Rhapsody

X-Men: The New Era

Alison looked up, a little surprised as Nathan introduced himself, a little awkwardly and sort of stumbling over his own words, but being the first to break the awkward silence in the room was always hard. A warm smile crept onto her face when his words set off first Alex, then Casper and when the younger boy fell silent, she decided it was her turn now.

"It's nice to meet you all. I'm Alison, but most people call me Ali, so feel free to do the same." she started, sounding calm and friendly and still wearing the smile. "I, erm, sort of 'create' Illusions. It's a little hard to explain, but I guess that's the way it is with most powers. I look forward to getting to know all of you." she finished, quick and heartfelt. She wondered, briefly, if she would ever be asked to actually explain her powers. It was hard to find the words for something only you could do the way you did it. Sure, other powers might have similar results, but the way of creating them was always different. Not that she had ever met someone who could do the same thing she could. She imagined it would be an interesting meeting. She wondered if she should mention that, in order to balance out that her powers wasn't of active use in a fight, she kept fit with running and took self-defence classes to avoid being a nuisance should it ever come to that. She wouldn't want her new teammates to think her to be a bother and in immediate need of saving if something happened, but then again she didn't what was waiting for them beyond the door the professors were standing in front of, so she decided to keep that to herself until later.

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While they, apparently, waited for the last students to arrive at the TC, Alison used the time to get a better look at the people who seemed to be her teammates from this day on. SHe recognized some of the older faces in the group from this or that class she had taken over the last few years.

Daniel Green was easy to recognize and Alison mostly remembered him because of the hair. She had heard someone say the color was linked to his powers as a mutant and she had immediately envied him for not having to dye every other month. Once that had stuck with her, she had picked up some things here and there, like the fact that he grew fruits and vegetables himself, was a firm believer in recycling and using green materials wherever possible and, according to Ali's roommate Diane, could be quiet harsh when contradicted. Alison, herself, ahd always thought his demands were quite reasonable and not especially hard to accomplish if people didn't reject them our of sheer spite.

Another student she remembered mostly because of his appearance, especially his hair, was Alex. A guy with hair that long was rather distinctive. Also, a lot of girls were -very secretly- jealous of that hair.

Nathan she faintly recognized, but if she remembered correctly he was rather quiet and appeared uncomfortable around people. She couldn't quite remember if they had ever talked, either.

And then there was the russian girl. Alison remembered her name started with a 'V' and was usually shortened to Val, or something similar. And -obviously- she had the sort of looks your eyes followed automatically across the room. Apparently, her powers were some sort of Teleportation. Her appearance had startled Ali enough for her to flinch back into the wall, and blink against the flas of lightning. Now, she looked to be concentrating, probably fighting off her powers drawback.

As Alison's eyes wandered over the younger students in the room, she barely recognized anyone. For a brief moment, she noticed the kid with black, long-ish hair and bangs falling into his face looking her way. It seemed she wasn't the only one taking in the new team members. She wasn't quite sure what to make of him yet, his expression wasn't giving much away. She had seen him around, but that didn't really mean much because she had always been good with remembering faces.

Moving on to the two that had arrived just before she had, she immediately noticed the girl fiving off a cheery vibe. The two seemed to belong together somehow, whether that meant siblings, friends or lovers would likely been discovered pretty quickly.

She glanced at the front, noticing the professors were still patiently looking at the door, apparently waiting for at least one other student to turn up. Ali wondered briefly how big the team would end up being and what exactly had been planned for them after all of them had arrived.

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@ShieldsOfWar oh, great :D exactly what I meant :) Also, I think we've got most of the first posts now, or shortly, so this is really starting up now

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I'm just passionate! XD

@Shard

Ah, so that's what we call it these days?

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@Shard Ah, so you're as bored as me again xD

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Are we going to do a full round of 'introductory' posts or can we mingle a bit 'til the rest get 'round to posting?

Edit: Nevermind :D

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Alison's watch beeped, tearing her out of the light trance she always fell into when she ran in the morning. She slowed her pace down to a jog and glanced down at her wrist to look at the time, just to make sure. She had decided to cut her morning run short today, since the rest of the day would likely be tiring enough.

Noone had told her exactly what was going to happen at the Training Center, but the change of clothes indicated some sort of exercise and it was an open secret that these kinds of meetings usually turned out to be the forming of a new team. A team. The thought was strange to her, exciting but also making her nervous. She ran, yes. She was fit and -theoretically- knew self-defence and how to get herself out of trouble. But her mutant powers were completely passive. She still hadn't managed to get that shield up again. Or Forcefield. Or whatever they wanted to call it. These powers differed with everyone, and Alison wasn't sure about naming them by comparison to someone else's.

She headed back to the girl's dorm's at a light jog, taking the steps to the doors two at a time, then skipping up another flight of stairs to the showers. She made quick work of cleaning up, toweled her hair dry as much as possible before slipping in a pair of comfortable jeans, a black top and her favourite light green shirt, which she left hanging open in hopes of cooling down a little faster, the exercise and steaming hot water bringing a light, heated flush to her skin. She quickly slipped on her boots, then blow-dryed her hair enough not to catch a cold. Really couldn't use that right now. Then again, when could anyone ever use one?

She grabbed the bag of fresh gym clothes she had put in her locker the evening before, together with anything she had needed to shower. She always tried not to wake her roommate too early, the girl got positively murderous if she didn't get her full 8 hours of sleep. Alison had learned quickly to tip-toe out of the room and only put her shoes on out in the hallway if she wanted to run a few laps in the morning.

Slinging the bag over her shoulder, she walked over to the TC, checking her watch before she entered to make sure she was still on time. She let her prints be taken and looked up, surprised, when a hollow, robotic voice greeted her. "Welcome, Alison." And with that the door swung open and she stepped through, curiously looking around, noticing she was the seventh to arrive. "Good Morning." she said into the general silence of the room with a smile, completely hiding how awkward this all felt and instead going for warm. Wondering if she was the last to arrive or there would be more, she stepped to the side to free up the doorway and smiled in greeting at the professors before taking in the other faces in the room.

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@Shard Your're right and I think that's why @ShieldsOfWar wants to start this 'in the middle of the action'. Whatever that means ^.^

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Really looking forward to starting this :)
(Also really bored ^.^ time zones suck..)

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I made hot dogs and eggs...so yeah, same here..xD

@Shard

Sounds like my kind of breakfast xD