The Royal Dragons
One afternoon, Sofia and Madeline were departing from Vivian's castle.
"Bye, Vivian!" Sofia waved.
"See you at school!" Madeline added.
Crackle was flying nearby, and dropped a blue piece of paper.
"Crackle, you dropped something!" Sofia pointed out, picking up the paper.
"Oh. Thanks, Sofia." Crackle smiled. She picked up the paper and flew over to a refuse container, dropping the paper.
"Are you sure you want to throw this away?" Madeline caught the paper. "It looks like an invitation."
"It is." Crackle nodded. "To a really fantastic party!"
"But you love parties." Sofia frowned. "How come you're not even opening it?"
"You want me to open it? Okay, I'll open it." Crackle sighed.
Crackle breathed fire on the paper, causing words to appear.
"'You are invited to this year's annual Dragon Roast and Toast." Madeline read.
"That sounds fun." Sofia smiled.
"How could it not be fun?" Crackle beamed. "It's a giant picnic for dragons from every kingdom!"
"It says they do things like show off fire-breathing tricks..." Madeline continued.
"And sing dragon songs." Crackle nodded.
"...And do flying stunts..." Sofia read.
"And have the best time they've ever had in their entire lives!" Crackle flew up into the air.
"It sounds like you really do want to go to the Roast and Toast." Madeline observed.
"I do." Crackle landed. "I really do."
"Then why don't you just go?" Sofia asked.
"Because everyone is supposed to come with their very best dragon buddy." Crackle sighed. "And I don't have a dragon buddy, so I can't go."
"You don't have one single dragon friend?" Madeline gasped.
"I knew a lot of dragons back when I was a kid." Crackle admitted. "But back then, I was shy, and, well... I just never clicked with anyone."
"But you're not shy anymore." Sofia pointed out. "I'm sure if you went to this Roast and Toast, you'd make tons of friends!"
"Yeah, no doubt." Madeline agreed.
"Maybe." Crackle shrugged. "But I can't go. Not without a buddy."
"We can go with you." Sofia offered.
"But only dragons are allowed." Crackle pointed out.
"Then we'll be your dragon buddies." Madeline smiled.
Both Sofia and Madeline held their amulets and said "I wish to be a dragon". Sofia became a purple dragon with red hair, while Madeline became a red dragon with yellow hair.
"How did you do that?!" Crackle gasped.
"Our amulets let us turn into animals." Sofia explained.
"And it also lets you be the most amazing friends ever!" Crackle cheered, hugging them both. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
"And now you've got two dragon buddies for the price of one." Madeline grinned.
The two girls returned to their human forms.
"So when is the picnic?" Sofia asked.
"Tomorrow, in the kingdom of Brazendell." Crackle revealed. "Can you meet me here, bright and early?"
"Sure." Madeline nodded. "We'll just tell our parents where we're headed."
"Great!" Crackle beamed. "We can fly over together, and I'll teach you some fire tricks and dragon songs on the way!"
"See you tomorrow." Sofia smiled.
Crackle waved them off as their coach carried away.
The next day, they were all flying toward Brazendell.
"Let's try our fire tricks one more time." Crackle suggested. "Just pucker up and blow!"
Madeline tried to release some fire, and breathed out a small cloud of smoke.
"I got some smoke that time!" She smiled.
Crackle breathed out a large plume of fire and flew through it, leaving a square shape behind.
"Wow, Crackle." Sofia smiled. "Your fire shapes are really great!"
"Thanks!" Crackle beamed. "Hey, you think that'll impress the other dragons, and help me get some friends?"
"Um, I'm not sure that's how you make friends." Madeline frowned.
"Yeah, yeah, you're right." Crackle shrugged. "I've gotta do something really impressive. ...I know! When we do our flying tricks, I'll do a quadruple loop-de-spin! I've never done it before, but you loop like this, and spin like that..." She performed some fancy flying. "And then again, like- whoa!"
Crackle lost control, and crashed into a ribbon hung between two trees.
"I think I just showed you how not to do it." Crackle groaned. "What is this thing, anyway?"
"I think it's decorations for the Roast and Toast." Sofia surmized. "Look down below."
Crackle looked down.
