After the encounter with Koh, Iris and the group continued their way across the Dark Realm. The environment had changed from a forest to a vast desert, with abnormally colored sand with brownish green hues on the surface. The spirit winds started to pick up. It didn't feel cool or refreshing, just… a simple gust of wind that if it weren't for their cloths and hair moving they wouldn't have even known the breeze was there.

The team carried on for what felt like an hour or two. Crystal thought about how she barely showed any helpful skills in this whole journey.

Chi was the one who saved Hiro and Gallant from being eaten. Nori was the one who managed to befriend Uta, freeing the trapped spirits and themselves in the process. Gallant was the one who managed to get them to the entrance simply by kindness alone. Mai found a way to free them from the sinking tar pit. Hiro got the three spirits to change their ways, and Akari unlocked more of their Elements magic before she did.

She should be happy and proud for what they had done, but she hadn't done much of it. And even when she did, it was her dragons' strength, smarts and talent.

The sound of flapping wings and hissing were heard from all around. The children got into formation, seeing the changeling wolves appearing all around them.

"Not these guys again!" Nori exclaimed, readying her pearl shield.

"It's okay, we can take these guys." Akari reassured everyone. "It's seven against five.

Hiro blinked, seeing more and more shadows behind the five changeling wolves that surrounded them.

"Make that seven." Hiro counted, only for more and more wolves to start appearing around them, and above them, flapping their wings. "Eight. Nine. Ten. Thirteen. Nineteen!"

The hissing and flapping and snarling increased, and before long, those sounds were all the children could hear. Never had the kids seen a large pack of wolves in their lives, even animal expert Fluttershy would be astounded by such a large number of wolves.

There were twenty, twenty five at the least, and by the looks of it…. they were starving.

Akari was the first to lead, wielding her sword and charged at one of the wolves that came at her at the same time. She sliced her way through, cutting in half each of the slimy goop they spit from their mouths, using her own magic to shield herself from the incoming blasts.

Winter barreled through the changeling wolves while Mist and Spark bashed them with their heads. Shimmer blasted the wolves hard with his fire. Skyspike shot spines at the wolves, striking them down in an instant cause they were poisonous spines.

Hiro and Mai flipped away from a pouncing wolf. Mai rolled on the sand before stopping at a three point landing, punching and kicking streams of fire at the wolves, which caused them to whimper in pain at the scorching heat. One wolf leaped on top of her, followed by another, and another. The wolves whimpered in alarm when they felt their tails being grabbed and dragged around. Using her supper strength, Mai grabbed each wolf by the tail, spun around and threw them over her head across the desert. Another wolf came up form behind, only to get knocked known by a stream of sand, curtesy of Hiro.

Hiro bended rocks from the ground, and holding them in his hands, he threw them at the wolves, causing them to explode right in their faces, blinding them before proceeding to bend the sand around them to trap them underneath.

Nori leaped and dodged the incoming goop spits with her pearl shields, while Gallant Steed airbended them away with a tornado, followed by magical blasts and spells that knocked the wolves back. Using her arms as blades, Chi charged at full speed towards the wolves, slicing her arms around before stopping.

"Hey, wait a minute!" without a moment to waste, Chi changed herself back into her wolf form. "Now we're talkin'!" the now wolf wisp charged at the wolves, snapping her jaws and clawing them like a raved beast.

Pushing their argument aside, Iris joined in the fight, using a combination of her magic and firebending against the creature, which kept leaping at her, while trying to subdue her wings with their slimy goop.

Hiro was knocked down by one of the changeling wolves, who spit at his ankles, sticking him to the ground. Hiro tapped on it with his hand, but nothing happened. "Come on, come on! Why aren't you blowing up?" he exclaimed, trying desperately to make the slimy stuff explode, only to have his hand stuck to it.

His sister came in and punched the creature away, square in the nostrils. The creature rolled on the sandy ground, whimpering, but Mai's victory was short lived when that same goop wrapped around her upper torso, covering her arms and hands. She fell to the ground beside her brother, the changelings looming over them.

Akari and Gallant fought, back to back, the incoming changelings, shielding themselves from the goop. Iris swooped in, only to get knocked over by another changeling, and seeing her two cousins being dragged away.

"No!" Iris blasted at the changelings and tried to reach them, but was stopped by a few more changelings, which Chi charged at and bite right on their haunches. Iris saw the chance and tried to break the goop, but it proved to be too strong, and fire proof. She instead created a blade out of magic and sliced the stuff open, freeing the two, only for Iris to get thrown off when another changeling knocked her down, snarling before coming at her. Iris blocked it with a magical shield. Mai and Hiro tried to help her, but were blocked by even more changelings.

