By 5th Grade Students at Regnart Elementary
April 2013
The dragon guarded her cave. Gollum watched. Golllum had no idea what was in the cave.
“Precious, what couldst be in the caves?” he whispered.
He had never seen such a huge dragon. She was ginormous – as large as the school he had gone too many, many, many years ago when he was still small. She was blue, green, gold, and silver. She had four horns on the top of her head that were so long and tall Gollum couldn’t see their tips.
She had spikes all over. He thought she would feel just like a cactus. She also was slimy and gooey. She smelled just like a fast food restaurant.
“Yecks, don’sts like it,” he said. “It’sts not raw. Smells horrible. Makes me wants to puke.”
As the dragon shifted she made a horrible noise – high-pitched and very squeaky.
“Hurtsies my earsies.” He held his hands over his ears.
The dragon was eating the world’s largest donut. Despite Gollum’s love for raw fish, he started to think the donut looked tasty! It was the shape of his precious, but it smelled sweet and sugary. He wanted a bite.
Gollum decided to create a diversion. He pushed a very large boulder over a cliff. As he watched, the boulder fell into a muddy lake. The dragon looked toward the sound of the boulder falling. The dragon spread her wings and flew over to investigate.
“Yessssss.” Gollum crawled quickly into the cave. The first thing he saw was a crack in the cave’s ceiling that dripped water into a creek running through the cave.
“Perhapsssss donutsies come from the creeksies.”
In fact, he found a donut next to the cave. It was about as big as him. He threw it into the stream, hoping it would bring him to where more donuts were. He jumped on and floated down the stream as if the donut was a log.
Up ahead he saw the wall of the cave. The stream was crashing into the wall. It was a dead end!
“Yes!” This was going to be coolsies! A crash!
He crashed into the wall and flew into the air. When he landed he heard a funny squeak. He looked up. Another dragon looked over him. He looked as big as a classroom, but Gollum thought he was quite young.
The dragon burped! The burp smelled like fishies. Yumm. He liked the smell of fishies. The baby dragon leaned over Gollum, reached into the water and pulled out a flopping fish. He dropped it in front of Gollum as if it was a gift.
Boy did he want that fish. But could this be a trap? He cautiously reached over to the fish, picked it up, wacked it on a rock and swallowed it, singing all the way. “How I loves juicy fishies.” All of a sudden, Gollum saw the world go dark and he was falling down a slimy tunnel. Oh no, the baby dragonsie had eatens him whole.
He had to act quickly. He saw a fire pouch and chewed it open. He started a fired i the dragon’s belly. The dragon lurched, then lurched again. Then a huge flood happened with Gollum in the middle. He flew up and out of the dragon’s mouth. He was covered in slime and goo and all sorts of half-eaten food, especially donuts. Gollum ran and crawled as fast as he could toward the cave entrance. But the much larger dragon had arrived. She stood between him and escape.
There was only one thing he could do. He slipped his precious ring on his finger. POOF! He disappeared into the strange place where he was invisible, but he could make out everything around him.
He decided to play a little tricksies on the dragon. He tickled her. That made the dragon very mad. She blew green flame. The baby dragon arrived. Before his mama could stop herself, she flamed him. The baby dragon threw himself on the ground , screaming and rolling in a terrible tantrum. Fortunately, he rolled the fire out. All his anger caused him to grow three times bigger than before.
The mama and baby dragon started searching the cave. Gollum knew they searched for him. He jumped on a donut in the stream and paddled toward the entrance. Then the big mama dragon reached over and grabbed the donut with Gollum on top. He rose in the air.
“Yessss,” Gollum whispered. “Thiss iss excitingsies!” AS he rose he chewed on the donut. “Likesies this donutsies!”
In one large gulp the huge dragon swallowed Gollum and Gollum slid through the slime into her belly. “Oh no-sies!” But then he thought, “At least now I can enjoy my donutsies!” Yumsies!”
All of a sudden, Gollum heard someone yell: “Here I come to save the day!”
Then someone else yelled, “Look it’s a bird, no it’s a plane…”
Suddenly, someone shot toward Gollum. It was a man wearing underwear and a cape.
“I am Superman and I am here to save you!” the man said.
He grabbed Gollum. How did Superman see him? He must have special powers.
Gollum checked and his ring was still there. Superman picked him up and flew out of the cave! They flew off into the horizon.
Gollum mumbled, “He betster stay away from my preciousssss!”
The End.
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