The Dragon's Wish

(An interactive by Tweekma and Elijah Ridic-my 13 year old daughter, hereafter to be called, A T&E Works)


The Dragon's Wish
(A T&E Works)


I should have known that Miz Bettina was having a bad day when I showed up at her doorstep and she hollared out, "What do you want now miss prissy britches?" Miz Bettina is our little kingdom of 'Fercryinoutloud's' answer to a sorceress. Anything you needed, you went to her. This day I happened to be in a bad mood myself. Mother had asked me to make my bed! Me, the princess of Fercryinoutloud. What is this world coming to when a princess has to make her own bed? I mean for crying out loud! Anyway, I had come to see Miz Bettina for a bed-making spell. That's why I am the princess and everyone else is not. They probably would have just gone and made their own bed. And I, on the other hand, would find a way to have it done. Just as a princess should. Anyway, back to Miz Bettina. I answered her very grumpy and very rude greeting with a rather polite (or so I thought) "Get out here you old battle-axe, I the princess Luvmyself, need a bed making spell. And make it snappy!"


"Don't mouth me like that you sassyprat!" Miz Bettina said hobbling out of her worn down house. "Hmph," I said, pootching out my lips as I always did to my father before I worked myself into a royal tantrum. "I need a bed making spell! Make it quick now I have things to do!" I said, tossing my lovely hair over my lovely shoulders in a lovely princess-like way. Miz Bettina looked me over like I was some kind of cowpatty she had accidentally stepped on. She waved her hand, as if brushing away a fly, and said, "Come back tomorrow, miz snootybritches, I am in no mood for your royal bummy idears. My eyes widened in anger. I marched right up to that old piece of bolony faced cow and said, "POO!" I was so angry I could hardly speak. All that came out was..Poo. The old woman narrowed her eyes and bared her yellow, decayed teeth, boy did she need to brush. I wanted to reel back and run screaming at the sheer terror that was hidden in her mouth. But as a princess should, I held my ground. She stepped back waving her hand once again, "Begone you demon's whelp" she said in a very hoity-toity voice. I shouted in rage and stamped my foot. "POOEY POO POO POO POO!" She started to laugh at me for my loss of words. How dare she laugh at me! I, the princess Luvmyself. For crying out loud! My face was beet red. (Are beets red? I don't know because I don't eat them) When Miz Bettina continued to laugh I screamed and threw myself down. Then she laughed even harder. So I took off my shoe and threw it at her! It struck her square on her old schnozz! "Who's laughing now?" I said, with my lips still pooched. They would not un-pooch until I had gotten my way. Everyone in the kingdom knew that fact.


Miz Bettina very calmly picked herself up from where she had been knocked down by my artfully aimed, size 12 princess slipper. As she turned around, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. The look on her face was very like mothers' when I got a little (o.k. a lot) too princessy. Yep, this day was not turning out well at all! Miz Bettina began to glow. First a whitish halo surrounded her. Then the glow changed to a deep purple. Kind of pretty actually. Then she spoke (as they have come to be known as) THE DREADED WORDS..."Little miss sassyprat...take this and take that. This you shall remain until you can regain...that with which you should have came!" "What's that supposed to meeeee..." I stopped talking immediately as smoke was billowing from my nose. Just like mayor Puffabunch down in Smokydale. This was just not my favorite moment. I walked over to the water trough to get a look at myself. Well farfanders and sheedlesnoots! I saw looking back at me the largest purple dragon I had ever seen. Having never seen a dragon I assumed it was the largest. Long pink ears with purple tufts stuck straight out from the sides of my dragon head.


"...gods blood and giant's teeth!" "what have ye done to me ya old hag?" I cried out as large purple claws with pinkish scales on them replaced my hands. But the old woman had disappeared. I felt my mouth getting larger, I opened it to see it full of large dragon teeth. Bones sprouted from my back into large purple wings. "AHHHHH!!!! MY BUMOLEY IS COVERED WITH SCALES!!!!" I hollered and screamed as scales popped up.


