Author's Note: Please forgive me for chopping sentences, grammar and spelling errors, and things that plain don't make sense. One, I suck at English. Two, I don't have a beta reader so that means I beta reader myself (AKA I never reread until after I post – lol). Three, I write most of these chapter at about 2 – 4 in the morning so at the time they seem right but since I'm half asleep anyway, they're not. So please just excuse those things and if you spot them, please, e-mail me at and copy and paste the passage the errors in and then point out the error to me that way I can fix it as soon as possible. Thanks again and enjoy the chapter!

A New Age. A New Team

Chapter 5: A Name for the Dream of Fire and Water

"Is that right?" An eighteen-year-old girl with green eyes asked hopeful.

A very tan eighteen-year-old young man leaned forward to look at the work the girl had done on the paper. His shaggy dirty blonde hair fell forward covering his brown eyes though he could still see. "Well…" The young man's voice had a hint of Australian accent in it.

The girl put her hands over her face making her black shoulder length hair, which had red tipped bangs and orange tips on the back of her hair, fall slightly forward. "Damnit." She huffed in frustration. "I'm going to flunk this test, Sean." She sighed.

The boy, Sean, laughed. "Grace, calm down. You understand everything else in the class." He placed a comforting hand on her back.

Grace sighed and looked up at Sean, resting her chin in her hands. "But I don't understand this part."

"You do to understand this." Sean sighed.

Grace and Sean both had been in the den with both their math books next to them and their notes strewed out all over their table for the majority of the day. They had a math test coming up and as the leaders of X² team; they had to set examples of having good grades for everyone else on the team. The two of them had been studying all day and when they weren't studying their math they were talking about ways to improve the team and the members of the team.

"No I don't." She lazily tapped her eraser of her pencil to the paper. "You did that 'Well…'," She mocked him, "thing that you do when you're trying to be nice to me and not make me feel bad for getting the wrong answer."

"You did everything right." Sean smiled at her.

"I what? You mean… I get it?!" Grace was bewildered.

"You need to remember…"

"…Oh here it comes." Grace rolled her eyes and then dropped her head through her hands and banged it against the table once. "Ouch." She said without emotion, though it did rather hurt hitting her head on a wooden tabletop.

Sean chuckled. "No Grace. You just need to remember that when square rooting a fraction you can't have a square root in the denominator."

"Can we stop studying?" Grace asked while talking into the table. "Either I know it or I don't, and class is in about two hours."

"Well if you feel comfortable with all this…" Sean sighed as he laid his pencil down on the book. Which I know you'll say you don't feel comfortable with this, then rant about not knowing it and that's that, then figure it out in the end.

"How do you think I feel about this?" She said bitterly. Stupid math test. Burn. I hate this. Honestly! When am I ever going to use square roots or Side-Angle-Side Theorem?

"I think you know it but you just don't think you do." Sean smirked.

"Sean I think you've been staying underwater at Atlantis a little too long. I think the salt water is starting to affect your grasp on reality." She smirked down at the tabletop. "Just face it Sean. I don't understand this part of math and so I'll fail this part of the test but the rest of the test I'll just have to make sure I rock at that part." She sighed heavily.

"It's always the same case with you Grace." He laid his head on the table next to hers and smiled at her, knowing she could see him out of the corner of her green eyes. "You think you can't do something, rant about how you can't do it, you end up doing it and then you rock at it."

"Then why mess with a good thing?" She smirked and then lazily rolled her head to the side to look at Sean, in defeat. "How do I get rid of it?" She asked unenthusiastically and she had a look as if saying 'Since you're Mr. Know-it-all'. He's probably going to ask me to try now.

"Well give it a try and see if you can do it." Sean smiled.

"I knew you were going to say that." Grace muttered.

"And I knew you were going to say you give up. Just like I know you're going to figure this out." He shrugged. "You always do."

Grace glared at Sean and then looked down at the paper. She pointed with her pencil's eraser, sounding unsure of herself as she spoke. "Multiply both the numerator and denominator by the square root in the denominator place so that the denominator becomes whatever number was being square rooted in the denominator place in the beginning?" She sounded slightly hopefully but mostly unsure.

"That's right!" Sean sat up, grinning.

"That's right?"

"That's right." Sean nodded.

Grace looked down at her paper and nodded her head with a smirk. "I'm going to do fine on this test." She said with confidence.

Sean laughed. "I told you that you'd figure it out."

Grace laughed as she began to pack up her belongs except for her team notebook. "Does it scare you to know that you and I can know exactly what the other one is thinking or about to say?" She smirked as she finished packing up her backpack and zipping it closed.

"It used to." Sean finished putting his books and notes away too. "But I got over it." He zipped his backpack shut.

"Yeah." Grace set her team notebook on the tabletop and flipped to her most recent entry. "So down to teamwork business now that math is taken care of." She smirked happily.

