Perfect By Nature
Chapter XXVI: Round One
By: Michelle
KABOOM!
As lightening hit the ground, the dragons panicked. They realized they too had underestimated the mutants. They scattered in several directions.
"What are you doing?" Dragon Lord fussed. Stupid. "Attack." Best men my ass.
Most of the dragons recollected their courage. They knew it was better to face the mutants than a pissed off Dragon Lord.
Leonardo ducked a blow from the first Rank warrior he encountered. Since he learned to walk, Splinter had trained him and his brothers in the martial arts. He could tell by the way the dragon was fighting, that it was probably raised the same way.
The Rank warrior got one over on him. He stumbled back, but quickly regained his balance. He returned the hit with a round house kick to the dragon's chest. Then, before the dragon could regain itself, he punched it in the head sending it spinning.
"VENUS NOW."
Venus jumped up seeing the dragon spinning. Silently in her head, she recited her spell and her hands began to tingle. The energy flowed thru her and into the dragon causing it to vanish.
Leonardo smiled to himself and began working on the next that challenged him.
Wolverine held his claws in front of his face, watching three dragons ready to make their move on him. It was three to one, but he didn't complain. He liked the odds.
As the three dragons advanced, he could pick up their every sound. He quickly landed a kick to one's face while back hand stabbing another one with his claws. The third dragon sent a power blast knocking him to the ground.
The two living dragons walked over to the unconscious mutant. His black suit at a five inch whole in it and he had a severe burn mark on his exposed chest.
"Well that was easy." One dragon said to the other. "Majesty will be pleased."
Right on cue, Wolverine's eyes shot opened and he stood up. The dragons' eyes widened as his body began to heal itself. "Hey Bubs." He pointed his claws at them. "I ain't done with you yet."
Before the dragons could react, they were laying on ground with their buddy.
Wolverine looked at his crimson claws. "I like them odds."
"Ya call this a fair fight." Raphael said as he spun his sais around. 'I could take you wussies with wit my eyes closed."
The two dragons replied by growling at him. They attacked, but he back flipped out the way popping them each in the jaw.
"Oops, did I hurts yas." Raphael said being a wise ass. "Cuz that was my intention."
The dragons regain their balance and blasted him. Raphael hit the ground hard and boy was he pissed.
"Now that's cheating." Raphael said as he sat up. He gripped his sais. "Come you hold these for me while I get up." He smirked as they looked at him confused. Then, he flung them into their chests. "Oops. I forgot to say catch." He walked up and pulled his sais out of the two dragons. "And look, you made them all dirty. Oh well, whose next."
Colossus slammed his steel fist into on of the dragons' chest knocking the wind out of it. He grabbed it and tossed it into Rogue's direction.
Rogue jumped up feeling the energy from the spell cause the dragon to disappear out of sight. She felt so powerful and for once not as a plague.
Colossus turned to the next dragon as it hopelessly tried to fight him. Instead of hurting him, it hurt itself by slamming its hand into his chest. Keeping a straight face and laughing inside, he tossed it over to Rogue.
Professor Xavier could feel the burning gaze of the dragon before. He remembered the stories the Turtles told him about the dragons, especially their escape. Venus said they had found a weakness in her caretakers mind and used it to break into the Realm of Dreams, a spiritual place for powerful minds and deep thinkers.
As he studied the dragon more, he could feel its intentions. It wanted to kill him, but it didn't surprise him. He was starting to get use to that sort of thing. If it wasn't Magneto, a mad military scientist, or psychotic dragon, there would be no need for the X-men.
He closed his eyes and could feel its weakness. Fear. It was afraid of him. Of course, who wouldn't be afraid of a man who could manipulate your thoughts and read your mind? He mentally blasted it before it could blast him.
Xavier made sure it didn't kill him. He didn't believe in killing like Wolverine or Raphael. Instead, the psyblast he gave the dragon was enough to make its head pound and become nauseous.
Donatello saw the weak dragon and used his Retourner Ray to send it back to where it came from. He earned a nod from Xavier and returned it. As he took aim at another freaked out dragon, his arm began to throb even more. He wasn't sure how much more stress he would be able to endure.
Nightcrawler looked at the dragons surrounding him. He could see the two before him, and could sense the one behind him. After the last beating they gave him, he was looking for a little revenge. He would carve a tattoo on his leg later for his wrathful thoughts.
