Plan in Action

Kailey watched the child, as she thought of him, below creating the makeshift plow. He had spunk, that poor kid, but he wasn't aware of how thick dragon flesh really was. She scanned the males brains before her, looking for a man who was clever with metal. She found him, and realized that he was related to the kid below her. Perfect. She whispered in to the mans ear, "Glass shards." Then she flounced off, certain that the pitiful humans could construct a decent killing machine. In snow, plain snow plows work, but against dragons... not so much. The death plow would have to be placed on the front of the train, but with Kailey's speed and the skill of the two men, it would be ready in less than five minutes.

Jordan was successful in dropping the train from 15 cars down to four. The women and children were in the first two, the men were in the next two. She was waiting for the signal from Kailey and Colin to drop the last seven complete carts. This was a trick she learned from her father, the shorter the train the faster its speed. She knew that Kailey had them covered in the far front and due to her speed was able to dive between the carriages and pull out the pin quicker than if the dragon had tried to catch them. She was the back up, in case if Jordan could not do her task due to being stuck, or worse.

Colin remained in the front two carts, trying to keep a small child from crying. If she cried out during the attack on the dragon, all hope may be lost. Then again, if she cried out, out the window she went! Colin smirked, he would never do that, maybe to a baby dragon, but not to a human child. The children were waking up, they had slept through the night and their internal clocks were telling them to wake up!

The engine was warmed up and belching smoke, but couldn't move since the brake was on. Jackie continued to shovel coal into the stove, keeping an ear out for the dragon and for the tell tale thunk of the snow plow being put into place.  Kailey didn't really know how to use the walkie talkie, but one of the men down in the last car helped her out. 

The beast peeked into the tunnel to look for the snake. By now the babies were leaving and swarming around the mouth of the... the snake had changed. The head was different. What happened to the snake? The dragon had never seen a snake change his face before, it was a little scary for a moment. And now, the babies are going back inside, but they're quiet. What is going on? The dragon decided that it wasn't going to wait for any answers and charge in on the snake. It had been waiting all night for a new meal and hell was to pay if it had to wait any longer.  He slithered down the hill and positioned himself into the tunnel just as the snake was beginning to move.  It was pretty far down the tunnel still, he could see its single eye glowing ("These snakes were still pretty strange, only one eye? No wonder they were easily caught.") And the grey smoke curling around and around the tunnel. The snake began to move forward, slowly.

"Maybe it knows that I'm going to eat it, and has decided to give up the fight." The dragon thought, "A suicidal dinner. Perfect." Happily he laid down on the track and opened his huge maw, waiting for his dinner.

Next Time: Operation Slice