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#368: Life and Death, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 5.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little was getting older. It was almost her sixth birthday and I knew that sooner or later, in the next year or two, she will find out the truth about where she ist and that there ist a way out of her father’s dream. And then… Anything may happen. And sooner or later, she will die. Or, worse, she will be found by those who look for her.

I do not know how it ist that Dragon Father came to have Dragon Little, for she does come of his dream. I do not know how much Dragon Father knows of what there ist outside his dream. I do not know how much Dragon Father knows of those who search for his daughter, those awful monsters who enslave dragons.

And yet…

Something in me believed that he did know that he would have to prepare Dragon Little for a life far harsher than a simple life of daily adventure.

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#367: A Good Father

Guy Hasson
Age: 4.5, Told by The Red Dragon

As often happened, Dragon Father appeared in the very last minute and saved Dragon Little’s life from the villain. He crashed the glass ceiling and landed on the head of the Smiling Clown just as he was about to strangle four and a half year-old Dragon Little.

The Smiling Crown was crushed and, his body apparently made out of whipped cream, exploded whipped cream through his clothes in all directions.

“Woo hoo!” Dragon Little jumped up and down, excited. She had loved this adventure. “You’re so great, Dad!”

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#366: Heroes Never Cry, Part 5

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Suddenly a spark in the circuits on Captain Widget’s face made him jump backwards.

Another spark appeared on his face.

“What’s happening?” he hit his face, trying to put the small fire out. “Oh! My tears! My tears are shorting out my tech! There’s no time! I have only a few seconds before the tech is wasted!”

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#365: Heroes Never Cry, Part 4

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

“Waaaah!” she mimicked his crying insultingly. “Waaaaah!”

The soldier, Colonel Doug Widget, looked up, shocked.

“Waaaah!” she repeated. She had given the task of lifting his spirits so he can save the world, all as part of Dragon Father’s lesson to teach her that heroes do cry.

So far it was not working.

“Waaaah!” she repeated, louder and in a more insulting tone.

The soldier laughed.

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#364: Heroes Never Cry, Part 3

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little stood in front of the crying soldier, hugging his legs in the corner of the roof.

She was only three years old and her father left her on the roof of a planet that’s about to be terrorized and destroyed by an evil machine. In front of her was the only man who could save the world, a man implanted with the virus that can save the world.

I thought it was perhaps too much of a task for her to help a crying soldier. But I did not know enough about humans: Not how and when they cry, not how and when they’re brave. I have seen so few brave humans in my centuries of life. I have seen so few brave… any brave creature, in fact, that ist not someone’s dream.

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#363: Heroes Never Cry, Part 2

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

A man appeared there, a split second before he pointed to him. The man was roughly Dragon Father’s size, but he was wearing a soldier’s uniform half made of circuits. His face was filled with circuits.

But the man was cowering in the corner, hugging his knees.

“Colonel Widget,” Dragon Father said, “was injected with a serum that allows him to put a virus in the system. The virus can destroy the evil machine. You got it?”

She nodded, but it didn’t seem she completely understood.

“So we need him to win. But look at him…” he pointed at Colonel Widget. “He’s crying. He’s afraid.”

—Told by The Red Dragon

#362: Heroes Never Cry, Part 1

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little was standing beside Dragon Father as he helmed the wheel.

“When I grow up,” she told him casually, “I want to be just like you.”

“Oh, yeah? In what way?”

“I’m never going to cry!” She had cried quite a bit when her Dollies had been taken from her and then she had been devastated when they fell into the volcano.

Dragon Father stopped looking ahead and looked down at her, suddenly serious. “You’re never going to cry?”

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#361: The Water Ninja

Guy Hasson
Age: 4.5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Have I ever taken you to this place?”

She shook her head.

“Look. This is what I love to do with waves.”

He took a few steps into the ocean so that he was knee-high in the water.

As the next small wave came at him, he bent his knees and clung the fingers of each hand together so they seemed like knives.

The wave came closer. “Eeeee-aaaaaa!” he kicked the wave as it came.

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#360: The Waterfall

Guy Hasson
Age: 5, Told by The Red Dragon

“Where are we going?”

She asked as he helmed Bonny’s Revenge and took it out of the water.

“I’m not telling. It’s a surprise.”

“Where are we going?” she asked again a few seconds later.

“I’m still not telling. It’s a surprise.”

“I hate surprises! Tell me now!”

“Well, you’ll have to exercise your patience muscles, that’s what my mother always said. It’s good for you.”

“Dad, where are we going?” she asked almost immediately.

Dragon Father consistently refused to say and Dragon Little consistently refused to hear when he asked her to stop asking.

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#359: The Pirate Ninjas Raid, Part 6: The Gift

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

“What’s going on? Don’t we have normal toys for a little girl? Oh, here’s something,” he pulled out a big fuzzy bear. “A teddy bear!”

