All in Age: 4
Dragon Little’s fourth birthday was over, and when it ended, thoughts entered my mind.
These were thoughts I did not care about, but they came.
I thought of my own birthdays… of my fourth birthday, so many centuries ago. I thought of how I had been a slave, how, at this stage, while I was still… pliable… the evil ones had me do their bidding by hurting me and hurting me and hurting me.
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Dragon Father had flown with a jetpack to Bonny’s Revenge, waiting for them high above the base of the Martian Space Pirates.
He navigated the ship down to the Martian earth, where Dragon Little and the handcuffed Martian Space Pirates waited for them.
Dragon Little, only four years old, danced a little dance. “I win! And you lose! I win and you lose!”
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Dragon Little stood in the doorway, little sword in one hand and little laser gun in the other.
Inside stood a Martian Space Pirate, three times taller than her, a large sword in his scabbard and a big laser gun behind his back. Behind him stood three more Martian Space Pirates. All of them looked at the door as he opened.
“Ha ha!” Dragon Little shouted at them. “I win! You lose!”
Dragon Father, standing beyond the fence, and looking from afar, slapped his forehead. “Never say you win before you win, Joy! We talked about that!”
The Martian Space Pirates were surprised for an instant. Then they stood up as one and all four armed themselves.
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There were three Martian Space Pirates inside. The Martian Space Pirates are one of the few criminals that Dragon Little and Dragon Father never caught in all the years I had been there. They remained behind when Dragon Father disappeared, but they never cause too much trouble when he ist gone unless they are already a part of the adventure.
Dragon Little took out her laser pistol and unsheathed a small sword.
“Don’t go in through the front door, Joy,” Dragon Father whispered to himself.
Dragon Little went to the front door, armed in both hands.
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Dragon Father and Dragon Little landed inside the base of the Martian Space Pirates.
Their hang gliders disappeared as soon as they landed.
Although I knew it to be Dragon Little’s birthday, Dragon Father had never mentioned it - or what a birthday ist in all the time I had spent with them so far. And so Dragon Little did not know it. Perhaps it ist also true that Dragon Father would not know it. But then, how ist it that he came to raise Dragon Little?
I do not know the answer to that one. I had only arrived when they were already together, seemingly forever.
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High above the mountains of Mars, Dragon Little stood on the railing of Bonny’s Revenge holding her hang glider. Keeping her balance perfectly, she looked down.
Dragon Father looked at her from the wooden deck, holding his own hand glider. He had an amused smile on his face.
“Are you sure you’re okay doing this, Dad?” he asked his daughter.
She tried to hold her hang glider correctly, but it was awkward.
“I’ve done this maaaaany times, Joy,” she said. “Trust me.”
She held on to it correctly. “Are you coming, slowpoke?” she said.
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Bonny’s Revenge arrived at Mars.
“Look, Joy, over there!” Dragon Little told Dragon Father. She was now playing as Dragon Father, and he, apparently, as Dragon Little.
“That’s the base of the Martian Space Pirates!” Dragon Father said. His headache was mostly gone now, and he seemed to be willing to play along with his daughter on this adventure.
In front of them, mountains appeared out of a mist. Dragon Father had created them - his subconscious did, at least.
“Very good, Joy! Very good!” Dragon Little told her father. “You’re getting really good at this!”
Dragon Father smiled and covered his mouth with his hand.
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“Martian Space Pirates? Joy, they’re a tough group. You can’t take them alone.”
“I’m Justin the Pirate! You’re Joy!”
“Ah, right.”
“Don’t be such a lily-livered wuss, Joy!”
“What?” Dragon Father looked up in surprise. That was not a phrase Dragon Little or Dragon Father had used on each other.
“Don’t be a wuss, Joy! Get up!” she commanded. “We’re going on adventure, not vacation!”
Dragon Father collapsed on the deck, laughing.
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Another year of freedom from my centuries of slavery had passed. I was free and watching over those who had freed me, silently, secretly, guarding the amazing human girl Joy Shelley, whom I lovingly call Dragon Little. With every day that passed my love for her grew, and how I did wish that I could have children and to have a child like her.
Another year had passed, and once again I was the only one who noticed that Dragon Little’s birthday had come once more. Dragon Father never mentioned her birthday and therefore Dragon Little never talked about it. Perhaps she did not know she had one.
But I knew when she was born. So many out there, outside Dragon Father’s dreams, knew when she was born, were looking for this special child.
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Joy Shelley, the girl I have come to call Dragon Little, was only a few weeks past being four and a half years old when I saw her do something I have never seen her do.
Her father, Justin Shelley, the one I call Dragon Father, had disappeared at the end of another fun adventure. Another prisoner had been added to the villains in the Infinite Prison in the infinite corridor in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
Dragon Little sat on the plank and stared glumly at the ocean.
