Fairy Tale Revisited


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Max Maynor #9
31 March 2010

The Brave Dragon

         Once upon a time in England during the Middle Ages, there was a brave dragon named Briggs.  He lived in a castle with a prince named Max and a princess named Carsyn. Prince Max and Princess Carsyn were in love. They were happy because they were friends and liked to play with each other.  Their brave pet dragon Briggs always kept them company. The castle was near a forest and there was a dwarf named Susan who used to live in the forest but now lived in the castle for her protection from the evil king’s army.
         One day Princess Carsyn was on a horse ride in the forest and the evil king Todd jumped out from behind a tree and kidnapped her. He took her to the evil castle on the other side of the forest. When Prince Max found out she had been kidnapped, he snuck through the forest to the other side. Prince Max tried to rescue her by fighting the king. The evil king stabbed Max in his leg and he died.
         When Dwarf Susan heard that Prince Max has been killed and Princess Carsyn was in the hands of the evil king, she went back to the forest where she used to live and took the brave dragon Briggs with her and trained him to fight the evil king’s army and save the princess. She put sacks of grain in front of him and she made him blow his fire to destroy all the sacks. And she trained him to do karate.
         The brave dragon told the prince’s army to sneak up on the castle to attack while he went around the fight to kill the evil king and save the princess. He snuck around to the back door and came in to fight the evil king. He used all his karate moves but the king scratched him badly with his sword. Then he used his fire to destroy the king. He raced up to the high tower and knocked the door down with his karate moves and saved the princess. 
         The brave dragon and the princess were sad because they had lost the prince but they were happy they had each other. They lived happily ever after with Dwarf Susan.


The End.

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amy said…
i love this story.
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