Ironhand comes in this chapter lol (I promised him a while ago id put his character in)

Chapter 9- It's a Mad World

The dark Dragon fell through the roof onto a hard tiled floor. He could barely move or think and he was still alive but he could feel his life slipping away. He lay there for a bit staring through the hole in the roof he had just made when falling through it and secretly hoped that they would think he was dead but he knew they were to smart for that and the thought that they would appear any moment to finish the job filled his mind. He looked around the dark shadowy room and spotted a line of cupboards. They were small but he could fit into one of them if he were in his human form. Slowly and painfully he rolled over on his stomach, breathing heavily he stared at the cupboards again. He put one claw forward, digging it into the floor began to crawl forward. It was a very slow and painful process, luckily there was only a 5 metre gap between him and the cupboard. When he eventually reached the cupboard, he hesitated. The shock of turning back into a human might kill him, especially as humans would feel his injuries a lot more severely then dragons would. Unfortunately he didn't have time to make a decision, he heard a noise on the roof of the building and heard Lao Shis voice. He just turned human, the pain was huge and almost unbearable but he was able to keep a straight mind and not groan. He opened the cupboard, crawled in then closed the cupboard door most of the way, he just left a little crack open so he could look out.

"In here" Ordered Lao Shi as they landed on the rooftop. It had a large hole in the roof, about the size of the dark dragon. 'He has to be in here' Shi thought. Together, he Haley and rose jumped down the hole onto the tiled floor below. There was no sign of the dark dragon. It was dark and they couldn't see much, just some cupboards in the room and a door leading to another room.

"Ill search in there" Shi said. "He can't have gone far"

Lao Shi carefully entered the other room leaving Rose and Haley in the dark.

"Ill search there" Rose shouted pointing to another door. With her huntstaff ready, she walked over to that door and disappeared into that room, leaving Haley alone in the darkness. Haley shivered. The room had a spooky ambience to it, and the tiles felt cold underneath her feet. She took a step, she stepped in something wet, but warm.

"ewww" she cried as she jumped back.

She couldn't see what she had stepped in. "Super Dragon vision" She called, and suddenly her eyes light sensitivity increased, the once dark room now was engulfed in light, almost as if she had put on night vision. Haley looked on the floor at what she stepped in. It was a pool of blood.

"Argh" Haley cried, and vomited. She was not used to such sights.

"Haley?" Called her grandfather.

"Its OK Grandpa" Haley called back. "I just got a shock"

"Ok then."

Haley looked at the pool of blood, and noticed that there was a blood trail leading over to the cupboards on the other side of the room. Haley held her breath and took a step over towards the cupboards. Everything seemed eerily silent and that really creeped Haley out. Haley took another step towards the cupboard, heart beating. The dark Dragon watched from within the cupboard, watching as Haley drew warily closer to the cupboard. He transformed his arm and hand into a dragon arm and Claw. The second he was found out, he would strike the young dragon and kill her. Haley stepped closer, until she was right next to the cupboard. She reached out her claw, it was trembling wildly and put it on the door of the cupboard. The dark Dragon readied himself. Haley spotted more blood on the door. She put her claw around the handle.

Suddenly Lao Shi called out "Haley." Which made her jump at least 2 metres back.

"Haley" he called again running into the room. "The Dark Dragon is not here. We have to run and warn Jake"

"but" Haley started

"No, now" He called.

Haley decided to obey.

Within seconds Rose emerged from the other room, and they went on their way. Just before Haley flew back up through the hole in the ceiling, she turned and took another look at the cupboards. She was sure she saw it slam close, but she put it out of her mind and they went on their way.

Meanwhile on the streets of New York a young free roaming mercenary from California, awoke under a pile of rubble. He looked around and shook his head. It hurt a lot, he looked at the rubble around him and decided that it must have knocked him out. The New York he had awakened in was not the New York he remembered before he was knocked out. He was knocked out on one of the first attacks, and back then, New York was just like it was before just any old New York scene. Now it looked a total nightmare.

"Damn… What happened here?" The mercenary, codenamed Ironhand asked to no one in particular. He stumbled down the street, he was a little scared, it looked like the apocalypse had engulfed the world. He turned down a street, which was eerily quiet, in the distance there were sounds of gunfire and choppers, but apart from that, nothing. He stopped when he saw something in the middle of the street. It was still, but he couldn't quite see it clearly through the fog. He walked up to it, and as he got closer he realised that it assumed the shape of a dragon. 'Hey I know that dragon' He thought as he got closer to it. 'That is the American Dragon.' He looked closely at the dragon and saw the damage that had been done to it.

"Damn" He muttered. "He is pretty beat up." He checked the dragon for a pulse but couldn't feel one. 'Do Dragons have pulses?' He wondered. He pulled out a large syringe out of his pocket and several substances and mixed them together. 'I hope this works' he thought as he plunged the large syringe through the dragons chest. "A mixture of adrenaline, fairy dust, magic water and Iron hand's special ingredient. always does the trick." He watched as the dragon suddenly awoke and coughed. Then he groaned.

