X-Men UK Part 4 of 4
Scion wakes up with a scream and outstretches his paws blasting the ceiling of his new bedroom with lightning from his claws, "AHHHHH", with wide eyes he looks around as small bits of plaster and dust crumble down on top of his head and his ears flicker as he hears footsteps approaching his room, scion jumps up and out of the bed and climbs underneath before a single knock at a door and it opens with eclipse poking her head in and looks at the empty bed, "Scion, are you awake. Scion? Where are you? Its me Eclipse", "Wh - wh - where am I?", Eclipse giggles and walks into the room and sees his tail shaking round the other side of the bed, "we are at the Xavier's Academy for gifted youngsters UK, but some of the other students have come to call this place mutant high, god knows why!?!", scion climbs out from under the bed and follows eclipse over to a window, "you don't have to worry about your sister or anyone else coming for you here, your free from that life now".
Scion looks out the window and sees some guys playing football on a field out the back and some girls sat under a tree with genie and critter and a small fairy whizzes swiftly by the window with a hat in her hands while being chased by a young boy surfing a cloud, "huh …. Wow!!", "it's not so bad here. Scion?", scion turns to look at eclipse and she has a slightly tear stricken face as she looks down at the small lion boy, "I want to be a real sister for you, I'll always be here for you okay". Scions eyes light up and he hugs eclipses waist, "thank you ecli.. thank you sis", Eclipse smiles, "do you want to put some clothes on and I'll give you a tour?", Scion notices he's wearing a pair of red pajamas and blinks, "uh I liked the trousers I had on earlier", Eclipse giggles at his confusement and walks over to a chest of draws against a wall and pulls a small pair of black jeans with whit lightning streaking down the legs with a hole stitched in to the bottom for his tail, a sort of white and black martial arts shirt and also a pair of black gloves with retractable tips and gives them to Scion while he's stripping, "Warlock had the gloves made for you to help control your electricity, now get dressed", Scion does so quickly and shyly leaves the room with Eclipse staying very close being in somewhere new for the first time in his life.
They stop in front of a very large passage way to a big room with lots of tables and chairs and people scattered around the room eating and gossiping, "This rooms the cafeteria, it's always open for people with odd eating habits and patterns. Oh and the hotdogs are delicious", "cool, I never used to get much of a choice food wise back at home", "you'll love it here", as they begin to walk away the cafeteria fills with rubber ducks and shouts at someone called Dreamer can be heard amongst the screams and befuddlement.
"I tell a lie, were not really having a tour!", Eclipse open a nearby door and Warlock is sat up against a desk and Nightmare is sat on a chair to the side, Eclipse leads Scion in and closes the door behind her. Warlock looks at Scion as he climbs onto a seat, "Scion the Head-Teacher apologises for not being able to welcome you, but welcome to your new home. Since it wasn't with your mother's agreement for you to come here, Nightmare and Eclipse have both agreed and signed the sufficient paperwork to be your new legal guardians. Whilst in our care you will attend classes like a normal child plus in-depth classes to better facilitate your abilities and skills", Scion is wide eyed and speechless, "Scion?", "… … … Wow!!!", Scion is close to tears with joy, "and because of your special uh… attributes it has also been applied to make you an official member of the Peace Makers X-Men Youth Squad, Do you accept this offer?", thinking about it he looks to Nightmare then up at Eclipse who is standing over the back of his chair, they both smile gently back to him, "yes please, if it keeps me with my friends yes I would".
Watch out for the start of the next story in episode 5: The Mystery Head-Teacher