By 4th Grade Students at Huff Elementary
March, 2011
The dragon guarded his cave. Kermit, the frog, watched. Kermit had no idea what or who the dragon guarded.
The dragon was very small — tiny, in fact. He was white and slimy. He had a ridiculously long, black with orange polka-dots tail — even longer than himself. On his forehead, there was a large, pink horn. Down his back was a long line of pointy green spikes.
Kermit knew that the dragon felt scaly and slimy and pointy. Those spikes were very sharp. Kermit thought the dragon’s wings were awesome. They were wide and big like butterfly wings and they were completely black.
The dragon stank. He smelled like flowers! In fact, he smelled just like daisies. Fortunately, the area around the dragon smelled lovely, just like the most awesome garbage dump imaginable. However, whenever the dragon flapped his wings, the nasty floral scent became overpowering.
There was a funny noise every time the dragon opened his mouth — it sounded just like farting. From within the cave, there were small “ribbit” sounds. What could be making that noise? Could there be frogs?
Suddenly, Kermit’s old college buddy, the Cookie Monster, showed up. He stole Kermit’s stack of cookies and started to gobble them up. Oh no. These were Kermit’s favorite swamp cookies with flies. They tasted heavenly just like the ones his mom used to make and now the Cookie Monster had taken all of them. Kermit felt very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very sad that his friend would take his precious cookies. He did his best to fight back the sorrow.
He wanted to sneak into the cave to find out what the dragon guarded. Kermit jumped into action. He snuck to the side of the cave, scaled it, dropped a rope and shimmied down to the cave entrance. Then he swung inside.
He couldn’t believe it! His eyes almost popped out. The dragon was already inside. How did he do that? In addition, there were a whole bunch of past presidents. In a second, he realized that all four of the past U.S. presidents were there.
Fortunately, he was behind the dragon and had not yet been spotted. In the far back corner of the cave, Kermit could just barely make out the shapes of frogs. It looked as if they were playing poker.
Kermit was concerned. He knew that about 39 of the past presidents were dead, but clearly they were alive here. What was going on? What evil plot was afoot? Kermit decided to ask George Washington what was going on. He snuck past the dragon and sidled up to George.
“Why are all the dead presidents alive?” he asked.
George Washington said, “We felt like it.”
Kermit said, “But why is the dragon here?”
George Washington said, “I have no idea!”
Kermit decided to ask someone else. He snuck up to Abe Lincoln and asked, “Are you a ghost?”
Abe said, “No, we are zombies.”
Kermit was scared! He felt completely freaked out. He had to escape. He hopped out of the cave and into the same dragon he had just left. Oh no! It must be a clone. He blacked out.
Slowly, he regained consciousness. The first thing he saw was one of the dragons eating one of the zombie presidents. He didn’t know which one. The dragon finished eating the zombie, he burped and then threw up green goo all over.
Suddenly Johnny Test arrived and exploded the cave.
Then a humungus red dragon arrived. “I am Rex!” he called, and he waved his wings and the cave went back to normal with no explosion at all.
Kermit yelled to Rex, “Help!” He then ran to the cave. “I can save you,” he yelled to the presidents.
He led them to Rex and Rex let them hop on his back. They flew into the air.
Suddenly, Rex went from good to evil. He dumped the presidents, and Kermit to the ground. Then he created a ring of fire around them.
The cookie monster saw them. Kermit realized that to the Cookie Monster the huge ring of fire looked like a giant cookie, and they looked like chips. The Cookie Monster started to chomp on the fire. Kermit decided it was time to use his own special power. He quickly turned all the presidents into frogs. They jumped over the ring of fire and each hopped home.
The End.
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