All around her, Crystal saw her friends try and try again and again to best the changeling wolves, but no matter how many strikes they made, they just kept on coming. Nori sent pearl shield after pearl shield, blocking every incoming attack. They were vastly outnumbered, and Iris wasn't sure how long they could be able to keep this up. Chi wasn't looking so good, getting hit and thrown around by unexpected changelings, while Gallant and Akari could barely keep their shields up, smoke emitting from their horns as a sign that they were using a huge amount of their magic, and if they didn't defeat the changelings soon, it would all be over.

A look of concern formed on Crystal’s face. Crystal couldn’t let her friends be taken away so she charged at the changeling wolves, but they swiftly dodged them and one knocked her into the abyss. “No Crystal!” Akari cried.

Winter, Skyspike, Shimmer and Mist and Spark all leaped into the abyss to save their friend.

Crystal woke up and found herself in the arms of Winter. "Winter."

The Light Fury warbled as she set Crystal onto the ground. Her other dragons nudged her in concern. "I'm alright, guys. But my friends."

She listen and she didn’t hear anything.

“They… were captured.” Her dragons felt bad for her. She tried to help but she was pushed over easily. “There’s no way I can do this.” She whimpered. Winter nuzzled her owner lovingly.

“Don’t give up, Crystal Diamond.” A voice said.

“Who? Whose there?”

Just then, footsteps were heard in out from the shadows was another dragon. This one looked like it was made of stone. It was at least 65 feet long and it's wingspan was 118 feet long.

"Woah... what are you?" Crystal asked in awe.

"I am a Sentinel Dragon. And I am here to help you Crystal Diamond."

"Help me?"

“Yes, Crystal. All you need is some guidance.”

“Guidance?”

“I sense great doubt within your heart.”

“Yeah. All my friends have magical powers of their own while I just have my dragons and that's it. Koh mentioned that I have some sorta power inside of me but I don't anything about it. I shouldn’t have come here with my friends. I let them down.”

“I sense your doubt, but you haven’t let your friends down. You feel like you failed because you don’t think you’re as special as your friends. But you are.”

“How?”

“Everybody has a truth they live for. And for you it’s your dragons.”

“My dragons?”

“With your dragons by your side you've come this far on this journey and lead you this far in your quest.It is thanks to your courage you were able to change creatures lives for the better which is why you represent the Element of Dragons.”

When the Sentinel said ‘Dragons’ Crystal’s chest began to glow and form an golden necklace with a silver gem in the shape of a dragon in the center.

“Woah, I’m a Element of Harmony?”

Have and always were ever since you’ve met your friends.”

Now Crystal was surprised. Ever since she journeyed through the Spirit World with her friends, she thought she wasn’t anything special compared to her friends, but now she’s an Element of Harmony just like her friends. “Now use your element wisely and you can call on me whenever you need me.”

“Alright Mr. Sentinel, thank you.”

The Sentinel dragon nodded and walked back into the darkness. Crystal mounted Winter and they all flew up and out of the abyss where they were all greeted by a giant dragonfly spirit landed before her. Riding on its back were five adult humans, one unicorn and three lizards.

"Crystal!"

"Ali! Mika! San!"

"Kido!"

"Uncle Bolin! Aunt Asami!"

The grown ups quickly mounted off of the dragonfly and tackled the teenager in a tight group hug. Ali and Mika were showering their adopted younger sister with kisses on the forehead and on her cheeks, which San gave her a noogie, messing up her hair.

Bolin wrapped his arms around Iris, lifting her up from the ground and kissing her cheek. "Oh, Crystal! We were so worried! Are you okay? Are you hurt? How's your blood pressure? Are you feeling faint?"

"A little. Though, that's probably because you're suffocating me."

"Oh, right, sorry." Bolin released his niece, followed by Asami and Sunset Shimmer wrapping their arms around her.

"How did you guys find me? And, how did you get past Koh?"

Asami pulled out the geode Korra had enchanted. "When we got in here, this little thing led us straight to you."

"And this big guy was just waiting outside the entrance and offered us a ride." Ali said, petting the dragonfly. "Thankfully, we knew a shortcut that's accessible only to spirits."

Asami's eyes shifted and looked around them. "Where are Mai and Hiro?"

Crystal hung her head in regret. "They've been captured by the wolf changelings. I tried stop them, but I made a mistake. It's my fault."

Ali stroked her hair. "It's okay. We'll find them."

"Yes, we will. I know where they are."

"How?" Kuvira asked.

"I'll explain on the way." Crystal said, mounting onto the dragonfly, motioning everyone else to hop on. "Let's go!"

On her command, the dragonfly soared through the skies. Winter and the other dragons followed it with Crystal using her new Element of Harmony to pinpoint their exact location.

She failed them once. She was not going to do it again.

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