All in Age: 5.5
With both Dragon Little and Dragon Father carrying torches on the Night Planet and the two of them working together, they defeated the three Wicked Wizards.
Dragon Little’s fingers and legs were shaking all the way through. But she said nothing to her father and did not complain.
Her fingers turned white holding on to the torch and would never release it.
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“Wow, you were so brave!” Dragon Father told Dragon Little, still hiding her face in his chest, still clinging as hard as she can to her after.
Inwardly, I nodded, agreeing with Dragon Father. She had shown bravery I have never seen in all the centuries I have lived.
“I’m scared,” she whined into his chest. “I’m not brave!”
“You were brave because you were scared, Joy! You’re brave because you still did something that was frightening. You saved yourself! You saved yourself until I got there!”
Dragon Little whimpered, not showing her face.
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Dragon Father jumped to the dock quickly, a fire torch in his hand, looking around.
“Joy!” he whispered.
He was trying not to get the attention of the Wicked Wizards, but he needed to find his daughter. “Joy!”
Just a few moments ago he had disappeared, leaving her, a girl who had never known what night is, without light on the lightless Night Planet. But it had been just the beginning of his dream. He had woken up for a few minutes, then returned to his dreams moments later.
But things have changed since he had vanished.
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The Wicked Wizards were getting closer to my Dragon Little. I heard her scamper quickly, feel with her hands in complete darkness.
From the sound she was feeling the wooden crates.
My sharp dragon ears heard the soft squeak of a crate being opened from a few planets away.
I heard her drop into a soft something (fruit, perhaps?) and then close the crate above her.
A few seconds later, the Wicked Wizards walked into the room.
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Once Dragon Father had disappeared, and his burning torches with him, I could not see Dragon Little on the Night Planet.
My wings opened as I crouched in my new vantage point, automatically about to leap to her help and light the planet sky with the fire of my breath. But I stopped myself.
Whatever the trouble, she would need to toughen up. She was growing up. She was almost six. She would no doubt soon find the right place to explore in her father’s dream and find the way to other dreams, where real danger lurked for every every day.
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“Dad, how can we fight guys like this?”
Dragon Little’s voice was losing some of its panic and fear in the total darkness of the Night Planet.
Dragon Father had led Dragon Little into a warehouse a bit off the pier. I remember the warehouse from the small glow that covered the planet when Joy had first stepped on it. But I could not see the warehouse now, not even with my sharp eyes. The darkness was complete on that planet in Dragon Father’s dream.
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I could not see what happened next. Even though I had changed my vantage point, the darkness of the Night Planet was awesome. I have never seen such darkness in Dragon Father’s dreams in the three and a half years I have been here.
I heard Dragon Little try very hard and unsuccessfully not to squeal.
I heard Dragon Father’s breathing.
I heard him move the wheel of Bonny’s Revenge.
And I heard the sound of things appearing - it ist a soft sound of things that appear out of nowhere in the dream.
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Dragon Little and Dragon Father entered the shadow of night as they headed to the Night Planet.
A massive planet stood in between The Night Planet and the dreams’ two suns, so that it completely fell into darkness.
But not only the planet was in darkness: So were all its surroundings.
It did more than that: It blocked my own view from my hiding place. That first moment when Dragon Father made the Night Planet and its bigger sister planet appear, I had to climb out of my hiding place and fly to a better vantage point.
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“When have we not had an adventure? We’re doing this!” Dragon Little replied without thinking.
“Sorry, Joy. Look, the planet’s gone.”
As they both looked, the Night Planet vanished.
Dragon Little showed no surprise at a planet vanishing, only anger. She grabbed her father’s hands. “Yes it is!”
The planet returned.
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“Are you sure you’ve never seen a night?”
Dragon Father and Dragon Daughter were on their way towards their unfortunate adventure on The Night Planet to catch the Wicked Wizard. But during their flight, as he helmed Bonny’s Revenge, Dragon Father found it hard to believe that Dragon Little had never even experienced a night.
