The Sand Dragon
Yew Chung International School - Primary Section, Lina Luedi, Fiction: Group 2
I
want to tell you about a magnificent thing I’ve heard of. It had a long stretched history and
an amazing story. The story comes from Mongolia, where my friend comes from. His mother
used to tell him this story about an amazing dragon that swept through the land. It devoured
everything it came across that was not fit to survive.
It was born when the Pangaea started, the continents started shifting and the rocks were
crushed into other little rocks and made into sand. The sand finally settled down in a nice area
where it would stay for the next million years. When the animals started evolving, the sand was
still there, waiting for the animals to come before it engulfs them with its huge monstrous mouth.
The animals started moving into the land and one by one, each of them getting devoured until
some started to adapt and could withstand the mighty waves of sand. The dragon tried hard to get
them, but they adapted stronger legs and could withstand the sand. Finally the dragon gave up
and disappeared into the air.
As the dragon slept, it did not realize that the humans had been born and more and more
the humans grew. When the dragon awoke it realized that there was something slowly treading
along. The human froze as he saw the huge wave of sand coming towards him. Sadly, the dragon
devoured the human, and the all the human started fearing it. They called it many names, the
sand devourer, the sand god, Giant sand snake but the one they all used was the Sand Dragon.
They dragon liked being worshipped and praised as a god. The humans would offer him
sacrifices like buffalo and lamb to make him happy. In return the dragon would not devour them
and their flocks. As the years went by, the humans started getting more intelligent and as about
2000 years went by nobody worshipped him anymore. The dragon was furious and started to
devour everything again, but no one worshipped him again. The dragon was lonely now, with no
one to offer it sacrifices or hang around with even when they don’t know he’s there. So the dragon
spent a few 1000 more years lonely, with nothing to do or eat or even just something to engulf. It
tried many times to try engulfing an animal, but they were just to adapted to the environment.
5000 years later, a human discovered the dragon and reported it to the world as breaking
news. Many people had come to see the magnificent dragon. Once again the dragon was sort of
worshipped and visited by many people and this time admired and not feared. Humans all over
the world came to see the dragon and its wonders. The dragon didn’t fell lonely anymore and
offered a wonderful experience to new comers and is still here today.
I bet most of you are thinking what is this magical dragon and where is it? Or this is just a
piece of junk; there is no such thing as dragons. Well if you just use your imagination, I bet you
can actually see the amazing Gobi desert as the magnificent dragon you read about in this story.