Using his tail, he wrapped it around the dragon's leg behind him and flung him over his head and into one of the dragons in front of him. Two birds with one stone. He turned to the other one and pounced on it. Before it could fight back, he bamfed several times with it making it sick to its stomach.
As the one dragon puked its guts up, the other two were back for round two. BAMF. He appeared behind them and tapped them on the shoulder. They turned around to see a fist slam into their faces.
Venus and Rogue jumped up and vanished them with the spells. Nightcrawler gave them a toothy grin and bamfed away after another.
Michaelangelo slammed his nunchaku into one of the dragon's heads knocking it unconscious. "Bada bing, bada boom." He looked at another dragon. "Oh, you want to play too."
He dodged several blows to his face and kicked the dragon in the chest. It stumbled a bit, but came back for more. This time when he made a punch, Michaelangelo ducked his head in his shell.
"You missed me." Michaelangelo said as he popped his head back out. Then, he slammed his fist into the dragon's face. He didn't miss. 'Michaelangelo is on the roll."
He smiled and got ready for the next contestant. He blocked several of the dragon's kicks with ease, but when he tried to do his own he found himself in a bit of a pickle. The dragon had caught his leg. When he tried to get free, the dragon twisted his ankle sending a sharp pain throughout his foot.
The dragon let him fall to the ground. Michaelangelo never felt so helpless before in his life. With everyone occupied with fighting, he was Dragon Lord stew. Then a miracle occurred.
KABOOM!
Storm called a thunderbolt to shock the dragon senseless. She landed down beside Michaelangelo. "You alright."
"Am now."
"It's starting to swell." Storm said to him as she examined his leg. "I got to get you out of here." Using a gust of wind, she knocked open the mansion doors. Then, she picked up Michaelangelo and used her wind to carry them inside the mansion. She opened one of the hidden passages and he dragged himself in. "Just stay here."
Michaelangelo didn't argue as the passage closed up. He felt so weak, but he knew he couldn't fight anymore. Alls he could do is hope for the best.
Storm flew back outside closing the doors to the mansion behind her. She took high in the skies aiming lightening bolts at the dragons.
Dragon Lord signaled his second wave of Rank warriors in. He could tell the Turtles and the X-men were starting to tire. One was already out of the picture.
He looked up at the skies to see Storm hitting his men with her lightening bolts. He wasn't too thrilled with that. Time to take another one out of the picture.
The energy from his spell flowed in his fingers. He took aim and sent a blast her way.
Storm saw the blast a second too late. She couldn't move out of the way fast enough. It burned her side as it hit her. She lost her concentration over her winds as she felt the burn on her flesh. She fell spiraling downwards to the earth.
Venus peeked to the left as Rogue peeked to the right.
"I don't see anything." Venus said to Rogue. "The dragons are too close to everyone to make a clear shot."
"Same here." Rogue replied to her. "And it looks like there are more dragons than before."
"Something is wrong." Venus said as they both turned away from peeking out. "I sense dragons nearby…and close."
"How close/" Rogue asked.
"Close enough." They heard a voice say as two dragons peered over the mini mounds at them. Before Venus and Rogue could run, each dragon grabbed them by the face and began pulling them out of their mini-trench.
Rogue howled in pain as the skin to skin contact of the dragon began to take effect. She could feel the dragon's life force begin to flow inside of her.
Donatello took aim at the dragons the Turtles and X-men happened to give a good bruising to. The pain was starting to become unbearable. He felt so lightheaded and dizzy. At one point, he almost hit Raphael.
He didn't want to walk out on his brothers, but he wasn't sure he was going to be able to hang on. He took aim again, but a quick acting dragon made the shot first. He was so dazed he couldn't even react to it. The burning blast hit him in his throbbing arm.
Donatello dropped the Retourner Ray as the pain took its toll. His eyes rolled back as the blackness took over him. He fell to the ground hard…
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I know I'm evil. I hate beating up my characters but I have to. I'm sorry. But I did kill some dragons.
LOL. Anyways. I better get cracking on Chapter 27 so I can beat up more characters. I won't beat up too much more.
Oh. I am working on the sequel to The Truth Hurts. My yahoo messenger id is turtlegirlpower so drop me a line, introduce yourself, and I'll be happy to give you hints about what I'm planning. I'm posting the sequel once Perfect By Nature is finished.
4 more chapters to go…
Thanks for the reviews.
Michelle