X-Dragons

Chapter 4 is here! Still nothing to say to anyone. Thanks for letting me know some of my very obvious mistakes. I'll fix them as I go on with the story.

So for now let's just read!


Chapter 4: Phasing Through

Some days later and now more accustomed to the new place he was living in, Gohan entered the house again covered in sweat, his purple upper Gi gone and only his weighted paddler on his shoulders. He always started training at six o'clock in the morning, making sure to be exactly at the same time of the day for nearly three hours before going to School. Many would say that Gohan could fight longer than that, which he really could, but training was far more than squatting in the same place while carrying thousands of tons. It meant you were pushing your body to its limits and not only your body but also your mind. Warriors of great strength could be easily swept aside by the lack of knowledge. Gohan's training didn't only involve just sit ups and push ups. After two hours of physical training, the half Saiyan would meditate for another hour calming his mind opening it to the information he would learn at school. He also trained at night and would then meditate before going to sleep, so all the gathered knowledge was in its right spot. It worked perfectly for him.

The half Saiyan entered the kitchen ready to have something for breakfast though 'something' actually meant 'everything'. The weirdest thing though was that he had only seen Storm leaving the house. He could still feel Logan's, Scott's, Kurt's, Jean's and Professor's energies, although not all them were at the same place. Scott and Kurt were doing some testing in the Danger Room, Logan was in the garage with his beloved bike. Jean and Professor were inside Cerebro or some place near. He could only feel them together.

His curiosity getting the best of him, Gohan went for Cerebro. Speeding beyond what sight could see, the half Saiyan ended up in Cerebro's entrance. He tried to knock the door but it automatically slid open.

"You can come in, Gohan" Jean's friendly voice reached her alien friend and he did. Both Jean and Charles were near the main detecting machine with Charles using it. His telepathic powers could track the mutants when they appeared even in world-wide scale.

"Gohan, just the perfect man for the job" Professor exclaimed, albeit too happy.

"What do you mean?" The demi saiyan thought some plan was on.

"We detected a new mutant this morning. Her name's Katherine Pryde and her gift allows her to pass her mass through solid matter" Professor explained what he had found.

"In short terms" Gohan said having understood what had just been explained "She can walk through walls. I get that. But still, I don't get the point"

"Well, she has not reacted in a proper way when she found out her gift. In fact, her abilities manifested themselves while she was asleep. And it's obvious she was left traumatized by that" Charles again explained. "Both you and Jean will try to convince her in moving to Bayville"

"But why me and Gohan, Professor?" the red-haired telekinetic mutant asked.

"Because both of you are closer to her age and your words will mean much more to her if they come from someone who has undergone the same things as her" Professor explained wisely. His hand rose stopping Gohan's reply. "I know Gohan that your powers are not like those mutants develop. Yet, still the fact someone her age has especial abilities will mean the difference between improving her gifts with us, or laying them to no use" Charles really hoped the students could convince her. If Magneto tried to get on her nothing good would come out.

"I get it, I think so" Gohan said although mumbling to himself the last part. His gaze shifted to the image on display. Katherine was a rather tall girl, nearly as tall as Gohan. She had brown hair tied back in a ponytail and her eyes were baby blue. The half Saiyan didn't say anything but he felt something weird on him. Some kind of 'feeling'. He just couldn't describe it.


Katherine Pryde moved forward having escaped her house with the help of her mother. Nightmares could be considered bad things to experience but the fact you had one that had turned your life upside down wasn't normal at all. Teenagers went through a lot of changes in their lives but phasing through the floor right into the basement... now that was something Biology teachers didn't teach you, did they?

She stepped in front of her locker trying not to jump by any sudden movement behind her. She at least was solid for the time being. She really hated herself. What she had become. A freak show. Something that would be put aside with the garbage as many times she had heard people talking. Specially from the so-called group 'Friends of Humanity', who always appeared on tv wanting something. But exactly what was what they wanted, she paid no attention. Now she really wished she had.

Her mind stopped racking, when a pair of hands shoved her into her open locker.

"There you go little Kitty" The typical bully girl, or better, Kitty's bully said mockingly running away for all that was worth.

"Hey, let me out!" The brunette girl ordered desperately, knocking her fists on the closed door. A sudden noise came to her ears. Some kind of spraying sound from the outside.

She breathed in and out, easing her blood pressure and calming down her breathing rate. If she wanted to do this then she at least needed to calm for a minute. Then she could freak out as much as she wanted.