"We're here, girls!" She cheered. "Yippee!"
"Let's go!" Madeline urged.
The three of them flew deeper into Brazendell, finding themselve gathering of dragons by some dragon-shaped rocks.
"Wow, I've never sen so many dragons before!" Sofia admitted.
"Look, there's Smokelee!" Madeline pointed. "And Willawing! Let's go say 'hi'!"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Crackle said suddenly. "You're supposed to be dragon Sofia and Madeline, who they've never met before."
"She's right, Maddie." Sofia frowned.
"Oh, yeah." Madeline sighed. "Then we shouldn't wave to Nitelite either."
"I can't believe you two have more dragon friends than I do." Crackle groaned.
"Then let's do something about that." Sofia smiled.
"Why don't you go to someone and say 'hi'?" Madeline suggested.
"Okay." Crackle breathed in. "Um..."
Crackle walked over to a small group of dragons.
"Hello." She said to a green dragon. "My name is-"
Crackle was interrupted by a stream of pink flame, and high-pitched singing.
"What's that?" Sofia asked.
"It's not a 'what'." Crackle frowned. "It's not a 'who'."
"Look, there she is!" One dragon pointed to a small orange dragon flying above.
"Sizzle!" Another cheered.
"What a star!" Nitelite declared.
"Wait, all my friends." Sizzle declared. "I've got more to show you. Watch this!"
Sizzle sang again, breathing a ring of fire as she did.
"That's Sizzle." Crackle told Sofia and Madeline. "When we were kids, she was the star of every show, had the widest wingspan, knew all the best fire tricks..." She sighed. "And she also had the most friends."
"Don't worry!" Sizzle told the crowd. "I have plenty more tricks to show you later!" She then spotted Crackle. "Crackle, is that you? Wow! I haven't seen you in forever!"
"Hi, Sizzle." Crackle waved a claw. "I was just telling my friends here about you."
"Oh, did you tell them I was always the star of the show, had the widest wingspan, and knew all the best fire tricks?" Sizzle smirked.
"Yeah, I think I covered everything" Crackle rolled her eyes.
"I also blew the tallest plumes of fire." Sizzle added. "Still do!"
Sizzle flew around them, singing and breathing a circle of fire.
"Wow!" Madeline gasped.
"Congratulations!" Sofia added.
"Yeah, that's great, Sizzle." Crackle sighed. "You're still the best."
"Oh, only at some things." Sizzle declared. "Okay, a lot of things!"
Close by, a large blew dragon was burning a stack of wood.
"It's the Duchess!" Crackle gasped.
"Who's the Duchess?" Madeline asked.
"The leader of all the dragons, and the most important dragon ever." Crackle revealed.
"Fellow dragons!" The Duchess called out. "Welcome to this year's Roast and Toast! Up first: showing off your fire-breathing skills. Come on, gang, hit me with your best sparks!"
Not too far away, the rogue knight, Sir Oliver, was watching.
"Hark, do my eyes deceive me?" He frowned. "'Tis a gathering of dragons. The same scaly beasts who had me banished!"
His horse snorted in anger.
"Ah, Basil, my trusty steed." Sir Oliver smiled. "Methinks, no... meknows this is our chance to get back at them!" He gave Basil a sugar cube. "The brave Sir Oliver shall single-handedly ruin their picnic!" He laughed wickedly.
Back with the dragons, Crackle was getting ready.
"Okay, this is my chance to impress everyone with some really great fire shapes, so they'll wanna be friends with me." She told Sofia and Madeline.
Crackle breathed another square of flames.
"Whoa!" A pale green dragon declared. "I've never seen a fire square before! Nice!"
"Thanks a bunch!" Crackle smiled. "I've been practising!"
"Is that right?" Sizzle asked. "Well, so have I!"
Sizzle breathed out fire, which spiralled and changed colors.
"Sizzle, that's the best fire shape I've ever seen!" The green dragon cheered.
Sizzle landed, and the fire shape dropped with her. She then knocked it back up with her head, as if it were a ball. The other dragons cheered.
"I'm never gonna make any friends at this rate." Crackle sighed.
"Don't give up." Madeline urged. "Why don't you try talking to that nice dragon again?"
