While the puppet master had been defeated, he wasn't going down as easily as expected. While the elemental gemstones did banish him from Prodigy Island and strip him of his gear, he had one thing that no one else had: the ability to come back from the dead, more powerful than ever. How did he do it? Two words: Resurrection Totem

While the "victorious" wizard was celebrating in the academy with his crew, the Puppet Master sent word to Pippet. Precisely 5 minutes later, Pippet and the Puppet Master were back together, hatching a new scheme that no one saw coming...

"Too bad that menacing wizard took your robes, huh master?"

"BAD! BAD! Pippet, if there's anything I've taught you, it's that the only thing bad here is me!"

"Oh, sorry master."

"Are you done tying my new robe yet!?"

"Not yet, master"

"Well hurry it up then!"

Puppet speeds up his pace, while thinking about things his master would not approve of.

"Okay master. It's done."

The Puppet Master looks at himself using mind magic.

"Yes! YES! This is exactly what I dreamed of when I got kicked out of the academy, all those years ago."

"Umm, master. Why did you get kicked out of the academy?"

The Puppet Master turns towards Pippet.

"That's besides the point!" he says in frustration^.

"Sorry, master."

"The point is, my magic is stronger than ever now, and now I have knowledge of a supposedly long-lost place where we can find new monsters to use against that callow wizard who though he had defeated me!"

"And where exactly is that place, master?"

"Pippet, Pippet, Pippet. How many times have we gone through this!? I am not going to tell you my plans, as usual. I am going to show you and let your pea-sized shadow brain decipher what the plan is!"

"Yes master."

"Good! Now, let's go and see if my newly polished senses serve me well!"

The Puppet Master opens a portal that will take them from the shadow realm. The Puppet Master steps through, and Pippet follows suit just before it dissipates.

On the other side, the two evildoers find themselves in an open piece of land, surrounded densely by vegetation, with an ancient altar hosting a portal. The Puppet Master lets out an evil laugh.

"I knew it was true! The Dragon Isle is real!"

"Umm, master?" Pippet interjects.

"What now!?"

"Are there actual dragons here?"

The Puppet Master stutters in frustration.

"Wh-, wh-, wha-, why wouldn't there be!?"

"Master, will the dragons hurt us?" Puppet says in a worried tone.

The Puppet Master eyes are expressionless, but he replies in a way that tells Pippet that he is obviously proud of what he's become.

"Not with my new and improved magic," he says.

"What will you do, master?"

"PIPPET!!! WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS!"

"Oh, yeah, sorry master."

"Now, before you asked any more dumb questions, let us commence the dragon hunting, using these dragon orbs I have obtained."

The Puppet Master walks into the portal with Pippet on his heels.

On the other side of this portal, the two find themselves in the sky on floating platforms. In front of them is a creature bigger than any ever seen by any middle-age era wizard's eye on Prodigy Island. Pippet stares at it in horror, while the Puppet Master stays expressionless.

"It's SOOOOOOOOOOO big!" Puppet exclaims!

"Eat a balanced diet and get a lot of exercise for your muscles and maybe one day you'll grow up as big as me!" The Dragon Replies

"No need for that when I can just make your power mine! Pippet, tame this beast!" The Puppet Master retorts.

Pippet uses Shadow Shock, which hits the Dragon and does a resisted damage of 0.001.

"Huh! What is this monstrosity! You'll never tame me by relying just on spells!"

The Dragon casts the spell Sever, which hits Pippet and does a Critical Hit of 9999 damage.

"Wait a second! I remember you! You're the bozo who tried to kidnap my hatchlings." The Dragon realizes

"Hmm. I might have to come up with a different plan. I'll be back, and stronger, you just wait and see!"

The Puppet Master shadow shifts out of the Dragon's presence, just as it casts the spell Crunch, which misses.

END OF PART 1

Soon after the cowardly New Puppet Master barely escaped from the Physical Dragon, me and my companion, whose name is Xavier Battlecaller, teleported to the same spot as the villains before us.

As soon as the Physical Dragon saw us, he said, "Hey, another wizard! Let's see if your magic can match my muscle!"

Xavier's pets teleported in, and the fight was on! Our team started the battle with Xavier himself using Sever on his Titan Vanquisher Katana. It did a good amount of damage. The Physical Dragon then used Swing on Bonasaur, which it resisted. Bonasaur then used Crunch in retaliation, which does a critical of 999 damage. The Physical Dragon then used Whirlwind which damaged Xavier's whole team. Arctursus then used Smash which did a great deal of damage. To end the round, the Physical Dragon used Smackdown, which missed Bonasaur but hit Xavier and Arctursus.

Xavier's turn again, he uses Starbit, which does a wimpy damage of 1 due to the Physical Dragon's "Anti-Magic Field" attribute. The Physical Dragon then laughs and says, "The Puppet Master was strong but I'm stronger!" He then uses Super Spear on Arctursus, which did a good bit of damage. Bonasaur then used Chomp which did less than Crunch but still a decent amount of damage. With the Physical Dragon at less than 1K Health, he used Whirlwind again, which hit only Xavier, doing a fair amount of damage. Bonasaur then tried to finish off the Physical Dragon using Chomp, but instead it left the dragon at a mere 37 health! As his terminal move, the Physical Dragon used Smackdown, which missed Xavier but hit Bonasaur and Arctursus. To conclude the very intense battle, Arctursus used Clobber, which does more than enough damage to beat the Physical Dragon.

Seeing he was defeated, the Physical Dragon said, "Wizards, you lot are nothing but trouble. Are you gonna try and tame me with your puny spells too?"

I jumped out of my associates backpack, and said "No, of course not! Did another wizard try to do that?"

The Physical Dragon replied, "Two of them, in fact, although I sensed the one in the purple robes and hood was much, much more dangerous."

I responded, "I knew it! That's the Puppet Master! We're after him right now! We want to stop his plans to capture you dragons."

Taking this into consideration, the Physical Dragon then said, "The Puppet Master you say? Well, his strange little companion cast shadow magic on me! You need to be super strong to withstand it! Say, you're pretty powerful yourself! Maybe we can train together?"

Excited, I answered, "We'd be delighted to train with you!"

Feeling the same way, the Physical Dragon said, "Oho, I love training! And together we'll both get stronger and be ready for the Puppet Master! Now go find some more Dragon Orbs so you can battle us again and get stronger. I'll warn the other dragons to watch out for this Puppet Master."

With that, the Physical Dragon flew away, and I hopped back into my associates backpack. We then teleported back to the Dragon Isle portal.

END OF PART 2