Chapter 1!!!

Death Incarnate: The Dragon

Kate was very excited the next day, for it was her first ever training session in the Danger Room. The Danger Room was a room for the X-Men to train their special abilities. Kate's first session would start in 3 minutes but she had a really important message to tell Wolverine/Logan. It was a Friday and all the X-men (except Nightcrawler) – Storm, Colossus, Angel, Wolverine, Cyclops, Phoenix, Rogue, Jubilee, Iceman, Gambit, Beast, Banshee, Thunderbird, Sunfire, Polaris, and Havoc, -- were in the Danger Room, training. Kate stood outside the Danger Room's door and listened to what the X-Men were saying:

"Take that, Bub. And that. And that!" cried Wolverine.

"Storm look out, Sentinel on your left." shouted Angel to Storm.

"Thanks Angel." Storm shouted back. There was a large explosion and the whole room shook.

"Storm, are you alright chére?" asked Gambit. Storm replied with a muffled voice that Kate couldn't understand. From what she heard, this room was NOT for an in-experienced X-Man, which young Kate Pryde was about to find out.

She slowly crept into the room and stood next to a wall. "Kitty!" Storm cried as she whooshed down towards the wall where Kate was standing, "What are you doing in here?"

"I, um," Kate stammered, she turned to Logan. "Nightcrawler sent me to tell you…"

"He shouldn't have sent you in here, little darlin'" Wolverine interrupted.

"But the door was unlocked; I thought that meant your workout hadn't started yet." Kate replied.

"Kitty, that door is always unlocked, doesn't mean you should just walk right in." Cyclops said.

"Use your powers, ShadowCat and walk through that wall." Jean Grey/Phoenix said using Kate's codename.

But it was no use. Kate kept hitting the wall; she was too upset. She walked towards Angel, who smiled at her. Angel's test target, a 30 ft Sentinel, turned its targeting computer from him to Kate. Its lasers were charging when the room went back to its normal setting. Everyone turned and saw Nightcrawler with his finger on the Panic Button.

"It seems I teleported here in the preferable nick of time." He said. Kate ran out side.

She looked up at the sky. Am I ever going to be a full-fledged X-Man? Then as she looked down a GIANT rock crash landed on the Oval down at the bottom of the grounds. Kate went to check out what happened.

She wasn't the only one who went to check it out. Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Iceman and Gambit had left the Danger Room to check it out too.

When Kate got to the bottom of the Oval, the rock was a really dark blue. She knew it was bad so she thought if she touched it her fellow X-men wouldn't be harmed. She walked over to it and touched it. Then she felt an itchy feeling on her cheek and around her eyes. She pulled out her compact and looked at her face, a scythe was imprinted on her left cheek and her eyes had almond shapes around them with lines through them. She looked at the rock again and it had turned into a message on the ground:

Whoever touches this rock shall have the powers of the Mighty Dragon. And shall be known from this day on as Death Incarnate.

Kate then felt her self rise up into the sky.

Storm and the other X-Men arrived just in time to see Kate pass out onto the ground. Her hair was a flaming purple and her skin was as white as snow.

"Logan, you and Peter get Kate to the Infirmary, NOW!!!" Storm cried. She, Iceman and Gambit went over and examined the writing:

"Whoever touches this rock shall have the powers of the Mighty Dragon. And shall be known from this day on as Death Incarnate. Do you know what that means chére?" Gambit said to Storm.

"I do not know, but I do know one thing: we need to get Jean down here fast."

15 minutes later, Phoenix and Cyclops had showed up. Jean studied the writing for a little bit then she frowned.

"Hey you know how I'm Life Incarnate?" She asked the others.

"Yes Jean we know that but what we want to know is what this means." said Cyclops pointing to the stone writing.

"I think we have a very major problem." Jean replied, "Life Incarnate is the Phoenix yes? Well Death Incarnate is the Dragon. Kate has the power to wipe out the world. And if MasterMind gets his deceptive hands on her, she could use her powers for bad not good. She could be turned into a Brotherhood mutant!!! But maybe she's already bad? Who knows?" Jean said. The other X-Men stared at her. "What?" she asked

Then another object came out of the sky. It crash landed at the bottom of the Oval a few meters from the rock. It was a ship. It looked like a sphere but it was flat.

Two people were arguing inside: "Annie, this is the wrong planet. We were supposed to land on Mars. Are you that dumb you forgot where we are going? And just think what Han will do to us when he finds out we trashed the Falcon. And…YOU DIDN'T EVEN ASK TO BORROW IT!!!" The female one was saying. The X-Men crept closer.

"Well you try navigating in an astroid field Padme'! It's not as easy as it sounds. You do realise that without me you would have died?" The other one was saying.

"I'm going to look around and see if there is anyone who can help us. You stay here and try and fix the navi-computer" The female one said.

The landing ramp went down and she walked out. She looked around and saw no-one. The X-men had found a safe place to hide. The lady kept walking and found the Mansion and rang the door bell…