Golden Magic

By Prue Keen

High above, snaking out of a crack between the boulders at the top of the Mountain, rose
a gigantic black Chinese dragon, immense wings unfolding over his ancient head, red mouth
wide open, showing enormous white teeth. His massive front legs, with paws held out, had blood red talons curved towards Tara the Golden and Alvin the Crocodile Dragon.
Marc and Ethan have to work out how to save their friends, the King Dragons, from that
evil Treasure Dragon. First they have to find something to entice the Treasure Dragon out of his lair so he can be captured. Then they have to capture that evil dragon.
Follow Ethan, Marc and their King Dragon riders, as they work their way through
difficulties and adventures with their naughty, funny and amazingly magic King Dragons Ping
and Yu. This is the third book in the exciting series, Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publish Simply
• Release date: Sep 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310172915

Prue Keen

I grew up avidly reading fiction and fantasy. Myths and legend from all over the world were a favorite. So much so, my fantastical world was more real than reality. Then I became an adult and went to work and the real world took over, but all the time I was thinking that making up stories (preferably fantasy) or making gardens would be more fun. Both involve creating worlds within which to escape. Kids’ story making So I when I was asked for stories by the 4 and 5 year old children in my life, I found a reason to return to my childhood world of myth and fantasy and write kids’ books. My first books 'Pearl Magic', 'Tiger Magic' and ‘Golden Magic’ in the children's series 'Riding the Lung-Wang, King Dragons of China' are a step in the right direction. Rosamund and her Fairy Garden builds on the theme. Garden making I also love gardens and always have. Partly this is around plants which I have been involved in since I studied biology at school and botany, town planning and landscape design at college but mostly it is about the way we live in our homes today. My Garden business, Inside Out, gave me experience with small garden escapes in busy inner-city Sydney. Today I live in an apartment and don’t have a garden of my own. Sad, so I indulge in my passions for gardens, travel and writing through my websites and books. I visit and photograph heaps of gardens – over 250 this year and have lots more in mind for the future. www.pruekeen.com

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Golden Magic

Prue Keen

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Copyright © 2014 Prue Keen

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABOUT THE SERIES

Not Another Adventure

CHAPTER ONE

The Sleepless Dragon’s Lair

CHAPTER TWO

The Dragons’ Lair

CHAPTER THREE

That old treasure dragon

CHAPTER FOUR

Capture

CHAPTER FIVE

Free at last

CHAPTER SIX

But what about the weather

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ABOUT THE SERIES

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Riding the Lung Wang: King Dragons of China

A Series of Books about Riding King Dragons to Save the World

This is the third adventure in a series of four books which follow the adventures of Marc and Ethan as they meet their king dragons (otherwise known as the Lung-Wang), Ping and Yu, earn the magic of the pearl to become magic dragon riders, save other Lung-Wang imprisoned by the Treasure Dragon and reinstate the earth’s weather balance.

Lung-Wang are Chinese dragon kings who normally live under the China Seas. Because they are water dragons, the Lung-Wang control rainfall and the weather. If they don’t get the rainfall right, floods and drought are the result.

In these stories, most of the Lung-Wang have been captured by the Treasure Dragon with his land and sea snake armies. But four Lung-Wang remain free; the brothers Yu and Ping and their mother, Mai and father, Li. On their own these four dragons are not strong enough to manage the earth’s weather. They need help.

Li and Mai desperately want to save their friends from a dire fate in the Treasure Dragon’s underground metal cages. But Treasure Dragon is of the earth and is very ancient and powerful. Lung-Wang are powerful but, because they are water based, they do not like metal or earth and fire the Treasure Dragon has the upper hand.

In the past, Lung-Wang joined forces with dragon riders to increase their magic power but the last known riders died 100 years ago. When Mai and Li hear of two boys who could become riders, Ping, the youngest, cheekiest dragon is sent to check them out. The boys (Marc and Ethan) and their dragons (Ping and Yu) become friends, learn to travel time and space, change size and to shapeshift into anything imaginable.

With help from friends, the tigers, St George’s Dragon and Lu Dongbin, the Eighth Immortal, the fearsome Treasure Dragon and his snake armies are overcome and the Lung-Wang released to return home. The weather becomes normal.

The stories loosely use ideas from myth and legend throughout the ages and across cultures.

Pearl Magic is the first adventure in the series.

Tiger Magic, the second book in the series is also available:

To find out more about these books Marc and Ethan or the Lung-Wang and their friends, visit www.pruekeen.com.

CHAPTER ONE

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Not Another Adventure

‘Marc.’

Marc pulled the quilt over his head.

‘Marc, wake up.’ It was his cousin and best friend Ethan, who’d stayed the night.

‘I can’t. Go away. It’s Saturday. I want to play today – not fight dragons.’

The quilt was roughly pulled off Marc and thrown to the floor. The room was cold and dark. It was very, very early. The Kookaburras were just beginning to cackle and Marc could hear it was wet. The ever present rain was still dripping on the roof.

‘Ohhhh,’ groaned Marc as he felt claws in his back pushing him out of bed. His wingless, red Lung-Wang, a Chinese dragon-king, Ping,