Hello all readers, sorry about the delay in updating; GCSE exams are nearly here so you mihgt not see much updates coming but they will come, I promnise.

iamhollywood: I'm glad you liked Todd getting more time on story, he will be one of the more frequent characters that will get solo time in the near future and since he is the least known character, that ,makes his past that much more believable, because there isn't anything to go on. I will be doing some more Katie/Decibel tiem in the next chapter just to give an idea of what happening with her and what she thinks of Todd and Kale at the present time. As for not pulling punches, it isn't my style to hold back. Still looking foreward to the next chapter of the Todd/Amara story.

Lecheecpae: Well, anticipation helps build suspense in stories. Glad you like it so much and i hope to see you review soon. Keep it up with 'Rain in th Heart'; it is excellent!

Mareo and Anime: It's okay to be confused; most people are all the time. Umm...why not be happy, sad and laugh at the same time that way people wonder what your up to?

Here is the thirteenth chapter; the conclusion to Kale's first day.

Survival Stories and Physical Education

Todd and Kale made their way past all the lunch tables, seemingly completely oblivious to all the gaping stares and the looks of complete amazement. Kale had gone with Todd to his locker so the he could drop his school bag and get his gm bag; since Kale also had gym, they went to his lock to drop his bag and his jacket off since he didn't have any gym clothes.

While they had been doing that, the news of the two being brothers spread through the school like wildfire, reaching the ears of teachers and students alike. And when they were walking down the corridor and through the lunch line, people were staring at Kale, then at Todd and started whispering furiously to their friends; Kale heard bits and pieces of what they said as he walked by and they sound something similar to this.

"You can't be serious…"

"I heard it from on of those Xavier kids…"

"But they don't look anything alike…"

"Maybe he's adopted…"

"Who would want to be Toensky's brother…"

"Why doesn't Kale look so ugly…"

"But Kale looks so strong…"

It took most of Kale's will power to not shout out what the deal was with the two of them and to shut everyone up. But when he was about to, Todd nudged him and shook his head; he had known what Kale was going to do and had prevented it before things got worse. When they were outside, they sat on a deserted table as far from everybody as they could.

"What is everyone's fucking problem here with you?" Kale asked as he savagely stabbed his mashed potatoes. "They think you're a plague or something."

"It's because of the way I look and the way I am. I mean Kale, I have to use my skills of stealth to pickpocket because the lady that is supposedly taking care of use doesn't have the sufficient funds, yo." Todd spat, waving his fork to Kale. "Because of that, everyone here at school and in the town sees me as a fucking cowardly thief."

"That explains a lot then." Kale said, offhandedly; seeing his brother frown, Kale explained. "I heard all those people and what they said about you and I know you hear it too. It also explains why Kitty thinks you're the plague of the earth."

"Yeah, that's most of the reason, yo; plus my mutation went into kinda of an overdrive and now I generate this stench."

"That's what I figure, but I don't smell it, I smell your regular scent but nothing disgusting. And why the hell haven't you cut your hair!" Kale yelled, making Todd snort and crack up with laughter. "I mean, come on; the spiked emerald hair works with you. Maybe not with Lucas and Joshua, but Katie was right in you having spiked hair."

"Yeah, but you look funny as hell when you tran form and you always have to tie your hair up." Todd barely said since he was laughing so hard.

"Aw bloody buggreing hell, you still aren't knocking me about that?" Kale said laughing.

Kale sighed with a smile on his face and rubber his forehead with his right hand while his left hand scraped at the table. With a groan, Kale scooped up all the food into his mouth and downed it easily, his jaw hyper extending slightly; Todd just chuckled as he ate his food slowly before he asked something that had been bugging him all day,

"Hey bro, how the hell did you survive a mountain being dropped on your head?" Todd asked, leaning on his elbow as he turned to face Kale. "Remember, you were going to tell me your story and then I was."

"Nice to see you've been practicing your memory. Well, you know I was fighting Dreadnaught and Assail while you had to take on Mindscape, right?"

