A Hero's Journey

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On a cold stormy night, Alex a brave explorer jumps from ice flow to ice flow, to get to the other side of a frozen river. After he jumped across, a crevice blocks his path. Being one of the best explorers, Alex is suddenly thirsty for adventure. Alex grips his two ice picks and examined the crevice. It was huge! If alex had to guess, the gap would be at least 15 feet. Alex swallowed his fears and sprinted towards the large crevice. As he jumped the time slowed as well as his body. Alex swung his ice picks and managed to pierce the crevice, but not enough, the icepick slipped out. The great explorer was plummeting into the crevice. Alex was so frightened, he blacked out. As his eyes opened up, regaining consciousness something stood before…show more content…
The cavern he is in, is beautiful. It was made completely out of ice, it was also lit up by torches mounted on a large sheet of metal so they wouldn’t melt the ice cavern. But alex has no time to be amazed by the cavern, he has to escape! it’s the perfect opportunity, the dragon was asleep. Alex looked around the cavern to see if anything can aid him in his escape. The torches caught his eye, one was close enough to reach too! Alex grabbed the torch through the cage’s frozen bars and started to melt the cage. After a few minutes he melted a hole large enough that he could sneak through it. On the way out the cavern, he saw the crown. It was right next to the dragon. Alex feared waking up the dragon, but he still wanted it. Alex grabbed the crown. While being near the dreaded ice dragon, he had noticed a button on the dragon! Being the curious explorer he is, Alex pushes the button. The dragons head opened up and revealed a cockpit with a sleeping penguin. he was deeply asleep, Alex, tied his arms together and took the sleeping penguin back with him. Alex returned to King Patrick’s castle with the penguin on his back, surprisingly the penguin is still asleep! Alex entered the castle and explained why he had the sleeping penguin. “Wow, so the ice dragon was actually a machine that was operated by this penguin right here?” Asked the
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