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Do you remember our little scaly

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friend Emerald. Emerald

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is a young Earth dragon with radiant

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green skin and one of the

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kindest hearts you could find.

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She lives in Sleepy Forest with all the

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other Earth dragons and can often

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be found either at dragon School

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learning and playing with her young dragon

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friends like Enon, or stump

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around Sleepy Forest, tending

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to the plants and flowers,

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ensuring that the forest is as

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beautiful as ever. Earth

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dragons have a magical way with the

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living things that grow from the ground,

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and they nurture and protect them through

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all the seasons of the year. Emeralds

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still had a lot to learn, but she

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was a natural, and her speciality

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was looking after the flowers of

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the forest. She could name

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every species of flower and

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instinctively knew just what to

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do to help them grow and

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bloom as marvelously as possible.

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Emerald loved her earth dragon

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destiny, but there was

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one other destiny that was never

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too far from her mind. On

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Emerald's very first day of dragon

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school, her teacher, missed Blossom,

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had informed the class that every dragon

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has a special human out there somewhere

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in the world. It is a dragon's

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destiny to find their special human

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and look out for them.

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Not every human receives their

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own designated dragon. In

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fact, dragons are so rare

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that it is very lucky. Indeed, if a

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dragon is a signed to you, the

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fortunate ones who are found

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by their dragons have a powerful

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mystical being to watch over

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them always. Emerald

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had watched as one by one

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her fellow dragon classmates had

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discovered their special humans.

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Emerald thought about her own

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every day and wished

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that she could find them with all her

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might, but she hadn't yet

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felt the mystical call that dragons

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were said to feel when their special human

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was ready for them. Miss

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Blossom said that in order to find

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their special person, they had

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to listen to the call of their heart,

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but Emerald hadn't felt a

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thing. She had tried wishing

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on stars, speaking to

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fairies, and even gone out

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for walks in the human towns under

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a cover of disguise, hoping

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that she would sniff out her special

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human somewhere. But nothing

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had worked. Maybe

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your special human hasn't been born

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yet, Emerald's best

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friend, Enan the Water Dragon, suggested

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one day after school, when

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I found my special person, they

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were only a baby. You're

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still young, Emerald, so maybe

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you're human doesn't exist yet.

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Emerald thought it was a smart

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theory, but it didn't

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make her feel much better. She

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was desperate to find her special

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human, but patience

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is a virtue, and fortunately

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Emerald didn't have too much longer

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to wait. One

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special day, Emerald was gardening

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with her parents in Sleepy Forest. It

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was the start of springtime, and the sleepy

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flowers needed a little help waking

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up from their winter beds. The

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Earth Dragons had taken it upon

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themselves to help coax the stubborn

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blooms out of the ground and

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encouraged them to lift their faces

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