So, I'm sorry it took so long for the last chapter. As a make up for it, here's another chapter. :p

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Chapter 49

The blindfold was keeping out most of the light, Naomi took a deep breath and moved slowly. Her shadow began to twist and pulled up from the ground, she moved through the danger room and kept sensing out for the others who were in the room. Two of them were on her team, the other three were on the opposing team. They were all blindfolded. They'd been told who was in the training session and that their teammates would complement their own powers, Naomi remained motionless waiting to see who would go for who first. The goal was to gather the teams of three, then defeat the others before they could knock out your own team, the thing that would be interesting would be who was on which team, all without seeing or talking to the others.

Prism was on the playing field several feet away from her, Naomi thought he could be either on her side or on the other team. She sent out tendrils of shadows toward the others in the room to see who they were; A boy called Stith, it meant anvil, she'd seen him handling hot metal with his bare hands and shaping it, he was in one of her classes. Another was someone she'd only seen in passing, he went by Heatwave, every time she'd seen him though he'd been a different weight, all of their powers had been explained before they'd gone into the room, he apparently would store energy for a time then use it in bursts of heat energy. Feathers was in the room as well, she was standing motionless by the door. The last was Beth, she was a few years younger than all the others, she was a telepath, mostly based in telekinesis, she couldn't read minds, but she could move objects anywhere.

The shadows changed and Naomi jumped back avoiding a burst of heat from Heatwave, her shadow wrapped around her arms. So he'd decided to be one team. She sent out tendrils to Prism and bushed them across his arm, had any of them been able to see they would of seen his hair turn to a light brown as he smiled and bent light toward one of the others. Naomi's shadow swiped up the shadow and felt as Stith and Heatwave started to attack Beth together. The other girl pushed the hot attacks away from her as much as she could.

A black shadow hand shot up and swallowed a large hot air blast coming at Beth.

Laughing they all came out of the danger room and headed to the elevator.

"I didn't think you would do something like that Feathers," Prism said while untying the blindfold from around his neck, "Acting the decoy with a ball of hot air coming right behind you."

"Hot air rises, and it gives lift." Feathers said lightly, "But Naomi can't be fooled by that now could she?"

Naomi smiled, "Simple stuff really, but how can that kind of team set up be considered useful to us all, it looked really random to me."

"Probably was." Beth replied, she was small for her age, but was still older than Cat. "I think the teams could of gone anyway, so we made the choices in teams ourselves."

Heatwave pulled out a bag of chips and began snacking, "I guess, we all picked who we thought would be good for our strengths and weaknesses, then found other ways that the others could be useful."

"Do you think that's what they wanted us to figure out?" Prism asked, "That everyone's got something with the others that their compatible with?"

"Sounds like a good lesson." Storm said coming from the other door, "Good job teams. Go have some lunch you must all be tired."

They all dispersed to get their things, Naomi shadow-shifted up to her room. She got ready to get into a shower when her phone went off. "Hello?"

"This is Mrs. Hollins," came the voice of her temporary guardian on the phone. "I'll be coming by to pick you and your uncle up in a few hours, the judge has a few concerns he wants to go over about giving custody to Hank."

Naomi narrowed her eyes, "He has concerns? Like what?"

"We'll find out when we arrive." The line went dead.

Naomi sighed, "Great, now what?" She washed up and went down to eat, Rael, Rune and Prod were sitting at the kitchen table playing what she guessed was either slap-jack or war. "Busy day for you too?" they all grinned and gave various responses to her sarcasm.

Hart walked in and got into the fridge, he produced several bottles of soda and brought them over to the others then the game resumed. Hart looked over at Naomi, "I take it from your distressed energies you heard something about your hearing?"

Rune slapped the pile of cards and collected them, "Something go wrong?" he fixed the cards in his hands and kept looking over at Naomi while they started putting down cards again. "You dad didn't dig up dirt on Beast did he?"

She walked over and took one of the sodas on the table. "No, the judge has some concerns about Uncle Hank being my guardian."

"Like?" Prod asked while slapping down another pair of jacks before the others.

"Mrs. Hollins didn't say, just said concerns."

"Those are never a good thing," Rael replied, he was out of cards and was waiting to slap back into the game again. "Is there anyone else who you know of who could be," slapped down the cards, and collected them with a sly smile, "an alternate if Hank can't do it?"

"Storm volunteered at the beginning of this stuff, but it was shot down since she's got the school to take care of." Naomi took a drink of the soda and put it on the table. "I couldn't think of anyone else who'd want to be my legal guardian."

"I'll be your daddy." Rune said with a wink.

Naomi turned bright red, they all started laughing, Rael had a more thoughtful look on his face while they laughed at Naomi's expense. Naomi smacked him upside the head at the same time her shadow reached across the table and slapped down the double jacks before the boys could, "You're such a spaz."

"Yeah, but you're going out with me, so you must be crazy too." Rune took her hand and kissed it softly making her blush again, he turned over her hand and put the cards she'd slapped down into her hand.

Sitting behind a large wooden desk the judge flipped through the paper work, "You have a very time consuming and difficult job do you not Mr. McCoy? Now, how do you plan on taking care of a child with all these demands on your time already?"

"I am more than capable of juggling many different tasks in my life." Hank replied, his hands were in his lap and he was relaxing back in his chair.

The judge looked up from the papers, "But you have never had children of your own, and jumping into having custody of a teenager is difficult, I know, I have two teenagers, and I've had them since they were in diapers. How could you expect to take care of her, you also do a good deal of traveling and that isn't the best environment for a kid."

"Are you suggesting that she stay in the state custody?" Hank leaned forward, "I doubt the state would have just as much luck finding a place for her to stay."

Naomi sighed from where she was sitting outside the office, Mrs. Hollins was sitting next to her, she was busy on her phone and Naomi let the connection to Beast's shadow fall, as interested as she was in her future she really didn't feel like listening to more of the argument of foster homes. Maybe she should look into having Rune be her legal guardian. She shook her head, that would be really, really weird.

Hollins' phone rang at the same time Naomi received a text from Rael. How would u feel about having a brother?