Dragon Healer by Lucy Coats

Author:Lucy Coats
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

“It was a trick. I allowed her to paint the potion on my eyelids, and I waited for it to work. But instead of being able to see in all directions, my eyes closed, and I fell into a trance. I, the unsleeping, ever-awake Colchian Dragon, failed my master. In my dreams, I saw Jason as Medea smeared him with an ointment of invincibility. I saw how he mastered Khalko and Kafto. I saw him plant my teeth and fight the stone warriors who rose up from the ground. I felt him climb over my sleeping body and cut down the Golden Fleece with his sword. I saw him run to his ship, with Medea laughing beside him, as she made them both invisible to her father and his soldiers.”

By now, the hot tears were running from the dragon’s eyes again, and fire jewels were plinking and pinging all over the rocky floor of the cave. “I-I was so ashamed to have f-failed that I wanted to disappear,” it sobbed. “I s-still do! I don’t d-d-deserve any k-kindness, and besides, I-I’ve been banished from Olympus. Ares must have forgotten that when he l-let you bring me up here. Last time, the goddesses said that they’d send me down to Tartarus to live with the hundred-armed monsters if I ever came here again, b-because I’m s-such a s-smelly beast.” It let out another tiny toot and the cave filled with more of its noxious stink.

“S-see!” it wailed. “This is what happens when I get upset! No one can cure me of it! Just leave me alone! I deserve to go to Tartarus!” It unlooped itself from around Demon’s body and coiled itself into a hiccupping dragon ball of misery.

Demon didn’t know what to do. He wanted to comfort it, but he was about to choke from trying not to breathe.

“I’ll be back soon with my box,” he said. “Try not to worry—I’m sure we’ll be able to find a cure somehow. And I won’t let anyone send you to Tartarus.”

As soon as he got back into the main Stables, there was a tremendous clamor.

“Food!” bellowed the three fiery bulls.

“Food!” whinnied the winged horses.

“Food!” roared the Nemean Lion.

BANG! went the giant scorpion’s stinger against the pen door.

“Snackies!” Doris the Hydra drooled, clattering its brooms and buckets.

“All right! All right!” yelled Demon. “I’m coming!” He fed all his charges as quickly as he could, then went to fetch the box from the hospital shed. Running his eyes over the shelves of medicinal herbs and plants, he spotted a bunch of peppermint leaves and a bottle of oil. Peppermint was good for digestion—maybe that would help to settle the dragon’s stomach.

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