By 5th Grade Students at Regnart Elementary
May 2012
The dragon guarded his cave. Lebron James watched. That dragon had stolen the NBA solid gold championship trophy. Lebron wanted that trophy back!
The dragon was huge, at least 5 stories high. He was a bright and dark blue. His name was Glaidr. His talons were longer than LeBron’s height. Glaidr had spiky teeth that a vampire would envy. LeBron thought the dragon’s scales would be rough to the touch like touching crushed rocks.
The dragon did smell wonderful even though LeBron was upset with him. He smelled like dirty, unwashed socks, basically like a gym, one of his favorite scents. As usual, Glaidr was roaring and breathing fire. The roar was so loud that LeBron thought it could be heard from one hundred miles away. However, so far, Glaidr had not seen LeBron. Despite all the roaring and the fire-breathing, Glaidr was still managing to snack on his favorite food—a plugged-in television. LeBron would prefer never to eat a television. He liked udon himself. He thought a TV would taste burnt and crunchy.
In addition to the constant dragon roar, LeBron heard a heap of growling coming from within the cave. It was as if the entire crowd in the Maimi Stadium had burst into growls. What could be making that racket?
LeBron had a plan, he was going to throw bananas at the dragon. LeBron started throwing. Glaidr went after the bananas, eating them whole as quickly as LeBron could shoot them. Suddenly, another dragon crawled out of the cave. It was even bigger than Glaidr. And then more poured out. There had to be a thousand dragons—all bigger than Glaidr. LeBron needed help! He dialed Dwayne Wade on his iPhone.
“Dwayne come now! Or I’m dinner!”
Dwayne came immediately. He said, “Hand me a banana.”
LeBron did. Dwayne ate the banana and turned into his alter ego—Banana-Man! Banana-Man pulled out his banana-shooter and began to pelt the dragons with bananas. Meanwhile, LeBron hid behind his friend. He could deal with one dragon but a thousand? That was just to much. The bananas were special. As they poked dragons, ropes shot out and tied the dragons up.
The dragons finally saw Banana-Man and LeBron, and they were mad. All thousand and one dragons roared. It was if one million volcanoes exploded all at once. LeBron’s ears hurt from the sound. He thought they might explode. LeBron fell to the ground. Fortunately, Banana-Man had head phones on so he didn’t get the brunt of the terrible noise. Then Banana-Man ran out of bananas!
“Oh oh!” Banana-man said. “It still looks like one hundred dragons are still loose.”
LeBron added, “and they are coming for us.”
Banana-man turned back into Dwayne. Dwayne threw a jalapeno to LeBron.” Eat it!” he yelled.
LeBron ate and boy did it burn his throat. Anger grew from within his belly. He began to spin and rise into the air. With a loud earthquake shake, he morphed into Jalapeno-Man. He had power. He could make creatures burn from within as if they were eating a jalapeno.
He threw a jalapeno at the dragons approaching and when it touched the first dragon, the creature cried like a baby. Tears streamed down his face. Suddenly, the dragons cried out. It was as if they were calling for someone.
From the top of the cave, a creature exploded out. He yelled, ”I am Doctor Zomboss.” He started throwing Zomblies at Jalapeno-Man and Dwayne…
The “Cliffhanger” End.
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