Makin meh take da bus like dis. My fathah’s cheap........ Marley thought to himself as he stared out the window gazing at the suburban scenery. It was on the border of the afternoon and the sky was partly cloudy with the sun shining at every opportunity it got. Patches of snow were scattered about, but for the most part from the looks of things winter had began to die down. The giant mutant was currently on his way to Xavier sister school which was not his idea, but his mother’s. If it was his decision he would have stayed on the sun drenched island of Jamaica, sadly it wasn’t. Hitting a pot hole the bus swayed side from side causing him to rock back and forth. The bus ride was taking forever and the driver when he had first greeted the mutant already knew where Marley was headed to and stated that it wouldn’t take long. Yet here they were twenty minutes later and no mutant looking school in sight. Marley had the impression that when close to the school laser would be firing in the air and huge Godzilla like people would be walking around or at least that’s the picture he had painted in his head.

A few moments later……….

The stopping of the bus breaks let out a loud hissing snake like sound and that’s when the bus driver spoke up, ”Hey! You were here.”He said in a direct manner towards Marley. He sounded slightly rude in his tone, but the colossal mutant didn’t really notice since he was in a coma-esque sleep.

”Whah, Whah. No mommah………… The jamaican islander quickly jumped and wiped a glob of drool from the side of his mouth. He had only woken up in embarrassment as faces looked at him peculiarly, ”Yah evah ear dat song, ‘Whah, Whah, No mommah?”He slowly made his way off the bus with both his military duffel bags in hand looking at the people on it with a grin from ear to ear. When he had turned around all he saw was two large gates, but behind those gates was a larger manor. All Marley could hear was Robin Leach in his head saying ‘Welcome to the Rich and Famous.’ Shaking the thought he approached the gates.

Looking to his right he had seen a intercom on a brick façade, pressing the button, but watching his self on how hard he pressed it he spoke, ”Yah, en-nee-body dere.” He waited for a second, ”Yo.” He stopped for two seconds this time, ”HHHEEELLLLOOOO? LO LO LO LO LO LO……” Marley had a child like grin across his face in the course of pressing a intercom button. Still practicing what self-control he had the mutant stopped and waited for someone to hopefully come along.

Walking down the hallway back to his office Sam had a bottle of water, a ham sandwich, a banana and an apple. The unopened bottle of water and apple remained in his pocket as the banana and the sandwich both had a large amount of them missing. Walking past the front door Sam heard the intercom buzz and the voice with a heavy accent. Swallowing the large amount of food in his mouth Sam set down the half eaten banana and said, “Hey, be right with you guy, I’m hitting the buzzer on the gate, it’ll open and I’ll meet you in a second.”

Taking another bite of his sandwich and picking up his banana Sam headed to the front door and left the mansion to meet the someone with what he thought as a nice Jamaican accent. Barefoot, basketball shorts and his usual tight black t-shirt Sam walked out into the cold weather with a smile. The cold didn’t bother him but to some his attire would come off as a poor choice considering the weather.

Letting out a loud whistle as he saw the man who hit the intercom Sam tried not to guess what his powers were. Tall and built like a brick shit house, if he had to guess he was either a super strength mutant or something along those lines. If it wasn’t what his mutation was Sam was curious to learn how someone could become that well defined. Sam had seen some body builders before but never anyone with muscles as defined as his.

Waving to the man Sam smiled and said, “Welcome to mutant manor!” as he got close enough to the big guy Sam extended his hand for a hand shake, “My name is Sam,” he paused and looked the man in the eyes and said, “Can I help you?” Taking note of the bags the man had Sam had a hunch he was looking for a place to crash.

>>“Hey, be right with you guy, I’m hitting the buzzer on the gate, it’ll open and I’ll meet you in a second.” A voice replied back from the intercom.

Marley was slightly startled from the sudden reply. He had no idea who that was. Was it Alfred? Or someone similar to that? He wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if an extravagant place such as this had a butler at the ready every time someone came in. When the gates buzzed the large entrance flowed open slowly in a dramatic type of fashion. Entering Marley nodded his head as so far he was impressed, ”Dats nice. I wondah if dey have an elevatah inside,” Maybe the mutant was giving the mansion too much credit, but it wouldn’t surprise him if they did.

