Dragon Father appeared on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, the pirate ship he and Dragon Little live on.
He was in an extraordinarily happy mood. He ran to Dragon Little’s cabin, woke up his 4-year-old daughter, and woke up with “Rise and shine! Shine and rise! It’s time to have adventure in the sunrise!”
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The Pirates of Captain Bud caught Dragon Father.
They did it with perfection. First, they separated him from Dragon Little.
Once she fell into the Sinking Sands, they attacked him and forced him to flee.
He fell into their traps time after time, each time losing a gun, a sword, and getting out only by the skin of his teeth.
Finally, they surrounded him, exhausted and weaponless.
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Dragon Father was quite nervous that the hostages would be killed by the pirates that had taken them, but after he had made the unicorns run away, Dragon Little decided to sit down in the middle of the forest and not go anywhere.
Dragon Father only became more and more excited.
He threatened that he would leave without her. “Go,” she said, her arms crossed..
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After Dragon Father and Dragon Little discovered the unicorns and stared at them for a few minutes, Dragon Father said, “Come on, we have a villain to catch.”
Dragon Little stood up. “I think they’ll like me.” She took a step towards them.
The four unicorns looked up in unison.
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Dragon Little was three and a half years old when, in the middle of an adventure, Dragon Father and her saw four unicorns.
“Aw, look at that, look at that!” Dragon Father stopped her and crouched down, motioning her to crouch down as well.
They were in the middle of a small field of high grass in a magical forest, chasing down an evil wizard, when Dragon Father noticed them.
“See? Over there? That’s a unicorn. They’re so rare!”
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“Huh…” Dragon Father kept thinking. “Hmmm… Okay… I get that.” He took her hand. “You know, I don’t know what Red meant. She’s mysterious, right?” Dragon Little nodded.
I smiled. Mysterious? Me?! If my cheeks could burn, I’m sure they would have. How did I achieve such a status? I’m just a lost, unlucky child, then an adult.
I did not know what to do with myself from embarrassment.
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The dolphins leapt into the air, as high as the deck itself, then back underwater, never losing speed.
Dragon Little and Dragon Father watched excitedly from the deck, waving hello to the dolphins and laughing from joy.
“Hello, little dolphin friends!” Joy shouted at them after Dragon Father told her what they were called. “Hello!”
The dolphins made a sound back, apparently saying ‘hello’ in their own language.
“They’re so cuuuuuuuuute! So cuuuuuuuute!” Dragon Little squeezed her father’s hand.
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“There’s an emergency on Dragon Planet,” Dragon Father said out of nowhere. Dragon Little had just eaten her breakfast and brushed her teeth, when suddenly Dragon Father shouted out the mission of the day.
This was the way their adventures sometimes began: Dragon Father would declare something, and then the idea in his mind would take form all around him.
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“All right, we hide here, and when he comes back, we jump out and yell ‘A-ha!’.”
“A-ha!” she echoed in her 2-year-old way.
“And then we draw our swords and fight him! Okay?”
She nodded.
“Let’s see if you can find a good place to hide.”
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Dragon Little and Dragon Father were seated around a fire. Beside them, handcuffed, was The Vulture Man, a villain they had captured after a particularly hard adventure.
They had eaten marshmallows on sticks above a fire, something Dragon Little had insisted on ever since Dragon Father had mentioned it. This time, he had relented. The Vulture Man had waited patiently while they enjoyed themselves.
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Dragon Little was only 4 years old, when Dragon Father and Dragon Little chased The Red Pirate to his home planet. While he had left his ship unattended and went to the pub, Dragon Father and Dragon Little climb aboard his pirate ship.
“Let’s try this!”
They were looking for a place to hide on the ship, so they could stow away until the Red Dragon could lead them to his secret base.
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It is time I told you how the Evil Fairy Forest King died. I have told you of the events that led to his death. I have told you how his behavior affected the 5-year-old Dragon Little. And I have told you how she discovered his body.
But it is something I should relate. Because you need to know what happens in the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
The prisoners in the Infinite Prison are all villains captured by Dragon Little and Dragon Father during their adventures. When Dragon Father is away, in his waking world, the villains become Dragon Little’s companions.
What does that mean? You will see.
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Dragon Little raised her small hand.
“My hand is shivering,” she said.
“It’s called trembling.”
“I’m not cold.”
“Yeah. It’s not because you’re cold. It’s because you’re really upset.”
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Dragon Father joined Dragon Little on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge, leaning against the railing, and put a hand around her shoulders. They stared off at the horizon of the endless ocean in silence for a minute or so.
“He didn’t need to die,” she said through gritted teeth.
“I know,” Dragon Father said softly.
“I don’t need protection,” she said.
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“General Hawk,” Dragon Father’s voice boomed. “What did you do? Do not lie!”
“I killed him, pirate,” General Hawk’s voice was measured and soft. “I will not apologize for it.”
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Dragon Father appeared on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge and, as usual, went into Dragon Little’s cabin to wake her up.
He found her lying on the cot and crying into the pillow.
“Joy, Joy,” he sat next to her. “What happened?”
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Dragon Little came out of her cabin, looked at the ocean around her, turned and entered the door next to her cabin, the one leading down to Infinite Prison at the belly of Bonny’s Revenge.
I heard her shout, not scream. I cannot see from my hiding place into the Infinite Prison, but I knew what she saw, for I had heard what had come before, and I heard his gurgling.
Inside his locked cell, the Evil Fairy Forest King lay on his back, a big, burnt feather stuck deep into his neck. He was still moving, gurgling, and barely breathing.
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As usual, she went down to the Infinite Prison in the belly of the ship to talk to some villains that have become her friends. As she walked, I heard the Evil Fairy Forest King whisper at her with his grating voice, “Ah, your father tried to teach you leadership, did he?”
“King…” I heard General Hawk’s voice rise menacingly. Only a few days ago did he threaten the Evil Fairy Forest King for successfully planting self-doubt in Dragon Little’s mind.
The evil king ignored the faraway threat. “I only say that he seems to prepare you to lead. That is good.”
“King… Shut your mouth!” General Hawk’s voice grew fierce.
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The dream ist quiet when there ist no dreamer in it. Bonny’s Revenge, the pirate ship that serves as home for Dragon Father and Dragon Little, sailed silently and slowly on the waveless ocean. But in the belly of the ship, in the Infinite Corridor which serves as prison for the villains Dragon Little and Dragon Father capture, the villains who stay behind even when the dreamer who created them wakes up - those villains remain awake. Almost none of them sleep.
They rarely talk among themselves, but this time they did.
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There are so many things I have told you about Joy Shelley, the little human girl I lovingly called ‘Dragon Little’. I do look at her as the daughter I could never have.
There are so many things to tell that I fear there will never be enough time to tell them all.
And yet, as much as she amazes me every day of her life, she ist human and bad things can happen to her when villains are involved.
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