( Stealth elf's point of view)
Wind valley wasn't too far away, but much to the complaining of Spyro and Cynder, it still meant they had to carry Stealth elf and Flameslinger across the abyss to the next island. When they arrived, almost every building was deserted, there was a couple of lit houses here and there, but the building with the most life, happened to be the tavern. As they approached, there was a sign that clearly read "No pets." "Just to be on the safe side, you and Cynder may want to say out here," Stealth elf told Spyro. "Spyro was a little ticked at first, but finally agreed and found a spot close to the door and laid on the porch.

Stealth elf and Flameslinger walked through the tavern doors, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at them as they walked down to the counter. "What do you want pointy-ears?" The bartender rudely questioned. "We from the Skylanders academy not too far from here, and we were hoping to find a pilot who could help us," replied Flameslinger. "Yes, we need help getting from place to place so we can stop Kaos and rebuild the core," added Stealth elf. Everyone burst into laughter. "You really think a couple of kids like you can beat an army all by yourselves?" Asked a wolf-like pilot sitting at the counter, "you stupid elves are so crazy it's funny."

Flameslinger and Stealth elf tried and tried to get someone to help, but no use, they were about to leave when that same wolf guy began pushing Flameslinger around and tried to throw a punch. It was obvious that he was drunk so Stealth elf and Flameslinger just tried leaving, that was until he started hitting on Stealth elf, even though she was obviously sixteen. She had drawn the line there, she punched him so hard he broke a table and the wooden floor as he fell over.

As it turns out, his friends weren't to happy with that, the bartender quickly ducked behind the counter as the wolf's shipmates began breaking bottles and chairs to use as weapons. But it only took ten minutes for them to end up on the floor too. Everyone looked at the two elves and every pilot sobered up and ran out the door, all except one. "Impressive battling," the mabu pilot remarked, "almost as good as my fighting skills, those guys were forcing this guy to give em free drinks." "Why didn't you help him if you're such a good fighter?" Asked Stealth elf. "Well....", He replied, " I...uh.. didn't wanna accidentally kill em, yeah I don't know my own strength sometimes." "Sure" said Flameslinger as he rolled his eyes, "but we were hoping to find a pilot willing to help our cause, you wouldn't happen to be one would you?" "But of course!" He replied, "my name is captain Flynn Skyrider, the greatest pilot in all of Skylands, and you two should be honored to know that I accept your offer." Flameslinger and Stealth elf rolled their eyes, but at least now they had a pilot willing to help. "You do know we can't really pay you right now, right? Asked Flameslinger. "Well a grand adventure and stopping a tyrant sounds good enough for me, and it sounds like an excuse to go places no mabu has gone before."

As they walked out of the tavern, Spyro flew right up to Stealth elf's face, "I saw a bunch of tough guys run out of here," he said, "did you guys really have a bar fight without me!?!?" he yelled. "Yeah it was awesome!" Said Flynn, "But without my help your buddies would have been hurt, lucky I was there to help them out, BOOM!!!!!" "Yeah Flynn, no one else can sit in a corner quite like you can," remarked Flameslinger. "Yeah whatever, let's just fly back to what's left of the academy already," said Cynder "we need to see Hugo's progress on those blueprints." "Don't worry little dragon lady," said Flynn, "my ship is right over there", he said as he pointed to the docks. The ship resembled that of a flying sea vessel, but it was covered in patches up and down, some loose metal was hanging off of the side, and Stealth elf could swear she could hear raccoons running around somewhere in the hull, the side of the ship read in faded letters "Dread Yacht".

"This is it?" Asked Spyro as a panel fell off into the abyss. "Yep, ain't it a beauty?" Despite the ship's terrible condition, he was actually quite proud of his vessel. *I can think of something I'd rather call it.* Stealth elf thought to herself as they all boarded the ragged mess of a ship. "Now, watch the master take off, with a BOOM!" Shouted Flynn, as he hit the top of a sign, "I meant to do that," he said, as they flew east, back to the academy.