Bad Dreams of the Past

Kale stood at attention, his image worthy of being a poster boy for the army…well, except for being a draconic humanoid. He had on what appeared to be a tactical Black Ops uniform, the longs sleeves rolled half way up his biceps and his long tail curled around his feet. The vest and various weapon holders were strapped firmly to his legs, chest and arms, making him look like he just come back from a recon mission.

Hands at the side, shoulders thrown back, feet together, and his head perfectly straight forward; Kale was perfectly still, not one muscle on his body twitching. In front of him, three people sat at the opposite end of a short desk; two men and one woman. Kale couldn't make out their faces without making his eyes glow red so he decided to let them play it by ear.

The two men sat on either side of the woman, the three varied in size and width. The man to the right of the woman was huge; his rippling muscles could probably be seen in the dark and his width looked like something of truck. Whoever the hell he was, Kale would hate having to go toe to toe with this man.

The woman was small and seemed very delicate; but Kale could feel intense psychic energy flowing off of her. He could she was a force to reckoned with, defiantly stronger than anything he had ever seen before.

The last man he looked at roughly about Kale's height if he stood up. He appeared to lounging in a chair, his overconfidence and cockiness reeking so powerfully off of him kale could taste it.

Glancing slight to his left, Kale looked at his brother, a slightly shorter teenager standing beside him. Dark olive hair spike up defiantly held up by a bandana, the younger mutant was almost a mirror image of Kale.

His body was perfectly poised like Kale and his eyes appeared to be solely focused on the room but were in actual fact taking everything in. His green hued skin seemed to blend perfectly with his own Black Ops Uniform. His emerald green eye flicked to Kale and back out in front of him.

Kale forced himself not to smirk, Todd never was very subtle but he was very strong and determined. Returning his gaze to the three shadowy figures in front of him, Kale felt the scales along his neck starting to rustle, making audible clicks echo through out the room.

Todd smirked ever so slightly at his brother's irritation; he didn't even have to look at Kale to tell he was annoyed.

"Lt. Dragon, I understand you are the current Staff Sergeant of the Genesi Squad. And Corporal Toad is your First Sergeant under your command." The woman said her tone half way between annoyed and amused.

"Mam, Yes Mam!" Kale and Todd both replied curtly; both saw no sense in wasting time here.

"Then maybe one of you could explain why the kitchen had a smoke bomb set off and at least fifty pounds of army ration pack was reported missing." The woman said, her voice dropping ten degrees.

Kale's eyes widen a fraction of a centimeter; he and Todd had been gone on assignment for two days minimum and his own squad could keep out of trouble for that short a period of time?

"I had left them with instructions to…practice their…ambushing tactics, Mam." Kale said, hoping it sounded a little bit believable. "I did not anticipate, however, that they would do something as childish as this. I will to it that the entire squad, including myself and Corporal Toad, are properly disciplined."

The woman looked at the two men and nodded her head. "Very well, see to then."

Kale and Todd both bowed and turning on their heels, left the room. Outside the doors they quickly strode down the corridor to the elevator, four other people falling in step behind them.

"Okay-"Kale said his voice a low growl and his scales clicking angrily. "Which one of you dipsticks thought of raiding the mess hall?"

Looking over his shoulder he glared at the four that had been waiting for him and Todd; two of them were boy and the other two were girls.

The first boy his eyes went to was thinner than Kale and a little shorter than him too; but that was all just to throw people off their guard. His electric blue against his chocolate skin was sometime a rare and odd sight for some people, but Kale knew it was purely because of his powers. Lucas Catin was his name and his code name was Tempest because of the fact that he could control lightening and electricity, extremely powerful and deadly.

The other boy stand next to him was little bit broader across the chest and was slightly taller than Kale. His eyes were a piercing golden color with matched his long mullet like hair. His real name was never told and he is codename was Gabriel, so Kale never felt bad about calling him by his nickname. With the gift of energy wing and the ability to fire off bright white feathers, the other nicknames the squad call him was Angel Gabe.

"Hey, don't look at me." Tempest said, his accent hinting toward Native American. "I didn't give the orders."

"That's too right, mate" Gabriel said, his Australian accent almost as thick as Kale's Irish accent. "It's the girls fault.

Letting out a low growl, Kale looked between the two boys and saw the last remain members of his squad. They were trying not to make eye contact as they walked, along with them.

The one behind Tempest had long brown hair with violent stripes of blonde racing through her hair and had violet eyes. She was the exact height as Todd and was a little lighter that him. Although her name was actually Katie Davage, she demanded to call by her codename Decibel that Katie. Decibel could control sound wavelengths, increasing sound and decreasing it as she pleased.

Decibel walked closely with Todd, her hand straying to his, which he took subtlely; Kale knew of their relationship and encouraged it fully. Todd had earned Katie's love when he saved her single handedly from a bunch of SEAL jerks that were getting a little too frisky with her; Todd loved her becasue she was willing to look past his apperances and his some what digusting mutations and love him for what was inside.

The other girl was covered in red feather and had an eagle shaped, with elegant wing folded behind her back. His hair was long, with orange and golden streaks running through them like rivers. She was roughly Kale's height but was about twenty pounds skinner than him. Her name Alexia Steffers, but because of her appearance it was more comfortable to call her Phoenix, the codename assigned by Kale himself. She could create fire and had super human strength, a nice combination.

"Hey Speaker box"Todd called, his nickname for Decibel caused her to look at him and Kale. "what he said was true?"

"Umm…possibly?" Her French accent voice hesitant.

"Phoenix?" Kale asked, arching his eyebrow at the red feather girls, who was gnawing her beak nervously.

"Well, we all were really bored…"

"And it seem like such a good idea to do something…"Tempest added quickly.

"Yeah, you should have seen us, man. In and out like lightening." Gabriel said excitedly, making quick movements with his hands.

"And in the process get caught by whom I only presume to be our superiors and get me and everybody else court-martialed?" Kale barked, spinning around so he could face them.

The Squad stopped immediately, falling silent when they saw Kale's look of fury on his face. He was probably the most even tempered person on the base, so when he got pissed off very few people would look him eye; which was the exact reason the squad was looking at their feet and shifting their weight.

"I expect everybody up at four in the morning and ready to go for a little swim and a training session from hell; no exceptions. Understood?" Kale barked, his red eyes blazing.

"Yes Sir!" They said shakily.

"Dismissed." And with that Kale turned and left them to think about what he would make them do.

Kale had watched the entire thing as though he was in a theatre; unable to stop himself from doing what he had done. Slowly the room began to swim as Kale left his darka and tainted memories; to return to the living world. his personal prison.

I decide to split up this chapter. Just to make the story a little better spaced out. Nothing much changed

-Lin