She slanted against the closed-door but her body passed through it like if it was nothing. Kitty felt the weirdest sensation ever. It was like swimming though on air and through solid things. Her sudden familiarity with her gift left, when she tripped down to the ground falling head first.

She staggered back to her feet looking to the boy she had crushed into. He was sixteen years old at the most. A senior, for sure. He had a bottle on his hand. A spray can. That was the noise the brunette had heard. She looked around to see the other lockers covered by red paint.

"Wow, that was amazing!" the boy on the floor said his face covered with red paint. But he paid no heed to that detail.

"I didn't do anything!" Kitty fought back, just to lose in big. He had seen her using her freakishness.

"No, it's okay" the boy called Lance said reassuringly, surprising her "I have powers too". He rose his hands in fists, his eyes rolling back on their sockets. The entire school shook beneath his trembling powers. The lockers opened wide, books and other stuff falling. After some seconds, Lance sighed exhausted but happy. Kitty's face, however, didn't show any happiness whatsoever.

"You are just a freak, that's what you are!" She screamed, trying to fight the truth yet it was pointless. She ran out of his hand grasp, going late for Physical Education. She knew she sucked at it though, it was the only subject she didn't have an A. But at least it would take her out of Lance's sight for the time being.


Unbeknownst to both of them, a young demi Saiyan had his eye fixed on the mutant girl. His senses catched everything both said. If something was wrong, then this situation was wrong. Whoever the teenage boy was, he meant troubles. Lots of them. He would use Kitty and then left her to take the blame. His body was practically saying it out loud. And Gohan, after years of fighting, knew how the body moved, both of people who lied and who did not.


Some hours later, Katherine walked out of the school feeling utterly frustrated. She had had the worst day of her life. She really thought it couldn't get any worse.

"Ms Pryde. We would like some minutes of your time, if you agree to" Professor X said to her. Kitty's defenses came back at full mode. "I'm Professor Charles Xavier, Headmaster of the Xavier Institute for the Gifted. She's one of my students, Jean Grey"

"Hi Kitty" Jean said smiling. The brunette mutant, however, wasn't very convinced at all.

"What do you want?" Kitty asked, not trusting them. "I'm already in the most confusing part of my life"

"It's easy to be confused Kitty" Jean said reassuringly. "When I developed my powers, people's thought just flooded into my mind without stop" Sadly, Kitty heard too carefully what the red-haired had explained.

"You are reading my mind!" The brunette blurted out, jumping to her own abrupt conclusion.

"Now, Kitty, I can assure you..." Jean tried to reassure Kitty, but the younger girl paid no heed.

"Stay away!" she screamed, running back into the school as fast as she could. Physical Education suddenly didn't seem like a bad subject to drop.

"Sorry Professor, I really blew a big one there" Jean said, dismissing herself. Gohan however, was already on the move.


Kitty ran inside an empty classroom totally oblivious to the fact she had phased through the locked door. She just wanted to disappear. To be reduced to ashes, and even more if physically possible. Why her life had to spit on her now?

Gohan edged his head, staring through the door's window. He saw the girl he had come to get and she looked sad. With a subtle strength on the door knob, the half Saiyan entered. Kitty heard the door opening. And she wasn't in the best mood for visits.

"Look Lance, stay away from me, I don't want anything to do with you!" Katherine bursted out, not realizing she wasn't talking to the aforementioned Lance. When her eyes met with black orbs, her face shifted to bright red.

"Oh, sorry, I thought you were someone else" She said sheepishly, her face blushing tenfold the normal amount. She now needed to find a deep hole and die out of stupidity.

"Don't worry, I understand" Gohan said with a smile. "But of course, what you have been through can't be normally understood, right?" His hint hit Kitty head on. He too?

"So, you also..." Kitty started asking.

"Have powers?" Gohan said the question so casually like forecasting the weather, though Kitty's eyes opened wide "Yeah, and very proud of them, too"

"Did you just read my mind?" the brunette asked accusingly.

"No, I don't have that gift. Though I train my mind to not be invaded" Gohan said just like another day. Kitty was taken aback by this boy. Whoever he was, he didn't look like the normal fellow student. He was as tall as her and probably as old. But something was saying that this boy had seen many things. His body was nothing bad to look at either.

"I have to admit though, if I could walk through walls, now that would have saved me a lot of money on rebuilding my house" Kitty smiled by the comment.

"Son Gohan" the half Saiyan introduced himself, bringing his hand forward.

"Kitty Pride, actually Katherine, but friends call me Kitty" the new phasing-through mutant said with a smile bumbling slightly, something that made Gohan smile fondly.