Dragon Little said, complaining, “I already told you.”
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Dragon Little jumped on the plank just as Dragon Father jumped to the deck. “What’s night?”
Dragon Father turned around. “What do you mean?”
“What’s night? Is it like a knight with a sword?”
“No. Night, night. That thing that happens after the day. When you sleep.”
“What happens when I sleep?”
“Joy. When the suns go down. What’s the matter with you?”
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Dragon Little couldn’t stop jumping up and down once she and Dragon Father emerged from the land of the tooth fairies and back into the deck of Bonny’s Revenge.
“That was awesome that was awesome that was awesome that was awesome!”
Dragon Father looked at her and smiled the way he had the entire day, happy that he could give her such a joyful day.
“Did you see when I bumped into them? Boom!” she mimicked the day’s action on her father, slamming into him.
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“Aaaaaaaaaah!” Dragon Little was rolling down the steep cliff dressed in and protected by a giant ball of foamy, padded clothes.
The Tooth Fairy flew above her, and next to the Tooth Fairy was Dragon Father on his jetpack.
This had been the adventure Dragon Little had been waiting for six months for.
“It’s going to be all right, little pirate!” The Tooth Fairy boomed at her with her loud voice. “You are now representing all tooth fairies in a battle of honor!”
“Whaaaaaaaaaat?” Dragon Little’s voice was dropping as she kept dropping.
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Dragon Little was already giggling without being able to stop when a clothes rack was brought in for the Tooth Fairy.
I have never seen Dragon Little laugh so much and never seen her unable to stop herself from laughing for so long.
The Tooth Fairy, short and loud and oblivious to the fact that Dragon Little was laughing.
“All right,” she shouted in what was probably her soft voice. “Gotta prepare you for battle. There’s gonna be a lot of bumpiness in this adventure so we need you well-padded.”
Dragon Little nodded, even though I believe she did not understand what the Tooth Fairy meant.
“Let’s dress her up as a CUBE!” The Tooth Fairy boomed.
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The Tooth Fairy was short, stout, and very very loud.
“Tooth Fairy,” Dragon Father said, “This is my daughter Joy.”
“Joy the pirate!” she boomed in one of her softest voices. “I’ve been waiting for you for ages!”
She put her strong fingers into each of Joy’s shoulders. “Your father says you’re good in a fight!”
Dragon Little was smiling. “Yes, Miss Fairy.”
“Yeah, but do you bounce?” The Tooth Fairy boomed again.
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The Tooth Tree sprouted within a minute.
Dragon Little and Dragon Father looked at it, standing on the barren sand of Tooth Island.
The sprout thickened into a massive vine, multiplied into multiple vines, and all the vines skyrocketed upwards, meshing into each other, jutting out, then getting entangled again, as if in a competition to get higher faster.
A doorway opened in the sky, a bright light and seemingly a tear within the fabric of space.
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Tooth Island had not been there, on Earth’s ocean, until Bonny’s Revenge reached it. It was summoned by the dreamer without his knowledge.
They parked Bonny’s Revenge at the edge of the small island. It was a small, barren island.
“Why is this called Tooth Island?” Dragon Little looked around. “There’s nothing here.”
“Do you have your tooth?”
She showed it to him.
“Dig a small hole and bury it.”
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“Where should we go?” he said. “Mars?”
“Dad!”
“I know! We should go to Robot Planet!”
“Dad! We’re going to Tooth Island!”
“Yes, but where are we going? Into the sun?”
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Five and a half year old Dragon Little was asleep on the deck, back leaning against the mast, head leaning back.
Her mouth and chin were still showing the dried remains of the little blood that had fallen come out of her mouth when her tooth was knocked out. He let out a small laugh and leaned down next to her.
In her hand, between her fingers, she was holding her tooth.
“Joy, Joy,” he said gently.
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