English 10 Teacher:Mr.Abel M.

Cadias
Name: Nattha Theevarajirasab (Nut)
Class: 10-07

The Legend of the Red Dragon

Once upon a time, there was an island named La-La Island with an amazing city called
Mysto City which was surrounded by volcanoes and the temperature was very bad, as we
could find the fluctuation along the day. In the day time, the temperature was about 45
degree Centigrade or 113 degree Fahrenheit, and the temperature at night was about -5
degree Centigrade or 23 degree Fahrenheit. In addition the sunlight was extremely strong.
The humidity was quite high during the night so the plants which could grow were not too
many. As the geography of this village, it was very difficult to find living things around there.
The villagers there built their house underground by digging to create tunnels connected with
many accommodations. When they wanted to plant or farm, they would go up to the surface.

During the Feya dynasty in the Mysto city which was located in the central of La-La islands,
Zom-Beer was a king who governed the Land. His characteristic was quite normal like a
wealthy merchant. He had long white hair, stinky beard, disgusting smell, like all dogs in the
world die, ugly and smelly toes; furthermore his arm and his face were very ugly. Every day
he thought only about his clothes, his food, and his money. He was very awful because he
had never been caring about his citizens at all either he had never thought how they were
spending their livings or how suffering they were. He concentrated only himself.

According to his citizen lives, they had to face with the bad temperature and it was very hard
to plant or farm, so the food was not enough for everyone. The fabric for making clothes was
limited. Moreover, every year they had suffered by the leaks of the mountains that could
flood all paths of all tunnels. However, the king did not care these problems because he lived
in the center of the land. If it was flooding, the outer houses would be the first.

When he said something to his citizen or his subordinates, his voice tone was aggressive.
So everyone did not like him. All of his speech was always a command that is why no one
wanted to obey him. For example, when he needed food, he shouted to call his mates out
loud and if the mates came slowly, he would beat them. It was very cruel. Sometimes when
he wanted to clean himself, he just called and let their mates to do it. He had never taken a
bath himself.

Unfortunately, he was born with his bad luck that he could only eat a single species of
mushroom which was called The Dragon Eye Mushroom. The head of the mushroom
looked like a head of a dragon and some had two or three heads. The skin of stem seemed
like the body of dragon which was not smooth as it had skin like a fish. The leaves looked
like the wings of dragon that was amazing. Its taste was absolutely fantastic and those who
had an opportunity to eat it would feel like they had a full power, advanced thinking and
magical ability to fly, to fight with each other and to breathe out fire. That was why even he
was bad, but he could govern this city. Everyone thought that he was a god, they had to
serve him, and otherwise they would be punished.

With his curious when he was young; he went up to the surface and tried other plants and
meat greedily. Because since he was born, his parents kept telling him that he could only eat
The Dragon Eye Mushroom. He could not eat anything. In fact, his parents wanted him to
gain more powers to govern all citizens. If he ate other food, all powers would be
disappeared. After finishing his meal, he suffered with a terrible fever and he nearly died. All
powers especially flying skill were gone. His abilities were just like a human. His parents put
their fully attempts to find the superior doctor from all over the island for the best treatment.
Doctors from all over the country came to examine him, and no one could help him. Two
months passed, his father got an idea then he quickly brought a ton of The Dragon Eye
Mushroom for him to eat. A short while later, he recovered and his parents were pleasure.
Since then he could realized that only mushrooms could help him and he had never tasted
any food again.

From the condition of the country, there was only one place that could grow these
mushrooms because it depended on the village optimal temperature, humidity and sunlight.
Moreover, it had to be surrounded by the volcano which wasnt easy to find in this place from
any region. The Dragon Eye Mushroom spent a year to grow and waited for the annual
lava of the volcano to shield those plants. Later his citizen would go to harvest them. His
citizens had never tried the plant before because they believed that this was a plant of the
god, if they ate, they would die soon. There were enough The Dragon Eye Mushrooms for
the king all year in his stored room. How to eat this mushroom was just one way which is he
had to eat each stem within one bite so he had to open his mouth wide and put the whole
stem in one time. Otherwise, the elements in the mushroom along the stem, leaves, and
heads would be destructed. He needed to eat every 6 hours even if the powers would
slightly be diminished.

