Well, here is the twenty fifth chapter and in good time i think. I really hope people know i am writing this as i go along. Any who, shout outs.

iamhollywood: Thanks man, i wasn't very confident of it but I'm surprised you think it's the best. What does Wanda do? Depends on how i feel about her in the next few chapters. Hope to see a chapter up on your story soon.

Lecheecopae: I would feel bad for both becuase they might have been able to work things out and be a couple. But i felt evil, so i squashed the chance. Didn't like that couple much anyway. Well, if Kale isn't, thenthe story is going to end soon, eh? Just kidding; Klae's journey ain't over yet.

(Lycurgus raises a single eyebrow to Lecheecopae and Pejime, standing up to his full hieght which is roughtly four feet. He snort forst at the two, his eyes flashing.)

Lycurgus: Their journey is going to end very shortly!

I would if i were by the way.

Anyway, this is the first match up between Kale and Serpentina. Hope you all enjoy.

Coiled Snakes Wait To Strike

Kale was soaring across the ground and went crashing though the little woods section, going bodily through trees; the moment his back hit the first tree, his spikes pulled back into his body and his scales turned to green again. His body finally hit the ground and he skidded until his went head first into a pound.

Kale slowly swam up and stood in the water, his buoyancy taking a lot of his weight off of his aching body; as he wiped his face, his eyes finally went back to fire red and his scales were green again. Kale groaned, pain ripping through his body as he waded to the edge of the pond; the pain was so blurring he didn't see the ripples in the water.

Kale spat the water out of his mouth as he held his head; the untapped extremes of his powers weren't yet know fully to him but he knew he had little control of the creature he unleashed when Kale's powers pushed themselves. He knew he was dangerously fast in a sprint normally, but in his enhanced form he was like lightening.

Kale's strength was also increased ten fold in this form and his Dragon Flame was even more powerful and unstable, but he lost a lot of his humane control to give way to his dragon reasoning.

And to make matters worse, Kale couldn't control his extreme power and only remembered things after they happened in that form. It infuriated Kale that the control was beyond him and it was released by an emotion that erupted out of an extreme situation.

As the teenager climbed out, a figure walked up to the former assassin and watched him from a foot away as he got out. It wasn't until Kale had shaken his head that he even noticed the woman.

She had a pair of tight green leather bike pants with snake designs running up and down them. She wore a crop top that really only covered her chest and she also hade fingerless gloves, black boots and a snake pendant. Kale's heavy breathing stalled for a moment when he saw all of the snake tattoos, his red eyes lifting up to her green serpent slits.

The snake woman looked at Kale up and down, almost sizing him up. She smirked as she walked around his battered dragon form and once she was in front of him, snorts in amusement.

"Something funny, lady? 'Cause I must have missed something to see that bullshit as funny." Kale asked, one bleeding eyebrow rising; the woman had to be in her late twenties or her early thirties, but he was too battered to care.

Suddenly, her left fist blurred and struck Kale across the face, chopping across his throat with her right hand at the same time; the blows staggered the mutant teenager so that he couldn't block the kick she then lashed out at his head with. Dragon fell on his back and blinked through his now returned blurred vision, just in time to see her foot stamping down to his face.

Kale swung his leg around and knocked her standing legs out from under her, twisting his body to spin up on his feet. The tattooed woman rolled back onto her hands and did a handspring up, her fist flying in a punch. Kale's body was too drained and exhausted to dodge so he did the next best thing.

His fist flew out and collided with hers, the woman's face smashed in by the same fist a second later. She staggered back and leaned on a tree, glaring at Kale who stood there indifferent. With a yell, the woman ran at Kale and spun around to deliver a fierce spin kick.

She was too fast this time for Kale to dodge and the slightly raised heel collided with his temple, sending him tot eh ground. As Kale pushed up, the dragon warrior was toe picked across the face when the snake woman kicked his head like a football ball. Kale was flipped over and a shoe was against his throat, slamming down on his jugular.

If Kale wasn't so numb with pain, he would have screamed when her heel punctured his throat; instead, Kale rolled one of his legs up and grabbed her foot. Pulling her off balance, Kale made her staggered forward and his heel then caught her chin.

The blow had about half of his strength, but it was enough to make her flip over. Kale managed to get up on his knees while the tattooed lady held her jaw; Kale hadn't broken it but he was close. Standing up, Kale winced as another wave of pain racked his body and only just saw her kick.

Kale stepped back to avoid her foot as it swept across and when she bent her leg at her knee and kicked out again, Kale easily blocked it with his left forearm. But before she could pull away, Kale grabbed her calf and kicked under her leg into her stomach.

The snake lady gasped as his foot drove up and hit her diaphragm, winding her. Kale yanked her towards him and held her with one arm around her neck while the other twisted her right arm behind her back.

"Hi, My name's Kale; what yours?" Kale snarled a bit weakly in her ear.

"Why, you wanna fuck me, lizard shit?" She spat back, and screamed when Kale drove his elbow into her ribs but it broke her from his grip.

As she rolled away, Kale moved to kick her but something massive grabbed him from behind. Kale looked over his shoulder and felt his belief in reality fizzle out.

The snake had to be over forty feet in length and the width of a car, the large body covered in black glossy scales; it was the biggest fucking snake Kale had ever seen. The eyes gleamed, no, glowed a green color; Kale whipped his head to the woman and saw her eyes were glowing the same color. The creature lifted him up and threw him back in the water as she lifted her arm and whipped it to the side

She's controlling the fucking thing; lovely Kale thought grimly, clenching his jaw as he slapped against the water.

The serpent began to wind around Kale and the thousands of muscles began to flex, tightening the hold. Kale didn't struggle that much; the snake wasn't overly strong and the only advantage was that it thought Kale could only hold his breath for a minute.

Kale could hold his breath for fifteen minutes.

But Kale was wounded and normally he would let the creature tire itself out. But this woman, she was assassin and a member of the Hand, her skill of stealth their signature. Kale's tail was sticking out of the bottom of the tangle of the snake and dragon limbs and harpooned into the serpents body.

Kale pulled on of his arms free and grabbed the back of the head, his clawed hand pinching the nerves at the back of the neck. The two blows made the reptile convulse and as it struggled to get to the surface, Kale hauled it down to the bottom. Wrapping his arm's around the snake's neck and clamping his feet either side of the long body, Kale yanked on the serpent three times before a dull crack went out in the water.

The body twitched and lay limp in his arms, Kale's chest burning with the lack of oxygen. The draconic mutant let them float to the surface and swam to the bank of the pound, hauling his beaten body out of the water. Heaving his breaths in and out, Kale looked around for his attacker and felt his body tense instead of relax when he saw she wasn't there, spitting out a large blob of blood on the grass.

Kale slowly stood up and turned around in a tight circle, his flaming eyes dancing around the forest. He could still sense her, who ever she was. A faint snap made Kale turn his head and blast a bolt of Dragon Flame at the tree top, destroying the branches. A figure moved before he hit them and Kale was left with a hole in a tree.

"This is pissing me the fuckoff." Kale spat, blood spraying from his lips angrily.

A shadow raced around him, but Kale stood still tracing her with his heightened hearing and carefully followed her when she started to move away from his immediate area. Kale was able to hide his presence by lowering his Kiraguma and Dragon Flame and redirecting it, but the snake woman was actually doing the same thing to him.

As Kale slowly walked through the trees, he let the woman slips past behind him and drops to the ground. Kale stops and watches her as she walks out from around a tree, a cold, deadly smile on her lips.

"I've heard much about you, Lt. Dragon, very much indeed. Master of nearly seven martial arts, sword master of the Shiro-kage society, user of the white magic Kiraguma, firearms and sniper specialist, demolitions and explosives expert, leader of the Genesi Squad." She said tauntingly her voice dancing in his ear, sending a cold shiver down his spine. "A member of the Reapers bike gang, member of the Purgatory Bar, blood brother to Corporal Todd Nority Tolansky and one of the first to ever escape the Hassassin's Blade; that is quiet a colorful history, Dragon."

Kale watched her as she smiled at him, flashing her pearly white teeth and two fangs slowly lengthened. Kale took a step back and looked around the forest, his heightened senses scanning the best they could for any sign of life. He turned his red eyes back to the tattooed covered woman and glared into her slit pupils.

"What do you want?" Kale asked, his hands opening and closing as he watched her.

"It's not what I want, it's rather who has ordered me wants and they want you dead." She said craftily, walking around him. "You know who I'm talking about; actually, you know them really well, but one particularly and especially well."

Kale's breath caught and he snapped his head to her, his eyes blazing. For a moment the woman stumbled briefly at the intensity in his eyes, his bleeding and beaten body flexing as he shook his head in disbelief.

"The Hassassin's Blade, Genesi Squad." He said softly as he let his head stay steady, not following the woman around him; his voice suddenly went dark and foreboding "Phoenix."

Serpentina stopped and watched Kale clench his hands with several cracks, a loud threatening growl rumbling from his throat as his biceps rippled. Slowly his scales started clicking in anger, his draconic head rising to face her as his hackles rippled to revealing his fanged teeth.

"I thought they would have escaped with me when I offered them the way out." Kale said, his biceps flexing subtly as his tail thrashed on the ground. "But they had to side with the Triad. 'It's all we fucking know'; that's a load a bullshit."

"I actually work for the Hand, but you knew that." The tattooed woman said cockily, watching Kale nod. "My name is Serpentina."

"Never heard of you." Kale said, turning away from her. "And I have no desire to fight you or kill you, so I leave you be. Give Roshi my regards"

Kale got about five steps between them when Serpentina lashed out with a kick to his head, which he barely ducked out of the way from. Whirling around, Kale got caught across the throat again by her hand but he managed to slam the knife of his hand across the joint between her shoulder and her chest.

Former assassin and current assassin both staggered away, Kale holding his throat as he watched the impossible. Serpentine held her arms out to him, as though she were to beckon to him, and suddenly the snake tattoos on her arms became real, the now real serpents coiling around her forearms.

Suddenly, both things lashed out and clamped onto his right shoulder and his left wrist, thee fangs and needle shard teeth sinking into him. Kale didn't register the pain because he was still in awe of her power.

Kale had no idea that anyone would have a similar power to Tattoo because it seemed to be such a unique power and-

Kale was suddenly yucked from his place and slammed into a tree, managing a scream as the joints ofhis body and his ribs nearlycracked. Serpentina whirled around, so Kale did too and this time went through two wooden trunks. Kale coughed as he got to his feet and grabbed the snake heads in his dizzy state, giving a sharp jerk.

Pain blurred his vision but not so much that he didn't see the assassin stumble. Kale whipped the snakes up and down like a piece of roped and her body struggled with the whiplash until Kale started to swing her around. Her legs hit the odd tree, but Kale just swung her fast and faster and finally let going.

Serpentina was blurring image as her body shot through the forest and a crash let Kale know she went through the brick wall. Kale was barely able to hold his body up and finally collapsed, the two fights straining him too much.

Rahne ran through the forest ion her werewolf form as fast as she could, the blood pounding in her ears as her hands and feet tore across the grounds. The Professor had finally put the Juggernaut down and Rahne had been waiting for Kale to come out of the forest. After a while, she couldn't stand it any more and bolted after him.

It wasn't too hard to follow where he had gone; a considerable berth of trees had been plowed through by his near indestructible body. Rahne was still in shock of the fight she had been witness to.

Kale was strong, but he wasn't stronger than Juggernaut and his maximum strength barely matched his. But then he had fought him regardless and when he absolutely had to he transformed again, into that darker version of his dragon, to protect her and defend everyone.

Rahne had smelt the fear from everyone but from Kale as well and she had realized he was scared she had been hurt, that the Juggernaut would kill her, and he hadn't been strong enough to do anything before. So he had allowed his power to over and beyond his normal limitations.

At least that what Rahne had thought, what she prayed was the reason. It could have been that his primal rage had just taken hold and he focused it all on the Juggernaut. Saving her might have been something to help him gain the upper hand.

Rahne firmly refused to believe this but she was now more worried about Kale; his fighting style against the Juggernaut had been extremely aggressive and brutal, literally matching how the man fought. It was completely unlike his normal methodical way of fighting; in short it was as if he went ape shit.

Rahne leaped over the broken trunks and braches, amazed that he had been able to go this far. Then again, Kale had been sledge hammered and sent flying that would put Cannonball's speed to shame. It would be a miracle if he was alive and Rahne quickened her pace to full out run.

When she finally reached the end of the path of destroyed trees, Rahne saw she was that she was at the same pound that she had played with Kale at. But the water crimson red and an extremely large snake lay in the water.

Looking around, Rahne smelt the blood of two people, one that was Kale. As she followed her nose, Rahne didn't have to martial artist to tell a fight had taken place; burnt and smoldering tree limbs, indents in wood and the ground, skid marks cut deep into the ground and a very unhealthy amount of blood, that mostly Kale's.

The she saw him; Kale was sprawled on his back, his dragon form completely beaten to a bloody pulp. Rahne scrambled to his side and fought the tears in her eyes as she tried to find his pulse.

It was weak but it was there, his chest heaving up and down slowly. Rahne tenderly took his arm around her neck and grabbed the front of his vest, heaving her near dead boyfriend to his feet.

He wasn't as heavy as he looked Rahne thought, then again her enhanced strength allowed her to lift four hundred pounds and he was only two hundred and fifty. Kale let out a pained groan and lifted his head to see Rahne, the lycanthropic mutant gasping at the blood on his eyes.

Kale's cough shook his body and he turned away to spit a mouth full of blood. As he shook his head, the two metamorphs jumped as a banshee like scream went out with a several loud hisses. Rahne looked over her shoulder and her jaw dropped, trying to pull Kale along faster at the sight of a very pissed off woman.

She was wearing a pair of leather pants and had a crop top on, the dark green covered in dirt, bark and blood. But what got her wasn't what she was dressed in that freaked Rahne; it was what she was doing.

Seven snakes were wrapped around her body and most were suspended around the woman in the air. The snake looked like they were coming from her body and Rahne nearly screamed when she saw that they were actually coming from tattoos on her body.

Suddenly, Kale swung her around so he was between the two women and roared as a river of his blood red fire spewed a line in front of them. The lady with the snakes recoiled and her snakes moved tocover the front of her body. Kale turned to Rahne and wrapped his arms around her, leaping into the air and his wings exploded from his back again.

His wings furiously pumped the air as they rose up into the sky, Rahne's normal rush of excitement when she flew with Kale was replaced by a chilling and deathly fear that held her heart due to the woman that had attacked him. Kale's wings beat so irregularly, Rahne thought it was miracle that they reached the front steps.

Kale slowed down and lowered Rahne to the ground, dropping her with the most gentlest of bumps. Rahne then watched in horror as Kale's body went clean through a cement railing and into the wall, his head and shoulder sinking into the house. The entire team watched in silence as Kale's body lay there perfectly still, so still they thought he was dead as Rahne ran to him.

Until he violently slammed his hands on either side of him and shoved his head out of the wall, then the girls started screaming. The draconic mutant shook his head violently, several scale and flecks of flesh and blood falling off while his body transformed back to human.

If they thought he had looked beaten in his draconic state, then they all got rude shock when they saw his human form. Road rash covered most of his arms and his legs, which showed through his torn pants.

His brows, forehead, cheeks, lips, ears, chin, throat, even his eyes were bleeding in someway. His nails were also bloodied, his palms and knuckles raw from punching and blocking. Kale coughed and blood dribbled from his lips as he spoke.

"God, I need a fucking pint of beer."

And with that, Kale fell back and his human body collided with the concrete landing, cracking the stone upon impact. Kale, for the second time, let unconsciousness claim him and this time he let his memories swarm.

Okay, i really need to stop beating this guy down so much. He just might get used to it. Anyway, wow, we get another preview into Kale's dark past. So tell me what you would like to read about; a mission, a fallign out with him and a certain Phoenix, his first encounter with X23, etc... Just Review nad tell me what you would like to hear about. I might do more than one.

And here is another little quiz; since Toad has said he isn't lookign to get with Wanda or Amara, who has the author chosen?

And due note i have already picked.

So please review so i can write.

-Lin