Chapter 8

Never upset a dragon

Scott's Point of View

Walking down another hallway was getting very tiresome. I was to inspect the Institute to make sure everything was okay, and to see that all of the other mutants were doing fine as well. Kurt was out with Amanda, Jean was working on a Biology project, and everyone else was studying for their exams.

But Tommy kept we worrying. He sounded like he was in pain, but whenever I asked him about it, he said he was all right, don't worry about it. Yet something was troubling me. For the last five months, once every week I heard him crying out of pain. Something about his mutation scared me.

Before I headed down the stairs, I head glass shatter, and it came exactly from Tommy's room. I quickly ran to his room, and I was met with Hank and Logan.

"You guys heard it too?" I asked.

"Yeah, I think it's about time we find out what's with this guy. Once and for all." Logan said in his usual tough voice.

"Careful Wolverine, there has to be a explanation for this." Hank said while opening the door. Once the three of us entered, we saw the glass window that was destroyed. His room was mildly destroyed, but the glass was most intriguing. If he jumped out he would've left footprints or something, only problem was, there wasn't any.

"You don't think he flew away, right?" I asked.

"If you have a better theory, I'd like to hear it." Logan said being insulting.

"Lets split up, each of us get a group of kids and track him down." Hank suggested.

"No, we should take our most elite mutants and track him down." I suggested.

"I'm goin alone, you two better hurry up." Logan said, and he was gone. Hank and I rounded up some of the kids and split up also.

I took Iceman, Spyke, Jean, and Rogue. Beast took Night Crawler, Storm, Shadow Cat, and Ballisto. Then a voice arose from inside the institute.

"Wait, I'm coming too!" Sharon said.

"No, this is for experience X-Men only, we don't know how dangerous Drake can be. Hopefully he won't be a problem." Scott said.

"But you need me I can read his mind." She protested.

"We have Jean here, besides you'll just hinder us." Scott replied.

"But I can…" And Sharon just stopped short.

"What, what else can you do." Scott insisted.

"…I can connect with him. I feel like I can go into his mind with using my powers." Sharon tried to explain.

Then Jean put her hand on my shoulder, I know I was going to regret this, but I couldn't get out of this any other way.

"Fine you can come, but stay near Jean Grey, she's your defender unless you fall behind. Got it?" He asked. I nodded.

Our first search was at the school football field. Jean tried reading Drake's mind, but he must've blocked her out. But she did see his surroundings, it was the football field he was seeing, but where was he? Sharon then tried reading his mind, and then her eyes opened wide and looked upwards.

"Up there!" She yelled. Everyone did, and they saw a blur of blue racing down towards the field. Everybody scattered, and safely made it out of the way for that thing to land. When the debris cleared, we saw an amazing sight to behold. No better words could describe it than this, "Beautifully Dangerous".

Everyone's eyes were fixed onto the dragon that lay before them. The armor hard scales were an icy blue color, its body was long and slender. The neck and tail were extremely long, and each one of its fangs was bigger than Beast's fist. But it was the dragons' eyes that were holding us in place. They were just as icy as his scales, but instead the eyeball was black, and the pupil is white. Though it wasn't the color that was bothering us, it was emotion we felt when looking inside him. Pain, suffering, betrayal, all of that and more were seen just looking at its eyes. Then Sharon broke the silence.

"That's Drake!" She yelled.

"What, how's that possible?" I asked. Then it came to me, his mutated arm. If I wasn't mistaken, one of his abilities is to transform into a dragon at will, but why now? We needed answers fast.

"Jean, tell Night Crawler to go to Drake's room and see if there's anything suspicious that we need to know about." I ordered Jean. She did so and said that Night Crawler is there. While waiting for Kurt to return with anything we had to hold off Drake for hurting anyone. I tried blasting him, just to knock him out cold, but it was deflected off. Spyke also tried hurling some bony spike missiles at him, but they just shattered before they even touched his scales.

"Iceman, can you freeze him over?" I yelled to him.

"You bet." He said with confidence. He then slammed his hand flat onto the ground and froze the area where the dragon stood. In a matter of seconds, he froze the dragon into a Popsicle.

"Good work Iceman, now we…" I started, and the most astonishing thing occurred. The ice melded with the dragon. It didn't melt off of him, but fused with him. Once the last ice particle dissipated, Drake let out a deafening roar. His scales gave off more of a shine, and became even whiter.

"What?" Iceman said with amazement. "I put all my energy into that, what did he do?"

"He absorbed your power, in other words you made him stronger." Sharon said.

"Rogue, your up, just be careful." I ordered Rogue. She quickly made her way to Drake, and just missed the swipe of his tail. Once she touched his scales nothing happened. She didn't even flinch.

"What's wrong?" Scott yelled.

"I can't absorb anything. His mutation is there, but he won't allow me to take it." Rogue said, then she was forced off of his with another swish of his tail, and Rogue flew off into me.

She apologized, but I didn't bother with it. All I wanted to know is how to stop Drake from getting more into rage. Then Sharon approached the dragon slowly, as if to commune with it.
"Claire! Get back here!" I yelled to her, but she continued forward.

"Cyclops, let her do it, she knows what she's doing." Jean told me. So I let her.

As she approached, Drake calmed down a bit. Then she rested her hand on his forehead. Drake finally stopped his rampage and laid on the ground. Sharon told him something put I couldn't make out what she said. Then she hugged him by the neck. Carefully Drake hugged her back with his huge claws. Next, Drake started to shrink, and his form became more human like.

Finally all we saw was Drake and Claire just hugging each other in the middle of the football field. We finally returned to the institute where we saw Night Crawler on the top of the steps. He looked like he saw a ghost as he held a note in his hand. Yet something even more was bothering me. As Kurt stood there, he seemed as if he had no life in him, like someone else was controlling him. Then it hit him, he knew that Mesmero was behind this, and wanted to know what he wanted.