Melissa
Matthew Newvine stepped out of the cab, very glad that he was 'normal' looking at the time, aside from his red fingernails and saliva. He paid the cabbie and slung his duffle over his shoulder. Walking up to the front door, he felt himself change, and looked at his hand. Yellow, cool, at least there should be no big effect there, he'd just make people nice and happy. Because he was out of high school, and coming only to control his powers, Joelle and Melissa were asked by Xavier to meet him at the door. He, like the two girls, would be doing some college and uni work by correspondence, through the school.
"Hello, fellow," Joelle said, happily.
"Hey," Matt said, holding his hand in front of his outh out of habit. "I'm Matt Newvine. I was told that this would be the place to go to learn power control?"
"Yep," Melissa said. "I'm Melissa, or Melly, and that's Joelle," Joelle waved. "She tries to to talk excessively, because she can't open her mouth without rhyming." Matt chuckled.
"Sometimes. . I . . can. . ." Joelle said, very slowly. "We're supposed to show you around, just the mansion, not the town." The two girls led Matt inside the school and gave him teh grand tour.
Jono
Jonothon opened the door to the band room. Just too stuffy to work properly. He hoped no one would be too irritated by their practising.
Right, let's try that again...
Angelo beat out the rhythm on his drums and they started again.
"I'm drowning in the quicksand
I can't keep my feet
It's something that I'm feeling
And I think I'm breathing sand
No helping hand to guide me out
I'd probably spit on it anyway
I'd bite the hand that fed me
Hate's a lesson I learned early
I'm a martyr to life
Crucified for who I am
I never got my first chance
Why should I give the world a second one?
Drowning and the sky's disappearing fast
It's just a way to die
Blinded as I go under
I wonder what's on the other side
I stepped into the quicksand
With a curse and a prayer
That someday I'll see you there
Whoa oh, step into the quicksand and drown with me..."
OOC: 'Quicksand' by Jono
Matt and Joelle
Matt stopped for a moment to listen to the band.
"Do you mind if we stay a bit?" he asked the girls, they shook
their heads.
"No prob, bob," Joelle grinned. Matt sat back and listened to the
beautifully grim music.
"They've seen a lot of pain, but then, we all ahve, being what we
are. Are they all students?" Joelle nodded.
"They're in high school. How old are you?"
"I'll be five soon. It's good, I'm getting sick of being 4."
Joelle cocked her head and raised an eyebrow. "My birthday is February
29th, Leap Day. I only have my actualy birthday every four years. I'm
turning both five and 20 at the same time." Joelle laughed.
"That's cool. You're no fool." Joelle watched as his skin took on
a greenish cast. His fingernails turned a deep green.
"You. . just. .change. . colour," Joelle said, carefully.
"I thought so." He held his hand in front of his mouth again, but
still, Joelle began to relax. He was oozing relaxants into the air.
The song ended, and Matt and Joelle applauded.
"You guys are awesome," Matt said grinning.
Displaced
Jonothon shrugged slightly as he put his guitar down.
We try.
Octavian riffed a chord on the bass guitar and grinned.
"Well, he's trying, the rest of us are nice."
Oh, bloody well bite me.
"I'm Octavian. Call me Tav," Octavian said.
"Sergei," the Russian drawled, delibartely thickening his accent.
"Angelo," the grey skinned mutant said.
"Or call me Skin."
Jono. Or Chamber.
Sergei sipped from a glass of water.
"So...your name is, tovarisch?"
Melissa
"I'm Matt, Matt Newvine, also known as Druggie, Drug, etc.," Matt
said, his skin fading to purple. Matt suddenly realized that Joelle was
standing to close to him, because she kept reacting to his changes.
"Oh, hey Jesse," Mellisa said, quietly, as she ran off to her
boyfriend, leaving Joelle with Matt, and the band. A moment later, his
skin returned to normal.
"Finally," Matt said, hoping it would last a while.
Displaced
One of those things? Jonothon asked.
"The general, oh shit what the hell have my powers done this time?"
Sergei said.
"Only a guess, mind."
"Anyway..."
"Onwards and hopefully downwards?" Octavian said.
Sergei threw a pencil at his head; Octavian's hand darted up to
catch it.
"You think with your dick."
"So? Least I'm getting laid, Russki."
"Shut the f*ck up."
Guys...
Jonothon rolled his eyes.
"On to the next song," Octavian said.
Jonothon started to play, then Octavian started to sing.
"Do you like me on my knees?
