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The Best Episodes of Dragon Tales

Every episode of Dragon Tales ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dragon Tales!

Two siblings, Max and Emmy, find an enchanted dragon scale capable of transporting them to a whimsical fantasy land inhabited by colorful anthropomorphic dragons by...
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Top Episode Ratings Summary

"To Fly With a New Friend Pts. 1 and 2" is the best rated episode of "Dragon Tales". It scored 9.4/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/21/2005. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Musical Scales / Hand in Hand".

  • To Fly With a New Friend Pts. 1 and 2
    9.4/1019 votes
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    #1 - To Fly With a New Friend Pts. 1 and 2

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2005

    ""To Fly With a New Friend"" Part 1 Max and Emmy have a new neighbor --- Enrique. He's just moved in from Colombia and hasn't had much luck at making new friends. After thinking it over for a bit, Max and Emmy decide to introduce Enrique to Dragon Land. At first, he's disbelieving, then a bit scared, but soon finds himself making friends just like Max and Emmy did when they first came to Dragon Land. He then joins them all on his first Dragon Land adventure --- taking a growing fish named Chips to the Dragon Land Aquarium. Part 2 Enrique is happy at having so much fun at Dragon Land, but still feels like he doesn't quite fit in. Zak and Wheezie agree to help out --- they'd love to give him a tour of Dragon Land! As Zak and Wheezie show Enrique all their favorite places, they discover a mystery along the way.

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  • Musical Scales / Hand in Hand
    9.0/1018 votes
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    #2 - Musical Scales / Hand in Hand

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2005

    #30301 ""Musical Scales"" Max taught Zak and Wheezie a Spanish/English song to perform for Princess Kidoodle, and they have practiced it very hard. When performance day arrives, Max, Emmy and Enrique (wearing a special hat) meet up with Cassie and Ord only to find Zak and Wheezie refusing to come out of their cave. They later found out that Zak and Wheezie are shedding their beautiful scales! It looks like the performance could be cancelled unless the gang can help them out. They try all sorts of plans, including painting Zak and Wheezie and covering them in clothes. #30302 ""Hand in Hand"" Max and Emmy's arguing upsets Enrique, so he goes to the magical wishing well in Dragon Land. Enrique wishes that they two would become, well, ""closer together."" His wish works out in a way he didn't hope --- Max and Emmy literally become stuck together. Another wish will set them right, but first they have to work together to deliver Wyatt's huge load of coins to the First Dragon Land Bank.

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  • Sky Soccer / Making it Fun
    9.0/1014 votes
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    #3 - Sky Soccer / Making it Fun

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/2005

    #30401 ""Sky Soccer"" Ord and the other dragons are trying out for the sky soccer team --- a special variation on soccer in which the ball must stay in the air and you can only use tail, chest, knees and feet. Ord has never played soccer before and thinks it can't be too hard, but tries to quit when he ends up not doing well at all. His friends tell him he can't quit and soon help him out with a number of drills. Ord is frustrated at first, but finds his confidence growing as he gets better at the sport. #30402 ""Making it Fun"" The Junior Unicorn Race is in peril --- Eunice the unicorn asked for Mungus the Giant's help in putting up signposts, but he put them up way too high. Our friends help out by painting the path, but they find it to be tiring work and soon grow bored. Realizing that they're committed to the job, they come with some tactics to keep moving and interesting. They try painting in fancy colors such as dragonberry red, taking fun breaks and even having a little race of

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  • Emmy's Dream House / Dragon Sails
    8.6/1018 votes
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    #4 - Emmy's Dream House / Dragon Sails

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/23/1999

    #10901 ""Emmy's Dream House"" The gang decides to build a treehouse in the branches of Sid Sycamore. Emmy, however, keeps bossing everybody around, and pretty soon, they leave her to do it herself. Can she win them back and get the help she needs to complete the treehouse? #10902 ""Dragon Sails"" Ord finds himself too big for a sailing adventure in Dragon Land. Max, Emmy and the other dragons work on a fix to the problem.

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  • A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words / The Talent Pool
    8.5/1018 votes
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    #5 - A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words / The Talent Pool

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/22/1999

    #10801 ""A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words"" The dragons call Emmy and Max to Dragon Land. Ord's looking for giggle flowers, lots of them. They're his Mom's favorite and he wants them for her birthday. But he's only found one! When the gang goes searching, they encounter a Doodle Fairy, who may be able to help them. But she can't talk! Only doodle. Can they use her drawings to find the giggle flowers? #10802 ""The Talent Pool"" The dragons are having a talent show, and Cassie desperately wants to be in it. The thing is, though, she doesn't feel that she has any special talents. She talks to Quetzal, who tells her about an amazing device called the ""Talent Pool,"" but when she visits it, it's less than cooperative.