The ground shook as I went into a full scale princess Luvmyself temper tantrum! The water sloshed out of the water trough, Miz Bettina's house danced around on it's foundations. Nearby boulders got "jiggy with it." The cows in the field munched their cuds without a concern, between ten foot bounces into the air. I began to notice that not a soul was paying attention to my earth-quaky tantrum. So I stopped. Then I began to cry enormous, violet colored tears. I began to notice that not a soul was paying attention to my beautifully colored tears. So I stopped. Hummmm...what to do next, I'd never had to go past tears before to get results.


As I the dragon (formerly the princess Luvmyself) looked around, I noticed there was no audience. Hmmm...better check to make sure! I stretched my neck high. Then I stretched my neck low. Yep, sure enough, no one had witnessed my magnificent tantrum. That was a first! I sat down with a resounding thud. Well those scales were good for something, I did'nt feel those stickers I sat on, at all. O.K. point one for scales. Hmmm what to do now...just then Miz Bettina came out of her house with a suitcase in her hand. "Well princess Poo-Poo it's time for my annual visit to Spa Magica. I shall be gone for a month...ta-ta. With that she disappeared with very loud puttputtputtpoo..ooof. You could have stuck a wagon wheel in my big ole dragon's mouth, with my big ole dragon jaw resting on the ground. Then I noticed a bunch of flies flitting in and out of my mouth. (I guess they thought it was a cavern) I closed my mouth with a tremendous snap. "Ouw ouw ouw I justh bith my tugue" I yelled to no one in particular. (Which was a particularly good thing because as we know this would have been cause for an enormous scene) As it was, I just sat there looking most pitiful, with my tongue dangling most pitifully, out of the side of my mouth.


I pooched out my lips, but I knew it was useless. Absolutely no one was here. So I spread my big wings and set off to the sky. It was pretty nice up here, especially the view of my castle. I flew until I reached the edge of my kingdom. I flew straight on past the edges of Fercryinoutloud. I flew a little higher to clear the smoke wafting up from Smokydale. (cough, cough) "This isn't so bad" I thought as I turned one-eightys and flipped. Suddenly, my wing cramped up! "Ohhheeeaaaaahhh!" I cried like a banshee as I plummeted into The Ocean on the outskirts of Smokeydale. I hit the water with a loud (and very ungraceful) Thakkissshhh! I sank straight to the bottom of the ocean beside the coral reef. My eyes were filled with large violet tears as my wing uncramped very painfully. The fish nosed at me, skitting and gliding between my massive wings. I realized I had never been to the ocean before. My pouted lip, un-pouted. After lying on the bottom for about an hour, I turned right side up (for I had landed on my bumoly, most painfully.) The bottom of the ocean was quite beautiful. Fish swam in and out of the coral, dolphins cried out their emotions, all enjoying the sunny afternoon on the reef.


After I turned right side up I noticed a little blue fish with big green eyes lying very still in the spot I had just vacated. I gave it a nudge with one of my claws. All of a sudden it puffed up real big then blew a bunch of bubbles from it's mouth. He swam up to my big dragon snout and sat down. He told me his name was Bluey. Then proceeded to cry little blue tears. I asked him what was up with the little blue tears. Bluey stood up on my snout and went into the best little tantrum I had ever seen. All the while mumbling between bubbles something about me mushing his house. "Hey" I told him, "Stop jumping on my nose. You're givin me a snout-ache. You know that was one very impressive tantrum. Take it from someone that knows. I am the Princess Luvmyself." At that Bluey stopped and said, "You don't look like the Princess Bunchabratty...I mean the Princess Luvmyself. My eyes got real big. "Is that what everyone calls me behind my back?" I asked him. "Welll...not everyone" he answered. I didn't think I wanted to know any other names that I might be called. So I changed the subject. "Soooo, that was your house I mushed? Hmmmm, let's see if we can't fix it." "That would be great," Bluey said. "I think I'm gonna give you a new name, how about Princess Lovey?" "Wow, really! I think I like that alot" I told him. So we spent the next hour building Bluey the biggest and best little house on his part of the ocean floor. I even made his little bitty beds for him. All of a sudden a very large, very bright lightbulb went on over my head. That's when it hit me, this bed making wasn't so bad. I said good-bye to Bluey, gave him a big slobbery kiss and flew out of there likkety-splitt. I had to find Miz Bettina, to tell her what I had discovered. Now where would I find Spa Majica?


