All in Told by The Red Dragon
Dragon Father was furious over the mess on Bonny’s Revenge’s deck. While he was gone for hours (in his waking world), Bonny’s Revenge had been parked near the beach of an island. Dragon Little, now three and a half years old, had transported beach sand to the deck and played with it. A lot of beach sand.
“You just turned the deck into a beach! That’s what you did!”
Dragon Little shrugged.
“Double…”
“Decker…”
“Kedder…”
“No. Deck…”
“Deck…”
“Er…”
“Er…”
“Now together: Decker.”
“Kedder.”
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Dragon Father opened the book. He looked at it, but for some reason could not read it.
“What’s going on?” he said to himself. He turned a page. My sharp eyes could see from high above: The writing was foggy.
He moved the book closer to his eyes and further from his eyes. “Why can’t I see what it says?”
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When she came out, he was sitting down, his back leaning on the deck.
He was emotionally exhausted, and so was she.
“Come here,” he said, spreading his arms.
She made an angry face, then walked towards him. She fell into him and hugged him as he hugged her.
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Then, his sounds only muffled to even my ears, I heard him stop.
“Joy,” he said, but in a tone of impossible relief. “Joy, Joy…”
I heard him fall to his knees and exhale slowly.
“Joy, sweetheart. Wake up! Wake up!”
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“JOY!” he screamed at the top of his voice, and his voice, because it was his dream, echoed throughout the earth, the suns, the moon, and the stars.
“JOY!” his voice reached out to all corners of his dream.
Then he stopped and listened.
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“Joy!” Dragon Father ran from deck to deck, straining his eyes to see something he missed.
Then, at the fifth time he ran from deck to deck, he looked down at the ocean below him and his face fell in horror.
“On, no…” he whispered.
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“Jo-o-o-y!” he called her as he went in.
But then he went silent.
He came out of the cabin. “Joy!” he called. “Joy!”
He looked around as he waited, but no answer came.
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“Joy, come on, we’ve got bad guys to catch, damsels to save!”
“Shhh, shhh,” she put her tiny hand to his forehead. “You’re very tired.”
He sighed. “Yes, I’m very tired.”
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“Shh!” the captain said immediately. “Don’t wake her! She’s a lot of trouble when she’s awake!”
Dragon Little stirred at the noise.
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“Surrender, girl!” he screamed at the top of his voice and aimed his sword at her face.
“You know what you have to say, Captain Badass!” she said, at all flustered by the threat. “Tweedle weedle dee!”
He hesitated. He looked around at his pirates. He probably suspected her of using some kind of ploy, but was comforted by the numbers. “Eh…. Surrender… Please?”
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“They held them off at the border, fighting to the last feather. They held them off for the fifteen minutes we needed to regather our forces and to join the battle. By then they had died. But they had given their lives so that we all may live. They are heroes. A father cannot ask more than for his children to die in battle as they did.”
“Wow…” Dragon Little sounded speechless and awed.
Then, after a short silence, she said, “I want to die in battle.”
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Her head sunk for a second underwater, but she paddled hard, got it above water, and breathed.
She reached the rope ladder and grabbed it with all her force.
I could see what she was doing. She was teaching herself to swim.
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“Never mind. Look at this.” He pulled out a yellowish object the size of his palm. I have never seen anything like it. I did not know what it was. “This,” he emphasized. “Is a fruit. Uh, or a vegetable. I’m not really sure. It’s a fruit or a vegetable, okay? You eat it.”
She nodded, her eyes crinkling, not following what he is trying to say.
“Now look here,” he leaned into the ship and put the fruit-or-vegetable on the seat. “See?”
She nodded.
“Now I’m buckling it in…. There! See?”
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“Nah, nah, nah. You tried to poke my eyes out. You’re the cheater! I’m the mightiest of them all!” He held both arms to his sides and bent then, as if he was showing his muscles. Which he didn’t really have. Not in the dream, at least. I do not know what he looked like back on Earth.
“I’m the mightiest of them all!”
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He took a deep breath. They stared at each others’ eyes. “Now!” He said.
They stared at each at each other for a few seconds. Then, “You blinked!” he pointed at her. “I win!”
“No fair! No fair!” She was angry. “I wasn’t ready. Again!”
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“Hold on. Let’s try something.”
He bent his knees low, keeping his back straight, and grabbed Dragon Little under her armpits.
“Ready?” he asked.
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“Ready!” She did not ask ready for what.
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“Yes yes yes!” Dragon Father said.
“No no no!” Dragon Little replied, smiling.
“Yes yes yes!” He nodded.
“No no no!” She shook her head.
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She whirled around quickly, her face angry. “Scared? I’m not scared! Why do you think I’m scared?”
Dragon Father shook his head, no doubt as surprised as I was by the intensity. “No, I just--”
“Why were you scared?” she aimed an accusing finger at him.
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“Dad…”
“What, sweetheart?”
“Don’t go. Stay here when I sleep.”
“Go? Where am I gonna go? This is my home.”
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