Only the Lonely

Chapter 11:Metamorphs, Fuzzy Dudes and Dragons, Oh My!

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel.

Shout Outs-

Ellen- Yup, Kitty is a funny drunk. Pete as a crappy camper? He'd go nuts without his cigarettes. Heh.

Inferno Elf- I'm a big Meggan fan too. The pointy-eared Meggan is trez sexy, non?

TheLegendaryManHimself- You're right, Hank wasn't the only one that was getting some. Heh. Sex all around.

Agent-G- Yup, I've been a legal solid drinker for four years. Yay me! Kurt and Meggan kinky? You've only just realised that? Heh.

Thanks to- Madamwolf, X00001.

Quote of the day- 'It's not fair! I've been a fan of The Who ever since the very beginning, when they were the Hillbilly Bugger Boys.'- Homer Simpson (The Simpsons: A Tale of Two Springfields.)

The Californian Redwoods-

The Californian Redwoods was a peaceful place. A forest of almost ageless colossal trees that towered to the heavens. The whole place was practically unspoilt, apart from the few camping sights dotted around.

The forest's quiet serenity was disturbed as a sleek aircraft, part high-tech aeroplane, part helicopter slowly landed in a clearing. This was the Velocity, one of the X-Men's many forms of transport.

Once the Velocity had touched down on the ground, the occupants began to disembark. The fuzzy blue ape-like mutant known as Hank McCoy was the first out. He was followed by the force field-projecting mutant Cecelia Reyes. Ms. Reyes was also Hank's Sex Donkey. Not that either of them wanted the students to find out about that.

After the adults had disembarked, the students began to file out after them. First out were Kurt Wagner and his shapeshifting girlfriend, Meggan. Next out were Kitty Pryde, Pete Wisdom, Bobby Drake, Jubilation Lee, Amara Aquilla and Tabitha Smith.

'Getting a sense of déjà vu, Blue?' Cecelia teased gently. 'No hunters after your sexy butt?'

'Cecelia, please.' Hank hissed. 'Not in front of the students.'

'Aww, don't mind us, Mr. McCoy.' Kitty giggled. 'We think you and Ms. Reyes are like, soooo cute together.'

Hank just shook his fuzzy blue head and sighed heavily.

'Katherine, can you help the others unpack please?'

'Ahh, right.' Kitty nodded. 'Do you and Ms. Reyes want some private time?'

'Ms. Pryde…' Hank warned her.

'Okay, okay.' Kitty sighed. I'm going. No need to get your Speedo in a like, twist…'

Kitty walked back into the Velocity to help the other students with the camping supplies.

Unseen by Kitty and the other X-Men, they we being watched by something in the trees high above their heads. Whatever it was that was watching them crept further across the branch to get a better look at the people below it. The people intruding on its forest.

Back down on the ground, Kitty looked up to the tree branches above her head. She had the strangest sense that something was watching her. Kitty just shook her head and went back into the Velocity for some more camping supplies.

Later-

With the camping supplies unpacked and the tents set up, the X-men set about getting comfortable. Hank had got a gas heater set up as a makeshift campfire and everybody was sat around it as nightfall was starting to approach.

Unfortunately for the other X-Men, Kitty had taken it upon herself to cook dinner.

'Dinner's ready everybody.' Kitty announced. 'Come and get it while its hot!'

Much to Kitty's displeasure, nobody came up to get anything.

'C'mon guys.' Kitty sighed. 'Don't you like, want any food?'

'I'm fine viz zhe Doritos, Katzchen.' Kurt replied as he held up a packet.

'Same here.' Meggan added as she shovelled a handful into her mouth.

'Ditto.' Tabby and Amara chimed.

'We're not really hungry.' Bobby and Jubilee added.

'Pete, what about you?' Kitty asked. 'C'mon, you must want some food.'

'Sorry, luv.' Pete replied apologetically. 'I'm lookin' after me figure.'

Kitty shot her boyfriend a glare before turning to the adults.

'Mr. McCoy, Ms. Reyes, d'you want anything?'

Hank and Cecelia both looked at each other with uncertain expressions.

'Umm… Uhh…'

'That is to say…'

'Fine!' Kitty growled. 'You can all go without. All this means that there's more left for me…'

Back in the treetops above their heads, the X-Men were still being watched. The creature sniffed at the scents wafting up from the campfire down below. It was awfully hungry. Prey had been sparse recently and the creature had to hunt further afield for sustenance. It would wait until the humans had fallen asleep, then it would scavenge anything that they had left.

Later still-

Night had fallen and everybody had retired into their tents. Fortunately, everybody was able to pair up with their respective others. Hank was trusting enough to let them do so, just as long as the shenanigans were kept to a minimum. It was lucky that the students weren't lumbered with Logan in that case. He would never have let them do that.

Kitty was woken up by the sound of something moving outside.

'Kurt, izzat you?' Kitty mumbled as she brushed her hair out of her eyes. 'This isn't funny. If you and Bobby are like, screwing around…'

Kitty muttered under her breath as she poked her head out of a tent. She let out a shriek as something darted past the campfire, knocking over the discarded dinner tins.

'Katzchen, vhat's up?' Kurt asked a she poked his head out of his tent.

'Most probably a raccoon.' Meggan replied. 'Now come to bed, m'sleepy…'

'There was definitely something out there.' Kitty said. 'What if it's like, Jason or somebody?'

'Jason's only a movie, Kit.' A disgruntled Tabby replied. 'You really shouldn't have watched that before we came.'

