Snickers the Dragon

    Snickers the dragon decided one day to ravage the local town of Savageport. He swooped down from his mountain perch and bellowed before the townspeople "Fear you all, the mighty power of Snickers, the dragon!"

    The townspeople stood there gaping at the beast. Then they all bent over laughing hysterically.

    "Snickers! The poor beast, his mother named him Snickers" and "Who's afraid of Snickers the dragon?" Snickers could hear them exclaim throughout the laughter.

    Disconcerted, Snickers tried again to scare the townspeople. He morphed his face into a menacing glare, but mixed with his confusion, what the people saw was an ugly facial contortion. The laughter increased and again Snickers could hear comments between the cacophony.

    "Look at the thing, it's hideous!" and "Please stop, it's too much! Turn away from here, we have work to do!"

    Snickers' eyes began to water, and he immediately took to the sky and flew back to his mountain home, devastated. Whether it was from the town itself, or echoes from his time in the town, the laughter continued to sound in his ears. Eventually, he succumbed to a fitful sleep.

    The dragon woke up self-conscious, and he dared not even leave his perch for a week. Day after day the comments repeated in his head, and he grew increasingly depressed. Why did his mom name him Snickers? Was he really that hideous?

    Then, one day he was pacing the floor when the old plaque on the wall caught his attention.

    "Remember, you're a dragon, and you're not to be mocked. No matter what your name is, or how you look!" it read. That's suspiciously fitting Snicker's thought, but it was just what he needed to get him out of his funk.

    At once, he took off again from his perch and swooped down to the town.

    Once again, the laughter arose "Look, Snickers is back! Everybody cower in fear of the ugly --"

    Suddenly there was silence. Silence except for the Snickers' digestive system now churning through an entire town's worth of people.

    "Shouldn't have laughed" he said. "Then again, this was your end regardless. I'm a dragon. I'm Snickers the dragon.