• Once upon a time, in a magical kingdom, in a far off land, on a planet far, far away, there lived a sad, lonely and purple dragon named Sally. Sally has no friends and when she tries to make friends, they laugh in her face and fly away. For a long time, she did not know why this happens; she has tried everything to get the other dragons to like her. Little did she know, they did not like her because of the color of her scales. One day, the Elder Dragon had issued a contest and the winner would be the next elder dragon. This contest consisted of a trivia division, a race and a beauty division. Sally entered herself with hopes that if she won at something, maybe someone would be her friend. She had a problem though. She was not good at trivia, she always came in last in races and she did not think that she was pretty, but she decided to try anyway. Unfortunately, she did not do well in trivia or in the race even though she tried her best. She decided that she would find a lot of things to accent her purple scales, but try as she might, she could not find anything but one lone amethyst that her mother gave her when she was little. Sally went to the beauty division expecting to lose, when the Elder Dragon declared her the winner. The other dragons complained, but the Elder Dragon just said, “It was not a contest to find the smartest, the fastest or the most beautiful, but a contest to see who would try the hardest to achieve his or her goal, and thus, I find that Sally would be a better choice for the honorable position of Elder Dragon.”