The Golden Princess and Red Dragon

This is a story of years ago, centuries ago; ages ago…This is a very old, rustic and antediluvian story. This is a story about the golden kingdom. I don’t know If that place still exists but yes, I know some old monks and folks sing those folklores. They were found somewhere in Middle-Russia. So this is that old love story of that golden kingdom.

After many prayers and sacrifices the King of this golden kingdom was blessed with a daughter. She was the princess of the Kingdom. She was a golden Princess. She had long beautiful golden strands of hair as long as anyone could ever see. She was blessed by the lord of Magic with enigma when she was born. She was the peace-giver. So, the King was very happy that his kingdom got the heir of the throne. The Queen was but little restless as she saw a magical aura in her dark eyes that carried a glint of fire. She told the King but he ignored it saying that she has got the most beautiful eyes in the universe. Indeed, those were the most beautiful eyes and they had Fire…They burn…

Slowly, slowly time passed and the princess grew up. Every other person envied her. All the nearby kingdoms envied the king for having a golden princess and all the princes of the kingdom wanted to marry her. But, she never fell in love with anyone. The Fakirs still sang the folklore. The astrologist of the Kingdom said long long ago when she was born that she has a furious and deadly fate .So; he tied a talisman on her left arm and asked the king and Queen to protect her.

Everything was going fine. But, destiny had something else in store for her. One night while she was sleeping…when the entire golden kingdom was sparkling like glitters in the beautiful moon light suddenly the air blew hard. Every leaf shed. Tree branches became barren and he came inside the kingdom. No one could make out as everyone was sleeping, but the thud of his leg and the fire of his eyes scared everyone. All the people began to cry for help. The King came out to fight with him, but this time he was more powerful…He was more furious. The princess could sleep no more and she rushed near her father- The king. HE saw her, his eyes met that of her and they threw fire…HE took her and fled away. She shouted, cried…the people in the kingdom cried, the king and queen pleaded but he just fled away…

He was the Red Dragon. The Red Dragon fled to his place taking the young golden princess amidst the mountains, large big mountains where no sun ray could ever reach.

It was dark and gloomy there. It was fire and rage there. It was blood there. The princess cried and shouted but then as she had no one who could help her and the way was long, princess slept in the arms of Dragon. When the Dragon reached near his place he thought of burning her but then she was sleeping so peacefully that he never did that.

The Red dragon was a monster. He was wild and he used to kill everyone who came in his way. He was full of fire and his eyes were fire hot. He was a big giant magnanimous creature. He was so ugly and dreadful that with his one foot step the entire world could shiver. Long Long ago he used to live in the cave and then one day the King of Golden Kingdom with his magical people in the kingdom made him unconscious n tried to kill him. He threw him in a volcano between tall and giant hills. He left him to burn and went away. But, then with the fire the dragon rose up. HE lived in flames. The mountains guarded him. He ate lava and lived in the flames. He was all red with burning eyes, burning face with lava. He became more ugly and more cruel. So, today he fled away with King’s daughter in order to take revenge . He was happy now. He wanted to kill the princess and then send her dead body to king so that he could mourn all his life and burn in flames of his daughter’s death. So, he was roaring high in order to wake her so that he could terrify and kill her.

Days passed, many days but she didn’t wake up. She was so much horrified with the scene she saw that night that she went into unconscious state. The dragon waited and waited for her to get up. One night when she became conscious, she saw the dragon was sleeping. She wanted to run…But where?

She had no idea. She was around the hot volcano; if she goes in she would be burnt. So, she decided to hide in the mountains. She ran away…

When Dragon woke up he became furious to see that the princess was gone. He threw flares of fire from his mouth and burnt so many mountains but she was still not found. His eyes now had blood. More blood and she were hiding there very near from where the dragon was standing. She got scared to see blood coming out of his eyes. But, then she saw something that made her calm and sad.

Red Dragon’s eyes shed blood with a small sideline of a tear. He had a scar on his face that oozed blood and he was burning. That tear made the princess worry. She came out of that hidden mountain in front of him, the dragon was surprised and his fury went away. She came near him and his eyes glowed with rage and fire. She came near him and wiped his tear. The Dragon was astounded. He moved back.

People who sing folklores and books which sing Russian stories say that day the princess fell in love with that ugly Red dragon. She never then feared him, she started living with him. Days passed, the king tried to find her daughter but no one knew that the dragon took her to that volcano. They came to see there but the volcano had so much fire that they al l got burnt. So, days passed and the king and Queen with the golden Kingdom mourned and cried all over. Days passed and one day Dragon felt that he also has started loving her. He never knew what love was all his life. He knew only anger, rage, fury, fire. So when the princess brought love he was ….

But, how could a dragon fall In love? Have u ever heard of a dragon falling in love? No he is ugly, monstrous and he burns. He has his image and picture to stand with. He is bad bad bad Dragon. He can only kill and he cannot live with loving anyone. So, he decided to send the princess to the GoldenKingdom.

When he took her there, again everybody was terrified. The wind stopped and the fire from oceans came to the land. All grass burnt. The king pleaded and conspired against him. His magical folks tried to kill the dragon. After seeing this, princess told the King about The dragon But he disagreed and so he tried to kill him. Princess got all angry and then she brought her magic horse that the Lord of magic gave her. She took the red dragon and went away. People followed them But the horse was too far..far…

But, a dragon cannot love. He is not meant for that. So, he woke up and took the princess to the volcano where there was lava, he said to the princess to kill him. He asked her to kill him so that he could protect his virtue. The princess took her sword and scratched his wound in the neck. The dragon fall down and then the princess jumped in the lava with the dragon’s body.

That’s all I know about this story. But, yes folklores and the monks say they last saw The princess and The Red Dragon riding a horse in the sky and then they went to the sun. The sun was shining so bright and was an intense ball of fire that their eyes got blind. Whoever tried to look at them ended up burning their eyes? But yes, A kid said that they went near the sun and then vanished …They went inside the sun…