Trekking forward along the private drive he had heard a whistle that caught his attention immediately. Looking up Marley was shocked the guy had to be crazy or just a badass. Granted it wasn’t extremely cold, but still barefoot, basketball shorts, and a black t the stranger was a beast. Yet Marley did not shoot the stranger any weird looks, because hey………to each his own. Really Marley had no room to speak since all he was wearing was some timbaland boots, jeans, and a wife beater. When the behemoth got within talking distance of the individual the unfamiliar person had spoke.

>>Waving to the man Sam smiled and said, “Welcome to mutant manor!” as he got close enough to the big guy Sam extended his hand for a hand shake, “My name is Sam,” he paused and looked the man in the eyes and said, “Can I help you?”

Marley right then and there liked the place already. The man had given him an island natured greeting making the stranger feel warmly welcomed. Looking at Sam’s hand for brief moment it looked like the brute was going to bite it off. Then with no warning Marley scooped up Sam and gave him a bear hug, ” How do yah do? I’m Marley mon.” The colossal being had put Sam back down brushing him off a bit, ”Sorry bout dat, but yeah dis be dah place fo moo-tants? I got sent ear by my mommah an fathah. I was usin my strength fo dah wrong reah-sons an got banned from dee island.” Marley had hung his head in sorrow, but had swiftly perked back up, ”But I’m ear tah start ah-new. Plus I don’t real-lay know how I got so strong. Well sort of.” Marley said putting a questioning tone in his voice.

Noticing the large mans first reaction when Sam extended his hand Sam wasn’t sure if he should pull it back and apologize. There were defiantly a lot of different kinds of people coming to the mansion; maybe a handshake was considered as an insult. Gasping for air quickly Sam let out a small laugh as the large man pulled him into a bear hug. Feeling his feet off the ground Sam kept laughing despite his personal space was invaded, “Friendly fella aren’t you?”

As Sam was set down and brushed off Sam let out a small laugh and said, “Nice to meet you Marley.” Defiantly Jamaican if his accent wasn’t a dead giveaway he would say the name would be. Bob Marley happened to be an old time favorite of Sam’s. Nodding to Marley’s question Sam said, “Yes sir, this is the sister school for mutants. Place for gifted youngsters to learn how to control their gifts and a friendly environment to live.” Waving his hand in a ‘follow me’ motion Sam began to lead Marley back into the mansion.

Starting anew was something that Sam was very familiar with his past history made it a must to start anew, there was no way he was going to live that life all his life. “Well Marley, a new start is a noble cause, but if your going to stay here try to keep the wrong reasons down to a minimum remember there are little kids living here…” after throwing out the friendly warning Sam lead Marley into the mansion and took a left to his office.

Opening his office doors Sam entered it and walked to his des and his big leather chair and then pointed Marley to one of the chairs on the opposite side of his desk, “Have a seat Marley, before I get you situated there is a little paperwork,” pausing Sam opened his drawer and pulled a small vanilla folder with some paper work inside of it, “this is just basic questions asking your name, what your powers are if you know them, where your from, emergency contact information and stuff like that.” Sam handed Marley a pen and waited for him to get started on it.

>>“Yes sir, this is the sister school for mutants. Place for gifted youngsters to learn how to control their gifts and a friendly environment to live.” Waving his hand in a ‘follow me’ motion Sam began to lead Marley back into the mansion.

Marley nodded, ”I can dig dat…………..souns like ah great place al-read-day.” Maybe this is what the big fella needed a positive environment to entice a positive lifestyle. Following Sam the islander took in the sites his eyes sweeping across the landscape briefly. The place was nice and when spring came he bet the mansion grounds came to life with the young and the older mutants scattered about doing various activities. The potentially new resident had become excited from the thought, plus he was thirsting for warm weather ever since he had got to the state of New York midst the winter season.

