Tina
A long, black stretch limo pulled up in front of the mansion, and four people got out, along with what appeared to be a moth. The two teenaged girls were flanked by two very tall, muscular man wearing all black, and carrying sidearms. The shorter, chubbier girl looked up at her friend.
"So, Mia, do you think they'll like us?" Tina asked.
Mia
"I sure hope so, Tina," Mia replied, eyeing the mansion nervously.
Then she looked at their bodyguards.
"And I really hope Lars and Wahim don't scare anyone off."
Tina, Kitty and Moonie
Tina looked hesitant, but Wahim guided her towards the entrance, as Lars did the same to Mia. They walked up the front steps and inside. As was expected, Lars and Wahim did gather some attention. A pretty girl with long brown hair came up to them.
"Hi, I'm Kitty, you must be Mia and Tina?" she asked. Tina nodded. "I'll show you to the Professor's office, we've been expecting you. And who is this, is this an insect person?" Kitty asked, looking at Moonie.
"You know of da mighty insect people? You is very smart," Moonie said, zipping around Kitty's head.
"Oh yes, I know another insect person, named Buzza, who comes to visit occasionally."
"Moonie, maybe you and this Buzza can be friends," Tina said, thinking romantic thoughts already.
Mia
Mia giggled, knowing what her friend was thinking.
"Behave yourself," she grinned. "Hi, Kitty. We'd appreciate a guide."
Tina and Kitty
Kitty guided the group to the Professor's office, pointing things out, and introducing people around. When they got into the office, the Professor looked up.
"Ah, Mia, and Tina, I presume?" the girls nodded.
"Oh, hello Lars, Wahim, it's good to see you again. Well, girls, I'd like to welcome you to my school for the Gifted. It seems that your tranfer to a new school mid-semester has acquired a bit of media attention, though your fathers have managed to hush it up. Now, I think that I am going to put the two of you in a room together, for now, Kitty will show you where it is. Classes begin at 8am, and lunch is at noon. You have free reign over the building, and may go wherever you like, though the lower levels are restricted unless you are accompanied by a faculty member. It is nearly time for supper, so Kitty will show you to your room, and then why don't you go to the cafeteria and have a bite to eat," the professor said all this in calm soothing tones. As t hey walked down the hall, Tina looked at Mia.
"Mia, I am so glad you're here with me, I would be so scared to do this alone!"
Mia
"Likewise!" Mia replied. "It's all so... insane."
The princess looked around in awe as they arrived at the cafeteria.
"I had no idea there were so many..." she breathed.
Tina
Tina went to get her tray, and she and Wahim followed MIa to an empty table. Tina smiled.
"Is it just me, or does this remind you of when we first became friends?"
The Mavericks
"Look, new people!" Vortigern pointed at Tina and Mia.
"And they brought bodygaurds with them. Shall we say hello, Dem?" Octavian looked up at his sister who was calmly hovering in midair, reading and eating a sandwich.
"Why ever not? We can discuss how to lose bodygaurds."
"Well, it always helps when you can teleport."
"Point well taken, brother dear." Demetria finished her sandwich and brushed her hands off. "Shall we?"
"Port, Dem?" Mordred asked.
"Why bother walking?" Demetria said in condescending tones.
"Well, we all know your view on the matter." Mordred took Octavian's and Vortigern's hands before 'porting all of them over to the new girls sides. Demetria ported herself calmly and rolled over so she was lying on her stomach looking down.
"Salutations and greetings, new members of this wothwhile intistute!" Octavian said cheerfully, before glaring at the bodygaurds. "Oh, do calm down. Honestly, you'd think they never saw anyone teleport before. Bodygaurds. All the same."
"Annoying?" Demetria suggested sweetly.
"Oh, yes, very much so."
Tina
Tina's eyes widened. "Um, hi. I'm Tina Hakim-Baba, and this is my friend Pri--I mean, Mia Thermopolis," TIna said, not sure f Mia wanted people to know who she was yet. "It's nice to meet you all."
Mia
"You know, Tina," Mia said. "I was going to say that this did remind me of when we became friends. But it doesn;t remmind me so much of that any more."
She giggled.
Tina
"It might if you coned somebody with your ice cream," Tina said, laughing. "BUt this girl doesn't really remind me much of Lana."
Mia
Mia laughed.
"And that can only be a good thing! Ha, I still remember the look on Lana's face... it's engraved into my mind."
The Mavericks
"Octavian Felix Edgerton-Smythe, and my sister Demetria Juno. And you I recgonise. If your grandmother recieves any mail from our parents, please make sure you burn it before she reads it." Octavian's eyes went wide.
"Minor English nobility, and Mother has a penchant for matchmaking. Please, please, please burn the letter. But then again, she's probably already sent it." Demetria grimaced.
"I am so glad I can just listen from the outside," Vortigern commented. "Vortigern Llewlyn."
"Mordred Llewlyn, and don't look at me like that!" Mordred snarled at one of the bodygaurds. "You'd think I was about to flaming kill them or something. We've got Cain the bloody loony for that."
"Indeed." Octavian's expression became solemn for a moment, then he brightened. "But enough of that sorry business! How do you like the professor's school?"
Mia
"Oh you recognise me, huh?" Mia said, trying not to sound disappointed. "Well, just call me Mia. And as for Grandmere's mail, I'm afraid I've never had access to that, but at any rate, I'm already seeing someone."
The Mavericks
"That never stopped people like our mother, and if your granmother's anything like her..." Octavian shook his head, still grinning slightly.
"Oh, stop it, Tavvie!" Demetria slapped the top of his head. He caught her hand before it touched him and pulled her down towards the earth. She yelped and 'ported. "Now, really!"
"I win, Demetria."
"So *you* think."
"I don't think-"
"Now there's a surprise."
"As I was saying," they started to bicker amicably.
"Ignore them. When they get like this, they can go for hours."
"And we can't?"
"Yeah, but we can do it in the privacy of our own heads." Vortigren grinned at Mordred. "Telepaths. He's a teleporter as well, and I manipulate light. Demetria teleports and levitates. Tav calls his Agility."
Mia
"I call my power Obscurity. I can make people or things obscure just by thinking about it," Mia said. "And perhaps Tina would like to explain her own power?"
Tina
Tina blunshed. "I can make people fall in love with each other or with me." Tina had always been a hopeless romantic, but now she was even more of one.