Chapter 4

'Walking around I hear the earth seeking relief'
'I'm trying to find a reason to live'
'But the mindless clutter my path'
'Oh these thorns in my side'
'I know I have something free'
'I have something so alive'
'I think they shoot 'cause they want it'

'I feel forces all around me'
'Come on raise your head'
'Those who hide behind the shadows'
'Live with all that's dead'

'Look at me…look at me'
'At least look at me when you shoot a bullet'
'through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'

'In my lifetime when I'm disgraced'
'By jealousy and lies'
'I laugh aloud 'cause my life'
'Has gotten inside someone else's mind'

'Look at me…look at me'
'At least look at me when you shoot a bullet'
'through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'

'Hey all I want is what's real'
'Something I touch and can feel'
'I'll hold it close and never let it go'
'Said why... why do we live this life'
'With all this hate inside'
'I'll give it away 'cause I don't want it no more'
'Please help me find a place'
'Somewhere far away I'll go and you'll never see me again'

'Look at me…look at me'
'At least look at me when you shoot a bullet'
'through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'
'Through my head'
-Creed-Bullets-

"Who are those guys?!" Scott yelled.

"Do you expect me to know?!" Kathy yelled back at him

"That Tigris guy knows who you are!"

"Because Trex worked for him."

"God damn it Kat. This is fucking crazy. We have no clue who the hell these mutants are." Scott paced back and forth.

"Scott, to my understanding, Magneto hired them. Tigris was to strong to be controlled. So he pushed Magneto aside, along with the rest of the Acolytes. Tigris hired more mutants, to bring us down. For what reason, I'm not sure." The Professor said

"Bull-shit." Scott walked away. "God damn bull-shit."

"Scott." Jean called out

"I'm sorry. I have to go." With that he left.

In a dark elm forest, the dragon sat in a forest. He tried to turn back to his original form, but the dragon soul in him started to take over. He let out a roar of rage, and vowed to kill the ones that provoked this. His black cold eyes remembered the people that hated him. The people that hate mutants. The ones he will kill.

Demon mended his broken wing. He got up and looked into the night sky. His turquoise eyes scanning the stars. He picked up his sword and X-Bow and started to walk. He didn't know were to go. He was lost, and he also couldn't fly. All he could do was to follow the stars.

"Vell?" Kurt said in a stubborn voice. He stood naked to the waist on floor in the infirmary. "Vat do you zink?"

Kathy straitened up. "Pretty deep slice. Pretty clean too." Kathy put her hand on the cut. Kurt winced. "Sorry."

"It is pretty bad, but it will heal without stitches." Orro said as she bandaged him up.

"Za zing zat bothers me za most is zat she knows who I am." Kurt put his shirt back on. "Don't be so bothered by it Kurt." Kitty said to make him feel better.

"Hard not to." They made their above ground.

As they made their way into the kitchen, Kathy saw Tobius standing with his back to the fridge with a horrified look. "Kath? You know those leftovers we got rid of a week ago?"

"Yeah." Kathy said slowly

"They're back with reinforcements."

"Who wants to go to Friday's?" Kitty said

"Sounds good to me." Kurt said

"Yeah that sound good to me too." Tobius said

"I really don't care, unless I get all your guys fries, of course." Kathy said

"My fries." Kurt said

"Yeah that's not fair." Tobius said

"I never said it was mandatory."

"Oh." Tobius replied

"Idiot."

"Vhy are zay called buffalo vings?" Kurt asked, puzzled.

"I think they were invented in Buffalo, New York." Kitty said

"The one thing I sure as hell know, is that they're gooood." Kathy said

"All meat is good to you Kath." Tobius said.

"Ha, ha. Right Tob, now let me start chewing on your head." She said coldly.

Tobius scooted his chair away. He took a sip out of his Pepsi.

"Toby, your going to have to exercise 75 minutes tomorrow to burn off that soda." Kathy said to him

"Okay iced tea queen, of course you are an Ice Maiden." He said smiling

"Your going to die slow."

"Can't like, the either of you do something together without getting into fights?" Kitty said

"Not unless the idiot to my right will shut-up."

