They had taken Bonny’s Revenge, their pirate ship that could fly the skies and space itself, to the Planet of Nanotechnology. They had heard that the evil Nanotech King was living in the highest tower on the planet.
Now that they were searched the planet, they found that there were two highest towers, one next to the other, each identical, except that one was blue and one was red.
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“So, Joy, say we’re on adventure, yeah?” He sat on the plank and she, only five years old, sat on his lap. She nodded.
“Say you’re alone because I’m chasing a villain, yeah?”
She nodded.
“And you’re chasing two villains. One goes this way, one goes this way, yeah?”
She nodded again.
“Which one do you chase?”
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She did, however, raise her eyebrows at the last thing he said. “What’s a leader?”
“A leader. It’s someone who… leads…”
She shook her head. He continued, “Someone who tells everyone else what to do… but not in a bossy way…” she shook her head, “...a commander… someone who knows what to do… who makes sure we win... “ she shook her head harder and harder and Dragon Father was growing more desperate, “... Someone who has a team, and who trusts the team, and the team trusts him. I mean, her. Or him.”
“So… a team?”
“Yes!”
She looked around. “What team?”
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“Up your ass!”
Dragon Little, only four and a half years old, stood on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge and thrust forward with her small sword.
“Up your ass!” She yelled again as she hit another imaginary villain.
“Up your ass!” She had climbed on the railing of the deck and fought her imaginary fight while keeping her balance.
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“You stepped in elephant poo. Your shoe has elephant poo all over it. You’re going to take it off, take all of your clothes off, and get into the shower.”
“Uh uhhhhh,” she sung back.
“Joy,” he spoke with greater strength. I have been witness to her behavior for only a year, and I knew how impossible it was to convince her to do something she did not want to do.”It smells! You smell!”
“I like the smell!”
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The butterflies flew towards Bonny’s Revenge and gathered around Dragon Father.
“Go find her,” he told them. “Go find her. Repeat until you found her.”
The butterflies swept down into all corners of the forest, creating a blanket that covered the forest in its entirety.
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Dragon Little slept for a few hours. She slept on the highest leaf of one of the trees in the forest of the Land of the Giants. Her body was black and blue all over, and she had not eaten or drunk for a day and a half.
She woke up with a start when the wind returned. When Dragon Father returns to the dream, the wind returns with him.
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It did not matter how many giants he conjured and beat up, none of them could tell him where his daughter was. They came from his mind, after all. They were his dreams. If he did not know something, then neither did they.
That ist some of what I have learned from living centuries in others’ dreams.
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And then a giant was hurled from the depths of the farther part of the forest, past the treetops, and into the air.
He flipped around in the air helplessly, then collapsed back into the trees.
The ground shook when he landed.
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No! Dad! Over here! No!” Dragon Little shouted at Bonny’s Revenge as it flew down and into the giants’ forest.
She was lost in the forest of the forest of the giants. Her father had missed her and went to look for her in the wrong place.
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Dragon Little was stuck at the bottom of a giant forest where she was smaller than a grass blade. Far above the trees her home, the flying pirate ship called Bonny’s Revenge, floated without moving. That meant her father was not there. He had vanished.
But in a few hours, he would return. And since he always returned to the ship, she knew she had to be in a visible place when he reappeared.
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She moaned and stretched her body on the giant leaf she had been lying on, in the giant forest, in the Land of the Giants. Bonny’s Revenge had been swatted like a fly by Ymir the Angry Giant, while Dragon Little and Dragon Father were still in it. It had been too fast for me to do swoop in and save her. And it was a miracle she hadn’t died.
I would not like to see her die, but I did think and still do that it may save her years of pain in which she would wish she was dead.
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Bonny’s Revenge hung above the forest in the giant’s world. Dragon Father, now visibly panicked, was looking over the wooden railing and calling, “Joy! Joy!” at the forest.
Not only did he not know where she was, he did not know if she was alive or dead.
He ran from side to side futilely, until he spotted Ymir the Giant, who had swatted them in the first place.
Dragon Father’s face twisted.
“Go away!” he said.
Ymir the Giant disappeared.
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Dragon Little lay unconscious in the forest of the giants and did not move. My sharp dragon ears could her breathing from my hiding place, kilometers above her. My sharp dragon eyes could see between the leaves how her chest was rising and falling with slow breaths.
She was alive and lying on top of a leaf bigger than an entire body, between blades of grass three times as higher as her.
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Dragon Little was only four and a half years old when she and her father flew into The Land of the Giants.
Dragon Father had never dreamed of something so different. The villains had always been more or less his size or smaller. But in this land, each giant as bigger than me, ten stories high at least.
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“We’re not fighting bad guys today!” Dragon Father announced to Dragon Little during breakfast. Dragon Little was five years old at the time. “Today, we have a fun day!”
And they did. Dragon Little and Dragon Father bounced on the trampoline stairs for hours: up to the sky, then back down.
They went to the fair in the clouds and ate ice cream.
They took Bonny’s Revenge to race against other flying pirate ships and won.
And towards the end of the day they parachuted from one of the cities in the skies.
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“To win in the end,” he said more slowly, “you have to lose well in the beginning. Lose really well. Lose and be happy about it. Here,” he threw her the small sword. She caught it without effort. “I’ll show you.”
They both stood in front of each other, swords drawn.
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“Defend yourself!” Dragon Father slammed his right leg forward on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, his right arm gripping his sword tightly in front of him.
“Defend yourself!” Dragon Little, now only 2 years old, slammed her right leg forward , and gripped her own sword (a much smaller sword) in a fighting position against her father.
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Once again, Dragon Father disappeared in the middle of an adventure and did not return. He had gone back to the waking world, and Dragon Little, now five years old, the toughest and cutest human I have ever met in my long life, was stranded on the planet of Big Boss Planet.
Big Boss Lawyer’s minions captured her and brought her to their leader.
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