It was a thing of utter beauty. The dragon. I slowly shook Deshka, leaned down and whispered to him. "We've been spotted, do not, make any, sudden movements."

I watched him stare at me then look past me and at the dragon through the trees. His expression slowly changing from one of sleep to distraught fear.

And he saw something I hadn't.

"There's blood, there's blood on it Sky." He sat up, I had to nearly shove him back down to stop him from moving so suddenly. "I have to get to my team Sky, my dogs, my family, please. Sky." His voice was shaking, trying to stay quiet.

I glanced up at the dragon, it wasn't moving, just, watching us. I slowly nodded and got myself to my feet, helping Deshka up. We moved slow, heading towards the exit as carefully as possible.

All we heard were claws scraping on ice before the dragon was air born and out of our sight.

That's when we ran.

We could hear the dog's barking, snarling, whimpering.

When we ran out of the glacier cave we both went straight to the dogs and undid the ties that held them to the ground. Immediately both of us getting on the sled.

Deshka didn't have to say a thing and the dogs were off.

The earsplitting screech that followed us told us that the dragon was not just going to let us go. Looking up I saw him flying above us. He was so beautiful, and frightening.

Two of the dogs had gotten tangled up, now they were wrestling, the rest of the dogs tripped over the two, the sled tumbled over a small but steep cliff and we fell to the bottom.

The dogs were whimpering, Deshka had hit his head and was unconscious. Slowly I moved over to lay beside him, staring at the sky, waiting for the dragon to come down and tear us apart.

Nothing came for a while, I looked around at the dogs. There should be 13 of them. I counted 12, I could clearly see one of them had a broken leg and was bleeding badly, another one wasn't moving, blood coming from it's head. The two dogs that had started it were still going at it, they didn't look like they were going to stop till one of them was dead.

I was so distracted by them that I didn't notice until it was to late.

The dragon landed almost right on top of us.