Derik's Christmas Adventure

Out with my brother looking for reindeer

It was something we did year after year.

On our way over I tripped over an egg

My brother laughed cause it hurt my leg.

The egg seemed to glow.

Why it did, I don't know.

Then there was a crack

And my brother gave the egg back.

“I don’t want it. It's broken.”

Were the words he had spoken.

Then off he went

Without my consent.

I was really freaked out

When I saw a scaly snout

Yellow spikes were on it's head

And the rest of it's body was red.

All of a sudden my brother was there

I quickly hid the dragon in my blond hair.

He wanted to go back to our house

So we snuck in as quiet as a mouse.

In my room I watched the dragon sleep

This was something I wanted to keep

I named the red and yellow dragon Spike

I thought it was a name that it would like.

I went to tell me brother Dylan

But he yelled at me like I was a villain.

I went to my room but Spike was gone

I didn't know what was going on.

I searched under my bed

I even checked on top of my head.

He wasn't there

He wasn't anywhere.

I checked in the kitchen

Thinking he had wanted some chicken

But he wasn't there

He wasn't anywhere.

I was checking the living room

When I heard my brother boom

“Get out of my room!”

I rushed to my brother

Trying not to wake my mother.

In Dylan's bedroom I found Spike

He was about to do something I wouldn’t like.

Spike was about to eat a mermaid

But I stepped in front of him unafraid.

“No, Spike ! No !” I cried

Spike sat down and rolled on its side

Out of no where a pink dragon appeared

Oddly enough I didn’t think it was weird.

I kissed the mermaid

And her fins began to fade.

She leaned in close to me

“Wait til you see

The dragons of the sea.”

I was fascinated

Her words had me captivated

I followed her to the sea

Where she had me eat a pea

Then my legs disappeared

And a tail appeared

She had one too.

But mine was blue.

We dived in the water

Even swam past an otter.

She wouldn't stop braggin

When we found the dragon

It looked more like a serpent

But it soon became apparent

That I was discontent

I wanted to be back with Spike

And know what his world was like.

The mermaid seem to know

Where I had wanted to go

So she told me about her aunt the sorceress

Then she led the way to her aunt's fortress

“Hello Adela .” The sorceress said

As she bent to kiss her niece's head

“Derik wants to go to the Sky Kingdom.”

The mermaid, Adela said

Her aunt smile and handed me a slice of bread.

She told me to take a bite

So that I could take flight.

Suddenly I was in the sky

With giant wings so I could fly.

I had yellow spikes and blue scales

I had claws instead of nails.

I followed an instinct inside of me

and I made it there finally.

To the kingdom in the sky.

In a blink of an eye

Spike was in front of me

And he seemed happy.

His tail was wagging

like a happy little dragon.

He knew it was me

And I lived happily

with my dragon family.