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  • To Kingdom Come - Goodbye Little Caterpoozle
    8.4/1030 votes
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    #6 - To Kingdom Come - Goodbye Little Caterpoozle

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1999

    #10201 To Kingdom Come Ord doesn't want to share his possessions with anyone #10202 Goodbye Little Caterpoozle Cassie thinks she has lost her pet caterpoozle forever.

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  • A Cool School / Max's Comic Adventure
    8.3/1018 votes
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    #7 - A Cool School / Max's Comic Adventure

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/8/1999

    #11501 ""A Cool School"" We open the show with Emmy bringing in a pair of backpacks into the playroom - one for herself and one for Max. She can't find Max anywhere and so she calls out name a couple of times. Eventually, she finds Max under a cardboard fortress. Max explains that he's scared about going to school. Emmy decides to take Max to the School in the Sky in Dragon Land in the hopes that might help him feel better about going to school. They go to Dragon Land and materialize in front of Ord and Cassie. Ord's mom gives him his lunch. They then call Zak and Wheezie out of their knuckerhole. Emmy elaborates her plans to them. They then go see Quetzal to get permission. Emmy takes Quetzal aside, where she whispers to him that Max is afraid of going to school and that her idea is for them to intend the School in the Sky. Quetzal agrees, as ""all are welcome."" Zak finds Wheezie's cubbyhole dusty.

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  • Flip Flop / Just for Laughs
    8.3/1014 votes
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    #8 - Flip Flop / Just for Laughs

    Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 4/11/2005

    #30601 \"\"Flip Flop\"\" While rummaging through a Cave Swap, a sort of Dragon Land garage sale, Wheezie is astounded by a nice two-headed golden statue. Zak chimes in, starting an argument with Wheezie on her junk collection. While holding on the statue, Zak and Wheezie wish they could understand how the other feels. The statue starts to glow causes them to flip flop! Zak acts like Wheezie, and Wheezie acts like Zak! The switched personalities could help each to understand each other better, assuming that they can get back to normal. #22201 \"\"Just for Laughs\"\" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired as part of Season Two. In addition, this is the series finale of \"Dragon Tales\".

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  • Finders Keepers / Remember the Pillow Fort
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #9 - Finders Keepers / Remember the Pillow Fort

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/6/2001

    #20301 ""Finders Keepers"" Max and Emmy are excited to get to Dragon Land as today is the big opening of the Dragon Land Aquarium. It's an exciting place, with food and rides and even a squirt fish, the only type of fish in Dragon Land that can walk on land. They arrive at Dragon Land and head for the aquarium, but not before getting Zak and Wheezie out of their knuckerhole, since they have the tickets to the aquarium. Or do they? When Wheezie gets there, she can't find the tickets. She asks the ticket-taker if they can get in anyway, since she really did have the tickets, she promises, but the ticket-taker is the same Poor Man's Rodney Dangerfield that was in the Season One episode ""Roller Coaster Dragon"" and he's not willing to let them in without tickets. Emmy suggests retracing Wheezie's steps to find where she put the tickets and the gang does so, cleaning Wheezie's room in the process. #20302 ""Remember the Pillow Fort"" Max and Emmy have a box with various custome outfits and ar

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  • One Big Wish / Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
    8.2/1014 votes
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    #10 - One Big Wish / Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 6/8/2001

    #20501 ""One Big Wish"" Max is getting really tired of being little. So after a bad experience in a baseball game in Dragon Land, he wishes that he could be bigger. It works, and he does get bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until pretty soon, he's bigger than Mungus the Giant. At this point, he's ready to take his wish back. How can he get back to his normal size? #20502 ""Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"" Max and Ord work on a project together, but then find themselves at odds over who should take possession of it. Their friendship seems to be in jeopardy when they keep arguing and then when the project ends up in two pieces.

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  • Room For Change / The Sorrow and the Party
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #11 - Room For Change / The Sorrow and the Party

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 9/24/2002

    #22201 ""Room For Change"" Emmy and Max are playing with toy cars and trucks. Emmy's car breaks down, so Max offers the services of his tow truck. Then, the dragon scale glows, they're being called to Dragon Land. In Dragon Land, they materialize outside Cassie's cave. Ord comes for them, they need to come in because something bad is happening to Cassie. Inside, Cassie tells them the bad news. Her family is about to hatch a couple more eggs and she has to move out of her current room and into a new bigger room, so that the babies can have her current room. Cassie doesn't want to move. She likes her current room. Everybody agrees to help out. They go to check out her new room. It's large and dark. Well, it's dark at first, but that's before they open the blinds and turn on the friendly looking light. Cassie's still worried about it and then they realize that it would look a lot more familiar if all of her stuff was in there. They bring in her bed, her stuffed animals, her books and ever

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  • Rise and Bloom / Super Snow Day
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #12 - Rise and Bloom / Super Snow Day

