Disclaimer: Arella shot the disclaimer saying I don't own X-Men Evolution or any of it's copyrighted characters with a flaming arrows, burning it to bits.

Chapter 2

Arella blinked as she entered the professor's fairly small room. He sat facing the window, and Jean waited a few seconds, then left the room. The voice from earlier sounded once again in her voice. "Greetings Arella, I am Professor Xavier."

She blinked. "You're the one from before..."

He turned to her and nodded. "Indeed. I am a telepath, like Jean. But she also has telekinetic abilities." He sighed. "Well, on a more formal note, welcome to Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters. Or, as it is more commonly known, as a home for mutants." Arella nodded, partially understanding from what her parents had told her. "Here, I help other mutants learn to use their powers to the best of their abilities- Without causing trouble, of course."

Arella nodded once more. "And I'm a mutant." she sighed. "Which easily explains the wings and the breathing underwater."

Xavier raised an eyebrow, but did not comment on what she said. "Well, you will be spending time here. You will meet the other students, and have to participate in daily training sessions. Also, all of our mutants here have codenames. Yours will be Angelfish."

The mutant now dubbed Angelfish nodded for a final time. "Where's my room?" She was still holding her suitcase.

He stated, "Well, I'm sure Rogue and Kitty," his voice raised slightly at the names of the girls, "Would love to escort you to your new room."

The two girls emerged from their hiding place behind the door. "Yeah. 'We're not, like, gonna get caught.' Sure, Kitty. Sure." said the girl with the auburn hair with a white streak, and a southern accent. Arella knew she must be Rogue, and the other girl had to be Kitty. Strange names.

Kitty squealed, "Oh, like, hi!" Angelfish recognized her voice from the intercom by the gates.

"Uh, hi." she stammered.

Kitty grabbed her arm. "Off to your room!" She pulled her out the door, Rogue following just behind.

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Arella looked around the room. "It's just like my room at home!" She peered up at the ceiling. "But I'll have to do some re-arranging." She pulled a string of paper lanterns and flew to the top of the ceiling. "Does anyone have any tape?"

Each of the girls blinked, and Kitty raced out of the room. She came back a second later. "Here it comes!" she tossed it at Arella.

The winged archer caught the tape, and taped one end of the string to one side of the room. She continued along the string until it was hung across the ceiling. "What do you think?"

Rogue noted, "It looks nice. But the lanterns kind of stand out against the rest of the room."

Arella nodded. "Yeah, I will." She dove down and landed, peering into her suitcase. "Nothing on hand, but I do have string to tie to my arrows, and target board." She put the target on the wall across from her bed, then jumped onto her bed. "This reminds me so much of home!"

Kitty's eyes widened. "You have a room like this at home?"

Angelfish nodded. "Yeah. My parent's are loaded. But I'd rather just live a nice, normal life."

There was a loud BAMF and a blue demon-like creature was now hanging from the chandelier. Arella blinked, but didn't seem too fazed. "Uh, who are you?"

He demon-like thing grinned, fangs now showing. "Hallo, bin ich Kurt."

She thought for a moment. "Your name is Kurt?" She flew up to the chandelier, and flipped so she was hanging upside down next to him. He nodded, and she grinned. "Cool." She pushed herself forwards, and the chandelier creaked, swaying back and forth. "Weeeee!" Arella cheered.

Kurt was suddenly on the ground with a puff of black smoke. He looked up at the mutant girl who was now swaying from the chandelier. "That's a cool power." She noted, then fell off the chandelier.

Two more BAMFs sounded, and Arella was in Kurt's arms. Kurt was back on the ground. Arella started laughing. "That was so fun!" she giggled. Kurt started laughing, and both Rogue and Kitty each raised an eyebrow.

"Wow. What a weird girl."