By 3rd Grade Students at Bubb Elementary
March 2021
The very big and strong dragon guarded his cave. Bob the eagle watched. He knew this dragon. It was Tom!
Bob didn’t know what Tom was guarding, but he could hear a lot of screaming coming from the cave. It hurt his eardrums. He thought the screaming might be human.
Tom was huge. Thirty times bigger than Bob. He was also an interesting set of colors. Most of his body was white, but his belly was black. And his fiendish claws were black also. See-through sparks of yellow, red and white shot off his skin to the air. He had two big horns on his head and his claws looked so sharp that if you touched them you would bleed. Bob had made sure to never touch them.
Bob was grazed by Tom’s skin once. He knew it to be rocky and very scaly. Generally, he was careful to keep his distance.
Tom smelled like a dead animal. Bob was used to dead animals, but he wasn’t used to ones that were thirty times bigger than him. Tom wreaked. And while Bob liked to eat dead animals, he really didn’t want to smell one that was so overpowering. It made him a little sick to his stomach.
Bob had been watching the dragon for a very long time. All day, in fact. In the morning, Tom was quiet, but now that it was evening, he screeched even louder than the screaming creatures in the cave. It almost sounded as if he wanted to blend in with those creatures. Bob had never heard such a cacophony!
Suddenly a turtle flew by. Whoa! That was new. Bob had never seen a flying turtle before. She was eating three hotdogs! While he had seen hotdogs before, he had never seen a flying turtle stuffing her face with so many hotdogs before. Since this was his first flying turtle, he hadn’t even seen one flying turtle eat one hotdog.
“Hey,” he said. “I didn’t know flying turtles existed!”
She stopped chewing for a second. “Of course, we do. Have you been living under a rock? My name is Bobbette! What’s yours?”
“Whoa! My name is Bob! We practically have the same name.” Bob normally liked to eat turtles. But this turtle had almost the same name as him, and she flew! He decided not to eat her.
He might have asked her to share her hotdogs, but honestly, he thought they tasted like cupcakes and he really didn’t like cupcakes. Yuck.
“Bobbette, will you help me get into that cave?”
“You bet Bob!” she said.
He told her his plan. He would drill a hole with his talons and as he dug through to the cave, he wanted her to push dirt back in so that the dragon wouldn’t suspect anything.
“Sounds like a plan!” Bobbette said.
They put it into action.
But, the dragon saw the hole faster than Bobbette could cover it. He attacked! And Bobbette and Bob had to fly swiftly away!
“I have an idea,” Bobbette said. “I’ll distract the dragon, and you can swoop into the cave.”
“Sweet!” said Bob.
Bobbette flew at the dragon and started doing whirly-twirly tricks in the air. The dragon was transfixed. Possibly he had never seen a flying turtle before either.
Bob made his move. He swooped into the cave! It worked!
The first thing he saw was a wild lion running all over the cave. When the lion saw him, he roared and charged, and Bob had to fly all the way to the cave roof. The lion charged so hard that he charged straight out of the cave.
Deeper into the cave, Bob could still hear screams. What was making that terrible noise?
As he went to investigate, Tom lumbered back into the cave. Not only that, but the lion raced back in too. Tom roared at the lion. The lion roared back.
While the two were distracted by each other, Bob flew deeper into the cave. He made it into another very large chamber.
But there were no screaming creatures in it. The only thing there was a snake. Bob was tempted to take a break and eat the snake, but he didn’t think there was time. He needed to find out who was screaming and why!
He kept flying deeper into the cave.
In the next chamber, he found two humans. Aha! Humans were screaming! That was what was making all the noise.
As soon as they saw him, they stopped screaming.
“Help us,” they cried.
“I will,” he said.
“We’re Jane and Cecilia,” they said.
He said, “I’m Bob! Get on my back and I’ll fly you away!”
They climbed onto his back.
Bob flew. He couldn’t fly as fast as he would have liked now that he was weighed down by two humans, but he persevered. He made it through the snake chamber and then back to where the lion and Tom were roaring at each other.
When he arrived, Tom saw him! “What are you doing?” he bellowed.
“I’m rescuing these people,” Bob yelled.
Bobbette swooped in to help him.
“No you are not!” shouted Tom. He menacingly closed in.
Uh-oh! thought Bob. This was going to be harder than he had hoped.
Dun Dun Dun…
The “Cliffhanger” End.
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