The+Dragon+Quest

It was just a normal, blustery fall day at Ann Arbor High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Caitlin and McKenna, who was almost always called Kenna, two best friends and sisters, stood at their lockers, getting everything ready to go home for the rest of the day. A note had just fallen from Caitlin’s locker. It said //Hi Caitlin, can you meet me at the hangout after school today? Carson.// McKenna also received a note just like it, only it said //Hi Kenna can you meet me in the hangout right after school? Josh.//

The sisters went right to the to the hangout to meet Carson and Josh. They had been best friends since pre-school because, as well as school mates, they were next-door neighbors. They reached the hangout just as Carson and Josh pulled into the tiny lot that they used to park their cars. When they were little, the four best friends used to park their tricycles there. Caitlin wondered why the boys wanted to meet in the hangout. Carson began to explain how he and Josh wanted to start having a movie night together like they used to when they were little.

“TORNADO!” Josh yelled with panic!

Kenna quickly told the others to go to the climbing wall, get their harnesses, put them on, and tie themselves to the treehouse. They quickly did so. The tornado was quickly upon them. They all moved in so they were close to each other. Then they all grabbed hands and held on tight. Soon they opened their eyes - they were still in the tornado, but nothing was scary at all. They seemed to be in a giant bubble. All four of them were wondering what was going on.

All of a sudden they landed on solid ground, or what they thought was solid ground. They realized that they were sitting atop a big, scaly, blue dragon, when the ground started to move. “Who are you?” Caitlin asked the dragon, who was not a big scary dragon. It was smaller then most people thought of scary dragons. “I am the Water Queen’s faithful dragon servant,” the dragon answered. “My name is Persephone. I am taking you to the Water Queen, if you were wondering.”

They continued to ask questions, all of which Persephone answered, without the slightest hint of annoyance. According to the kind dragon, Caitlin was a Water Princess, Carson was the Earth Prince, Josh the Air Prince and Kenna the Fire Princess. Apparently, it was not a good thing that McKenna had the power to control fire, because fire was the evil power.

Soon they rode into Waterville. It seemed as though the villagers knew they would be coming, for when the humans, and the dragon entered the city they started to cheer, saying their princess had returned. The castle seemed to be made out of water itself! The walls reflected the light from the sun, like a lake. They felt cool as Caitlin put her warm forehead against it.

They arrived in the queen’s room where she told them everything they needed to know about this land of magic and dragons. Then she asked them if the girls would go on a quest for her, and for this magical world.

All of a sudden, making everyone jump, Carson told the queen that he would not let the girls go on the quest. The queen told him that he didn’t have a say in this; it was up to Caitlin and Kenna if they would go or not.

Caitlin quietly told him “ Remember all of the stories where the Prince ends up saving the princess? Well that’s not going to be the ending in this story.” “Would you be happier with them going if you could go with her?” The Queen asked.

Carson’s answer to that question was, “yes.” He asked the queen if they could have swords, shields, and other weapons.

“I was planning to send weapons with you anyway.” the Queen said, but only Caitlin and Kenna could hear.

After a week of training in agility, which tested their flexibility; strength, which tested how strong they are; and balance, which tested how well they could balance on tiny rock pillars over a fake lava bed, and other places, the kids felt they were ready. After the Queen had tested each one of the teens personally on their survival skills, she granted each of them a dragon. Caitlin got a water dragon named, Cheyenne. Kenna got a fire dragon named Sparks, Carson got an earth dragon called Fabian. Josh had a light powered dragon, named Flynn. Their mission was to find the dragon eggs that were endangered, and breed them so they wouldn’t be extinct. There were too many evil fire dragons compared to the other good dragons. That problem needed to be fixed!

First, they began to look for a water dragon egg. Caitlin looked in her magical snowball, a gift from the queen, to find where it was. The egg was supposed to be in the middle of a giant maze. The dragons seemed to already know the way to the maze. They got there faster then you can say “Banana” five times fast. Carson forced vines to sprout from his hands, so the teens could return to the beginning of the maze by following the vines. They walked through the maze, using Caitlin’s snowball as a map. They crisscrossed, left and right, forward and back. They best friends only had to backtrack once or twice, maybe even three times.

Soon they came to the center of the maze. There were five water eggs! Kenna began to explain that this was perfect because the queen needed five water eggs, three earth eggs, four air dragon eggs, one light dragon egg, and two fire eggs, and if they could, at least one jewel dragon egg, the most rare of all.

They took the 5 water eggs and put them each into their pouches, a gift from the queen. McKenna, who didn’t think the water egg would survive in a fire element pouch refused to put the egg in her pouch. Caitlin held McKenna’s egg to deliver to the Queen. They called to their dragons and flew up towards the open sky, and then to the Queen’s palace.

Beep! Bzzzz! then Caitlin’s phone started singing dynamite. It was her mom, probably worried to death about where she was. She checked her phone. It was a text - Caitlin was amazed that the really good service! Great! The text confirmed Caitlin’s thought. Her mom really was afraid. Caitlin’s mom was normally a cool, laid-back mother. She let Caitlin do almost anything she wanted to do. So when she was even freaking out just a little, Caitlin knew something was wrong. So she texted her mom saying that everything was fine, and she should be back soon, and that she would explain it all when she got back. Her mother texted her again and said that she was glad that Caitlin was safe and asked in Kenna was with her also. Caitlin told her that Kenna, Josh, and Carson were with her.

