The princess cricket and the dragoon

A long time ago when strawberry princess still existed in the highlands of Scotland, there was a young heir to the throne, named Gemma of Bourjois. She was a beautiful princess without an ounce of sadness in her face. She had shiny, smooth black hair that made her worthy of all admirers. But she had one small imperfection, she was short-sighted.

All of the noble single gentlemen wished to marry her but she was already engaged to a noble gentlemen from Spain. Her mother, the queen, had died the same day she was born. Immediately, Lady Avara of Hardware, an evil princess, became her stepmother. Only a few months after her birth, the evil stepmother had promised Gemma´s hand in marriage to a noble young man from France, Yves de Rocher so that she could acquire Gemma´s lands and form an empire of tyranny in all of Europe. However, Gemma of Bourjois only loved one man, Albert Kinderbueno and wished to be with him for the rest of her life. Unfortunately, Albert Kinderbueno was a simple dragon keeper and this separated them. Dragons were used in war to take each other´s lands, and that´s why dragon tamers existed.

Spring arrived and Gemma go to the French castle with her suite. Little by little, Gemma became sad. Her eyes didn´t have that sparkle, her skin turned dull, her hair had lost all the eminence. According to the doctor, she was dying of love and there was no cure for her sickness. With the insistence of Gemma´s father, the king, her evil step-mother offered one solution: Alberto Kinderbueno would have a dual with with noble Frenchman so that the winner would win Gemma´s hand in marriage. The evil stepmother knew that Yves de Rocher would win because he was trained in the martial arts. And little by little, the evil stepmother would take Gemma´s throne, like she had done with her husband´s lands. But no one remembered that Albert possessed the greatest treasure, his friend and companion, Gloin, a dragon.

Although big and scary, dragons weren´t damsel eating animals as they were thought to be. They were caring animals with hearts as big as their bodies. They ate insects, plants and fish. Gloin was like every other dragon. He was huge but respected the life of every human being.

The day of the dual arrived, the sky was dark and rainy. Nothing good can come from this day. The dual started off in a fierce way. The young Albert immitated the moves of a dragon and that worried his adversary. The evil stepmother discovered his tactic that Gloin, the dragon, directed his keeper in the fight. Lady Avara only saw one solution, kill Gloin so she could be queen of all of Europe. So she quickly ran to dragon and pushed him off the cliff where he found his end.

Seeing the sad end of his friend, Albert and Gemma ran to save him. Aready on the edge of the cliff, they saw themselves as Gloin and the evil stepmother still grabbing hold on the edge of a rock, to keep from falling. Gloin looked at them with a few sad little eyes, knowing that death came soon. However Lady Avara uttered horrendous screaming "take me out of here you cursed!" Help me! "Help!" To help his loyal companion, both Albert and Lady Gemma decided to join their forces to save the dragon.

Lady Avara looked furiously while they managed to save Gloin, suddenly the rock moved, and she fell to the bottom as she cursed "if so much love you had your nasty dragon I condemn you, Albert de Kinderbueno to be Gloin for the rest of your life, and you, thankless stepdaughter to be food for dragons, a miserable and horrible cricket... forever jamaaaaaaaasssssss" said this evil greedy Lady while he was lost in the darkness of the precipice.
Anabel
Translated for María