By 3rd Grade Students at Bubb Elementary
November 2016
The dragon, Bob, guarded his cave. Blob, the elephant, watched. He knew the dragon Bob from before. He wondered what Bob guarded. He just had to know.
The dragon Bob was huge, at least eighty times bigger than Blob. He was a brownish yellow, just like the color of an old, squishy banana, but his tail was purple. He had sharp spikes all over. Blob had to admit this was one good-looking dragon. He hated to admire Bob because they were sworn enemies. Bob had never forgiven Blob for sneaking into his previous cave. The dragon had been terribly mean about it. So now the elephant was going to get even by sneaking into Bob’s new cave.
Blob wasn’t afraid of Bob. Yes, his pikes looked sharp, but an elephant’s skin was tough, so tough. He didn’t think the spikes would hurt at all. And besides the spikes, Blob’s skin was squishy-soft. But he did have to admit that Bob was a very big dragon. He might squash him like a bug. Bob the dragon smelled like fish, and being eighty times larger than Blob, he really wreaked of fish. Luckily Blob loved the smell of it. It was delightful.
Blob knew that Bob had seen him because he was screeching like crazy. It was so loud it hurt Blob’s ears.
Suddenly, Bob the dragon charged. Blob fell over and played dead. At the same time, he wiggled his trunk and made it look like a scary snake. He knew that Bob was afraid of snake.
Bob came to a screeching halt.
It worked!
Bob went back to his spot in front of the cave and stopped screeching. He began to munch on chicken nuggets instead. Yum, thought Blob from his prone position. That looked yummy. Chicken nuggets were meaty treats.
While Bob was distracted by the chicken nuggets, Bob sneaked behind him and dug a huge hole. He thought he could dig his way into the cave. But Bob was so big that he took up most of the hole. There was no room for Blob to enter.
He had to lure Bob away!
He managed to steal Bob’s chicken nuggets. He flung them far away from the cave. Bob lumbered after them.
Then Blob the elephant sneaked into the cave. He used his trunk to start a small fire, so he could see. The first thing he saw was a fox. It was a red fox. He stumped over, picked up the fox with his tusks, and then sprayed the fox with water.
The fox was so soaked that when he set it down, it ran away.
Blob went further into the cave and saw a giant ice-cream sundae. Yum. He scarfed down the sundae and kept going into the cave.
Suddenly there was a roar from behind. When Blob turned, he saw the dragon’s head poking though the entrance.
“Hey,” Bob the dragon called. “You should to dead. That ice-cream was poisonous.”
“Well,” said Blob, “I can resist most poison. So there.”
As Bob the dragon lunged for Blob, the elephant dived away.
As Bob moved into the cave, Blob tried to squeeze past and out of the cave.
Just then a new creature showed up from within the cave. It was a giant slug and it was moving very fast. Blob hopped onto it and held on. They slithered past Bob and out of the cave.
Bob followed and tackled Blob. They landed hard, rolling away from the giant slug. The giant slug disappeared in a blink. Blob gasped and started to burp. He always burped when he was excited. That giant slug must have teleported. That was one special slug. Blob couldn’t stop burping.
Bob the dragon seemed afraid of the burps. He actually trembled and ran away.
Then Bob disappeared too. He must have teleported away as well.
Haha!!! Now Blob had the cave all to himself. He went inside and settled in. Wow, he thought, this cave looks 1000 years old, just like me.
He felt very happy. But then, POOF, POP the dragon and the slug reappeared. Suddenly the cave was terribly crowded.
Blob the elephant realized that, in fact, it was Bob’s home and maybe it wasn’t okay to sneak in.
“I’m sorry,” he said to Bob. “I’m sorry for sneaking into your first cave, and this one, too.”
Bob the dragon said, “You are forgiven. I only ever wanted to be friends.”
So they became friends. Blob asked Bob about the slug.
“Oh,” said Bob. ‘This is my mystical pet. Isn’t she cute?” “She sure is,” said Blob.
“Hey,” said Bob the dragon, “Why don’t we have a sleep over? We can have a pizza party.”
“That’s sounds good. Can we order Hawaiian,” asked Blob.
“Yay,” said Bob. “That’s my favorite.”
Boy, did they have an amazing, awesome time! Whoa!
The End.