Well, yeah it sounds a LITTLE hokey, but it's a short story, right? It's ok for short stories to be a little hokey, though I suppose it depends on how serious it is and how hard the climax is. Heh. If it's all very serious, then it's a wayyy too hokey title, but if it's peppered with on-purpose and non-gritty subversions of genre conventions and so on, it's probably fine. Otherwise, I'd scrap both parts of that. Don't even mention dragons or knights. Rust is a good word to use, sounds like. I'd have to know more of the overall plot, but "Rust and Dragons" or something might work. Or "The Day of Moving Dragons" if the dude does take the dragons to be centralized (and that's a climactic or result-of-climax event). Don't know.