The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
Koga eyed the crowd around him and waved a small wave to them, he parted the dumb founded crowd of people that wanted to stare at the young mutant that was dropped off by an immense mythical creature. They were not however willing to block his path to do so. A glance around saw to it that his grandfather was gone, His toes curled in the frosty wet grass of central park, a deep breath of cold air told him he had better start moving if he didn’t want to find himself asleep on a park bench until he got warm, which wasn’t likely until spring rolled around.
Koga charged the nearest bus stop, reading the scrolling words that said the bus was northbound; he climbed up the small enclosure that covered the bench and leapt from the roof to the top of a bus. Just like old times. He walked on the bus roof to a vent that released warm air from within the bus to keep it ventilated, it wasn’t the most pleasant to breath in, but it was nice to feel warmth that he had missed from building his own fire in his place of rest back in the mountain. There was something hypnotizing about building a fire and warming your hands by it.
The bus finally traveled as far as it would be taking him, it turned east and Koga flung himself at a light post his right hand caught the bar and stuck there, he swung his feet over and swiftly climbed down to the street and began to run, towards his home and hopefully much more.
Ryuichi kept a steady pace all the way to the mansions Gate, where he keyed in the old code. When it came up as changed he wasn’t surprised the security here was pretty tight, when you weren’t trying to circumvent it. He was pretty good at circumventing it however. Koga climbed the wall and took up his quick pace again. He entered the Mansion and went and spoke with one of the staff members, Checking in was short and oddly easy, 'Hey it’sss me Koga, I’m back. Ran into sssome trouble visssited a relative' covered what they needed to know. His things had been moved out of the old room and stored for safe keeping. He appreciated it, for now he could pic an empty room and move his things as needed.
Koga found a room as close to the middle as possible, It would put him closer to Katrina, if she was indeed still here. He dropped his bags in the entryway and then retrieved all of his old stuff, the most important being his electric blanket, ever lizard boy needed one. Koga went and took a quick hot shower, it was refreshing but the important part was that he was clean and smelled wonderful.
Housing secured he began to follow the Clues, It was easy to find out that Katrina still lived here, but where she might be was a little bit trickier until he tracked down someone who saw her walk toward the music room, classes were over and the room would be open to practice in. Koga took a deep breath and changed his skin to his natural tone. His hair went a solid black and his spikes blended in. His hand went to the door knob and he entered.
They were almost halfway through the eleventh grade, which was one full year before Katrina's application was due to the Air Force Academy, where she was certain she wanted to go to college. A year may have seemed like a long time, but she knew it was going to go fast. Especially with all the activities she had going on and everything she had to get done between now and then.
She had to get a senator to recommend her, keep up her grades, get ready for the physical exams, develop her leadership abilities, all why keeping up with her after school job of trying to covertly avert world ending disasters.
She was somewhat less worried about the physical tests she'd have to take ever since she stopped feeling like she was going to either pass out or throw up after a single lap around the track in conditioning classes. The added stamina actually helped quite a bit at ultimate frisbee practices.
In fact, she was just coming from one of those, sort of, if you could call tossing the frisbee around the yard with Calley an official practice. She thought she could call it that, and since she was the captain of the team by default of having organized it, that made it official.
It was kind of chilly for out door frisbee-ing, but it was the day before Christmas, so that made perfect sense.
There was a letter waiting for her on the kitchen table when she got inside. It looked very official.
It even had a government seal on the outside.
Could it be?
It was!
“Thanks for practicing with me!” She gave Calley a quick hug then scurried off to find someplace to read her letter in private.
The music room was the closest, so she ducked inside and with fumbling fingers tore open the top flap. She was so eager to see what it said that she didn't even notice if anyone else was in the room. It didn't take long to read the few words on the paper.
Dear Miss Dumonde,
I am very sorry to inform you that as of this point in time, I am unable to fulfill your request for a nomination to the Air Force Academy.
Sincerely,
Senator Jean Dumonde of Virginia
The signature was an angry scribble.
