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| I rushed past the first-place rope and crossed the finish line. Victory! Now, I knew what I had to do: tell the most interesting story to please the crowd. The first part was done, making it across the finish line. The next part was the story. Now, I've told many stories before, all of them were short, but I haven't had success with longer stories. My dark brunette hair and pale skin glittered in the sun as glitter landed all over me. I just needed to wait until the others finished. One by one, they crossed the finish line too. Just a little bit longer. The slowest one had to finish, or else they would be disqualified. The slowest one was, of course, half a snail. Even the half turtle crossed the finish line. My role was half dragon. So, of course, everyone trailed behind me. I was expected to win. I had taught my fellow animals everything. Dragons were the speediest. Next came the serpents. Then the griffins and phoenixes. Then pegasi and unicorns. The list went on forever. There were 100 competitors. Everyone seemed to be following the stars and comets. Advanced technology helped to track them down. Every so often, a comet would get close enough for us to gather resources from it. Those unique minerals and rocks, as well as the touch of ice, held space magic. A magic that could only be achieved from space. There were creatures on it, too, that we captured and brought down to Earth. They multiply rapidly on this planet. A pair of them was the prize. If I win the two writing rounds, I will win these creatures. They were the most unusual eggs yet. Nobody knew about them or had seen them, and they wouldn't hatch for just anyone either. I did my research. They say it came from Earth, but I found the truth and will not speak it aloud until it's too late. "Half dragon, would you come up to the podium and speak your most interesting story?" The announcer announced after the podium was set up and the half snail made it. I quickly walked up to the podium. I couldn't slow down now. Dragons were supposed to be quick. Everyone won the race, doing what they were supposed to do. That was the easy part. When I tapped on the microphone, a tapping succession came right back at me. Good. The microphone worked. Now, I could be the worst; there were so many good improvisational storytellers out in the field waiting to tell their story, but I knew I wasn't bad. I was usually good. Grammar and spelling were the things I struggled with the most. I decided to tell a story about a dragon from one of my best attempts. Maybe it would be interesting. There was no such thing as multiple winners for the first-place eggs, but there was such a thing as multiple winners of the other kind of eggs. They knew at this time quality mattered. I could barely read what I typed up. "On the way to space, this dragon had to take a leak. It searched and searched for the right place to leak. Then the shuttle landed on the comet. So the dragon geared up and prepared for the icy journey. It took as many samples with it. Then, as it gathered everything, it noticed a pair of the most unusual-looking stones it had ever seen. Of course, these stones wouldn't break. But these stones had to be eggs. These eggs came from an unknown type of space creature. Hence, a contest over these eggs. Who can hatch them when they didn't get destroyed by anything or hatched from someone else's hands?" I couldn't think of anything else to say next. This was all from the research I had done about the first-place eggs. The audience cheered. "And it looks like the first may be a winner. Let's hear the others, though. This story was fascinating indeed. Something like that could happen." The announcer gave me a suspicious glance. He knew. He must have known these eggs well. The rest spoke theirs, and I turned out to be first-place. My story had given everyone the creeps. The eggs looked more mysterious than ever. Did they hold power over the influence of this contest? Either way, 50 had been disqualified. Their stories just didn't hold up. I felt sorry for them. The eggs were knocked down to 50 pairs. The next round. Everyone held their breath as I went up again. I had a different dragon story, this time I bonded from those very eggs as I had a dream. The dream felt too real. Once more, the audience cheered. The others did great as well, in different levels this time—multiple ties. But I came out on top. More for me! "Now, we want to see if you can hatch these eggs. It appears to be picky about its owner. Not even the top could hatch them. They are still ice cold like the comet they came from. It wasn't a dragon that found these eggs; it was a human. Let's see if they are worth something or if they were a dud. Time to reveal, winner of the eggs, Lilah!" The announcer clapped his hands as I went forward to collect the eggs. At first, nothing happened. Then the eggs seemed to melt in my hands literally. A flash of light beamed, and out popped what appeared to be some space aliens. These were no ordinary creatures. I had success in hatching them! "Master!" They both said in unison and bowed their heads. Already, they were like 15 feet tall. These were no ordinary eggs, and I was no longer creatureless. "I'm going to name you Joe and Lily. That is fitting. How mysterious you are! We don't know anything about you, but someone may know from outer space. Why not join me and we'll search about you all over the Earth and other planets. Maybe some aliens would know what to do and what our fate is meant to become. You look ancient already! How cold and shiny your scales are- well you got feathers and fur too, untypical of a dragon. You must be the Comet Dragon of Legendary Proportions or something of the sort." I bowed in respect to them bowing to me. They came back up. Word Count: 1,070 "The Bradbury"  |
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