Dragon Little was trying to hold all of her new toys in both hands, and things kept falling out. She looked at the teddy bear and said, “Pfah!” in disgust.

“It’s cute!”

“It’s not cute! It’s pfah!”

Dragon Father stood up. “Well, it’s the last of the toys. We’re taking everything and we’re taking the teddy bear, too!”

“I’ll just throw it overboard!”

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#358: The Pirate Ninjas Raid, Part 5: Reunion

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

“Go into the ship of the Pirate Ninjas,” the lava creature said. “The Dollies say that the pirates have stolen many toys from many children, hoping they could sacrifice them to me. All the toys that are on the ship are now yours.”

“Really?!” Dragon Little’s eyes opened in excitement.

”Go,” the lava creature said, and slowly descended back into the lava, disappearing into it.

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#357: The Pirate Ninjas Raid, Part 4: Wild Joy

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little, hands bound behind her back, leapt at the pirate ninja closest to her and bit his hand.

She was mad and angry and venomous and the fact they had stolen her only toys, which she called the Dollies, and now they had fallen down the volcano and were destroyed.

The bitten ninja shouted in pain.

Dragon used the fact that he was off balance to slam her head into his stomach and run forward, causing him to lose balance and fall into the volcano.

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#356: The Pirate Ninjas Raid, Part 3: Crushing the Bad Guys

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

“I’m going to crush you!” Dragon Little whispered at the ninja leading her down the ramp.

She had taken it quite personally that they had stolen the only toys she had, which she called the Dollies.

They were led to the edge of the ‘mouth’. “I’m going to crush all of you!” she raised her voice.

The Pirate Ninjas ignored her and began to bring down her Dollies from the ship as if they were a revered ancient relic.

“Those are my Dollies! You can’t have them! They’re mine! I’m going to destroy you!” she shouted at them.

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#355: The Pirate Ninjas Raid, Part 2: Feeling Bad

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Little was crying the entire time.

When she could speak, she said, “They took my Dollies, Dad! They took my Dollies!”

These were the handful of small dolls that were Dragon Little’s only playthings in her cabin since the time I had met her.

“I know. We’ll get them back,” Dragon Father said.

“I want you to kill them!” she said. “I want you to kill them and get my Dollies.”

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#354: The Pirate Ninjas Raid

Guy Hasson
Age: 3, Told by The Red Dragon

One day, there was an unexpected raid.

Dragon Father had just appeared and walked into Dragon Little’s cabin to wake her up.

But before he could, ninja pirates climbed aboard Bonny’s Revenge from all sides. Four of them ran into the cabin and immediately came out with Dragon Father whose mouth was gagged and his feet and hands tied.

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#353: The Strange Adventure, Part 6: A Daughter’s Love

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

There was silence for a long moment on the floor of the biggest bank in the galaxy.

Dragon Father had just confessed to being a villain and doing something awful to his former friend, who had trapped him now in the bank.

Three and a half year old Dragon Little stared at her father in disbelief. They had been fighting villains all her life. She had always seen him as the hero. And now he was a villain.

Then Dragon Little began to laugh. “You’re very funny, Dad!”

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#352: The Strange Adventure, Part 5: Justin’s Story

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father sat on the floor of the largest bank in the galaxy, nursing his legs stretched out before him as if they hurt and couldn’t move.

When he told Dragon Little of the accident, just a few minutes ago, I believed that perhaps in his waking world, perhaps he cannot even walk. Perhaps he ist a human with no logs or legs that do not function. I have seen a few of those. In their dreams, some of them could walk and run and jump.

Ist that why he constantly dreams of adventure, doing flips in the air, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and swinging from ropes?

With great pain, Dragon Father continued to speak.

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#351: The Strange Adventure, Part 4: Justin’s Past

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

The figure looked at Dragon Father, still on the ground, still holding his legs in pain.

Dragon Little looked at Dragon Father, horrified at the last thing he had said.

“Tell them,” said the figure. “Tell them who I am.”

Dragon Father looked down at the ground for quite a while.

Then, in a soft almost tear-filled voice, said, “Joy.. this happened before you were born.”

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#349: The Strange Adventure, Part 2

Guy Hasson
Age: 3.5, Told by The Red Dragon

Dragon Father and Dragon Little arrived at the largest bank in the galaxy on a faraway planet.

“The King of the Galaxy is inside,” said Dragon Father told his daughter.

She nodded and took a step forward.

When he didn’t follow her, she looked back at him.

“Come on,” she grabbed his hand and began walking again.

He didn’t budge.

“I don’t think we should take this one,” he said.

I have never seen him this nervous before an adventure. At the time I couldn’t understand why. This was his dream, after all, his desires. Whatever he wants ist the thing that happens. At least the way I understand it. But I am not a dreamer.

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