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My mom got married to Smelly Gabe in October. There weren't a lot of people there, just some friends of Mom's and Gabe's. Gabe's friends were all fat, ugly, and beer-loving.

Kind of like him.

At the wedding, I was the ring dragon.

When Mom told me that I was going to be the ring boy, or, I guess the real word is ring bearer, I didn't like it too much. What's the point of carrying the stupid ring down the aisle on a pillow? And why couldn't Mom or Gabe do it?

Besides, bears are dumb. Well, they're okay, but just kind of boring. Why would I be the ring bear? I wanted to be something cooler. I told Mom that and she said I could think of a better name.

"What's your favorite animal?" she asked me.

That was easy. Dragons are the coolest thing ever. "Dragons!" I said proudly. "Dragons are the best. They can fly and breathe fire!"

"Then that's solved; you can be the ring dragon."

"Can I fly and breathe fire?"

"No, but you get to carry the ring down the aisle, and that's pretty special."

I still didn't get the point, but at least now that I was a dragon instead of a bear I was fine with it.


The night before the wedding we had to... do the wedding. Mom told me it was so everyone would know what to do for the real thing, but it was still boring. All I had to do was make sure the ring didn't fall off the pillow while I was walking. It was easy. The pillow wasn't like a real pillow, though. It was way too small, and at the boring parts, I tried to lay on it, but it wasn't comfortable at all.

There was only one other person who was my age there, and she was the daughter of one of Mom's friends. Her name was Isabelle. She had kind of the same job as me, but not as important, because all she had to do was throw flowers.

Okay, I'll tell the truth, I kind of wanted to throw the flowers too. I tried to steal the basket so I could, but Isabelle took it away from me.

"No! You can't have my basket of flowers," she said.

"Why not? I just want to throw them. Only... five?"

"No!" she repeated, and hugged the basket. "They're mine. You have the ring."

"I'm the ring dragon," I told her, proud to tell my official title to someone.

"Don't be silly," she said. Like she knew better than I did.

Isabelle was really annoying. Not as annoying as Smelly Gabe and his friends, though. That same night, we ate food, and they were all being loud and spilling food and talking with their mouths full. I was surprised Mom didn't say anything. It really wasn't fair, because I knew if I did that, I would get in trouble for bad manners.


On the day of the actual wedding, we had to be there way before anyone else was, to get ready and take pictures.

"You can't make funny faces for these pictures, Percy," Mom told me before I changed into my suit. (Yuck! A suit! And a tie! I feel like I'm being hanged when I wear a tie.)

"No funny faces?" I asked, kind of sad. What I really wanted to say was that Gabe's face always looked funny, but Mom had told me again that this meant a lot to her, and I knew I shouldn't. I still wished she would tell me why, though.

"No funny faces," she answered, and she looked serious, so I knew she meant it.

We took pictures, and I had to stand next to the annoying Isabelle for all of them. I tried to throw the flowers again, but she wouldn't let me.

"After the wedding, can I throw the flowers?" I asked.

"They'll be all gone by then," she said. "All over the floor. If you want to pick them up from there you can." Then she stuck her tongue out at me.

It isn't hard to tell why she was so annoying.

Since it was October, it wasn't really hot, but it was in the church. I was sweating like I just ran a mile! I think I ran a mile one time, when I was playing soccer at recess. I ran a lot and afterwards I felt like my lungs were going to burst.

The people started coming, and if anyone asked me who I was I told them I was the ring dragon. Whenever I did that Isabelle told me to stop lying to them. But I wasn't lying, and everyone except her seemed to believe me.

Then the real thing started, and it took forever. I was supposed to come in right after Gabe's friend Eric, who's even fatter than Gabe himself. Yeah, I didn't believe it when I saw him either. He looked like he could hardly fit into his suit, and we got the biggest ones they had! After me would be Isabelle. At least she'll be behind me so I don't have to look at her. I don't like looking at her! She's annoying!

Isabelle tapped me on the shoulder and whispered, "Don't you dare mess this up. It is my first famous moment and you are not going to ruin it."

"I'm the ring dragon. I can't mess up." I had been telling her this since the beginning of time!

Then she hit me! Yeah, she actually hit me! It didn't hurt or anything, because I'm tougher than that, but still! I had to turn around and hit her back. When I did that she looked like she just had a heart attack! Well, I don't know for sure, but she looked surprised. And mad.

"You can't hit a girl!" she said, crossing her arms.

"You hit me," I replied. That was dumb. She hit me first, why couldn't I hit her back?

"Yes, but you're a boy. That means I can hit you, but you can't hit me."

"That's not fair."

"Yes it is."

Then Mom got my attention, and she pointed at the door. I realized that Eric was already almost to the end of the aisle and I should go now! I stood up straight and started walking. I was the ring dragon, and Isabelle was not going to make me mad.

That's when the worst thing happened. I looked down to see the shiny rings that I was doing so great at not dropping, when I realized they weren't there. The pillow was totally empty. Now it was my turn to have a heart attack - again. I was halfway there already, I couldn't stop and look for them now! Gabe was going to kill me! Mom was going to be sad! She even told me that this meant a lot to her, and what do I do? I lose the rings.

It's Isabelle's fault, I thought. If she hadn't hit me I would have had time to notice that they were gone so I could look for them.

I was fit to be tired! Or maybe the saying said tied. It's what Mom said when she was in a mess, so I thought it would fit right now.

When I reached the end and turned around, there she was, the ruiner of this whole entire wedding, throwing her flowers and looking all innocent.

When it was time to do the rings, I was already feeling guilty for losing them. Isabelle ruined it, and now I was going to be the ring dragon who lost the rings.

Then Eric took them out of his pocket! I couldn't believe it! How did he have them? Did he steal them from me when I was talking to Isabelle? Why would Eric steal the rings? When we practiced last night he didn't steal them.

Oh, well. I was just glad that the wedding wasn't ruined so Mom wouldn't have to be sad.


There was a party after the wedding, but it was a really boring party. All people did was sit around and eat cake. I had three pieces of cake. It was ice cream cake and it was the best thing ever. It almost made me forget being mad at Isabelle.

Almost. When I saw her I went right over to her and told her how she almost ruined the wedding.

"Don't be silly," she said, smiling like she was smarter than me or something. She wishes. "You didn't have to hit me back. And besides, the rings you had weren't even real."

"I know," I said, even though I didn't. But she already thought she was smarter than me, and I didn't want to make it even worse.

"Did you?" she asked. She annoyed me so much. "Eric had the real rings in his pocket the whole time, you were just clumsy enough to lose the fake ones. You know, that's why you didn't have the real ones. You're a clumsy little boy."

"I am not, I'm the ring dragon and I was the best ring dragon there ever was!"

"Because dragons don't exist."

I think I might actually have an enemy. A real enemy. I was so glad that I wouldn't have to see her again.


You guys don't know how bad I wanted to say "SCRATCH CANON!" and make the "annoying flower girl" be Annabeth. But sadly, this is canon, so it was not meant to be. It makes me very sad.