Chapter 2:
Once we got our bearings, we returned to the main central area of the Artisan's Homeworld and looked around us. We were stunned. Our home was now littered with our own treasure and there were gnorcs all around us! "Gnasty Gnorc... he not only encased all the dragons in crystal, but he also turned our treasure against us?! He's going down!" Spyro exclaimed. "Well, let's just rescue the dragons and get the treasure first, okay?" I said with a frown as I walked up to the first dragon and, after I got close, the crystal cracked and he was released.
"Thank you for releasing me, Spyro and Blaze. Free all the dragons in the Artisan's world, then find the balloonist. He'll transport you to the Peacemakers world," the dragon said calmly. "What about Gnasty Gnorc? Where can we find him at?" Spyro asked with a cocky attitude. "Find the dragons first. That's all I can tell you," he said, disappearing to the shrine afterwards.
"Man, I wish I could learn how to warp away like the older dragons," I frowned to myself as I looked below us to see the another dragon to the waterfall, which contained the speedway of Sunny Flight. "Hey, Spyro? I think that we should split up. You know, just to expand our finds of both the missing treasure and the dragons," I smiled. "Sounds like a good idea! I'll go towards Stone Hill. What about you?" Spyro asked. "I think I'll handle the Artisan's Homeworld first," I smiled. "Okay. Good luck then," Spyro said. "Thanks," I smiled back.
After Spyro disappeared into the portal below, I flew around and not only picked up tons of treasure with Sizzle helping out, but I also defeated the Gnorcs that were around, finding out that they dropped the treasure they had on them after they got flamed to a crisp. "Cool!" I smiled, completing my run after only a couple of minutes. "Now time to free the dragons," I smiled as I went over to Town Square's portal and freed the dragon there. "Thanks for releasing me, Blaze. I can't thank you enough," the dragon smiled at me.
"No problemmo! Oh, by the way, do you happen to know if anything happened in the speedway at all?" I asked with a smile. "Hmm... I sense that the speedway is full of not only Gnasty's minions, but it now has a strange thing there that will warp you away and back to our Homeworld if you are too slow there," he said. "I see... sounds like he put a time limit spell there, then," I smiled as Sizzle whispered something to me. "Are you seriously going to try a speedway now? We have dragons to rescue!" she frowned at me. "Did you not just hear what he said? There's loot there and some minions of Gnasty to boot! I bet I can get it all done by the time Spyro returns," I smirked happily.
So, after I freed the other 2 dragons in the Artisans, I did the secret code for the stepping stones of the waterfall and went into the portal to Sunny Flight, which I always enjoyed doing. "Okay! Time to start! According to what I can sense, the timer is set to expire in 90 seconds," Sizzle whispered to me. "Got it. I can get through this in half that time!" I giggled as I noticed that, even though the area now had gnorcs instead of sheep, the obstacles remained the same. 4 trains and 8 each of planes, arches, and chests.
"This'll be easy!" I smirked as I glided down quickly at the trains, bombing them as I passed them, emerging from the other side of the tunnel when I was done. "Now for the chests," I said as I did a sharp left turn and went into the cave, burning apart all the chests within only 9 seconds. "Booyah! I'm on a roll! Now for the arches and planes!" I exclaimed as I exited the cave and made another sharp turn for the arches, passing through them until I got to the planes, which were now manned by gnorcs. "Hey! Green guys! Let's play!" I giggled as I flamed each and every one of them into the water, leaving me at 30 seconds total.
"Hehe! Now for the last of the arches!" I smirked as I flew through the last few of them and I actually beat my previous record by .5 milliseconds! "OH YEAH! 35.9 seconds! I am the queen!" I exclaimed as I flew into the sky and, shockingly, received a total of 300 gems for completing the speedway. "I guess that we got some gems from that," I smiled as I then flew higher and eventually popped out of the other side of the portal, seeing Spyro exit Stone Hill at the exact same time. "Booyah!" I smiled as I flew over to Spyro and then landed on the ground with a wide smile.
"You seem to be having fun," Spyro smiled at me. "Yup! I just got 300 gems in Sunny Flight and defeated all the gnorcs there and here as well," I said happily. "Cool! Now let's decide where to go next. We have Town Square and Dark Hollow remaining," Spyro said. "And a certain boss that one of the dragons here told me about... his portal is hidden in the artificial dragon head in the northern part of this area," I said. "Well then, I'll go to Dark Hollow while you handle Town Square?" Spyro smiled. "It's a deal," I giggled.