All in Age: 5.5

“Joy, I have something special planned for today!”

Dragon Father was quite excited as he told this to Dragon Little while she was eating her breakfast of pizza and carrot juice.

I have noticed the number of days that have passed and I knew the date. I knew that tomorrow would be Dragon Little’s sixth birthday. I became excited myself, since I believed that Dragon Father for once would not forget Dragon Little’s birthday.

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“Come here,” she said. “Give me your ear.”

I turned my ear to Dragon Little. Dragon Father, who was atop my head, took the opportunity to jump aboard.

Dragon Little began to scratch my ear and suddenly I felt something I have never felt before. This brought so much pleasure to my entire body, it felt so nice, like true love. I immediately purred. I have never purred in my life.

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“The dragons have been taken away,” the robot dragon rasped.

His voice sounded broken because his body had been broken by the fight. One of his wings an done of his legs were disjointed and broken. His neck was in my mouth, under my sharp teeth, which had already cut into his neck a bit.

He would not live long, and Dragon Father, standing atop my head, knew it.

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We knew we were being led into a trap.

I flew low, following my fake father, a robot made to look like a dragon. Dragon Father, riding on top of me, seemed calm rather than tense. It was his adventure. He had created it in his subconscious. This ist what he had wanted. This ist what he enjoyed.

My fake father looked back and motioned at a volcano ahead of us.

He flew up, then coasted down, gliding into a dark cave entrance at the bottom of that volcano.

For a second, I hesitated. I remembered that sometimes when Dragon Father knows I am part of the adventure, he creates weapons that can cause me great harm, in order to make things harder for me.

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“Tell us where they took all the dragons,” Dragon Father said. “It must be a big place.”

“It is not far,” my fake father said. “Two minutes’ flight in that direction will lead us to an island with another volcano. Underneath that volcano is a cavern big enough to hold a thousand dragons. Our enemies have taken all the dragons there!”

Dragon Father shook his head. “Oh no! Then we have to go!”

I smiled inwardly. Dragon Father was clearly acting and acting badly.

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“My daughter,” the so-called dragon who was my so-called father said to me. “I have missed you!”

I nodded, keeping it to myself what I now knew about this dragon.

“Look!” Dragon Little pointed at Dragon Father. “Dragon Father!” Then she pointed at the elderly fake dragon, “Dragon Father!” She pointed from one to the other as she said: “Dragon Father, Dragon Father, Dragon Father, Dragon Father!”

Dragon Little laughed. Dragon Father laughed. I did not laugh.

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“Who are you?” The older dragon said to Dragon Little. “Are you a friend of my daughter?”

I looked at them, my mind still in wild disarray, refusing to accept what I was seeing.

Dragon Little was walking towards him.

“We’re best friends!”

Dragon Little was getting closer to the older dragon, when I understood what was about to happen.

“Nooo!” I roared fire at the space between the dragon and Dragon Little.

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I landed in the dark entrance to the cave at the top of the volcano. Here, Dragon Father claimed my father was waiting for me.

I lowered my head and Dragon Little and Dragon Father jumped to the ground.

The entrance was big enough for me to walk through, but it was dark and bended inside so that we could not see the inside.

I had joined their adventure without asking because I needed to make sure that Dragon Father did not teach Dragon Little false things about dragons. Dragons were not creatures of his dream and if he convinced her otherwise, then when the day came and she left her father’s dream, when the day came and she met my former enslavers, she would be equipped with the wrong knowledge.

It was my task to teach her the truth about dragons. Well.. some of it. At least at this young age.

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“There are no dragons on the planet,” I told Dragon Little and Dragon Father once Dragon Little calmed down.

“Ooh, I know!” Dragon Father exclaimed. “They are all off on a mission! We should join them!”

I shook my head somberly, determined to teach Dragon Little about the harsh life that awaits her outside this dream, the harsh life she will eventually be faced with when she finds the way out of her father’s dream.

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I made sure I approached the planet from behind them.

