My dragon was laid on my work table. It was precisely eight feet long and two feet wide. The neck was 2 feet long with its legs being 4 feet long and a foot long head. The metal body was composed of steel and it had red rubies for eyes and several control crystals inside. I had added the ability to withstand enormous temperatures which had been used in the Dante 2 robot several years earlier. The dragon7254A was built with fire spewers as a defense. I wanted my dragon to be the best so I had also added gas sensors from an old Gemini Scout that I’d found in the dump. I had just finished attaching the wing ligaments (which were probably 12 feet long) to my robot when the power went out. I went to my desk where I kept my flashlight. When I turned on the flashlight my Dragon7254A was sitting on the table with its ruby eyes glowing menacingly. I realized my dragon was alive. I approached it slowly and it hissed cruelly.
When I had got close enough to touch it I pulled an electric EMP gun I kept in my pocket just in case of instances like this. I just couldn’t do it. Instead, I reached out and stroked its metal hide. Surprisingly nothing happened. Then the power turned back on and the dragon was back where it had been before the power had gone out. So I went on doing my job and installed the voice box which I had bought at the nearby store that sold HRP-4C robots (It happened to be the only robot that had a voice box so naturally I took out the voice box and threw out the rest of it).
Then when my back was turned the dragon spoke, “Master, where are you going?” I jumped and turned around slowly. There the dragon was sitting as I had seen it when it in the dark. Dragon7254A again asked in its creaky voice, “Where are you going?” At first I was silent and a little cautious. Then it leapt off the table and landed in front of me. As it was taller than me I had to look up at it. Finally when I had worked up the courage to speak I said, “You’re alive, but………it isn’t possible, I haven’t even hooked you to the power crystal yet.” The dragon7254A cocked its head and said,” I don’t need to be hooked up as you say because it already is.”
I was shocked by this and had the machine sit down. When I opened the panel where I had planned to put the control crystal I was amazed to see it sitting there plugged in. Dragon7254A suddenly shrieked, “Something’s burning.” When I turned around two very dangerous chemicals that were on the counter had been mixed when the power was out. (I must have knocked them down in the dark.) When these to chemicals were mixed it erupted in red, hot fire. The fire leapt from table to table causing everything to erupt in flame. I snatched a fire extinguisher, but it was too late. Smoke was everywhere starting to choke me. My creation was scrambling toward me, but I was slowly blacking out.
As the smoke entered my lungs, I collapsed to the floor. I was unconscious a few minutes later. I woke up in the hospital three days later. I was told later that my creation had used the sensor that I had installed and detected smoke in the atmosphere. When I was allowed out of the hospital, I spent every minute with my creation whom had become my constant companion. My Dragon7254A was probably my most favorite invention in my life.