The machine raised his fist in victory. The man inside cried out in joy. He sighed, that wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. Maybe Elron wasn't such a powerful dragon after all. He started to walk through the ruins of Elron's body, kicking apart the metal as he walked through. He smiled again. Elron might have been very useful, but he was to dangerous, now all they had to do was round up the remaining dragons.

Laughing echoed throughout the battle field. The machine turned around to the source and took a step back at what he saw. Elron was standing there, in his normal form, smiling at the robot. He walked towads the robot, kicking aside a peice of metal as he went.

"You defeated my decoy, well done," he said.

He sat down on his haunches and stretched his metal wings and yawned. The man switched a switch in his robot, letting his voice be projected through the robot.

"How are you still alive?!" he said, "You were smashed into pieces!"

Elron laughed, "You destroyed the decoy, a robot I created, I didn't think you would actually do it, but it seems you are slightly more powerful then I give credit for. That or the machine is."

The man in the machine frowned. It wasn't often that he was outsmarted, or underestimated. Everyone knew how good he was at every part of fighting. Every muscle in his body was used for it. He was also one of the smartest people in the base, and the most gruesome. Which was why he was chosen for putting the devices on the dragons heads.

He noticed how Elron wasn't in his 'amour'. The robot changed its hand into a gun then shot at Elron. Elron was just as quick to react. He put his wing in front of him. The bullet his and was deflecting harmlessly away. Elron went back to his relaxed state. The man narrowed his eyes.

"You have no chance of beeting me, dragon," said the man, "I am the most powerful person in this base. I hold a say in everything. I spent my whole life fighting, I am eleat!"

Elron laughed, "I spent my whole life fighting as well, and I fort with humans as well as dragons. You only fort with humans. You spent the past few months getting ready for a brutal, blood thirst animal. You weren't expecting a cunning, quick thinking enemy. You knew I would be a handful, but you thought you could just waltz in and defeat me easily, with that suit of yours, but let me tell you this. That robot was nothing compared to me. I could have defeated five of those things without so much as a scratch."

The man snorted, "Your bluffing. Your not even in your fighting amour."

"Fighting armour?" said Elron, "What do you mean? Oh, you mean my defensive form, with the metal armour. You thought that was my fighting form. Ha! How wrong you are."

The man in the suit frowned again.

"You seem confused," said Elron, "Let me explain. I have two forms. This one, which is my fighting, or offensive form, and the metal one, which it my defensive form. Both have there perks and there weeknesses. Example, my defensive form is very defensive. It's useful against week and slow moving enemies, or when your surrounded. I basically can't get hurt when I'm in that form, but the thing is, I loose a lot of power. In fact I think that I have half the power I have in this form. I aslo loose a lot of speed, stamina and strength. In this form all of those perks are almost doubled."

Elron was looking towards the robot and the human inside, seeing the shock and disblelief on his face he smiled.

"Next time you study your enemy, make sure you know how they fight in every way, just not the one you think is the most deadly," he said, "You could be wrong."

With that Elron spread his wings. He lept into the air, then with a sudden push of his wings he spead toward the robot. The man inside only saw a blur, then suddenly he was smashed into the ground. Elron flew into the air and circled, then started to swoop down again. He opened his mouth and let loose a stream of liquid metal. The robot rolled to one side then got up. Elron twisted so he was upside down and hit the robot's side with his wing, cutting a deep gorge into the machine's side.

The man cursed as he felt the edge of the wing nick his side, drawring a slight bit of blood. As Elron flew on he flicked his tail, letting loose a storm of spikes that shot into the robot's back. The robot stumbled forward. Elron flew back into the air, making himself get the right way up. 

The machine straightened itself. Inside the man was cursing. He was getting angry, very angry, and for the first time in his life he was also feeling fear. He activated the rocket boots of the machine. It flew into the air towards Elron. Elron hovered in that air, waiting. The robot activated its gun and started to fire towards Elron. He swurved out of the way in a blur of movement. 

The man kept his fire direcrected at Elron as he flew. Elron made sure his back was facing the machine, so the bullets the did his him just cattered off his metal back and wings. He swurved under the machine, so it couldn't see him, then shot straight up. He stretched out his wings and cut through the gun on the machines arm. His wing went right through as if it was nothing but a peice of paper. 

He looped over the machine and hit the window with a blast of metal. It covered the screen, and solidified. The man cursed again as his vision went black. He hit a few switches in the machine, activating a life like screen that showed the outside. It was almost like he was in a vide game. He looed around, trying to find the dragon.

Suddenly he was smashed in the side and he went plumiting towards earth. Elron hovered where he had just rammed the machine. It his the ground with a thud. Elron opened his mouth and let loose another stream of liquid that hit the machine square on, covering it in metal. It staggered to it's feet, looking more like a metal gooey monster then anything else. Suddenly the metal seemed to absorb itself into the machine, making it look remade.

Elron widened his eyes at that.

'Note to self,' he thought, 'Never hit the machine with a bunch of normal metal. All well, I was hoping to avoid this.'