You know I can't say no
You're my favourite addiction
You love me when I'm on knees to you
You're my drug of choice
OOC: 'Drug of choice' by Jono.
Matt and Joelle
Matt laughed, the way he always did at drug references. He smiled, and
held his hand out to Joelle, and they waltzed, very badly, with poor
timing. When the song ended, they stopped and applauded again.
"Who wrote all these songs?" Matt asked.
Displaced
"Him," Octavian said, pointing at Jonothon.
"Aren't you in awe?"
Jonothon coloured slightly.
Leave off...h'it's just wot I do.
"And he's ever so good at it," Octavian teased.
Shut up, Tav.
"So modest," Sergei said.
Octavian picked up his violin and slid it under his chin.
"On?"
Jonothon shook his head, then played the opening chords to the next
song they had to practice.
"Dance with me
Dance, dance, dance
Dance with me
It's getting hotter now
Play Nero with me
Oh, dance, girl, dance
OOC: 'Flames' by Jono
Matt and Joelle
As Matt's skin turned purple again, he took Joelle's hands and they
danced. Well, to be more accurate they held hands and spun around. But
Matt was turning into human cocaine, and Joelle was getting just a
little too close. She collapsed in a fit of giggles.
"Orange penguins running by me, There's rope and he might try to
tie me," Joelle said, pointing at the corner. At that moment, Matt was
excreting a combinations of cocaise, and LSD, and Joelle was not taking
to it very well.
"Crap. Um, can somebody help me here?" Matt asked. "She's gotten
too close, and she needs to detox."
Octavian and Jay
"Intriguing," Octavian said, glancing at Matt.
"Up you get, Jo."
He picked Joelle up easily and left with her in his arms, going down
to the medlab.
"What the f*ck happened to that bitch?" Jay asked.
Octavian rolled his eyes and kept going.
"Die and burn, Jay."
"No need to get all tight and shit, just f*cking asking a question,"
Jay said.
"Damn, motherf*cker."
Jean
Jean hovered over Joelle like a worried mother.
"Did she take something?"
"No," Matt said, standing about six feet away. "Um, my body
kinda, um, releases mind-altering drugs, that determine my colouring."
"You must be Matthew," Jean said. "The Professor told me you were
coming. I'm Dr. Jean Summers, one of the teachers here. But you've
metriculated already, right?"
"Yeah. I've been out of school for a couple years. Listen, she
needs water," Matt said. Jean looked at the girl, who was definitely
hallucinating.
"Tav, can you go get Melissa?"
Octavian
Octavian half sketched a salute, and left to get her.
Hank gave Joelle some water carefully.
"Interesting power...can you control it all? As to what drugs
appear?"
Melissa and Jean
"Sometimes. Sometimes I can choose what type of drug I secrete, and
sometimes it goes with my own emotions. Like, if I'm really relaxed,
I'll be green, or if I'm really hyper, I'll turn orange. You see, my
blood changes colours."
"Really," Jean asked, curious.
"Yes, it's like this, purple is narcotics and mind-altering
substances, and I think I dosed poor Jo here with a combo of coke and
LSD. Yellow is anti-depressants, orange is stimulant, blue is
depressants, green is relaxants. Sometimes my blood turns back to red,
and then I'm not drugged at all." Matt explained. Finally Melissa came
back with Tav, Jesse trailing behind them.
"Let me see if I can help," MIssy said. She leaned over Joelle,
placing her hands on the older girl's temples. Jo sat up.
"What happened to me, did anybody see?" she asked.
Octavian
"Nothing medicinal?" Hank persisted.
They still needed to find a cure for Legacy. Perhaps, this boy could
help them. he did have a vaccine formula created...but it would kill
the first person to use it. The complete antidote would have to be
made from the chemical reactions produced in the victim's blood.
Needless to say, he didn't want to do that.
"You touched Matt, he made you high," Octavian said.
"If there's nothing else, the prof asked us to do a concert...which
we're practicing for."
Melissa
"I. . . I don't know," Matt said. "I really don't know. But this
girl Melissa sure seems handy." Melissa shrugged.
"I can heal others and myself, most times. But I can't seem to
heal Jamie and Tracy, or little Chelsea," Melly said, sadly. Joelle
put her arm around her friend.
"Don't fear, God is here. Everything is in his hand, he's numbered
every grain of sand," Joelle said wiseley. At times her rhyming was
unusually annoying, but other, it waslike true poetry.
Octavian
"God is dead," Octavian said softly.
"Haven't you read Neitzche?"
