Chapter 9

~HICCUP'S POV~

Jack had been in a foul mood for the last two weeks. He'd returned from seeing his mother looking absolutely furious, but batted it off as nothing to everyone who had asked about it. He also seemed to be overly affectionate with me in recent days, not that I was particularly complaining, but Jack wasn't usually this touchy feely in public.

On the other hand, my mood had improved quite nicely. The dreams I'd been having had stopped and North was willing to allow me to attend Guardian's training sessions. Which is where we were currently headed, with Jack's arm wrapped around my waist almost protectively.

"Why have we got training so early on a Monday morning? Don't they know I'm not a morning person?" Jack complained for the fifth time that morning.

I rolled my eyes. "Jack, everyone knows you're not a morning person. Just drink your coffee and get on with it."

Jack blinked at me, a little taken back by my blunt answer. "Well, you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."

"No, I just woke up with you laying on top of me." I replied.

"That's the best way to wake up." He grinned and sipped the hot liquid from the cup he was holding with his free hand.

"Stop arguing like an old married couple." Ben chimed in.

"We're not married and we're not old." Jack snorted.

"I'm so excited to start training. This is going to be so intense. I wonder what we'll be doing." Astrid beamed. She definitely had a skip in her step this morning.

"I'm just glad North allowed me to join." I said with relief. I honestly didn't want to have to miss the training sessions.

"Of course he was going to let you join. You've not had one of those freaky dreams for two weeks, which I'm extremely glad about. You're actually getting some sleep." Jack smiled up at me.

"I'm looking forward to getting new training outfits." Freddie chipped in, his voice laced with glee and thankfully changing the subject from my past dreams.

It's not that I didn't want to talk about them from time to time, but right now I'd rather forget they ever happen so I could focus on training.

We rounded the corner that led to the training area. We'd all put our outfits on before making our way there because we weren't sure if they'd give us the new ones before or after the session. I'd ordered the new clothing in a slightly bigger size than my current ones as I could feel the material becoming tight like the ones before it. I didn't know whether to feel great about my continuous growth or a little fed up with having to constantly buy new things. Jack wasn't all too happy about my height change as I was becoming even more taller than him and he'd voiced his displeasure of being shorter more than a few times.

"We'll find out who else go into the team today as well. I hope Lilly did, her family have been members since the team was formed." Tina said, her usual bubbly personality beginning to peak as she made her way through the double doors that led to the arena. Out of all of us, I honestly think she was the most excited. All of this was new to her. As far as she was aware, she was the first mutant on either side of her family and it was a bit of a shock to her parents and siblings when she'd first shown signs of her powers.

The arena was currently blank. Usually every time we'd walked in, there were holograms projected onto the walls with some sort of scene unfolding on them. Instead, there were various areas built up containing what looked to be different tasks. Clearly, this first session was constructed to test our abilities in certain ways. From where we stood, I could make out that some areas were made to test different element powers, which was definitely a new feature to training sessions. I wondered if they'd test opposite elements during these sessions.

"Hey, Hic. You don't think they'd have us face off against each other do you? I mean like fire versus ice? That would be so cool." Jack beamed from the side of me.

I grinned as I turned to face him. "I'd so kick your arse."

Jack snorted and rolled his eyes. "I'd like to see you try." He winked at me.

"I'll take you right here, right now." I laughed.

"Okay then." He said, starting to unzip his jacket.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Letting you take me, right here, right now." He said seductively.

"What? I didn't... Put your jacket back on, you overgrown icicle." I laughed at him, not quite believing how he'd just turned something normal into something sexual.

"Spoil sport. We could've given these lovely people quite the show." He winked again.

"Do you have something in your eye? It keeps twitching." I said, trying to keep a straight face.

"Your wit is hilarious." Jack deadpanned.

"Glad you think so, Frosty." I winked back and made my way further into the arena.

Suddenly, the double doors opened to reveal Professor North. "Ah, you are all here. This is good start." He spoke in his thick Russian accent. "Now, before we begin, I have package for you all containing new outfit. Please find your own and put them on." He smiled and placed the large box he was carrying in his arms on the floor in front of him.

"I'll grab everyone's." Freddie said, making his way towards the box where others had already gathered.

"What colour did you order yours in?" Ben asked.

"The same red as I'm wearing now. Yours?" I asked in return.

"Similar blue to Jackie's."

"Well, I've gone for a darker blue for these ones." Jack said taking his package from Freddie and leaving for the changing rooms.

Freddie handed the rest of us our packages and we all went into the changing rooms. Obviously Astrid and Tina went into the girls though.

