Chapter 5: Captured

Sari and Charismi walked around the camp. It felt so… empty. Sari walked back inside the cave and put on her sweater, which was still lying on the cave floor. When she walked back outside she saw Charismi running into the woods. “Charismi! Wait! CHARISMI!” Sari shouted, running after her. Following Charismi through thorns and bushes, they finally came to a clearing. Charismi was standing under a tall wooden sign that read DRAGON COUNTRY (Please make sure your dragon is tamed) “Okay,” Sari said, stepping inside next to Charismi. She took a quick look around, while following Charismi. The place looked deserted and in the distance there was a mist. Sari stopped to look at a cabin in the distance. When she turned forward again, Charismi was gone. “Charismi?” Sari called, panic rising in her voice. She looked around franticly. But Charismi had long gone ahead. Suddenly, somebody grabbed her arms and pulled them behind her back. Sari tried to kick her way free but somebody else tied her feet together. Sari screamed, “He-mmff!” but her mouth was covered by a gloved hand. Her captors dragged her along the road to a dark and dusty building. Inside there she saw judges and their cruel faces, but worst of all she saw Charismi laying limp on the table next to her.

Chapter 4: Name and Tame

Sari stepped closer, crouched down and put her hand on the dragon’s head. It was very warm. Sari stroked the dragon form head to tail. As she did this, the dragon made a low hhhmmmmiiiiiisssssssss-ing sound. Suddenly it sneezed-a ball of fire! Sari jumped back, surprised. Of course, she then thought to herself, what else do you expect from a dragon? Sari slowly stood up and walked outside, the dragon in her hands. “You need a name,” she thought, looking at the dragon curled up in her arms. Immediately, she thought of her friend, Charisma. “I know!” She said to the dragon, “I’ll name you Charismi!” Charismi purred to the sound of the name. “It’s a perfect name!” Apparently, Charismi thought so too.

Chapter 3: Dragon!

Sari watched as, everyday; the crack that was tiny grew bigger and bigger. Soon, the crack stretched all the way from the top to the bottom. Sari watched the egg intently, waiting for something to come out. The crack widened with every passing second until you could see the creature inside, all curled up. The egg pieces suddenly fell to the sides to reveal… a dragon? Sari stumbled backward. She couldn’t believe what she saw. It was a dragon. A blue one with green wings and a spiky tail speckled with red. “Whoa.” Sari muttered. She was sure that she was dreaming. She rubbed her eyes and looked again. The little fellow was still sitting there, smiling.

Chapter 2: Tiny Crack

Sari looked around and decided to make a camp. She tucked the egg into her sweater and started in search of a camp. Her legs ached when she finally reached a clearing with a small cave. But her heart was pounding with excitement about what would hatch out of the egg. She huddled against the walls of the cave to keep warm. With her arms still wrapped around the sweater that held the egg, she fell asleep.

Sari awoke to the sound of twittering birds. It sounded like they were calling her name. “Sa-ri! Sa-ri! Sa-ri!” Sari smiled and got up, putting the egg gently on the ground with her sweater still wrapped around it. She picked some berries she had left in a bowl of water and popped them into her mouth. Sari chewed slowly, and then swallowed. She then walked over to a nearby stream and washed her face. Sari yawned, stood up, and walked back to camp.

Sari walked into the cave and un-wrapped the egg. That was when she saw the tiny crack. Right on top of the egg.

Chapter 1: Blueberry, Blueberry, Egg?

Sari cringed as a spider ran across her bare foot. It wasn’t easy in the wild, she thought to herself. She had been in the forest for only two days now but had already lost her shoes to an angry orangutan. She decided to give herself a break and sat down on a stump. Sari thought of herself as a very un-average 13-year old girl, for she had neither parents nor home. Sari suddenly heard a “screech!” and decided to move on.

Sari held her tummy. She was starving. She got up to look for some berries. She stopped at tiny bush with berries that were blue. “Blueberries!” exclaimed Sari. She picked one and popped it into her mouth. “Yum!” she started picking as many as she could to save for later. As she bent down to pick more blueberries, she noticed something green, with specks of blue peeking out of the bush. Sari fished it out. It was an egg! “Cool!” Sari whispered. Sari thought about keeping the egg. When it hatched, she could train it; so it would help her in the wild. “I’ll keep it.” Sari decided.

Prologue

“My parents abandoned me.” murmured Sari to herself. She remembered it clearly. She was driving home with her mom and dad. They were saying something about food when they nodded to each other, took a look a Sari, their own daughter, and then pushed her out the door. Sari screamed for them to come back, but the car just drove on and on until it was gone. Sari watched the car as it drove away, and saw her own mother looking back at her, crying.