Follow the Lightning, Part 2

Follow the Lightning, Part 2
General Information
Number:	7
Season:	2
Premiere Date:	May 5, 2022
Written By:	Mae Catt
Directed By:	Mandy Clotworthy
Transcript:	Follow the Lightning, Part 2 (transcript)
Chronology
Preceded By:	"Follow the Lightning, Part 1"
Succeeded By:	“Fire Escape”
Gallery
The image gallery for Follow the Lightning, Part 2 may be viewed here.

“	You mean "we" have to help Thunder find them, and help answer your big question too. Hey, we're family, families fight, but in the end, we're dragon riders.	”
	— D'Angelo

"Follow the Lightning, Part 2" is the seventh and final episode of the second season of Dragons: The Nine Realms.

Overview

“	Tom and the riders help Thunder, who is seeking revenge against the dragons that chased off his family.	”
	— Rotten Tomatoes

Plot

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The dragon club examines the leftover traces of Thunder's battle, and then they discover footprints, which reveal that the lightning they saw earlier was coming from a battle between Thunder and the unknown lightning dragon that chased his family away. Thunder wants revenge against the dragon that chased off his family and follows its footprints, with Tom and others right behind him. Meanwhile, Eugene finally breaks into Jun's room and tries to get into Jun's computer but can't crack her password.

The dragon club follows Thunder into a crystal maze and Thunder follows roaring from the lightning dragon. The group is initially stalled by translucent crystal walls that are impossible to see, but Tom finds a path through and keeps following Thunder and the other refuse to abandon him despite their frustrations with him. Thunder eventually finds his target: a sleeping Titan Wing Skrill. Seeing how large and dangerous the Skrill is, Tom tries to steer Thunder away from fighting it out of revenge, but Thunder's growling wakes it up. With no choice but to fight, the dragon club fights the Skrill, but the Skrill is too strong and the group retreats. The Skrill chases the group through the crystal maze, and everyone gets separated from each other. A dangerous search begins with the dragon riders trying to find each other to before the Skrill finds them. Jun, D'Angelo, and Alex each are almost found by the Skrill, but managed to hide from it and find each other. Tom continues to try and steer Thunder away from taking revenge and promises to help find Thunder's family, admitting they both need to be more trusting to others. However, Thunder runs off to confront the Skrill and tries to keep Tom out of the fight. The two dragons battle, but Thunder is outmatched by the Skrill. Tom is found by the others, and they work together to fight the Skrill.

Eugene continues to fail to access Jun's computer and finds her journal containing her illustrations of the dragons but dismisses it as worthless and leaves in failure. Back at the battle, Tom discovers there are veins of silver in the crystals that draw the Skrill's lightning away. They retreat again and Tom comes up with a plan to a use a crystal shard to absorb the Skrill's lightning. Tom promises not to act alone anymore after the battle and asks for their trust in their plans, and Jun answers they trust him as a family. The dragon riders face the Skrill for a third time, but the Skrill quickly defeats everyone but Tom and Thunder. Thunder and the Skrill clash their lightning blasts and Tom uses his crystal shard to absorb the Skrill's lightning and redirect it through Thunder, supercharging his lightning blast. The Skrill is blasted into a wall and defeated. The other dragon riders promise to help Thunder find his family and find Tom answers about his ancestors. The Skrill retreats through a hole in the wall created by Thunder's blast that connects to a new realm filled with lava. Furthermore, Tom finds a spearhead with the same Strike Class symbol on his helmet. Tom realizes they aren't the first people to find the dragon world and vows to find answers.

Characters

Humans

• Tom Kullersen voiced by Jeremy Shada
• Jun Wong voiced by Ashley Liao
• D'Angelo Baker voiced by Marcus Scribner
• Alexandra Gonzalez voiced by Aimee Garcia
• Eugene Wong voiced by Vincent Tong

Dragons

• Thunder
• Wu and Wei
• Plowhorn
• Feathers
• Nibbles (pictured)
• Fissure Fault Ripper (pictured)

Dragon Species

• Night Light
• Mist Twister
• Gembreaker
• Featherhide
• Skrill
• Bubblehorn (pictured)
• Fault Ripper (pictured)

Locations

• Kullersen Fissure
  • ICARIS
  • Jun's Dome
  • Rakke Town
  • Hidden World
    • Dark Valley
    • Silver Maze
    • Fire Realm

Objects

• Saddles
• Silver-bearing crystals
• Viking Spearhead
• Alex's Tablet

Flora and Fauna

• Sunflower
• Cattle (mentioned)
• Corn (mentioned)

Trivia

• Upon discovering the spearhead, the burn on Tom’s hand vanishes.
• This episode marks the debut of the second realm of the Hidden World, the Fire Realm.

