Dragon Rock

Long, long ago in a far away land, near a deep valley, there were spiky green pine trees swooshing and swaying , while the cold , clear , spring water oozed and trickled along the valley floor. The villagers were very happy and the children loved to play through the grassy, green mountains.
But, not long away from there lived a dragon that looked just like a dragon sculpture from the Museum. The villagers weren’t afraid of the dragon because it would never move.
His skin was a powerful turquoise with yellow and red scales. He had beautiful brown eyes that shone in the firm sunlight, and his eye lashes were bendy like wavy sticks. The huge nostrils of his were like the size of exploding volcanoes and his smelly feet smelt just like old mouldy bread. His tail was as stiff as a tree root under the ground. Horrible smells like old rotten milk and mouldy cheese drifted from his body. His body felt like rough rocks and slime just like a jelly fish, and in some gaps between his scales he had gross little grass mountains . Also, worst of all he tasted just like sea salt with a hint of spice, YUK!
In the village there was one major problem, there had been no water in the valley for days and the ground would always soak up all the water . The villagers had to start washing their clothes in the old dishwashing water.

The townsfolk grew worried. The villagers would murmur depressing predictions to each other when passing by. The people from the village would always look up at the sky and search for rain and grey clouds in the blue, clear skies. But, none of them ever came.
3 days later the valley had turned browner, and their lawns had faded to crisp grass. All the children begged their parents to spend their last few dollars on water from old Mrs Greywistles supermarket. They were very happy to get the last bit of water for their thirsty children to drink. Every parent in the village started to go to old Mrs Greywisles supermarket to buy their children some water as well as themselves.
One day the parents got home from the supermarket and they felt a slight shake. The ground started to rumble and suddenly the ground sent explosions of soil and trees into the air, and the next explosion split a great big hole into the earth.

The people of the village squeezed up together against a wall near the dragon. They heard a noise like, Aahh Aahh Ahhchoo! The sneeze made a huge crack around the villagers. The crack started to make a huge lake right in the middle of the dusty, brown ground. The lake was shining through the sunlight. The people of the village started to get scared. At that very moment the dragon flew away and never was seen again .
Later on in the year the children of the village would spread flowers around the cave where the dragon had lived. From that day forward they would celebrate the dragon by putting flowers around the cave every month.
R.T.