"Hey!"

"Well, not like it's my fault. You were born idiotic."

Tobius gritted his teeth.

"Kurt, Tobius switch places before hell breaks loose."

Kurt obeyed. He practically dragged Tobius off. "Ahh. Za hostility level here is going down."

"Hey Kitty-Cat." Tobius smiled

"Don't even get any ideas Tobius."

"You can call me Toby if you like."

"Uh-hu, sure."

"Children, stop flirting." Kurt said

"Yeah Kurt, stop flirting with the person next to you." Kitty said mockingly.

Kurt's ears reddened. Kathy turned away and blushed.

"Um, I'm going to go to the ladies room. Excuse me." Kathy got up and left

Kurt shot a look at Kitty. "Are you nuts? Don't ever do something like zat again!"

"Awwwww. The fuzz ball is mad." Tobius smiled

"Fuzz ball?" Kitty looked at Kurt

"It's nothing."

"No, it's just another pet name Kath gave Kurt, besides blue boy, that she only says around him."

"Tobius shut-up."

Just then Kathy came back. "I'm not even going to ask." She could tell something happened.

"Good." Kurt said

"How about we leave and go somewhere else? I'm dieing for some action." Kathy leaned back on the chair and put her hands behind her head.

Tobius kicked Kurt in the leg, and gave him a devilish smile. Kurt's expression changed from calm, to horrified, knowing what Tobius had in mind. He stepped on his foot.

"Yow!" Tobius yelled, then at that instant his knee hit the table, causing more pain, then hit his hand on the table, hurting himself even more.

"Smooth Toby." Kathy said, trying hold back her laughter

Kitty giggled

"Not funny. That hurt. Just for that, I'm not pitching on paying."

"Fine, we have enough money." Kathy said

The three of them put money on the table and left.

Kurt laid in his bed, naked. His mind drifted in and out. Thoughts jumbled up. He thought about Amanda, then Kathy. He tried to deny the fact that he had a crush on Kathy. He kept trying to focus his thoughts on Amanda, not necessarily clean thoughts. But the same went for Kathy. Just knowing that he wasn't typically able to 'see' her, made him have even more impure thoughts about her.

Kurt sighed pleasurably. He closed his eyes. "Amanda, your za one I love. If you were here I would kiss you all over. But vat about you my little Raptor? I vould hold you in my arms. Kiss you, zen lay you down to bed. I vould kiss your neck, zen vork my vay down. My tail vould tickle you in places I dare not zink." Kurt looked at the picture of he and Amanda. Then opened his nightstand drawer and pulled out a picture of he and Kathy. It was at an Audioslave concert. He turned the back of it where Kathy drew a picture of him hanging upside down from a branch.

He smiled.

A scratching noise came from his balcony. Kurt covered himself with his blanket. "Hallo, Kathy."

"How'd ya know." Kathy said sarcastically. She climbed over the ledge an sat down next to Kurt on his bed. "Hey blue boy. Something bugging you?"

"Vat? Oh, um I'm just zinking."

"About what?"

"Nothing." He lied.

"So what are you actually doing?"

"I told. I'm zinking."

"And I asked about what?"

"About a lot of zings. Some about yesterday."

"Yeah. We still have no clue who half of those mutant are."

"She knew who I vas, she vatched me."

"Who?"

"Melissa."

Tigris stared at his friend's corpse as it burned. Reptilian had a metal collar around his neck and iron clasps around his wrists.

"I want the traitor dead."

Demon ran as fast as he could. He was pursued by police. He stopped a rock cliff. The cops stopped chasing after him.

"Alright. We have you cornered." They raised their guns to him.

"At least look at me when you shoot a bullet to my head." He said. He held out his hands, finger pointed to the police. Slowly, a blue mist came from the cops hearts. The blue mist looked like the cops, and was actually their soul. The blue mist absorbed into Demon. His eyes glowed. "Now your dead."

