By 3rd Grade Students at Bubb Elementary
September 2015
The dragon guarded his cave. A griffin watched. The griffin’s name was Coconut.
In fact, that cave was not the dragon’s. It was Coconut’s. And the biggest worry that Coconut had was that his precious toy bunny was there being guarded by the dragon. This made him sad.
Coconut knew this dragon. They had grown up together. His name was Bob. When they had been kids together, they had been close to the same size, but now Bob towered over Coconut. Bob was a very dark green. Coconut remembered him being quite pink until the day that he ate poisoned blueberries that he had been told not to eat and he changed colors. He also never, ever again was able to breathe fire. Bob’s eyes glowed, making him look crazy. Nowadays, Bob sported spikes running down his back. They were very tall and thin and dangerous looking.
Coconut thought Bob had changed in other ways too. His skin had been rough and scaly when he was little and pink. Now it looked a lot like human skin. It even had a light coating of hair. He wondered if Bob’s skin still burned to the touch. He sort of still hoped it did. He wanted Bob to be more like the dragon he used to know.
Bob stunk! He smelled like rotten eggs. Coconut had to put on a mask – the smell was that bad. Weirdly, Bob had always stunk, but before the blueberry fiasco, Bob had stunk like body lotion – yuck! Coconut almost wished he still did because the rotten eggs were worse.
Bob was whining and whining, making an extremely high and annoying screeching, depressing sound. Bob had made this same sound for weeks after he had been poisoned by the berries. He had also accused Coconut of actually poisoning the berries!
Coconut had never forgiven him. He was still mad. Furious even. How dare Bob accuse him? He hadn’t ever done anything like that. Besides, everyone had told Bob not to eat the berries!
While Bob whined, he shoved popcorn down as fast as he could. That made Coconut nostalgic. He remembered eating popcorn with Bob and it had been good – all buttery and yummy. Those were good times.
Coconut was determined to get his toy bunny. While the dragon was distracted with his popcorn and his whining, he snuck under his legs towards the cave entrance. But Bob saw him. He lunged for him.
Coconut ran away from the cave. He started to dig a great tunnel toward his home. But suddenly there was a cave in. Bricks tumbled all over him. Oh no! He scrambled out of the tunnel.
He took to the sky and flew back to the cave. This time, he flew to the back side of the mountain. He knew a secret entrance. He flew inside his home and grabbed his sweet, little toy bunny. He flew away from the cave, away from Bob. He never wanted to see that dragon again. Bob could have his home. All Coconut wanted was his bunny.
He flew to his parents house. He never saw Bob again.
The End.
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