Ami Jane Twirly Puff Poof was staring blankly out of the window at the pounding rain,thinking that her name was too exciting for her. That's why she just called herself Puff. For Puff every day was the same; A breakfast of plain oat meal in the kitchen, than school. After school, she would stare out of the window for hours thinking boring thoughts until dinner in the nursery, than bed.

It didn't always use to be this way, Puff thought twirling her waist length blonde hair while staring at the rain with watery blue eyes. Just until dad disappeared did it become this way. She stared out across the town, into the Dragon Hills, across the Forest of Mystery and into the Mountains of the East, were the trolls had daddy. "Don't be silly!" she said in her boring speech type voice, as her eyes filled up with tears. "Its been 5 years already!" "But still," she said sadly (which wasn't that different than any other emotion) "The note was so sad!" she said as she replayed it in her mind:

-We have your father, and if you don't give us $1 billion than we will keep him forever. -The trolls, via Mountains of the East

"Ami Jane!" her mother scolded "You MUST help me finish making dinner!"

"My name is Puff mom and i'll be right there."

The next day as she walked to school a tiny fairy flew out of the bushes. "Why, Halloo!" Puff said mildly surprised. "Oh help help!" said the fairy. "I need someone very clever to help me!" "I'm clever!" said Puff. Now, it wasn't exactly true Puff was clever with a D average and an A paper was never within 10 ft of her at any given time. But how would the fairy know all of this?

"I've lost something terribly important to me! Very Very important!" said the fairy in a rush.

"What did you lose?"

"My name." said the fairy simply.

"Your name." Puff replied blankly.

"Yes! My name! By the way, what's yours? If your going to help me I might as well know you!" said the nameless fairy.

"Puff," came her answer, Puff waving her hand impatiently. "But where is your name?"

"In the Mountains of the East of course! How it got there i don't know, but the trolls sent me a note (apparently trolls are big on notes and rewards) saying they had it and if i didn't get them a present they would eat it! And i really don't want to be nameless for eternity but i'm very poor so I need somebody to help me steal it! Will you help me please?" said the fairy in a huge rush.

Puff was slightly taken aback at this but kept her drowsy bored expression.

"Why is your name so important anyway?" she asked.

Dad, thought Puff, is out with the trolls to! Those evil wicked nasty trolls, stealing names and Dads! Dad needs my help to, otherwise he'd have come home a long time ago! So without even considering the fact that it would be very hard to reach the Mountains, and they weren't even sure were the trolls lived, making it harder to get there, she agreed.

"Sure, I'll help you!"

So they stepped of of the road and went on there way to reach the dragon hills. The hills were more like caves, but they weren't on cliffs. This was good enough for the not so bright towns people who called them hills (the townspeople would've been smart, but since Puffs dad was the only teacher, they were sorta slow.)

Anyway, as they stepped into the hills,they noticed the sky getting darker and darker. Than, just before it became pitch black they became instantly hungry. It was like a HUGE switch was turned on into starvation. Puff was hungrier than she had ever been in her life. Just that, they saw the biggest pear they had ever seen. It was juicy looking, green, and glowing.

"Wait a minute! Why is that pear glowing Puff?"

"Its not glowing your just hungry. That's all."

"Oh really? Remind me were we are Puff."

"In the Dragon Hills. Wait, DRAGON hills! Can dragons do magic?"

"No, really! There JUST dragons!" Mrs. F said her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"OH! ok than!" said Puff as she reached toward the pair.

"Puff NO!" But it was to late. As soon as Puff touched the pair a HUGE purple pink polka dotted dragon sprang out of the nearest cave. It was at least 50 ft tall, had bright green eyes and a stubby little tail.

"I am Hubert the dragon!" said Hubert in a big voice. "You are my dinner and I will now eat you once i finish lunch!"

"Well than wouldn't it be linner?" asked Puff.

Taking up on Puffs wink Mrs. F quickly replied "And if you just had lunch, than why do you need linner?"

"Er....................."

"And if you were walking 20 mi backwards while walking your 5 ft dog, than how many combs would you need to eat ice cream?"

"UMMMMMM, 2?"

"NOPE! ice cream doesn't have bones and your nose is too big to fit in it anyway!"

Hubert the poor dragon was now thoroughly confused. "Er.......Umm............I give up! I won't eat you, you'll confuse my my bellybutton." But as an after thought he added under his breath, "I am hungry though,"

"Tell you what," said Puff "I'll help you find food if you take us to the Mountains of the East."

"SURE!!" and so the odd trio of Puff, Mrs. F and Hubert set off.

After a few hours they were deep in the dragon caves. "Careful, I really haven't been in this far, and I here dragons here are like 70 ft tall." said Hubert in a whisper.

Mrs. F just stared ahead,completely intimidated by Hubert, and Puff just went on chewing her hair.

"Did you hear me?" asked Hubert in a louder voice now.

Mrs. F just shuddered and Puff was deep in thought about saving her dad.

"I SAID, DID YOU HEAR ME!" Hubert yelled.

Mrs. F looked positively terrified and was going to scream before Puff covered her mouth and dove behind a nearby boulder. This was a very smart thing to do, as about 2 seconds later, 50 flames shot out of 50 different caves as the dragons woke up. Hubert was right, most of them were 65 or 70 ft tall, all with terrifying red eyes all staring at Hubert.

"I-I-I didn't-I didn't mean....." but what Hubert didn't mean we will never know, for at that moment the dragon king came out. The king was more like a giant 4 ft lizard than a dragon. He certainly wasn't terrifying, but the huge body guard surrounding him were.