The inside had matched the outside. The interior of the mansion was setup nice, kind of Victorian like, but with skateboards? Marley figured it probably belonged to someone already living there. He had simply walked over the skateboard smirking with half his grin curling to the left. The giant had taken note of Sam’s subtle warning, but knew that temptation would rear its ugly head at the most opportune times. Still he would have to refuse to give in to it.

>> “Have a seat Marley, before I get you situated there is a little paperwork,” pausing Sam opened his drawer and pulled a small vanilla folder with some paper work inside of it, “this is just basic questions asking your name, what your powers are if you know them, where your from, emergency contact information and stuff like that.” Sam handed Marley a pen and waited for him to get started on it.

Finally the two had reached Sam’s office putting his bags down they landed with a loud thud. Marley had looked around for a moment before he sat down. Upon sitting in the chair it had groaned and whined, suddenly Marley was worried the chair would break under his weight from the pressure. Clinching the sides of the chair Marley looked as if he was nervous at an important job interview. When it stopped he had sighed a breath of relief and had took the papers from Sam starting to fill them out.

”Meh name? Mar-ley Hig-gins……………Ba....by.” It wasn’t necessary to talk when you write, but Marley made a bad habit out of doing that.

”Powahs? Su-pah Strength and re-sis-tant tah physical ah-tacks.........I tink, plus ah mu-ant female magnet..........smiley face.” Marley chuckled at that one a bit as he drew in his smiley face.

”Weaknesses? Fire and electricity still ouch! Sad face.” As of now that is all Marley knew about his weaknesses.

Moments later…..

”All dun.” Marley started to hand Sam the manila folder with the filled out given information, but about half way across Sam’s desk he had retracted his arm back. Opening the folder and looked over the info for a split second, ”Yah dun.” The massive mutant then handed the folder back over Sam's desk..

”So whah’s next? Marley shrugged.

As Marley handed him the folder Sam opened it up and began to read exactly what Marley had been saying. “Another female magnet huh?” Sam asked laughing, “can always use a few more of them here, and just be careful, some of the girls here are more dangerous than they look.” Hoping Marley was as big of a ‘chick magnet’ as he said he was, Sam figured it might cost him his title as ‘Mansion Playboy’ something that he didn’t ask for or want. All it did was give him a bad reputation.

Looking at the next section Sam smiled to the big guy and said, “Pretty honest aren’t you? Most new residents leave that part blank till they get more settled in here.” Shrugging Sam aid, “I actually left almost my entire file ink free when I first got here, didn’t even want to talk about my powers.” His mind did a quick flash back as he tried to recall what dish Neena and him had eaten while talking about joining the mansion.

He smiled and stood up leaving from his flashback, “But I think it will be easier for me to tell which girls to look out for.” Letting out a laugh as snagged a key from his desk Sam walked back to the entrance of his office leaving the folder on his desk.

Turning his head to gaze upon the large figure that was Marley, “What’s next? Well that's your call, we can drop of your bags and you can get settled in your room or I can show you to where the kitchen is, if it was a bit warmer out I probably would have shown you to the pool where most of the girls would be catching some sun.”

As he thought about it chances are it wouldn’t be long before the pool was up and running not to mention the girls in the bikinis. Sam really loved summer, “So your from Jamaica?” Sam asked as he left his office trying to engage in small talk as the embarked on the destination Marley requested.

Marley had taken Sam’s warning of the women serious. He was after all at a safe haven for mutants and the girls here probably could morph into a dragon or make him combust with a glare. Hopefully though, everyone here was as kind as Sam and helpful.

When Sam had mentioned him filling in about his mutant ability saying that he was honest, well Marley had figured it to be standard that you fill in that part. Partly because he didn’t want to surprise the school or anyone about his abilities, plus what if he had a nuclear explosive-esque power that’s something you don’t want to keep people in the dark about.

As Sam began to move about Marley had started to motion as well. Standing up he picked up his large duffel bags and began to follow the mutant. Just as they started to move Sam had asked a question.

>>“So your from Jamaica?” Sam asked.