'I'm gonna investigate.' Kitty said as she crept out of her tent.

'Bloody hell, Pryde.' Pete muttered. 'It's just a soddin' raccoon. Now get back to sleep.'

'What about the adults?' Amara asked. 'Shouldn't we tell them?'

'I don't think they're in any state to be woken up.' Tabby replied with a cheeky grin. 'I say we all go investigate.'

'Aww man, do we have to?' Bobby whined. 'I was having the greatest dream about Jean, Kitty, Rogue and a vat of strawberry ice-cream…'

'You had better not finish that sentence, bub.' Jubilee threatened as she poked Bobby in the chest. 'Or so help me God…'

'So, investigating…' Bobby said, quickly changing the subject.

Further into the woods-

Kitty led the X-Men on their search for whatever disturbed them. Most of them had torches, apart from Kurt, who had excellent night vision and Amara, Tabby and Jubilee, who used their respective powers to light the way.

'Ch-ch-ch-ch-hah-ha-ha-ha…' Bobby taunted, mimicking the eerie music form Friday the 13th whenever Jason as about to cut a sexy teen to pieces.

'Bobby! Stop that!' Jubilee hissed as she swatted him upside the head. 'Don't make me pummel your ass!'

'Never figured you for the kinky type, Jubes.' Bobby snickered.

Jubilee just narrowed her eyes at Bobby and followed the other X-Men onwards.

'I can't sense any emotions from whatever this thing is.' Meggan said as she looked about her. So it isn't human.'

'Jason wasn't human.' Bobby added. 'He was a super-zombie-psycho. He didn't have any emotions. All he wanted to do was kill…'

'So not helping.' Kitty muttered as she continued onwards through the trees.

'What's the matter, luv?' Pete asked. 'Scared or summat?'

Kitty just shot the Brit a glare and continued onwards.

Amara let out a yelp as she trod on something crunchy.

'Gah! What was that?'

Kurt knelt down and picked up what seemed to be the remains of a skull of some sort.

'It looks like a rabbit skull.' He said.

'Bloody hell.' Pete groaned. 'It's just like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.'

The others just stared at him blankly.

'Y'know, the Beast of Caerbannog? The killer rabbit?'

The others just shrugged.

'Sod the bloody lot of ya.' Pete muttered. 'Peasants.'

Kitty stopped in front of a cave that had all sorts of animal bones strewn about.

'D'you think that thing's in here?' Jubilee asked.

'I guess it's worth a try.' Kitty shrugged.

'Ladies first, luv.' Pete said as he held out his arm to let Kitty through. 'That's unless yer scared…'

'I'm not scared.' Kitty replied. 'I was just brought up to believe that the women had the babies and the men investigated the caves with like, dangerous beasties living inside them.'

Pete just muttered under his breath as he entered the cave.

'I bet twenty bucks he ends up as supper.' Meggan challenged.

'I'll have some of that.' Tabby added. 'I'll bet twenty too.'

'Aww c'mon guys.' Kitty replied. 'Give Pete some credit, he does know how to handle himself.'

Kitty spun around as she heard a girlish shriek emanating forth from the cave.

'Pete!' Kitty yelled as she ran into the cave. 'Pete! Are you okay?'

Kitty ground to a halt as she saw Pete wrestling with some kind of purple reptilian creature.

'Mein Gott!' Kurt gasped. 'Vhat is zhat?'

'It looks like… some kind of dragon.' Meggan replied.

'A dragon?' Amara asked. 'They don't exist, do they?'

'I guess they do now.' Meggan shrugged. 'The poor little thing was most probably scavenging for scraps.'

'Gotcha, ya little sod!' Pete said as he pulled the dragon away from his face. 'I'll teach ya for pickin' on people higher up the food chain!'

The dragon just narrowed its eyes and glared at Pete with a hiss.

'Not so cocky now, are ya?' Pete snickered.

Pete swore out loud as the dragon bit him on the hand.

'You little basket!' Pete hissed.

The dragon wriggled out of Pete's grasp and flew towards Kitty.

'C'mere little guy.' Kitty cooed. 'Did the mean widdle Brit say nasty things to you?'

The dragon snuggled close to Kitty with a coo.

'Aww, he's so cute.' Meggan giggled as she patted the dragon on the head. 'What'cha gonna call him?'

'Lockheed.' Kitty replied. 'Y'know, like my little dragon plushie.'

'Will the Professor even let you keep him?' Amara asked.

'I guess we'll just have to wait and see.' Kitty replied as she hugged the dragon close.

'Don't anybody care that the little git bit me?' Pete asked as he held his injured hand. 'I bet it's gonna get all infected now. It's gonna go green and fall off. It's my favourite hand as well…'

'Aww, lookit the poor widdle Brit getting all hurty.' Kitty teased. 'Did you bite the mean widdle British man, Lockheed?'

'Yah! Yah!' Lockheed replied with a vigorous nod of his head.

'That was naughty.' Kitty said as he poked Lockheed on his snout. 'Don't ever do that again.'

'Awww…' Lockheed replied. If Lockheed were human, he would have pouted.

'Ha!' Meggan snickered. 'The dragon thinks he's people!'

'What do you say we get you fed, huh?' Kitty asked Lockheed as she held the dragon up in front of her face.

'Yah! Yah!' Lockheed replied with another vigorous nod.

TBC…

Next: All Good Things…

It's graduation time for the X-Men. Will Kurt and Meggan stay with the X-Men or travel back to London to join Excalibur? Tune in next time to find out…