"Nevertheless, there is always hope," Hank sighed.
Octavian's mouth twitched.
"As you wish to think. I've found precious little."
He turned on his heel and walked away. Hank sighed and polished his
glasses on a corner of his labcoat.
Melissa
Joelle and Melissa looked up at Matt.
"Do you belive in God?" Melly asked. "Joelle and I go to a
Pentecostal church in town."
"Yeah," Matt said. "I'm a Christian, I went to a Christian
school."
"I did as well, can't you tell?" Joelle asked. Melissa smiled
wanly.
"I went to Columbine." Matt's eyes widened.
"THE Columbine?"
"Yeah. I was in the library and everything. Watched my friends
die and then a year later find out I can heal. That was cruel irony,"
Melissa said.
"God has a plan not known to man," Joelle reminded Melissa, and
Melly smiled.
"Yeah, it's all good now. You feeling okay honey?" Joelle
nodded.
"Okay, should just explained. My blood, saliva, tears, etc., are
all drugs. That applies to my breath. That's why I'm always doing
this," Matt said, holding his hand about 6 inches in front of his
mouth. "If I breath on you, I drug you, same with spitting. So, Jo,"
Matt smiled, "That's what happened. When we danced, I breathed on you
too closely."
"I don't get, why feeling like that," Joelle rhymed, before
slowing her speech down, "is. . something. . people. . pay. . for."
Melissa took Jo's hand.
"C'mon, Jo, let's show Matt to his room, and then we can all chill
out for a bit. Is he sharing with you?" Melly asked Jesse, who nodded.
"Yeah, there are two large beds in my room, and we're sort of
running out of single rooms," Jesse said laughing. The four of them
headed upstairs.
Octavian
Octavian had gone back to the band room to find a plot against him.
He shook his head violently, blond hair fanning out.
"Oh, *hell* no."
Eventually however, he was persuaded.
Melissa
Joelle, Melissa, Jesse and Matt all headed down to the rec room, to
watch a movie. Joelle picked up her HUlk DVD, and Melissa groaned.
"Oh, not again, Jo! SHe got it for Christmas," Melissa explained.
"And she won't stop watching it."
"I haven't seen it yet. What's it about?" Joelle's eyes popped
open.
"How can you not know the Hulk? It's better than chocolate milk!
It's guy, who can't fly, but what he does is ever greater. . ." Joelle
began to babble on and on about the Hulk, until everyone conceded, and
they put the movie on.
Displaced
Eventually, the band packed up, still arguing among themselves. It
was one of their forms of entertainment.
"The concert will be good," Sergei said.
"Who are we getting to do sound?"
"Logan, I guess," Octavian said.
"Maybe Forge would do it."
"It will all be good," Angelo chimed in.
"Damn well better be," Sergei said.
Melissa
Matt was watching the movie with his new friends, when he himself began
to turn green.
"Look, now I'm the Hulk," he announced, and everybody laughed.
"What's green mean?" Joelle asked.
"Relaxants. Like valium, or pot."
"So, if you, like, spit in my drink or something," Melissa asked,
"I'd get really relaxed and high?"
"Basically, only my saliva is, like, really really concentrated."
"Good to know." THey watched the movie.
Jay, Silent Bob and Loki
"What's up, bitches and hos?" Jay said, in a friendly manner for him.
Silent Bob shrugged slightly, then went to check out the pool table.
Loki, as usaul, was their lurking bodyguard person.
Matt
"Uh. . .dude?" Matt began, "Nevermind." Because of his power, he
could sense when other people were drugged, and these two reeked of it.
"You know what?" Matt began. "If it weren't for the fact that I'm
deep green, sitting in a room full of mutants, I'd say that that movie
was terribly unrealistic." Everybody laughed.
"Me?" Jesse said. "Not a mutant. A couple hundred years ago, my
family drank from a spring, which turned out to be an eternal spring,
and now I'm immortal."
"Word?" Matt said.
"Yep."
"Freaky. I'm turning five next month," Matt said, grinning.
"Huh? I thought you were 19."
"I was born on Leap Day. I've lived for 20 years, but I'm only
celebrating my fifth birthday. I'm thinking of having it at Chuck E.
Cheese's." All of the Americans laughed at that.
Rebekah
Rebekah walked in and did a double take at the green guy on the
couch.
"Ah... hello."
Matt and Joelle
"Hi, I'm Matt, the newbie," he said, he started to hold out his hand
to offer it to Rebekah, as he turned purple. He pulled his hand back.
