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I made a few changes and corrections to this chapter. just small ones.

SLAP! It hurt more than she thought it would have. "I cant believe you are breaking up with me!" Jenna was furious. Holding her hand from the pain of slapping his rock hard skin, she looked at him with a sort of death stare. "No one has ever broken up with me!"

She turned to walk away.

"Jenna.." Duncan reached out a hand to grab her but stopped before he did. He let her walk away. He made his way to the cafeteria where Isabel and Kenny were waiting for him at their usual table.

"I heard that echo throughout the whole school," Isabel said, trying to contain her happiness. She never did like Jenna and thought Duncan deserved more. "So what was all that about anyway?"

"I broke up with her." He kept his head down as though upset, but couldn't hide the fact that this was a huge weight off his shoulders. "She was just becoming more.. well.. demanding. She expected nothing less of me than to walk her to every class, wait for her after all her meetings, remember the exact coffee she wanted and to get it for her every morning. It was exhausting! I could just feel my temper flaring; I couldn't handle it anymore." He let out a huge sigh of relief and began eating his coal.

His temper had been getting worse ever since the kaiju in him was awakened by his father, Belloc. Sometimes he feels the fire rising in him and has to learn to contain his anger. It doesn't help, though, that winter is beginning to settle in on the town. Though the town is in the middle of a desert, winters can still be brutal. Most people in the town are used to it and can handle the cold, but Duncan, being half kaiju and therefore cold blooded, finds it very hard on his body. Though he won't go into hibernation like other kaiju will because of his human side, it is still very unsettling to him.

Once their lunch period was over, Duncan and Kenny parted ways with Isabel and headed off to boys gym. The girls had one side of the gym and the boys the other side. As they walked in Duncan noticed Jenna sitting alone in the bleachers. Troy also spotted her and began making his way over. "Come on Duncan, its not your problem anymore." Kenny snapped his attention away from Jenna and Troy. "Let Troy deal with her now. You said she was a high maintenance bitch anyways."

"I didn't say that! I just said she was exhausting. I still wanted to be friends but she took it harder than I thought." They both sat down with the rest of the guys and started stretching. Not long after, however, Duncan found himself looking over at Jenna again. Troy and Jenna both were now standing and were in, what looked like, a very heated argument. Troy said something to offend her because she raised a hand to slap him too, but Troy caught her forearm and tried to lean in to kiss her. She tried to pull away but he threw her to the ground. "Can I help you with something dragon boy?!"

Coming back to his senses, he just noticed he had walked over to troy and Jenna and was now facing Troy eye-to-eye. He could feel his talons start growing and his kaiju side rising up like a flame.

"I ain't afraid of you, freak! You wanna fight? Lets go! Right here, right now!"

Troy is either very stupid or very brave. "You really wanna fight me Troy?" His lip curled into a sort of snarl and he smiled. He could feel is teeth growing and changing into sharp fangs. He'd been wanting to let some anger off.

With both of them standing practically nose to nose, Barnes walks up behind Duncan, grabs his shoulder and pushes him backwards onto the gym floor. "Calm down buttercup." He turns and faces Troy and pokes a finger hard to his chest. "Quit trying to pick fights you can't win. He'd be picking you out of his teeth by now if I hadn't stopped him." The whole gym giggle quietly at that last, oddly causal remark. After he finished with Troy and Jenna had headed back to the girls side, Barnes had turned to see Duncan still on the floor. His face was down and hidden and his talons were digging into the gym floor leaving ten, very deep holes. "Hey, calm yourself. He's benched the rest of the season. Anyway, you ain't getting out of class that easily." He started to walk away to start class, but the next thing he knew, Duncan had gone full kaiju.

What's happening? Why aren't I changing back? Why did I change fully in the first place? I was calming down. He was standing up staring at his hands. There where holes in the shoulders of his shirt and jacket were his skin had transformed into his thick kaiju armor. The heart of his firebreath was glowing in the center of his chest. Every one was now staring at him and Kenny was now standing behind him.

"Duncan?"

"Duncan! I said you need to calm down." Barnes was shaking him by his shoulders trying to get him to his senses.

After he snapped out of his kind of trance-like state, he noticed Barnes and Kenny staring at him. "I don't know what's happening!" he growled.

