Meanwhile, back in Dragon Land...

Cassie then saw the school come into view. "Land here, Akito."

"Gotcha." Akito nodded.

Cassie and Akito then landed once they came to the school for the dragon residents of this mystical land.

"Wow, cool place." Lee smiled.

"This is the School in the Sky." Cassie introduced.

"Sweet name." Akito smiled.

"Thanks." Cassie smiled.

The pink dragon brought the three humans in with her and Quetzal was inside with Ord, Zak, and Wheezie. There were also adult dragons in with them, including a certain purple dragon with green spikes.

"Spike!?" Akito and Estelle asked.

"Akito!? Estelle!?" Spike asked once he saw the two humans he recognized.

"You know these humans, Daddy?" Zak and Wheezie asked in surprise.

"Yes, you see, these two are very good friends along with their older brother, since their parents, and aunt, and uncle, and pet dog are good friends with me and everyone in Ponyville." Spike smiled.

"Really?" Zak and Wheezie asked.

"Oh, yes, don't you remember the stories your father told you at bedtime when you were hatchlings?" the green dragon named Matches prompted her two-headed children.

"We thought they were just stories, but we new about the ones about Aunt Twilight were true..." Wheezie said. "When can we go to Ponyville, Daddy?"

"Never mind that for now," Spike said, then smiled to Akito and Estelle. "Oh, you guys have grown so much... You look so much like your parents... I still remember when I met your brother, he looks just like your dad!"

"Yep, he sure does." Akito said.

"Muchos gracias you all for coming..." Quetzal told the vistors.

"De Nada, Quetzal." the others replied.

"Oh, great, more Spanish..." Lee groaned quietly.

"Oh, come on, Spanish is great." Estelle smiled.

"If you say so..." Lee shrugged.

"What's this about, Quetzal?" Zak asked his golden scaled teacher.

"Our dear friends Max and Emmy are in trouble," Quetzal informed them. "There are adult human members from an organization called 'Team Rocket' who are trying to take Akito and Estelle's Pokemon. I heard about you all coming in late last night after I was grading homework papers from my dragon students." he then said, looking to Akito, Lee, and Estelle.

"Let me guess, the Night Light Fairies told you right?" Akito asked.

"Si, indeed they have..." Quetzal nodded. "I am close amigos with the Night Light Fairies. When I was a little nino, I spent a lot of nights sleeping under the stars... I didn't really have a home of my own and my parents and I slept outside instead of in our own cave... I remember being very scared at night, but the fairies were like a night light for me... That is how they got their name."

"Cool." Lee smiled.

"Do you know where Max and Emmy are, Quetzal?" Cassie asked her teacher.

"Unfortunately, I do not have the answer, but there is someone else who does..." Quetzal said. "I present to you, a human with dream-bending abilities who has foreseen this in her nighttime missions..." he then turned a chair to show Cherry in it with her legs crossed, she had her crystal ball in hand while she had her arm around her youngest child.

"Aunt Cherry!" Akito and Estelle called.

"Hello, dears." Cherry greeted her foster niece and nephew.

"How did you get here?" Estelle asked.

"I have my ways..." Cherry said, seeming to avoid the question.

Simon took the crystal ball, crawling down from his mother's lap and walked over to a stand, putting the crystal ball on it and clicked it on. The image grew staticky at first, but became clear.

"What's the crystal ball for?" Lee asked.

"We're going to use it to find Max and Emmy so Simon's nightmare doesn't come true." Cherry replied.

"I'm afraid to know what his nightmare was." Estelle said.

Simon glanced back at her.

"Max and Emmy got kidnapped?" Estelle prompted.

Simon nodded to her in silence to confirm that was what he dreamed about.

"Oh, dear..." Estelle gulped.

"Simon has a proposal..." Cherry said. "I know Cassidy and her friend told Estelle to come alone with her Pokemon, but I think you should surprise them and use your attacks... The dragons included..."

"Do you think that'll work?" Spike asked.

Simon merely blinked to him, not even reacting in surprise that a dragon was talking to him.

"Uh, you don't talk much, do you?" Spike asked.

