Well, once they returned to the Artisans homeworld, Twilight and Spyro decided to go into another portal. This one led to a place called Dark Hollow. Once they arrived, Twilight was amazed at how beautiful it looked.

"It's like something out of a dream!" she gasped.

After gushing over how the area looked for about a minute, Twilight set off with Spyro to free three crystalized dragons, Alban, a scribe, Oswin, a librarian, and Darius, a stage actor.

Upon freeing Alban, Twilight asked him a very serious question.

"Why is my magic not working on them?"

"Apparently, your magic is functioning like Spyro's fire," Alban said. "You see, metal armor is fire-proof. But something like Spyro charging into them with his horns should do the trick."

After he vanished, Twilight folded her arms and scowled. That was not the answer she wanted to hear. The fairy that took his place chuckled sheepishly.

"Your friend back in Stone Hill gave me the ability to shoot out magic blasts. Why is it functioning like fire?"

"We're uh... trying to figure that out ourselves," the fairy chuckled nervously.

Twilight wasn't buying it, though. She just raised an eyebrow at the fairy.

"Okay, look, you see, the truth is, we're not that good at getting things right on the first try. When my friend gave you your ability, she accidentally made it a fire-based attack. She's only starting out."

"That would make sense."

"Maybe once your in another world, one of my friends over there could fix it for you."

"I sure hope so!"

And with that, Twilight flew off and continued helping Spyro. After rescuing the other two dragons, both Twilight and Spyro gathered up all 100 gems in the area, then headed back to the Artisans homeworld. Once they returned, the immediately set out for the next portal, which led to Town Square.

Town Square was a massive place. It reminded Twilight of Times Square in New York. After collecting a few gems, both she and Spyro freed a skinny green sculptor dragon known as Nils.

"Welcome to Town Square," Nils said humbly. "Begin exploring by gliding to that area with the bulls."

He pointed to the area where the bulls were as he spoke. This made Twilight nervous. Bulls are very ferocious. Despite that, she knew that there was no choice in the matter. They needed to retrieve the treasure in order to stop Gnasty. So, once Nils vanished, both she and Spyro glided over to the area with the bulls. Spyro decided to have some fun and charge at them. Once he did, both of the bulls got their horns stuck in the ground. After a while of struggling, Spyro used his fire breath to put an end to their magical misery. After collecting more gems, they glided over the river and freed a blue pâtissier dragon named Devlin.

"Thanks, you two, haha. I had the worst itch on the tip of my wing," Devlin chuckled.

After that, Devlin vanished just like the other dragons. Twilight and Spyro continued collecting gems and defeating enemies until they eventually rescued another dragon. This dragon was a chef named Alvar.

"Hmph! Did you two happen to see a man dressed in blue running around here?" Alvar huffed.

"We saw one back in Stone Hill," Twilight said.

"Well, like that other one, he's a thief, and he's stolen a dragon egg! You've got to track him down and... and get that egg! Run, run!"

Alvar then gasped for air, as he was nearly out of breathe from talking like that. He then vanished as Twilight and Spyro decided to go after the thief. This one was a lot faster and craftier, though. Thankfully, Twilight blasted him with her magic, retrieving the dragon egg from him. Once that was over, they collected the remaining gems and freed the last dragon in Town Square. A ceramicist named Thor.

"Thank you for releasing me, you two," he said before he disappeared.

Once he did, both Spyro and Twilight used the vortex to return back to the Artisans homeworld.

Upon reaching it, they both went towards the portal where the Artisans boss was. And just as he promised, Argus was there waiting for them.

"Mr. Argus, sir, we completed all of the realms we can access as of now," Twilight said.

"That is what I hear," Argus said. "You can challenge the Artisans boss now, if you feel you are ready."

"I know I'm ready!" Spyro said excitedly.

Twilight, on the other hand, was a little bit nervous to go in unprepared. Seeing that she was nervous, Argus offered Twilight to take his fairy along with her. Twilight's eyes brightened up upon hearing that.

"Really?" she asked enthusiastically.

Argus nodded and sent his fairy along with Twilight as he vanished.

"Get used to the light show," she said. "That'll happen every time you free a dragon."

"Do you have a name?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. It's Ellie."

"Nice to meet you, Ellie. My name is Twilight Sparkle."

"Nice to meet you, too. So, are you ready?"

Twilight nodded her head in determination. Ellie zapped the stone dragon head, causing it to open, revealing the portal to the boss. The group then made their way into the boss realm to face off against them. Upon landing, Twilight realized that they were in a castle.

"Rarity would flip if she saw this!" Twilight gasped.

"Who's Rarity?" Ellie asked.

"A friend of mine. I don't supposed you've seen her? She's got purple hair and almost alabaster-like skin."

Ellie shook her head.

"Drat! I guess this means that she's somewhere else, then."

After talking with Ellie for a bit, Twilight and Spyro decided to start collecting gems. They even had to get past dogs that would attempt to squash Spyro if he got too close. Thankfully, these dogs were just some of Gnasty's minions and not actual dogs. After getting a few gems, the group freed the original owner of the castle. A brown dragon who was a painter by the name of Nevin.

"Gnasty Gnorc has put one of his most devious henchmen in charge of the Artisan World," Nevin explained.

"Bring him on!" Spyro said excitedly. "I think I smell a barbecue!"

"Be careful, Spyro. Toasty has many tricks up his sleeve."

Nevin then vanished as the group ventured forward. They eventually came face-to-face with Toasty himself. He was a scythe-wielding scarecrow with a pumpkin for a head.

Spyro took care of the guard dog, then used his flame breath on Toasty. After doing that, Toasty did something that shocked everyone. A sheep peered out of the red cloak and glared at the group. The sheep then ducked back inside and ran off to while seemingly struggling to keep balance. Twilight facepalmed at this revelation.

"Seriously? A sheep?! You're telling me that these dragons couldn't defeat a simple sheep?!"

She wasn't alone. Even Ellie had to facepalm at this revelation.

"UGH! You Artisans dragons are so stupid!" Ellie grumbled.

"I'm not stupid," Spyro retorted.

"Not you, Spyro. I meant the adults. My goodness!"

"Come one, let's just finish him off and get the rest of the gems," Twilight sighed.

And so, that's exactly what they did. After finishing off Toasty, everyone collected the rest of the gems in the castle until they got all 100 of them. After doing so, they all returned to the Artisans homeworld and decided to head off to the next world.

Twilight asked Ellie if she wanted to come along with them. Ellie excitedly explained that she would. She then did a bunch of aerial flips as she giggled in excitement.

"Okay, okay. Come on, then! Let's go find Marco!" Twilight said.

The group made their way to Marco the balloonist and headed off to the next world, which was the Peace Keepers world. Twilight and Spyro hopped into the hot air balloon with both Sparx and Ellie at their sides. Twilight didn't know it, then, but she was about to reunite with one of her friends really soon.

Author's Note

From here on out, Argus's save fairy will act as Twilight's guide and power-up dispenser. I gave her the name Ellie from a list of fairy names for girls I found.