Barnes pushed him passed Kenny and outside to the parking lot where and old broken down bus was parked. They stepped inside and flew off in the Megtaf jet. Duncan was sitting in his seat by the window but he felt like he was on fire. He was grabbing onto the sides of his seat clawing into it. "I'm taking you to Dr. Patel so don't tear up the jet before we get there."

He must have blacked out because the next thing he knew he was waking up on the table in 's office, back to normal. "What happened?" he said drowsily.

"Well..." He heard the unmistakable, nasally voice of . "Your body is reacting to the sudden decrease in temperature from the desert winter. You may be half human but you are still cold blooded. Your body transformed itself to keep its temperature up. Unfortunately, Duncan, there is not much you can do to avoid or prevent it."

"Will there be any other surprises?" Barnes looked completely irritated. He has never been crazy about the fact that Margaret's son is half kaiju. But lately, his grudge against the kaiju has kept him too busy to think about Margaret.

"Well, it's hard to tell right now. But as the temperature gets lower, other side effects should start to reveal themselves."

"I need some answers Doc. Can you tell me at least some of the possible side effects. I don't feel like having to fill in another ten holes in my gym floor." Barnes shot a quick glance at Duncan who was now gripping the table and shivering uncontrollably. Barnes and both rushed over to calm him down, one on either side of him trying to hold down his arms and legs. Duncan was resisting and thrashing with all his strength. He was too strong for the two of them, even in his human form. They were eventually able to strap down his limbs to keep him from hurting them or himself.

Slowly blinking in and out of consciousness, he finally woke up. What happened? Why can't I move? He tried to say that out loud but found he had no voice. He started to panic until he realized where he was. I'm still in Doc's office. He sighed with relief and relaxed.

"Duncan!" Margaret had walked in and once she noticed he was awake she rushed over to him.

Mom! He tried to speak but no words came out.

"Duncan, don't worry. Patel said it will take a little while for your voice to come back. You've been out for two days."

At that Duncan shot up, only to be brought back down because of the straps. He tried to break them but it didn't work. He thought all his strength had left him.

She spoke up as thought reading his mind. "Don't worry you still have all your strength. These straps are made of kaiju hide. You won't be able to break them." She began to take them off. "You haven't missed any school. It was Friday when you were brought here in the middle of gym. Its Sunday afternoon now."

Duncan sat up slowly. He felt the heat in his chest cooling off. The scales on his skin slowly started to reduce. So what happened this time? Again, no sound came out, but she must have read his lips because she answered him.

" said it was another side effect of the cold weather. We cooled you down a little too much and too fast after your first reaction, that your body was compensating for lack of heat. Come on, I'm getting you back home. After all, you still have school tomorrow." She smiled and walked out to the jet to wait for him. Though she said he still has all his strength, he still felt weak and drowsy when he stood up. He headed back to the jet and left for home.

The next day at lunch, Duncan looked up from eating his coal and both Kenny and Isabel were staring at him, their food untouched. "What?" he said with sincere confusion, mouth full of food. He swallowed, "I'm fine. I promise." They both raised an eyebrow. He sighed an exhausted sigh and gave in.

After explaining everything to them, they both still hadn't said a word. "Well are you going to be okay? What if it happens again?" Isabel had stood up and started pacing. "What if you burn down the whole school?!"

"Isabel, I'll be fine. Doc said there isn't much I can do to prevent it, but at least now I can expect it and leave if I need to." Duncan had resumed eating.

"You looked pretty angry in gym before you left. You looked like you were going to rip Troy's head off. What happened with you two? I thought after the whole kaiju attack y'all became friends." Kenny had resumed eating, saying every few words between bites.

"Well we were at first. But once he found out that me and Jenna had also made up and gotten together.. well.. his jealousy kind of took over from there."

At the end of the day, Kenny had left for home and Isabel's mom had just arrived to pick her up. "You wanna ride home, Duncan?"

"Nah I think I'll just fly." He smiled and turned. He can always feel the pain as his wings rip through his back, but only for a moment. As he took off his wings grew stiff and began to freeze over. He fell out of mid air and landed a few feet from where he took off.

Isabel rushed over to him to help him up. "Are you alright, Duncan?!"

"M-my wings.. I can't feel them!" He stood up and tried to stretch his wings but they were too stiff. As he retracted his wings, he could feel more pain than usual from his frozen wings. "I think I'll take you up on your offer after all."