Simon simply shook his head.

"Simon likes to be silent, but deadly." Cherry said.

Simon had a brief slasher smile to that and nodded. "Oui." he then spoke, but used French instead of English.

"So is that all we'll be getting out of him?" Zak asked.

"I loooove him!" Wheezie smiled, then bent down and tickled Simon's chin. "Coochy, coochy, coo~..."

Simon lowly growled, glaring to her as his eyes briefly flashed red as Hell fire.

"Please stop doing that." Cherry spoke for her rather sadistic and vicious son.

"So this crystal ball is going to show us where the kids are?" Lee asked.

"Yes, just wait for it to load," Cherry said, then hit the top as it was being stubborn. "Darned technology these days... When I was a kid, you couldn't use the telephone and internet at the same time."

"You're sounding like one of those old people." Lee said.

Akito, Estelle, and Simon cringed.

"Did you just call me old?" Cherry asked sharply.

Lee's eyes widened. "Uh, I mean..."

Cherry glanced at the boy, that seemed to make her fangs pop from her gums. She did not attack or feed on him, but she considered that her warning.

"W-W-What I mean to say is 'bold', you sound like a bold lady." Lee said nervously.

"Hm..." Cherry glanced at him, then looked back at the crystal ball.

"Phew!" Lee wiped his forehead. "That was pretty scary."

"Trust me, you don't ever, ever, ever want to get on Aunt Cherry's bad side." Estelle warned her boyfriend.

"EVER!" Akito added with emphasis.

"Okay, okay, I get it, I won't get on her bad side." Lee said.

"It might be the last thing you ever do..." Akito warned.

"Yeah." Estelle nodded.

The crystal ball glowed and it was showing Max and Emmy held hostage as two voices laughed at their misery.

"Where are they being held?" Cassie asked.

"Can you zoom it out so we can see what building they're being held hostage in, ma'am?" Lee asked Cherry.

Cherry held the crystal ball securely. "Zoom out."

'Processing...' the crystal ball replied and it loaded again to do just that.

"Does it always have to load?" Cassie asked.

"It's probably because its out of its main server..." Cherry said. "I had to borrow it from somebody."

"Who?" the others asked.

Cherry hid a disgusted flinch, then sharply sighed. "I'd rather not discuss..."

"You had to borrow it from Drell, didn't you?" Akito asked with a knowing look.

Cherry face-palmed and shuddered slightly. "Yep..."

"What?" Estelle asked. "Did you have to do something?"

Cherry put her hands to her face. "Yes..."

"What did you have to do?" Lee asked.

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cherry shuddered.


*Flashback*

"Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PUUUHHHHH-LEEEEASE!" Cherry was on her knees with her hands together in front of Drell who was smirking as he held his crystal ball out of her reach.

"Oh, very well." Drell smirked.

Cherry then stood up and reached for the crystal ball.

Drell then lifted the crystal ball out of her reach again. "You have to do something else for me once this is all over though... Ya know... For old time's sake..."

Cherry sighed and bowed her head. "Fine."

Drell chuckled, then put the crystal ball in her hands and ruffled up her hair. "I've missed this..."

"I haven't..." Cherry lowly grumbled and left with the crystal ball.

*End of Flashback*


"I should've killed that man by Sabrina's wedding..." Cherry groaned and put her hands to her eyes.

As if on cue, the crystal ball was finished loading.

"Okay, we got a location..." Cherry said. "It looks like a cave behind a waterfall... Why is it always behind the waterfall?"

"It's so obvious." Akito said.

"What else should we expect from Team Rocket?" Cherry glanced back in deadpan.

"Good point." Akito and Estelle said.

"I don't think I've seen that cave before." Wheezie commented.

"It's forbidden..." Matches warned strictly. "You must never go there unless an emergency."

"Ooh, why do I have a feeling we gotta go there now?" Zak shivered in fear.

"That's because we do." Wheezie said.

"Your seester's right, Zak," Quetzal replied. "You'll have to get going."

"Wait... You mean us?" Cassie asked, referring to herself and her friends.

