[ WP ] Driven by an insatiable lust for gold , a Dragon attacks the ultimate horde : Fort Knox

Earthquakes were just a sign. 
 
 It was the drilling that woke it. Startled it. Angered it. 
 
 It was the last of its kind. Greed was now owned by humans as they had killed off the other beasts. The humans did it as they sought hordes of these creatures. These were dragons. 
 
 This one survived. It was not a fluke that it had survived. There was a clear reason. This once sleeping giant had decided to live in the largest horde of valuables underground: oil. Humans, at the time of the demise of dragons, were not interested in the black substance. They could care less, but the Dragon could see the future. He knew the worth of the stuff. He knew it was Black Gold. His hunger for gold was strong and he buried himself in the large reservoir on the North American Continent. 
 
 For many years he slept in his cash. Lately, though, things were changing. He did n't notice for the first several thousand barrels. Sleep still held him. As more holes into his underground dwelling were drilled and more of his precious riches were removed, his coma-like state slipped. 
 
 He began to move. This was the first few earthquakes. People on the surface argued what the cause was, blindly bickering over who was the greediest. 
 
 As the Dragon took inventory, his hunger grew. What he had was diminished. There was still plenty of black goo in his lair, but less than before. Less would not do. 
 
 The large quake started in Oklahoma City. Nothing was left standing... except for a black figure. A very large black figure. The Dragon. Those left alive screamed in horror as he spread his wings and took off. 
 
 His target was clear to him. It was the strongest smell he ever encountered. So much gold in one place! It drove him mad. It caused him to lose his senses. It took two rockets exploding uselessly on his hide for him to notice he was not alone in the sky. 
 
 A dragon in flight was unbeatable from the air. Even the fighter jets that raced after him were no match. Fire, aided by fuel soaked up from the years bathing in oil, took down the annoying gnats buzzing around him. The planes fell to the earth below. 
 
 The Dragon kept going. Straight for Fort Knox. The gold there was calling to him like a siren. No one knew what to do about it. Dragons were n't supposed to be real. There were no plans on how to get rid of the monster. Every thing that was shot at him seemed to be brushed off. 
 
 Men in large, comfortable chairs, who were decorated with many shiny bobbles for wars they never saw with their own two eyes, talked about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction. It would n't affect them, most had homes and family far from the areas that would be affected. They knew where the Dragon was headed. It was more important to protect the gold than the people. 
 
 Were they better than the Dragon? 
 
 Fights between the men started. It was n't an argument whether or not to use such horrible means of battle. It was an argument of who should be the one to do it. Who should be able to be known as the dragonslayer, not that they would personally be be the one to make whatever shot but that they would be the leader and only important person. Greed. More greed. 
 
 Evil rained down upon the Dragon. All the despicableness that men vowed not to use on each other was fired upon the beast as it made its way towards treasure. It did damage, nothing to the Dragon, but everything to the people around him. Death, destruction, devastation. Yet the men in those chairs came up with new ideas. New ways to protect their gold. 
 
 Weeks passed. Millions of people passed. The Dragon arrived at Fort Knox. 
 
 Greed. It was getting worse. 
 
 The men in chairs frothed at the mouth as they ordered it. The end of the fight. The end of the Dragon. Unfortunately it was the end of other things as well. 
 
 It took all of the nuclear arsenal to do it. It melted the Dragon, the Fort, the County, the State, much of the country, a chunk of the contenent. 
 
 It truly was the end. The end to the world. The end to humans. That meant the end to Greed.
