By 5th Grade Students at Regnart Elementary
May 2018
The dragon guarded his cave. Jeff the hippogryph watched. He had never seen this dragon before. What was the dragon guarding?
This dragon was the smallest dragon Jeff had ever seen. It was barely as big as his talons. It was a neon blue with teeny-tiny rainbow scales. But its wings were ridiculously large–at least ten times bigger than the dragon. Those rainbow scales looked so fluffy and soft. Jeff fought back a rush of fear. This dragon was so scary. He had rainbow scales and Jeff was deathly allergic to rainbows. The dragon smelled like chocolate – a sickly sweet odor DISGUSTING! Weirdly, the dragon kept snapping like he might be catching flies, but Jeff didn’t think he had a real purpose to his snapping. It was just a weird twitch.
Suddenly, a chocolate juice cup appeared out of nowhere. Whoa! That’s strange, thought Jeff. The dragon stopped snapping and started slurping. Ick! Chocolate juice? Jeff hated chocolate juice. It tasted sooo bitter. He made a face. Ick! Ick! Ick! Gross.
Jeff had to see what was in the cave. Time for action. His best plan would be to turn invisible like hippogryphs were wont to do. He thought about the video game Fortnite and in a blink, he was not to be seen!
He flew invisibly into the cave. He took a moment to let his eagle eyes adjust to the dark and then he saw a pile of dragon eggs. Oooh-scary! More rainbow scaled dragons! He shivered. He had to destroy the eggs. He rushed at them and started to beat them with his talons, but they were impervious to his attack.
All of a sudden, he heard something. Bump. Bump. Bump. Uh-oh!
He didn’t see anything. What was that? What danger lurked? He was still invisible. He decided to investigate. He flew further into the cave. Bump. Bump. Bump.
He saw something very confusing. It was a pile of artillery, and next to it was one large broken egg. Bump. Bump. Bump.
But then there was a powerful roar. “I caught you!” Said the dragon.
“But I’m invisible. How come I was invisible earlier?” He asked
“Ha,” said the dragon. I just let you think that so I could follow you and see what you were up to. You tried to kill my eggs.” Bump. Bump. Bump.
The artillery exploded. Kaboom!
And then there were so many eggs, and a unicorn showed up. A teeny-tiny one riding a tank.
“Yay- my egg siblings! You’ve arrived,” said the unicorn.
Jeff felt very confused. What would happen next?
The “Cliffhanger” End.
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