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2005

    #30201 ""Rise and Bloom"" Max wants to see the once-a-year event of all time in Dragon Land, the Bursting Blossoms blooming! But it happens at sunrise, and Max has trouble shaking off his tiredness. Later, they find out the Bursting Blossoms need help waking up as well! It's up to the kids and dragons help them wake up so they can bloom, assuming that Max can be helped first. #30202 ""Super Snow Day"" Enrique arrives one warm spring day to find Max and Emmy in their winter clothes! Max and Emmy are going to Dragon Land to sled on Snowy Summit. They really want Enrique to go along with them, but Enrique has never experienced snow before, and is afraid of sledding as well. Max and Emmy do their best to help him have some great fun in the snow.

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  • Lucky Stone / Max Loves a Train
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #13 - Lucky Stone / Max Loves a Train

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2005

    #20101 ""Lucky Stone"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired as part of Season Two. #30702 ""Max Loves a Train"" Max has been anticipating riding the Dragonland Express for days and now it's finally arrived in Dragon Land, bearing a #8 and a loud train whistle. The conductor Isabella invites our friends to hop aboard, but the journey grinds to a screeching halt when it turns out that some of the train tracks are missing. The group goes on a search for the tracks, but when they can't find them at first, they look for other ways to have fun and cheer Max up.

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  • A New Friend / El Dia del Maestro
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #14 - A New Friend / El Dia del Maestro

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/2005

    #20601 ""A New Friend"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two. #30802 ""El Dia del Maestro"" Enrique arrives just in time to help out with El Dia Del Maestro, a celebration held every year on a different day in Dragon Land as a surprise for Quetzal. One of the big attractions is Quetzal's favorite food, chalupas, but when Cassie's older sister Sophie doesn't show up, Cassie's convinced that there aren't going to be any. Emmy suggests that Cassie could take over the task, as she knows what to do. Meanwhile, Enrique teaches everyone a special song in Spanish and English to sing to Quetzal.

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  • Teasing is Not Pleasing / Down the Drain
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #15 - Teasing is Not Pleasing / Down the Drain

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/10/2005

    #21501 ""Teasing is Not Pleasing"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two. #31402 ""Down the Drain"" Emmy, Max, and Enrique are going on a sky sailing adventure with Captain Scaliwag and their good old dragon friends. When Captain Scaliwag pulls up the ship's anchor, though, he releases the plug that holds the water in Dragoon Lagoon, leaving the lagoon's inhabitants panicking. Arrrr --- these pirates will have to think fast to save their friends.

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  • All That Glitters / Dragonberry Drought
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #16 - All That Glitters / Dragonberry Drought

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2005

    #31501 ""All That Glitters"" After Quetzal reads a story about ""El Dorado"" with the gang, he shows them a shiny golden Dragon Scale, given to Quetzal by the Gilded Dragon. Max asks if he can take it out in the sun to see the scale shine, and Quetzal lets him, if he promises to be careful with it. When the time comes to let the sun shine on the scale, the worst happens. The scale is gone! And there is a huge hole in Max's pants pocket. Now Max is worried that Quetzal will think him irresponsible. #21001 ""Dragonberry Drought"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two.

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  • All Together Now / Team Work
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #17 - All Together Now / Team Work

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/2005

    #31801 ""All Together Now"" Max wants to play with Emmy and Enrique, but they're working on a whale project together for school. He hopes that a trip to the Dragon Land Carnival will change things, but he finds that once they're there, they still continue to play with each other. He continues to feel left out and even after taking some advice from Quetzal, still can't help but feel like he's unwanted. After asserting himself, having some more fun, and trying some new things, he begins to learn that he's still cared about too and that he and Emmy both have a new friend. #21502 ""Team Work"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two.

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  • Making it Fun / The Sorrow and the Party
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #18 - Making it Fun / The Sorrow and the Party

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/2005

    #30402 ""Making It Fun"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired earlier in the season. #22202 ""The Sorrow and the Party"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two.

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  • Cassie, the Green-Eyed Dragon / Hello, Ms. Tipps
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #19 - Cassie, the Green-Eyed Dragon / Hello, Ms. Tipps

    Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/2005

    #20701 ""Cassie, the Green-Eyed Dragon"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two. #32702 ""Hello, Ms. Tipps"" Max, Emmy and Enrique don't have school today, but they are joining the dragons at the School in the Sky. Quetzal was going to read them the story of Prince Griffin and the Golden Unicorn, about Dragon Lands' greatest hero, but it turns out that he has to leave for the day to attend a conference on the other side of Dragon Land. He leaves the class in the hands of his former student Ms. Tipps, a nymph with an always-excited-sounding voice and her own special way of doing things. At first, everyone finds it hard to get used to Ms. Tipps' changes, but Lorca especially misses Quetzal's way of doing things. Still, he finds himself enjoying some of the new things and finds his fear of Ms. Tipps' changes lessening.