"Okay." Crackle nodded. She flew over to the green dragon. "Hi. My name is-"
"Hey, guys!" Sizzle jumped inbetween them. "Don't you just love the Duchess?"
"Well, sure." The green dragon nodded. "She's only the most important dragon ever!"
"Exactly." Sizzle nodded. "Which is why I'm so excited she asked me to be her buddy for the Roast and Toast!"
"You're best buddies with the Duchess?" Crackle gasped. "The 'the Duchess'?"
"Wow!" A yellow dragon gasped. "Good for you, Sizzle!"
"Wait, it gets better!" Sizzle declared. "The Duchess has taken me under her wing, and is teaching me to be the next leader of the dragons!"
"That sounds-" Crackle started.
"Incredible? It is!" Sizzle smirked. "She's teaching me all sorts of fabulous, 'head dragon' like stuff!"
"Like what?" The green dragon asked.
"How to create a wall of fire, and how to flap my wings so hard, they make a tornado!" Sizzle declared. "You know, important stuff I'll need to know if I ever have to defend the dragon folk."
"You're so..." Crackle started.
"Lucky? I know!" Sizzle squealed. "I mean, I'm best buddies with the most important dragon ever in the history of... ever!"
"And it's getting her even more dragon friends." Crackle muttered under her breath. She then flew over to the group. "Well, that's nothing, Sizzle. My dragon buddies are even more important than the Duchess!"
"Pshaw." Sizzle sneered. "I doubt that."
"Well, they are!" Crackle insisted. "Because my buddies are... the Royal Dragons of Enchancia!"
"What?!" Sizzle gasped.
"They're Royal Dragons?" The green dragon gaped.
"Of Enchancia?" The yellow dragon added. "Oh, that's fancy!"
"Yep!" Crackle smirked. "They even have a castle... no, wait, they have ten castles! And one of them is made of gold, and diamonds!"
The other dragons gasped in awe.
"So, ah... you think you could introduce me?" The green dragon asked.
"I wanna see a gold castle with diamonds!" The yellow dragon added.
"Um... I've never even heard of the Royal Dragons of Enchancia." Sizzle frowned.
"Then I guess you don't know everything, Sizzle." Crackle retorted. "Now, excuse me. My best buddies are looking for me, and I don't want to keep royalty waiting."
Crackle walked over to Sofia and Madeline.
"It looks like you're making lots of dragon friends over there, Crackle." Sofia noticed.
"I am!" Crackle beamed. "This picnic is going even better than I planned!"
"So glad to hear it." Madeline smiled. "Hey, watch this!" She breathed out a trianglular flame. "I made a triangle!"
"And I can make a circle!" Sofia demonstrated. "I was trying to make a heart, but still, I made something!"
Up on a ridge, Sir Oliver and Basil were watching.
"Just look at yon dragons, Basil." Sir Oliver scowled. "Cavorting about, making dragony merriment. All that is about to end!" He held up a crossbow, which had been fitted with a net full of water balloons. "These balloons of water will burst above them, and douse their fiery festivities!"
Sir Oliver and Basil laughed wickedly. Sir Oliver took aim, and pulled the trigger. But nothing happened.
"This isn't working!" He pulled the trigger again. "Blasted thing! The trigger on the bow string must be jammed..."
As he continued to get it to fire, he pointed the crossbow straight upward. Only then did the net finally launch, and dropped back down on Sir Oliver, soaking him.
"They may have won the battle, Basil, but not the war!" Sir Oliver declared. "A knight such as I never admits defeat!"
Later one, as dusk fell, the dragons were breathing fire, the Duchess flying over them.
"Looking good, dragonfolk!" Duchess smiled. "Now that we're all nice and warmed up, it's time to do some singing! Come rest your tails around the bonfire."
Sofia, Madeline and Crackle approached the bonfire.
"Hey, c-can we sit by you guys?" The green dragon asked nervously.
"Sure." Madeline nodded. "We always have room for new friends!"
"Look, there's Smoke, Wings and Fire!" Sofia pointed. "Hi there!" Crackle nudged her. "...Dragons I've never met before!"