The white haired boy looked into the crowd of people. "Hey! Look at me. I'm a mutant." He yelled out. The crowed turned their heads. "You want us dead. Suffer that fate." A wave of bodies dropped to the ground. They all died at that instant. "Hate me, fear me. You say man was made in God's image, mutants were made in the image of perfection. For I am Leo, son of Tigris, with a dragon in my soul." He turned into the black dragon, and flew off.

Demon felt a sudden rush of energy. He usually took the souls of living people, but sometimes the ones that weren't meant to die, their souls went to him.

"Leo. What have you done?"

"Mutant scum." A student said. It was P.E. time, Tobius and Kurt weren't having exactly the best time.

"I hate society." Tobius grumbled

"You sound like Kathy." Kurt said

"Of course, we are twins." Tobius made a basket. "So, ever got the guts to tell her?"

"Vat!? Are you mad! I can't tell her."

"Alright, alright. Down boy. Jesus, no need to foam at the mouth."

"Very funny." A basket ball hit Kurt in the shoulder. He spun around, seeing students laughing at him. Then he noticed the white haired student coming from behind them.

"You have a problem with mutants?" Leo lowered his sunglasses that hid his black eyes. The students stared in horror at the black lifeless eyes. Slowly the color from their faces disappeared to a ghostly white. Leo made his way to Kurt and Tobius.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Leo." Ha walked past them. A cold shiver made it's way up their spines.

"Yo, Leo, dude. What did you do that for?" Tobius called back to him.

He approached the two of them. "Mutants shouldn't be hated, unless there is a reason." He walked away.

"That dude is weirder than anything I've ever seen." Tobius said, Kurt nodded.

Demon continued to walk. His wing was healing fast, but he rather not test it yet. He already was in a part of New York, he just didn't know where. As he looked around he felt lost, he felt needy. He wanted someone.

"Kathy. You back-pack is beeping." Kurt said

"What? Oh. The tracker picked some Sierra rip activity."

"Great." Kurt exasperated

They were walking home. Kathy was disappointed that her tracker started going off. She liked it when it didn't work that well, but Tobius fixed it.

"How about a ride on za Nightcrawler express, Raptors ride free." He smiled. Kathy held onto his arm

BAMF

They teleported into the Professor's office.

"Kathy, Kurt." He greeted them

"Sierra Rip." Kathy said

"Where?"

"Australia. Somewhere in the Northern Territory."

"That's odd."

"Vhy?"

"Because, Tigris has made an out post there.

"We'll split up into to two groups, okay? Me, Camouflage, Raptor, Shadowcat, and Nightcrawler, will go north, the rest of you cover south." Scott said

The two groups headed off in different directions. " I wonder how we'll die?" Tobius said

"Shut-up Toby." Kathy said

"What? I'm serious, who will get killed and how."

"Tobius, could you try not to talk about zat?" Kurt said

"Yeah, yeah."

"Like, what if we are searching in the wrong place?" Kitty asked

"Well, we're looking for the alien, the others are looking for Tigris." Scott said

"Tigris? You never told us we were like looking for that creep." Kitty said annoyed

"Well you know now Kitty-cat." Tobius snuggled up next to her.

"Tobius, get away from me." Kitty walked up to the other side of Kurt.

"Hey Katzchen." Kurt said. Kitty smiled.

Kathy put her hand to her forehead. Her migraine was coming back, the one she got when she was close to Tigris. She breathed deep, then shook her head.

"Something wrong Kat?" Scott asked stopping, and standing next to her.

"Hmm, oh. My head just hurts a little. I'm probably just a too hot." Kathy forced a weak smile.

It was getting dark fast. "We should make camp here." Scott said.

"I am getting tired." Kitty said as she put her head on Kurt's shoulder.

They took out their tents.

"I'm going to see what's around here, 'kay." Kathy walked off.

After about a five minutes of exploring, she found what she was looking for. A large pond of water. It was crystal clear, and cool. She cupped her hands and drank some. After that Kathy began to slip off her clothes.

"Ka-" Kurt was about to come through the bushes when he noticed Kathy undressing. He watched as she unhooked her bra, and pulled it off, then stepped into the pond. She couldn't see him, but he saw her. The darkness of the bushes, and his fur, made good camouflage. He tried to force himself to look away, but couldn't. He turned his head, but at that instant, saw a large form glide though the water. It was large, and crocodile like in shape, it was a crocodile. Kurt noticed this.

