The Dragon

Firestorm: Thank you for the compliments, fire fox! Um, I haven't seen very many episodes, so, who's the villain? *Counts off* Reese: Destroyed by Astarael. Hiltz: Destroyed by Raven. Prozen: Died. Oh well. Onto the story!

:blah: = Shadow, {blah} = Liger, * blah* = Shadowrage, blah = Fury.

An orderly ran into the room where the GF were eating dinner. "Lieutenant Flyheight! A1 Squad has just been wiped out!" Van leapt up and ran out to view the footage. The rest of them followed.

"I don't understand, Raven hasn't attacked anyone for a while. Besides, A1 squad is the best, and Raven supposedly wiped them out in 5 seconds!" He brought up the tape and everyone gathered around.

Raven stood on a ridge, with the 3 zoids standing behind him and Shadow by his side. A1 raced toward him. Raven threw his head back and stared at the sky, he was like that for a minute, and then slowly he spread his arms. His silhouette was that of a cross, dark against the desert.

His hair danced wildly upon a breeze, but everything else was still. They could have been stone, except for A1 following. Suddenly, a loud primal roar erupted, and Raven fell to his knees.

The wind swirled wildly, and raced toward A1. The sand picked up and whirled along with it, and gave it the shape of a feral dragon. The dragon hit A1, and disappeared, with a last roar lingering on the breeze. Van and the GF were silent, wondering what that was.

They waited until the dust settled, and then gasped in horror. The zoid's were still there, but the pilots were gone, the computers, everything. Only the outer shell remained.

They looked at Raven. He was struggling to stand, laboriously trying to breathe. Raven's hand clenched, trying to pull himself up. He gasped once, and slid to the ground, his amethyst eyes closed.

"Fiona? What the hell was that?" Fiona stared at the ground. "There was an old Wild zoidian legend. All of the Wild have a guardian, a special animal that will destroy anything. You can tell that Raven's is a dragon, and Astarael's was a wolf. But no one had managed to tap into its power, until now. Even so, that wasn't a fifth of its full power."

Van sat down hard. "Did anyone survive?" Fiona looked up.

"No. Nothing can survive that, except another Wild. That dragon wasn't just wind and dust. The dragon is made up of the very essence of misery, anguish, pain, and death. It consumes the summoner, and the summoner becomes the guardian while it's there. The guardian exists only to feed itself, but nothing will ever satisfy it. Hunger for blood defines its world."

They looked at Raven's still form. " So, you see. Raven can control it, but it is not tame, and never will be." Van sighed. "Let's go get him. Power like that is too dangerous to have roaming around."

Raven! I drift in a sea of blackness, with no light. I'm alone. Totally and utterly alone.

When the dragon's eye opens, many shall close,

The darkest of days brings the deepest of woes,

Together with terror that swells into pain,

Disaster shall herald his coming again...

Something flares on the horizon. A line of white fire slices through the darkness. *Raven!*

Worlds sigh,

People change,

Love dies,

You will always be alone..

What's going on? I have to get back. To Shadow, Liger, Fury, and Shadowrage.

Crawling in my skin,

These wounds, they will not heal,

Fearing how I fall,



Confusing what is real.