"Way to almost blow our cover." Madeline snarked, as she waved too.
"Sorry." Sofia cringed. "I just got excited."
"Who are those dragons waving at us?" Nitelite asked.
"I heard Crackle say that they're the Royal Dragons of Enchancia." Flambeau declared.
"Oh, how neat!" Nitelite smiled. "Hey, I wonder if they know Princess Sofia and Princess Madeline?"
"Now, who wants to sing the next song?" The Duchess asked.
"Oh, me, me, me, me, me, me!" Crackle waved her claw.
"But I always go first!" Sizzle frowned.
"Then maybe it's Crackle's turn?" Madeline suggested.
"Yeah, maybe it is!" Crackle nodded. "After all, back in Enchancia, I was the star of the Leafsong Festival."
"Well, I've been the star of lots of shows too." Sizzle countered.
"Have you ever performed for the King and Queen of Enchancia?" Crackle asked. "Because I have."
"When did you do that?" Sofia whispered.
"We must have been out of the castle that day." Madeline joked.
"And they gave me a big trophy for being the best singer they've ever heard, ever!" Crackle continued.
Sofia tugged on Crackle's wing.
"Crackle, can we talk with you for a minute?" She asked.
The girls led Crackle a short distance away.
"You never sang for the King and Queen of Enchancia!" Madeline hissed.
"I know that!" Crackle nodded.
"Then why did you say you did?" Sofia frowned.
"I am so tired of Sizzle always being the center of attention!" Crackle scowled. "I know that if I could show the other dragons that I'm good at things too, then they'd want to be friends with me!"
"You don't have to do something big and flashy to make friends." Madeline declared.
"Maddie's right, Crackle." Sofia agreed. "Just be yourself, and it'll happen."
"You know what? I'm just going to start singing." Sizzle flew upwards.
"Not before I start singing!" Crackle flew up to join her.
Crackle: I'm all fired up
Yeah
I'm all fired up
You've been there and heard that
Now it's feeling old hat
Time to try something new
In a bright shade of blue
Like you know who
Sizzle shoved Crackle aside.
Sizzle: I've got a treat for you lucky dragons
Your favorite star Sizzle is fronting the show
Cut me some slack if I do me some braggin'
I'm a natural-born star
And this stars gotta glow-ow-ow-ow
So let's go
Crackle: Hey, I'm all fired up
Ready for my chance
I'm all fired up
Watch me sing and dance
I'm all fired up
Sizzle: I'm in center stage
Where I'm meant to be
And everyone here loves looking at me
I love you right back and with all modesty
I'm tip of the top and I sing it with glee
Check me out
Yeah
Check me out
Yeah
Crackle: Hello there I'm still here
Let me make myself clear
It's about time that you learned
That it's finally my turn
So watch me burn
Crackle blew some smoke, but coughed because of it.
Sizzle: While she flames out I'm just getting started
And when I make a promise I always come through
Sparring with me is not for the faint-hearted
I've spent time at the top
And I sure like the view-ew-ewew
I sure do
Crackle: But hey I'm still fired up for a chance to prove
That I'm fired up and I've got the groove
I'm so fired up
Sizzle: I'm in center stage where I'm meant to be
And everyone here loves looking art me
I love you right back and with all modesty
I'm tip of the top and I sing it with glee
Crackle: Hey I'm all fired up
Sizzle: Check me out
Crackle: Yeah I'm all fired up
Sizzle: Check me out
Crackle: Wow I'm all fired up
Sizzle: Check me out
Sizzle finished with a fiery portrait of a large dragon.
"Oh, Sizzle!" The Duchess chuckled. "Why don't you sing us another tune?"
"I'd be happy to... buddy!" Sizzle nuzzled the Duchess's cheek with her own.
"Sorry, Crackle." Madeline consoled the dejected dragon.
"It's okay, Madeline." Crackle sighed. "I should just get used to not having any friends when Sizzle is around."
Meanwhile, Sir Oliver was making a trail out of breadcrumbs.
"Fear not, Basil." He declared. "I know just the thing to ruin a dragon picnic..." He placed a small wooden box on the ground and opened it, releasing several ants. "Ants! Famed destroyers of picnics across the land!" He fed Basil another sugar cube.
