Chapter 2: The Trouble With Snakes

In Dragon Land, Ord, Zak and Wheezie were playing with their dragon disc by Mushroom Meadow. Cassie was standing by a few small mushrooms, holding a dragon scale, in which the dragons called Emmy and Max with.

"Oh, I hope Emmy and Max come soon," she said. "I want really want them to play Dragon Disc with us."

Suddenly, the siblings appeared right in the middle of the area the other dragons were playing with the disc, and right after Wheezie had threw it. Before anyone had a chance to catch it, Max leaped high in the air and caught it with his left hand.

"Good catch, little buddy," congratulated Ord as he and the others ran up to greet Max and Emmy.

"Thanks," said Max.
"Why'd you call us?" asked Emmy.

"Well," said Zak, "we were playing with Ord's new dragon disc and . . . wait a second. Max, why are you still in you pajamas?"

Max said, "I was still playing with my new video game when it was past my bedtime last night, so I was still in bed when Emmy woke me up and told me you guys were calling us."

"I don't think our parents would approve of that," said Zak, "especially if it was past our bedtime."

"They might if we were having a sleepover," inputted Wheezie, "with lots of loud and fun things do to keep us awake, such as playing tag, having shouting contests, jumping on our bed . . ."

"Anyway, Cassie decided to invite you two to play with the disc with us," Zak said.

"Would you like to?" asked Cassie.

"Definitely!" replied Emmy.
"Oh, goody!" Ord said happily.

So, the gang started playing a whole new game of Dragon Disc. Cassie was the first to throw it.

"Catch, Emmy!" she yelled to Emmy as she threw it.

"Caught it!" Emmy yelled as she caught it. "Catch, Wheezie!"

Wheezie caught it. "Catch, Zak!" she said as she handed the disc to Zak.

"Caught it," Zak said, annoyed at the fact that Wheezie would even consider trying to throw the disc to him since he was the right part of her body.

"Throw it to me, Zak!" shouted an eager-to-finally-get-the-disc-thrown-to-him Max.

So, Zak threw it to him. He must have thrown it too high because when Max tried to catch it, it went way over his head and into a nearby bush by a few big mushrooms. So, he ran to the bush to retrieve it. He searched and searched through it until finally located the disc.

"Found it!" he yelled. He bent down to get it. Suddenly, a big snake wiggled upon it and stayed there.

"Ahh!" Max shouted.

"What is it, Max?" asked Emmy, concerned as she ran towards her brother.

"It's a huge snake!"

"Don't worry, little brother," Emmy said, patting Max on his shoulder, for she knew he was a little afraid of snakes. "It won't hurt you. It's probably a clarinet snake. What do you think, Cassie?"

Cassie, who had made her way over to the siblings during Emmy's reassurance along with the rest of the gang, said, "I'm not sure. I think this snake is bigger than a clarinet one. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a snake like this one." The snake appeared to now be sleeping. She bent down to pick it up.

"But, wh-what if it bites?" asked Ord in fear.

"What if it's poisonous," asked Zak.

"What if it doesn't like mushrooms?" asked Wheezie.

Everyone stared at her.

"Yeah, that would be a real problem," Zak said sarcastically.

"Well, a new animal's gotta like its environment, right?"

"All of you may be right," said Emmy. "Ord, do you have any plastic gloves in your hoard?"

Ord checked his pouch. He first pulled out a huge pie. "Not it," he said, eating it. Then, he pulled out large dragonberry cupcake. "Not it," he said, and ate it. Then he pulled out two plastic gloves. "Not it," he said, mistakenly and attempted to eat them.

"No, Ord!" said Max. "Those are the gloves."

"Oh," realized Ord. "No wonder they didn't taste right."

Ord then handed Emmy the gloves, in which his slob was thankfully only on the outside.

"Eww . . . thanks, Ord," she said.

Then, she bent down to pick the snake up.

"Be careful, Em," Max said.

She picked it up slowly and said, "We should probably show it to Quetzal. He should know what type of snake this is. Come on."

So, with the snake tucked securely in Emmy's hands, since no one else wanted to touch it, Emmy got on Cassie's back and Max got on Ord's, Zak, Wheezie and the gang flew up in the air and to the School in the Sky.