Johnny stood in the kitchen doorway trembling, his teeth chattering. His face pale white and covered with mud. His striped T-shirt torn and one of his sneakers missing. His mother ran to him dropping to her knees before the boy.

"Honey, what happened?"

The boy, starring straight ahead started to babble. "MMM...Me and Timmy and Ben, we were playing up on the mountain near the lake and we found this cave. We went in to explore it and at the back of the tunnel there was these stone steps. It was really dark but we had flash lights so we followed the stairs just to see where they went. They went down and down and down. When we finally made it to the bottom it was some kind of house. No, more like an old castle from a scary movie or something. We stood on the stairs for a few minutes fighting about wether or not to turn back of keep exploring. Timmy wasn't sure but Ben was scared and wanted to turn back.

Then this lady stepped out of the darkness in a long black dress. It must have been her place because she was really mad that we were there. I don't know what she was saying. It was in some other language but, she had this big carved stick that she banged on the stone floor and this big dragon thing, came slithering out of one of the rooms. It opened it's mouth wide and let out a high pitched scream as fire shot out.. Before I knew it I was running up the stairs taking two or three at a time. At the top of the first turn in the winding stairs, I looked back over my shoulder and the dragon had Timmy in his mouth as Ben stood crying on the stairs. I called to him "Timmy run, run!" but, as he turned the dragons sharp teeth closed over him. Timmy, Timmy! Oh my God Timmy!"



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