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A few weeks later****************************************************************
Everyone trudged back into the mansion. All of them were either tired ,because they stayed up to late the night before, or still had a good amount of energy in them. Kitty and Kurt were both poofed. Kitty had another nightmare and almost fell into the Earth again, but Kurt had been the knight in blue armor. Kitty had passed through him making him wake up, he then bamfed under her yelling at her, making her wake up, it was a miracle the whole mansion hadn't been woken up. After that little excursion Kitty hadn't wanted to go back to sleep so she and Kurt had watched movies on the couch. Of course she had fallen asleep by 3 am so Kurt had carried her to her room and then tried to get some sleep. So obviously both had been living zombies for the day and just wanted to sleep. What did they do? Oh well Kurt fell face first on his bed while trying to help his best friend with her homework and she followed a few seconds later curling up on the end of the bed.
Icarus was strolling through the grounds with Sooraya helping her understand American slang, and everyone else was doing homework in the dining room, they were all spread out along the table in small groups. Amara was working on English which she hated with a passion, she was a geology person not a English or history person but English always irked her the most of all. "What's a synonym for I because I've used it like 20 times?" Amara asked her study partners.
Tabby shrugged holding her head and glaring at a math worksheet hatefully. N' Dare looked up from her history book which she had been reading from. Unlike most of the kids she hadn't had many books in her village ,and the ones they had were very old, tattered and out of date, so she was fascinated with the books in the U.S and had actually started reading it for fun. (read speech at bottom about Invisible children) "I don't know any." she glanced down then at Tabby. "Tabby you know your not telekinetic right?" she dead panned but then smiled.
"Yeah Tabitha, let me introduce you to a pencil, you use it to right homework with." Amara said sarcastically.
"Ugh I should have never taught either of you sarcasm!" Tabby groaned looking at her smirking friends.
"I guess your rubbing off on us." Amara shrugged going back to her essay, I really need to get a thesaurus.
"Well I'm gonna take a quick break before my brain gets another cramp." Tabby said scooting back and sending the math page a spiteful look, she was tempted to blow it up. She looked around at the other kids. Rogue and Lorna were studying for a Spanish test a little farther down the table, while Bobby, Sam and Roberto were "studying" with paper football. Jubilee was helping Jaime with a German paper. Tabby looked down the other end of the table nearest to the door, that's where she found her entertainment.
St. John was sitting there with Remy, John sent glances at Amara every few minutes, pretty much ignoring his chemistry homework. Unlike Remy, he was trying to hide his looks, Remy made big shows of mournfully watching Rogue who ignored his advances as Lorna giggled at his antics. But Tabby had caught him staring at her BFF intensely as she had several times before during the last few weeks. Grinning evilly she turned back to her two hard working friends.
"Hey Amara, you got yourself a stalker." Tabby frowned then spoke up again. "Did you ever have stalkers when you were in Nova Roma? You were a princess after all."
Amara sighed giving up on finishing her essay that night. She rubbed her temples. "A few princes yes, they were annoying and not worth one second of my attention with their arrogance, why….?" she trailed off following her friends eyes to St. John who was talking to Remy as he worked. "Oh" Amara looked and sounded sad making N' Dare look up. N' Dare studied John, she could sometimes smell strong emotions on people if she really tried, sometimes she was wrong , but mostly she was right on the mark.
"He smells of… nerves. He's nervous like a gazelle facing down a lion." the young girl was amused at this. The drama in her new home was astoundingly funny, she and Tabby, being very direct and to the point people, made fun of the couples in the mansions little dances. But unlike Tabby N' Dare didn't interfere…unless it was a friend or the two were being complete idiots. Sadly Amara and John were being both.
" Ugh he hasn't talked to me, you know really talked, for months. I though he liked me, I heard him say that when I let slip I was a princess." Amara said annoyed, she had a short temper and John had passed the limit weeks ago.