The ants stopped, sniffed the air, and started moving toward Sir Oliver.
"Go forth, tiny ones!" Sir Oliver declared. "Follow my path of breadcrumbs, and do your worst to my enemies!"
The ants crawled into Sir Oliver's armor. The former knight started yelling and jumping around.
"It would seem they prefer sugar cubes to bread crumbs!" He yelped. "Leave my armor at once, foul insects! Please!"
"Alright, it's time for the big aerial show!" The Duchess announced. "I want to see all your best flips and spins. Show your fellow dragons what you've got!"
"This is my final change to show everyone I'm even better at flying than Sizzle." Crackle declared. "Which means I'd make an even better friend than her!"
"I was thinking: You might have more luck making friends if you weren't so worried about impressing everyone." Sofia declared.
"Good point, Sof." Madeline agreed.
"Hmm... Yeah, I like my plan better." Crackle shrugged. "Let's do some loop-de-loops!"
"Okay..." Sofia sighed.
"This isn't going to end well..." Madeline groaned.
Sofia, Madeline and Crackle flew up and started doing some simple tricks. Two other dragons looked up at them in awe.
"See, girls?" Crackle smiled. "Someone's watching! Do more!"
The three of them kept doing loop-de-loops.
"Wow, look at those moves!" The green dragon cheered.
"They should be good." Sizzle pouted. "They probably have servants to teach them being the Royal Dragons of Enchancia..."
Sofia caught Sizzle's last words.
"The who?" She frowned.
"Meanwhile, I learned my superstar flying moves without any royal help, thank you very much." Sizzle scowled as she flew past Madeline.
"What?" Madeline asked.
"Well, I think they're very impressive, your highnesses." The green dragon smiled.
"Um... thank you?" Sofia said, confused.
As Crackle flew by, Madeline stopped her.
"Crackle, those dragons think Sofia and I are some kind of Royal Dragons." She declared.
"That is weird!" Crackle said awkwardly. "We should ignore them and keep flying!"
Crackle tried to fly away, but Sofia held her in place by her tail.
"Did you have something to do with this?" She asked.
"Is that why the dragons have been fanning us and bowing to us all day?" Madeline added.
"Please, girls." Crackle pleaded. "The Roast and Toast is almost over, and I still haven't impressed anyone enough to be my friend. Can't you pretend to be the Royal Dragons, just for a little while?"
Sofia and Madeline looked at each other, and slightly agreed.
"Sorry, Crackle." Sofia sighed. "We only turned into dragons so we could come here."
"It doesn't feel right, lying about who we are on top of that." Madeline said firmly.
"Fine." Crackle pouted. "I'll just find another way to impress everyone." She flew over to the dragon crowd. "Watch this, everyone! I'm gonna do the quadruple loop-de-spin!"
The crowd gasped.
"But no-one's ever done that before!" Sizzle declared.
"I have! Loads of times!" Crackle lied. "Just watch!"
"Careful, Crackle!" Sofia called as Crackle flew past.
"Remember what happened last time!" Madeline warned.
Crackle flipped and looped and spun in the air, but as she made a diving spin, she lost control.
"Whoa!" She yelped.
Crackle once again ended up caught in a banner between two trees.
"This isn't the kind of attention I was hoping for!" She groaned.
"Just lift your wings..." Sofia instructed.
As Crackle pulled free of the banner, she flapped too hard, and was launched toward Sofia and Madeline.
"Watch out!" Madeline yelped.
Crackle crashed into Sofia and Madeline, sending them spinning. Their amulets slipped off their necks, and they reverted to humans.
"Whoaaa!" They both screamed as they fell toward the ground.
The Duchess moved in and caught them.
"Thank you, miss Duchess." Madeline smiled.
"Princess Sofia? Princess Madeline?" Flambeau frowned. "What are you two doing here?"
"Um... we..." Sofia muttered as she and Madeline put their amulets back on.
"And why did Crackle say you were the Royal Dragons of Enchancia?" Flambeau continued.
"You don't look like dragons... at least, not anymore..." Nitelite declared. "Ooh, my brain hurts!"