”Yah. Born an raised. Doe now I am bahnned from dee island. Can yah believe dat?” Marley had looked at Sam with a confused face, ”I mean I kno whah I had dun whah’s wrong, but………” Marley had started to get a little flustered thinking about what had happened. However before he had did something he would regret the massive man had calmed his self down breathing deeply and asking Sam a few questions of his own.

”So where yah from? Am whah’s yah moo-tant ah-bility?” Marley had asked his newly acquired acquaintance. Those are two questions that is probably the most common when two mutants meet for the first time, place of origin and mutant ability/power.

Heading to the room where Marley would be staying Sam exited his office and headed to the stairs not sure if he should ask about what Marley did to get kicked out Jamaica Sam hesitated then asked, “Mind if I ask what it was? Must have been pretty bad to get yourself kicked off of an entire Island.” Marley didn’t have to answer Sam wasn’t one to pry after all he had secrets of his own. The only reason Sam asked was because Marley was staying at the mansion where kids would be, if Sam suspected Marley of being a potential threat to those kids Sam would have to ask him to leave. Something he didn’t want to have to do.

As Sam approached the top of the stairs he stopped and thought then continued walking, “Think I’m from Colorado…” said Sam as he tried to figure out where he had come from. He had often wondered if the files he stole were correct on his origin of birth from what he could tell when he went to look for his home there was no signs of it what so ever not even a piece of rubble. “Kinda an orphan so I don’t exactly know where I am from…” Sam said trying to smile as he turned away from Marley and walked down the hall.

The next question was on he liked talking about. His mutation was what he thought was his greatest gift, “Ice,” Sam said as he raised his as an copy of Marley formed, the only difference between the two other than on had a heart beat and the other didn’t was the color. Instead of having the same color as Marley the golem had well an icy blue look to it. One that was see through, if you looked hard enough. “I also can make the air around me colder, but with this weather I don’t really need to.” Laughing as he approached Marley’s room Sam pulled the key and unlocked the door and ushered Marley in his large room, “Though the ability to create and control ice comes in handy on hot summer days.”

Looking to Marley, Sam smiled, “Need anything else or have any more questions?”

>>“Mind if I ask what it was? Must have been pretty bad to get yourself kicked off of an entire Island.” Sam asked.

The question was not difficult for Marley to answer at all. As a matter of fact he welcomed it. Explaining what had happened was an opportunity to put the past behind him and move on with his now much brighter future. Hopefully this path would be one that didn’t involve dealing drugs, robbery, and chaos, ”Well whah had hah-ppened was I was men-nahnce tah soh-ci-ehty . Nevah Followin dah law. Just cuz of meh size I did whah I wah-nted when I wah-anted. I harmed many, buh nevah killed doe. Still I was……a tear-i-ble pur-son, hopefully doe dat is all bay-hind meh.” Marley felt kind of embarrassed when he spoke and had hung his head low. He wasn’t proud of what he had done in the least bit. He had truly abused his mutant ability and that was the old Marley this is a totally new person.

Marley Followed Sam as he snaked him through the school leading the big brute to a flight of stairs. That’s when Sam had unraveled some of his past to him or at least the bit of information he had on his past. Obviously Sam was in the dark about his origins which had to be a hard to swallow at times. Then next Sam showed Marley his mutant adaptation which was related to the islanders hated element ice. It was impressive Marley had looked at the icy blue see through version of his self, ”Well, whah dah yah know? Dat’s sweet mon.” marley nodded as he stared at the clone.

After being lead down the hall and to his room Marley had spoke replying to Sam’s question, ”Nah I’m fine. Bout tah spice dis hear room up a bit.” He smiled then swept his eyes across the entire room.

Sam nodded as he listed to the large man and gave him a reassuring smile and a pat on the shoulder, “This is a good place for new beginnings.” Sam knew the feeling Marley had he knew what he did was wrong but that still didn’t stop him from doing it. Killing was wrong but he did it for all the right reasons.

