Dragon Tales

**Dragon Tales** is an Canadian animated series

## One Big Wish

Max and Emmy return home from the fair, and once again, Max is too little to go on one of the rides. Max complains about not being big enough and not getting to spend the quarter his dad gave him. To cheer him up, Emmy decides to take Max to Dragon Land.

When they arrive, the dragons are all playing whiffleball. Things start out okay, but when it becomes Max’s turn, he gets tagged out before he can make it to base. Later, a ball comes flying towards Max as he tries to catch it, but it’s too high for him to reach. The ball goes into the bushes and he goes to retrieve it.

Max finds the ball in the middle of a small pond with a walrus like creature with a crown in it and tries to reach for it. As he does, the quarter falls out of his pocket and into the water. Max is still struggling to reach the ball and is a little frustrated, wishing he was bigger. However, just after he says that, he starts to grow a little bigger and manages to get the ball. After he leaves, the walrus wakes up and sees Max’s quarter in the water, realizing someone made a wish.

Max heads back to the game, but bumps his head on a tree branch, which he didn’t see before due to not being tall enough. When getting back in the game, the ball comes towards him again, but this time, Max grows a little *bigger* and manages to catch it.

As the time comes for the teams to switch, this is when Max’s friends start to notice his sudden change, as he grows a bit **bigger** (about the size of Ord) to the point where his batting helmet doesn’t fit, nor does his mit. Max seems to love being big, but Emmy is starting to get worried. After Emmy’s turn to pitch, Max tries to catch it, but ends up stepping on it and flattens it. Since that was their only ball, the whiffleball game is now over.

Max apologizes, saying he didn’t see the ball and Cassie said it was because he’s not used to being so big. Just then, Max starts growing BIGGER again, this time being as big as Quetzal. Max still enjoys being bigger and races Ord to the treehouse. Emmy is now even more worried, so she, Zak and Wheezie follow Max to the treehouse while Cassie goes to get Quetzal.

When they get to Sid Sycamore, they find that Max has grown even *BIGGER*. It then gets worse when he realizes he can’t fit into the treehouse anymore, especially when he’s the size of the tree itself. So they all step outside to keep him company, but right as they do, Max grows even **BIGGER**, as big as Mungus the Giant. Max then tells Wheezie to put the whiffleball bats away so he doesn’t break them, but he does so anyway when he grabs them, which makes both Zak and Wheezie very angry. Max then starts to cry, saying he doesn’t like being so big anymore and wants to go back to being little again. He then runs away.

Meanwhile, Cassie goes to School in the Sky to tell Quetzal about Max’s problem. By the time they get to the treehouse, Max is already going. So the dragons and Emmy take to the sky and follow Max’s footprints towards the mountains.

Finally, the gang manages to find Max sitting on the ground and he begins to tell Quetzal what happened. At first he liked being big, but he squashed the whiffleball, broke the bats and couldn’t fit into the treehouse. Deciding that being big isn’t fun anymore, he asks Quetzal if he can help him get back to normal.

Max shows everyone where he was when he started growing, which turns out to be a wishing well guarded by a walrus named Willie. Emmy then spots a quarter in the water, which was actually the same one Max had from earlier. Max then realizes that the quarter must’ve fell out of his pocket as he was reaching the ball, and his wish is what made him grow bigger. He decides to make another wish and Ord hands him a big coin. Max is now ready to go back to normal, but before he does, he gives Ord a big hug (similar to the ones Ord usually gives to him and Emmy), wanting to know how it feels the other way around. Afterwards, Max tosses the coin into the well and wishes to be small again. Once he does, Max shrinks down to his normal size.

The kids arrive back in the playroom and Max feels happy to be little again. Emmy offers him her Funland pendant souvenir, but becomes scared when she thinks Max has grown again. But it turns out to be a joke as it was only Max standing in front of a desk lamp making a shadow.