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Chapter two: Life's not fair
"At least the school hasn't changed much" Berserker said to Bobby as the two mutants walked through the car park and mingled with the large group of students milling about outside, waiting for class to begin.
The X-van came careening around the last corner, missed a very expensive looking Lexus by a fraction of an inch, phased right through an equally expensive looking Mercades, took out a mailbox, then finally came to a stop outside the school.
"Sheesh, why can't anyone in this town drive responsibly?" Kitty said to the others, who quickly piled out of the van.
"Thanks for the loan but I think you'd better have this back" Bryce said to Kurt, dropping the rosary back in his hand
"Why?" Kurt asked, Bryce smiled wickedly, which Kurt didn't like one bit
"Cause Kitty said she'd drive back and I promised her you'd help navigate," he said before casually walking away, Kurt looked down at the rosary and beneath the hologram he turned as pale as the sky.
As the others who'd been driven to school by Kitty quickly vanished before she could ask them if they wanted a ride back to the institute Tai looked up at the school, then back down at the books clutched in his hands, his nerves getting the better of him. He remained like that, timidly looking up at the school, afraid to go any further until the bell sounded and he followed the tide of students inside, looking and feeling like a mouse in a pit of snakes.
"…Many of you new students may feel like there are a lot more of those here with an unfair advantage but let me assure you, it won't matter if they have it or not…" Kitty clenched her fists and gritted her teeth in anger as she heard Principal Kelly's latest speech, sometimes she felt that he was deliberately trying to provoke the X-men into retaliating so he'd have an excuse to expel them. While their defeat of Apocalypse had earned them the respect of some people, the opinions of others hadn't budged an inch.
"Can you believe that guy?" Rogue asked Kitty as the students filled out of the auditorium
"Yeah I know, it's nice to see some things around here didn't change over the summer" Kitty replied, noticing a small twin headed eagle insignia along with the letters P.O.H had been spray painted on the wall above a drinking fountain, she knew she'd seen it somewhere before but couldn't remember where, and for some reason seeing it again gave her a really bad feeling, like something very bad was going to happen very soon.
Meanwhile Tai was suffering from a problem common among new students, he was lost. He looked around at the classroom doors, looking for the one he was supposed to be in, then down at his timetable to check he'd got the right room. After checking it for the tenth time he felt someone bump into him, sending his books out of his hands and onto the floor.
"Oh I'm sorry, here let me help you" said a girls voice, when Tai looked at who it belonged to he saw it was a girl about his age with well tanned skin, dark green eyes and long flowing brown hair.
"It's O.K, I'm kind of losst" Tai replied, trying hard not to slip back into his usual way of speaking as he and the girl bent down to pick up his books.
"Here let me see your timetable" the girl said, taking it from him and looking at it. If snakes could blush Tai would be bright red at that moment.
"Looks like you've got English first, same as me, it's in 4e, two rooms down that way, you can walk with me if you like, I'm sort of new here as well" she said, handing Tais timetable and his books back to him.
"I'm Tai, Tai Habu" Tai said, praying his holo-inducer would keep it together
"I'm Anna, Anna Creed" the girl replied as the two teenagers walked down the hall to their class.
As they disappeared round the corner at the end of the hallway the boy who'd crushed Tais holowatch in the summer gritted his teeth in rage and slammed a fist into a nearby locker, leaving a huge dent in the metal as he stalked away down the corridor.
A little while later the new years group of hopefuls assembled on the field for the years first football team tryouts. Among them were Beserker, Sunspot, Zander, Sarin, Bobby, Kevin, Micheal and Bryce. As soon as Sunspot spotted who'd be judging them he kicked the ground and cursed in Spanish.
"What's wrong?" Kevin asked him
"Duncans one of the worst mutant haters at this school, last year him and his buddies nearly killed one of my best friends and a bunch of other mutants" he told him under his breath. Duncans eyes fell on the mutants and he smiled a smile that reminded Sunspot of the same one a shark would give just before it bit you.
"Well well, looks like the freaks wanna be on this team, hey y'know if you wanna be humiliated in front of a crowd we could just put ya on show at the zoo" he said, his buddies laughed a pack of jackals. Rogue was sitting nearby, heard his remark and stood up angrily, pulling the glove off her right hand, intending to shut him up.
"Don't bother, he's not worth it" Kitty said, grabbing Rogues arm, the two sat back down on the bleachers, with both girls shooting daggers at Duncan.
"O.K, there's eight slots on the team this year so here's what we'll do. You guys play the freaks in a game, whoever wins, the team places are yours" Duncan told them, the hopefuls split into the two teams.
"Don't worry guys, we just use our powers and hey presto, we're on the team" Sarin said to the others, charging up his white fire
"Oh and remember freaks, Principal Kelly said if any of you use your powers while you're at school, you'll be expelled" Duncan said as the opposing quarterback kicked the ball and the match began
In chapter 3 – Cheap shots and unfair judges, mutant footballs not exactly the most fun game around
To be continued, please review