Sun Dragon went to the Dragon Class as he have been. As it turned out, today was the day that Eteru first came. He seemed a little nervous about being around so many dragons at once, but Sun Dragon could tell he was secretly happy.

Sun Dragon: Eteru!
Eteru: Ahh! Oh, Sun Dragon, it's just you.
Sun Dragon: Sorry about that. What do you think?
Eteru: Oh, um, I like it. I've never been around so many dragons before. If ever! It'll take some getting used to, but I think it'll be a nice change of pace.
Cosmic: It's good to have you here Eteru.
Eteru: Hey Sun, Bazookanine told me he was taking the same homeroom class as you and Cosmic.
Sun Dragon: That's right. He seemed to be getting along with Monitar very well.
Cosmic: Hey Sun, you said yesterday was your first time going to Combat Class right? How did that go?
Sun Dragon: Fantastic I say. Not only am I taking the same class with Monitar, Flaradise, Nympheen, plus two of the cadets that helped me on my mission with Mixcoatl, Wizbiz and Shadow Heart, but Buzz and Cali themselves tested me with some of their best students!
Eteru: Woah! Did you pass?
Sun Dragon: With flying colors like yours Eteru. One of them said that they take the same Alchemy Class as me so we could talk more then.
Cosmic: More friends to the list Sun? Man you're on a roll! Hey, you haven't gathered everyone you know here to a gathering yet have you?
Sun Dragon: Quite frankly no. But where would we gather such a large amount of creatures at once?
Cosmic: I think my place may be large enough. If not then we can hang out at the gameroom, lord knows that room's large enough.
Eteru: Just how many people are we inviting to this "social gathering", may I ask?
Sun Dragon: Let me think....1, 2, 3.....
Eteru: Doesn't sound like much.
Sun Dragon: Including Fin-Point that's... exactly 30 friends here!
Eteru: 😲WHAT??!!! 30??!!
Cosmic: 😕I-I...I did not realize it was that many. Yeah we're going to need to use the gameroom for that.
Sun Dragon: Now that's including Fin-Point, and judging from his anti-social personality he may not come.
Cosmic: We're still going to need the gameroom.
Sun Dragon: Are we allowed to use the gameroom in this manner?
Cosmic: Oh sure. Anyone can use the gameroom for things like this. What, have you not been there?
Sun Dragon: I had heard about it, but I honestly keep forgetting about looking into it.
Cosmic: Oh it's great Sun. You can play any version of Skystones there, you can watch movies, play music, eat whatever. They have a ton of things there to keep you preoccupied. Trust me, the gameroom will be the best place for this gathering.
Sun Dragon: Alright! What time?
Cosmic: Hm.... I know. When are you free?
Sun Dragon: For today? I have nothing else planned after this afternoon. Oh I see, just tell everyone to come sometime between this afternoon and this evening and host the gathering that way.
Cosmic: Exactly! If anyone has to leave during the gathering then we let them leave as they please.
Sun Dragon: Then it's settled! We'll inform as many as we can of this gathering and invite them to the gameroom!
Cosmic: Alright! I'll go make a list to see how many people I can get invited.
Sun Dragon: Do that Cosmic!

Cosmic went to her desk to check her schedule and make a list of friends she could invite to the gathering. Sun Dragon noted that Eteru had not said anything since being told about the number of friends Sun Dragon had. Ah, that must be what's wrong! Eteru is timid around new people, so of course he'd be nervous about meeting so many people at once.

Sun Dragon: If you wish not to come to the gathering later Eteru, I'd understand.
Eteru: Huh? What?
Sun Dragon: You're nervous about meeting a large number of strangers, right? Look, you're brother Bazookanine is going to be there, Cosmic's going to be there, I'll obviously be there, and others you have already met Eteru. No need to be frightened by these allies. "Only by meeting new people can we find new ways to be ourselves", as a certain prissy boy of troublesome times said. If you think you can't come, then I won't push you.
Eteru: ....N-no...No I'll come. Expect me to be one of the first ones there!
Sun Dragon: Alright Eteru! That's the spirit! Tell anyone we know of the gathering will you?
Eteru: You bet! Count on me!

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Fortunately for Sun Dragon, the cadets were allowed to spend the leftover time to mingle amongst themselves until the bell rung for dismissal. This gave Sun Dragon the perfect opportunity to tell Jace, SpringCarrier, Fin-Point, Bike-Trike, Ihala, and Kamua of the gathering.

