The Christmas Dragon

This rather goofy, sappy fantasy movie somehow mixes a medieval fantasy world with Christmas.  Also, it sets a band of escaped orphans on a quest to save Christmas before it is too late.  The tale opens with young Ayden's parents being arrested for refusing to pay confiscatory taxes.  Moments later, a dragon attacks.  The tax collectors flee but Ayden is wounded and her parents are burned to death in the jail cart.  Flash forward several years.  Ayden lives in an orphanage that sells older children into slavery to none other than the tax collectors seen earlier.  Ayden, who is an ardent believer in Christmas miracles, runs away with several other orphans and the quest begins.  An elf gives Ayden a gem that will allow her to find the magic that will restore Christmas.  Inevitably along the way, the children run into troublesome adults - including the tax collectors - but always manage to outwit and escape them.  At one point, they save a young dragon from dragon slayers by pretending to be goblins who haunt the woods.  The dragon proves grateful and bonds with Ayden.  By the end, Father Christmas uses this very dragon to pull his sleigh to deliver presents to the deserving children of Middle Earth.

Very silly and campy, clearly aimed at youngsters.  It is Lord of the Rings meets Goonies.

 

This is an Arrowstorm movie and features many of their regular actors.  Jake Stormoen, Melanie Stone, Adam Johnson, Paul D. Hunt, and Eve Mauro have roles as adults in this movie about the kids.  Each of them show up in the Arrowstorm epic, Mythica.