Pauloj1983: I'm glad you liked it and I was just kidding, I like creating seemingly unbeatable fight for my characters. Makes it that much funnier. Katie's fate is going to be exposed when the next assassin comes for the brothers. Wanda….she's having a time out.

Lecheecopae: Yeah…..don't you remember the very first chapter?...it was in a bar with Kale drinking it dry!

(Lycurgus sighs as all the water on him. Shaking, he freezes it as he throws it off and fires off needles of ice at a screaming Pejime.)

Lycurgus: And what? What you gonna do demon cat.?

You'll plague my inbox anyway.

Ayu : I'm glad you like it so much and I hope to hear from you again. Todd's reaction is after this chapter. And it's him going at Serpentina….yes, you got the name right.

iamhollywood: I wasn't sure if you were going to review. Don't worry, Kale is going to get messed up a lot in the coming chapters, should be fun. Oooo, another curious about Katie, trust me what happened to her is a tale unto itself. Hope you enjoy this dude.

Now, this deals with the actual betrayalof Phoenix, not the torture she did to Kale. But it explaisn a fair bit. Hope you enjoy all

A Betrayal of Love

The roof of the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto was covered in perfectly, white snow. Some would describe it as the holding place of virgin snow because few any came onto the roof. This allowed the snow to pile up and only is moved by nature choice, creating a whirlwind of winter perfection.

It was the home of perfect stillness.

Echoes of gun fire, screams and pounding whispered out from the door that held the stairway entrance; a bellowing roar tearing through all the noises like a knife through butter. A scream of a girl is heard and the pounding of limbs suddenly sounds out.

Suddenly the inch thick steel door flying across the roof and across into another building, two figures clad in black indented in the metal. Out of the doorway, came Kale Nority, Dragon, carrying Phoenix.

Dragon spun around, dropping to his knees as he did so, and fired off a bolt of his dragon flame from his mouth. The dark red energy flew through the air and exploded in the stair well, a volley of screams sounding out.

Dragon lifted Phoenix up brushed her hair aside, his lizard like features showing worry and fear. He was dressed in long black pants and a green over shirt that rested atop a green sleeveless. Phoenix had a dark plum color sweater under a vest with a pair of red pants. Their transcended states had forced the clothes to change accordingly, Kale needing a hole fore his tail and Phoenix needing three for her wings and tail.

"Are you alright?" Dragon asked, scanning her over for wounds.

"I'm fine, Kale." She said with a weak smile.

"I need to get you back to the base. You need to get your shoulder looked at." Kale said, pulling her shirt down to look at the wound in question.

The two operatives had been sent to get a package from a reliable client but a group of ninja's from the Hand had tried to get it from them, forcing the two teenagers to run to nearest exit, which, ironically enough was the stair well. As they ran up, Phoenix was nailed in the shoulder by a bullet.

"Can you seal it?" She hissed as he pressed on nerves to find out if the bullet was still in her.

Dragon gave a nod and raised his left hand as his black claws turned a bright white with heat. He leveled it at her shoulder and waited until his shoved it in, the intense heat ripping through her at such a level she let a piercing scream out.

Phoenix could withstand a high amount of heat but this was like nothing she had ever felt before. Dragon quickly pulled his claws out and held his girlfriend while the wound burned shut, the scent of burning flesh creeping in his nose.

"I'm fine Kale." She said a little shakily. "Thank you."

Dragon suddenly lifted his head, a soft sound of shifting coming from the snow around them. Slowly seven mounds rose up like zombies and shook the snow from them, the ninja clad in white tactical clothing. One man stepped forward while the others gathered behind him, he being the only one without his sword drawn. He actually had two sheathed on his back.

"Give us the medallion or die." The man said his English good for a man from Japan.

" Sorry, but I can't do that. " Kale said, his Japanese, fluent as his English. " You can leave….or I will defend myself. "

" You are making this hard for yourself, boy " The man said as he walked slightly to the left. " For the last time. " The man stopped walking and stared at Kale through his eye gap. " Give me the medallion. Now! "

The other six started to spread out in a semi circle but Dragon moved and moved fast. Lunging at the closest man, Dragon grabbed his hands and the sword handle in one grip and hammered him in the face.

The man let out a string of curses as his nose broke and Dragon turned to the side and, twisting his arm around counterclockwise, threw him over his shoulder. The ninja's hands were dislodged from sword as his shoulder, wrist and elbow were dislocated and the last thing the man saw was a silver blade flying at his eyes, bisecting his head easily.

Dragon turned his head to the side and barely duck in time to avoid getting beheaded, switching the sword grip to a reverse grip in time to block the returning attack.

Dragon brought his sword around, his blade and the ninja's blade locked together. When the two swords were off to the side, Dragon spun around with snow flying up around him like winter spirits of some kind of fairy tales and rear kicked the man with all the strength he possessed.

His solid foot connected with soft stomach and the man went flying back into another man, the two of them flying off the roof. The four remianing ninjas stood in perfect silence as the screams of their comrades sounded for about ten seconds, and then the bodies collided with the ground with a thump.

One of the men charged at Kale, slicing horizontally across which forced Dragon to block vertically and the man flipped over him. When the ninja landed, he spun the sword around and prepared to stab the teenagers open back.

A streak of fire blazed across the snow to him and engulfed him. Dragon looked to Phoenix, her arm raised with a grimace of pain and hate on her face. The man didn't scream; the fire had seared his lungs shut when he opened hi mouth to breathe. Dragon spun around and his heel cracked him in the head, breaking his neck as he spun in the air.

The man in charge finally drew both swords and looked at the other two, nodding at them curtly. The other two raised their swords and slowly walked up to the draconic teenager, their paths in the snow only visible when they crossed over the blood strains.

Dragon's face never changed, his foot shooting through the snow to kick up an idle katana and caught it. Twirling the swords on either side of him, Dragon meet the two assassins's in a flurry. Arching his left arm down and his right arm up, lashed out in diagonal slashes at their chests and the two barely parried in time.

Dragon jumped in the air and split kicked both men, one sliding to the edge and the other rolling along the snow. Dragon left the man by the edge and charged the other, not seeing the leader's long strides to meet him.

Dragon back flipped when the leader sliced at him with both swords, the blades singing in the air as he landed in a perfect crouch. Crossing his left arm across him, Kale blocked the next attack and brought his arm back to stop another. Kale kicked off the ground, his left knee spinning on the slippery surface as he whipped his right leg in circle to clip the man's ankles.

The man leapt up and landed on Kale's leg, forcing the knee to bend. Kale ignored the dull throbbing pain and pulled his leg out and swung the two swords in an X shape. The blades flashed a silver gleam in crescent moonlight and then were stained red as they left the body.

The severed pieces of body fell and Kale did a hand spring up, spinning the blades as he rose. Suddenly, the weapons flew from his hands and one speared through a man's mouth while the other imbedded itself in the man's right eye. The assassins remained standing for a moment and then fell forward, the virgin snow stained with the blood of evil.

Kale turned to go back to Phoenix when a shuriken flew out of nowhere and nicked the ridge of his snout, causing him to drop in a sprawled crouch. The man that kale had kicked to the edge of the roof had tried to attack him and arched his arm back to throw another ninja star…but at Phoenix; Kale coiled all the muscles in his body as the weapon took flight and lunged.

Dragon's body shot out across the snow, catching the star easily in his left hand. Rolling on the ground, Kale threw the shuriken while he was upside down and came up in skidding slide next to Phoenix.

The metal flew with the aid of God and tore through the man's throat, slicing clean through the spinal cord. The man's eyes went wide with shock and then fell back off the roof.

Kale turned to Phoenix and lifted her up, wrapping his arms around her. The moment she felt Kale touch her she had flung her arms around him and now just let him cradle her body. Lifting her head Phoenix kissed Kale with all the passion she had and Kale matched her.

"Well, we certainly have interesting dates, huh Kale?" Phoenix asked against his chest.

"Oh, we could write the book on interesting dates." Kale said with a chuckle. "I'm gonna go see if I can get a pick up for us."

Phoenix nodded and Kale helped her to the edge of the building, taking his cell phone. His clawed thumb quickly tapped the numbers for the base's secret coded line, looking around in a bit of confusion.

"It's kind of odd though." Kale said.

"What do you mean?" Phoenix asked, hold onto his shoulder.

"The Hand; if they wanted the artifact that badly, they would have sent more men." Kale said looking around. "And they knew we would be on the roof, like they were forewarned."

"Maybe there's a snitch." Phoenix suggested running her hands along his shoulders. "You need to relax these muscles, honey. Let me see I can work them out."

Taking his shoulders in her smaller hands, Phoenix began to squeeze and massage his knotted and tighten muscles. Kale let out a long groan, know her talents first hand with this therapy.

"Thanks." Kale said as he raised the phone, breathing deeply as Phoenix pushed her thumbs up his back. "Who do you think is leaking information for then?"

"Me"

Eight points suddenly stabbed into the flesh that covered his shoulder blade, her talon fingers digging a whole joint in his muscles and Kale screamed as the razor tipped claws made his back arc up. Slowly, Phoenix pulled her claws down his back and Kale scream raised an octave she reached his waist.

Suddenly, the feathered girl ripped the claws out of his back and Kale fell to the ground on his knees. Through the pain that tore across his back, Kale heard Phoenix lean down and whisper in his ear.

"And they never wanted the medallion." She said, his voice toying dangerously in his ear as his back burned with pain. "We wanted you; I want you for, myself."

Phoenix slowly lifted her claws up in his back while licking Kale's ear and the draconic squad leader shook his head fiercely away from her. The talons were suddenly yanked from his back and Kale whipped around, sweeping his arm in an attempt to hit her although he knew what would happen.

Sure enough his forearms swung across empty space and Phoenix, who had jumped over his arm, moved her right with a speed that would shame a black mamba, her hand clamping on his scaled throat with a steel grip. Kale gasped as his girlfriend, no ex-girlfriend, tightened her hand around his neck and lifted him on his feet.

"Oh, and Kale? This is all foreplay, honey." Phoenix said, with a slightly disturbing look on her face. "You know I love you, for all aspects."

"Phoenix…." Kale choked, his hands trying to pull her hand off. "You…are…seriously…fuck up, bitch."

"Feisty, I like that in my men. I see you soon, Kale." Phoenix said, running her hand down his chest.

She then hammered his stomach with her left hand, striking his diaphragm with all her super strength and Dragon felt his lungs empty of all air. The feather traitor then released her boyfriend and spun around, her foot smashing into his chest that sent him flying from the roof.

And then he fell. Kale twisted in the air and saw the floors streak past him as he plummeted to the ground. Kale turned over and tried to make his wing open out but found his back was too painfully, the eight wounds making his whole back throb with unbearable pain.

A long metal pole suddenly caught kale across the neck and gave him a painful clothesline. Kale was the swung around and hit the hood of a car as it tried to stop, his back slamming on the hood of a cab. The yellow car skidded to a stop and shot the scaled mutant off the hood, his body sprawling on the street.

Kale let out a cough that sent blood running in rivers down his cheeks, a pain filled moan filling his voice. The last thing he saw was a red set of wings floating down to him and two thoughts that he would never forget.

I fell for her lies and now she's won; I swear I will repay her in full to what she has done to me, even if it's the last fucking thing I do and the last one was more of an after thought.

Wow, love really does hurt

Well, that was interesting.

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-Lin