Sean flipped to his most recent entry too. "Right. So you want to talk about Gabe or–"

DING

Sean and Grace were slightly startled by the doorbell but they played it off by turning their heads to look out of the den towards the general area where the front door was.

"Visitors." Sean nodded.

"I'll get it." Grace stood up.

"I'll go with you." Sean stood too.

"I'm a big girl Sean." Grace laughed as she walked down the hallway towards the large entrance hall where the front door was. "I can manage to answer a door." She smirked behind her at him.

"As both the leaders we're partners, and partners have to have each others back." He said jokingly, fully knowing Grace could handle herself.

"I doubt anyone from Chaos or a Sentinel would come to our house, let alone use the doorbell." She laughed as she placed her hand on the doorknob to the large front door.

"You never know. It could be Shocker from Chaos to see Sam." He shrugged.

"One. He would never step foot in this house. He meets her in the front lawn. Two. I don't understand your friend."

"Who? Sam?"

"Yeah. I mean don't get me wrong I like Sam, but she's so close with a member of the enemy's team." She pulled the door opened to see Saria (AKA Switch) standing there with Dawn by her side.

"Saria?" Sean said a little surprised.

"Miss me amigos?" Saria smirked.

Grace and Sean stepped out of the way, as Saria walked into the mansion entrance hall with Dawn following closely behind. "What are you doing back?"

Saria looked around the place. "Found ya a new recruit. Meet Dawn Kent."

"Hi." Dawn said slightly shy.

"Hello Dawn." Sean smiled. "I'm Sean Parker, codename Poseidon because I pretty much can do anything underwater. I'm half Atlantean." He said proudly.

Grace rolled her eyes. "I'm Grace Strokes, codename Spitfire and I control fire through touch." She chuckled. "And you're going to have to excuse Sean he gets excited when new people arrive."

Dawn laughed lightly. "I don't mind, but what's an Atlantean?" Sounds kind of like Atlantis but that's just a myth… Right?.

"See she doesn't mind." Sean smirked. "An Atlantean is someone from Atlantis. You know. The city that suck beneath the sea."

"Oh." Dawn was amazed. It's not a myth?! Well I guess I shouldn't put anything past myths because this mansion is still standing. "That really cool."

"Well while I love this moment between ya I have things to do." Saria crossed her arms. "Where's Cannon?"

"Weaponry lab. Where else?" Grace laughed as Saria started to walk away.

"Wait!" Dawn called after Saria.

"What?" Saria turned around but she began to walk backwards.

"Aren't you staying with me?"

"No. They'll take care of you." Saria disappeared into the shadows of the hallway. "Don't worry."

Sean put his arm around Dawn's shoulder and Grace walked along the other side of Dawn. "We'll take you on a tour of the mansion and along the way you can meet the other kids here and we can learn about you." Sean smiled down at Dreamer since he was taller.

"Why isn't Saria coming?" Dawn asked not that she was worried. Just curious.

"Saria never joined a certain team. She was trained here but when Cerebro asked her to join X² she declined and left." Grace nodded.

"Oh." Dawn nodded. "Does she come around here often though?"

"Yeah." Sean nodded. "Her and a member of our team, Cannon, are weapon and technology whizzes. So she comes around a lot to check out our weapons and technologies that Cannon has built for us."

Dawn nodded her head. Where's his tail? I mean don't most Atlanteans need tails to swim in the ocean. "Um… Not trying to offend you or anything, but do Atlanteans have tails? You know. Like mermaids."

Sean laughed. "No. Half Atlanteans don't have tails, and neither do pure blooded Atlanteans."

"Oh. Sorry." Dawn slightly blushed with embarrassment.

"But pure blooded Atlanteans do have blue skin and webbed fingers and toes."

"Really?" Dawn was shocked. Blue skin?

Grace directed them down a long hallway towards the den. "So what's your codename?"

"Poseidon." Sean grinned making Dawn laugh.

"Not you Sean." Grace laughed.

"Oh. Sorry." Sean jokingly held his head down in shame.

"I don't have one."

"Well what are your powers?" Sean raised his head and chimed in.

"I can fly and anything I can think of I can make a real." Dawn smiled.

"Any others?" Grace asked.

"Not that I know of."

"Hmmm…" Sean pondered. "Got any nicknames?"

"D for Dawn or Fay because that's my middle name." Dawn shrugged.

"Not what I was hoping for in a nickname." Sean sighed.

"Well I daydreamed a lot on the drive from Toronto to here so Saria kept calling me a daydreamer."

"Well what do you think about the codename Daydreamer?" Sean smiled.

"I like it." Dawn smiled back.

"Too long." Grace pointed out. "Something smaller. Like just Dreamer or something."

"Oh I like the codename Dreamer!" Dawn giggled.

"Well then it's settled." Sean laughed.

Dreamer? Dawn "Dreamer" Kent Dawn thought. "I like it." She grinned at Sean and Grace both. "My name is Dawn Fay Kent and my codename is Dreamer." She said proudly.