Hello again to all my friends. I don't own X-men, but regardless the original characters that I'll be using in here do belong to me.

To Firewhisperer: Thanks so much for all the reviews, I love hearing from you. Hart's a pretty good guy I agree. And of course Uncle Hank won't mind ^-^

Chapter 10

Naomi curled up under the warm comforter that Storm had given her from one of the other kid's old things. She heard her door open, she opened one groggy eye. Two yellow ones stared back at her. She shot up out of the bed, a pair of shadowy looking hands wrapped around the form of a kitten, it mewed in confusion. Naomi fell backwards off the bed and the kitten fell onto the bed. She stared at her ceiling for a moment, and felt the tips of her fingers crack slightly. The yellow eyes stared down at her again. "I swear I locked that door," She groaned and sat up on her elbows, "What's going on?"

Cat mewed again then jumped down to her side and purred. She shifted back to the child shape, "Storm told me to come wake you up cause you didn't get an alarm clock yesterday." Cathrine pointed at the door, "It wasn't locked." She turned her head to the side, a signal of curiousness. "What were those things that grabbed me?"

Naomi got to her feet, "You startled me, it was my shadow, at least I think it was mine." She looked toward where her shadow should of been, it wasn't there it was ponderously around her feet, bubbling slightly, "Oh calm down." She scolded, it didn't seem to work. Naomi sighed and looked at the girl, "How long until more people show up?"

"Some people got here really late last night," Cat was sitting on Naomi's bed again kicking her feet slightly, "They're probably in their rooms still too. Usually we all make our own breakfasts before classes start." She hopped down, "I better go. Bye Naomi." She skipped out the door and closed it behind her. Naomi locked it and went into her bathroom. She'd bought the essentials while out last night, so there was a toothbrush, toothpaste, a few towels, a bottle of some fruity shampoo and conditioner and a bottle of body wash.

She stripped out of the white shirt and white shorts she'd received while in the lower sections of the school and took a soothing hot shower. When she stepped out of the shower and wrapped in a towel she looked at herself in the mirror. Naomi bit her lip and opened another of the drawers under the sink and took out a pair of scissors. She looked at her long hair in the mirror then selected a piece; she'd learned to cut her own hair a while ago, or else she would of had extremely long hair. She cut it at just above eye level, it wouldn't take too long.

Naomi came down the stairs feeling a bit lighter, as her hair had dried it had seemed to have a style all its own, she'd tried to tame it slightly with a good brushing, all it had done was fluff out slightly. She was in a pair of loose jeans, a pale purple shirt and Hart's jacket. She peeked into the kitchen to see how many people were there.

"Its a different look for you." She jumped slightly at the voice behind her, it was the blond boy, the one Hart had said was a speeder. He adjusted his glasses slightly, "Not that its a bad thing." He walked past her, another book was tucked under his arm. He sat down next to another boy, this one had green hair and pale skin. They began to talk animatedly about something. Naomi walked in and retrieved a bowl from the cabinet.

Another new face came up beside her and reached for a bowl as well, "You must be the new girl." He said, he smiled and nodded his head in the direction of Chameleon, "I hope my sister didn't give you too much grief, I'm Prism." He did look a good deal like his sister, at the moment his hair was an off white, his twin's hair was a placid brown, "She's not a morning person."

She tried to offer a small smile, "I'm Naomi." She grabbed a spoon from the drawer and went for the cereal cupboard. "Storm told me your power is bending light?"

"Yeah," Prism replied, "I can get some pretty cool effects when there's enough white light around. There's not much I can do in the winter though, unless its a clear day." He grabbed a box of some cereal or other. "What about you, what's your power?"

Naomi shrugged slightly, "I'm told its shadows, but I don't know what that means exactly."

Prism nodded, "Sound interesting, maybe we'll get a chance to do a run in the danger room together and see what you can do."

She nodded back, "Yeah, sounds fun." Prism went to sit next to his grouchy sister, Naomi looked in the cereal cupboard and wondered what he meant.

A hand went over her head into the maze of boxes, there were black tattoos on the skin, "Having trouble deciding again?" Rune asked.

"What's the danger room?" She asked looking up at him.

"Its in the basement, usually five or six students at a time go down and train using their powers." He offered her the box of Trix, she took it. "You know, see whose power are compatible with others." He grabbed a smaller box of what looked like cereal bars and took two. "Storm wants to see you in her office by the way, figure out which classes you'll take, etcetera." He winked, "I like the hair." And with that he vanished out the kitchen door.

Naomi decided to go after she ate.