I ripped open the grey plastic bag and pulled out the three pieces of uniform within it.

"These are very different." I said to no one in particular.

"Yeah, I'm really liking the black fitted t-shirt over our usual white ones. Won't get dirty so easily." Jack said, having already put on his new bottoms and was currently shrugging on said fitted black top.

I got undressed to my boxers, not caring about the others being around me. I'd gotten over my shyness of undressing in front of these guys four years ago. We all had the same body parts and frankly, I had nothing to be ashamed of with my physique.

Once I'd zipped up the jacket, I looked at the new uniform in a mirror near by. I had to admit, these were better made than my other uniforms. The sides of the bottoms and jacket were black, with the fronts having panels of crimson red and on the left of my chest was a gold embroidered 'G' that obviously stood for Guardian's. I was quite impressed and the bigger size was much better. I had a lot more room to move about and they weren't constricting at all.

"God, my boyfriend is one sexy man." Jack whispered and stood by the side of me, admiring my new outfit.

"Can't say I disagree with you there. You don't look too bad yourself." I winked at his reflection in the mirror.

Jack's was the same as mine, but the panels were almost navy instead of crimson.

"Come on, love birds. Stop checking each other out and get back in the arena." Ben called from the changing room door.

Jack turned to me before leaving. "Do you think they'd notice we weren't there for fifteen minutes?" A hint of mischief flashing over his crystal blue eyes.

"As much as I'd really love to tear your clothes off, you just got them and I don't think North would appreciate us missing the start of the first session." I said slightly disappointed. I really had to fight the urge to just push him onto the near by bench and have my way with him.

Jack pouted for a moment, but soon got over the rejection and walked towards the exit.

"Now, Guardian's, today shall be test of your different abilities and different elements will battle against each other while others who do not possess element powers will concentrate facing others like them." North spoke to everyone in the arena.

Jack glanced quickly in my direction and motioned with his hands that I was going down and winked. I just rolled my eyes, his head honestly couldn't get any bigger.

"I will pair each of you up and you will be with this partner for the next two weeks, no complaints, no swapping. So, you must get along." North chuckled and pulled out a list from his pocket and began reading the names of each pair off.

I vaguely heard Astrid being paired off with Freddie and Tina with Ben. Which left only me and Jack out of our friendship group to be paired up. I hoped to the Gods North would let me be with Jack. It was obvious that fire and ice went perfectly together, so I saw no reason why I wouldn't be paired with him.

"Hayden." North spoke, bringing my attention back. "You're with Elsa." My wide smile was ripped from my face. I hadn't thought for a second that I'd be paired with her, it never even crossed my mind.

I must've had a really disappointed look on my face because Jack smiled kindly at me and motioned for me to move towards Elsa.

I looked over to where she was stood and was surprised to see she looked rather shyly at me. "Hi." I said, giving her a small smile.

"Hi." She murmured back.

I stood next to her, not really knowing what to say to the girl and North continued to read off the pairs. Jack was paired with a boy named Lewis who's secondary ability was fire. I suppose North preferred having those with elements as their secondaries paired together, it probably made it more of an even match.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by Elsa's quiet voice reaching my ears. "So, uh, Hayden, I guess we'll be working together for a few weeks." She said with a small smile on her lips.

I nodded slightly. "Yeah, I guess we will." I chuckled nervously. I'd never really spoken to the girl and considering our last encounter was slightly awkward with her flirting openly with Jack, I didn't really know what to say to her. "But please, call me Hic. Only my dad calls me Hayden." I added.

"Okay, Hic. Do you want to go first or shall I?" She asked, looking anywhere but me, clearly not wanting to make eye contact.

"You can go first if you'd like." I suggested.

With that, she stepped back about four metres from me and raised her left hand, shooting ice towards me. I quickly melted it with a small ball of flame and grinned slightly. "Glad to see you can block something simple. Now, for the difficult stuff." She grinned and in all honesty, it had a hint of mischief in it.

Elsa swirled her hands together, forming a snow flurry to raise from the ground. It started to circle in front of her, in a tornado type form. She motioned for it to travel towards me and I outstretched my hands which were engulfed in flames, awaiting the snow flurry tornado to reach me. But unknown to me, Elsa had a trick up her sleeve and shot ice towards my unguarded torso, effectively covering the left side of my rib cage in a solid sheet of ice. I saw a sly smirk on her face and grimaced from the freezing cold that seemed to bite at my side and the cold, icy wind that was still coming toward me.

Great, I thought. I'm getting beaten by a girl.

