[ The limo has just pulled to a stop in front of a lovely mansion on a lovely estate. Scott and Jean open the doors and everyone gets out but Charles, who can't for obvious reasons. ] [ Scott says "Hank, come give us a hand." A deep voice replies, at once gravelly and sonorous, "Will do, O Fearless Leader." ] ( You can start now. ^_~ ) * Miya gets out and looks around, wide-eyed. A man steps out of the driver's seat. He's tall, muscular, and well dressed, with thin-rimmed spectacles sitting on the bridge of his nose. He also has white eyes like Miya. Oh, and he's covered in blue fur. * Miya doesn't notice him at first, as she's just trying to take it all in. When she *does* notice, though, she yelps and scrambles back a bit. The big blue guy notices this, and waves cheerfully at Miya, saying, in Japanese!, "Oh, hello! You must be Miya?" * Miya blinks a couple times, then ums and tries to compose herself. She bows, also speaking in Japanese. "Yes, I'm Miya. It's nice to meet you." The guy nods. "It's nice to meet you too, Miya. Er, one moment please." Hew proceeds to easily help Charles out of the car as Scott brings the wheelchair around. * Miya just watches and plays with the strap of her duffel bag, unsure as to what to do. Remmy notices Miya's discomfort and whispers to her, "Don' worry 'bout Hank, petit. He just looks rough." He says, in a more conversation tone, "He'll prolly be one of your teachers, too." * Miya laughs nervously and responds quietly, "Yeah? What happens if I forget my homework?" Remmy chuckles and says back just as quietly. "Not much. He might try to be stern, but he never been any good at dat." * Miya hugs Hikaru and nods. "O- okay." "Relax, petit. You'll be fine." "Now, c'mon, let's head in. Can't keep the professor waitin, non?" * Miya fidgets. "Easy for you to say. And, um, okay." She follows Remy in. Remmy leads in after everyone else. The inside of the mansion is real nice, too. * Miya tries not to gape and does a pretty poor job of it. Remmy shrugs. "So, petit. You want de guided tour?" Um. I'm gonna be living here? "Yup." Wow. * Miya blinks, then smiles up at Remy. "I mean, a tour would be fun." Remmy chuckles. Charles says, "Remmy, if you could show her to her room first?" Remmy nods. "'Course, Professor." "This way, petit," Says Gambit as he motions towards the hallway. * Miya scampers after Gambit, pausing only to look back at the professor. The professor waves and smiles. "Go ahead, Miya. We'll talk again later." * Miya nods and hurries after Remy. Meanwhile, Scott and Hank are talking. What's a 'petit', anyway? 'Little one', O Fearless. Stop calling me that, Hank. (*laughs*) ( ^_^_v ) ( I believe that will be one of my faveorite running gags. ) Remmy leads Miya up a flight of wide stairs and down a wide hallway, to a door. "I think dis be it, petit." He tests the door, which isn't locked, and opens it. "Yep, dis be de one." He hols the door for Miya. * Miya walks in, looking around. The room beyond the door is large, but comfortably so. It has a big high bed, a big oak desk, a cieling fan and light fixture, and two more doors on one wall; presumably, one leads to a closet, the other a bathroom. Woooow. The carpet is very soft, and Miya may become suddenly aware that she's walking around in someone else's house with her shoes on. ( I think there's a Japanese custom reguarding that, right? ) * Miya turns and looks at Remy, who's still at the door. "This is for me?" she asks in disbelief. (Oh yes. One moment and I'll get to that. ^^) Remmy nods. "All yours, petit." ( ^_^_v ) (Remy's reaction should be amusing, too. ^^) * Miya looks around again, then eeps and drops her bag, Hikaru falling on top of it. She runs to the door and pulls off her shoes. Remmy blinks. "Got a burr stuck in your shoe?" * Miya sets both shoes by the door and blushes fiercely. "I'm sorry! Can I tell the professor I'm sorry? I didn't want to be rude, I just forgot!" Remmy looks confused. "Forget what, petit?" To take off my shoes! * Miya blushes even more. Remmy continues looking confused. I mean, I didn't mean to, it's just that I'm in a whole new place and it's so fancy and big and I just forgot! "Uhm, yeah, petit, I guess you can apologize to de professor about dat... dunno why, but hey." Gambit checks the bottoms of his feet. "I men, we didn't step in anything, did we?" No, I mean, it's just... * Miya blinks at Gambit's shoes. "Um." You... don't take off your shoes? Remmy blinks again, and then something seems to click in his head. "Oh, dat's right! You do dat in Japan, don't you? 'S Why Logan kicked me out of Mariko's place when I wouldn't take my boots off." * Miya blinks again, then laughs. "You- you didn't..." She laughs harder. Remmy smirks. "Yeah, well, neither did you, petit. " * Miya stops laughing and fidgets. "'m sorry." "'Salright, petit. You don' have to worry 'bout dat here, unless you're trackin' in mud or sumtin'." Okay. * Miya looks around. This'll take some getting used to. She runs over and grabs her bag, putting it on the bed, then picks up Hikaru and heads back to Remy. "Can I see more? I don't really have anything to unpack." "'Course, petit. I'll show you 'round some." * Miya nods, still mildly embarrassed. Remmy leads out into the hall and to the right, down another flight of stairs, and into a large library. Once you enter, a tall, attractive African lady with white hair and eyes looks up, noticing the two of you. "Remmy, hello! And this must be Miya." She stands and approaches you, holding a book in one hand. * Miya blinks at the lady, then bows. "It's nice to meet you." The woman holds out her hand. Remmy says, "Miya, dis is Ororo. She's a friend of mine." * Miya smiles hesitantly and shakes the hand. Ororo says, "I was