7 sentence story

Write a 7 sentence story for a set of 7 nouns. The trick this time is the words need to be in the order listed. Pick one set or do as many as you want.

• stripes
  lizard
  boulder
  teeth
  rain
  horse
  blizzard
  
  
• valley
  slime
  salt
  emperor
  frost
  dictator
  rust
  
  
• disease
  stranger
  tongue
  toe
  skull
  warrior
  guard
  
  
• ears
  ooze
  creature
  journey
  fairy
  cavern
  silver

Inspired by Story Chains at Telling Tales.