dragon ranch pt 8 'final part'
this is the last part of this story... for some reason the ending does not sit quite right with me, but it is what it is. If you enjoyed this story check out my other stuff that I have been posting. Including 'Leave Me Alone' which I been posting over the last week. Till I start posting my next story.
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Also I got a sequal to this story... but it is not very good.... and not typed up yet... I still got a lot of hand written stories still. I need to fix that
Of course there was a media frenzy on a planetary scale, yet again. I'm not going into those details. But the headlines read ' Dragon Saves Owner from Drunken Father.' Even thou I denied every time I could about 'owning' Earl it was looked that way to many. Many even took it as far as taking him away from me. Which two things I knew. He was not going to take him away without him putting up a fight and they would die before staying away from me. He will always seek me out and find me as well.
Legal battles cost money and that I got when all the publicity got the attention of a Duracell employee who noticed my patient portable outlet design. I sold them exclusive manufacturing rights. Well after some redesigning. They modified it some as well to make it more marketable. It was I that made those designs for portable outlets that cost about $25 and I get royalties as well. They are very popular with gamers and campers. Able to power a small radio for about a week or a video game system for three hours.
Well anyway I basically screwed the lawyers as they were in it for the publicity and money. Those Peta pricks were pissed as well. Especially when the 'animal' they were trying to protect sided with me over them. Well animal right are important but Earl 'chose' to be with me and I did not force him. I defended myself with the law and the facts. After I read up on the law and reviewed the facts.
In truth dragons migrated to America on their own and can come or go from anywhere as they please. I never once claimed him mine and on one occasion joked that I was more his. Plus his actions with my father were more self-defense then anything. After all was said and done I won and sued them for my time and inconvenience. That I did hire a layer for. Revenge is a bitch. $12.57 million in reparations and no advertising as Earl as abused. Which they tried to show photos of. They don't know shit about dragons expressions or actions. They had photo's and I had a volunteered dragon to properly show them. Plus experts from the ranch.
So all and all now I live comfortably by the ranch. It would not be fare to keep Earl from his children. Well I never heard from Jasmine again but Tom I know become a very powerful and successful layer who's first case was the biggest in his career. And yes you guessed it if you are thinking he lead my case. He comes by every now and then to mess around with Jake. Plans on moving out here when he retired. Lisa is still missing her friend some but her days are full of joy and amusement with Earl and me in them as well. It was the right choice to refuse her being stared down. In the modern world is not the place to raise dragonets.
Jacob's brother eventually came by once about a year before I moved here. Not exactly how I pictured him but who is complaining. Al is a good friend with him as well. The rest of the ranch resents the extra effort the have to put into keeping the electronics out of visitors hands. The 'overheating' issue makes the hiding places few where they can be kept. They are usually kept until the end of the tours. Well time goes by and I figured out what Mr. Branson was talking about a hundred or so years ago.