Chapter 1: A Rushed Beginning
It was a beautiful morning in Max and Emmy's neighborhood. Birds were singing, the sun was bright, and there was not a cloud in the sky. Inside their house was peaceful, also. Emmy was drawing a picture in the playroom and Max was still asleep, due to staying up all last night playing his new video game: Mondo Mouse vs. the Evil Cat People.
Emmy was just finishing a picture of a flower when the dragon scale started to glow in the secret drawer.
"The dragons are calling," she whispered to herself. Then she called to Max: "Max, wake up! The dragons are-"
Just then, Emmy remembered that her mom and dad might still be asleep. So, she went out of the playroom, tip-toed across the hall to her brother's bedroom, and opened his door. She went over to him in his bed and shook him awake.
Max yawned. "What was that all about, Em?" he asked.
"The dragons are calling," Emmy answered. "Let's go."
So, the siblings ran silently to the playroom and towards the glowing drawer. Emmy kneeled down, opened the drawer, and retrieved the brown box, home of the dragon scale. She took it out and they both held it.
"I wish, I wish, with all my-" they started.
"Wait!" Max yelled.
"What?" Emmy asked.
"I'm still in my pajamas!"
Emmy giggled. "You're right. But, our friends won't mind . . . much."
" 'Much?' "
"Come on, Max! They need us!"
"Oh, alright."
"I wish, I wish, with all my heart, to fly with dragons in a land apart," they recited.
And suddenly, the dragons painted on their wallpaper started to glow. And they soon began to fly around Max and Emmy in the order they flew off the wall. They went faster and faster until the two siblings disappeared in a bright green flash.