Return to my Nest
The Story of Sir Caslow by Heather RaeLynn
A long, long time ago in a place far, far away, there were
two castles.
One castle was on the north side of the mountain. It was
black and ugly because the evil people who lived there never washed
anything, even themselves. They smelled very bad because they never
bathed. Their dirty evil king was called Louie.
On the other side of the mountain, there was a grassy hill
with two peaks on it. Between those two peaks, named Mike and Ike, there
was a white castle with blue trim. In this castle lived the good
princess Heather with all of her friends and family. Beside the castle
there was a blue stable with white trim. In this stable lived the
princess' horse, Katie. Katie was a very pretty horse. She was all white
except for her brown mane.
Princess Heather was very happy in her white castle with
the blue trim on the grassy hill with two peaks, because all the way up
at the top of the mountain, so high that no-one could climb up to it,
there was a cave with seven kind dragons.
The mother dragon was purple with a red belly, and the
father dragon was red with a purple belly. The five baby dragons were
also colored purple and red, and all the babies were very fat. they were
too fat to walk, but they could waddle, and all seven dragons could fly
and breathe fire.
The dragons were nice dragons who loved to smile and tell
jokes, ate leaves from trees, and they liked their friend, the kind
princess Heather.
One sunny day, while princess Heather was riding with Katie
on Ike peak, the evil king Louie came from the black castle with his
smelly, dirty, evil army and took over the white castle with the blue
trim, and they locked all of the good people in chains way down inside
the castle, even the court jester named Eric, who was juggling
firesticks in the main hall when evil king Louie invaded.
Heather knew when she started home from her ride with Katie
that something was wrong with her castle, but she didn't know yet
exactly what was wrong. She could smell a horrible, terrible, reeking
smell even before she got close enough to see the castle. When she was
close enough to see, she knew that the evil king Louie from the black
castle had invaded because she saw very dirty smelly soldiers digging a
big dry moat around the castle, and the dirty evil soldiers were putting
very sharp spikes in the moat to keep people away.
Princess Heather rode Katie down the hill into the woods.
Heather wore a magic whistle on a gold chain around her neck. The
whistle was carved out of a big diamond, and the only ones who could
hear it were the seven good dragons who lived in the cave at the top of
the mountain.
The princess blew in her magic whistle, and a few moments
later the mother and father dragon had flown down to the place in the
woods where the princess and her horse were waiting. The princess told
the dragons what had happened in human words, and Katie told the same
sad story, but she said it in horse words. Princess Heather knew that
the evil king Louie did not know about the dragons, because the dragons
had always stayed on the south side of the mountain, away from the ugly
black castle.
The dragons carried princess Heather and Katie the horse up
to their cave where the five fat baby dragons were waiting to find out
what had happened, because they could smell the bad smell that had
started to come up from the white castle, and they wanted to know why it
smelled bad. So, the princess told the fat little dragons what had
happened.
Speckle was a baby girl dragon who was purple with red
speckles all over. "Heather sad?" Speckle asked.
"Yes," the princess said.
Speckle made a sad face and waddled away. Then Patches,
who was red with purple patches, and who was always getting into
mischief, asked the princess, "Why Heather sad?"
The princess told him, "Because my home is gone and I have
nobody to help me get it back!"
"Oh," Patches said, and he waddled over beside his sister,
and they both wore sad faces.
Then the third little dragon, all purple with no red, named
Hiccup, waddled up to Katie and she asked in horse words, "Are you (hic)
sad, Katie?"
(hic)
Katie told Hiccup "Yes" in horse words, and said "If you
drink water you might not hiccup so much, Hiccup," in horse words also.
(hic)
gulp
gulp
gulp
(hic)
While Hiccup was drinking her water, Sparky, who was all red
with no purple and was always talking, waddled up to princess Heather
and he said, "We help! We help Heather!"
This made Speckle and Patches look happy, not sad.
Then Puddles, a striped baby dragon, waddled up to her
mother, saying, "Mommy, Mommy! Man Help!"
Princess Heather asked, "Puddles, what man? The evil King
Louie has locked everyone up in my castle!"
Puddles said, "Caslow man!" and she grinned.
Sparky asked who Caslow man was.
Puddles then said, "Caslow is man Puddles tied up in woods
and Caslow man says many odd words when Puddles uses Caslow's rope to
tie Caslow by feet to tree!" Puddles started laughing so hard that she
made a puddle by accident.
After they cleaned up the puddle, Katie and the other baby
dragon stayed in the cave while Puddles, princess Heather, and the
grown-up dragons flew to the place where Caslow was hanging upside sown,
tied by his feet to a tree.
Caslow was very surprised to see such big dragons with the
fat little striped dragon that had tied him up, but he was very, very
surprised to see a beautiful woman wearing a gold crown and a diamond
whistle on a gold chain come with the two big and one little dragons.
Puddles waddled up to Caslow and bit through the rope that
held him tied to the tree while princess Heather helped Caslow down
gently.