just picking up some light reading for the plane ride. You might consider the same, Remmy." Remmy smirks. "Nah. You know I've never been one much for readin', 'Ro." Ororo shakes her head. "Well, I think I'll leave you to your tour. Don't forget the garden." She heads out the door waving goodbye. * Miya waves, then looks over at Gambit. "Garden?" Remmy nods. "Ororo keeps a garden outside. She does a good job, too." Oh. I'd like to see that. Remmy nods. "Alright. But first, dis is the library. Although you prolly guessed that." * Miya giggles. The books kinda gave it away. Remmy chuckles. "'Course. But, dis is prolly where you'll be doin' lessons, too." In the library? Aren't we supposed to be quiet here? "Nah, dat's only in public libraries." * Miya blinks. "Oh. Okay." Remmy nods. "Alright. Next is de kitchen, 'cause I'm starvin'." Remmy leads through the library and down another hallway. * Miya is led! Remmy leads into the kitchen, which is big and professionally accomidated. He then proceeds to get himself a sandwich. :9 "You want one, petit? You must be hungry after dat plane ride." * Miya opens her mouth to decline, but her stomach decides to disagree. She blushes a little and nods. Remmy makes a sandwich for miya too, then. :9 * Miya picks a place to sit and... eats sandwich. She picks at it at first, but then pretty much devours the thing. Plane rides *do* make you hungry. After a good sandwich, Remmy leads Miya outside to Ororo's garden, which is pretty indeed. It's also big. There are some plants growing here that she's never seen before, and not just because some are native to America. There are some really rare flowers, some of which seem downright surreal. * Miya oohs and runs around, looking at each of them. They're all so pretty! * Miya frowns a little as she peers at one of the more exotic ones. "I wish I knew what they were called, though." Remmy chuckles. "So do I. Storm, she had to make up names for some of 'em." So they're that rare? * Miya pulls back the hand that was about to touch some petals. "Yup. Some of 'em are really one of a kind." That's so cool. I wish I had a neat hobby like that. Remmy shrugs. "I s'pose Ororo could teach you, if you asked her." * Miya blushes. "No, I couldn't impose. Besides, I always forget to water plants and stuff. They're fun to look at, but..." She fidgets. "I'm bad at taking care of them." Remmy nods. Remmy looks around, then gestures to a stone walkway that leads to a large house near the lake. "c'mon, petit. This way's the boat house. We tend to hang out there a lot." * Miya follows Remy. "Boat house?" "Yeah. We don' actually have a boat, but if we ever get one? We got a place to put it." He chuckles at that. Eventually you reach the boat house. It's a fairly big house, but nowhere near a mansion like the main building. Remmy leads in and down a flight of stairs. "Dis way, petit." The sound of someone playing pool greets your ears. * Miya scurries after him. She blinks. "Pool?" "Yeah, pool. Dey have dat in Japan?" * Miya laughs a little. "Yeah." Mostly billiards, though. That's not the same thing, right? Pool is easier to say. "Heh. Dey're similar, but not identical." Remmy leads to the basement, where there are three people gathered around a pool table. One of them is an average height American man who looks to be about twenty, with brown hair and blue eyes. Another is a very, very big man with black hair and eyes, who comments in a thick Russian accent, "I swear he must be cheating." The last person, who doesn't happen to be holding a pool que, is a shortish, lanky man. He has white eyes, too, as well as pointed ears, two fingers and a thumb on both hands and feet, and a pointy little tail, all done in blue. * Miya blinks and peers at all three, but mostly the last one. He reminds her of Hank, but not as scary. The brown-haired man says "Nah, Petey. It's all skill." The very large man, who is aparently 'Petey', wrinkles his nose and quietly says "is cheetink." * Miya tugs on Remy's sleeve and looks up at him. As if to dodge the subject, the man with brown hair looks up and grins. "Hey, Remmy! Good ta' see ya back!" Remmy blinks and looks at Miya. Remmy then leans over to Miya can whisper at him. * Miya whispers, "Which one's Bobby? He cheats, right?" Remmy nods, and then says "Hey, good to see you too, Bobby!" Indicating Bobby as he says this. * Miya blinks at Bobby, then fights a giggle. Remmy then gestures to the big guy, "Dis is Colossus. I call 'im dat 'cause I can't pronounce his first name." Colossus helpfully interjects, "It is Piotr, thanks. ...you may call me 'Petey', as Bobby does." Remmy nods, and gestures to the blue furry guy. "And Dis is Kurt. An' he actually has de same power as you, although it looks diffrent." Kurt looks surprised. "Oh? You mean she can telepot?" * Miya bows a little to each one, then tilts her head curiously at the third. How come I don't have blue skin, too? Kurt smirks, and says with a German accent, "Fuzz, actually." And then he grins. "And I guess you're just not as lucky as I am." * Miya smiles nervously. "I guess." Kurt rubs his chin thoughtfully; it sounds rather like rubbing a plushie. "Hm. I think we'll have to play 'tag' sometime." Bobby grins. "Hey, tag with two teleporters. *That* would be somethin' to see." * Miya giggles, and she doesn't fight it back this time. "Tag? That'd be fun." Kurt grins. "Ja. Never got to play with someone else who could get from here to there without having to move." Well, um. I've just started maybe a few weeks ago, but okay. Kurt shrugs. "Well, you'll have plenty of time to practice, ja? I can maybe offer pointers, as well." * Miya nods. "Okay. I'd like that." Kurt nods back. [ And so they all had a nice chat! Session end. ]