Colin guided the men to the back of the mangled train and asked
the women to remain calm and assured them of their men's safe return. After
all, he thought to himself, the dragon wouldn't dare crawl into the tunnel
where they now rested.
The mermaid, named Kailey as the young
adults soon learned, raced to the back of the train to instruct the passengers
of the next step of the attack, although they did know of the part they were to
play. Kailey promised to herself that she would not scare the men, and in turn
scare their women and children. She reached the smoldering ruins of what once
held her cage and waiting for the slow humans.
Jordan crawled between the carriages and
checked the links between the filled ones. Her phase was to keep the train as
short as possible, to help pick up speed and to escape the dragon with
minimal damage to the passengers. There was not enough time to allow mistakes,
and too many lives that could be lost, and today there will be none lost.
Jackie fueled the fire and brushed away
the tears that were from the cause of her father’s death. She didn't have much
time to accept that her father was dead, and used the time alone to mourn his
death. His body was still in the small chair in which he had died, but covered
in a blanket, for she didn't want him to be burned from the inferno that she
was creating within the engine. They were to succeed, and damned if it was her
fault if she was the one to blame for them not surviving!
The dragon blew the last of the trees down
with his mighty weapon. Below he could hear the snake moving, with its awkward
clackity-clack of its scales on its trail. Odd sound, even for a snake. He
recalled the silent way the smaller snakes moved and the shushing sound they made
when they crawled before him on the leaves and rocks when he was a smaller
dragon. But this brand of snake was strange, they only seemed to move in one of
two directions, their noses were on top of their heads, although their faces
were menacing, they never did change shape. He was afraid, every time, that the
snake would breathe fire and prevent him from eating the snake's delicious
inner layers, but it never did. It would continue spouting its grey smoke until
it went out a few days later, high up in his lair. The snake was strange too.
The ones when he was younger were of one shape, long and wiggly. These
snakes were odd, when he picked it up with his giant paws it would snap into
different pieces. Granted, these pieces made the snake easier to carry up to
the cave, but it was still odd. And the layers inside the snake moved,
and screamed, as if each snake was female and all her babies were inside the
different sections. It made sense. Once he tried eating a very large grey fruit
that was hidden in the bushes, larger than he had ever seen one before. Turned
out the grey fruit was a very large snake that had lots of little snakes inside
of it, which were very hard to catch. Perhaps they were moving looking for a
safer place to hide, and this tunnel certainly wasn't making it any easier to
eat its babies!
The men worked together with Kailey to
guide the back half of the train away from the carriages that held their wives,
girl friends, sisters and mothers. One of the craftier sons moved quickly with
the scraps of metal he had collected between the tracks to create a makeshift
nose and winter plow. It was a risk, but hopefully it would
pass inspection. His eyes wandered to where Kailey stood above the men
directing where they were to push from. As most men did, he fell in love with
her looks, then realizing that from his position he could see up her makeshift
dress, he blushed and turned back to his work, unaware that his father had seen
his action.
Time was not on their side, as all could
hear the mountain tumble again from above. The dragon was on the move again,
the heroes knew, but they did not know what was coming with him.
Next Time: Plan in Action
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