l.a+story+(the+dragon)

**__ The Dragon __**
"Alas ye mateties" "raise those sails or eull walk the plank" says Karen with her this paper hat and sword. There are at least 5 little kids running around on this huge white piece of paper that had what looked to be like a pirate ship painted on it. With all their newspaper hates and plastic swords running and laughing and making the motions like they really are raising the sails. Charlie, the youngest of the bunch, has a flag of a rainbow up on a stick and digs it into the ground. " Ie Charlie what be with this?" the captain asks. "It a rainbow it is the after part of a storm so it is good and bad." Charlie answers all wide eyed and smiles, "Good work then mate." the captain says; then she  walks over to these wooded sticks that are taped to a pole in the ground the sticks are taped in some kind of circle around the pole, it looks somewhat like a ships steering wheel. She takes the wheel and then yells " all hands on deck, and get me ships girls out to scrub this place, I want it ship shape." Then she turns her hand like she is turning the wheel, 2 small girls come out with buckets filled with nothing and sponges and start to pretend to scrub the deck. "Lilly get ye but up on the mail sail and look out." "ie sir." answers a little girl, clearly the smallest of the crew. She takes a "scope", made out of a paper towel roll, and climbs up a tree and pretends to look out. Still confused about <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">what is going on? well let me explain it better, this is a simple game of imagination and <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the best way to play it, Pirates vs. Vikings that is. Even though the kids don’t have much <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">to work with they are still running around and talking like pirates. " Captain. Captain the <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">dragon is here and The Viking lord Nolan is leading it." Says little Lilly to Karen. " Well <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ye better get movin then.” Karen answers back, then she yells "Everyone at starber and <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">get ye canons and guns ready." And of course no one knows what side starber is so the <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">whole crew runs to the left of the "ship" when starber is right. They run and pretend they  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">are getting ready for battle. Meanwhile on the dragon, the Vikings are preparing to  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> attack. The dragon is a painted rock and it is painted to look like a dragon, and it is a  <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">mystical thing at that. "Steady the guns boys" says The Viking lord Nolan. Everyone on <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the dragon lifts their hands like they are holding guns and gets ready. Back on the pirate <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ship the crew is getting ready as well. "Fire on me mark mates" yells the Karen. The <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">crew does what the Vikings do and get readying and into place. Little Lilly in a tree with <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> the roll up to her eyes shouts, "they be coming captain" "ie" Karen answers back. Not <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">even a minute later the Viking lord yells "fire" then on the pirate ship the captain shouts <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"fire at will!!" then like every imaginary games goes the kids make canon and guns <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">noises and pretend to be hit and fall. "Get the ropes, I want me crew on that dragon stat, <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">ye better gets movin boys I want those Vikings walking thee planks." yells the captain. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"Be ready men." shouts the Viking lord. The kids from the pirate ships run and get <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">sticks, dig them into the ground and jump onto the dragon and act as if they just swung <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">over the Atlantic ocean. Then they take out their plastic sword and start to fight like the <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">pirates they have always dreamed of being. Little Lilly hoops down from the tree and <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">joins the fight. The little Vikings and Pirates are shouting and having a grand old time. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When the moms come out with P.B and J and say "It’s time to eat my little warriors." <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> With a big hurray the Vikings and Pirates all jump off the dragon and take a sandwich. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then they jump back on the dragon, sit down and enjoy a wonderful lunch with each <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">other. You see that is the difference between the kids and teens, when kids get into <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"battles" they get over it and move on within minutes and never think about it again, But <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">with teens well that’s another story.