A brown haired man let loose a tired sigh as he once again sat back on his desk. The computer screen in front of him flickered to life, sending its dull light into the man's glasses. He brushed back his ruffled brown hair as he set himself to once again continue with his job. He didn't know what was the point. A year had passed and still they hadn't found the target. He suspected she was dead.

He looked out over his desk to the other people who had been stuck in the same boring job as him. There were hundreds upon hundreds of rows of them scouring the Internet, wireless phones, satellite images, anything that was connected to the World Wide Web. Hundreds of dragons had been found all throughout the world from America to Russia and down into Africa, but the dragon they were supposed to find had all but disappeared.

Grumbling to himself the man opened his 'bookmarks' on his computer and opened his Facebook. There was nothing better to do. He made sure no one would rat him out before that however, though the man next to him was playing some old computer game and on the other side the woman was too focused on her task to notice. Smiling to himself he began to scroll down his newsfeed, looking for anything whatsoever to bring entertainment from the mundane life of a computer hacker. He also hadn't been on his Facebook for a while.

He continued to scroll when something caught his eye. At first he scrolled past it, but stopped, and scrolled back up. He was nearly at shock at what he saw. It took a moment for him to comprehend it, but when he did an excited yell sounded from his throat. He stood up from his chair with a quick movement, startling the few people around him.

"Sir! Sir!" he cried out to the man who was overseeing the operation, "I found her!"

A dark haired, heavily toned, intimidating man slowly walked over to where the excited man had been working. His eyes gazed at the screen with narrowed eyes, studying the image before him.

"Well done," said the man, straightening, "I will notify our employer immediately. You are dismissed. Have the rest of the day off."

The hacker couldn't believe his luck. He stood up, did an awkward salute, and hurried out of the room before the man could change his mind.

The rough leader ignored him, studying the open screen.

'Rare metallic dragon spotted on the South West Coast of Australia.' Accompanying the words was a far of shot of the silver dragoness, flying over a field of crops. A smile spread across his face. They finally had her.

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Silver landed next to the house with a small thump, stretching her wings and yawning. It had been a rough day for her, harder then usual. A group of cattle had gone wild and escaped their pen, being spooked by something or another. She had spent the rest of the day finding the right ones and bringing them back to the paddock they had been in, and fixing the fence. Occasionally she had been forced to carry a few over, which had been hard work. Cattle weren't light.

With a sigh she walked over to her metal nest and curled up in it, the cool metal surface soothing on her warn body. The bowel shaped nest rocked slightly, making her drowsy. She knew there was still a couple of hours of sunlight left but she couldn't be bothered to hunt when she was so tired, though she knew she would be hungry in the morning.

"Silver! Silver!" a boy's cries echoed over her, causing her to moan in annoyance.

She lifted a drowsy head and looked at the now thirteen-year-old boy. He seemed excited about something. She resisted the urge to growl at him. She was in no mood for an excited human at the moment.

"Wake up!" the boy cried again, though she was obviously awake, "I saw another dragon! I saw another dragon!"

The words got her attention and she tilted her head slightly in confusion. Greg ran up to her and bent down on his knees, puffing in exhaustion. Silver waited impatiently for him to regain his breath, and when he straightened up she asked her question.

"What do you mean?" she asked

"I saw a dragon. It was out over the fields, flying slowly past. It was yellow, like you, but without the metal shell, and about the same size, or a little bigger," he said excitedly.

Silver was wide-awake by the time he had finished, "Where did you say this dragon was?"

"Just over the fields, over there," he said, pointing south over a large area of open ground.

"Thank you for telling me," said Silver, getting out of her nest. Her rest was going to have to wait.

"Oh, and Silver," said Greg before the dragoness could take off, "It had this strange thing on its head. I couldn't see it properly but it was in between its horns."

Silver frowned, feeling worry build up inside her. If what Greg said was true then her time with the farmers may be over. Shrugging her wings she took off into the air with a single flap and shot high into the sky, using the clouds as cover while she searched for the dragon.

