Chapter 4
How was this thing still hungry The Man said looking at the torn apart room.
"When did you have food last?" Alex asked the creature as it walked over to us and it tilted it's head a little in thought.
"The big shiny White circle thing I can see some nights the humans called a moon" the creature said and then tapped the floor several times. "Ten Moons is when Big Black humans gave me tasty red thing"
No wonder this thing is so hungry The Man said and Alex looked at him sadly, this small creature hasn't eaten anything in ten weeks!
This is going to hurt in more ways than one Alex thought as he looked around the room that ha been filled with meats, the dragon had eaten at least two to three thousand dollars in less than a minute.
"We're gonna need to go someplace bigger to feed this dragon" The Man said looking at Alex and Alex nodded in agreement and took out his phone. "There's also the fact that it might not matter how much we feed it due to the huge amounts of energy it uses."
"Hi this is Alexander Bright" Alex said to a woman on the other end of the phone, it was the main factory that supplied their meat. " I need to speak to Drake please."
"One second sir" the person on the other end of the phone replied before putting Alex on hold.
"Hello Alex, it's been a little while" a man with a deep growling voice spoke from the other side of the line
"Yes it has old friend, but I need a quick favor" Alex said and began to explain to Drake what he wanted the favor to include.
"And May I ask what is all of this meat for?" Drake inquired.
"We've freed a young dragon that had probably been used in many experiments and hasn't eaten for a long time"Alex said and Drake growled through the phone.
"Who was it?" He growled quietly
"The League of Villians apparently, and I'm guessing that you now want to see it for yourself" Alex asked and Drake growled in approval. "Okay then, I'll see you in an hour then"
"I'm guessing that favor you just called in was something that might feed it" The Man asked looking at the dragon, which looked at them both again.
"Food?" It asked again and Alex nodded
"Yes, follow us closely and don't wander off" Alex said keeping a close eye on the creature as the three made their way to the car garage. They had a little trouble getting the dragon inside of the car because it reminded it of the cramped box it had been stuck in not too long before.
Once they did manage to convince 01 to get into the car's trunk, which had space large enough for 01 to crawl forwards and into the he backseat, where it shifted uncomfortably on the leather seats. The feeling of the leather felt strange and new, and 01 didn't like it, but it didn't get a chance to move as Alex and The Man got into the he car. The Man's weight making the thing tip to the right a bit making Alex frown but not say anything about it.
The car ride wasn't that bad, no one said anything and 01 had been pressing his face to the windows ever since seeing the water from when they drove over a bridge.
"You can't look outside right now, I'm sorry but I don't want to risk you smelling something and going after it" Alex said looking at 01 in the mirror and it just nodded and tapped with window with its claw. Causing spiderweb fractures to spread throughout the glass.
"No don't touch the window" Alex reprimanded and 01 jumped into the trunk fearing that Alex might do something painful because of what 01 did.
"I'm sorry little dragon" Alex said seeing what he had caused. He sighed and pointed at The Man sitting in the other seat up front. "Okay how about we start over; this is Arlington, and I'm Alex—"
"What's an Arlington?" The dragon asked looking at the two in confusion.
"That's his name" Alex said, "and mine is-"
"What's a name?" The dragon said and Alex sighed, of course it wouldn't know anything about things like this. It's probably been raised to be solely a killing machine and nothing else.
"A name is something you're called" Alex said looking at the dragon in the rearview mirror. "What's your name?"
"Master calls me 01" the dragon said and cocked its head, "is that my name?"
Alex felt pity for the small creature, if it's grown accustomed to that name then either it's been raised in some place that did all of those bad things to it, or it's been broken into this state from childhood.
The rest of the car ride went by silently and 01 had eventually gotten back into the backseat and was watching the different things as they passed by. Eventually they came to a stop in a giant parking lot with a mountain of meat in the middle of it. 01 saw all of the meat and licked its maw.
"Food?" It said pointing to the mountain with its claw and Alex looked back at it and nodded. 01 wasted no time ripping through the side of the door and going after the meat. This all happened in the blink of Alex and Arlington's eyes, and when they saw the giant rip in the side of the door Alex facepalmed.
"I should've expected that and not said 'yes'" he said and then looked forward to see that the mountain of meat that had been there was already halfway devoured, and within the next few seconds it was gone and 01 had started to eat the metal plating that it was all on. Still smelling food, and even though it hurt its throat. 01 still ate the entire metal plate that the mountain had been on as it smelled like food and tasted like it a little.