Sun Dragon: Say gang! I've planned to have a gathering later this afternoon with my friends! If any of you are available from afternoon to evening, you're welcome to it anywhere between those times!
Fin-Point: Pass.
Bike-Trike: Dude, you serious? Heck yeah, I'm in!
Kamua: Oooohhhh! That sounds like so much fun! Ihala can we go please please please please please please please please-?
Ihala: 😧*sigh* Well, if it makes you happy Kamua.
Kamua: Oh yes yes yes yes yes!!! Thank you! We'll be there Sunny, count on it!
SpringCarrier: Hmm. I will have to check with my creator if I am available during that time period, but I feel that I'll be likely to show there at some point in time for the occasion. Thank you for the invitation ahead of time Sun Dragon, in case I don't show.
Jace: I think Ivy would love to go to the gathering. Expect us there Sun.
Sun Dragon: Thank you greatly! If you share a class with any of my other friends today, make sure they know about the gathering. Remember: from afternoon to evening.

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It was almost time for the gathering to begin officially. Sun Dragon wanted to invite a special someone to the event before it started, and he knew where to find them. If she was her usual self today, she would be in the library. Sure enough, she was there. Reading a book as per usual. Eteru wasn't around, but Sun Dragon figured him and Cosmic told For- I mean May about the gathering. Still, just to make sure...

Oh, and no sneaking up to her.

Sun Dragon: (knocks on bookshelf)
Mayflo: Hm? O-oh, Sun Dragon. Um, n-nice to see you.
Sun Dragon: Hey May, good to see you. Listen, has Eteru and Cosmic told you of my friendly gathering later?
Mayflo: Y-yeah. First thing Eteru said to me earlier. I-I don't k-know if I should go though. You know....
Sun Dragon: I know. I'll understand if you don't want to come. I'm not forcing you, but you might miss out on something if you don't come.
Mayflo: I-I don't know-
Sun Dragon: May, were all friends here. No one means you no harm. Eteru's going, and he's timid by nature. Now I realize you're a special case, but I do recommend coming. What better chance to meet new people May? You never know when another chance will come, if ever. Alabra will surely be with you there, and the rest of your classmates. Come now, hmm?
Mayflo: ...... T-the gameroom, right?
Sun Dragon: That's right. It'll be fun!
Mayflo: ......I'll go. Where's the gameroom?
Sun Dragon: Just outside the main building. I'm sure Alabra will know. See you there May?
Mayflo: Y-yeah. See you soon....

Excellent! Sun Dragon just hoped she'd be alright with the number of friends there. Hopefully she would be bothered.

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Already people have arrived! And the gameroom was nice! Board games, music, movies, food, and even a record player for the classical type.

Crocavile: Yo Sunny! Now the party will really sta- You?!
Eteru: Y-you?! You're here too?!
Sun Dragon: Hm? You two know each other?
Crocavile: Wait, you helped Impken the other day didn't you? (Starts hitting his nagin) Stupid, stupid, stupid me! I must've not been focused enough to remember you then...Not! Ha! Lied again! I was totally focused!
Sun Dragon: Am I missing something?
Eteru: I stopped a certain crocodile skeleton from robbing too much money from a bank a couple of years ago. I remember that well.
Crocavile: Hey, we's cool now. I gave up that stuff ages ago. I reformed since then!
Sun Dragon: I remember hearing you stole one of Bike-Trike's model motorcycles after you suggested I take the Cooking Class.
Crocavile: Hey, old habits and greedy skeletons die hard. Still, I was given the chance to come here to help people now. And any friend of Sunny's is a friend-o-mine! Oh hey, do you still have that spear?
Eteru: Spear? Oh! Um, afraid not Croc. I think it went to its rightful owner.
Crocavile: Blast! You realize they only produce a few of those, like, every few years man!? Only certain people could get ahold of those things!
Eteru: Oh trust me, I know. It's valuable due to the Aturium incorporated into it, which enables the flames on it to linger even if used like a baton.
Crocavile: *fake gasp* Does my ears deceive me? Probably, since I deceive literally every body else. You know the value of stuff?! I learned that from Count Moneybone himself! How'd you learn to-
Eteru: I guess I kinda "picked it up". (Nervously chuckles) 😅
Crocavile: Well, nice to see we're on the same side now! Great seeing ya! Oh, Impken! I've got stuff to tell you! Kekeke!

Crocavile ran off towards Impken, probably to lie to him about stuff again. Sun Dragon was still somewhat stunned by the news, but then he noticed more cadets arrived. One in particular caught his eye.

Sun Dragon: Ah Alabra! Great to see you! Where's May?
Alabra: She wanted to make sure there wasn't nothing "scary" here. Hang on. You can come over now Shield!
Mayflo: Alright, alright. No need to- Oh my God that's a lot of people!😨
Sun Dragon: Yeah. Almost 30 actually. Can't believe it myself really.
Mayflo: What?! Oh no no no no no no no no no-
Alabra: Shield wait!

