The gifted.

After being shown to my new room which is nice. I'm shown around the rest of the mansion although they don't show me things like the hidden training rooms and stuff like that. They probably don't trust me yet which is understandable.

It was about this time that the other students that lived here got home from class. Teenagers man they always have some kinds of problems and these one certainly do.

First one I met poofed himself right into the mansion followed by the smell of brimstone. Gross smelling stuff man.

It was a blue fluffy teen with pointy ears and a long blue tail. Nightcrawler.

He looked at me in confusion before screaming like a girl and covering his chest then teleporting away.

"Well that was smooth." I say to Logan who is rubbing his forehead.

"Yeah they aren't the brightest bunch when it comes to being discrete." He says with a sigh.

Xavier just chuckles.

After that little episode a couple more people enter the house this time much more normally. A girl in goth style clothes wearing gloves with some white dyed hair. A jock looking kid in jeans and a rolled up long sleeve shirt with some red sunglasses. A short girl with a black ponytail. And a dark skinned kid with a skateboard and blonde Mohawk.

Rogue, Cyclops, Kitty, Spyke.

Theres another car door and then the sound of a car driving away as the last resident of the mansion enters. Long red hair, preppy schoolgirl look huge mental powers slapping onto my shields almost uncontrollably.

Jean Grey.

They are now all looking at me curiously.

"Welcome back, allow me to introduce the newest resident of the mansion Ryan Steele. He will also be joining you all at bayville." Xavier says.

Instantly there's many different looks directed at me. A challenging one from Scott. The girls are looking at me like eye candy except jean who has a completely different look. Spyke is also looking at me curiously.

Scott pushes his way forward. "I'm Scott the leader of this group." He says holding out his hand for a shake.

"Group?" I say shaking his hand firmly as he tries to discretely overpower me.

"He doesn't know about the group Scott." Logan says with another sigh.

"Oh uhhh I mean uhh." He stutters.

"Real discrete." I say looking at Logan.

"Nice to meet you so what are your powers?" Spyke asks quickly trying to break up the awkwardness.

"He is like Rogue with a few more little abilities." Xavier says as Scott quickly takes his hand away.

The goth looking girl looks at me even more seriously now. "You can touch people though right?" She says sadly.

I walk over right in front of her and poke her forehead. "Seems simple enough eh?"

I had a small layer of invisible magic around my skin so her powers won't act up with me.

Everyone looks at me funny. "You can touch her and not feel sick?" Spyke asks.

"Rude, that makes her sound like some kind of disease." I point out as he looks ashamed.

I pick up the stunned girls hand and slip the glove off before touching her fingers she quickly grips onto me in excitement.

"I can touch somebody!" She shouts happily.

"Are your powers still working?" Spyke asks before touching her finger and stiffening up.

I quickly kick him away as spikes start popping up all over the girl.

"Probably best not to do that." I advise the stunned boy.

I put the glove back on the girls hand before moving back to my spot.

That's when the smallest one kitty starts to just bombard me with questions. Where are you from, what do you do, what kind of music do you like, what's your favorite food, do you have a car. It was word vomit at its worst. I hit her with a quick silencing spell as she continued to babble on.

"I can't really answer anything if you keep asking questions so fast." I point out before unsilencing her.

"How did you do that?" She asks me.

I wave my hands in the air and reply. "Magic!"

Of course none of them believe me.

I just shrug before looking at the strangely quiet redhead. As soon as I look her in the eyes a huge force smashes my mental shield apart like butter being hit by a truck.

I'm dragged into my mental world which is now a flaming inferno. There's a pair of massive flaming eyes looking at me and examining my entire mind space. "So that is the reason I felt so close to you. You have bonded with my kin." A powerful voice echoes out in my mindspace nearly tearing it to shreds. There's a beautiful chirp as fawkes appears in my mindspace helping ease the pressure.

"My hosts body cannot contain my powers as they are far too strong for her. I will be giving you some to ease the burden on her mind." There's a flash of fire as the two phoenixes link up and power floods into fawkes. My whole mindspace is like an inferno.

Outside we me and jean are both wrapped in a flaming cocoon as power shifts between us. I don't really have a say in any of this as it's all out of my control at this point.

The other Phoenix starts copying some of my occulmency and helping repair jeans damaged mind and strengthen it. While fawkes takes some of the overwhelming power to also ease the pressure. I mean if a Phoenix is going to trust anything else it's another Phoenix.

After some time passes I black out and wake up inside of a medical bay. Floating above me is jean which is fucking terrifying when you open your eyes and just see a person above you hovering.

I quickly run a check on my body. My mental shields have fixed themselves my body doesn't seem to have any changes. I'm pretty sure fawkes took the brunt of that little mishap. My mind however does seem to have a new link and it's to the girl in front of me.