HEY GUYS! My 16th hatch-day was yesterday, I know when you think of being 16 you think of driving and getting jobs and stuff like that, and I did to, untill I realized what turning 16 meant for dragons. It turns out a dragon`s 16th hatch-day is the day that detirmines their entire future!!! You see, on every dragon`s 16th hatch-day they have to face the Grand Trial, a series of events to prove if they are worthy of EVER becoming the alpha male/or female of their pack! And sence I`m next in line to be the alpha male, if I fail this it would mean WAVE would very likely be the next alpha male! No offense Wave but a world where you are the alpha male is not a world I wanna live in. (shudder, shudder, shudder,)
First everyone (even my friends and family from Lego City) gathered at the side of Iris Peak. (a mountain) Nobody spoke for a really long time untill Grandma flew up to a ledge on the side of the mountain and spoke, " Grockle of the family Ruby, do you take this challenge, whatever the outcome may be, with honor, respect, grace, and integrity?" i knew If I said yes, I would need to face the hardest task of my life,but if said no, Wave would most definitely be the next leader of the tribe/pack!! After standing there stupidly for like a million years, I finally manged to cough out a yes. And then Wave hit a gong and everyone there who could breath fire did! A roar went through the crowd! Once the noise died down Grandma said, " Alright, this first challenge will test Grockle`s strength, now withought further ado BRING OUT THE TIGER!!!" Then Aunt Peril swooped down carrying what seemed like a giant bird cage, but as she got closer I realized that the cage held a tiger, the natural enemy of the dragon! Then Grandma said, "Don`t worry Grockle, you don`t have to kill it, all you need to do is dig your claws into the ground and don`t run, scream, or fly away. Oh, one more note, try not to kill it." Then she nodded to Aunt Peril and she shot me an apologetic look and opened the latch. The tiger leapt forward and attemped to sink its claws into my flesh, but only dented a scale, my muscles tensed and I scrunched up into an indestructible ball of scales as the tiger attacked harder. Finally, after alot of noise from the crowd someone blew a conch shell and the tiger was pryed off me and I stood up and shook myself off, and the entire crowd started cheering. Then Grandma said, "An exelent feat of strategy!!" "Why thank you." I replied.
Well, my next challenge was spend an hour without eating or drinking. So, using the same part of my brain I used earlier, (I will post a brain map later.) I just slept an hour.
The next one was acctually fun, I had to navigate Chicken Woods blindfolded. Long story short, NAILED IT!!
This next one was my favorite, I had to hide somewhere on the island and the dragonets looked for me! I hid in the lava pool for like thirty minuets AND NOBODY FOUND ME!!!!!!!! but then time was up and I was declared the winner. WHOO!!!
Then I had to bury myself in a pile of snow on top of a mountain untill Grandma said I could stop. I think I might of broken a world record or something because she made me stay covered for a LONG time.
Then, (and this was a weird one) Ganymede and Peril dumped dozends of sacks of chickens out around the mountain a few of them were roosters and my job was to bring back 16 roosters . Whitch I did "exquisetly" as my grandma described it.
Then it came time for the final challenge, Grandma brought a ruby down from the highest cave on the mountain and said "Grockle of the family Ruby if you can manage to take this ruby from the talons of your father you will be eligable to challange him for his position as alpha male at any time and if anything causes his death you will automaticly take his place. Do you understand?" Then I took a deep breath raised my head high and said in a strong, confident voice, "Yes, I understand." Then Wave hit the gong and the ruby was passed to my dad who flew down to the ground. "Alright," Grandma started, "the only rule in this game is dont kill eachother. Without further ado, LET THE CHALLENGE BEGIN!!!" Wave hit his gong and Dad flew up anddarted tword Sapphire shore with me (literally) on his tail. As soon as we got to the beach he landed and started running twoard the water. You see my dad is mostly sea dragon and I am mostly sky dragon (I get it from my mom) so if he made it to the ocean this whole thing would be hopeless. Then I remembered I`m mostly sky dragon so I didn`t land I soared directly over my dad and came down on top of him. "Ugh," he said, "I had no idea how big you`d gotten." At first I didn`t see the ruby untill I saw what he`d done with it, It was lodged under his wing, whitch I was sitting on at the moment, so I simpily got off of him and he did exactly what I wanted him to do, he flew away and the ruby slipped out ftom under his wing, well I just scooped it up and headed back to Iris Peak. As soon as I arrived I flew up high up into the air so pretty much everyone could see me and held the ruby up as high as I could and then Banana blew a conch shell and he crowd went WILD!! The air was a mix of fire and frostbreath and everyone cheered and roared as loud as they could. And when I turned around my dad was hovering right behind me with a look of pure pride and love on his face and then he came in with the biggest hug I ever got.
After the commotion ended there was a whole celebration with speaches and food and congradulations and all that stuff. It was a blast.
And after THAT party I went to Lego City to find the 16th birthday I had always dreamed of, with preasents and cake and balloons and music. It was also a blast.
Well all I can say it that I am now qualified to be alpha male, but being the alpha male can wait, my life`s already complicated enough and besides my dad really deserves to keep his title, he`s a great guy I`m happy I met him. See you later.