A longtime ago there was a farmer. He grew crops and bred cows, sheep and pigs. He had a beautiful wife and three children, Mary the eldest, Max and Sarah the youngest. Sadly, one day the father became very sick and they were too poor to afford a doctor. The whole family feared that he might die if they didn’t find a cure, so all the children went into the town library and looked at every healing book in the library. Days past and they were almost through every single book and they hadn’t found a single thing that might be able to help their father, then, when they thought the all out of books but Mary found one in a dark corner of the library. It was pretty big and dusty like it hadn’t been opened in years, she opened it up and started flicking through the pages and she eventually found something, “Look! ” she said, ” It says here that years ago a piece of the sun fell from the sky and landed on the side of a mountain and the next day it rained and the piece of the sun became a flower. It’s said that the flower can heal all wounds and sickness but not death,”
“that means that if I do go after the flower I will have to get it back before dad dies.” Max said
“it also says that a fearsome dragon guards the flower so no one can use its powers.” Mary said. So, that night Max got ready to leave he packed food and water and his mother gave him a sword that she said was his father’s. With that he sat off to find the mystical sun flower to save his father.
A few days in and max was making good distance according to the map that Mary found in the book it would take him another day to get to the mountain. He was trying to enjoy the sights to take his mind off his father, “What if he was already dead.” he thought, “What if this whole journey was going to be for nothing.” He tried so hard to keep his mind off it but it was all he could think about, what if his father had died just now. So worried, Max started to run hoping that his father would hold out a few more days.
The mountain was now in site he could see a path that lead up to a ledge, Max couldn’t see if there was anything on it but he decided that the flower had to be there. So in no time at all max started to clime, even though there was a path it didn’t really make it much easier, the path was steep and narrow one stumble and Max was gone. He climbed cautiously looking for any kind of ledge or foot hole to help him up. He was starting to understand why this flower hadn’t been taken already it was almost impossible to get to in fact he was quite surprised that he he had made this far up the mountain. Max had almost reached the ledge it was within reaching distance, Max could feel the adrenaline of finally taking the flower back to his father and saving him. After the last climb he finally reached the ledge and there it was right in front of him ripe for the taking he was just about to pick it when he saw a massive shadow pass over him, he froze, he slowly looked up to see what exactly it was that passed over him, but when he did look up he couldn’t see anything, he waited to see if the thing would show and soon enough he heard an ear splitting shriek and then he saw the most horrifying creature in his life.
The book was right, a dragon kept swooping down trying to attack him and then fly back up to attack again. Max drew his sword his plan was to wait until the dragon attacked so he would strike it. Striking the dragon was easier said than done the dragon was nearly impossible to hit but the dragon was finding it easy to attack Max, he knew that if he kept getting struck then the dragon would knock him off the ledge down towards his death. Max was lying on the ground after the last strike from the dragon and he was right on the edge, but as Max was watching the dragon he noticed a missing scale, he thought that if he stabbed the dragon where the missing scale had been then he might just defeat it. So, Max backed up as far as he could and as the fierce some dragon began to dive down for another attempt Max readied himself. The dragon got closer and closer by the second, Max could feel his heart racing like a horse galloping across a field. Once the dragon was only a few meters from the ridge Max ran as fast as his legs could carry him and he jumped… They were both hurtling towards each other, Max saw his target right in front of him, he pulled back his sword and once he was close enough he stabbed the dragon right where the missing scale had been. The dragon cried out in pain and fell down onto the ledge. Max got up as quickly as he could thinking that the dragon would strike again but once the dust cleared he saw that the dragon was dead. Max had triumphed he was so pleased with himself that he couldn’t even feel his aching bones anymore, he had beaten the dragon and could finally return home and save his father.
It only took Max two days to get home, he was so worried about not making home in time that he ran the whole way. Once he finally reached his house he was terrified, it hadn’t occurred to him that he might have been to late until now but he tried to remain calm, he approached the door and with a shaky hand opened it, and the next thing he saw was the best thing he had seen in days, his father was alive he had mad it back in time to save his father. “Dad” he said “I’m back I have played the dragon and brought back the flower.”
“The flower needs to be put in a bowl of water so it can be drank by the person who needs it.” They got a bowl full of water, put the flower in it and gave it to their father. Once the father had drank it nothing happened, but after a few seconds the fathers face started becoming less pale he was no longer sweating the flower had worked Max had managed to find this great flower defeat the dragon guarding it and bring it back in time to save his father. The end.
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