Tabby snorted "Oh that's why." Her friend gave her a confused look so she elaborated. "Mara you're a PRINCESS for crying out loud. That's really intimidating you know, he's probably scared that you'll laugh at him for thinking you two could date." Amara seemed to have a mini epiphany then only saying "Oh"
"Why don't you call it quits for your homework now and go talk to him, Goddess knows you two need to." N' Dare said starting to read a paragraph on being a good citizen in the U.S.
"Yeah, I'll find you some synonyms for I while your gone." Tabby said taking her friends paper and writing on it. Most people would panic at Tabby's help and Amara would too if it wasn't English class. Tabby surprisingly was one of the best in her advanced English class, and sometimes wrote poems and stories for fun.
"Ok" Amara sighed getting up. Her dark red, high top converse padded on the carpet. Today she had borrowed clothes from Rogue, she had taken to wearing any clothes that she liked not following a dress code of prep or Goth like most did. Today she wore a lacy black skirt and a deep red tank top with forearm gloves that looked like black corsets with red lace on the edges. Some would hate her outfit but others would love it, either way she didn't care she liked it, that's all that mattered. Being a princess gave you a lot of self confidence.
"We need to talk." Amara said softly but with a soft blush on her cheeks. Even if she was a princess, with at least 10 men wanting to marry her, she still wasn't confident enough around John, he made her feel vulnerable.
"K Sheila, I'm done with my bloody homework anyways." John said with a slightly nervous grin. Amara giggled waiting for him to collect up his tuff in his messenger bag.
Remy watched this exchange neutrally. He could sense both were smitten with each other, he could also sense the natural animalistic want and lust that most people had, but not as powerful yet. But under it all there was something else, like two kindred spirits finding each other and completing one another, it was something that Remy had only sensed rarely in his life. Sometimes he sensed that someone had found their soul mate but couldn't pin point it, but he had pin pointed it twice so far. Once with a couple in new Orleans and another time with Kitty and Kurt, it had surrounded them like B.O except nice. He could also tell when people had found their other half but had them ripped away. Remy had discovered this when he met Ororo, T'Challa had been her other half and when he met her he could almost see the tear that was in her soul. That might have been one of the many reasons why he had helped her, and he never regretted it.
Remy could see it when he focused a little, he tried not to sometimes because it annoyed him but other times it gave him hope for the future, there right there, he thought squinting at the couple. Earlier in his life ,when he was getting used to being empathic, his mind had adapted to be able to actually see peoples auras, now of course he didn't need them but when he checked for soul mates it was easier to look. Each pair of soul mates had a special ring around them that matched there other half's, showing they were meant to be.
Around St. John and Amara was probably one of the most beautiful thing Remy had seen. Both had almost a ring of fire around them, except it wasn't normal flames. The aura flames licking around them were a beautiful kaleidoscope of colors, reds, blue, greens, purples, everything. It surrounded them like halos making them look like gods with gold surrounding them at the base of the enchanted fire. As they walked out of the dining room with Remy sitting in concealed awe, he noticed that the flames reached for each other like they wanted to engulf each other and become one. "Beautiful" Remy whispered. John was one lucky guy even if he did think he deserved a princess. He had complained about it to Remy for weeks and it was starting to annoy him, but he liked it, the suspense. He was a hopeless romantic after all.
Remy shook himself and went back to Chere watching.
Danger room*******************************************************************
N' Dare walked into the big metal room. She had been partaking in training sessions. Having the Black Panther blood in your veins was really helpful, and the visions helped too. N' Dare had started to realize that when she fought she would see things right before they happened making her a protégé in the Danger room, Logan and Scott loved her. But she had realized a long time ago that when she did this she needed to be calm or sometimes the visions went haywire and she would get visions of the end or the beginning out of order and be confused. Learning to do this was easy especially when she had a mother that liked to meditate, also she was a naturally easy going person like Tabby.
