Ghost sighed in irritation, for the thousandth time, as the sun had given him a headache. He was trying to keep calm, as he drank the cold water from a bottle, but his irritation was quickly building up into anger. He glanced over at Caryn, who was busy talking to Toad and his mood darkened even more.
They were riding a taxi, as Toad insisted, and were on their way to a school. Ghost found himself not caring, and more than furious at his older brother for taking the meds away from him. The boy took a breath, trying to calm himself, and abruptly he felt a poke in his side.
Caryn almost jumped into Toad's lap, as her dark brother seemed to snap and suddenly threw the bottled water at the windshield of the taxi.
The Taxi Driver yelled out a curse and slammed on his brakes. The three saw the man turn around to look at them and Toad frowned as he saw that the driver wasn't happy at all. "Get the hell outta my cab, ya freaks!"
Ghost, to the surprise of Toad, quickly grabbed the driver's shirt.
"Unless you want to meet with the maker," Ghost threatened in a deadpan voice. "Then you will take us to where we want. Got. Me."
And just like that, they still found themselves walking to the School.
By the time that they got to the front gates, Toad noticed that Ghost was scowling and he was no longer responding to Caryn.
Toad motioned for the girl to push the button, to contact the people within. He grinned as she walked up to the intercom, and after she pushed it, he saw a orange light flash on.
"Yes," Toad heard. His eyes narrowed instinctively and he braced himself. "You three may enter."
Toad saw the gates open and he immediately saw that Weather Witch was heading towards them, alongside the Professor. He swallowed his fear, as he reminded himself that he was doing this for his siblings, and he walked towards them. He noticed that Ghost and Caryn were following him.
"Hello," Toad heard Professor Xavier say warmly. "Toad, you're safe here. I'm glad that you have brought Ghost here."
"I'm not gonna let Spencer repeat my mistakes," Toad told him.
"You knew that we were coming," Ghost said rudely at the same time.
Toad looked behind him at Ghost, and then back at the older man, narrowing his eyes.
"You quit with the mind talk," Toad threatened, as he advanced on the Professor and pointed a finger into the man's face. "I know that's what you're doing. No secrets!"
Xavier didn't even flinch as he responded, "We can do that Mortimer."
Toad blinked as he realized that the Professor complied much too easy and way too quickly. It mentally floored the Mutant and he stepped away.
"Welcome," Toad heard the witch tell them. He took notice that she seemed calm and gentle. He looked back at his siblings and motioned for them to come. Just as Toad was about to follow them further in, he saw a red headed mutant, just outside of the gates. Mortimer smiled slightly as he knew the mutant and he gave his friend a quick nod, before turning and walked behind everyone.
As they walked to the mansion, Caryn looked at everything. She had never seen so many mutants in one place and she found herself uneasy. It was a feeling of never being able to fit in, but she wasn't worried too much about that, instead she understood that her brothers would be considered normal.
She saw some normal looking kids and she waved at them. One wave back, a girl with a pure white streak in her brown hair. Caryn felt a little better afterwards and she followed the white haired lady into a large building.
Once inside, the girl saw that the school looked regal, with fancy carpet, a piano and mini lazy-boy chairs in the main room. Caryn noticed a boy playing the piano. He looked normal, save with his eyes, which were constantly changing color.
Finally they entered into an office.
Ghost sat down in a chair, took the sunglasses off and started rubbing around his eyes. He then leaned his arm on the armrest, and sort of braced his head between the back of the chair and his eyes, that he was covering with his hand. Toad noticed that the younger mutant was slouching in the chair and let out a barely heard moan of pain.
Toad leaned over his brother and put a hand on the boy's shoulder, "Ghost are you alright?"
Abruptly, Mortimer found himself face to face with a very pissed off mutant.
"You give me back my pills," Ghost snarled at him, as he pulled the elder sibling down.
"No," Toad said, quickly slipping into a battle mode. He moved, and in a fluid motion, the older mutant pushed Ghost off of him and also tossed the pills into the air.
Ghost saw the bottle in the air and went to try and grab or catch it, when he saw it vanish. He saw it fly out of the window, as the slimy mutant had used his tongue to fling it out, causing the boy scowl and look at Toad. Then Ghost rushed to the open window and looked down to see it hit another mutant boy, before vanishing under some bushes.
"Ow," Ghost heard the white headed boy remark as he picked up the bottle. This boy said something in French before looking up to see the dark haired mutant. "Is this yours?"
"Yes," Ghost said. "Give it to me!"
The boy tossed it back into the air up towards Ghost, and he was about to catch it, when suddenly he felt himself yanked back and roughly put back into the chair.
"You dun need them," Toad said to his younger brother, inadvertently slipping into his British slang.
Ghost glared at Toad as the Professor cleared his throat.
"Now," Xavier said, smiling. "Let's get you enrolled."
I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. And thanks to the review that inspired me to finish this chapter and gave me some very helpful suggestions. This is for you.
