Abdul Satar Ahmedi was the son of a druggist in Bulola, Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union invaded in the 1980s, they seized Bulola. Satar's father gave him an old Enfield rifle that his great-grandfather had used in the war against the British generations before. Satar soon fell in with the Mujahideen fighters under Sayid Jaglan.
Satar was and his comrades decided to retake Bulola after from the Soviets. The Soviets knew the mujihadeen were coming, and were well-prepared with gunships and Katayushas. However, fighting awoke a dragon that had slumbered for centuries outside the town. The enraged dragon killed the entire Soviet garrison. Because the Afghani's had not attacked the dragon, they survived, and Satar returned to his village and his father.