"We are friends now?" half Saiyan asked, almost in a mocking one "I'm flattered" Kitty chuckled by his comment. Gohan may not sound like a normal name, but she didn't care. She felt at easy with him. More calmed and collected.

"So when did you found your powers?" Kitty asked, curiosity getting the best of her. The petite brunette shook her head thinking she had trespassed her boundary "Sorry, I just..."

"Don't be it, it's okay" Gohan waved her off "And for the record, I was born with my powers. My dad had them, and so did I" Kitty looked shock by that revelation. It indicated why Gohan was so calm. Living for fifteen years with abilities that ran down through your family tree, with a family that not only accepted it but also encouraged it, was something to live for.

But yet, she didn't know what his powers were.

"What kind of powers do you have?" She asked again. If she could phase through things and others could read minds then the possibilities were limitless.

"That's a very interesting story, that starts with my evil uncle and ends up with me, diving my hair blonde" Gohan said smiling. A thing he learned from Krillin, besides the Destructo Disk, was to always made people smile. It always eased the tension. Kitty just stared at him, eyebrows raised.

"I can tell you about it, if you came with me" Gohan said. Kitty's face, however wasn't so convinced about going to the Xavier Institute but Gohan didn't stop talking there "You might think you no longer fit in society but that's just no true. Being born with especial abilities is not something to hide, it is something to show. To show the others how you improved beyond normal people. Besides, do you actually want to be just like everyone else? I would kill myself if I was just another copy of 'normal' people"

Kitty pondered everything on her overflowed mind. It made a lot of sense to her. She really didn't want to say it out loud but Gohan had a point in there. Besides, she was finding him kind of cute.

They both talked a bit more, their friendship increasing with Kitty easing her tension by the second. This boy was someone she could definitely trust.


Half an hour later, the two teenagers left the classroom, both more acquainted with each other.

"Sorry for snapping at you. I was really acting like a jerk" Kitty apologized, Gohan placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Not totally, but slightly" Gohan said now smiling. She looked him back, with her own smile. A different one though.

"Are you teasing me"? Kitty asked with depredation in her voice. Gohan stared back at her, not knowing what to say to that.

"I think so" He said, rubbing his long-haired head innocently. "Did I do it right?" Kitty just couldn't stop laughing of Gohan's antics.

Both stopped though, when a boy stepped on their path halting them. The half Saiyan knew who he was. Not the right person he needed at the time. Kitty tensed immediately next to him.

"So you are leaving with Superboy now, aren't you?" Lance asked accusingly.

"They can help us both Lance. It's not that bad" Kitty said now. But the tension was really building up in the hall.

"You don't get it, do you?" Lance blurted out "They don't want to help us. They just want us to serve them like puppets, while they pull the strings!"

"Now look here you, Professor..." Gohan interfered, his emotions getting in the way. Keeping a cool head was really hard against Lance's hot-headed stubbornness.

"I don't care about that dam Professor!" Lance screamed, moving forward and grabbing Kitty's arm. Only for her to phase out of his grip with a lot of ease. It seems that her powers were now easier to call upon "You can't be serious!"

"I'm coming with Gohan, so you better step aside!" Kitty said determined, looking at Gohan, who smiled back at her.

"This is all your fault!" Lance accused him, his eyes rolling back his mutant powers gathering. The school started to tremble with dust raising up. Junks of concrete started to fall off the roof, right where Gohan was. Yet, the half Saiyan remained there, the concrete pieces breaking against his head not flinching him at all. Both Lance and Kitty stared in disbelief at how easily the boy had withstood that.

Lance stepped back gazing into Gohan's black eyes, which were staring back at him. A second later, Gohan was behind him. Hitting a pressure point, the demi Saiyan knocked unconscious the rebellious teenager with a karate chop.

"You okay?" Gohan asked Kitty, who was still staring at him. The half Saiyan had dust on his clothes but no injury or bruise whatsoever.

"You are the one asking?" Katherine asked dumbfounded. Before anyone could say anything, both Professor and Jean arrived.

"What happened here Gohan?" Professor asked, looking to the mess.

"I had to knock the guy out before he had done something regrettable" Gohan said covered in dust, though smiling. Without him knowing, his hand was now gripped with Kitty's.

"I, made up my mind. I'll give the institute a try" She said sheepishly. Her hand, however, never left Gohan's. That unknowingly boosted her confidence.

"I imagined that would be the case" Professor said, "We will meet with your parents and discuss your future options" Jean, however, looked carefully at Gohan.

"Are you injured?" The red-haired girl asked him concerned.