"Ah. . . better not. Don't want to have to send two people to the
infirmary in one day." Joelle giggled.
"I'm fine, I'm fine."
Rebekah
"Oh, well welcome to Mutant High. I'm Rebekah."
Rebekah smiled.
"So what's your power?"
Matt and Joelle
"I'm a walking drug. all different sorts, really, it depends on what
colour I am. That's why I didn't want to shake your hand, because
purple is narcotics and hallucinogens, I didn't think you'd really want
to go on a bad trip," he smiled. "How 'bout you?" Matt smiled as
Joelle leaned over and restarted the movie, with commentary.
Rebekah
"Emotion manipulation. And telepathy."
Rebekah perched herself down on a chair.
"So you're just here to learn control?"
Melissa
"Pretty much. Gonna do what Jo & Mel here are doing, and do college
work through the school That's college as in university," he said,
winking. "American and all that," he laughed.
"Sometimes, life is very strange," Melissa declared, as a Jamie
came in. Jamie had recently discovred that he wasn't abe to absorb his
doubles anymore. So, everytime he bumped into something, or fell or was
jarred in any way, more Jamies would show up. And several of the Jamie
doubles were very, very ill.
Jay, Silent Bob and Loki
"F*ck, Bob, watch it," Jay said as Bob moved to avoid the Jamie.
"There has been some seriously weird shit going on around here
lately."
Silent Bob nodded slightly. Loki growled at the Jamie and rested his
hand on the hilt of his sword.
"He should just f*cking die. F*cking mortals."
Melissa
"He is dying," Melissa said somberly. "Three of his doubles have died
already, and each time, it's as if he's dying."
"Doubles?" Matt asked.
"Jamie's codename is Multiple Man. He can megadouble, produce
multiple copies of himself. Unfortunately, he and his girlfriend Tracy
both have the Legacy virus, which is killing them slowly. That's why
Dr. McCoy was wondering if you can create medicinal drugs. Because of
the virus, he keeps multiplying,but he can't pull the copies back in."
"That's sad," Matt admitted. "This place is. . . well. . .strange
to say the least." Joelle looked at him and nodded.
"Absotutely posolutely."
Loki
"I can make it quicker," Loki said, and put his hand on the hilt of
his sword.
"Point me to the original, and there will *be* no more problem,
since he'll be dead."
Melissa
Melissa glowered at him.
"I thought you were supposed to be an ANGEL. You know, angelic and
the like? Jamie is an innocent. If you hate it here this much, leave.
I thought you were supposed to enjoy your work?" Matt and Joelle were
basically oblivious to it all, concentrating on the movie.
Loki
Loki laughed shortly, and leaned in.
"I was the angel of death for tens of thousands of years.
This...babysitting job, I f*cking hate. I can't leave without new
orders, so you're just gonna have to f*cking deal along with me. ANd
besides...no one is innocent."
Melissa
"Children are innocent," Mellisa said. "They're born innocent." She
lay her head on Jesse's shoulder. He pulled her close and kissed the
top of her head.
Loki and Jay
"The sin of Adam and Eve stains you all..."
Loki shook his head slightly.
"Why the f*ck am I even bothering?"
"Because you're a whiny motherf*cker who likes to tell people shit
so he can feel important," Jay said.
Melissa
"Agreed." Melissa said, as she went back to watch the movie with
their friends.
Loki, Jay and Silent Bob
Loki growled and swept out. Jay held his hand up to Silent Bob, who
high fived it.
"Snootchy bootchies, lunchbox. I f*cking rock."
Looking up at you and saying please
I love your hands when they're on me
You like me best when I'm on my knees
I follow you everywhere you go
You like me on your lead
You like to see me bleed
You're my drug of choice
Habit, you're my darling habit
You're a goddess, I'm your slave
It's the way I'm told to worship you
You smile as I do
You love the things I'll do for you
My habit that I just can't kick
You're my addiction, running through my veins
I can't get enough of you, no matter what you do..."
The flames are reaching high
Dance with me
The world is burning
Girl, spin your skirt high as we two dance
I'll stand here with you
While we watch the world burn
I'm burning
The flames reaching over my head
And I'm drowning in the heat
Drown with me while we dance, love
Watch the world burn with me
Dance with me
It's the end of the world as we know it
Dance, dance the dances of a burning world
It's lost behind us in the flames
All there is, is me and you in the ashes
Dance with me on the ashes of the world
Dying all around as we dance
Press against me, burn me
We're dancing, burning, drowning, dying..."