Winter perked up when the woman repeated the words... he had been a little off, the words seemed so strange and unfamiliar in his mouth. "Carrr-Rah," he repeated slowly as if tasting each syllable. The young dragon blinked and let out a frustrated puff of glittering white mist through his nostrils up into the air!  She was talking really fast now! She mentioned dragon and carra in the same breath! No they were not playing that word game anymore!  The human was obviously confused now, he would have to be patient with her.<br/><br/>"Carra," he insisted, singing the word in almost patronizing way. But she continued on jabbering on, making just about as much sense as a chattering squirrel.  He had been keeping an ear out, he could hear the helicopter off in the distance, it didn't really bother him that much.... not yet anyway. However when he noticed her growing uncomfortable and looking up in its direction, he took interest.<br/><br/>- -<br/><br/>There wasn't much factual information about Frost Dragons.... sitings were rare, and they were presumed to be endangered.... many scientists had tried to study them, occasionally snapping few pitchers of one or two young curious frost dragon venturing out from their secretive nesting areas hidden up in the mountains.  However only a few scientist who actually either physically fit enough to travel into the treacherous terrain with all their equipment and or extremely well funded that they could afford to pay a crazy bush pilot, to fly into such mountains passes all came back with the same data and report  ....Assuming they did come back...<br/><br/>......According to our research Frost Dragon's are extremely territorial. Research requires additional funding to continue, please send new assistant and fresh underwear .....<br/><br/>- -<br/><br/>Bright yellow eyes watched her as magic flowed from her. Winter recognized the pattern, and there for remained calm she seemed to be weaving something similar to the first day he met her.<br/><br/>It had worked, but the Helicopter kept coming back around, bright yellow eyes faded to deep solid ebony black orbs and his soft velvet spikes bristled upward as a low rumbling hiss vibrated deep within him. Massive beautiful white withs cracked against the air loudly as they expand kicking up a whirlwind of snow....<br/><br/>The black helicopter had sowed the wind, it had been looking for trouble.... now it was harvest... they had reaped a Frost Dragon's whirlwind!  Winter shot up into the air! Thanks to the magical barrier of illusion. The men the black helicopter never saw the Dragon coming! They didn't even know where he had flown in from! He just appeared out of nowhere like a terrible winter gail!<br/><br/>The torrent of freezing white liquid gasses that enveloped the helicopter might not have done much to destroy the machine or personal inside. But all visibility for the pilot was suddenly lost as the windows iced over inside and out.... The pilot's navigator frantically began scraping away the ice on the inside and while the pilot struggled to keep calm turning the windshield wipers and antifreeze to clear up the outside of the cockpit.<br/><br/>The man with the rifle sitting outside the open door however was not impaired at all and he began shooting as soon as he had a clear shot. There were many gruesome horror stories about hunting grizzly bears in Alaska. Grizzly's usually were not dangerous as long as they were left alone, and didn't mind giving up salmon when they came by. However all the stories told about gave them a frightening reputation. Oftentimes, if the grizzly bear was really big, one shot sometimes only pissed it off, they were known to charge and kill hunters from over two hundred yards away after being shot dozens of times..... Winter however was not a Grizzly Bear.... He a dragon, was much bigger, healed faster,  and ten times more intelligent.... and he was now extremely pissed off, they would be needing a larger caliber riffle to be taking him down.<br/><br/>The dragon circled the helicopter around and around! Toying with it! Ignoring the hot lead that pierced his soft hide!  Streaks of blue blood streamed across his beautiful white form.... Once the Helicopter attempted to pursue him..... Winter turned sharply... heading east... heading toward the mountains.  Two more black helicopters joined the hunt. Winter might've turned and attacked them at the farm but he didn't want the humans looking for him there.... no he was leading them away! He course wouldn't lead them to his own dwelling either. No he was taking them into his favorite little obstacle course!  Lucky for the pilots there wasn't any fog or clouds.... yet.... he would change that soon..... and they they would pay for every piece of hot lead they peppered him with..... In the morning on the radio and on TV about three helicopters that had crashed in Arkangel Pass with no surveyors.<br/><br/>-  10 hours later...... Approximately 10PM Back at the cabin.<br/><br/>It was dark and overcaste, the sound of large wings threshing the air could be heard in the distance. However the young frost dragon wasn't flying as fast as he had been, the wing beats were didn't have a there regular strong rhythm.... no it was weak and uneven...... thresh..thresh....... thresh........................thresh... thresh...............thresh ...........<br/><br/>Winter swayed this way and that as he glided down toward the snow..... but this time it was no proud landing befitting of a such a majestic creature...... No Winter simply plowed into the ground like sending up a white cloud snow.... leaving a long streak of warm blue blood. His unique blue blood  melted through the snow...melting all the way until the grass showed beneath.<br/><br/>Obviously Winter had not returned unscathed... fortunately he could heal rather quickly, normally a bullet or two might not have phased him. But when the other two helicopters had joined the hunt, they began to use fully automatic weapons on him! They had failed to shoot him down, but they had weakened him to the point where his normal rapid healing was nearly impossible! Normally both hunters and scientists attempted to keep a dragon's hide somewhat intact..... most scientists of course would prefer to use tranquilizers but the normal tranquilizers used on most other dragons, seemed to have little affect on Frost Dragons.... after hundreds of  years of research they had just found this out...after recovering a camera from a frozen corpse of a body that had been found about two hundred miles from where his expedition party had reportedly disappeared. Unfortunately the dead college student was not able to earn any credits for his discovery. Up until then, scientists always presumed that they had simply missed, and went on to recruit the next group starving college students to see if they would like to earn few science credits over the summer.... but at least now they knew, it was all in the name of science!<br/><br/>The young dragon didn't get up right away..... but when he did, a very weak and tattered dragon arose. His body was riddled with sticky blue bullet wounds and his once mighty wings were peppered full of holes.<br/><br/>With his last ounces of strength Winter limped across the snow onto the porch cabin porch. Winter could feel his life force slipping, he was too weak to regenerate... there was only one thing he could do.... but that would leave him weak and extremely vulnerable. He hated doing it, but he had to...<br/><br/>Suddenly the tattered dragon was engulfed into a large flash of bright white light and the dragon vanished!<br/><br/>------ NEW FORM<br/><br/>A young man with fair skin and long white hair that went down just past to his shoulders crumpled to the groun. Although in human form, The distinct magical aurora, that moved over him, clearly indicated he was something different entirely. Besides his long thick bright almost neon white hair outlining his strong handsome smooth jawline,his eyes were probably what defined him the most. There was nothing human about his eyes. Wind's eyes currently were solid frightened pitch black ebony orbs....<br/><br/>In human form he felt the elements! he felt weak, fragile, small and frightened. There of course one benefit to shifting into the this form, it allowed him to completely recover from the injuries he had taken as a dragon... Unfortunately he was too weak to shift back to his true form, and now he was left shivering out in the cold.<br/><br/>Wind's human legs wobbled beneath him as he staggered toward the door. The ice hurt his bare feet, and the snow and the alaskan frigid night wind stung exposed skin. Unable to go further Wind collapsed ........His body made a loud thumping sound as fell agains the door...<br/><br/>IF Carra even heard the loud thump at the door and IF she even bothered to open the door, she would find a young man, with long snow white hair shivering at her doorstep completely naked and covered in a sticky blue substance.