"Of course not Jean. You know me better" Gohan said, half accusing and mocking her.


The mutants arrived at Kitty's house, with both of her parents waiting outside. She hugged both of them. Letting down one's parents was something no one could escape from.

"Aren't you mad Mom and Dad?" Kitty asked "I'm sorry for all his power thing but..."

"It's okay dear, you are still the same girl we love" her mother reassured her, hugging her even more.

"The fact you have a special ability doesn't change anything between us dear. It's just hard to see our little girl growing up faster than what we can cope with." Her father said "Besides, Professor told us you can still go to Bayville School, so you won't get any of your grades down"

"I'll miss you, but I won't be gone forever. I can call you or e-mail you." Kitty said to her parents, now her reassuring them. "I'll go packing"

After some minutes, Kitty ended packing, her trunk full of her stuffs. She moved the heavy object down the stairs, but it was getting the tool out of her. Gohan, however, wasn't someone's friend for nothing.

"Need any help there?" Gohan asked with a smile.

"How could I live without my butler?" The brunette teased. Yet Her eyes opened wide when Gohan lifted the trunk with the effort of raising a needle.

"So, about that boy..." Kitty's dad commented from behind her.

"Dad!" she exclaimed, blushing a storm. But in the end, she hugged him, both him and her mother.

The mutants entered the Blackbird, sitting on any place they wanted. Gohan looked to his clothes, which were all covered in dust. He proceeded to close his eyes, concentrating his energy. His body shone yellow, when his clothes changed to his purple Gi with weighted paddler.

"How did you do that?" the brunette mutant asked bemused. Just how many abilities did this mysterious boy had?

"It's another chapter of the story I'm planning to tell you" Gohan answered with a smirk of suspense. She smirked back. This boy was really someone she could live with.


Lance Alvers walked down the dark street, his body stewing. He had been expelled from School. Not that he cared, though. He had never needed it.

He sat in the sidewalk rubbing the back of his neck. It pained where the brat had hit him. The rock trembler just wanted to fist that puny face into nothing but dust.

"Mister Alvers, having a rough day?" A woman dressed in business suit said, eyeing him. Lance went back to his feet, raising his fists.

"And you are who?" the rebellious teenager asked, not trusting the woman.

"Let's just say, I'm your new chance of a living" Darkholme said intriguing the boy "I'm the headmaster of Bayville High on the East Coast. The school where many of Xavier's lackeys assist. It might be a good place for you to start over, along with helping me in keeping an eye on them"

Lance smirked, his emotions getting him. Payback was at his hands now. He would not turned it down now.

"Where do I sign?"


Kitty stepped out of her new bathroom, a few hours later of her arrival dressed in her pink pajamas, which were a simple pink long shirt and pink shorts that reached her middle thigh. She had already unpacked and everything was in its rightful place.

A sudden wind gust opened her window. It chilled her to the bones but she still moved to the window. The phasing mutant lady wanted to close it but something stopped her. Outside in the dark, Gohan was training, only wearing his white paddler on his shoulders, revealing his broad chest and pack of well-developed abs.

Her eyes were completely fixed on the working out half human/Saiyan, wondering how could someone be so worked up and yet still had energy to go to school and convince mutants of joining the X-Men.

"Can't sleep?" Gohan said, now right in front of her. His dash of speed had been simply invisible to the human eye. Kitty squealed by the appearance, falling on her back. She stood back again, though blushed.

"Sorry, I just heard some noise outside. I didn't think it would be you" Kitty said, trying not to stare at his body too much. His lack of clothes were disturbing her nerves. And other parts of her body that she didn't want to mention out loud.

"Sorry if I woke you up though. I always train outside before sleeping" the demi Saiyan said explaining and trying not to sound to important.

"Yeah, well, em, I think I'll take off to my bed" The blushing brunette said again trying not to fix her eyes on his perfect body. "I need to pack...unpack some stuff" Her tongue moved faster than her brain apparently.

"Okay, have a nice rest Kitty" Gohan said goodbye, flying to his own bedroom's window. Kitty slapped herself trying to easy her raging body. If she was going to speak to Gohan about his life, then he better had clothes on or she would do something she might regret.

Or maybe she might not regret it?


Notes from Chapter 4:

The Friends of Humanity made a small cameo here (I hate this group, so the few times they appear won't be for long).

Yes, there's a Gohan/Kitty relation coming on (Sorry for those who don't like this pairing). But trust me, there will be ladies interested on our young alien. And Kitty might not exactly say no to other females.


Our half Saiyan has convinced someone. See next chapter to find out if he can do it again!