By 5th Grade Students at Garden Gate Elementary
November 2014
The dragon guarded her cave. Zorgon, the alien, watched. It had no idea what the dragon guarded.
Zorgon was about four-feet tall and the dragon was at least double that. She was neon red. Unlike Zorgon who had five horns, this dragon only had two – but they were much bigger horns. They were light yellow. Each of her wings was bigger than Zorgon, and they were the darkest red it had ever seen. The dragon’s eyes were nothing to speak of. She only had two and they were just emerald-colored. Its three eyes were a much more beautiful light blue.
The dragon’s scales, which covered her back all the way to her tail looked pointy and sharp. Her belly, arms and legs had slippery-looking skin, like a fish. She smelled disgusting. She smelled just like Zorgon’s panda-alien pet that insisted on rolling around in all sorts of matter. Yuck!
The dragon was roaring, but not at Zorgon. In fact, she looked sleepy. Her eyes were blinking shut. Zorgon thought she roared when she was about to fall asleep. Besides the roar, everything was silent.
Zorgon took a bite out of its favorite sweet treat–the muffle. It loved the super sweet flavor and how bready it tasted.
Zorgon really wanted to know what the dragon was guarding. It had a plan. It snuck away and caught a lamb. It brought the lamb back and shooshed it toward the dragon.
As soon as the dragon saw the lamb, she stopped roaring and acting sleepy. Zorgon thought she might be hungry, but she also got a look in her eyes as if she wanted to protect the lamb. She followed it away from the cave.
Zorgon ran into the cave. It was brightly lit. The first thing it saw was a baby dragon, a perfect miniature of the mama dragon outside.
It smiled. I’m going to take this dragon away, it thought.
It rushed the baby and snatched him. Then Zorgon snuck back out of the cave. Just as it left the cave, the mama dragon turned away from the lamb and saw it. When she saw the baby dragon in Zorgon’s arms, she shot it an evil stare and roared loudly. The noise shook the ground.
The mama dragon leapt at Zorgon. She grabbed her baby. Her quick action shocked and stunned Zorgon. It ran as fast as it could toward the ship. It looked over its shoulder as it ran. It saw the dragon leave her baby with the lamb and motion to the lamb to take care of him. Then she followed Zorgon.
Not watching where it was going, Zorgon tripped. It was just in front of its ship. The dragon caught it. The dragon flew with Zorgon in her talons back to the cave. She flew inside. The dragon’s talons hurt Zorgon whose skin was pretty soft. Fortunately for Zorgon, she dropped it. and it landed safely on the floor of the cave. Suddenly, eight well-armed humans rushed into the cave. They saw the dragon.
One yelled, “There’s a dragon, let’s kill it!”
They rushed the dragon. Zorgon didn’t think they saw it. Then the men froze. What the heck? Zorgon realized that the dragon was somehow controlling the fighters. How was she doing that? How was she getting into their heads?
With a roar, the dragon flew past the frozen males, grabbed Zorgon, and flew out of the cave. Just as the dragon and Zorgon left the cave, the lamb brought the baby dragon into the cave. The mama immediately pivoted back and followed the lamb inside. The lamb was pushing frozen fighting males to the side to make room for the baby.
Zorgon struggled free of the dragon’s talons and fell back to the ground. Once again it ran out of the cave. A blue and white male dragon appeared over Zorgon. He grabbed it. Oh no! Caught again. Luckily, its friends arrived with their spaceship and wrestled Zorgon free from the dragon!
Yay! Zorgon and its friends raced back to the ship. They tried to fly away. But the dragons managed to stop the ship from taking off. They dragged Zorgon out of the ship and threw the ship away.
“You can’t go with them!” yelled the male dragon. “I heard them say that they were going to mutilate you. They are bad!”
Zorgon stayed with the dragons for the rest of its life!
The End.
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