"They aren't dragons!" Sizzle yelled. "Crackle was lying all this time!"
The dragons gasped.
"Okay, okay, you caught me." Crackle sighed. "I was lying about having important dragon friends because the truth is... I don't have any dragon friends at all."
Crackle flew away, dejected.
"Crackle, wait!" Sofia called, as she and Madeline gave chase.
Crackle landed a short distance away.
"I knew I should never have come to this picnic." She sighed.
As Crackle walked, she heard a wicked laugh. She followed the sound, finding Sir Oliver readying a catapult.
"Fear not, Basil." Sir Oliver declared. "We shall best those dastardly dragons yet, by using my 'no-blaze dragon-proof net'!" He loaded the net into the catapult.
"Oh no!" Crackle gasped. "I've gotta warn the others!"
Meanwhile, Sizzle was showing off her flying moves again.
"Was that last move pretty amazing, or was it just me?" She bragged.
"Everyone, everyone!" Crackle flew over. "Please listen to me! There's a big bad knight in the woods, and he's coming to get us!"
"Don't listen to her!" Sizzle laughed. "This is just another one of her lies!"
"It is not!" Crackle insisted.
"I'm sorry, Crackle, but what you're saying... it just doesn't make any sense." Flambeau declared.
"Yeah, dragons are friends with the knights here in Brazendell!" Nitelite agreed. "There's no reason they'd attack."
"But I'm telling the truth!" Crackle urged. "You all have to leave, or that knight will get you!"
None of the dragons believed her. As Crackle flew away, hurt, Sofia and Madeline returned.
"There you are!" Madeline smiled.
"Are you okay?" Sofia asked.
"No!" Crackle yelled. "A knight is trying to get the dragons, but no-one will believe me! I was in the woods, and I heard this big knight with a yellow feather talking to his horse, Basil, and-"
"Wait, we know that knight!" Madeline gasped.
"His name is Sir Oliver, and he does not like dragons!" Sofia frowned.
They then heard Sir Oliver's laugh. Up ahead, he and Basil were standing by his catapult. Sir Oliver launched the net, which captured every dragon in the group except Sizzle, who flew out of the way in time.
Sizzle, Crackle and the girls fled as the dragons struggled.
"No need to panic." The Duchess declared. "I'll just burn this net off!" She breathed some fire, but the net was unaffected. "It's not working!"
All the other dragons turned burning the net, with the same results.
"Ah-hah!" Sir Oliver jeered. "My net is magically fireproof, you overgrown iguanas! This is what you get for crossing a knight such as I!"
Sofia, Madeline, Crackle and Sizzle for watching from behind a tree.
"That knight, he has the Duchess!" Sizzle gasped. "He has everyone!"
"Can't you talk to him, girls?" Crackle asked. "Tell him the dragons weren't hurting anyone!"
"We know Sir Oliver, and he won't listen to reason!" Sofia declared.
"Not in a million years." Madeline added.
"And the dragons won't listen to me." Crackle sighed. "I don't know anything about stopping knights! ...But Sizzle might!"
"What do you mean?" Sizzle asked.
"The Duchess is training you how to lead the dragons." Crackle recalled. "She taught you how to make a wall of fire!"
"That's great!" Sofia smiled.
"Oh, right..." Sizzle cringed.
"And how to flap your wings so hard, they make wind like a tornado!" Crackle added.
"Those things will definitely help us stop Sir Oliver!" Madeline grinned.
"Okay, well... the thing is... I don't actually know how to do any of that." Sizzle confessed.
"What do you mean?" Crackle frowned. "The Duchess taught you-"
"Nothing." Sizzle mumbled. "She taught me nothing, okay? She hasn't been training me to lead the dragons. She only invited me because... I didn't have any friends of my own to come with!"
"But you're always surrounded by other dragons." Sofia frowned.
"Sure, they like to watch me do stuff." Sizzle admitted. "But when I'm not putting on a show, they go away..."
"I can't believe you were lying this whole time!" Crackle growled.
"Yeah, well... so were you!" Sizzle retorted.
"Guys, that doesn't matter right now!" Sofia declared.
"Sof's right." Madeline agreed. "You both made a mistake, but now it's time to work together to help our friends!"
