The Grumpy Dragon
Yip Yuen Kiu Jeria, Group 2: Fiction, Evangel Primary
nce upon a time there was a phenomenal structure called the ’Great Wall’ in Beijing, China. It was a
radical construction that everyone in China was pound of.
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One night when everyone was fast asleep, a dragon with fearsome teeth and razor-sharp claws
flew towards the Great Wall. The dragon was initially in shock, but after he had calmed down he
hought, ”Hey! Staying in here is too boring. I have wings now so why don’t I go to countries where
there are wars raging? I could protect the people and show my almighty powers to others.“ Later, he
decided to call himself ‘Grumpy Dragon’ and then proceeded to fly to Israel.
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The next day when people in Beijing found the Great Wall had disappeared, everyone in China was shocked.
Now everyone in Israel realised this huge dragon was flying towards them. Suddenly, a big crash occurred in
their neighbourhood and everyone came out from their houses. They saw a gigantic wall lying in the middle of
their city. Grumpy Dragon thought “Hurray! Now I can protect them!”. While Grumpy was trying to move, the
buildings around him were destroyed because of Grumpy’s sheer size and his heavy steps. “Oh! My house! You
broke my house!” someone shouted at the back of the crowd, than more and more people started yelling at him.
A woman said “Let us throw things at this rubbish wall!” Then everyone went back to their homes and brought
out a lot of rotten eggs and fruit and started throwing them at Grumpy Dragon. ‘Splash! Splash!’ the people
threw everything at Grumpy and the wall. At night, Grumpy Dragon quickly left Israel for Syria.
From what he had learnt in Israel, Grumpy Dragon decided he would land on the grounds of Syria gingerly
and carefully. He waited and waited until a child looked up and cried “Look! There is a big wall!” Everyone
went out outside just like they did in Israel. These people were very curious about what was happening and
proceeded to walk over to Grumpy Dragon and started touching him. Suddenly, a child suggested, ”This wall is
very beautiful. We could draw some pictures on it and make it even more beautiful!” “Agree!”, everyone
shouted. Then, they brought out different types of paint, paintbrushes and markers to Grumpy Dragon. Grumpy
thought ”They respect me, unlike those ungrateful Israelis. I think I will stay here.” But the people in Syria were
not drawing pictures on Grumpy Dragon‘s body; they were just frantically colouring the wall. Grumpy Dragon’s
body was getting dirtier and dirtier; it was also getting angrier and angrier. At night, Grumpy Dragon left Syria.
Since going to another country needed to travel a very long distance, Grumpy Dragon sat down and decided
to rest for a while. Soon after it had fallen asleep, a light suddenly materialised. Grumpy opened his eyes and
saw a pretty fairy appeared in front of him. “Who are you?”, Grumpy asked in shock. “I am a fairy called ’
Melody’, I have come here to let you know how wrong you have been“ the fairy said. ”No! I didn’t do anything
wrong, I just wanted to help people and develop my strengths! “Grumpy Dragon said. “ No! No! If you wanted
to help, I would not stop you. But because of your carelessness, you have caused more damage to the place than
the war itself.’ After saying this, Melody disappeared. Grumpy Dragon thought Melody may be right, so he
decided to go back to China.
The next day in China, when everyone saw Grumpy, they shout “Hurray! Our Great Wall has been
returned!” Grumpy Dragon was every happy to hear their praises.
To this day, the Great Wall still sits magnificently in Beijing.
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