X-men: New Beginnings-Chapter 1

The Teams Meet
Laurie couldn't help watching across the grassy field anxiously, having yet to see their "competition" reveal themselves. If anything, they were an hour late or even more is what it felt like to the blue skinned woman. Her young team could only sit around and wait, obviously bored and frustrated by this delay as they wanted nothing more then to return to their own base and get started on training. But this meeting was a necessary evil, causing them to have to endure the rising heat despite their location of the Savage Land.

Of course, the Savage Land was a paradise to many which hid it's secrets deep in it's lush jungle that surrounded them. Secluded and remote, both headmasters had come to an agreement it would be the best place in order to train their new X-men and thus the competition was born. Least it was suppose to be but so far only Laurie's team had shown, causing them to become hot, sweaty, and quickly getting irritated even towards each other, causing Laurie to have to reprimand them once or twice so far.

Finally though, Violet picked up on a disturbance with her spacial awareness, causing her to glance towards the east side of the grassy clearing. "Here they come at last." Violet said as all five quickly were on their feet and Laurie came to land beside them, spotting the familiar form of Eva Bell, the field leader of their rivals. Already she was looking over the five chosen students, seeing two of which struck her as rather hostile then of friendly nature while the remaining members didn't seem so bad. But within minutes of the X-treme X-men finally arriving the two teams stood a few short feet away, each analyzing the others and seeming to be squaring each other up. Though luckily no immediate fighting began...yet.

Among them though there was faint recognition of one of the X-traordinary X-men, her name being Carol Evergreen who stared in shock towards a male red neyaphem, one she had not seen in some time. "Brother?" Was all Carol could ask, for the most part speechless at this realization. "What can I say sis, these guys know their stuff and got the right idea. Think you are on the wrong side." Merrick replied back, casting a disgusted look towards the human loving mutants but Carol gave him a look of disbelief, "So filling your head with promises they likely can't keep and using you as a soldier is your ideal decision? How far you've fallen, Merrick." She said causing him to shoot her an unamused glare, obviously thinking the same thing about her after all they had been through. Though unlike these two there was another set of siblings who the recognition was one sided.

Kicker could see his brother, recognized him to the point of feeling his deep loathing of his brother returning. Unfortunately, Lance met his gaze and was a bit unsettled by the young teen's rage, something of which he didn't realize was aimed towards him and what had happened in the past. Heck, Lance didn't even recognize his own long lost brother who had practically faded into his memory after so long. As for Kicker, he had not forgotten and certainly had not forgotten what happened to his family thanks to Lance. Aside from this the rest of the teams seemed to give curt and silent acknowledgement that this was going to happen and possibly there might be a few skirmishes.

Now came for Laurie and Eva, the two field leaders stepping forward until they were in arm's length of one another. "So, this is your team? They seems like they have plenty potential." Laurie asked as Eva nodded, "Yes it is, and I could say likewise towards your's." Eva stated, her accent still heavily there even after all this time. With a nod of her own Laurie held out her hand, "Then may our teams try to compete peacefully. The split in our team was traumatic enough, we don't need this erupting into utter bloodshed." Laurie said as Eva couldn't help admitting that was also something she wished to avoid. "Agreed," Eva said as she reached out and they shook upon the agreement, unknowing that at least one of the ten students was certainly out for blood, a family feud that was relatively one sided.

After that exchange each of the students stepped forward, meeting face to face with the person immediately across from them and making the same agreements, though Amethyst, another neyaphem female among the X-traordinary X-men, noted that when her and Kicker shook hands and he spoke there was great reluctance in his tone. Though this made her uneasy she tried to shrug it off and stepped back with the rest of her team as the meeting was quick and over with. Never was it meant to be a long exchange, only a quick once over of who they had on their teams and possibly what they would be up against. Giving a final note for their next meetings in the coming futures both teachers dismissed their groups to return to their respective bases and turning to leave in opposite directions.

Unfortunately for the two teams, however, they were hardly aware that they were not alone in this land. For unless they looked closely they missed a dark figure watch the meeting from a tree, the thickly woven branches and closely grown leaves having masked his appearance before the individual left. Only leaving the leaves to sway softly as if a small animal had run through.