"How do you expect me to forget?" Todd asked, his eyes flashing as he recalled the psychic he had to fight. "You definitely got the worst end of the stick there bro."

"Lets see, I had fight the worlds strongest mutant and the worlds strongest energy emitter while you faced the greatest psychic of time. Yeah, I guess you right." Kale said shrugging. "Anyways, Assail I took care of easily because he's just an arrogant prick; a bit like Quicksilver. But Dreadnaught just kept pounding me through the forest and smashing me through trees like an axe."

"Jeez and he's, what, 7' 5" and your 5' 9"; his fist is bigger than your head and he's got even more superhuman strength than you." Todd said, his eyes bugging out slightly. "I'm surprised you didn't have every bone in your body broken."

"I damn near did. Well, after about twenty six minutes of his brutal beatings, he tosses me in the air and Assail blasts me with as much energy as possible. I get blasted into a mountain and then the thing has a landside." Kale said gesturing with his hands, his left hand throwing his right into the table.

But inside his mind, Kale relived his final moments as the Genesi Squad leader and his discharge by the hands of two of the most powerful mutants in the world; it was his hardest fight that had experienced yet, forcing him to use every once of skill, strength and power to just survive.

Kale was running through a mountain forest, his scaled body covered in sweat and his uniform burnt and torn. His vest had been cut open and hideous burn marks were all over his stomach, the smell of burnt flesh reeking up into his nose.

His pants were torn in a few places and blood was seeping into his boots, but Kale kept pushing himself further into the frigid woods. His tail whipped in the air behind him as he continued to bolt, the trees blurring past him.

Kale suddenly saw that the trees in front of him were getting bright, with a yellow shaded glow on them. Looking over his shoulder, Kale saw a bolt of pure, raw energy streaking towards him and despite how fast he was running was getting closer. Diving onto the ground and smashing into the base of a tree, Kale barely dodged the blast as it flew past him and exploded in the trees; the dust and leaves were blasted over Kale's body and pieces of timber littered the area.

As Kale stood up, he saw that the air had become so thick with dust and dirt that he could barely see five feet beyond his range of sight, despite having enhanced vision. Kale winced as he felt his head throb, the impact against the tree hurting more than he would have anticipated. Kale gently felt the back of his head and was relieved the scales hadn't been broken.

A loud and heavy thud sounded out in the air and shook through ground, alerting Kale instantly. The heavy thudding continued to get closer to Kale, their slow and monotonous pace never changing. Very slowly, a large figure came into Kale's view and as it came closer the body's feature was more apparent; he didn't stop until he was maybe five feet from Kale.

The man towered over Kale by at least two or three feet, his massive chest expanding and expelling massive amounts of air. There wasn't a gram of fat on this man's body and he had to be maybe half a foot wide. His arms were bulging with muscles that would make any body builder cower in fear and awe. Veins were visibly pumping blood across his massive chest and down his arms. He only wore black military pants that were custom made for him and a pair of wrist bands.

Kale slowly looked up and matched the sarcastic smile he was getting from the sunglass covered eyes face. The only hair on him was his mustache and long goatee, which stretched down over his chin. He reminded Kale of an odd mix of Vin Diesel and Bob Sapp.

"Well Lt. Dragon, It appears your Irish luck has run out." The giant said his Russian voice horrible in English.

"Well, Dreadnaught, it was good while it lasted." Kale said, as he glanced around the huge man. "Where's Assail?"

"Look up, Dragon." Dreadnaught said, turning his face skyward. "He always likes to make an entrance."

Dragon flicked his gaze up and saw the second member of the Power Triad floating down, his body glowing a luminescent gold. The light pulsed out like a beacon light from his milky chocolate colored skin and his yellow eyes. His hair was perfectly straight up and cut perfect flat, his thick mustache also neatly trimmed. He wore long leather pants and long leather coat, with red lining. He had a gold shirt on with red tie-dye designs on it and a gold necklace around his neck.

