Prompt

You were approached by a person in need. Their plight was that their settlement, a small community, has been plagued by a creature that had been killing many of their people near a precious resource. Accepting on whatever terms you worked out, you loaded up from the settlement's meager stockpile, and set off to slay the beast with the person who summoned you.

Except when you got there, the creature turned out to be laughably insignificant and just a swift kick dispatched it. You and your compatriot feel quite silly, but it gets worse.

The settlement is throwing you both a hero's welcome, with medals, a banquet and everything else. They are so worked up that telling them the truth would be a severe let down to the whole settlement, especially considering that people actually died (though this was due to whatever other hazards also existed around the creature's lair.)

The people want to hear of your exploits, to hear how you slayed the beast and triumphed, and so... might as well give them a tale worth telling.

Instructions

Using your DJB character, the objective is to write a tale of vanquishing a mighty beast, but you're basically lying through your teeth to do it. So the trick here is to tell a tale, suitably epic, but also still in the realm of possibility. (You don't want to be called out by the locals as a liar, they might not react too well to that and they may not believe the creature was even slain).

Minimum word requirement is 500, with no maximum. Entries will be graded by the Fiction Grading Rubric with an inclination towards tales that meet the concept of being epic but possible, so realism is not going to be as critical but is still part of it. The details of what and where are up to you, but any entry of just telling the truth will be disqualified.