By 3rd Grade Students at Huff Elementary
Jan 2013
The dragon guarded his cave. Mittens, the talking cat, watched. This was a really large dragon. He was as big as Mitten’s classroom. He was turquoise blue. From his nose, came dark blue smoke rings. He was hairy and warty. The warts covered his whole body.
Mittens thought the dragon’s hair looked silky soft. She thought the dragon’s skin would feel like soft leather. The dragon’s horns were thick and long and sharp, and they curved lightly at the tip. They were violet.
The dragon stank of horse dung. Mittens was afraid she was going to faint. She couldn’t bear that smell. When she was just a little kitten, a horse tromped over her and dinged her with dung. Ever since then, the smell made her faint. She grabbed the bush next to her to keep from falling.
The dragon was making a heap of noise. Mittens thought he must have extra voice boxes in his throat because not only was he roaring like a typical dragon, he was also making rock and roll music, country, and tango music all at once.
Sparks came out of his mouth and started a small forest fire that the dragon quickly stamped out. Mittens had the impression that the dragon had not yet seen her but felt threatened anyway.
She realized that the reason the dragon smelled like horse dung was that he was eating horse dung. Hmmmm…. She thought horse dung might taste a little like cat poop. Despite her dislike of the smell of horse dung she thought it might taste good. She wondered if that was a weird thought. Sometimes things tasted better than they smelled.
Mittens knew she couldn’t just watch this dragon all day. She was on a mission. Her older cousin, Sam, had gone missing. Mittens was determined to find him. Mittens had to check the cave just in case Sam was there as the dragon’s prisoner.
She decided to turn a tree limb into a tool that she could use to drill a hole in the top of the cave. She snuck over to the side of the cave and quickly built a ladder out of tree branches. When she was done, she climbed the ladder to the top of the cave, the makeshift drill in her mouth. Mittens drilled a hole and then crawled through. She fell to the cave floor landing on all fours.
The first thing she saw was Sam! He was tied up. She almost ran to him but stopped suddenly when she saw all the traps. There was a trap door that would throw her into a bottomless pit. There was a device that looked like it might electrocute her. And in front of Sam was a laser that seemed to be a trigger for lighting a bomb. She had to make sure she didn’t cross the laser beam.
All of a sudden, she heard the sound of stomping footsteps, the kind that a monster dragon might make. Mittens knew she had to act quickly. She leapt over the trap door, broke the electrocution machine, slid under the laser beam and swiftly untied Sam. Mittens dragged Sam to the darkest corner where they could blend in. She was a very black cat and Sam was also dark—but more dark gray. She hoped they were dark enough to blend in enough so that the dragon would miss them.
The dragon stormed in, obviously looking for them. Mittens slit her eyes and hoped they would not be seen. The dragon raced around the cave searching for Sam. He forgot about the traps—obviously—because he managed to be caught by all of them. He was zapped and stunned by the electrocution trap, and he fell and got stuck in the trap door. Fortunately, he didn’t make it to the laser beam otherwise the whole cave would have gone kaboom!
Mittens and Sam ran over the dragon to escape. They reached the cave door, but it was blocked by rocks. Oh no, thought Mittens. The dragon must have blocked it off after he came in. Mittens remembered the hole in the roof of the cave.
“Come with me!” Mittens said to Sam.
They leapt up to the hole, clinging with all their claws. Fear gave them wings. They ran faster than they had ever run before as if they were cheetahs.
The dragon must have gotten loose from the traps because they saw him follow in the distance, but they managed to escape and he eventually gave up. They were saved!
The End.
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