The paper fell from her fingers as she slid down the wall to a seated position on the floor. How could he be so cruel? How could he reject such a simple request from his own daughter?
She covered her face with her hands. Tears leaked out around the edges of her fingers.
Golden silk strands flowed around the face of an angel the strands reached for pale shoulders and danced around a slim neck. A little shiny dot shone from her earlobe. His eyes ceased to focus on the exquisite details of the woman before him and watched the emotion play so quickly over her features. Nervous expectation, hope and then pain. So efficiently the person on the other end of the letter had wounded her.
The spell broke when Katrina began sliding down the wall tears running freely down her hands and arms that covered her face. Koga paced over quickly kneeling next to her, the paper had been government, what it said didn’t concern him at the moment, so much as the effect it had on the girl before him. His feet moved softly and silently. He had trained with bells at the mountain temple he had become sufficient at moving quietly to the point that it had become a natural thing.
His hand went to her knee. “Can I do anything to help?” He wanted to hug her to comfort her. He wanted happiness, he had expected to be bombarded with questions upon his return, but the world moved on without him and it was being cruel to someone who deserved kindness and tranquility.From a kneeling position he slumped down next to her ready to comfort her if she would let him. He was nervous that her response to his disappearance might be harsh. He never got a chance to explain but he would. He would tell her every terrible detail if she wanted it. But first they must do something about these tears.
He was as quiet as a cat, and his hand on her knee startled her. She sniffled and quickly moved to wipe her hands on her skirt.
Then she realized who it was that was with her.
“Oh, Koga.”
It had been so long since she had seen him, even longer for her than it had been for him, with her year away that took no time at all. They had both grown up since they had last seen each other. That didn't mean she wasn't glad to see him; quite the opposite, actually.
She sniffled again, tried to smile for him through the tears, and threw her arms around him. Then she held him for a few minutes, saying nothing, just letting all the tears finish working their way out.
A warmth that electric blankets, heat packs and fire couldn’t match washed over him. He bathed in the body warmth of the tear stained girl in his arms. He straitened and hugged her confidently. He rested his head on hers as the tears ran down her face on to his shoulder, Kept the silence but for one simple confirmation.
“Katrina.”
If he had missed anything about this world he left behind it was her, it was her that kept him from throwing himself out a window when the Master relaxed his control over them. It was her that danced across his mind distracting him from properly meditating. Until he realized his meditation could be infinitely more beneficial by letting her be part of it. He considered her from every aspect he could think of and never found her lacking.
She was everything he could want in a friend or more. He would tell her so in good time, but he wouldn’t make it what his first word to her was. He wasn’t sure if she was even single and everything aside, He was just now learning about the fact that they stood close to where he hoped they would, he knew her to be kind and forgiving. But this embrace was something he had need for some time.
He held her listening to her breathing slowly calm and steady and felt the tears began to slow to a trickle and finally stop. But he wasn’t about to release the embrace until she was ready. Her head on his shoulder and her breathing normal, tears finished?
She let him go, and wiped away the last of her tears.
“Sorry to get all soggy on you. It's just...” she waved her hand at the letter on the floor, “my father being stupid. I really am happy to see you.” This time she managed most of a real smile and reached back down to hold Koga's hand. His fingers were a little scaly, but still fairly smooth, and cold too, like he ought to be wearing mittens.
“Why did you have to stay away so long?”
So much had happened and so much was happening, they were going to have a lot of catching up to do.
“Are you... are you going to stay for awhile now, or are you just visiting for the holidays?”
Reluctantly Koga released her. He looked at her and studied the changes. His eyes focused on her features. She had matured, a lot.
“No, don’t apologize I wouldn’t have thossse tearsss on any other ssshoulder.” His eyes flickered to the letter on the ground; it didn’t take long to read the single sentence on it. She needed a nomination for the air force academy. She would have it.
His fingers held onto hers happily for the affection. “I’m back. I’m not going away again. I have a lot to tell you about. You’ve grown up while I wasss away.” A finger on his other hand brushed a lock of hair out her face and brushed a little bit of the remaining moisture off her cheek. A smile played on his lips as he thought of saying more but restrained himself and sought out the resolve he had a moment ago. She had matured more than he would have thought possible.
