A/N: Before I forget... Thank you everyone who's reviewed!!!

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"You can be..." She paused for a moment to think. "You can be the princess."

"What?!"

"The princess."

Michael looked at her in horror. The princess? She wanted him to be the princess?

"I'm not going to be the princess! I wanna be the knight... Why don't you be the princess?"

"Because..." She paused again to think of an answer. "Because I wanna be the knight."

"So what am I gonna be? I wanted to be the princess," whined Eric.

"You can be the dragon then," Sydney replied, knowing that he'd be satisfied to be the dragon, even if he never got to be the princess. Eric stopped chewing, his doughnut raised half way to his mouth for another bite, and thought about it.

"Hmm... A girl dragon, or a boy dragon?" He asked as he contemplated being the dragon.

"Um... A boy dragon."

"Hmm... I guess that's better than being a princess."

"Hey!" Michael glared at his friend, who was still stuffing his face with that doughnut. "Why can't I be the dragon and Eric be the princess, Syd?"

"Well, because you're prettier of course." She stated matter-of-factly. "And everyone knows the princess is always pretty... Now come on, I have to save you from this doughnut-eating dragon soon."

The two friends followed behind the small girl, as she led them across the playground. Michael sighed. The things he would do for her. And what made it worse was that she knew that she had a special power over him, and that was why he had to be the princess. For her. And though in the fairy tales, the handsome knight was to save the female princess from the fire-breathing dragon, she still insisted that he was as pretty as a princess was, and that he would do.

"Okay, this'll do." She finally decided on a spot towards the back of the playground, where there were plenty of trees around to provide shade, as well as the eerie forest-ish look of her fairytale. "Mike, you can sit up there, and wait for me to rescue you."

He grudgingly trudged up the small hill and sat down, waiting for his knight to rescue him. He looked up to where Syd and Eric were standing a few metres away.

"A dragon's like... A dinosaur. Only it breathes fire." She explained to Eric, who looked confused.

"Okay." He nodded. "So all I gotta do is walk around and breathe fire?"

"Yep."

"Easy peasy. I can do that." Eric boasted, as he begun to stalk around like what looked like a chicken to Michael. He knew he could've played the dragon so much better than Eric could. At least he wouldn't be eating while being the dragon anyway.

Sydney wandered off, and a moment later, returned with a branch, almost as tall as she was. Swinging her left leg over it, she galloped towards Eric, with another stick held in her hand.

Eric, mouth filled with doughnut, opened his mouth and to roar. Instead a burp came out, startling both Sydney and Michael.

"Um... Sorry."

Meanwhile, Michael took it as his cue to act as a princess. Waving his arms about frantically, he called out to the brave knight to save him. Sydney, who had for a moment forgotten about their little game, sprung back into action and bounded across to rescue Michael on her horse. As she passed Eric the dragon, she prodded him with the stick she held in her hand, and he faked a fall backwards, as if he had been slayed. And as any brave gallant knight would, she rescued the princess.

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"See, I told you you'd be a good princess." Sydney commented after their little game. "Next time, you can be the princess again."

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