Seeing how puny the king was seemed to give Hubert strength, as for for within an instant he grabbed Puff and Mrs. F and flew up into the sky, knowing full well that such huge dragons couldn't fly, and kings themselves never did anything. So Mrs. F, Puff, and Hubert flew into the Forest of Mystery to sit down for the night.

Puff was having a nice peaceful sleep inside Hubert's tail with a tiny body of Mrs. F curled next to her. Well, it was peaceful until she woke up to a shrill call of "Life Lesson: Never fall asleep in the dryer!"

Puff opened her eyes to see that there was a huge toad like thing with big lips was staring at her.

"Life Lesson: Always listen to your ferrets laundry!" Puff woke the others and stared at the things.

"What are you?" she asked

"Life Lesson: Never question the Life Lesson Bogs!"

"Ok..... Lets get out of here!" She whispered to the others.

"Good idea!" said Mrs. F a little too loudly.

"Mrs. F!" the others scolded.

"Sorry!"

"Life Lesson: Nobody ever escapes the Life Lesson Bogs!"

"Yeah?" questioned Hubert as he hatched a plan. "What about that cricket over there?"

"Or that monkey in the tree?" said Puff "Or that bottle over there of delicious raspberry jam?"

"Or that grape vine?"

By now, the Bogs were spinning around trying to catch all of the objects listed. But Mrs. F, Puff, and Hubert kept on questioning, getting quicker by the question.

"Or that scale i just shed?"

"Or my extra bottle of ketchup."

"Or US?" said Mrs. F as she and Puff hopped on Hubert's back and flew off.

"We sure showed them!" said Puff, no longer in her old blah voice.

"We sure did!" said Hubert.

The group was still celebrating when huge vines sprang out of the trees and rapped themselves around Hubert's ankles. Hubert's didn't look in the least bit worried as he flew on, ripping up the trees that the vines had came from.

"Umm, Hubert, shouldn't you unwrap your vines?" asked Mrs. F.

"NO Way! they won't come of, BELIEVE me, this has happened before. So they flew into the Mountains of the East.

"No problem! I'll just fly above the mountains."

"I can't breathe that far up and Mrs. F is afraid of heights." said Puff.

"Well, why don't i let you off here and I'll find myself some food?"

We will follow Puff and Mrs. F because the only thing that happened to Hubert was that they found a lifetime supply of magic Mountain food all to himself.

They looked in endless amounts of caves,big,small,blue,wet , dry you name it! All this time of cave searching for the trolls, Puffs eyes got brighter and brighter, and she looked more and more like a endless drone. Then, Mrs. F saw it.

"Look,Look! Up there in square of light! There's a fire!"

They both know this could only mean one thing.

Puff immediately scampered up the stone mountain wall, all the while thinking 'i'm gonna make you pay so badly for taking dad.'

Mrs. F flew up the mountain with an angry look on her face and didn't come out. 'And Mrs. F,' thought Puff as she doubled her speed.

When she reached the cave she saw Mrs. F pinned to the wall and her dad staring limply into the fire.

"DAD!" Puff called. But her dad didn't move. "Dad? It's me, Puff."

"I don't know a Puff." said Puffs dad quietly.

The trolls took this opportunity to grab Puff by the hair. "SO!" they seethed. "You have our sum of $1 billion and a present to get your dad and lame-o's name back."

"N...Yes!" said Puff, as she hatched an idea. "Yes, I do!"

"Oh! So give it to me you little bra- I mean you sweet, dear child." "Nope."

"WHY!"

"Give me dad and Ôlame-o's' name back. Than i'll give it to you."

The trolls, being blind by greed, fell for the oldest trick in the book. "Fine." they spat, as they drew a name out of the bag one of the ugliest was holding.

"You," the troll said, pointing at Mrs. F "Now have your name of Eloise back."

"And you!" pointing at Puff" have your dad back. But none of them will ever work unless you have the secret word. Now fork over the money."

"Sorry don't have it! But you can take a rain check." Puff called as she and Mrs. F, I mean Eloise, ran out of the door.

But Puffs dad wouldn't move.

"Come on dad! Its me! Ami Jane Twirly Puff Poof!"

"No!That was the word!" called the trolls as Ami Jane's dad grabbed her.

"Get on Hubert, he won't bite dad!" she called as Hubert came up to the entrance.

"I thought I heard screaming!" called Hubert as he flew of.

"Lets go on home Hubert." Those were the words Ami Jane fell asleep to.

When Ami Jane awoke she was in her bed. She looked at her calendar. It was dated the day dad left.... 5 years ago. She ran down stairs to see dad with his smiley face cup in his hand reading the paper. Thinking fast, she remembered she never had oatmeal when dad was around, because mom was never that plain.

"Mom, what's for breakfast?"

"Pancakes dear!" Mom called from the kitchen.

She then remembered she was never called Puff with dad. It was always Ami Jane.

"Dad, what's my name?"

"Ami Jane honey." said Dad looking a little confused.

So it was just a dream. she thought. Absentmindedly she put her hand in her nightshirt pocket, to find a bit of paper that read:

Dear Puff,

hanks for all of the help! Thanks to you, i got my name back and Hubert found a life supply of food! If you want to reach us, come to the forest where we are attempting to tame the Life Lesson Bogs.(believe us, I could use the help. Hubert is horrible at it, Are Not! You are!, That was Hubert) we We send our love!

Eloise (Mrs. F) the fairy
Hubert the Dragon

Ps- if you ever want to follow the act of how to tame the bogs such as Hubert and Eloise are doing, i suggest you write it your self and publish it so you become famous, because my hands are tired from all of this typing! No offense intended.