“The Ssseptember before lassst, I ssstarted tracking a ssstring of kidnappingsss, figuring out where they were taken from, what they looked like. Eventually, I happened acrossss a pair of children that fit the bill, in the area that they had been sssnatched from and I wasss right to follow them. What I didn’t realize wasss that the perssson kidnapping them wasss far beyond dangerousss. He wasss a mutant. A telepath, hisss ability apparently only worked on juvenilesss.” Koga took a deep breath and continued.” He had sssixteen youthsss in his houssse attending to hisss every whim. Well apparently, I wasss young enough to fall under his ssspell. I wanted to sssave thossse kidsss and he had inssstead taken me under hisss control. My mind wasss there.” He shook his head and clenched his jaw.
A moment later. “My mind wasss there, but It wasss like I wasss just along for the ride. The othersss mossstly cleaned and cooked. Sssome of the older kidsss would pickpocket for him, but I wasss a whole new game for him. With my abilitiesss he could accessss ssso much more that he couldn’t before. I did a lot of bad thingsss. I didn’t want to. But I did them.” He sighed and looked to her eyes.
“Around late January of thisss year, out of nowhere his powersss jussst ssstopped working, mine too for a little bit. It wasss the weirdessst thing, like I just ceasssed being a mutant, him too. The Kidsss went crazy; they attacked him with a ferocity no child ssshould have to know. They didn’t kill him but they hossspitalized him. The police came, took him away and everyone elssse had somebody coming for them. I didn’t. I am glad my parentsss weren’t there. But I wasssn’t…right. I needed sssomewhere to jussst get away from the city. I called my grandfather and ssstayed with him for almost a year in Japan, I’ll tell you more about him and all that another time. But he brought me back today. I hit the ground running. I threw my stuff in a room, took a ssshower and found you.
Katrina listened, horrified about Koga's experience getting kidnapped.
“That sounds awful!”
Someone should have known where he was going, and someone should have gone to help him when he didn't get back when he was supposed to. Someone from the mansion should have known. Or his parents.
“I would have rescued you if I had known.” She would have found a way to do it, somehow. That just wasn't right, kidnapping kids against their will. It was creepy too, all the more reason to be careful not to fully tell anyone about her mutation. Though in this case it looked like Koga hadn't had much of a choice but to tell.
“Those things you did... they weren't your fault. You would never have done them if you hadn't been forced. You shouldn't blame yourself.” Koga was a good person, no matter what he had done during that time, it didn't change who he was.
“I'm so glad you're safe now,” she gave him another hug out of relief, “next time, just tell me where you're going so if you don't come back I can do something about it, okay?”
She'd had a year less traumatizing than his, but no less eventful, “There's so much to tell you”
There were three things in particular that he needed to know about, or maybe four.
“I got my pilot's license and I'm a trainee now and a pilot for the X-men. Though so far I've only been on one mission.”
“And I got an after school job working at this place called Future Sight, which is an oracle shop. There's a kid there that sees the future.”
“And I spent some time abroad, sort of. Slate and I went to Egypt and there was a mistake of some kind and we accidentally got sent back to 1913 for a year, except when we were brought back again it was like no time at all had passed.”
“And the apocalypse might be coming, but we're trying to stop it. All the kids at the oracle shop are helping.”
There were a lot of details that got left out in that explanation, but there was just so much that happened that she didn't want to make his brain explode with too much information. She had already given him quite a lot to think about.
“It wasss, I…the worssst part wasss watching the othersss do asss they were told.” Ryuichi looked at the floor for a moment to gather his thoughts, it had been a while since it had happened and he had much time to put it away where the hurt and helplessness belonged.
“I wouldn’t have risssked you to sssave me, I know you would have but, I couldn’t have taken watching that happen to you.” He smiled to take any possible sting out of the words and more to show that he was over it, as much as he could be anyhow.
“and I know, but I can’t help but want to take responsssibility for it. I ssshould have figured out a way to ssstop it sssooner. But what isss done isss done.” It was true, he wouldn’t dwell on it any more, That man had better hope he never comes across his path again.
Koga relished the next hug and was happy to agree to whatever she asked for. “I will, if you will. We ssshould make a blog or sssomething in cassse one of usss isssn’t home, that way we can ssstill leave addresssesss or sssomething. And we will know if it isssn’t oursss it yoursss. That way if we are in trouble we at least have sssomething to go on, or if it wasss lassst minute and we didn’t realize we were doing sssomething dangerousss we could throw a post up there and voila .”
Koga folded his legs under himself as had become habit and sat knee to knee with Katrina, attempting to not surrender the closeness, but stay casual about it.
“Awesssome!” was all he had time to say, before she continued. A smile burst onto his face, at one point Katrina didn’t seem as interested in the x-men as he was.
“Interesssting.” The streak of one word agreements continued. He was going to have some questions here in a minute, that dream he had of the future, was vivid in his mind and he wanted to know if it was true, could he compare notes from some psychic kid and a precog dream?
Koga didn’t even bother with saying anything about the time travel. He just let his mouth hang there, She’d spent a year in 1913. She’d spent it with slate after traveling the world…Crap. He forgot his questions about some future kid.
Koga rubbed his forehead. Ryuichi was extremely hard to throw off balance mentally, He looked at her dumbfounded. “My grandfather isss a dragon.Um. yeah. I think you might have broke my brain. letsss sssee, first thingsss firssst.” He hadn’t wanted to say anything too weird just yet, but so long as she was holding back nothing, he might as well get it out of the way. Was it terrible that he glazed over Armageddon at hearing that she had spent a year alone with another man in the past...the must have grown close right?
He let it all sink in for a moment.“Ok, Ssso, Congratulationsss on the X-men and the pilot’s licenssse. I’m proud of you. Isss the job with the oracle legit? This Kid that ssseesss the future can be counted on for accuracy?”
He paused and waited for all of that to sink in first he would ask more about the apocalypse and a possibly heartbreaking foray into the year world war one began.
He seemed really surprised about her year in the past. It was the first thing she said that he didn't have a comment about. Then, when he did comment on her adventures, he seemed to avoid it. Was it because he didn't believe that she had time traveled? Or maybe because she, too, had gone off and had somewhat dangerous adventures from which she may not have been able to return?
Katrina bit her lip, she hadn't meant to break his brain, but answered his questions on the other subjects.
“Thank you and thank you, I'll have to take you flying someday.”
As for the legitimacy of her job, she didn't really get paid, which made her unsure, but then Koga clarified that he meant whether the oracle himself was real or not.
“Oh, yeah. Well, he shows whatever future is the most likely to happen, but things can change. The future is constantly changing, depending on what actions you take, with some things that seem destined to be.” Things like world wars that happened even when they tried to prevent them. Hopefully the apocalypse wasn't one of those unpreventable things.
“Wait, your grandfather is a dragon? A real live dragon? Do you think you might grow into one as well, someday? How does a dragon...” have kids, “Nevermind.” She blushed at that.
“it’sss a date.” The words slipped out of his mouth without regard for either of them, treacherous forked tongue! “Erhhmmm.” Thank you trusty throat clear the air!
“That makes sssenssse about the oracle, and makesss me even more curiousss about how it comparesss to thisss wild dream I had a while back.” Koga nodded.
Koga chuckled at the blush on her cheeks. He refused to be embarrassed by it. “He isss the mossst powerful mutant I have ever met. He isss a ssshape ssshifter inclined towardsss dragonsss, He hasss kept the ssshape ssso long he callsss it hisss natural one. He can alssso control water and is thousandsss of yearsss old. He um, takesss the form of a man. And becomesss a part of sssociety for awhile and then hasss children. Hisss children’sss children are mutantsss, while the parentsss aren’t. it ssskipsss a generation. Apparently if he is to believed a lot of the historical figuresss in Japan are my cousinsss. I’ve got a feeling he isss telling the truth. As far as becoming a dragon. I don’t know. He could always ssshapessshift.” Koga Shrugged.
“But yeah, I wanted to get the sssimple sstuff sssaid firssst. You and Ssslate went to Egypt? And then time travelled, and ssstayed there for a year in 1913 egypt? I Could tell you’ve grown up a lot more than I would have thought.” He paused. “ Hey, that meansss your ssseventeen now too.” he hadn’t seen her for a little over a year, but she hadn’t seen him for more than two. He was going to leave bringing her relationship with or lack thereof with Slate up to her.
“And I am pretty sssure after all of that you sssaid, the kidsss at the oracle ssshop are preparing to fight Armageddon?”
A date? Katrina cleared her throat, too, because it seemed like the thing to do. At one point she would have been glad to have a real date with Koga. Now, though... she definitely still cared about him, but so much had happened between then and now, that any of those types of feelings were buried long ago, or, at least she thought they had.
“Your grandfather sounds amazing,” she responded to the safest topic first, “I'd like to meet him someday.” Shape shifting, that totally made sense. If he could always shift between those two separate forms, and Koga hadn't ever fully shifted, maybe he would always be a half dragon like he was now. That wouldn't be so bad. It would be difficult, she imagined, to not have a human shape at all.
“Well, we were visiting Egypt, but when we traveled back where we ended up was in Serbia in 1913,” she hadn't really talked about it with anyone before now. She'd mentioned it to Alister and Jude, but had left out most all the details. She hadn't even told Calley.
“We honestly thought we weren't ever going to get back. We made friends there, got jobs... we even had this tiny little apartment with a wood fire stove and barely anything else. A table and chair and that was about it. We were so poor. I wrote letters to everyone back here. I was going to put them in a safe deposit box and send the key to someone so you would all know what happened, but then suddenly we were back again and life resumed as normal.” Except it didn't really feel normal any more. It was starting to again, but there were always things that seemed different now, some little, some big.
“You had one of those dreams too? What happened in yours?”
“And yeah, thought we hope it won't come to a fight. We're trying to stop it before it happens. Even if I am an X-men now, it doesn't mean I'm any better in a fight than I used to be.”
“You know, I would sssay that’s a good Idea, But I am kind of wary of introducing him to any woman I know, ever.” He smiled only half joking. “He isss definitely one of the most interesssting mindsss I have ever ssspoken with. But yeah.”
“Ssserbia! Ssso you were there during the sssecond Balkan War?” Koga’s eyes were wide. He hugged her again. “ I am glad you are sssafe!” Koga let go after he remembered that the story ends with her sitting in this room talking about it.
“I am very glad you made it back, and I am not sssitting here reading an old letter wondering how I am going to time travel. Itsss not the sssame, not really but, I can kind of relate. My grandfather lives in a mountain temple, I up until this morning only had a mat, a few pretty rocks I had collected and flint and sssteel to make fire. It’sss weird huh, being in new York? I guessss I had the luxury of knowing once I got off the mountain the technological world wasss there. “
“Well, I actually wasss on the sssame misssion asss you and Sssara, I was working for an anonymousss party though, I wasss to ensure that the othersss, didn’t get to come into play, You and Sssara handled your opposssition asss well, and I took care of the left oversss there were human’sss that wanted the leader of China dead asss well.. If my mutation progresssesss asss it did in that Dream I will more than likely take on more featuresss of more reptilesss.”
“ Ssso, sssomeone causssesss it then? And if the Oracle sssaw it, then it is only the most likely possssibility.”
He had settled down into a calm stillness now that were simply speaking and chatting about their unbelievably complicated lives.
“Your grandpa is a ladies' man?” She couldn't help but smile at that. It wasn't funny, per say, it was the idea of Koga trying to introduce girls to his family and then having to fight off a lecherous old dragon man. No, she shouldn't smile at that, but she did anyway.
She had forgotten how good Koga's memory was for things like geography and history and she couldn;t help but wonder for a moment if all the facts he had ever memorized got changed automatically when history got changed, or if, for him, it had always been like that.
“It was pretty much over by the time we got there. Our year started in August and we were gone again by the time... the next war started.” The next one being World War I, which would have unfolded very differently if they hadn't been there. The war itself was not their fault. There would still have been a war, but it would have had a trigger other than the shots fired by their friend Gavrilo. He would have simply gone home that day instead of waiting around at some deli and getting a second chance. He wouldn't have gotten arrested and later died in prison. It would have been different, and that was their fault.
If he noticed her hesitation, or the regret in her voice, she wouldn't have been surprised. Koga could be very perceptive about things like that.
“That's... that's the same dream! You knew about Sara and the Chinese president?” Jude had that dream, and so had she, and Slate, and apparently a dozen or more people who made the sign outside what would have been Pax Community Center, and now Koga too. In fact, after the trip to the past, that dream was much more fresh in her mind.
“In the dream, if you were there, why didn't you let us know you were there?” It had been several long lonely months without any friendly faces. It would have been nice to know she had a friend looking out for her. “Did you become a shifter in the dream, or just more dragon-like?”
As for the oracle's vision, “Yeah, it's the most likely future. Nothing we have done has changed it, though. At least not yet.”
It was so nice to sit like this and just talk. Calley was a great friend, but difficult to talk to when things turned serious. Carrick and Cafas, likewise were not as serious minded. Slate was Slate and understood a lot, but he was more than a friend and sometimes that made talking about some things more complicated.
“ I figure, he mussst have a good line or two after the few thousssand yearsss of figuring out that the mutation consssissstently ssskipsss a generation.” Koga shrugged. “ I dunno. I just worry that he might not be telling me everything about how he does things…His name disturbs me. Mizuchi. It is the name of a legendary river god, a water dragon that was very cruel. ”
Koga strayed back to the subject of time travel.“It sounds fascinating and unbearably hard all at once.” A hand squeezing hers in support and understanding found its way into hers once more. His mind quested towards curiosity and the thirst for what happened between her and Slate. But he dare not ask.
“That's... that's the same dream! You knew about Sara and the Chinese president?” Koga nodded silently.
“In the dream, if you were there, why didn't you let us know you were there?” “You were hard to track down at all, When I did, I learned that other’s were hunting you and Sara and a few others, I Put everything I had into protecting you guys, but it was easier to do from the shadows. They didn’t know what hit them and I didn’t leave anyone to tell the tale. The would have been cut throat assassins. It is hard to track an invisible woman. by the time I could have said anything, everything was going down. You had your plates full and any contact I made would have just tipped others off to your location. SO I concentrated at the work at hand and discreetly handled all of the foolish human assassins that were after the president and anyone that stood in between him and them. after I saw that you and Sara were ok at the end of that battle, I woke up.”
“Did you become a shifter in the dream, or just more dragon-like?”
“I wissh, I became more reptilian. The only mammalian feature I had was the hair on my head. My sskin wass hard and covered in sspiked sscaless, I had a huge tail with a rattle on the end. My jaw could disslocate. I ssenssed a lot of sstuff by tasste, my hearing wass sshot. I grew those large flaps on the sside of my head to my neck like a cobra. I could disslocate all my jointss and crumple them moving everything like a snake. My mouth wass deadly poissonouss. I grew flapss that could make it sso I could glide.” Koga sounded a little far away while he spoke. “Lasstly I wass a parthenogenessiss, a ssexual, I could produce a race of me all over again. I ssupposse I could have been a sshifter and never witnesssed it in the dream.” He tilted his head…and smirked.” But wait, I never knew my grandfather in that future. I came back with ssuch a need to be heroic becausse what I ssaw in the future, what I would be capable of.but itss already different.”
“hmmm.” If that future could be changed. Then surely this one could be as well. Perhaps they were just pushing from the wrong angle. He thought about everything he had just said to Katrina. Working from the shadows to ensure her safety…would it be easiest to change the outcome from the other side?
The reptilian boy smiled at the pretty tear stained blonde.“You know, if we were any other people, we would belong in a psssychiatric ward.”