He gracefully glided down next to Dreadnaught, his mouth seemingly set in a smirk as he folded his arms across his chest. Dragon snorted, red sparks shooting out of his snout and put his hands on his hips, his lizard like face showing amused disgust; he had respected all of the Power Triad but the little prick in font of him.

"Well, well; it appears that you couldn't run far enough, lizard boy." Assail said, leaning against Dreadnaught with a bolt of energy tumbling across his fingers.

"If you think that I am scared of a little night light like you when I have to worry about Dreadnaught, then I think you are defiantly fucked up." Dragon said, his hand slowly sliding to his katana's handle.

Assail's smirk was replaced by a face of outrage and with a blur of motion, attacked; Assail threw his energy at Dragon in the form of a large energy sphere. Crouching down and spinning on his knees, Dragon pulled out his katana sliced through the energy three times, sending six separate pieces into trees.

The separate shard exploded on contact around Dragon who slowly rose up from his crouch, holding his sword in a reverse grip. Assail was about to attack again when Dreadnaught cleared his throat, making the other mutant look up at him and nod, backing down.

"The Power Triad is willing to overlook this little incident and take you on board again." Dreadnaught said, his massive bicep flexing. "Refuse the option and we will kill you."

Dragon slowly lowered his arms and stared into the eyes of his former superiors; he was fifteen years old, a fucking teenager and he had seen and done more brutal combat, blackmail, torture, recon and assassinations than few people would imagine. He had never wanted this, he had wanted to be normal but they had stripped that away from him.

"Take me back? Make me do the same the shit that made me leave?" Dragon sneered, his eyes blazing crimson red bright enough to match Assail's eyes. "Like hell I'll work for you fuckers again."

"You never were a very bright lizard, shit head." Assail said, his hands charging up. "Let's see if you can take on the Triad!"

Kale suddenly snapped his mouth open and a bolt of his Dragon Flame streaked toward Assail, striking him full in the chest. He barley got a shield up in time, but was still blasted back ten feet into a tree. Dragon then ran at Dreadnaught and leaping into the air, kicked him with all his might in the head.

Normally, a kick from Dragon at full strength would send a man through three cement walls and into a car, crushing the poor souls entire spinal cord. Dreadnaught barely staggered two feet and merely rubbed his jaw, spitting out a little bit of blood.

Dragon swung his sword up behind him and brought it over his head, aimed at Dreadnaught's chest. The massive mutant brought his right arm around and clocked Dragon in the side of his body, sending him twenty feet through trees. Dragon was barely able to stand up, his mind and body roaring with pain. Fighting back all the pain he felt, Dragon stood up and seethed his sword, realizing how useless it was going to be.

Taking a deep breath, Dragon bolted back towards Dreadnaught and ducking under another punch slammed his knee into Dreadnaught's gut. The sudden blow made him double over in pain and Dragon took full advantage, punching him in the temple with as much strength possible.

It knocked the massive giant over and when Dragon went to take another shot, a bright yellow sphere slammed into his chest and slammed into a tree. Dragon looked up to see Assail getting up, his lip busted up and his coat burned in a few places.

"I'm going to make you pay!" The energy wielder screamed.

From his clenched fist, a long strand of energy extended out and Assail lashed out with it like a whip. Dragon rolled along the ground, the energy whip wrapping around the tree and crushing it; he saw another strand shoot out to him and he block it with his left forearm.

The energy, however, wrapped around his arms and yanked him off the ground, smacking him into three different trees repeatedly like a demented pinball. Dragon felt his ribs snap as he collided against a tree and fought down a scream, and instead chose to spring off the tree to the ground. When Assail tried to yank him up again, Dragon grabbed the energy and held himself down; he suddenly flicked the energy and it wrapped around Assail's neck, pinning the arrogant mutant to his own power.

"You obviously don't know who you're fucking with, shithead!" Dragon roared as he pulled the energy rope with all his might.

This lifted Assail in the air and rocketing right towards Dragon, unable to activate his own powers because he was so shocked by the move. Jumping up, Dragon whirled around slammed his leg across Assail's chest, smacking him down to the ground with a sickening thud.

Before Dragon could land, Dreadnaught's fist flew out of nowhere and sent him sprawling across the ground, smashing into a tree. Scrambling up, Dragon was barely able to flip out of Dreadnaught's fist and landed on the massive arm. Spinning around, Dragon slammed his heel into the giants head and dropped to the ground to hammer his fist into Dreadnaught's massive six packs.

The blow barely made a ripple on the man's stomach and before Dragon could throw another punch, Dreadnaught grabbed him with one hand around his neck and chest. Lifting Dragon like a rag doll five feet off the ground, Dreadnaught began to slam the draconic teenager against the ground.

After about the eighth time of being smack a foot into the ground, Kale felt no strength left in his body and he was so badly disorientated that he couldn't tell up from down. Forcing his mind to see straight, Kale felt Dreadnaught hold him up straight for a minute so he could hear the final words.

"Lt. Kale Nority, I here by decree that you are discharged from the Hassassin's Blade." And with that flung him in the air, with all of his strength.

Kale was able to barely hold himself awake after the beatings, so the sudden fling up in the air didn't help. Kale stretched out his arms and legs, spreading his body to stabilize him. Growling, Kale felt his giant wings slid from his back, thirteen feet of leather adding to his body size. As he began to slow down, Kale looked out of the corner of his eye and saw an orb of yellow energy twice his size flying towards him.

"Ah, shit."

Kale barely mumbled before the energy engulfed him, then all he saw was bright white until the darkness engulfed him completely.

"So what did Mindscape do to you?"

"Oh boy; well, first she uses the ground to smack me up the head, then she starts using me for target practice with her lightening and her fire, next she uses a combination of water and wind on me, which I used to get some hits in." Todd said with a triumphant smile, then added softly. "Well, at least until she smacked me with this psy bolt and let me tell you yo, them damn things hurt. And that sent me over the cliff."

"Shiny hell, she used her flipping' well psybolts?" Kale asked dropping his fork. "Those things her worst weapons and you need to be extremely mentally strong to resist the side effects."

Todd sighed and pulled his shirts collars down, so that Kale could see his chest. Kale knew about Todd's scars just as well as he knew about Kale's scars and they had been there to witness most of them. Kale already knew about the three long slash mash mark crisscrossing over his chest and the bullet wound just under his collar bone; what he hadn't seen was the molten buns around his scars.

"I know what side effects she has." Todd said lifting his shirt back up

Kale nodded as he pictured it in his mind; Todd was extremely lucky Mindscape didn't break his mental resistance and crush his mind, making him unable to fight. The three that Kale and Todd had fought to escape had their powers increased by several times due to countless experiments.

Dreadnaught, Mindscape and Assail were the three commanding generals in charge of the Hassassin's Blade and had ordered the capture of Kale and the rest of the Genesi Squad, using Mindscape's abilities to find the most potential fighters for their organization. Kale closed his eyes and shut out the darkness that threat to play before his eyes.

"So, what happened after you were blasted off the cliff?" Kale asked opening his eyes. "I mean we were in the middle of a forest."

"I was really lucky; ya see, I fell in to these rapids and was carried downstream, while this black eagle flew over head. And even when I washed up on the shore, the damn thing landed on my shoulder and stayed with for three day, yo." Todd said, his face looking puzzled. "I don't know what happened but the bird soon disappeared and this family found me."

"A black eagle?" Kale asked, his brows rising.

"Yes yo! And when I woke up, I had this weird tattoo on my shoulder; this pair of black tribal wings and it's not touching any of my scars." Todd said, pointing to his right shoulder.

"Now that's weird because when the mountain side was done, this pack a wolves found me and when I thought they were gonna eat me, this huge red wolf grabs my scruff and drags me into the woods." Kale said, rubbing his chest were his wolf tattoo was. "A group from a Sioux tribe found me and when I woke up, I had this wolf paw tattoo on my chest "

Todd's brow burrowed deeply and his amber-like eyes narrowed to make them even darker, his mind racing with the information. He and Kale had been protected by these creatures for some reason and they had left a mark on them, but why? Was this the work of another mutant or was this something else.

"Hey Kale do you think that-"Todd began but Kale beat him to the punch.

"Tattoo put them on us? I doubt it, his power is to control his own creatures, not to give others tattoos. I mean sure he can cast them on walls, but he definitely can't put them on people."

Todd looked confused for a moment and Kale finally had the chance to ask the question that had been bugging him since he had talked with Professor Xavier; he never got a reason of why Todd had joined Magneto.

"Why did you join the Brotherhood, Todd?" Kale asked.

Todd immediately downcast his eyes and took a deep breath, his hand shaking. This time his eyes were burning with an amber like glow, similar to what Kale did when he was experiencing a painful memory.

Todd's reasons for staying weren't for his greedy judgment but rather to keep everyone that was a mutant in Bayville safe, not to mention to keep a evil out of his life. Todd had literally made a deal with one of the most wretched demons he knew in his life and had no chance of turning it around.

"I don't really want to talk about it right man; I just am because I really didn't have many options at the time." Seeing his brother's nod, Todd asked. "Cast his tattoos on walls?"

"Yeah, how the hell else you expect us to know that you and Decibel got serious for the first time?" Kale said, his mouth sliding into a sideways grin. "Not to mention you left the window open…"

"What!" Todd yelled jumping up.

Kale laughed as he ducked under his brothers enraged fist, his forearms blocking the powerful kick as well. Rolling away from Todd, Kale held out his arms in alignment with his shoulders and moved his hands so that they turned upwards. Todd scoffed, smiling as well and spun around, his right heel fling out towards Kale's head.

Kale ducked and spun under his leg, throwing a vicious right hook at Todd in close range. Flipping backwards onto his hands, Todd kicked Kale in the chest with both his feet; since his super human leg muscles were four times stronger than any human being, the blow lifted Kale into the air.

Caught off guard, Kale stopped his fall with his arms and pushed himself up, turning his body around at the same time so that he ended up landing on a lunch table and so he was facing Todd. Todd tried to punch him, but Kale stopped it with the side of his foot and kicked him square in the chest.

Falling onto his back, Todd groaned as he watch Kale hop off of the table and walk towards him; tucking his body together, Todd spread his legs and lifted them of the ground.

As quickly as he could he whirled them around so it looked like he was break dancing and smashed his heel across Kale jaw, making him stagger back. Scrambling to his feet, Todd got ready to hook Kale when a pair of gloved hands wrapped around his throat.

His instincts kicked in before he could make a ration decision, his elbow smashing into his opponents stomach and the back of his hand flying into their face; feeling the arms go slack, Todd grabbed them and twisted them over his shoulder, rolling the person onto their back with his fist ready to smash on their face.

Todd saw that it wasjust Rogue and she looked absolutely terrified at what Todd had done, her eyes wide and her whole body shaking. Todd turned around and watched as Freddy Dukes was holding Kale Nority up.

Kale had stopped fighting when he saw Todd take down Rogue, but was oblivious to the rest of the crowd. Which was why the heavily overweight mutant was able to sneak up on him and grab him, lifting him three feet up in the air; Kale waited until Todd and Rogue were done before he made a move.

With a snarl, Kale flipped himself out of the massive hand and kicked him in the face with both feet, not bothering to hold back on his strength. The fat mutant fell back while Kale landed on his feet and held his arms up and ready to take on anyone else.

The overweight teen had soon got on his feet and started to run at Kale, who was rearing back his fist to sock the brute when Todd intervened; he jumped over Kale and landed in between them, catching Kale's bicep with his hand and stopping Freddy with his foot on his stomach.

Kale and Todd were staring each other down, both of their arms shaking with their enhanced super strength which was at the intensity it was because of the experimentation done to them. Slowly, Kale let his arm relax and eventually drop it, his chest heaving up and down.

"Hey Toad, let me at him. I can take him!" The huge teen said smacking his fist against his palm.

"No, you couldn't Freddy and I won't let my brother beat the living hell out of you." Todd said, turning to Freddy as he spoke. "We weren't even really fighting; we were just playing around, yo!"

