Less that seventy meters away from Jesper Oliva and Darren stood.
Olivia was trying to console Darren who seemed very depressed.
He murmured:
"She is gone! My hug made her disappear. I hugged away the only
female dragon on Earth!"
"No, Darren you didn't. You can't 'hug away' a dragon. I don't
know what you hugged, but it wasn't a dragon!"
"Don't you think I can identify a dragon? It was Denise, and she
exploded when I hugged her!"
A number of alternative formulations of their previous statements then
follow as Oliva and Darren's conversation continued. However, I will
not bore you with that. Instead we shall focus on the light green
gorgeous dragon who approached them, Denise Dragon. Ever since
Denise five years ago first met Darren, he had always tried to charm
her. However, without success. Denise had constantly rejected Darren,
mainly because he was very far away from the prince charming in
Denise's dreams. However, lately Denise had started to realize that
prince charming wouldn't come mainly because Darren was the only male
on Earth from the same species as her, and that there didn't exist
any similar species. She therefore had accepted that she couldn't be
too
fastidious when she chosed her male life partner, and had decided to
go for Darren. For the last two days she had been flying around all
over the world trying to find him. Now, finally, she could see the
big green beast talking to a witch in front of her. She landed
gracefully in front of him and said with her most sexy voice:
"Oh Darren, my love! Come and give me the hug you have promised me
the last 34 times we met."
After staring at Denise for a minute and a half, Darren slowly
walked towards Denise with his hands in commenced preliminary
hugging positions. However, just when he was about to carry out the
actual hugging motion, he suddenly stopped and screamed:
"No! I can't do it! You might explode!"
"No, I will not get furious. I want you to hug me. By the way,
have anyone told you how cute you look in your new necklace. What is it?"
"The door of a spacecraft. When I said 'explode' I didn't mean
explode in a furious rages, I meant explode like a dynamite stick.
My hugs can do that to dragons you know."
"Nonsense, come on and give me an intense hug now!"
Darren looked at Denise, then at the ground. He then said with a
voice filled with both shame and fear:
"No, I can't. I don't dare. I've got hug-phobia."
At that moment Al and Jesper came walking. Al, looked at Olivia
and said:
"I'm extremely impressed by your prediction. It was 100 % correct.
Do you like to play the pools together with me on this weeks matches?"
Before Oliva had replied Jesper whisper to Al:
"Al, Olva looks very similar to a witch I know. But she is called
Olivia."
While Jesper stood and racked his brain over the possibility
of Olivia having an identical twin that was psychic and that
knew Darren, Denise convinced Darren that they should fly away to
a more private place where she could help him get over his phobia.
It wasn't hard to convince Darren of the brilliance of her plan,
and the two Dragons flew away leaving Olivia behind.
When Jesper finally had accepted that Olivia could have a twin,
he started to think about how to get home. He turned to Al and
said:
"Do you have any means of transport for me, so I can get home to
Wagga Wagga?"
"No, I'm afraid I don't. It is way to long to go by cycle or tractor.
Actually the only thing I have is an air balloon. But I would really
not recommend that since you can never decide where to go.
Furthermore, since we just had an tornado nearby,
only a madman would think of going up in a balloon."
"Great! Do you have a map, and a radio where I can get a weather report?"
"Inside, in my office I have both, but....", Al begun. He didn't continue
since Jesper was already gone. Al murmured to himself:
"As I said. Only a madman..."
Inside Al's office Jesper found both the radio and the map. He turned
on the radio, and while he examined the map a weather report was
broadcasted. As he heard from the radio that rather strong winds in
the north were
expected, he noticed on the map that Wagga Wagga was straight north
of Wodonga were Al lived.
"Winds in the north, and I want to go north. Bingo!! I can take
the balloon!", Jesper screamed overjoyed.
He rushed out to Al, still yelling:
"Where is your balloon? The wind is just right for me.
I'm going home!"
The previous times Jesper had asked Al to do a favor Jesper had
been a stubborn teenager that didn't take no for an answer.
Partly influenced by the horrible memories from times when he tried
to say no to his step son, Al didn't try to stop Jesper from going
up in the balloon. Instead he said:
"It stands behind the factory. But if..."
He then stopped since Jesper was already gone.
A few meters behind Jesper Olivia followed.
She caught up with Jesper and tapped his back:
"Do you think you have room for one more?"
"Perhaps, but not for you. Don't take it personal my lady but
you remind me too much of a woman I can't stand."
"Come on Jesper. Don't leave me here in the middle of nowhere.
Help me to get away as a service in return for all the times I have
saved you: