Soon, the mystery dragon said her name was Penney. Soon, they found a little home, but something was living in it. So Wruff and the dogs went further north. Wruff wanted to explore more areas and to find a mate. North of the area there was an open area where Wruff and the dogs played. Beauty and Buff kicked Wruff out of the house! Wruff was in shock for a month!īut Wruff had to move on. One day, Wruff’s parents couldn’t take it anymore. Soon, Eric called his other friends to play with him and Wruff. Every day, Wruff and Eric played for hours. They went to the same classes in the same school. Eric and Wruff played and played and played. When Wruff was 3 weeks old, he got his first friend, and it was a dog. But Wruff’s parents weren’t happy about Wruff. He could also smell and hear and talk like a dog. Wruff had a dog face, with scales and tufts of fur across his body. And Buff thought he would be strong, like him. Beauty thought that Wruff would be handsome and polite, like her. The parents were bewildered when Wruff hatched. When he hatched, he was part dog part dragon, because he loves dogs so much! His parents were Beauty, the jewelry dragon, and Buff, the strong dragon. The next morning, the children returned and he told them the truth and they said they didn’t care because they liked him for who he was, squeaky voice and all. He decided to tell the truth and tell the children he really was a dragon. Thorvald put the treasure back in the trunk and pretended he never saw the pouch. Thorvald said thank you and quickly snapped the watch closed. Wealth is not to be hoarded but shared by the group.” He eventually was killed because of his selfish greet. You are the great son of Fafnir, a dragon who stole treasures from his father for himself. Linnea shouted, “Thorvald, be a shareful dragon. He opened the pocked watch and the face quickly blurred and an older woman’s face appeared pointing her finger at Thorvald and spoke in English with a Swedish accent. He thought the kids were dummar ungar (dumb kids) for trusting him. They left and Thorvald opened the trunk and found the pouch. They told Thorvald they would see him tomorrow. They unlocked the folk trunk and took out blankets for Thorvald. It was starting to get dark and time for the children to go home. They teased Thorvald about his squeaky voice. The children were sad and said he could sleep in the playhouse. Thorvald rang the doorbell, came in, and told them that his family went missing on a boat and he had nowhere to sleep. Thinking of the pouch made him make a purring, cat noise, a ring of fire circled his body. He kept his squeaky voice as a dragon to charm his friends in his human form. With the pouch, life would be better.ĭragons can take a form of a human. They stood by their ideals of the treasures.Īs Thorvald was peering in the window, he was getting jealous of their friendship. The children carefully hid the pouch under the blankets in the folk trunk. The treasures on the table were a dala horse meaning courage, a crystal stone for pureness and honesty, and a gold pocket watch owned by great grandmother Linnea who sailed to America long ago. He thought their treasures would make him happy. He was sad that they were laughing and he wasn’t. He was very lonely and wanted to be part of their play. Thorvald the little dumpy dragon was lurking outside the window peering in. The group calmed down and Reegan spread the secret treasures from the pouch on the table. Reegan, CJ and Charlie were eating knäckebröd in their playhouse. Find the winning stories below.īy Reegan Carl, age 5, with Grandma Chris Cairl The competition was fierce, and many creative and exceptional stories were submitted for consideration. One winning story was selected from each of four categories. Earlier this year, young writers ages 3–18 were invited to submit original stories to ASI that featured dragons or were inspired by ASI’s exhibition Paper Dialogues: The Dragon and Our Stories.
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