel like dealing with them today either. Lilly looked to the sky when she felt water land on her cheek and noticed that it was starting to rain.
"Hey, mutie lover! What are you doing all the way out here?" Victoriana, one of the head cheerleaders said.
"Hiding from her own kind," Paul, one of the boys from the other night said. "Come on boys, let's teach her a lesson."
Paul and three other boys walked towards her and she backed up, moving farther onto the football field. Before she had gotten too far they had managed to surround her. They began by shoving her towards each other.
"You sure she's only human?" one of the boys said.
"If she wasn't she'd have already used her powers wouldn't she?" Paul replied.
They knocked Lilly onto the ground. She could feel her body get hotter and hotter from the inside out. Victoriana stepped into the circle and kicked Lilly hard. Lilly doubled over in pain. That was when she first felt the transformation. Her eyes glowed red and her hair turned a red color. She could feel all the heat that had been boiling inside of her burst out of her. When she looked up she saw a raging fire swirling around her, and the group of kids unconscious on the ground away from the fire. All at once she could feel the rain and thunder, the plants beneath her growing, and the air swirling all about. Her eyes began to glimmer different shades of red, blue, green and yellow, her hair becoming stripped with those colors, just like in Ophelia's drawings. She was overwhelmed by everything and let out a shrill scream as her powers consumed her.
Xavier and the others heard the scream and immediately jumped out of the vehicles towards the football field, where they saw the raging inferno. When they got there they saw Lilly standing in the middle of the fire. Tornados had begun to touch down around her heading towards the students lying unconscious. Lightning struck the ground in several places and the water came down harder and heavier. The ground shook violently, making it difficult to walk on. Nightcrawler teleported to the farthest students and teleported them away from the tornados. Logan and Jean got the other ones. Once the students were all safe they turned their attention towards Lilly, who's powers only continued to grow, spiraling out of control.
"Please calm down," Xavier said telepathically to Lilly.
"What's happening to me?" Lilly thought back.
"You're developing your powers as a mutant at an alarming rate. But you can get through this. Just breath with me and count to ten okay?"
"Okay."
Xavier took a deep breath and counted to one with Lilly telepathically. She counted right after him. One. Two. The rain died down and went back to normal. Three. Four. Lightning stopped crashing into the ground. Five. Six. The tornados completely disappeared. Seven. Eight. The earth stopped shaking. Nine. Ten. The fire vanished. Lilly began to fall over backwards, but Remy caught her. She looked up at him.
"Remy?" Lilly asked confused.
"Hello again chere," Remy said. "You alrigh'?"
Lillly nodded and Remy helped her stand back up, although she was still a little weak.