"Walking through a massive wrought iron gate and under the sign that says Dragon's Ranch, you are greeted by some wondrous sights. To the left and right you see a gigantic wrought iron fence that stretches as far as the eye can see. Before you stands a human-half dragon. As she begins to introduce herself, you hear thundering roars from the nearby dragons, all in their fantastical enclosures that stretch away to the horizon like magic."
"Good morning, my name is Kylee Dragonsgleam and I'm a Dragonologist, which is a magizoologist that studies and cares for the wonderous dragons here at Dragon's Ranch. I'm a half human, half dragon so my heritage makes it my specialty. We have four dragons on the ranch right now, we are working on obtaining more at a later time. We have a Common Welsh Green Dragon named Oizail, a Swedish Short-Snout named Chyzor, a Romanian Longhorn named Pymru, and a Ukrainian Ironbelly named Jalbur. Since it's so bloody hot out today and most of our dragons are used to the cold, I've made them each a frozen treat."
Humming "Life is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts, Kylee then made her way to the food barn. Once inside, she opened the gigantic freezer to start making her new recipe for dragon pops that she created the night before during her episode of insomnia. Kylee decided to start with Chyzor's first, since he was by far the pickiest of all the dragons - he would only eat small game that he could catch due to his size and the blood had to be duck. Pulling out rabbit, squirrel, mouse, and hare, she tossed them out of the freezer to the workstation across the barn with the help of her wand. All of a sudden, she heard, "Blimey Kylee, warn me next time you're throwing meat across the place." She replied, "Sorry Asher, I was in a hurry."
As she approached the chiller in the far end of the barn, she took a look at Asher, who was buried in frozen game and burst into a fit of giggles. Flicking her wand again, she unburied her co-worker from the heap of meat. Kylee then grabbed a massive amount of duck blood from the chiller and found a huge barrel to mix everything in. "Hmmm, Asher? Will a 5-gallon bucket be big enough?". The man replied with a shrug, "How do I know? I have no idea what you're making." Rolling her eyes, the tiny half dragon chuckled, "A treat obviously, we were working on how to cool off our dragon friends yesterday, and I've had an absolutely brilliant idea, Dragon pops!"
Kylee explained her idea to Asher with a smile and showed him how she wanted to make dragon pops which were basically meat and blood popsicles. Asher nodded and quickly started to make one for Pymru, while she worked on Chyzor's. Once those two were made, she started on Jalbur's, and Asher made Oizail's. Kylee then used the freezing spell Glacius, on all 4 of the buckets. "Asher, do you want to come with me to hand out the dragon treats to our Dragons?"
As the two of them exited the feed barn with the treats, they were greeted with impatient roaring and chirping. Laughing, she glanced over to Chyzor's enclosure to see him chasing his tail in really fast circles, stopping to watch them as they made their way to him. Chyzor then leapt up high to spin flips in the air. He was by far the most excitable dragon they currently had in residence.
Opening the enclosure, Kylee gave the command to Duro (stay) and Imo (laydown), making sure it was safe before approaching. She got to within a few feet of Chyzor and placed the dragon pop upside down to empty it out of the bucket. Chyzor was watching her curiously, his nose sniffing the air, trying to figure out what Kylee had. As she stepped away, she locked the enclosure behind her, which was the signal to go ahead and get the treat. Chyzor army crawled his blue body to the treat and gingerly picked it up in his teeth, taking to the air and tossing the treat up as he went. Then diving to catch it. Doing this multiple times, he finally dropped it the fourth time, and the treat shattered. Gingerly licking at it, he quickly decided he liked it and started to eagerly eat it all up as fast as he could. Kylee burst into a laughing mess watching the dragon's antics. "Chyzor you better slow down, it might give you a brain freeze". He stopped, looked at her and shook his head. "Chyzor, it will put out your fire." That made him stop and stare at her while tilting his head to the side. Laughing, Kylee and Asher continued on to Pymru's Enclosure.
Approaching Prymu's enclosure, Prymu rushed to the spot by her feed area and flopped to her belly to wait. She laid there waggling her tail and back end in excitement. Asher entered cautiously and placed the dragon pop just out of reach before rushing out, as Prymu had zero patience when it came to waiting to eat anything. Prymu then jumped up and began furiously licking her treat with growls of pleasure as her backend danced in happiness.
Heading over to Oizail's enclosure next, Kylee asked what Asher thought of the dragon's responses to the Dragon Pops. Asher was delighted by them. Oizail was just waiting patiently at the gate to be given her treat, but Kylee heard Jalbur roar his impatience at having to wait to get his. Opening Oizail's enclosure, she gave the command to Duro (stay) and Imo (laydown) once more. She deposited the tasty treat and stepped back to watch. You would have thought the sweet dragon was a cat the way she batted at the treat, as her tail swished back and forth. She then began to take big bites out of the treat mixed with a bit of flame. Kylee left one happy dragon as she closed her enclosure.
Jalbur could be heard from miles away voicing his displeasure that he was last to get what the others had. Opening the enclosure she gave him the safety commands in a stern tone. Placing the treat down, she walked backwards out of the enclosure and shut and locked it tight which was the signal for him to go ahead and get the treat. The Ironbelly quickly slinked from where he had laid down, chirping as he went. Jalbur then got up and started to gnaw on the frozen treat with his huge, powerful jaws. Realizing he was being watched, he picked up the treat, and flew off to go hide to finish eating it.
Dear readers, I want to thank you for joining me on my frozen treat adventure with the dragons. I hope you have enjoyed their antics as much as I do!
- Kylee Dragonsgleam