For nearly an hour she searched, looking over the distant landscapes for any sign of an electric dragon that fit Greg's description. Of course the boy may have seen it wrong but Greg was usually pretty accurate with what his senses. Though the dragon may not have friendly intentions she couldn't help but be excited. It had been nearly a year since she had had any interactions with her own kind. The only people to celebrate her seventh hatch day with her had been humans with no idea of dragon customs, and she was missing her ability to fly with other creatures of her own species. Birds were boring companions in the air.

Eventually her hopes faded. Maybe Greg hadn't seen the dragon, or maybe it had just flown off before she could find it. With a sad sigh she began to fly back to where her nest was. Tiredness began to way her down once again as well as a small bout or depression. She had been looking forward to meeting the dragon.

As she came out over the house something caught her view. Darren was standing on the driveway, stock still as a yellow dragon stalked towards him. The very stance of the dragon was threatening. Wings were raised slightly, making itself seem bigger. Its tail was swishing slightly behind it as it got ready to pounce at its prey.

Silver didn't hesitate. Her wings closed and she dived head first towards the dragon. It pounced, and Silver collided with it in mid-air. With a large thump both dragons collided into the ground. Silver was instantly on her feet, standing protectively in front of Darren, wings raised and teeth bared, snarling viciously.

The other dragon was slightly slower to recover, rolling to its feet and backing up from the threatening view of the silver dragoness. Both stared at each other for a moment, sizing the other up, taking their time in recovering from the drastic clash. Suddenly Silver's wings dropped in recognition.

"Zepos?" She said in disbelief.

"Hey Silver," the electric dragon grinned slightly.

He had grown over the past year. He was bigger then her by quite a bit, nearly a full foot. A few new scars and scratches were present around his neck. His horns and wings were longer, and his scales seemed to gleam healthily. But through it all he looked tired, like he was straining against something. In between his horns was a strange red device, the same as what the scarred man had fired at the earth dragon and her during their fight.

"What are you doing here?" She growled.

"I've come for you," he said, though he didn't sound like he was trying to woo her this time, "I've been ordered to bring you in alive."

"Bring me in?" the dragoness snorted.

"The humans that attacked us have ordered me to do so, so I must do it," he said.

She could scarcely believe what she was hearing. No dragon would willingly follow the orders of a human, especially if the order would in someway hurt another member of the species. As much as Silver disliked the lightning male she didn't believe even he would fall to such levels. Suddenly a realisation hit her.

"Your being controlled aren't you?" she said, worry filling her.

"Of course I am," he snarled, "I thought you would have realised that the moment you saw the thing on my head."

She gulped. As she had suspected many times the humans had found another way to control dragons, just like they had so many years ago before her father freed them all. This time however they could fire them at long distances, making it so much easier to trap a dragon into the confining bonds of the devices. And they had probably improved them as well, making them quite a bit harder to take off then the previous time.

"I'm sorry Silver," said Zepos, "But I can't stop myself. You know that. I expect you to fight. I want you to, but I have been ordered to bring you in and nothing short of death will stop me from doing so."

Again Silver growled. There was no use reasoning with him because of the device. It was true, whatever the humans ordered he would have to take care off. No matter what she said would change the orders.

She looked back at Darren, "Get inside the house, things are going to get a bit messy out here." She turned back to the lightning dragon, "So be it."

A sad look passed over Zepos' eyes, before he steeled himself and snarled, "So be it."

He suddenly launched himself at her, flapping his wings once to power himself forward. Silver hesitated, she could kill him. A single stroke of her wings would be all it would take, but as much as she disliked the dragon he was still a dragon. To kill him would be to kill part of herself. Her hesitation cost her.

The electric dragon slammed into her. The two rolled backwards, barely missing the farmer as he ran back to his house. Silver snarled, breaking out of her trance and latched her jaw onto his leg, bighting down hard. He sharp teeth easily broke through scales and blood filled her mouth. She then hit Zepos' underbelly with her hind legs, throwing him over her head and onto his back. She rolled to her feet and snarled, spraying a thin stream of metal at him.

Zepos blocked the stream with his wing, but the metal stuck and solidified. Putting his wings up also blocked his view of Silver, a fact which she took advantage off. She leapt forwards, landing on his back and digging her claws into his sides. A pained cry came from the dragon and he bucked, trying to throw her off.

Silver melded the end of her tail into a blade and struck the joint of one of his hind legs, causing to collapse and roar again. Suddenly electricity sparked from his body and up her unprotected legs and belly. She roared in surprise and pain, leaping from his back and into the air. She shot a glob of metal at him, aiming for his neck and hoping to pin him down. The yellow dragon dodged out of the way, making the glob miss.

He followed her into the air, one of his wings slightly lopsided from the extra weight of the metal on one wing. He opened his maw to spray her with lightning but she moved quickly, flying up higher and over him, before plummeting back down. With a growl he powered forward, narrowly dodging the dragon.

Silver turned on her back in a moment of expertise, and glided upside down, narrowly avoiding slamming into the ground. She shot another glob of metal at the dragon. This time it was a direct hit, splashing against his belly and solidifying, also knocking the air out of the dragon. He grunted in surprise and quickly readjusted to the new weight.

Now that he had been slowed down a substantial amount by the metal Silver allowed her metal shell to grow over her. Her yellow eyes turned red and the sun gleamed viciously off her new armour. A challenging roar echoed out from her, the metallic sound spreading throughout the land. Zepos turned worriedly to face her and froze at the sight. A metallic dragon with full metal armour was extremely difficult to defeat.

The two stared at each other. Fear struck its way through Zepos as he gazed at the dragoness before him. This entire time through the fight he had been trying to resist the machine in his head, but it was useless. The orders that had been given to him made it so he would take down Silver, or die trying, and at the moment he seemed to be heading toward the latter.

An idea suddenly came to him. Metal was a great conductor of electricity and Silver was covered in it. A single blast of his electricity would strike threw her armour and bring her down. He regrated even thinking about it but he didn't want to die, not yet. Besides, the machine didn't allow his idea to escape.

Opening his maw he charge a strong bolt of electricity as Silver began to fly towards him. She was building momentum slowly, her armour slowing her down. However the metal on Zepos' body slowed him down quite a lot as well, and there was no use trying to outrun her.

As soon as he was sure she wouldn't be able to dodge the strike he unleashed the power from his maw. Lightning arched through the sky, hitting Silver square in the chest.

The shock of the electricity bolt stopped her in mid-flight. It ran through her metallic shell. Yellow lighting struck outwards at different angles creating a small electrical storm through her. It felt much as it did when she had been struck by lightning that time when she had flown through the storm, though not quite as powerful. Closing her eyes she took a deep breath, letting the power run threw her, growing at every moment. When she felt she couldn't hold onto the power any more she opened her eyes and the electricity arched back out of her maw towards the lightning dragon.

Zepos roared in pain, being thrown backwards by the power Silver had just used. Being an electric dragon didn't make him immune to electricity, so it hurt him just as readily as it would have Silver. He cried out as he plummeted into the earth.

The machine on his head began to whirl with the sudden overload of power it had been given. It sparked and heated up strongly, before suddenly turning off, not able to hold on to the amount of electricity. The pain it gave Zepos knocked him unconscious as he clashed into the ground, falling limp.

Silver flew down and landed in front of him, warily. When she realised he had been knocked unconscious she let her armour retract until it was a normal shell again. She then padded over to the limp form of Zepos and nudged him slightly, hoping he wasn't dead. Relief fell over her as she heard his heart beating in his chest.

She looked over his body to the machine attached in between his horns. The red lights had died making it look more like a black domed box then anything. However what really interested her was the fact that in the crash a small portion of the right side had slipped loose. Curious she formed her tail into a blade and put it under the gap created by the crash, and yanked it off.

Zepos convulsed slightly at the sudden movement before falling still once again. Blood began to well up at the top of his head where the machine had been and dripped back onto the floor. Silver wasn't worried however. A small wound like that would hurt but wouldn't kill. She was more interested in the fact that the machine had broken. She smiled. There was a way to break the machines, a weakness that she could exploit.

With a flick of her tail she threw the machine into the air and cut it in half with a single swipe of her tail, before turning towards Zepos and his injuries. While they weren't life threatening they still needed treatment. With a small snort she padded back to the house to get the help of the humans, knowing she couldn't help the dragon on her own.

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