"He's your brother, Toad?" Freddy asked incredulously. "But you are mutant"

"What the hell do ya think he is, yo?" Todd asked exasperatedly.

Kale watched the conversation with an amused smirk and turned around to see Rogue slowly walking up to them. She was still kind of shocked by how and how hard Todd had hit her.

"Ye two are brothers, sugar?" When she saw him smile and nod, Rogue looked like her world had been spun upside down.

"What, is it that unbelievable?" Kale asked sadly. "Ye know, I didn't tell anyone because I knew there would be a problem in acceptance, but you people so wrong about him."

"Kale, listen I'm sorry, but he isn't a great person to be involved with; he's on the other team." Rogue said, resting her hand on his shoulder.

"And for that reason, you all hate and despise him. Nobody is what they appear to be." Kale said coldly. "Especially me and my bro, Rogue."

Kale turned and walked away, the three mutants staring after him. Rogue looked at Toad and saw how he looked after Kale with feeling of family and hope. As the two members of the Brotherhood walked away, Rogue decided to follow Kale; she wanted to know more about this powerful fighter since Rahne was such interest and no one knew anything about him.

Kale walked around the school, not knowing what to do now that he had just put Rogue's life in danger. He and Todd had just been sparring as a way to find out if anything had changed about them and everybody decided that he was in trouble, running to save his life.

Kale smirked as he remembered a little girl that he had saved that had done something similar while he leaned against the wall; he, Tempest and Gabriel had been on recon when they saw a house in a small town get totaled in a landslide. Since the three of them had strong morals about what they should do for others, neither of them thought twice of going in to help the small population.

The parents had been killed instantly, protecting their eight year old daughter, Elizabeth Doyle, and the three member of the Squad took her back to the base. She fell right in with the whole Squad, calling them brothers and sisters. She only stayed for seven months but she one day saw Kale and Gabriel training and misinterpreted Gabriel's body language, thinking he was going to break Kale's back.

This caused her own mutant ability to come out; when that happened, Kale and the others realized how much they were affecting Elizabeth's life and decided that they should set her up with a real family. It had been hard on them but understood it was for the best, none of the Squad wanting her to be like them. Elizabeth had sent them emails, but after a while Kale hadn't the time to reply all the time.

Kale was so wrapped up in his that he didn't see Kelly walk towards him but felt him as soon as he was within five feet, his enhanced senses kicking in. Turning around, Kale met his principle with a warm smile.

"Hey Mr. Kelly, what's wrong?" Kale asked his hands sliding into his pockets.

"Nothing, you just have Gym now and since you don't have your equipment, you are allowed to go back to the institute for that period." Kelly said, adjusting his glasses.

"Cool. I guess I'll head home. Thanks Kelly." Kale said as he walked away.

Kale slowly walked out of the front doors and looked down the roads, his mind reflectively remembering where the mansion was; reaching into his jacket he put on his shades and zipped up his jacket. Tightening the straps around his waist and shoulders, Kale started to jog, then to run and soon he was doing a full tilt run, he legs stretching out underneath him like a horses legs.

The books in his bag had at least twenty pounds adding to his two hundred and fifty pound body, but he had it strapped to tight to his body that it stayed flat against his back and didn't bounce while he ran.

Kale didn't pay attention as to how long it took to get himself back to the mansion, but he subconscious knew that when he reached the gates he had been running for thirty seven minutes and fifty six seconds. Grabbing the metal bars, Kale pulled his body up and flung himself up and over the gate and landed in a perfected crouch.

Walking down the drive towards the mansion, Kale reached behind him and pulled on his headphones, turning the CD player on with the remote on the wire. The heavy hard rock that Kale was so familiar with soon roared through out his mind with Disturbs "Down with the Sickness" and Kale continued to walk towards the mansion, his body transforming into his draconic form. Having spent nearly eight hours in a single place without transforming, Kale was glad that he could come here at the end of the day and feel free to become his true form and be himself a little bit more.