I entered the atmosphere and spread my wings. From this point on I would glide silently. They will not hear me come.

I glided closer and closer.

Dragon Little stopped to ask Dragon Father for water, turning to talk to him. For a moment I was afraid she would spot me coming towards her.

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“There it is!” Dragon Father stopped the silly story he was telling Dragon Little about me as a planet appeared in space in front of Bonny’s Revenge.

“Dragon Planet ahoy!” Dragon Little ran to the very front of the bow and looked down. “It’s so beautiful!”

I was surprised by the fact that Dragon Father succeeded in summoning a dragon planet at all. Last time he tried it, it ended in failure.

I stood up in my hiding place. Will he be able to summon a dragon in his dream? He won’t! It’s impossible! But how did he summon a dragon planet?

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“Let me tell you something you never knew about Red,” Dragon Father told his daughter with a big smile on his face.

He was still helming Bonny’s Revenge as they headed for the ‘dragon home planet’.

Dragon Little pinned her stare to Dragon Father. I listened quite intently, as well. I wondered what he would invent and whether it would hurt me or amuse me.

“Did you know…” Dragon Father’s tone became conspiratorial. “That Red wanted to be a pirate when she was young?”

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“Where’s the dragon home planet?” Dragon Little asked.

Dragon Father and Dragon Little stood at the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge as Dragon Father piloted the ship. Bonny’s Revenge began to rise out of earth’s ocean water.

“Oh, far far far away. So far away that we’d never been. That’s why we’ve never been there.”

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“Very mature, Dad!” Dragon Little came out of the cabin, complaining about the way Dragon Father woke her up by singing very badly. She was holding her toothbrush and toothpaste.

“I’m sorry,” Dragon Father came out immediately after her. “Is this going to be a thing, now?”

“What thing?”

“This ‘very matuuuuure, Daaaaad’ thing you’re doing? It’s like the fifth or sixth time you told me that in about two weeks. Are you hanging out with teenagers on the street or something? Did you pick this up from television? Are you fifteen?” All these three statements of course were impossible for Dragon Little: There were no teenagers in his dream, no streets, no television, and she was not yet and likely would never survive to fifteen.

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“Planet ahoy!” Dragon Father yelled.

This was a few months before Dragon Little’s sixth birthday. Dragon Father was at the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge, flying towards their next adventure.

Dragon Little took her favorite sword and laser pistol from the weapons cabinet and put the sword in its scabbard and the pistol in its holster around her belt.

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It happened during the middle of a fight with the Blustering Pirates.

Towards the end of a fun adventure, Dragon Father and Dragon Little caught up with the Blustering Pirates on their pirate ship.

Dragon Father and Dragon Little landed in the middle of the pirates’ deck, taking out their captain.

A dozen pirates began to attack. Dragon Little defended herself with a small sword in one hand and a laser pistol in the other. Dragon Father fought with a sword in each hand.

Usually, Dragon Father would attack the pirates with might, but this time he satisfied himself by slapping defeated pirates on their bottoms with the blunt side of his sword, and yelling, “Huzzah!” each time.

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Dragon Father appeared on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge while Dragon Little was still asleep in the Infinite Prison, held gently by General Hawk.

“Joy! Joy!” Dragon Father called out after seeing Dragon Little was not in her cabin.

A quick search revealing nothing sent him down to the winding stairway into the infinite corridor and out of my eyesight.

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“For many days, now, and perhaps weeks or even months, your mind will return to that moment when you killed the Goblin Monster. It will return to it and try to find another way, another solution, another path. Maybe it will succeed, maybe it won’t.”

“There was no other path, General Hawk.”

“Maybe it will succeed, maybe it won’t,” the general repeated, not conceding her point. “It would not matter, for it is done. Your mind will return to the terrible emotions you are feeling now again and again and again. For weeks and even months. And perhaps… Perhaps your feelings will turn to hate of self, hating what you did. And then… in the future, the next time you kill, it will be easier. And that time after that, easier still.”

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