I had no clue where to begin looking.



So I headed for Smokydale. Bluey had given me some seagum to chew on while we built his house. It was actually pretty good. Maybe I could get the people of Smokydale to chew seagum instead of smoke.

As I landed on the outskirts of Smokydale, too smoky to land in town, the mayor was there to greet me. He had seen me coming. Don't ask me how through all that smoke. I told him my idea about the seagum. By now everyone from Smokydale was there. So I passed out the gum to every one. They chewed and chewed and pretty soon began blowing some of the biggest green bubbles I'd ever seen. Some of the little Smokyites had to be weighted down because they started to drift off with their bubbles. The smoke was already thinning in Smokydale. Everyone wanted more seagum so I flew beck and got as much as I could carry, which was quite a bit for a big purple dragon. When I got back to Smokydale the people were holding a town meeting to change their town name. I put their seagum down and sat quietly while they were deciding. Wow, I had never sat still before, what was happening to me? Anyway, when they had decided on their new name they all ran up to me to tell me what it was.

The Mayor was now going to be called "Mayor BiggyBubble" and the town name would be changed to "Bunchabubbledale." I told them I thought the new names were right smart. I also told them where to get more seagum should they ever run out. I gave them all big slobbery kisses and told them I had to go. But before I did I asked them if they knew where Spa Majica was. Of course no one did.

So off I flew, still trying to get some seagum off my ear that someone had stuck there during all that kissing. I guess I was not the only Buchabratty in the world.

As I still had not made my bed, I decided I would fly home, get something to eat and make my bed. Boy the look on Mom and Dads face was going to be priceless when they saw my big purple self.

As I buzzed over the castle everyone came outside to see what was going on. I made a perfect dive bomb, triple flip, double somersault, with landing into a sit position. Wow! I was getting good with these wings. As I sat there waiting for the applause that was due such a fine piece of manuevering, I noticed everyone was just standing there with their mouths open. I think I hear those flies coming again. Well, I guess no one was going to applaud so I said, "Hey Mom and Dad, what's for dinner?" Well I surely didn't think their mouths could open any further, but sure enough they did. Yes I'm sure of it now, those flies were getting closer. I told them to close their mouths before they catch some flies. Everyone closed their mouth with a very loud chlick. I could see I had my work cut out for me, with everyone on stun and doop. "Hey guys it's me..princess..Luvmyself, ohh yea and you can call me Princess Lovey from now on, I like it better!"


I told my story for all to hear right there in the courtyard of the castle. Every once in a while someone would leave their mouth open a little too long and in would go one of those pesky flies. When I finished my story I told mom that I was really hungry. She had the servants move stuff out of the way so I could get to the dining hall. You know, I even helped moved some stuff. Of course that brought even more open mouths, boy those flies were having a field day!


I moved my chair out of the way and just sat on the floor at my place at the table. I do admit I probably ate a little more than I usually do. But the potatoes, the vegies, and ohh those legs of lamb (five all together) were absolutely fabu. As dinner ended, I told mom and dad that I was sleepy and that I was going to retire for the evening. I even said thank-you for the lovely dinner. That of course brought more open mouths and more flies. As I waddled my big purple self up to my room, I thought to myself what a great day this had been. I had made so many new friends. There really was something to this nice and polite stuff.


As I squeezed the last of my big purple self through my door I noticed that my bed still hadn't been made. With a very large sigh I made my bed, no wrinkles or anything! I kneeled beside my bed to say my prayers, and before I finished I added one last thing. I wished that Miz Bettina was having just as good a time as I had ended up having. I laid my big purple head on my bed, the rest of me had to stay on the floor, and drifted off to sleep with visions of Bluey's great temper tantrum in my head and a smile on my face.


As I woke the next morning and stretched, I noticed that I was me, the Princess Lovey, again. I got up and did the lemonade dance around my bed. With a silent thanks to Miz Bettina I made my bed, no wrinkles or anything. And then went down to breakfast, all the while still trying to get the rest of that gum out of my ear.


THE END