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Flames

Chapter Six

"Time to go!" shouted Dean as he turned and ran to their backpacks. Sam and Kate were two steps behind him. They grabbed their packs and headed into the dense forest away from the cliff.

All of them had grabbed their jackets and it was Kate who yelled at the brothers, "Put on your jackets! Remember the damn thing breaths fire!"

Putting on his jacket Dean allowed Kate and Sam to pass him as he turned in time to see the dragon lift itself over the face of the cliff. Trying to by more time for the other two he stopped long enough to pull his gun and take a few shots at the face of the monster. If he could hit it in the eye maybe it would slow it down long enough for them to get away. As before the bullets just bounced off the creature's tough hide. It did jerk its head back when one of the shots came close to its eye, but not close enough. It roared its rage at them and landed on the upper plateau.

Sam seeing that his brother had stopped turned and yelled, "Come on Dean shooting it has no effect on it!"

"Sure it does," he yelled back as he continued shooting and backing away. "Now it's really pissed off!"

Kate, realizing the brothers had stopped running and were facing the dragon turned in time to see the creature land. She watched as its feet touched the ground and it took a deep breath before sending jet of flame in Dean's direction. "Dean, GET DOWN!" she shouted at him.

Dean was watching the dragon as it landed and his attention was quickly drawn away from its head to its feet, legs and body. As the creature landed its body turned from shades of black to shades of green matching the forest around it. "I'll be damned." He said to himself just before he heard Kate's scream. Without hesitation he dove to the ground and rolled away from where he'd been standing. Coming up from his dive roll into a dead run started after the others.

As soon as Kate and Sam saw Dean following they turned and headed further into the trees. When he caught up to them he practically laughed at the look Sam gave him and before his brother could comment Dean said, "So, do you want the good news or the bad news?"

Kate running beside Sam chanced a look back, but didn't see the creature. "You have good news?" She asked. "What the hell could be good about this?"

"There is only one dragon." Dean told her with a grin.

"What do you mean only one?" Sam asked, "How do you know?"

"It changed colors when it landed," his brother told him.

Sam looked at his brother, "You mean it's a chameleon?"

"Yeah," he said with a grin.

"What's the bad news?" Kate asked.

"I think I really pissed it off," he replied.

Before anyone could say anything else the trees in font of them erupted into flames as a dark shadow passed overhead. Skidding to a halt they looked at each other. "This can't be good," Sam said over the roar of the burning trees.

Without replying Kate turned and started in another direction. Sam shrugged his shoulders at his brother and the set out after her. Seconds later the trees before them again burst into flames.

"Now it's starting to piss me off," Kate shouted. "It's trying to box us in."

They turned again running for an area that wasn't burning, but before they realized what was happening they had run out into a very large clearing. Immediately they twisted around to return to the tree line but it was too late the dragon was behind them sending a torrent of flames in their direction. All three dove away from the flames, Sam and Kate on one side, Dean on the other. Sam was up first gun out and shooting at the Dragon as it passed overhead. His shots zinged off the tuff hide of the creature striking the ground around him.

"The wings!" Kate shouted, "Aim for its wings!"

Sam changed his aim immediately realizing she was right the wings were not covered in protective scales like the rest of the beast. All three of them began pelting its wings, but the bullets were tearing through the webbing leaving holes, but not doing enough damage to ground it.

Dean stopped shooting stood all the way up and using both hands to hold the gun took careful aim before firing off two consecutive shots.

The dragon screamed in rage and pain as the main support bone for its right wing broke causing it to crash down into the field. The injured dragon hit the ground rolling several times and skidding towards Dean. Before he could get out of its way the beast slammed into him taking him with it as it careened out of control.

A/N - This is the fun part! Please read and review!