Drake had been standing to the side and he had subconsciously activated his power as soon as he heard the car door having been torn apart.
This thing is ravenous, even eating the metal so easily just because the scent of meat on it he thought and Alex and Arlington stopped by his side as 01 finished the last piece of metal and swallowed. If I hadn't washed off in the lake it might've mistaken me for food in its blind hunger driven frenzy and I wouldn't even have had time to defend myself before being halfway eaten alive.
"Yeah, it's pretty scary seeing how fast it is huh?" Alex's voice cut off Drakes thoughts and he nodded, gulping, before coming out of his draconic form.
"What happened to this thing again?" Drake asked then and Alex shrugged as Arlington spoke for the both of them.
"We don't know, it was found on one of the League of Villian's planes as they tried to enter our territory again, but it had been sealed inside of a metal box and chained up" Drake growled but it was cut short as 01 came over to them all.
"Food Good" it said and tilted its head at Drake. "You looked like me, but now you're human?"
"It is my power" Drake said, "I'm able to take the form of one mythological creature at the beginning of a week and that creature will be the only one I am able to use till the next week"
"What's a Mythiolocal Creature?" 01 asked tilting its head in confusion and Drake laughed.
"It's a creature that isn't supposed to exist" he said and 01 frowned.
"How can you turn into something that doesn't exist?" It asked and Drake smiled as shook his scaly head.
"I don't know, we didn't know your kind existed until a few years ago after all, so maybe the other creatures I can turn into exist after all, somewhere" Drake looked up blankly and 01 followed his gaze to the sky before losing itself in the sight that it saw. Then a small figure interrupted the shine of the sun in the sky and 01 growled.
"Destroy?" It asked and this caused Drake, Alex, and Arlington to look up in confusion. After a second Drake saw the figure as well and looked at 01 in awe, it had seen that person or creature from that far away. When even he couldn't se it.
"Wait for a mome-" there's was a sonic boom as 01 used the power in its body to launch itself like a rocket towards the form in the sky, "great, I really hope that isn't bird brain being nosy again" Alex said looking at the a Jet stream that 01 left in its wake as it sped towards the figure.
"Oh shoot" the creature in the sky said before trying to flap his wings harder to get himself higher into the sky, but seeing that 01 was going to fast for him to dodge he let gravity do the work and flapped upwards.
01 looked at the bird creature that had been spying on them as it shot down towards the surface and he redirected and shot down after it. A large smokescreen suddenly appeared behind the bird creature in an attempt to throw 01 off but its vision automatically switched to heat signature and x-ray to see if there were any other solidified obstacles in the way of it's prey.
The bird creature looked back through the invisible smokescreen that it could only see through only to see that 01 had followed it without trouble, and it's eyes were glowing an emerald green as it rushed towards the bird creature. Who's eyes widened when he saw that 01 was still going faster than him and so the bird creature immediately went skyward, and 01 was going to fast to abruptly change direction again so he crashed to the ground.
There were several cracks and the sound of scraping as the bones in 01's body as well as the concrete parking lot that they were in was ripped apart as 01's body dug a surface tunnel across it's length. The bird creature flapped it's wings to hover in place before realizing that there was a reason he was coming over instead of spying on what was happening. He turned back towards Arlington and Alex and was five feet away from them when Alex's eyes suddenly widened and his hand went out.
"Stop!" he yelled but it wasn't directed towards the bird creature and suddenly a large gust of wind went past the bird man and there was a glint of light shining off of something close to it's neck. "Don't Destroy this person" Alex said carefully and there was a small child's voice from behind a frozen in place bird man.
"Don't Destroy?" the small voice said and the bird man was confused, the creature that had attacked him was still standing from it's impact, and no less it was this powerful. Why did it speak like that?
"No, this is a friend of ours" Alex said and Arlington scoffed
"He was spying on us, he kind of deserves to be scared a little" the shining claws got closer to bird man's neck and Alex told 01 to stop once again before glaring at Arlington.
"Don't you even remember what I said?" he scolded causing Arlington to pale as he saw the little dragons sharp claws get closer to bird man's neck, "it will see the slightest upset in your voice, or the slightest action as a command."
"Yes, my mistake" he said before looking at Drake, who was shocked at what he had just seen.
This creature could kill all four of us in less than twenty minutes with us all at full power, even with teamwork against it wouldn't matter he thought dreadfully, it really is the perfect killing machine.
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