All That Glitters - Quetzal reads a story about "El Dorado," the city of gold, and shows the gang a shiny golden dragon scale that the city's Gilded Dragon gave him. Max asks Quetzal if they can bring the scale into the sunlight to see it really shine. He puts the scale in his pocket and promises that he will be careful with it. They decide to fly to the sunniest part of Dragon Land. When they arrive, Max discovers the scale is gone - and that his pocket has a huge hole in it! The group tries to find or replace it, but ultimately decides that Max needs to tell Quetzal the truth. Quetzal is understanding and shows the class back into the room where a surprise guest is waiting.the Gilded Dragon! After hearing their story, the Gilded Dragon generously gives Max a new scale which he hands carefully to Quetzal. Dragonberry Drought - The gang, especially Ord, is all ready for the best day of the year to pick dragonberries. Emmy has a basket, Max has a pail and the dragons have their pouches.nothing can stop them, except maybe the fact that all of the dragonberries are missing! The bushes have all been picked clean! They try to think of many different ways to find them, including following a flock of Do-re-mi Birds (notorious dragonberry eaters). Once they realize that dragonberry bushes are both round and red, their search eventually leads them to one fruitful bush, where they discover a trail of footprints. They follow it and learn that Mungus the giant inadvertently picked all the berries to make his mother a very special treat-a dragonberry pie! He apologies and promises them a slice when it is done baking-yummy! The slice turns out to be more than twice their size (even Ord) and twice as delicious as anything they've ever eaten in Dragon Land.