"Are you alright?" She asked.
"Are you princess Heather of the white castle with the blue
trim on the grassy hill with two peaks? Princess Heather with the good
dragon Friends?" Caslow asked her in amazement.
"No, but I used to be princess Heather of the white castle
with the blue trim on the grassy hill with two peaks. Now the evil king
Louie has taken it over and I have no one to help me get it back except
my dragon friends. This is Puddles and her mother and father. Puddles,
say you're sorry to Caslow for tying him up."
"I sorry." Puddles though for a moment, then, "Caslow want a
doggie biscuit?" She grinned.
"Puddles! Be nice!"
Puddles looked upset. "Caslow man is doggie. he says 'Ruff!
Ruff! Ruff! Arrroooooo!' when he try to chop me up!"
Now Caslow looked embarrassed, too. "That's my war cry." He
said. "All knights should have a way cry. I'm not a dog, but I ride dog.
She's my mule. Here, Dog!" He called.
No mule came.
"Here, Stupid!" Caslow called.
A brown mule with a saddle on her back and a sword in a
sheath trotted up to Caslow. Then he introduced himself. "My name is
Sir Caslow. I have come from a castle very far away to visit the
beautiful and smart princess Heather who lived in the white castle with
the blue trim on the hill with two peaks. Her kindness, goodness, and
wisdom are known throughout the land, and I have come to see if she is
old enough to marry, because I need a wife to keep me company. I was
almost at the white castle when this fat purple and red striped baby
dragon flew down in front of me. I reached for my sword to defend myself
because I didn't know she was a good dragon, but I was tied up before I
got my sword out. Are these dragons your friends, princess Heather?" Sir
Caslow asked.
"Yes," she said, "They are good dragons. The evil king
Louie does not know about them. Katie, my horse, and I were the only
ones from the white castle who were not locked up by the evil soldiers
from the black castle. Will you help me take back my home, Sir Caslow?"
Sir Caslow was not very big and not very strong, but he
was very smart. He knew that he could think of a way to help. Sir Caslow
said that he would help her, and they rode the dragons together up to
the cave. It was getting dark outside, and they all decided to wait
until morning to get back the white castle from the dirty evil smelly
army that had come from the ugly black castle.
The next morning, Sir Caslow told all of the others the
plan he had thought of. It was a good plan, because Sir Caslow was very
smart. Princess Heather gave Sir Caslow her magic whistle, and then Sir
Caslow rode the father dragon to the woods where Dog the mule was
waiting.
The dragon flew back to the cave to wait. Sir Caslow
asked Dog to run really fast, and then jump over the spiked moat that
the evil army had built.
So, Dog ran really fast, and then she jumped over the
spiked moat. Sir Caslow Had to hold his nose because of the bad smell.
He got off Dog, walked over to the castle door, and knocked after he
yelled his war cry: "Ruff! Ruff! Ruff! Arrrooooooo!"
Two of the evil soldiers who were guarding the door came,
opened the door, and told Sir Caslow "Go away!"
Caslow just smiled and pulled a bar or soap and a clean
towel out of his pockets. "Do you have any hot water?" he asked.
The two guards were so scared at the sight of the soap
that they screamed and ran all the way back to the black castle and they
never, ever came back.
Sir Caslow walked all through the white castle, and all of
the evil people he met were so scared of the soap that they all ran back
to the black castle and none of them ever came back. Soon the only evil
dirty person left in the castle was the dirty smelly evil king Louie,
and Sir Caslow chased him away with the soap too. But, Louie did not
want to leave this nice castle, so he stopped once he was outside the
white gate and he sat down beside a high white wall.
Sir Caslow went down into the castle and set free all the
good people, and everyone started cleaning up the dirty smelly messes
that the dirty smelly soldiers had left behind. Eric the court jester
ran up to Sir Caslow and said that the evil king Louie was still sitting
outside the castle. So, Sir Caslow took a bucket of hot soapy water to
the top of the high wall, and as he yelled his war cry "Ruff! Ruff!
Ruff! Arrroooooooo!" he dumped the bucket onto Louie's head.
Louie was all clean now and this made him very angry. He
yelled that his evil army would come back and take over again and that
Sir Caslow would spend a very long time in chains.
Sir Caslow told the evil king "I don't think so!" and he
blew in the magic whistle that princess Heather had given him. A few
seconds later all seven dragons were flying over Louie's head and
breathing lots of fire.
When the evil king Louie saw so many dragons he got very
scared (since all bullies are cowards) and he ran all the way back to
the black castle, and no evil soldiers ever came back to the white
castle with the blue trim again.
From then on, Eric the court Jester juggled bars of soap
instead of fire sticks. Sir Caslow married princess Heather, and Katie
the horse had a new friend, Dog the mule, to share the blue stable with
the white trim. The dragons came to visit every day, and they all lived
happily ever after.
The End.