Ever since she had arrived she had been having one on one sessions with Logan. Over the last months she had improved greatly, in martial arts especially. With her small build, speed, naturally strong and flexible body she excelled at martial arts above all else, so Logan had focused mainly on that saying to stick to your stronger areas. Her mother had been fine with her learning self defense, after all her grandmother had gotten her daughter into hunting with the men, even going through the trials, she had foreseen N' Dare being a fighter and hero for the world and her country, like her father. But Ororo had put her foot down about a week before school when Logan had introduced throwing stars and katanas, after a week of begging and promises Ororo had let up but only because ,unlike her father, N' Dare had yet to have retractable claws. So Logan and her had practiced after school, after she did her homework ,of course, which was easy considering her heightened intellect, only history was hard, that's why she loved it, it was a challenge.
As she walked in she realized someone was already there and practicing. The room was a jungle simulation with Sabertooth attacking a girl about one year older then N' Dare. She was wailing on Sabertooth with her two retractable claws. As N' Dare stepped all the way into the room the simulation paused and dissipated.
The brown haired girl retracted her claws and growled turning around angrily. She looks pissed as Tabby would say, the younger girl thought with wide eyes as the girl walked over to her. She recognized her as X 23 or Laura, someone had pointed her out at dinner once. She seemed pretty anti social…and angry.
"Why'd you interrupt?" Laura asked through gritted teeth, obviously trying to not rip the other girls head off.
"Um I came to practice, I didn't realize you were here. Sorry." N' Dare said meekly. X 23 glared more, then seemed to get an idea, N'Dare could see the familiar evil glint in her eye. She was familiar with that same glint in Logan's eyes when he was giving a 4 am Danger room session. Oh crap, she's that Laura crap crap crap Logan should never have kids, even clone kids.
"You wanted to train huh?" at the younger girls nod her claws slid out slowly. "Well I do need a new sparring partner, Sabertooth was getting boring." A grin spread across her face matching her eyes. Ok N' Dare stay calm you've sparred against Logan and he said we'd probably come to a stalemate soon, and he never goes easy on anyone. One spar you can do that, N' Dare thought calming her heart with deep breaths then looked the other girl in the eye, they were the same height, with a mischievous look in it.
"Ok but no claws, only fair since I don't have anything." N' Dare said while walking toward the mats against the wall and pulling them down.
Laura raised a eyebrow but said "sure" and helped with the mats. Once they were laid out each girl went on opposite ends and bowed to each other then got in fighting stances. They circled looking for weaknesses. After a few minutes of this Laura got bored and striked with a simple punch, using her pent up frustration to power her. N' dare simply stepped out of the way calmly before it could hit her. Laura remembered what Logan had told her about the girl and her visions.
"If you use your visions I use my claws, only fair." Laura mimicked her earlier words. N' Dare shrugged calmly as Laura's claws came out but Laura could she a slight flinch as they slid out and grinned. Laura jumped doing a flip and coming down on the girl making sure to keep her claws in check to keep from hurting her to bad. N' Dare ducked lithely, using her speed and running under the airborne girl coming out behind her as she landed. N' Dare kicked out catching her opponent in the back then did a one handed back flip as Laura spun around with claws flying.
This went on for about 10 more minutes, if anyone was watching they would see the different techniques as plain as day. N' Dare was calm and collected, usually seeing the attack before hand ,although Laura did land some blows. Also the 14 year old was smooth and graceful, she was like a big cat, lithely moving across the mat in a vicious dance with her opponent, to someone like Logan this would be considered beautiful. Her grace and flexibility made her a worthy opponent in his books.
Laura's technique was beautiful in a more brutal way. Her strikes were more direct not as graceful. Unlike N' Dare who seemed to like using martial arts and gymnastic mixed, using her natural flexibility to her advantage, Laura liked to keep her feet planted on the ground except for those few moments when being air born was acceptable, it made you too vulnerable. There styles were so different it was magnificent to watch, too bad no one was watching. If the two girls ever paired up they would be undefeatable no question.