As Mayflo tried to walk away, Alabra grabbed her wrist and they ended up spinning around a few times. Sun Dragon tried to hide his chuckles as Alabra managed to stop her by pulling harder on her wrist. He held May in an embrace as he began comforting her.

Alabra: May, I'm right here with you, ok? No need to be scared. You were the one that wanted to come here.
Mayflo: N-n-no one s-said anything a-about s-so many people b-being here.
Alabra: May, relax! Look, you don't have to talk so much if you don't want to. I'll be within your sight the whole time, ok?
Mayflo: .......O-ok.....
Alabra: That a girl. Is there a place for us to sit Sun?
Sun Dragon: Of course. Come on.

Sun Dragon took them to a bench out of the way from the crowd. Alabra managed to calm Mayflo down somemore. And then...

Sy-fight: Hey! You're Alabra right?
Alabra: Yeah. So?
Sy-fight: Word around here says you were the best magician in Skylands. That true?
Alabra: *chuckles* I think you mean is the best, don't you?
Mayflo: *quietly* Oh boy, here we go.
Sy-fight: I mean what I heard. Is it true or not?
Alabra: *smirk* I can demonstrate my magic, if that would satisfy your interests.
Sun Dragon: Alright then! Everyone, my friend will preform a magical performance for us!
Mayflo: *quietly* W-wait Alabra, I-
Alabra: *quietly* Don't worry May, I'll only be a few feet away. This'll only take a moment.
Sun Dragon: I'll watch with you here May. Don't worry.

As everyone brought their attention to Alabra and hushed down, he pulled out a deck of cards. He explained that he will perform a complex and completely random display of moving the cards with the wave of his wand. He then said that, after he finished the display, he would put the cards back into a deck and pull out all four Aces from the top. He levitated off the ground and, with a wave of his wand, the cards began to fly off the deck and around him. All the cards were pulled out of his hand and surrounded him, like he was inside a gyro made of cards. He hen performed other movements with the cards, before bringing them back into his hand and into a deck again. With his eyes closed, he pulled out ghe top four cards and showed them to his audience.

Alabra: Tell me, are they all Aces?
Sy-fight: 😲 They all are!
Alabra: Told you I could. And that's nothing compared to what I can really do! Heym Shield!
Mayflo: 😨 W-what?
Alabra: Want to volunteer for my next trick?
Mayflo: W-which one?
Alabra: The classic "saw a girl in half" trick of course!

May jumped and hide behind her bench so fast she was a mere blur. Alabra laughed, obviously messing with her.

Alabra: Oh come on Shield! You know I consider that a cheap trick, and if it's anything I hate most it's cheap tricks. Come on, now for the real magic to be made!

Alabra continued with his amazing magic show for a "spell". Mayflo finally got over Alabra's joke and continued to watch too. When Sun Dragon asked her about what was that about him being the best magician or not, May explained that Alabra was thought to be the best of the Magicians' Council until he accidentally dropped some eggs or something onto the head magician, resulting in Alabra being literally kicked out of the Council. Eon happened to watch the show and asked Alabra to join the Skylanders so he could put his talent to the test. Sun Dragon was surprised that Alabra's old council kicked him out like they did just because of one mistake, but then magicians are dedicated to their craft. I guess.

The gathering continued until evening, when everyone had to prepare for the night. They said their goodbyes and such and left. You can imagine that everyone was too tired to stay up that night.

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Nice! And yes, I counted. Including Fin-Point and Blinx, Sun Dragon has exactly 30 friends at the Academy so far. Boi. That's more then even I expected! I actually wanted this to be included in the last chapter, but I figured since the last chapter was long enough without this, might as well make this a separate chapter.

Hey, I want to ask ya'll something. Any of you Legend of Zelda fans, cause I'm planning on publishing a LoZ fan-fic for ya'll. It's been pre-determined ahead of time, so I won't be asking for your help unless I say otherwise. You know, like I've been doing with this book? This book is probably successful because of the involvement of the readers and their OCs. It's a first for this profile, and I'm glad I did it. My only regret with this book is not making it sooner!

Anyway, any of you mind a Legend of Zelda fan-fic by me? I won't blame you if none of you know much about Legend of Zelda, it's cool. I'm not the biggest fan of it myself. It was through LoZ that I got into gaming on a serious basis though. Anyway, thought I ought to get your opinions on it while I work on the first chapters before publishing them. I prefer to publish the first chapters of a book at one time so my readers can have something to hook them in, you know?

Anyway, see ya!🐉

P.S. If you're confused about what happened between Eteru and Crocavile, read SpyroAndToothless's book about Eteru. He actually included Crocavile in it! Back when Crocavile was a villain too!