Dragon Fury

Oh, thank God.

That took forever.

Seven hours is way too long in this car.

Is this it?

Yep, looks like it.

Hey, turn that off, now!

What do you think you're doing?

This is a restricted government area, okay?

GPS could track us.

Turn it off.

Look, completely off.

I don't think you realize how risky this is.

We can get into a lot of trouble if we get caught here.

You really think someone's gonna catch us out here?

The place is deserted.

We haven't seen anything or anyone in the last five hours.

That doesn't matter.

This place has been completely off limits, okay?

We don't wanna be leaving any electronic footprints.

Come on, let's go.

Here, take one of these.

It's just a precaution for the radiation.

Okay.

They told us to it in Chernobyl.

It's the best thing for us.

This is so lifeless.

What actually happened here?

What made it like this?

Well, I mean, it's all speculation, nobody knows for sure.

It was about 50 years ago there was a massive spike

in radiation worldwide and everything pointed to this area.

But it is safe, right?

Oh, yeah, I mean safer than it were.

It's prolonged exposure that causes the damage,

we're only here a short time.

That's why we took the precautions.

It must be safer now, right?

I mean, this place has been abandoned for ages.

Well, yeah.

Come on.

This place, people used to live here.

Sure did.

There's a nuclear weapons facility

just over the horizon there.

That's the best lead we've got,

so that's where we're gonna head.

It's government-owned and when the meltdown,

or whatever it is happened, killed everyone in sight.

Why didn't everyone not know about this?

Who?

National security?

I mean, a facility like that,

that needs to be kept covered up,

especially during the Cold War.

Then, of course, when whatever happened happened

well they couldn't exactly come clean about it, could they?

I mean, that would be death to any government.

I mean, it's all speculation, nobody knows for sure

what else happened.

The radiation is that high?

Well, either that or they were covering something up.

Right.

Do you think it's wise to head towards

the facility at this time?

Why don't we just explore for now and come back later?

What, and get pictures of dead trees?

I don't think so.

If that's where this started, that's where we're headed.

Bizarre.

What was that?

Some kind of bear?

I guess so, yeah.

Strange.

Well should be wary of it, the bear?

No, we'll be fine.

We keep out of its way, he keeps out of our way.

We're safe, we're fine.

You see, if something's living around here

then it means the radiation levels are fine, okay?

Nothing to worry about.

But surely the radiation level's too high.

Well, obviously not.

I mean, there's something alive out here.

Are you sure that was a bear?

Possibly, yeah.

Come on.

I've never heard a bear sound like that.

What the hell was that?

Christ knows.

You saw that too, right?

Yeah.

Look, whatever it is, it's gone.

It might've been a mutated bird that's morphed

from the radiation over the decades.

Maybe.

This doesn't feel right, Paul.

We should go.

This is what we're here for.

We get a photograph of that,

our channel is gonna blow up, all right?

Screw the nuclear facility, this is what we're after.

No, no, no.

This doesn't feel right.

I'm going.

Oh, my God, Paul.

Fuck!

Paul.

I'm retired.

- I'm done with this. - Hey, hey, hey.

Listen.

Hear me about before you jump to what

you will and won't do, hey?

What can you tell me about it?

There has been multiple reports, strange sightings.

All describing something similar.

What?

A winged creature.

Now, these reports, they center around an abandoned

restricted government facility.

What would we be expected to do?

I want you to pick two members of your squad,

two people you trust, okay?

You will go immediately.

This can't be like last time.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Mistakes were made on both sides.

Tell me about it.

This, however, I can assure you will be

a swift in and out job.

And if we find the creature what are

we supposed to do with it?

It can be retrieved alive or dead.

Preferably alive.

Once obtained you contact me immediately.

And what if it can't be obtained?

Bring me back something.

Anything.

We need to know what is going on there.

Are we done?

That'll be all.

So he literally didn't tell you more than that?

Just go to an abandoned area and hunt a creature?

Yep.

And how are we supposed to know what to look for?

This is so vague.

Yeah, I know, but it's always like this on covert ops,

it's a need-to-know basis.

We should be given every detail no matter how trivial.

I'm sure we'll figure it out.

We're gonna meet two people there who have more information.

By the way, there's no signal

so you can forget about a phone.

Hey.

It's not gonna be like last time.

All right, let's get going.

Good morning.

I'm Professor Stuart Pulson from Stroud University.

You must be the officers we were told to expect?

And I'm Nicole.

I'm sort of a local, I live a few miles away from here.

Got in contact about the sightings.

I'm a mountaineer, so I'll be able to help

you with any tough terrain.

- How was your journey? - It was good.

- I'm Ness, Lexy. - Hi.

- Libby. - Hi.

- Nice to meet you. - Let us help.

We'll brief you inside.

- Come on. - Thank you for coming

and apologies you've been kept somewhat in the dark.

It's not been without reason.

We felt it best to brief you in person

and to limit the spread of classified information.

Why is a nuclear scientist here?

Well, no doubt you're aware, this entire area

falls under a strict government control zone.

Yeah, and it's been like that for like 30 years.

Indeed, and will be for hundreds more to come.

This area used to be a nuclear weapons facility,

but in recent years has become repurposed

for the storage of radioactive waste.

What?

You're quite safe, don't worry.

The levels around here are not substantial enough

to cause any significant level of harm.

The radioactive waste itself is buried

within the hills and mountains all around us.

However, a consequence of this is that the whole area

should be devoid of all wildlife.

There have been sightings here.

Exactly, and it doesn't make sense.

If something has evolved to withstand radiation exposure,

then it could be of great scientific interest to us.

However, if this unearthed, unofficially, shall we say,

it's a potential PR nightmare.

So, we've been recruited to search a radioactive zone

and hunt a mutated monster.

No, absolutely not.

Wait a moment.

These pills are high strength potassium iodine.