The tornado soon wrapped itself around my body and I couldn't bring myself to move due to the cold and the wind was effectively sucking the oxygen from the air around me, rendering my ability useless.

I was about to admit defeat when I felt a surge of warmth rip through my body. I'd never felt anything quite like it. My hands were suddenly surrounded in flames again, but this time the flames licked up my arms to my shoulders. Without having to put much thought into it, I summoned a ball of fire to encase my body, which melted the snow storm instantly.

Once the snow storm had disappeared, I removed my arms which were covering my face to stop the flakes cutting into my skin. When I looked at Elsa, her expression was pure shock. I cocked my eyebrow at her. "What?" I asked.

"You're... You... The fire..." was all she managed to stutter out.

I still looked at her, completely confused as to what she was stuttering about. Just then, Astrid came racing over, her face as pale as the snow I was just attacked with. "Hic, you're covered in fire." She said, awestruck.

"What? It's just up to my shoulders." I said and she slowly shook her head.

"Look, Hic." Elsa's usual quiet voice spoke from the side of me.

She'd conjured up a thin sheet of ice, replicating a mirror and I looked at my reflection.

I was completely covered in flames, from head to toe. I looked at everyone who'd crowded around and spotted Jack who looked both amazed and worried. Fear bubbled up within me. I had no idea I was capable of this. I'd shown no signs of being able to cover my entire body in fire and it scared me. Without doing anything to stop it, the flames started to subside, until there were none in sight, leaving no signs of it behind.

"What the hell was that?" I mumbled, looking at my arms, in hope the flames would appear again, but they didn't.

"Hic, that was... Just..." Astrid couldn't get her words out which was a first.

"That was amazing." Ben chipped in, a broad smile plastered on his face.

"My suit, there isn't a burn on it." I said, rather confused as to why the clothing hadn't gone up in flames.

"I had feeling this may happen, so I had your outfit made fire proof." Professor North's said from behind the crowd of students. "Please, come with me. I'd like to talk." The man smiled down at me.

I left the arena behind North. Jack had began to follow us but North told him to stay, so he did.

We walked down the empty corridor for a few minutes, neither of us saying anything until North entered an empty class room and motioned for me to step in side.

"Take seat." He said and pulled one up to sit opposite me. He looked at me sternly for a few moments, which made me feel a bit uneasy, but then he gave me a soft smile. "You are becoming powerful, Hayden." He said. "I knew this day would come. I sensed it from first day I met you, this is why I had suit specially made for you."

"You knew I'd be able to do that back there?" I asked, wondering if he had some sort of power where he could sense others powers.

"I did not know you would be able to make flames all over body, but I knew your power would grow stronger. This is why I added you to Guardian's and did not remove you when you had vivid dreams. You are special, Hayden." He spoke with such wonder, he made this whole thing seem normal and it almost calmed me, but something didn't feel right.

"Special? How?"

"You are from long line of powerful mutants." He said with excitement.

I cocked my eyebrow. Okay, this was confusing me now. "Sir, my family aren't mutants. They're normal humans. I'm the first mutant in my family."

North shook his head. "No, I looked into things after you and Jack told me about dreams. You are descendant of Warren Worthington the third, he is your great grandfather."

I looked at him as if he were crazy. This must've been a mistake, I'd searched through my parents families when my powers had first appeared. I was the first mutant on either side. "Professor North, I looked through family records, there weren't any mutants in the family before me." I told him.

"Records can be tampered with, Hayden. Your mother was mutant."

My eyes went wide. "No, she was a normal woman, she lived a normal life and she was killed in a car accident."

North shook his head. "Your mother was student here, she went onto join X-Men after graduating."

A/N's - Sorry I took so long to update once again! It's been sitting in Doc Manager for a week and I totally forgot to upload it :( so so so sorry!

I hope you all enjoy it :) Things are starting to get intense now.

Review replies -

faisyah865 - No, it's not Pitch, but good guess :D I'm sure Jack would very much appreciate a hug and a cookie xD

Kigen Dawn - Yes, it was. Not how I originally planned it, but I wanted to spice things up :)

1stPrelude - Thanks! Took me a good while to write that down. Awww thanks :) That's very good to know. It's not a woman's voice, sorry to disappoint. Yeah, I don't like making Hiccup come across as a dick, but I wanted to show that the dreams are having an affect on his moods and behaviours. All will be revealed ;) This is what my brain came up with xD took it long enough!

LilithDarkness - Woohoo! Thanks for thinking it's amazing! Here's the next chapter for you, hope you enjoyed it!

allanimefreak73754 - Damn, it did indeed xD