"But, we're too young!" Ord cried. "...Aren't we...?"

"Guys, please, we could really use your help in saving Emmy and Max." Estelle said.

"Oh, I-I-I don't know..." Cassie shivered as she appeared to be shrinking in size. "W-W-What if we can't do it? Oh, I couldn't risk never seeing Emmy again!"

"Uh, is it me or is she shrinking?" Lee pointed out.

"It isn't just you." Akito said.

"What's going on with Cassie and why is she shrinking?" Estelle asked Quetzal.

"It happens when she gets very upset," Quetzal frowned. "She shrinks like a shrinking violet..."

"Oh, dear..." Estelle frowned.

"Does that ever happen to you guys?" Akito asked the other dragons.

"I turn invisible when I get really scared." Ord said.

"Really?" Estelle asked. "And what about Wheezie and Zak?"

"Uh, I think we should just stay home where it's safe!" Zak smiled nervously.

"Zakkkyyyyy~..." Wheezie held onto her brother's arm. "Adventureeeee..."

"Is always scared?" Lee asked, referring to Zak.

"Zakky's a safety nut." Wheezie said.

Matches sighed. "He gets that from me..."

"Good to know." Lee said.

"Ninos, I believe in all of you..." Quetzal said, then picked up Cassie into the palm of his clawed hand. "Especially you, Cassie..."

"Please, Quetzal," Cassie begged. "I can't risk this! I may never see Emmy again and it'll be all my fault!"

"Are their Dragon Badges powerful?" Estelle asked.

"Only if they live up to their moral duties, will their dragon badges glow," Spike said. "It's the noteworthy task of a noble and brave dragon."

"Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, do you care about Emmy and Max with all your hearts?" Lee asked.

"Max is my best friend..." Ord smiled.

"And Emmy's mine!" Cassie added.

"They are fun to be around..." Zak admitted. "We like them..."

"Like them?" Wheezie replied. "We loooove them!"

"And no matter what dangers, would you have to face nothing will stand in your way of rescuing them, right?" Lee asked.

"Oh, I don't like dangers..." Wheezie frowned. "They're so... Dangerous!"

"But he's right, no matter what dangers we have to face, we won't give up until we have rescued Max and Emmy." Ord said.

"That's a good boy..." the female red dragon put her arm around Ord gently.

"Thanks, Mommy..." Ord smiled up to the female dragon.

"You know what, Ord is right." Cassie said before starting to grow back to her normal size.

Estelle smiled at that.

"Oh, I dunno..." Zak shivered. "Maybe I should stay home... Uh, Mommy, Daddy, don't you want any help with anything in the knuckerhole?"

"No, we don't." Spike and Matches said.

Zak groaned and frowned to that as he was roped into this adventure too.

'Come on, Zakky..." Wheezie pleaded. "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase?"

"Oh, fine, besides, Max and Emmy are our friends." Zak said.

"Yay!" Wheezie cheered and hugged her brother, kissing him right on the cheek.

"Alright, so then, let's go save them." Lee said.

"Where do we find this cave though?" Ord asked. "We're not allowed to go there!"

Simon sniffed like a dog once he picked up a scent, then crawled around and opened the door, sniffing around.

"What's he smelling?" Lee glanced. "A dead bird?"

"Blood." Cherry dryly replied.

"Follow that vampire toddler." Akito said.

"Uh, so, you guys are really vampires?" Lee asked Cherry. "Funny, you don't seem like it?"

"Oh, no...?" Cherry smirked fiendishly, exposing her fangs.

Lee's eyes widened.

"'Fangtastic' to meet you..." Cherry joked, reminiscent of a young female vampire she met when she was younger.

"Back at ya." Lee said.

Cherry licked her fangs. "Let's go meet the others, shall we?" she then left the school.

Lee nodded to her, but then shivered and shuddered once she was out of his sight. "That lady is totally creepy..."

"Come on, we don't wanna be left behind." Estelle said, leaving the school with the super strong jock.

Lee shook another chill and followed her with a smile. "Come on then."

They began to follow Akito, Cherry, and the dragons as they followed Simon.