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  • Tails You Lose - Calling Dr. Zak
    8.1/1020 votes
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    #20 - Tails You Lose - Calling Dr. Zak

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/1999

    #10401 ""Tails You Lose"" Max is trying to amuse Emmy with an imitation of Ord, but she's not interested. She's upset because she lost a soccer game. She declares that she's never playing again. She goes with Max to Dragon Land and finds that Zak and Wheezie are conducting a game called ""Freeze Dance."" At first, she wants to play, but when she ends up losing, and is told to stand aside with a ""Yer' out!"" she becomes indignant and declares that she's going back home. But is winning all that matters? #10402 ""Calling Dr. Zak"" Max and Emmy go to Dragon Land and bring musical instruments with them. Today's the day for Zak and Wheezie to be in the two-headed dragon contest. They're singing a dragon version of ""Knick-Knack-Patty-Whack."" Just then, a spiny-pine appears, attracted by some fruit that spilled from Wheezie's decorative hat and Zak accidentally steps on it.

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  • Finn's Blankie / Let's Dance
    8.0/1013 votes
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    #21 - Finn's Blankie / Let's Dance

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2005

    #30901 ""Finn's Blankie"" When Cassie's Mom accidentally throws Finn's blankie in the laundry, Finn is devestated. His constant tantrums prompt Cassie to take him on a trip to retrieve the blankie. Until then, it's up to the group to help Finn survive without, assuming they can find it at all. #22401 ""Let's Dance"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two.

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  • Sad Little Star / Try It You'll Like It
    8.0/1014 votes
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    #22 - Sad Little Star / Try It You'll Like It

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/21/2005

    #32101 ""Sad Little Star"" Celeste, a star, comes down to Dragon Land during the day. She enjoys being a star, but misses out on all the daytime activities, especially the rainbow which she really wants to see. Max, Emmy and our dragon friends try to help her, but find a surprising shortage of rainbows in Dragon Land. Still, they're determine not to give up and race to help Celeste before she has to return to the night sky. #21902 ""Try It You'll Like It"" Repeat of a Dragon Tales story first aired in Season Two.

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  • Eggs Over Easy / A Liking to Biking
    7.9/1017 votes
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    #23 - Eggs Over Easy / A Liking to Biking

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/24/1999

    #11001 ""Eggs Over Easy"" Cyrus the sneaky serpent tricks our friends so that he swipe a Rhyme Bird egg. Cassie feels guilty and shy because she can't seem to speak up about what happened to the egg. #11002 ""A Liking to Biking"" On a rainy day, Max and Emmy visit Dragon Land for some fun biking. There, they teach the dragons how to do it too.

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  • To Fly With Dragons - The Forest of Darkness
    7.8/1038 votes
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    #24 - To Fly With Dragons - The Forest of Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1999

    #10101 ""To Fly With Dragons"" Max and Emmy (especially Max) aren't too happy about moving into their new house. Inside, there's a nice playroom and all of their toys have been brought in. Then, Max discovers a secret drawer. Inside is a box containing a dragon scale. Emmy shows Max a picture of dragon scales in her dragon book. As both hold the dragon scale, Emmy utters some words found on the box. ""I wish, I wish, with all my heart, to fly with dragons, in a land apart."" They arrive in Dragon Land, but have no idea where they are. They observe Ord and Cassie flying. After the introductions, they fly to Singing Springs where they meet Zak and Wheezie, who are actually two dragons, but share one body. Meanwhile, Ord's lost his baby tooth and wants to find it so that he can make a wish on it. At the end of the episode, Ord wishes

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  • Lucky Stone / The Mefirst Wizard
    7.8/1013 votes
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    #25 - Lucky Stone / The Mefirst Wizard

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/4/2001

    #20101 ""Lucky Stone"" When Max gets to Dragon Land, he finds Max's lucky stone. He doesn't realize what is however, and tries to use it as a skipping stone. It ends up getting lost and Ord gets upset, as ""Fly Time"" is coming up in Dragon Ed and he needs the lucky stone in order to do well with his flying tricks. The gang goes on an underwater expedition to hunt for it, but Ord is too large to fit on the submarine, so Max remains with him to help him search on the surface. There, Ord learns that luck isn't so important as believeing in his own abilities. #20102 ""The Mefirst Wizard"" The dragons have built a new obstacle course, and everyone, including Max and Emmy, wants to try it out right away. This leads to the yelling of ""Me first! Me first!"" which causes an annoying, two-headed guy called the Mefirst Wizard to appear. He proceeds to start racing around the obstacle course, over and over, continually yelling ""Me first! Me first!"" and not giving anyone else a chance to get on. How

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