Sir Oliver cackled wickedly.
"I'm up for that if Sizzle is." Crackle nodded.
"I was about to say the same thing." Sizzle smiled.
"Good." Sofia smiled. "Because I have an idea!"
Shortly after, Sofia and Madeline came out of hiding.
"Yoo-hoo!" Madeline called. "Sir Oliver!"
"Princess Sofia? Princess Madeline?" Sir Oliver said, surprised. "Well, I hope you're not here to defend these wretched dragons!"
"Oh, no." Sofia smiled. "We're here to get your autograph."
"When we first met, we didn't realise how famous you were!" Madeline declared as she and Sofia held out two pieces of parchment and a quill.
"How baffling." Sir Oliver frowned. "I'm sure I mentioned it, quite a few times. But I am happy to oblige!"
Sir Oliver started signing the parchments. As he did, Crackle and Sizzle flew in from behind. Crackle landed on Basil, and starting singing as loud as she could.
"My ears!" Sir Oliver yelped, as Basil neighed in pain.
"Now, Crackle!" Sofia urged.
Crackle grabbed the net.
"One poorly-executed quadruple loop-de-spin, coming up!" She declared, lifting the nets up into the air.
"We're free!" The green dragon cheered.
"Nice going!" The yellow dragon smiled.
Meanwhile, Sizzle was still singing.
"That horrible high note is intolerable!" Sir Oliver yelped. He then realized the dragons were free. "G-get back!"
Crackle had placed the net on the dragon-shaped rocks.
"You did it, Crackle!" Sizzle cheered.
"Now drop that net on Sir Oliver!" Madeline urged.
"Wait!" Sir Oliver yelped. "I take it all back! I love dragons!"
Crackle and Sizzle dropped the net on Sir Oliver.
"Let me out, you scaly snakes!" He struggled to escape.
"Actually, Sir Oliver, I think it's time you take a little trip." Sofia smirked.
"Ladies?" Madeline grinned.
Crackle breathed fire at Sir Oliver, forcing him out of the net and onto Basil. Sizzle started singing again.
"Ah, my ears!" Sir Oliver yelped as Basil galloped away. "You pests have wonnest this round, but I shall winnest the next!"
"Yes!" Sizzle cheered.
"Whoo-hoo! Crackle whooped.
"You were amazing, Crackle." Sizzle smiled. "I think you actually did the quadruple loop-de-spin!"
"Maybe. I lost count of the loops." Crackle shrugged. "But Sizzle, your singing? Wow!"
"Let's hear it for Sizzle and Crackle!" The green dragon declared.
The dragons cheered.
"They really saved the day!" Flambeau grinned.
"This is one picnic we will never forget!" The Duchess chuckled. "I'd like to thank all four of you for saving our scaly hides."
"To be honest, aunty, it was mostly Crackle, Sofia and Madeline." Sizzle admitted.
"Well, I'm proud of all of you." The Duchess smiled. "Fellow dragons, it's time to end this year's Roast and Toast with some marshmallows around the fire! Who's in?"
"I am!" One dragon nodded.
"Me!" Another cheered.
"Do you two want to roast some marshmallows?" Sofia asked Crackle and Sizzle.
"I do." Sizzle smiled. "But only if my friend Crackle comes with me."
"Friend?!" Crackle gasped. "You mean it, Sizzle?"
"I sure do." Sizzle nodded. "In fact, next Roast and Toast, do you, maybe, wanna come with me?"
"You bet I would!" Crackle flew in a circle, then took Sizzle's claw as they flew off together.
"We always said you were a terrific dragon, Crackle." Madeline beamed.
"And an even better friend." Sofia added.
"You too, girls." Crackle smiled. "I mean it. You're getting really good at the dragon stuff."
"Thanks." Madeline grinned.
"But we're not done yet." Sofia declared.
They both held their amulets and said "I want to be a dragon". After changing, they held up marshmallows on sticks and tried to roast them. Unseen by them, the Duchess helped by roasting the marshmallows herself.
"We did it!" Madeline cheered. "We breathed fire!"
"You are Royal Dragons, girls!" Crackle declared, before they all ate roasted marshmallows together.