All in Told by The Red Dragon
Bonny’s Revenge hovered just above the surface of Mars. My hiding place, behind the bright glare of the dream’s two suns, was still good for seeing what Dragon Father and Dragon Little were doing on Mars just as well as what they were doing on the surface of Earth’s ocean.
The pirate ship hovered just above the reddish, cracked desert which was Mars’ surface.
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Dragon Father exhaled slowly. “Jeez. It’s beautiful. You know, when I was a kid, I wondered if I would ever get to space, set foot on Mars, see alien planets, fight evil villains, and save the world. Now we do it every day.”
“A-ha,” Dragon Little was still clearly still resentful that they did not have any adventure that day. Her arms were crossed and her face sour.
“Isn’t it beautiful?”
“A-ha.”
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“Here we go!” Dragon Father pulled back on the wheel and Bonny’s Revenge pulled out of the water and rose into the air.
Behind them, they had a left a flag. They had buried its pole in the sea and above water it towered above the highest mountain. The flag itself - the cloth itself - was huge, and flapped in the wind.
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“Did you know, Joy…” Dragon Little and Dragon Father were both staring at the horizon calmly. It was morning, Joy had just woken up, eaten, brushed her teeth ,and brushed her hair. Dragon Father was calmer than usual, taking his time, not looking for adventure to find him. “Did you know that the Earth is round?”
Dragon Little, now four and a half years old, looked at him, and said, “What’s Earth?”
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“There’s a magical wand in your hair!”
Dragon Father had finally decided that enough was enough, and that Dragon Little’s hair had to get a good wash, shampoo, and combed. It’s been weeks since Dragon Little’s hair has touched water, since Dragon Father trusted her when she said she did it. Now that he forced her to do it, he dug out a wand out of her hair.
Dragon Little looked at the wand in surprise.
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“Shush! Shush!” Dragon Little waved him away. Then, suddenly, she turned to face him. “Yes! I’l make a wish!”
“Three wishes?” The genie begged hopefully.
“Three wishes. Then what happens?”
“Then I’ll be free. I’ll be released. I’ll be back to my real life before I was cursed with being a genie in a lamp.”
Dragon Little nodded.
“Ready?”
He tensed his body.
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“Which one of you can kill a genie?” I heard Dragon Little’s voice carry through the cramped Infinite Corridor in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
“Me!” “I can!” “Me!” “I think I can.” “Me!” “Me me me!” a chorus of voices answered.
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“I’m sorry… This is the first time this happened to me…”
Dragon Little turned away from him. “Don’t care. I made three wishes. You can go away now.”
“But… But… But…”
“Three wishes! I made eleventy wishes! Go away!”
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“Ask for anything! I’ll grant you anything!”
“Go jump off a plank!” she started running away from him.
“Please make a wish! Please! Please please please please pleeeeeeeze!”
Dragon Little ran into her cabin and slammed the door shut.
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“I am called the Genie in the Lamp. I have a name, but it is too complicated for you to pronounce.”
Dragon Little pointed at old, golden lamp the genie was holding. “I remember that lamp! We rescued it as part of the treasure the pirates stole! It was yours?”
“Yes. I was in it, and now you freed me from its prison. So now you get three wishes.”
She pursed her lips. “Three wishes?”
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“Joy,” Dragon Father whispered to her. “You don’t need to pee?”
She nodded. “Yes.”
Dragon Father sighed. He’s learned too often that 5-and-a-half-year-old Dragon Little needed to pee in the middle of a fight with the villains. “All right. Go in the bushes over there and pee.”
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“Take her,” the Magistrate snarled. “And execute her!”
The guards nodded and turned her around.
“Wait!” Dragon Little said calmly. “Before I go, I need you to do one thing!”
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“I have a nefarious plan!”
Dragon Father looked at his daughter and almost choked. “You have a what, now?”
Dragon Little stood in front of him, reaching as high as his bellybutton at four and a half years old, and said happily: “I have a nefarious plan!”
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“Okay, everybody together now,” I heard the four-and-a-half-year-old Dragon Little from the belly of Bonny’s Revenge, “She sells seashells…”
“She sells seashells…” A chorus of unwilling participants responded.
“...By the seashore…”
“By the seashore,” the chorus repeated.
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“She sells…” Dragon Little said it slowly… “Seashells…”
“Yes…” Dragon Father urged her calmly.
“...By the sea… shore.”
“Very good!” Dragon Father clapped. “Now say it three times fast!”
Dragon Little’s eyes opened wide. “Huh?”
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“What’s wrong?” he asked.
She touched his cheek again. “You have thorns.”
“Thorns?”
He put her down and a mirror appeared in his hand. He looked at himself and laughed.
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Dragon Little was five years old when she handled her first nuclear bomb.
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He flew towards the ship, threw an angry look at the whimpering two-and-a-half-year-old Dragon Little, who found safety in the upside-down mast, flying just above the seawater. Then he flew towards the wheel, and slowly turned the ship around.
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It was a long day. Dragon Little and Dragon Father fought the army of killer Martians throughout the entire day. There was sword-fighting, running in corridors, jumping over roofs, a chase down a steep hill, jumping from spaceship to spaceship and back again.
They were victorious and the evil Martian dictator was defeated, arrested, and escorted by Dragon Little to his new cell in the Infinite Prison at the bottom of Bonny’s Revenge.
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All that I have told you before in the last few days about Dragon Little’s dehydration, the lack of water, and how Mary, the nanny who would soon be dead, tried to help Dragon Little - all that ends here. Because what Mary did the next day and each and every following day of her short life - what she did saved Dragon Little’s life.
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