The Legend of the Dragon

 

By: Tyler Nichols

 

      

 

       There once was a little dragon named Bob. Bob liked to play, fly, and start fires for his dad. But little did Bob know that he was a foster kid. Unlike his father who was a Lavaus Dragonus (That’s scientist talk for Lava Dragon) Bob was a Teenyus Dragonus (That’s scientist talk for Pigmy Dragon). Which meant that now when he was only a kid, he was about the same height as his friends, but when he got to be an adult he would only top five or six feet. While his friends became 20 feet or so. But what Bob didn’t know that his short height would cause the dragons to celebrate.

 

       About 30 years later Bob and all of his friends were grown-ups. Finally, Bob has noted that he probably isn’t the same species as his father. He was only six 1/2 feet high! While his father was a good 33 feet and eight inches high. All of Bob’s friends were at least 22 feet high. Sometimes they would laugh at Bob because of how short he was, but they were friends.

       All of them liked to destroy cities, set peoples hair on fire, and flying along side jet planes and scaring the people out of their wits. The group of friends had all moved just west of Vallhalla, which turned out to be a bad idea. Every time that they tried to destroy the city, set peoples hair on fire, or fly along side planes and scare people out of there wits, a flying monkey with super powers came and put them back in their home.

 

       One time they even tried to move somewhere and rake havoc but that mean old monkey (well that’s what the dragons called him any way) came and busted them.

 

One day the dragons were lying around being bored when Bob had an idea.

“Who has the strongest breath of us all?” He wondered aloud

“I do!” Joe said.

“No I do!” Sam said.

“No, I do.” Tom said calmly (he was the biggest and oldest of the quartet).

“OK, maybe you are the biggest and oldest Tom but that doesn’t mean that you have the hottest breath.” Sam said, “You know why don’t we have a contest. Here is how it will work. We will all go to that monkeys house in Vallhalla and ask him for some big sheets of sheet metal. Then, we will each blast one with our fire breath for 30 seconds and who ever makes the biggest hole wins!”

“Good idea!” Bob said. The dragons flew to Vallhalla and asked the monkey if they could barrow some sheet metal that was about 10 feet by 10 feet. It turned out that Sam had the best breath after he tied with Tom, so they had to go back and get two bigger pieces of sheet metal.

“OK, now for the second part of my plan,” Bob said, “first Sam you go start wrecking the city (But not yet!) And that big monkey…

“Small monkey!” Tom interrupted.

       “Well he is a big monkey to me! Anyway, Sam you go wreck the city and that big monkey will come and throw you in jail…

       “Hey, and how come I have to go get thrown in Jail huh?

       “Because that’s why we had those tests. So the one with the strongest flame could melt the wall and escape! Anyway the big monkey will come and throw you in jail wile we go and sneak into the city and destroy it wile the big monkey is trying to throw you in jail. So we all get to have fun.” Bob finished explaining his plan.

“OK!” The other dragons all agreed. So the dragons proceeded into the city and all went according to plan until there was only one building left. The monkey lay on the ground flat as a pancake since Sam had trampled him. All of the dragons were blowing like crazy even Bob. But the building just wouldn’t budge or melt or do anything at all. All the dragons had been able to burn down was the front door. Then Joe had an idea.

       “Guys stop blowing! I have an idea. Why doesn't Bob fly trough the front door and try blowing it up form the inside!”

       “Great idea Joe!” The other dragons said in unison. So bob flew in though the door and sure enough the other dragons soon saw the metal turning red as it heated up. It started to melt away and in a minute or so there was a gaping hole in the building. Then all of the dragons got inside and in one big huge breath they blew the building right down.

 

       After that the dragon quartet celebrated and celebrated all day and all night. And they celebrated around Bob because he had the grand idea.

 

The End