There were some close moments when it seemed like one was winning but in the end N' Dare took advantage of X 23's anger. Using her speed she dodged Laura and taunted her by yawning or smirking, it was mean but she was getting bored, so once Laura's irritation was high enough N' Dare let her have a shot. As her arm came out ,about to hit the younger girl, N' Dare moved her head slightly and shot her own hand out grabbing the other girl's wrist used her momentum against her and threw her down on the mat pinning her with her foot. Laura was shocked, she had never been beaten before, people feared her, for good reason.
"Your to angry, an opponent could use it against you, to control you. You want to be in control, stay calm and focused and you'll woop their asses." N' Dare said offering a hand, she had recently learnt curses from some of the boys, much to her mother's dismay. Laura looked at the hand then at the girl, she had been taught to read people when she was still being held captive as an experiment. All she saw on the younger girls face was honesty and a little fear. Laura smirked and took her hand, at least the girl still feared her.
There was a moment of silence between the girls where N' Dare fidgeted and Laura just stood. Then X 23 spoke. "How do you stay calm?" she was truly curious, this could seriously help her fighting and then she could beat the younger girl.
N' Dare rubbed her neck uncomfortably, she was never really humble when it came to fighting, but then again she had always eventually beat her teachers somehow. But being around Laura she knew that if she had stayed more calm Laura would have come to at least a stalemate with her.
"I meditate and stuff. I have to stay calm or my visions go crazy. Also it kinda comes naturally to be laid back unless there's a threat, kinda like a big cat." she said grinning sheepishly.
"Interesting" Laura paused then, feeling awkward. "may I join you sometime for these meditating sessions?" Laura got ready for rejection, she knew people feared her ,even here, she had never had friends really and didn't know how to go about this.
"Um sure that would be awesome actually, I would like that." N' Dare smiled happily. "You've gotta teach me some of those awesome moves too k? You know if we teamed up we could so kick ass in the danger room. I'm alone right now for partners since Rahne left." N' Dare said thoughtfully and getting a mischievous grin on her face turning to her soon to be new partner in crime.
X 23 raised a brow then nodded her head. " Yes we could but I usually do the Danger room alone."
"Psh not anymore. You're my partner now, I'll teach you how to control yourself and you teach me some of your moves and we'd probably even make Logan whimper like a kitten." the African girl's smile was positively evil now at her new thoughts.
Laura processed this then started to grin, she had always wanted to best Logan. "That sounds…fun." Laura said making N' Dare giggle. At the older girls raised eyebrow N' Dare explained.
"I think this is the beginning of a very awesome friendship." They both smiled at each other and for the rest of the evening fought and taught each other. What they didn't know was that an old man in a wheel chair was watching them form the control room wearing an amused smile. He wheeled out thinking that Logan should starting getting prepared.
AN whattya think? I like it but that's just me. So there will be fleeting Loro in the next chapter with some Amyro ,obviously, and Magneto will reveal some of his new (maybe evil idk yet) plan. Also Pietro is going to discover his new lil sis and he's gonna hate it but what older broher doesn't? But we all know deep really really way done there our siblings like us and Pietro can't resist Lorna and having big bro duties.
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Mini Rant: ok so I mentioned Invisible Children up top. Well it's about children in Northern Uganda who have been kidnapped and used as Child Soldiers by Joseph Kony and rebellion LRA group, this organization (Invisible Children) is helping notify people ( they recently got Obama to pass a bill to assist with finding Joseph Kony) and rebuild schools for the children there.
Some back story: These kids are abducted between the ages of 8 and 14 and brainwashed and made into killers sometimes destroying there own village and killing people they know. Sometimes they are brutally murdered if they don't, they kill them in front of other children by children as examples. Each night (when the movie was first made) these kids walked miles each night to sleep in bus park areas so they stay safe. Ok I'm done but you should watch the movie to find out more or go to the website. Invisible Children is the movie Invisible is the website another movie is Go it's associated with Invisible Children.