The Scariest Halloween Ever: Dragons of Dragondor

By Monica Garry

~The Scariest Halloween Ever: Dragons of Dragondor~

Dontae of Dragondor loves scaring his little sister, Pattie.

He likes making her believe that scary goblins live in the village outside of their Kingdom. But this time Dontae has gone to far. Now his sister is afraid to go trick or treating. His mother is tired of him telling Pattie scary stories. So she told him if Pattie doesn’t go trick or treating, then he doesn’t get to go trick or treating.

Dontae and his friends - Larry, Gio, Sabyn, Nathan and Jagar have one day to convince Pattie that Halloween isn’t scary. They come up with a great plan. They’ll just go down to the village themselves and prove to Pattie that Goblins aren’t real.

Will they erase Pattie’s fears in time for Halloween? Or will their trip to the mysterious village leave them just as scared as she is?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Monica Garry-Allen
• Release date: Nov 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502230812

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Copyright page

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Copyright © 2014 by Monica Garry

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to the kids who inspired me to write this book: Dontae, Larry, Giovaughntae, James, Sabyn, Nathan and Jagar – the original Dragons of Dragondor. And I cannot forget my meddlesome witches, Terriana, Trinity, Skylar and Ja’Kayla – The original Witches of the Village of Enchantment.

Dedications

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This book is dedicated to my nieces and nephews. I have a lot of them and if I don’t name them all, they will pout. So, it’s time for a role call: Nijal, Jerri, Deondre, Armond, Dynasti, Divine, Elisa, Legacy, Giovaughntae, James, Darius, Aunasti, Araiyah, Ayesis, Ashyla, Patricia, Dontae, Larry and Little Donald. You kids are wonderful and I love you all very much.

This book is also dedicated to Drayden, Sabyn, Jagar, Nathan, Trinity, Terriana, Tyveon, Kameron and Kambrelynn, Jodey, Neko, Darnez, Kobe and Cianna: an awesome group of kids being raised by awesome parents. Last but definitely not least, this book is dedicated to all the little ones who are reading it. I hope you enjoy the Dragons of Dragondor: The Scariest Halloween Ever.

Halloween is Dontae and his cousin, Larry’s, favorite time of the year. Both boys have finally turned ten. This means they are now old enough to enter the Haunted House. It’s every ten year old boy’s dream to enter into the Dragondor Halloween Haunted House.

There will be clowns, spooky monsters and other fun stuff in the haunted house. Unfortunately for Dontae, he has to take his sister Pattie and her best friends trick or treating with him.

Pattie is only seven. With her tagging along, there is no way Dontae is going to get to see his first haunted house. But he has a plan. He will make Pattie too scared to go trick or treating. Then he and his friends will be free to celebrate Halloween all by themselves.

This is the best plan ever!

Or is it?

Table of contents

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Dedications

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Thank You

Chapter One

~The night before Halloween~

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Shh, if my mom hears us she is going to get so mad, smoke will blow out of her ears, Dontae of Dragondor told his cousin Larry.

We don’t want that to happen. When your mom blows smoke, everybody runs, Larry said, his eyes wide with fear.

I know. That’s why we have to be quiet. Now come on.

Okay, but I don’t think we should do this tonight. I think we should wait until tomorrow. Right now we’re supposed to be sleeping.

Stop being a chicken, Dontae patted his cousin on the back. We have to do it tonight, so she can go to school tomorrow and tell all of her friends. That way, on Halloween, neither Pattie nor her friends will want to go trick or treating with us.

Yeah, Larry grinned. "And with them out the picture, we can have fun with our own friends and not have to be bothered with a bunch of pesky little girls.

That’s right.

Pesky little girls, just the thought of them made him shudder. Dontae didn’t understand why he had to take his sister and her friends trick or treating every year anyway. He liked to walk fast. They walked slowly. They were always telling him to slow down or wait up.

Plus, they only liked to stop at houses that had pretty decorations. They didn’t want to stop at the houses that had scary decorations. Dontae liked the scary decorations. The scarier the better.

He was tired of taking his sister and her friends with him whenever he wanted to do something fun. But, whenever he wanted to go somewhere, Pattie wanted to go also. And Pattie always got what she wanted. Always! Sometimes being a big brother sucked.

He was glad his mother agreed to let Larry sleep over with him. Larry was going to stay with him for two nights, tonight and tomorrow night. Tomorrow night they would go trick or treating. First, they had to get rid of Pattie and her friends.

Dontae and Larry tiptoed over to Dontae’s bedroom door. They moved quietly, careful not to make too much noise. They didn’t want to wake up Dontae’s parents. There were toys all over Dontae’s floor.

Earlier today, he and his cousin had been playing with their toy soldiers. After they got tired of doing that, they left the toys on the floor and began to play video games. They were supposed to clean up once they were done. However, they had to scare Pattie first.

Scaring Pattie was more important than cleaning up toy soldiers. He couldn’t tell his mother that of course. She would blow smoke. Dragons only blew smoke when they were really mad. Dontae kicked one of his toy soldiers to the side as he walked to his bedroom door.

Larry wasn’t looking where he was going and he tripped on one of the toys. Dontae caught him before he hit the ground. But not before he stepped on Dontae’s favorite toy dinosaur, Mr. Munchers.

The dinosaur was a ‘push and play’ toy. Whenever you pushed its belly, it roared and its stomach changed colors. When Larry stepped on the toy it began to roar loudly. Larry quickly picked the toy up and tried to turn it off before it woke up his aunt and uncle.

Shut that noise off, Dontae whispered.

That’s what I’m trying to do, Larry told him. I don’t know how. Here, you turn it off.

Larry shoved the toy at him. Dontae took the toy and tried to find an off switch.

Hurry, Larry whispered, glancing from the bedroom door, to Dontae, then back at the door.

Both boys feared one of Dontae’s parents would walk in at any moment and demand to know why the boys weren’t in bed asleep. It was a Thursday night, a school night. They were not supposed to be up this late.

We have to abort this mission or we’re going to get caught for sure, Larry whined.

Dontae was thinking the same thing.

There isn’t an off button, he told Larry.

Dontae didn’t know what to do. The crazy toy wouldn’t be quiet. The toy had colorful lights on its belly that flashed on and off while the dinosaur roared and moved its arms up and down. The lights changed from blue, to green, and then to red, over and over again as the toy continued to make noise.

Panicking, Dontae flipped the toy over and opened the battery hatch. He took the batteries out. The dinosaur became quiet and the lights on its tummy stopped flickering. Both boys sighed in relief.

Whew, Dontae said. "That