"Aww man I feel reaal sore" he complained opening his eyes.

"Yeah well it almost looks like you've been torn apart by a gun" Ironhand replied.

"Ohh that's right" Jake remembered. "Damn that Wilhelm. He coughed. I shall have to get the orb back." Jake said attempting to get up but failng miserably.

"Your not going anywhere in this condition dude" Ironhand laughed.

"Help me get to my gramps shop. We have a dog there, he knows how to make potions, maybe he can fix me up".

"What do you want me to do, carry you?" Ironhand asked. "I Don't think I can carry a dragon."

"I would transform Human" Jake replied, "but my injuries might kill me in human form." He replied.

"Here can you get to this van?" Ironhand asked.

"I should be able to with a little help" Jake replied. With that Ironhand pulled Jake as he crawled along. It was slow and painful for Jake, but he couldn't see much other alternative. He collapsed once on the way.

"Come on dude" Ironhand said, a little anxious.

Jake got up once again dragging himself closer to the van.

"Locked" Ironhand said as he went to open the door. "No matter I can control metal things" he laughed as he easily made the door click open and the door to the back of the van open as well. Jake crawled up and Ironhand used all his might to help Jake up into the van.

"Man you're a lot of effort" he laughed.

He shut the door, then locked it. He then unlocked the drivers side door and got in. "Ok where are we going?" he asked.

"The electronics store Jake replied. Get us to central park and I will direct you from there" he replied.

High over New York City, Wilhelm was making his getaway.

"I finally have the orb" he laughed. As he headed north, his aim was to get to Canada. Unfortunately for him the ground was now full of human rebels, since the division of the humans, it almost broke down into a free for all as trust between the sides was lost and everyone was consumed for hunger and greed by the orb. They seemed t get a sense for where the orb was and a small group who had just raided a military centre realised that the orb was soon going to fly overhead.

"Get ready" the leader shouted as his men prepared their anti air weapons (Sorry I'm not an arms expert I cannot give you details lol). Soon they heard the sound of the chopper. "Fire!" yelled the leader.

At that moment they released a large number of rockets into the air. Wilhelm could see something was wrong, even before they hit. He tried to turn, but was too late and 2 of them hit the tail of the helicopter. He lost control of the chopper. It began spinning out of control down to the earth.

"Damn it!" Wilhelm yelled looking around. It was one of those new modern choppers with an ejector seat that was perfectly timed so that the pilot would be ejected through the blades. He didn't want to eject. If he did, he would lose the orb, but he also realised that the orb might break in a crash anyway. He tried once again to gain control of the aircraft, he did not have much time, the ground was rapidly approaching.

"Damn it!" he yelled again as he grabbed the orb and shoved it into a cushioned pouch behind the seat.

'I hope that protects it enough' he thought as he pulled the ejection lever. The blades quickly slowed down to a reasonable speed, then he felt a huge momentum as he was thrust upwards, high above the blades. He watched as the chopper spiralled towards the ground. It hit a building and Wilhelm held his breath. But the helicopter did not explode, the building providing a good enough cushioning effect to prevent the weapons going off.

Then Wilhelm's chairs parachute opened, slowing his plummet back to earth. The heat created an updraught which began drifting him away from the crash scene. "Damn it" he whispered once again. "I want that orb."

The people on the ground were not interested in Wilhelm though. They were interested in the crash scene. The leader gathered his men and they all went into the building together. It was very unstable, and bits kept caving in, but their ambition for the orb kept them going. It wasn't long before they found the chopper crash site and began investigating. This was a very unstable area and one of the guys fell through the floor down into the darkness below.

"Don't worry about him" Called the leader. "I want the orb."

They began searching through the wreckage but they couldn't seem to find it.

"Maybe, it broke" one of the men nervously said.

"Its here, I can feel it" the leader growled back. "He must have hidden it, or put it somewhere to protect it from breaking."

At that moment a rocket fell from the side of the helicopter on to the ground. All the men held their breath and froze staring at it, but after a while, they realised that it was not going to go off and continued their search.

It was not until one of the members leaned against one of the seats in exhaustion and felt a small bump in the chair which he investigated till he found the orb.

"Hey sir ive found the orb" he shouted excitedly.

"My orb.. Give me" He replied obnoxiously.

"Sure ill give you the orb" he said holding out his hand with the orb in.

As the leader reached for the orb, the guy holding the orb pulled out his pistol and quickly fired it at the 'leader.'

"Now I'm the leader" he said smiling as he pointed the gun at his former leader and used the rest of his clip on him. Everyone seemed to comply, nobody dared to mess with the guy with the orb.

Elsewhere in New York, Dave long had just found a car, unlocked with the keys still in the ignition.

He helped his wife into the passenger side of the car and buckled her in.

"Don't worry honey" he assured her. "We shall make it out of here."