'The Dragon Fighter' By Lisa Boyd

Lisa Boyd, an 8-year-old Gunpowder Elementary student, recently won first place in the Young Authors Contest of the State of Maryland International Reading Association Council for her short story, "The Dragon Fighter."

The article, , can be found . 

Lisa agreed to share the full text of her short story with Patch.

The Dragon Fighter

By Lisa M. Boyd

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess that dreamed of being a dragon fighter. Her father King Soy would not allow her to be a fighter of any kind. He wanted his daughter to only be a princess. But Princess Lola wanted more. She was determined not to give up on her dream.

Every night the princess and her cat Sur would sneak out of the palace after her father was asleep and go to the dangerous side of the kingdom where dragons lived. One night the king had a bad headache. He was in so much pain that he tripped getting out of bed and made a loud noise. He went to check on the princess to see if the noise had awakened her. But when he came into her room she was gone. He knew there was only one place she could be. At the other side of the kingdom.

The King gathered his army along with his pet dog named Mr. Tickles and they went to the other side of the kingdom. He didn’t care if he was in his royal pajamas. He and Mr. Tickles waundered around every inch of the other side of the kingdom. He had fought two and three dragons. Mr. Tickles fought a snake dragon. Finally the king found his daughter. She was fighting the worst dragon of all. The striped eagle dragon. King Soy wanted to help her so much but he could not reach her. When the fight was over the princess had killed the striped eagle dragon.

When King Soy and Princess Lola returned to the castle he was very upset with her. He did not put her on punishment because he knew he was wrong when he said she couldn’t be a dragon fighter. He now knew she was born to be a dragon fighter. The very next day he made her queen of the dragon fighter club. He never again said she couldn’t do something without seeing how well she could do it first.

The End.