They were almost to the Queen’s palace, and Josh asked them if they thought the next eggs would be harder to get than the water eggs were. They all agreed that the next eggs would probably be a lot harder than the water eggs were.

When they got to the palace, it was almost midnight. Kenna wondered if the Queen would let them sleep in the rooms that they used while they were in training. Josh told her that the Queen probably would let them sleep in their rooms. It turned out that the queen had been waiting for them, even though it was almost the middle of the night. She showed them to their rooms, after they had personally given her the eggs.

After a good night’s sleep and a delicious breakfast, they were off to look for the Earth Dragon eggs. They rode their dragons all day until they came to a long field. It looked empty, except for the giant building at the far end of the field. It looked old, really old. So old that the walls were crumbing, and the garden was wild and unkempt Cheyenne told them that she and the other dragons could not go any farther. So the four best friends started walking to the other end of the field. As soon as they had taken just ten steps, they experienced terrible, terrible pain. It felt as if their brains were being squeezed tighter, and tighter together. They began to walk in slow motion, it must have been another side-effect of the invisible force, which seemed to be controlling this agonizing experience. Ten steps later they were back to normal. After about a hundred steps they experienced even more pain. This time they were in fast motion, and they felt like their brains were being pulled apart. They clapped their hands to their heads, almost screaming in agony. The only good thing about this strange, invisible force was that with the fast pace they were going at they were at the Dragon Temple in about ten seconds. They walked quietly toward the temple.

Surprisingly, it was quite easy to go in, grab the eggs and get out of the building that looked like no one had been in there for a century. Seriously, there was an inch of dust in there. There was a dead fire dragon carcass, which must have been the guard. After they had taken the eggs, the dragons were able to get to the temple quite easily. It was just barely afternoon time, so they returned to the castle, had lunch, and set out to find the other eggs. Josh had been wrong when he thought the other eggs would be hard to get. All they had to do was go to the Air Palace, and ask where they had to go to get the eggs. The Air King already had the ones they needed, so they got the eggs, gave them to the Queen, and were off again. Now they had been on their journey for only three days, and they were on a roll. They had already found three eggs. Water, Earth, and Air. All they needed now were the Fire, Light, and Jewel Dragon eggs.

The teens had all been flying towards the place where the eggs were kept. It was in a chamber, with a lock they had to figure out. When they all gathered there, McKenna immediately started working on breaking the code. It took a very long time - so long that Caitlin took out her phone, and began to listen to some music. The stones would glow in the right order Kenna needed to touch them, then Kenna would try and touch them in the right order. It took her a couple of tries, but then she finally got it. The door slowly slid open, and they walked inside. In the middle of a large room stood a basin, filled with the light dragon eggs! There was more than enough! Five eggs! They walked swiftly in betwixt the two doors that were slowly closing, if the doors closed all the way they would be trapped in! They quickly walked out. The doors closing loudly behind them.

They went to the palace and gave the Queen the eggs. She was overjoyed when she saw how many there were. After that the teens began to look for the Fire and Jewel eggs.

Both eggs turned out to be in the same maze as the water eggs, even though they didn’t know it at first. They walked to the middle of the maze and saw the fire eggs. When they tried to go out of the maze, they got lost and found the jewel egg! As soon as they picked up the jewel dragon egg a net fell on top of them trapping the humans, and the dragons!

The Asian Fire dragons had trapped them! The evil dragons took them to their lair where they were going to kill the boys, and keep Caitlin and the dragons as slaves.

Kenna had already been given a throne because she had the power of fire, but she looked very uncomfortable, Unless Caitlin, who was in charge of the jewel egg, wanted to accept the deal which was to, give the dragons the egg, have them take over the world, and become their princess, and have the boys live, the other option was die and have the dragons take over the world, both magic, and non-magic.

The dragons put Carson in front of the executioner. Caitlin couldn’t possibly watch her best friend die when it was her fault! A voice, much like the queen’s told her to take up the deal. She knew she had to. The queen was the wisest, smartest person in this world she knew. Without a seconds hesitation she cried,

“STOP! I’ll take the first option of the deal! I’ll give you the egg, and become your princess, but please, don’t kill him!!!” Caitlin cried. She knew that they would not try and take over the world immediately - that would give her time to steal the egg and free her friends. The dragons quickly untied her and her friends. She ran and almost hugged Carson; she was so happy that he wasn’t going to die.

They began to plan an escape route, which included retrieving the egg. They were going to have Caitlin make a duplicate of the egg, steal the real egg, and get out of there on their dragons.

The next day they carried out their plan; Josh and McKenna creating a distraction, Caitlin trading the egg, and Carson preparing the dragons for escape. Kenna and Josh started screaming at the top of their lungs. All the dragons ran to their room. Caitlin grabbed the egg and ran to the gate of the palace. Josh and Kenna caught up to her in just two minutes. They got on their dragons and rode to the palace. They gave the queen the egg, and she gave them each a necklace with a single charm on it. She told them that the necklace can hold one evil person in it for safekeeping, and that it has the ability to transport them back and forth from the normal world and this dragon world.

They went to their real homes, explained to their parents where they had gone, and then they used their powers, which they still possessed, to help the world with problems: drought, growing trees, lighting homes, making cool breezes in the summer, and helping put out wildfires. But they all knew, that with their necklaces, they would never forget their amazing journey they had together. Their experiences changed them into people who cared about the planet.

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