Then, suddenly, she jumped up to a standing position on the plank, and walked back to the deck. She walked down the stairs which led to the Infinite Prison and out of my sight.
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Dragon little had begged, demanded, begged, then demanded again to get into the stream and swim. Dragon Father allowed her to do it for only half an hour, while the witches waited in the pub called The Green Dragon. And, yes, I do believe Dragon Father was thinking of me when he created that pub out of nothing.
Now the half hour had passed, and Dragon Father lowered the rope ladder to one side of the river.
“Joy!” he yelled again. She was so engrossed in her game that she hadn’t seemed to hear him.
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She hopped off the ship, went to the edge of the cloud, and peered down without fear.
It was quite a distance downwards.
She then took off her pants and panties, crouched down, and peed into the air.
She stood up, put her pants and panties back on, and looked down at the water falling.
Then she smiled.
I have seen that mischievous smile many times before.
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Dragon Little took the ship in close, but did not land.
The ship hovered above the shop. The clients were gone, the parking lot was empty. But almost everyone disappeared when Dragon Father woke up. She no doubt considered the fact that there were probably no clerks and sellers in the store.
She climbed the plank and looked down, feet keeping her balance with confidence.
She stood there for another few minutes, considering what she should do.
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“Weapons shop! Weapons shop! Weapons shop!” 4-year-old Dragon Little was jumping up and down and shouting this mantra all the way from Earth’s ocean to the asteroid belt and to the asteroid that held the weapons shop.
It was time for their yearly visit to the small meteor that only appeared once a year in the asteroid belt.
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“Ah! Finally! We have caught the Jolly Pirate and his gang red-handed!” exclaimed the King happily. “Arrest them!”
“Huh? What?” Dragon Little, 4 years old and used to adventure, looked at her father, confused.
“I told you, it’s Backwards Day!” Dragon Father seemed happy.
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“There’s the palace!”
By the time Backwards Day was about to end, Dragon Little had fallen in love with it.
Dragon Father and Dragon Little were approaching a hidden palace hidden between two snow-capped mountains on a nameless planet.
Dragon Father was helming Bonny’s Revenge backwards, standing behind the wheel rather than in front of it, facing the back of the ship, and steering the back of the ship.
Dragon Little, finally excited after their last fight with the Jolly Pirate and his minions, was at the Crow’s Nest atop the mast, guiding her father.
“Over there!” she pointed. “They have a landing bay for flying ships!”
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“Watch, Dad, this is how you lose!”
Dragon Little, only 4 years old and already an experienced sword-fighter and adventurer, stood next to her father, surrounded by pirates. This was Backwards Day, in which, as Dragon Father had defined it, they were doing everything backwards. They flew Bonny’s Revenge backwards, they gave stolen treasure to pirates rather than steal it back, released a super villain rather than imprison him, and now fought him and his crew in order to lose the fight.
“Ha ha!” Dragon Little hit one of the pirate’s swords with her small sword.
“Ow!” both the pirate and Dragon Little said, and dropped the sword. They said the same thing, but only one of them was faking it.
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Dragon Father and Dragon Little chased the Jolly Pirate’s spaceship, backwards.
It was Backwards Day, after all, and all flying was done backwards. Bonny’s Revenge was so much faster than the villain’s spaceship that even though they were flying back first, they still had to try very hard not to overtake it.
The Jolly Pirate joined with the rest of his pirates on a small meteor, where their base.
“What now?” Dragon Little asked, as they both looked over the railing at the pirates’ meteor base.
“Now we fight them!” Dragon Father said.
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Dragon Father and Dragon Little made two more stops in their Backwards Day, each time giving pirates treasure rather than taking it back. Dragon Little, who first enjoyed the thought of having a backwards day, was liking the day less and less.
“And now,” Dragon Father said, clapping his hands together excitedly. “We meet the villain.”
“Yai!”
“Let’s go,” he left the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge.
“Where is he?” Dragon Little ran after him.
“He’s in prison, of course!” Dragon Father said, getting closer to the stairs that lead to the Infinite Prison in the belly of the ship.
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“How do we do Backwards Day?” Dragon Little asked her father, once they parked Bonny’s Revenge, backwards, in the space dock around the Planet of Yesterday.
Bonny’s Revenge was the only wooden pirate ship in the space dock, among hundreds of steel and silver spaceships, and yet no one made a comment.
“It’s easy,” Dragon Father said. He had initiated Backwards Day just a few minutes ago, saying everything in today’s adventure will be backwards. “What do we do when we meet pirates and save the day?” he asked his four-year-old daughter.
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