About two metres away from me.
The first thing I saw was his grand eyes, a bright sparkling aqua colour with wide pupils as if he was scared. At the time I thought it was scared of me, as he was looking directly at me, as if we were having some insane staring competition. But, he looked petrified, he stood there on the spot not moving an inch. If you have ever shone a light at a rabbit on a dark night, and have seen the sudden unknown fear in their eyes and the stillness even if you were about to hit it by your car, this was just like that. Only he was no rabbit.
He was about two times taller then a average person, and three times longer. I didn't notice the rest of his body at first,as it camouflaged in ever so well with the dark surroundings. He had quite a large head and four large round paws which didn't really match in proportion with the rest of his body. On his head he had two backwards facing horns parallel to each other, Each dark grey and perfectly straight, which were also relatively small compared to the size of his Head. The horns could be described as something you might expect to be on a unicorn, only a lot more sinister looking. These were also on the ends of the fingers of his puppy like feet, also small looking compared to his feet. He had a long whip like tail which was curled around the rest of his body, which ended in what looked like a fan you might find on a Victorian antique show. His whole body had some substance that looked like smoke radiating off it, but the amount the fan on his tail gave off was more then the rest of the body. It also had two large black wings, each identical a wrapped around its body like a blanket.
I heard the noise again. The reloading sound of a gun. I wondered if this was how the dragon creature sounded. Was that...how it talked? I found that even harder to believe then the dragon thing standing in front of me. It was still staring at me, eyes wider then ever , slowly and majestically, the front half of its body begun to raise, his front paws left the ground. Then, still very slowly, his wings unfolded out to their full length, and the small cowardly dragon looked like a large cowardly dragon. It was as if he had put on an allusion to make himself look mightier, but still had that fearful look, staring straight at me. Then, in less then a tenth of a second, I heard a gun shot again, and the thing in front of me fell to the ground. It then quickly sat back into the position that I first saw him in as if nothing happened. Though out this, his eyes didn't look anywhere but intensely at me. I then wondered if he was hit by the gunshot, though he showed no signs of pain. Suddenly something clicked inside my brain. Maybe he wasn't looking at me, but through me. I turned around, and realised I was correct. There was the man with the handgun, looking at me.
He looked about thirty, but had on a cowboy hat, leather waist jacket and matching trousers. He had long wiry blond hair, with dull brown eyes. A cigarette could be seen dangling out of his mouth, and he looked very casual as if it were a everyday thing to be shooting dragons in the middle of fields at gone past twelve at night. Other then the whole cowboy thing, there was nothing spectacular about him whats-so-ever.
"Move out of the way." Yep, he was the one that used the gun on the dragon for sure. But was it right to move out of he way of an innocent creature who's life was between mine and some strange cowboy fan?
"I said move out of the way, I only have a few more shots at this and it may be my only chance by a long time running." Great I thought, now I have to side between two complete strangers one of which does not even talk to me. I decided to try for answers "Erm...yeah but before I do if you don't mind asking, who are you and what is your purpose for firing that weapon?" I was impressed with how I worded that question. The man look stunned and I'm sure I saw his greedy eyes twinkle there for a second.
"Well look, I don't really have time to answer questions but I will answer them all if you can move for just ten seconds." He had a stern aggitated sound to his voice then.
I looked towards the dragon, then realised what he was staring so hardly at. It was not the man who interested him, but a necklace he was wearing around his neck. Strange for a guy to be wearing a necklace made of a thin silver chain and a tear shaped stone on the end of it I thought. It was then I realised it looked the same as the dragons eyes, shining very brightly indeed. I do not know how I missed it. The necklace was doing something to the dragon.
"Erm...move. Now. Before I decide to test to see if this thing can go through two bodies at once." I had no more time to think. I do not know what propelled me to do what I then did and I will never know, but almost as fast as the guy shot the bullet I pulled the necklace off the man,which broke off easily, Jumped on the dragons back and kicked it hard on its side, shouting as loud as I could "Go." It shook its head like a puppy, as if something had snapped in its brain, saw the man Then teared off in the opposite direction at undoubtedly a record speed for a living animal,with me clutching on to the horns for dear life. I quickly took a glance behind and quickly disappearing into the distance was the man point the gun at the dragon, at me. He fired the gun, and I heard the bang.