The X-Files
Chapter 2
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"I' am sorry… did you say… dragon?" Scully repeated as she looked at the picture again. "That's certainly what it looks like. Imagine Scully, as a woman of science;if we were to find this creature, what it would mean to the scientific community a well as mythological history?" "You're talking as if we know for sureit exists; Mulder… all I see is a blurry picture of a creature's leg & talon. It could be a dragon, but it also could be a lot of other things, too. There are birds of prey in this area." Izze looked at Scully, her expression a mix ofshock & growing dissapointment. "I should've warned you about my partner's skepticism." Mulder said good-naturedly, Scully tossed him a withering look. "Well, she could be right, the camera was all the way zoomed in with the picture was taken, I say we check out the scenes of the crimes." She said as she grabbed her bag & bounded out the door.
"Yeah, I saw it one night when I was tending my flock; big monstrous thing, flew right over the top of my head & over the edge of the cliff. I ran to the edge to see, but it disappeared into the fog." An aged farmer said. "Could you tell exactly how big it was?" Izze asked. "Oh… if I had to, I'd say about the size of a small airplane." The old farmer said as he ambled back into his house. "Naw, the one I saw was at least as big as a small passenger plane." Another farmer told them, each one had a different story, some saw a small creature, others a large one. "I think what were dealing with, Mulder is an elaborate fabrication of a story in order to get attention. Another good example is the two men who admitted to making all of those crop circles a while back." "Or… we might be dealing with more then one creature, possibly a colony of creatures." Mulder replied. "A colony of creatures that… if they existed at all would have to be thousands of years old at the least! There's little chance they would have survived extinction & evolution. Besides, why hasn't anyone seen one until now?" Mulder studied all of the new houses that were popping up all over the countryside & the foothills to the mountains. "Habitat depletion, & food competition." He replied. "Look, the only way we're going to know for sure is to explore the caves for ourselves. I luckily I have just the guy to help us."
"Agents, meet my boyfriend, George Whitestone. He's an expert hiker, free diver & mountain climber. If anyone can get us up to those caves, it's him." Izze said proudly, George's sun tanned face reddened slightly in light of her praise as he shook Mulder & Scully's hands. "Well, let's get started, then. First, you're going to have to put these on." He said as he handed Mulder & Scully a pair of parkas made from what looked like mink fur. "Dragons, like all predators have an extremely good sense of smell, the fur masks your body odor." He said as he & Izze slipped theirs on & they set off. "I'd never thought I'd say this to you, Scully. But you look rather hot covered in fur." Mulder said cheekily from behind her. "You don't look so bad yourself." She replied dryly over her shoulder, slightly out of breath as they arrived at the first cave opening. They walked inside to see the floor littered with animal bones, large & small that crunched under their feet. "Look." Izze said as she bent down out of the beam of the lantern & came back with a skull. "That looks dog to me." George said she handed it to Scully. "I'm rather rusty on my canines, but the refined brain cavity & fine canine teeth tell me it's probably a dog. Wolves have larger brain cavities & larger canine teeth." Scully said as Izze suddenly stopped in her tracks & covered her mouth. Mulder & Scully caught up with her to see a freshly consumed human body lying strewn in pieces all over the cave's floor. Some of the bones still had meat on them. "Blimey." George said, suddenly, a thunderous noise came from somewhere deep within the cave, it was so loud that it shook pieces of the cave's ceiling loose. "I… I think we'd better take cover." George said, practically scooping up Izze's small frame as he ran, Mulder & Scully at his heels. "There!" Izze yelled, pointing to a bolder just inside the mouth of the cave that was large enough to hide them all. They all dove behind it just as something large & loomed around the corner to exit the cave. Mulder, Scully, Izze & George all watched, shocked beyond words as an actual dragon came out of the shadows in all its mythological splendor & glory; its golden hide glistening against the late afternoon sun. It paused at the opening of the cave, spread its wide, leathery wings & leapt gracefully off the edge, falling a few feet before leveling out & disappearing in the cloud deck below. "What was that about dragons not existing, Scully?" Mulder said his eyes were still transfixed on the spot where the dragon disappeared from their view.
End of chapter 2