Fred the Dragon

This is an old one, and I believe it started it all …can I date it? …let me see… It was at the Pinery… I remember… because of the leaky tent … Back when I printed really neat…hmmmm… 1990, nice round number.

 

Credits on this one go to Hugh who read this one and laughed hilariously as he told me it was stupid.

 

 

By: Bonnie Speed  ~1990
Artwork: a little later

 

Fred the Dragon was a purple dragon with pink spikes.  He hated these colours because they were GIRL colours. So, one day he set out to find new colours.  Soon he met a knight on a hill.  Fred asked the knight who he was.

 

“I am a knight.”

 

But Fred was very confused.  He couldn’t figure out how a knight could be there in the day.  Then Fred decided that if the knight really WAS night, then he shouldn’t mess with him.  Fred said to the knight, “I don’t like my colour.  Do you know where I could get new colours?”

 

The knight didn’t answer.  Instead he drew his sword.

 

“That’s a nice picture of your sword,” Fred said.  “Can I keep it?”

 

The knight still didn’t answer.  He took his sword out and poked Fred.  “There, now you have a new colour!” the knight said. 

 

Fred looked down at the blood gushing out of his gut.  But it was not a good colour and Fred screamed, “But I clash!” 

 

Fred’s spikes clashed with his blood so Fred set off to find another colour.  But that’s another story.

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