Nodding to Marley he smiled and said, “Spice it up guy,” he stuck his hand out to Marley and said, “Welcome to you new home friend.” With a grin and a nod Sam said, “Welp, off to file your paper work, if you need me you know where my office is, but if it is a question on directions I’d ask one of the many girls that live in this hallway,” Sam gave Marley a wink and headed off to his office to file the work.

Arielle walked through the halls of the mansion's sleeping quarter currently on her way to Sam's and Streak's office hoping there would be paper work that needed to be done. If not, she would just rearrange the files in a new order, perhaps filing the students by their power classifications. Super strength, speed, elementals, and so on. She just needed something to keep her mind busy so she would forget what had happened a few days ago with a certain rock elemental, who's name she dare not utter on mansion grounds. There was definitely a change in her attitude, seeing as she hadn't been her usual spunky self since that night. Though she tried her best to hide it, nor wanting anyone worrying about her.

As she continued to walk, she heard voices. She could recognize Sam's but the other one was foreign...no pun intended since the other person's words were buried in a thick Caribbean accent. As she arrived just as Sam was leaving, grabbing the ice elemental's sleeve as soon as she noticed the files in his hands.

"I'll take that. There's a reason now why I'm helping you and Streak out in the office you know. My job, let me do it." Arielle said taking the files from Sam's possession and opening it up to see the paper work. "I see. Marley Higgins?" she read the name aloud and walked over to the new guy...who looked like he could flick down the hall with one finger. Maybe an exaggeration, but he was huge, a good 2 feet over Arielle herself.

"Hello Marley," Arielle smiled extending her hand to shake his.. "My name is Arielle, and it's nice to meet you. Welcome to the mansion." she said. "Its always nice to meet other foreign residents. "

The islander had nodded as soon as Sam gave him a pat on the shoulder and said those reassuring words. This made the colossal mutant feel as though he had made the right choice in coming to the mansion. Marley didn’t know how life was going to be like now that he was off the island and in an unknown environment. Hopefully the transition would be easy and not too much difficulty will come with adjusting. Marley had then listened to Sam’s last words before the ice mutant departed,

>>“Welp, off to file your paper work, if you need me you know where my office is, but if it is a question on directions I’d ask one of the many girls that live in this hallway,” Sam gave Marley a wink and headed off to his office to file the work.

Marley smiled and began to speak to a departing Sam, ”Heh, may-beh I will………..” The giant started to shrug and was cutoff mid-sentence when he had seen her come into his view. Who was her? Well at the moment Marley didn’t know, but he figured he would soon put a name to the beautiful face.

Just as he was about to make his approach she made an approach introducing herself and extending her hand. Thinking back to what Sam had said and how girls can look more dangerous than they look. He wondered if she was one of those girls, if she was he was willing to take the risk. With a half grin on his face the dread head dropped his bags as they landed with a thud and he took her hand gently then began to shake it.

”Ah-rielle huh? Like dah li-til mermaid? I love dah moo-vie eh-specially dah crab.” Marley smiled to himself thinking about a few of the scenes from the movie while slipping his hand away from hers, ”Well no need tah introduce meh self since yah have meh file, but…… Marley dats jus my formal name, most back on dee island call meh Mar Mar. Soh yah can call meh dat if yah want.” Marley had said scratching the back of his head. Why was he a little nervous? He always for the most part had solid composure or what he likes to call swagger.

Walking over to his plain bed with nothing on it he sat had down, but it had started to make noises as if was going to break until it had finally stopped, ”Dey nevah make dah beds big man proof, hehe. So yah foreign too? Where yah from?” Marled had asked. First impressions to Marley were everything and he felt his was well……terrible at the moment.

Feeling the paper slip from his grip he turned to Arielle and grinned slightly, “Here I thought you were taking the day off…” grinning slightly Sam looked at the look on Marley’s face then the remembered what the giant said about his second mutation being a babe magnet. He then looked to Ari who was smiling and extending her hand. Shaking his head slightly he looked to the two and started to back up slowly.