BAMF

Kurt teleported to the pond

BAMF

"Kurt!" Kathy yelled at him. He teleported her to his tent. Her arms crossed over her chest and tail wrapped tightly around her waist.

"Um, sorry."

"What was that for." She yelled furiously.

"No. Ssshhh." He put his hand on her mouth. "Before you say anyzing, listen, I saw a crocodile going strait for you, and vell you know za rest."

Kathy pulled her head away from his hand. "Kurt, why were you there in the first place." Kathy said, giving him the evil eye.

"I , vas, um, vas vatching you." He sighed

"You what!" Kurt put his hand on her mouth again.

"Be quiet. Do you vant za others to come here?"

Kathy sighed. Kurt put his hand down. She shivered. "Oh, um, how about some clothes."

"Yeah I would like that."

Kurt dug through his duffel bag, and pulled out a pair of shorts, and T-shirt.

"Thanks."

Kurt turned around to give her some privacy. He turned his head slightly. "Sorry Kathy." he said, his tail hung low with embarrassment.

She finished putting the clothes on. "You mind if I spend the night here? My tent is further from this spot, and I'm a little tired."

"Sure." Kurt pulled out two blankets from his duffel bag and put on the ground. Then he put the bag at the end of the blanket as a pillow. "Choose, sleeping bag, or hard ground."

"I'll sleep on the ground. It's your sleeping bag anyway."

"You sure?"

Kathy nodded and laid down on the blanket, turning her back to Kurt to give him some privacy while he changed. She closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.

Kathy walked out of Kurt's ten. Scott and Tobius stared.

"Kurt, why is Kathy wearing your clothes, and coming out of your tent?" Scott asked. Kurt looked up.

BAMF

He teleported in front of Kathy. "Long story short. Crocodile vas going to attack her, so I ported her to my tent, but she vas naked, because she was bathing in a pond, so I gave her some of my clothes to vear and she slept vith me."

"Okay, my mind drifted at 'slept with me.'" Scott said

"Nein, I mean. You know vat I mean." He said frantically.

"Yeah I do, just fun to play around with your words." Scott laughed.

Tobius got a little uncomfortable. "You know, this is just a weird, so I'm going to maybe fly around a bit." Tobius morphed into a golden eagle, and flew off.

Kathy blushed. "I'm going to go into my tent and change."

Few minutes later Kathy came out of her tent. She handed Kurt his clothes. "Thanks blue boy."

"Ja." Kurt stared at Kathy, who was wearing tight black shorts, and an army tank top that exposed her midriff. He wanted her badly. He wanted to snuggle up to her, to hold her. To kiss her, but he would never let himself do that. He sighed. He needed to snap out of this. He was still with Amanda, but never has the guts to tell her that he is in love with someone else. Kathy was the only person that would actually comfort him with his problems. If someone told them about their problems, and he comforted them, they wouldn't repay him, but just move on. Kathy was different. He had to admit it, Kathy had it harder than he did. Her parents hated her, father tried to kill her, grew up with a hit-man gang, killed people for a living, and now living in constant fear that they will come and kill her. But despite all that, she was a calm person. She knew how to handle most things, except her emotions, which on certain days, would run rampant.

"Hey fuzzy." Kitty called to Kurt.

He looked up. "Hi Katzchen." Kurt said grinning.

"Something up?"

"Just zinking."

"Ahh, like about Kathy?"

"Ven am I not lately?"

"You should tell her sometime soon. I mean before."

"Before vat?"

"I like don't know, but something is telling me Kathy is changing, like those headaches she gets. I think she has like an extra sensory power, telling her something bad is coming our way, or hers."

"She never tells me vat her headaches are about, how vould you know?"

"Please Kurt. I like saw the two of you in that castle, you had your tail around her waist. And she got that headache at that moment, right before the fight, ya know. Maybe Raptor is more mysterious than we originally thought."

Kurt stared at Kitty.