By 5th Grade Students at Regnart Elementary
April 2013
Bob, the dragon guarded his cave. Puff, the dragon, watched. Puff really didn’t like Bob. They had been long time enemies. What was Bob guarding???
Bob was a big, white dragon, but he wasn’t as big as Puff. And white wasn’t nearly as beautiful as Puff’s pink scales. Bob’s snout was ridiculously long. Puff always felt like laughing when he saw it. However, Bob’s clear wings were very similar to Puff’s. Puff knew that Bob was very soft—fuzzy soft, exactly like Puff.
Bob smelled like a computer keyboard, like apples. Puff, on the other hand, smelled like a cheese puff, and he thought Bob smelled disgusting!!!
Bob was flaming the sky. Puff thought the way that Bob blew flame was freaky. He made a very high-pitched and loud noise when he blew fire. Puff couldn’t understand why he would do such a thing. So weird.
Puff munched on his cheese candy—his favorite snack. He loved the super salty and slightly sweet taste of cheese candy. As he chewed he thought to himself that he had to know what Bob guarded. He was going to sneak inside that cave!
As quietly as possible, Puff sneaked around to the back of the cave. Bob didn’t hear a thing because he was too busy flaming the sky. Puff started to make a hole in the cave wall using flame and clawing with his sharp talons.
After a few minutes of hard work, he had a hole in the cave. He could just barely squeeze through. He crawled into the cave. On the other side, the first thing he saw was a pig staring at him.
That immediately made him hungry—he loved him some pork chops. So that was what Bob was guarding—future food.
The next thing he saw was a phoenix. The phoenix was flying straight at him.
He ducked and swerved to the side to avoid the phoenix. Puff looked over his shoulder and saw the phoenix veer up to the cave ceiling before hitting the back of the cave. Puff had a feeling the phoenix was guarding something too!
Was the phoenix helping the dragon guard something? If so, it had to be more important than just a pig. What was it? He decided to explore the rest of the cave. In the distance, he saw a bright light. He moved toward the light. As he got closer, the light got brighter and when he was very close, suddenly, it was so bright that it blinded him.
Puff stumbled around. He couldn’t see! He stumbled into what seemed to be a large button. When he hit it, there was a loud noise and a portion of the cave seemed to open with loud crunching sounds. He felt his way into the new area. He heard the sound of very loud oinking, a lot of loud oinking. He had no idea how many pigs there might be but it sounded like a trillion.
He stumbled toward the oinking noises. As he got closer, the pigs started to make even louder noise. They seemed to be trampling him. He thought they were trying to hurt him. He started to cry.
Suddenly, he could see again. The tears must have washed away his blindness. Hurray!!! Directly in front of him was a circle of pigs and inside the circle was a huge mound of gold. That must be what the dragon and the phoenix were guard——-
Suddenly he was grabbed from behind. He looked over his shoulder and saw a four-hundred-pound sumo wrestler bear-hugging him. He flipped around and began to wrestle with the sumo wrestler.
They seemed to be well-matched because neither were able to pin the other down. As they wrestled, the pigs began to oink even more and squeal. Puff thought they were afraid.
The sumo wrestler flipped Puff on his back and sat on him. Puff blacked out.
Slowly he came to. He opened his eyes. What the heck happened? He could feel that his arms were being held. He looked up and saw Bob the dragon looming over him. He looked to his left and saw the sumo wrestler holding his arm down. How long was he out?
No time to think, he had to act. He blew flame on the sumo wrestler and the wrestler let him go. He jumped to his feet. Now he had the advantage over Bob because he was bigger.
Puff looked around. They were in a completely different part of the cave. The gold was nowhere to be seen. However, all of the pigs seemed to be there—all trillion. There was no sign of the phoenix.
Bob said in a low voice, “Oh my master, oh Darth Vader, please come quickly.”
Who the heck was Darth Vader? Puff had no idea. But the way that Bob called his name made Puff a little uneasy.
A creature, maybe a robot, maybe some weird sort of human, walked into the cave. He wore a black cape and had a strange black helmet-mask on. He carried a bottle which he took gulps from. He stumbled over to the dragons.
Bob said to Darth Vader, “Help!!!”
Darth Vader toppled to the ground and fell asleep—breathing very heavily so that Puff wondered if he was ill.
Puff turned his mind back to the gold that had been mounded before he blacked out. He wondered if the pigs could have eaten the gold and hidden it inside their little pork bellies. How could he find out? He decided that he would try to singe their hair off and maybe that would help him see through their pink somewhat see-through skin. He blew flame at the pigs.
They squealed a lot. He didn’t really care because he ate pigs for breakfast. But singing the hair off did not tell him anything about the gold. He could not see through their skin to gold in their belly. Maybe the gold was somewhere else in the cave.
He turned around. He would look elsewhere in the cave for the gold. Suddenly the sleeping Darth Vader jumped up.
He yelled, “What you don’t know!!!” He lifted the helmet off his head. Inside there was a cow. So Darth Vader, Bob’s master, was a cow!
Puff looked at Bob. Bob looked really scared.
Bob said, “I didn’t know you were a cow!!” He looked as if he might cry. He ran to another part of the cave. Puff followed.
Puff arrived just in time to see Bob scoop up the huge mound of gold and fly out of the cave!
Puff flew after Bob. But he soon realized that he had a broken wing. He started to fall to the ground. He landed hard. Darth Vader, the cow, stomped after him. The creature pulled out a long rod and suddenly it glowed red. It looked very dangerous.
Puff didn’t know what to do.
The “Cliffhanger” End.
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