One day, disasters came with many reasons, for instance, the annual lava from the volcano
was exceeding over the place that grow the mushroom, the flooding that came from the
leaks of the mountains covered the place, the lightning from the sky came though the place,
and all of disasters led the electricity shock in this area. Disasters created much chaos all
over the island. Likewise, everybody tried to survive themselves without concerning about
the mushroom at all as they didnt have even time to collect the kings food. Once the annual
lava with high pressure came to face with the flooding, it formed the combination and the
hardening of liquid to be solid. At the night time when the temperature is lower than 0 degree
centigrade, that solid would become fragile. That was the reason of The Dragon Eye
Mushrooms death. When the king heard the situation, he was very shocked because there
was no food for him anymore but he could not do anything, just prayed for his food. Lucky
him there those disasters stopped before they reached the castle of the king. In the village
just a few people survived.

After 3 months, he thought back in the past that the style of his talking with his people was
not polite. He kept commanding, scolding, shouting, and blaming everyone by never giving
hands or caring their citizens even in the bad situation like some disaster time. As a result
his people had never cared about the king in return. It was like the mirror that reflected what
he did to the citizens or what he have done with his citizens, the citizens would return the
same. Actually his power could help his citizens as he could fly to breathe out water at the
volcano to put out the fire, and fly to mend the leaks of the mountains to stop the flooding.
He chose to sit and pray for his live. If he could reverse the time, he would not do the same.
He would use his abilities to fight with disasters and help his citizens to be survived.

In his sub-consciousness of his day dreamt, he used his wings to bring him to all over the
world outside the island. He met many places, many people and he had a chance to live with
them. But he could not still find his mushroom, he could not eat anything. He could realize
something that why those people offered to help him about food with or without reason. They
had never asked help from him anymore; on the other hand when he was the king, he had
never acted in a good manner. He always wanted to take advantages from others with his
powers. Moreover without The Dragon Eye Mushrooms he was only just a normal man like
his citizens. Why did he behave himself as a man not as a god? He had to change his mind,
his thought, and his action.

With many cities he kept spending his time after his life travelling a lot to find out his food
and a place to plant his food. Once he saw the radiation of heat, he directly flew to it and
explored the city. This city was like his island as it surrounded with mountains and the
temperature was very high. Most of the people settled underground because they may
escape the high temperature from the strong sunlight. He waited until the dark came then he
was very surprised that the temperature at night was very low like his home town. He
decided to live there. He cried that he found a new place that could plant these mushroom
again. He also thought that if he still acted like in the past, nobody would be care for him.

After he woke up, there was a very loud noise ,like all army over the world walking together,
banged by the far away distance. When the time passed, He saw a huge troops walking to
his city. All citizens were in chaos and the king was terrified. Suddenly one of the general in
the troops called out Give me your holy mushroom now or die The troops were still coming
closely. At that time the king flew outside his castle to stand in front of the big army and said
Stop now and do not harm my people unless I would slam you all down! None listened to
the king because they had just seen the big, bad, stingy, smelly, fat, and selfish man who
had never fought with anyone and the laugh came from all over the city. The troops ran into
him that was the reason that the king fell down. The general took him to the cage of his
castle. All the time the king was detained in the prison, the troops have never give him the
mushroom. Then he started starving. After catching the king for a week, some soldiers went
to the room and they saw the dead body which turned to green. He had no breath and move.
They shouted and ran all around the castle to inform everyone. In the cage, it was like a
magical that the cage was gradually crack and destroyed because of the transformation of
him. It was shocked by all his citizens and these troops. The kings body gradually shrink to
be the thin people, and his two arms turning to form the two new gorgeous wings and slowly
spread out. His feet turn to be claws. His transformation changed him to be a red dragon; in
addition he blew the fire to his enemies. All troops tried to escape from this city but they
could as the red dragon flew very fast. It was impressed all citizens since it was the first time
the king save the city. After the troops disappeared, the citizens called out the name of the
king Zom-Beer Zom-Beer Zom-Beer with their respect.

After his transformation, he could not be the normal. He had to keep this body as a red
dragon forever. One day the king changed his voice tone to talk and politely behaved to his
people. He kept asking what his citizen wanted and needed thus all people were very
delightful and they really love his king. This Island had never been invaded by the enemy at
all, they lived peacefully since then. From the tragedy, it brought some respect, some love,
some trust, and some gratefulness to the king hence the villagers carefully took care to plant
the Dragon Eyes Mushroom for their king and sent the crops on time. With careful work the
power of the mushroom was doubly increased, so the life time of the king was lengthened to
be a thousand-thousand years long.

Behind every mirror there is reflection of another face. What we have done with others, what
we have receive from them.