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I always envisioned a dragon to be this invisible and visible creature that acts on its own will. There are no dragons. Only a dragon. Only one. A dragon bears no identity other than its own self. It's neither male nor female, living nor non-living. It is just that, a dragon.

A dragon is a dragon because none can defeat nor defy it. It's supposed to represent inevitability and the limit of one's power. Like "no matter how strong you are, there still lies a dragon".

A dragon is a dragon because humans can't defeat it. A god can't defy a dragon either, for they didn't create the entity, it's always been there since forever.

Say for example, a powerful human could win wars and conquer worlds and succeed many dynasties. But at the end of the day, that human remains as such, a human, because there exists a dragon, and none defies a dragon.

Same goes to a God.

A god can change time, alter realities and shape the face of the Earth, but it can never negate the dragon, for it has always been in existence, maybe even before the concept of time. A god can sink Everest, resurface Atlantis, slow down time, maybe even extinguish life as we know it, but a god can never defy a dragon, for it's an entity belonging to itself and only itself.

The dragon doesn't even have a solid body. It is an entity that cannot be perceived by conventional means. It can only be acknowledged that it's there, it very much exists, and it acts on its own will. It can do whatever it likes. It doesn't even need to destroy a world.

Let's say a dragon had fell a tree. No one can stop the tree from being fell. God can fell the tree before the dragon, but that just proving the inevitability. A human can protect the tree from all his might, but he can't stop something that isn't there, but is there at the same time.

At this point, a dragon doesn't even sound like a dragon anymore. It sounds more like destiny, or fate, or the inevitability of events and the meaningless of it all. And yes, you'd be correct, but there's another layer to the concept as well - not even a dragon is free from destiny, or fate, or etc.

A dragon is a dragon because a human can't beat it. A dragon is a dragon because the gods didn't create it. The dragon is fate and destiny's own manifestation, and even the dragon itself is not free from its own creator, because a dragon can be defeated, despite it all.

By none other than fate and destiny itself.

But it's not fate nor destiny that directly contributes towards the dragon's defeat. They are just variables to an inevitability.

Let's say a human. If a human defeats a dragon, that means the dragon isn't really a dragon after all, for it has already been defeated. The human, in the other hand, is never really a human, but a dragon instead, for all his life. A dragon can only be defeated by a dragon.

But I can hear you asking: "I thought you said there's only one dragon?" And there's the beauty of the concept. There will always be one dragon, and though it's undefeatable, if it gets defeated one day, it loses its status of being a dragon, meaning it was never a dragon in the first place, and that whatever defeated the dragon is a dragon since forever.

Fate and destiny is only the rules of this game of inevitability. A dragon remains invincible. But if an invincible entity gets defeated, it means it was never invincible, but rather the one who defeated the dragon, is. And the cycle goes on.