An ancient dragon had long slumbered in the mountains outside the town of Bulola, Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan's civil war in the early 1980s, the dragon's dreams were soon disturbed by the fighting. The Soviets took Bulola during the fighting. When Mujahideen fighters sought to retake Bulola, the terrible battle fully awakened the dragon. When Soviet forces attacked the dragon, it incinerated the entire garrison. With the fighting ended, the dragon returned to its slumber, and the Mujahideen controlled Bulola.