He stretched his now massive jaw as he neared the main door, but he walk away from it and started to crawl up the wall lazily. When he reached his room, he wrapped his tail around the balcony and pulled his shades off while he opened the balcony door.

"Home sweet home" Kale said as he dropped his bag on his bed and unzipped his jacket.

Wandering around the room, Kale pulled his shirt off and replaced it with a plain green one, changing his pants to a pair of black chino pants. Picking up his sword, Kale walk out of his room and started to head towards the danger room.

As he walked down the hall way to the elevator, he caught Rahne's scent coming from a room off to the side. After he put his sword away in his room, Kale went following the scent and made his way towards the stairs, trudging silently down them; he went towards the common room and he saw Rahne turn her head towards him as he entered the room, most likely catching his scent.

"Hey Kale, how are ye?" She asked, setting the book she had been reading down. "Learn anything at school?"

Kale hesitated as he walked around the sofa to sit next to her, debating whether to tell her about his day; sure, he promised to talk to Rahne about his day at school but he wasn't sure whether she would like the developments in his life.

"It was definitely a day I will remember for a long time." Kale said as eh sat next to her. "People didn't take the news of me being brothers with someone in school very well."

"What do ye mean, Drakey?" She asked Kale, who was a little surprised by the nick name.

"Drakey?" Kale repeated and watched her blush. "What's with that, Rahne?"

"I dunno, I just thought up a nickname for ye." She said, her face looking intently at the cover of her book.

"Okay" Kale said, making her look up to his smirking face. "I used to be called Drákon, I guess you could call me that, but only you can use it."

"Drákon, I like it, laddie." Rahne agreed, leaning closer to him and whispered heavily. "And what might ye want ta call me?"

Kale gulped at just how close she was, her scent intoxicating his brain and her heartbeat driving his hearing up the wall. It was bad enough that she made his every fiber in his body burn and quiver. When she touched him that evening, Kale felt as though fire and electricity were coursing through his veins.

Kale had never felt like this in his life; with Phoenix, it had been a game that she had played to try and find information out for the Hand. And when the time came she dropped him like a sack of potatoes, personally torturing him for hours and not just physically.

Kale racked his mind for a suitable nick name, thinking of something that would compliment her mutation and her loyal attitude that he had seen displayed during his time being at the mansion; he suddenly had the name when he thought of the other residents that used to live with him in Ireland.

"I got it." Kale said abruptly, sitting up and took Rahne's book so she was focused solely on him. "How about, Wolfhound?

"Wolfhound?" she repeated, raising her eyebrows. "And how did you come to this?"

"The first part, the word wolf is metaphoric; standing for your ferocity and predatory attitude, which makes you some what fearless." Kale said, smiling his half grin. "Alright so far?"

"Mmm, I like it so far. Where does the 'hound' part fit in?" Rahne asked, leaning onto his shoulder with arms and curling her legs under her.

"The hound part if for your devotion towards yer friends, making your loyalty and trustworthiness apparent to the whole world; basically it will just remind me of how great you are at trust with secrets." Kale said, his red eyes shifting across her face. "You like it?"

Rahne could feel her cheeks burn, a little surprised that he saw all of that in her. She bit her lip and saw how Kale was looking worriedly at her, making her giggle slightly; he was literally putty in her hands.

"I love it, Drákon." She said, pecking him on the cheek slightly. "Thank ye."

"Ah, it was nothing Wolfhound. Now, weren't we supposed to go for a run when I got back?" Kale asked, narrow his eye mischievously.

"Yes and we are going right now!" Rahne squealed, leaping off the couch and pulling Kale up, who was chuckling slightly.

"Okay Furtop, race ye to the forest edge!" Kale yelled, as he bolt ed to the front door with her at his side.

Kale smiled as he ran across the grounds with Rahne, both of them in their transcended forms; on a werewolf and the other a draconic human. Kale ha found his brother and was now going to enjoy the afternoon with a girl he was unknowingly falling for; this had to be one of the best days of his life.

So what do you think, bad, good, indifferent; please review and tell me what you think.

Lin