Chapter 6 Emma takes a flight

"JEREMY"

"JEREMY"

"JEMMMMMMMMMMMM"


Emma was shouting. Loudly. Very loudly. And of course he wasn't replying. Enjoying himself as usual she thought to herself. But then very quickly changed her attention away from her brother and back to her problem.

And what a problem. There she was pinned up against a wall. Nowhere to go; unable to move. And there in front of her, right in front of her, right up against her nose was the DRAGON.

The squashed dragon. The squashed red dragon. It had looked so cute when she saw it first. Sitting on a pillar in the main square. It didn't look as though it was doing any harm or that it might do any harm. Just sitting still.

Emma couldn't resist herself. She went up to the squashed red dragon. She had to stand on tip-toe to come face to face with the dragon. She looked it squarely in the eyes. She looked very hard into its eyes. How brave she felt she was.. it's only a make believe dragon she said to herself; only a statue, you see them in every town, some sort of history and legend. Nothing real of course.

"Bleeergh" she went, "Bleeeurrrgh"

She scrunched her face up.. just like the squashed dragons.

"Bleurrrrrrrgh" she went again, staring at the dragons eyes. You can't scare me, she said to herself.

"Oh, yes I CAN"

"Who said that?" Emma fell down and looked around. No-one to be seen. Absolutely no-one. The square and the park in the distance were totally empty.

"Oh, yes I can!"

Emma spun round so fast she carried on spinning after she meant to stop. Everything went dizzy, her head didn't seem connected to her body and she felt herself falling over. She staggered, or at least she thought she staggered. Her brain wasn't in gear.

"Now see how I can scare you".

It was the cold breath on her face that woke her up. She stopped spinning, her legs froze, her brain stood still and her eyes opened.. all in one quick second.

And then they shut even faster.

Her fingers clenched tight. She could hear her heart in her ears .. very loudly.

"Are you scared?"

She opened one eye. Slowly. A little bit only.

Right in front of her. Very right in front of her. Only millimetres away from her face was the face of the squashed dragon. It's breath was cold, very cold. It's eyes were looking at her without blinking.

She couldn't move. She felt behind her.. It was a hard wall. She was pinned up against it. The dragon's arms were either side of her. She was trapped.

It was then that she called for Jeremy. She didn't know why. She knew he wasn't there. She also knew that even if he was he would be useless. But she still called.

"No good calling for him" the dragon said, coldly. "He's not here is he? He can't help you He's with my friend lovely Anna"

"What? " Emma frowned, "How do you know who I'm calling and who is lovely Anna?"

"I now everything about you and your Jeremy. I've been watching you since you dropped in here with your magic mobile"

He knows about that, thought Emma, he's been watching me. Naaah, he's just a lump of metal. But he's talking? To me? And he knows about the magic mobile??? I'm dreaming.

She wasn't dreaming because suddenly she was twenty metres in the air, flying , or rather being carried by the dragon, who wasn't squashed now, and she was looking down on water.

I can't fly she thought. Metal dragons can't fly she thought. "I am flying" she said.

"No, I'm flying" said the dragon, "you're riding"

"Where are we going?" Emma said. She was getting used to this flying, sorry, riding. She had passed the castle, past the football stadium and was over the harbour. She could see a blue police box down there. Now it had gone. She looked again but it wasn't there and something whooshed past her but she didn't see anything.

"Are you still scared?" the dragon asked.

"No, yes, yes, no" Emma stuttered. She was scared. She was flying, she was on a dragon, the dragon was talking to her, the dragon knew about her, she didn't know where they were going, the dragon was talking about a lovely girl who was with Jeremy. Of course she was scared.

"No, I'm not scared at all" she said firmly.

The dragon chuckled. Emma nearly fell off. When dragons chuckle everything moves a lot.

"Sorry"

"Don't mention it" said Emma from her lofty perch. "Where are we going?"

"To see lovely Anna" he said, mysteriously.