He swooped down towards the machine. It turned towards him and fired a bunch of bullets. Elron stopped and hurridly put his wings up, the bullet's bounced off. He started to fall then flapped his wings once again, keeping himself in the air.

'It's seems he can still see me, even with that metal covering the window,' he thought.

He swurved again as the machine conitued its barrage of bullets. Elron snarled. He flew straight towards the machine, swurving as he went, making it really hard for the machine to read where he was going. He stretched out his talons and gripped the machine. He started to flap his wings hard and he slowly started to lift the machine into the air. 

The man activated his rocket boots, trying to hit the dragons with his head. Elron felt the go on and dropped the machine and dodged it as it shot into the air. Elron followed it. It stopped in midair, hovereing. Elron went around and face it. They looked at each other.

"A bit harder then you thought, ha dragon," said the man inside.

Elron smiled, "Yes, yes it is, but I still have a trick up my scales."

The man inside laughed, "Bluffing again."

Elron just shook his head, "I forgot to mention that both of my forms have a special power. When I'm in my full metal form I can shape my tail into almost anything I want. In this form I can make the metal I breath extremely hot."

"What?" said the man.

Elron opened his mouth and felt the metal inside him start to heat up. 

"Your going to breath metal again, no matter how hot it is I will absorb it," said the man.

Elron let loose the torrent of metal, but this time instead of the normal silver stream, it was red hot. If anything it looked like lava. The man's eyes widened in surprise as he watched the molten iron shoot towards him. It hit him square on, and the machine instantly started to melt. The man cried out in pain as a peice of molten iron landed on his leg. He hit the eject butten and he was shot into the air. 

A parachute activated in the chair, and it started to float in the air. The machine below landed in a glob of molten iron. The iron started to cool quickly and it turned back to a solid. Elron flew up towards the floating chair. The man was sitting in it anxiously. He had his pistol out, ready to shoot at anything that came into his line of sight. Elron saw this and turned into his metal form.

He flew up to the man. As soon as his head appeared the man fired, once, twice, three times, the the pistol clicked empty. Elron blinked as the bullets bounced of his armour. The man gulped as he faced the angry dragon. Elron reached out and cut him out of the seat. He picked him up and flew back down to earth. He threw the human into the earth.

The human cried out in pain as he landed on his arm, breaking it. Elron landed beside him. He put his claw to the man's chest. The man sobbed out in disppear. Elron put back his armour. He looked into his eyes, letting all his hate into his eyes. The man saw it.

"Why!" he sobbed, "Why do you hate us so much?"

Elron growled, "You don't know? You kept us captive for a how lives, and treated us like animals. I'm not going to bore you with a long speech but you kept us from our freedom, the only thing that matters to dragons, and if you keep it away from us, you would expect hate."

"Wasn't freedom enough for you?" said the man.

"NO!" yelled Elron, "And know this, we will never forgive you, and while this place stil exists there is always the danger of becoming your captives again, we wanted to get rid of all the trace of those dispicable devices and everyone involved with them."

Suddenly the man smiled, "Well you did a good job at that, now you die."

"ELRON, LOOK OUT!" cried a voice.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion. The gigantic sound of a gun, a sniper, being fired from a high point. The bullet, flying through the air, straight towards Elron. It skimmed his snout, drawring a slight bit of blood, and continued on its motion, hitting a human that was near Elron straight in the forehead, making it blow up. Everything went back to normal. 

Elron blinked, surprised. He felt a body land next to him. He looked around to see a headless human, with a knife in his hand, slouched on the ground. He looked up to where he heard the shot. A human jumped of the roof, landing on his feet. He walked up to Elron, and smiled.

"Hey," he said.

Elron looked at the human in surprise. He recognised him.

"Your the human who set me free," he said.

The human nodded, "That I am."

Elron looked towards the dead body of the other human who had been about to kill him. Then back rider.

"Thanks," he said, "I guess that means I owe you a favour."

The rider raised his eyebrow, "I guess that does."

Elron laughed. He looked back down to the man who was still trapped by his claw. He was glaring at the human. Elron sighed. The man looked back to Elron. hate trapped in his eyes. Elron put his claw to the humans throat and pushed down. The man cried out in agony. Suddenly Elron stopped. He withdrew his claw and stepped back.

"I will allow you to live," said Elron, "But you will never talk again."

The man got up and was about to yell an insult at Elron, but all that came out was a rasp. That man clutched his throat and looked towards Elron in horror. Elron snorted.

"Now go, before I change my mind," he said. 

The man nodded and ran, as far as he could. Elron watched him go.

"Thankyou," he said to the human again, "Liam, was it?"

Liam smiled, "That's right. Glad you remembered."

Elron snorted. Suddenly he was tackled from the side. He looked up and into Scarlets eyes. She reached down and kissed him. She got off.

"I knew you could do it, and with minimal casualties," said Scarlet with a smile.

Elron just sighed, glad it was all over.

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Hey guys. Last chapter, I hope you enjoyed the book. Tell me which was you favourite chapter, or what you liked about it, or *sigh* what you think I could do better :) There will be an epilogue, so whatch out for that. I don't think there will be a sequel for this, but if enough people want me to, I will do a sequel. Until then See Ya!

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