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Dragon Eggs.

It was a hot summers day, a day to either be in the woods or in a swimming pool. I had no choice I have no swimming pool so it was the shady woods for me. I sat for a while listening to the birds sweetly chirping away. Wild animals showed their faces. The deer with its young, a couple of rabbits, in fact it seemed as if today all of the creatures were coming just to see me. I sat with my back to a tree and just kept my eyes open. Butterflies dancing their age-old dance between heaven and sky kept me enthralled for a while. It was one of those days when I was at peace with the whole world.

The Fairies came to visit me after a while; they were very excited one of the Dragons had laid three eggs, which were being guarded by the Fairies. This was a very happy occasion as the last dragons to be born in this part of Fairyland had gone with the Fairy Queens help to China. There are a dozen or more Dragons in China they have such a vast area in which to hide their young offspring.

Soon the news had gone all round Fairyland if all went well we would have three new Dragon babies. The mother Dragon was also guarded by her husband he was one big Dragon and when he opened his mouth to call, all of Fairyland heard him. To the Fairies the Dragons were like pets they were fed on the finest of vegetables and given freshly mown hay to eat. Now with the coming of three new babies all the Fairies went out of their way to find fresh berries for the mother to eat.

Unfortunately the news was heard outside of Fairyland and there were many Wizards that would like to get their hands on some fresh Dragon scales. Dragon scales were very potent for making some of the spells that the Wizards use.  I must have fallen asleep it was so peaceful and I had slept badly because of the heat, that my body just took over.

When I later awoke I saw a strange man walking slowly through the woods. This I thought was no ordinary man looking for wild berries or mushrooms. His eyes were looking everywhere even under the bushes not to mention up in the trees. I watched him for over an hour as I slowly followed him just to make sure that he was up to no good.

I contacted the Fairies and told them to be on the look out for strangers, in the next few weeks there was an extraordinary rush of both strange men and women wandering through the woods. I told one of the Fairies to mention this to the Fairy Queen Feeana I was now convinced that Witches and Wizards were looking for the Dragons and their eggs. 

The next day as I walked slowly through the woods Queen Feeana appeared suddenly before me in her usual way. “You do not need to worry about the Dragons I too have noticed the unusual activities in Fairyland and have made Dragons all over the world invisible.”  “Only the Fairies and you yourself will be able to see them.”  “Perhaps in two or three thousand years from now all Peoples in this world will be able to see them.”

The Dragon eggs hatched out and three baby Dragons were happily feeding on food that their parents and the Fairies gave them to eat. I found the babies and their mother one day as I slowly walked through the woods looking for mushrooms. I think that I was more surprised than the dragons. I greeted them and was surprised at how big the three young Dragons had become. There were still people coming into the woods if they could not have a young dragon then the eggshells would be able to make their spells more potent.

The Queen had foreseen this problem and as soon as the babies were hatched she had the shells buried in a secret place. Gradually the flow of strangers stopped and the only people that we saw in the woods were local people or the odd Farmer looking for a suitable tree to chop down for building purposes.

Later on Her Majesty used her powerful magic to whisk the dragons to China. She thought they would have more chances to survive in that huge land. Now that they were invisible there was no more danger from the Witches and Wizards and here in our part of fairyland everything went back to normal.

As for me I dammed up the stream that meandered through Fairyland and went nearly every day in summer for a cool refreshing swim. I could not convince the Fairies to come in though as they all had a great fear of their wings becoming wet. They sat on the bank and teased me that I could not swim as good as the tiny minnows that abounded in the stream.