Now that Sam was a safe distance away he called out to Marley, “She was one of the girls I was telling you about Marley, She is a man eater!” he grinned slightly after warning the new resident and headed off to his office with a guilt free consciences, he did after all warn the new resident. “Off to work…” sighed Sam as he walked back to his office.

(OOC: think I’ll leave you two crazy kids alone )

"Yes, like The little Mermaid," Arielle sighed with a light chuckle. She figured that she'd never live that down especially since her powers were water based. "I love that movie too and yes, the crab is made of awesome" she added.

“She was one of the girls I was telling you about Marley, She is a man eater!”

"What?!" Arielle turned back to look at Sam, but the blonde had left before she had a chance to respond. "Oh, he's one to talk. They only reason he's not praying on these girls is because Leila would tear him apart..." her eyes narrowed. True, she was a large flirt but after going through what she had been with Aiden and Geo, she didn't even want to think about men. Luckily, Arielle wasn't really the type to take her bitterness out on others and she continued to be kind and respectful to Marley, or MarMar rather.

"MarMar? That's cute," she laughed and shook her head as he complained about the size of his bed. "Yeah, well perhaps I could talk to one of the higher ups and see if we can find one to better fit your size. After all, its important that you're as comfortable as possible here." she said and made a note to remember putting in the request. "And yes, I'm foreign. I'm from Brazil. I arrived here on New Years eve to be exact and just fell right in. All the residents here are friendly, so no need to worry. We're kind of like a large family."

"So, why don't you tell me more about yourself?" she asked him. "Besides your powers. I have that information but even without the file I can kind of see that you're gifted in the strength department." she said walking over and poking his bicep with her pen.

Marley laughed at Sam when he had called Arielle a man eater which she did not like being called judging from her fierce reaction. Which then made him quickly snap out of his state of laughing and he actually started to question the fact that was she really a man-eater. He was after all in a mansion full of mutants and it could be possible. Hopefully though Sam didn’t mean that literally and it was just a joke.

Smirking when she had called him MarMar his mind briefly went back to the island of Jamaica. Thinking of the fun times and even the bad times, oh how he missed his home already. He hadn’t been called that nickname in a while, actually ever since he had came to the United States so it was refreshing to hear. Focusing his attention back to his current acquaintance at hand she had told him she was from Brazil. Well that explained why she looked the way she did. He had heard many stories from his buddies about the over abundance of beautiful women that resided in Brazil. Now he didn’t need to go to Brazil any longer Brazil had been brought to him. Judging from how Sam and Arielle received him he had figured this was a pretty friendly place and with a bit of luck he would follow suit and fall in the huge family atmosphere. Next she asked to tell him about his self and she had poked on the Jamaican’s bicep. At first his ego had wanted to answer the question in a glorified manner, but naw he didn’t want to come off as too cocky.

With a wide grin he had stood up and made his way past her and over to his duffel bag all the while his eyes had scanned her gorgeous silhouette. Squatting down in front of his duffel bag and unzipping it he had started to rummage through the contents while talking to Arielle, ”Yah want tah know sumting bout meh?” He said pulling out a black hair band and proceeded to put his dreadlocks into a ponytail. He had stood back up and made his way back to the previous spot on his bed, ”Ear sit down nex tah meh?” He said in a charming manner as he patted on a spot on the bed.

With a stern look on his face he began to speak, ”Well… ………when Dinosaurs had walk dee earff……..Naw, Naw jus playin.” Marley had snickered waving off his previous gag, ”Seri-uslay I don’t real-lay kno meh self……..” He had stopped and looked at her. Was he opening his self up too much? Nah his past was his past, plus he had already told Sam, ”Tah keep it bree-ef. Well I was a bahd boi and got bahnned from Jamaica. Yehs dee whole island fah dumb stuff I did.” Marley had noted quickly. He would save the full story for a later time, to boot he had trust issues anyway.

”But on dee lightur side. I enjoy soccah, liftin weights, eatin, comehdies, tahtoos, uh…… an othah tings. So now I let yah somewhah intah meh world.” He had said, ”So Whah bout you?” He asked inquisitively waiting for her response.