By 3rd Grade Students at Bubb Elementary
February 2015
The dragon guarded her cave. Bob, the young man, watched. He wondered what she guarded.
The dragon was huge, at least twenty feet tall. She was red and green. She had green wings with one red stripe on each. She had very sharp spikes running down her back. Her eyes were bright green. Her extremely sharp teeth were golden. She had no horns on the top of her head.
She had scales. Bob thought they would feel weird, kind of rough and scaly. The dragon stank like a very old garbage can with tons of trash, including lots of rotten eggs. Gross!
The dragon was making a high-pitched whine. Bob thought she sounded worried. But he had no idea why she might be worried.
From within the cave he heard rustling. It wasn’t super loud. What could be making that noise? Bob had so many questions. He was always so curious about everything. The dragon was stretched out so that her tail was only a few inches from Bob. In that moment he had the desperate need to know what a dragon who smelled like garbage tasted like.
He knelt by the tail and licked it. Ewwww. It tasted like it smelled – like trash. He felt like he might throw up.
The dragon screeched at the top of her lungs. She lumbered into the cave and soon came back out carrying three golden baby dragons! So that must be what she was guarding, Bob thought. She flew into the air with her dragon babies. Suddenly one fell out of her talons.
Bob ran and caught the baby before it could fall to the ground. The dragon turned back toward the cave. She glared at Bob who still held the baby. He had the horrible feeling that she thought he’d taken the baby instead of saving it. He ran for the cave. When he got inside he dropped the baby and breathed a happy sigh of relief. He felt safe in the cave. He looked around. There was a small fire pit with very large male dragons sitting around it glaring at him.
Oh oh! His heart began to pound frantically. He pivoted around and ran out of the cave. The first thing he saw was the mommy dragon zooming straight for him. Ahhh! He ran away from her and the cave. There was another smaller cave. He dived inside. It was very dimly lit by a trickle of sunlight. Fortunately it was empty. Once again, he breathed a sigh of relief. He felt almost safe.
He poked his head out of the cave. All of the daddy dragons were lined up in front of his cave ready to attack. They all sported very dramatic and big moustaches that curled at the end.
Bob was frozen to the spot, too scared to move. There was a loud pop behind him. He looked over his shoulder. All he saw was a sea of unicorns, too many to count, but there had to be a least a million. They went on forever. The cave had expanded to infinity. He could not find an end to the herd of unicorns.
Bob loved unicorns. He ran up to the first one and hugged it. It made him feel warm.
The unicorn said, “We are yours to command.”
Bob thanked him and went to the cave entrance. “Be gone, Dragons, or my unicorns will not be pleased.”
The dragons cowered in the face of a million unicorns. They ran back to their cave.
Bob and the unicorns became forever friends. They brought him to their magic kingdom, and he brought them to his mansion. They had a great life together.
The End.
Click here for another great Dragon story…
To find out more about my writers’ workshops, click here.