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List of Episodes

"How to Start a Dragon Academy" • "Viking for Hire" • "Animal House" • "The Terrible Twos" • "In Dragons We Trust" • "Alvin and the Outcasts" • "How to Pick Your Dragon" • "Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man" • "Dragon Flower" • "Heather Report, Part 1" • "Heather Report, Part 2" • "Thawfest" • "When Lightning Strikes" • "What Flies Beneath" • "Twinsanity" • "Defiant One" • "Breakneck Bog" • "Gem of a Different Color" • "We Are Family, Part 1" • "We Are Family, Part 2" "Live and Let Fly" • "The Iron Gronckle" • "The Night and the Fury" • "Tunnel Vision" • "Race to Fireworm Island" • "Fright of Passage" • "Worst in Show" • "Appetite for Destruction" • "Zippleback Down" • "A View to a Skrill, Part 1" • "A View to a Skrill, Part 2" • "The Flight Stuff" • "Free Scauldy" • "Frozen" • "A Tale of Two Dragons" • "The Eel Effect" • "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" • "Bing! Bam! Boom!" • "Cast Out, Part 1" • "Cast Out, Part 2" Season 1: "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 1" • "Dragon Eye of the Beholder, Part 2" • "Imperfect Harmony" • "When Darkness Falls" • "Big Man on Berk" • "Gone Gustav Gone" • "Reign of Fireworms" • "Crushing It" • "Quake, Rattle and Roll" • "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1" • "Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 2" • "The Next Big Sting" • "Total Nightmare" Season 2: "Team Astrid" • "Night of the Hunters, Part 1" • "Night of the Hunters, Part 2" • "Bad Moon Rising" • "Snotlout Gets the Axe" • "The Zippleback Experience" • "Snow Way Out" • "Edge of Disaster, Part 1" • "Edge of Disaster, Part 2" • "Shock and Awe" • "A Time to Skrill" • "Maces and Talons, Part 1" • "Maces and Talons, Part 2" Season 3: "Enemy of My Enemy" • "Crash Course" • "Follow the Leader" • "Turn and Burn" • "Buffalord Soldier" • "A Grim Retreat" • "To Heather or Not to Heather" • "Stryke Out" • "Tone Death" • "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" • "Family on the Edge" • "Last Auction Heroes" • "Defenders of the Wing, Part 1" Season 4: "Defenders of the Wing, Part 2" • "Gruff Around the Edges" • "Midnight Scrum" • "Not Lout" • "Saving Shattermaster" • "Dire Straits" • "The Longest Day" • "Gold Rush" • "Out of the Frying Pan" • "Twintuition" • "Blindsided" • "Shell Shocked, Part 1" • "Shell Shocked, Part 2" Season 5: "Living on the Edge" • "Sandbusted" • "Something Rotten on Berserker Island" • "Snotlout's Angels" • "A Matter of Perspective" • "Return of Thor Bonecrusher" • "Dawn of Destruction" • "The Wings of War, Part 1" • "The Wings of War, Part 2" • "No Dragon Left Behind" • "Snuffnut" • "Searching for Oswald... and Chicken" • "Sins of the Past" Season 6: "In Plain Sight" • "No Bark, All Bite" • "Chain of Command" • "Loyal Order of Ingerman" •"A Gruff Separation" • "Mi Amore Wing" • "Ruff Transition" • "Triple Cross" • "Family Matters" • "Darkest Night" • "Guardians of Vanaheim" • "King of Dragons, Part 1" • "King of Dragons, Part 2" Season 1: "The Nest" • "Deep Trouble" • "Boo to You" • "Where There's Smoke" • "Heavy Metal" • "Iced Out" • "Sick Day" • "Bad Egg" • "Home Alone" • "Slobber Power" • "Crash Course" • "Furious Fun" • "Grumblegard, Part 1" • "Grumblegard, Part 2" Season 2: "Double Finked" • "Divewings" • "Mecha-Menace" • "Summer Holiday" • "Treasure Riders" • "Puff Enuf" • "Hot, Hot, Hot" • "High Anxiety" • "King Burple" • "Charged Up" • "Belly Flop" • "Game of Horns" Season 3: "Chiefless" • "Crystal Clear" • "How I Met Your Summer" • "Snooping Around" • "Oh, Brother" • "Search for the Sunken City" Season 4: "Teamwork is Magic" • "The Incredible Burple" • "Flight of the Stinkwing" • "The Big Sheep" • "Rescue Racers" • "Day Without Dragons" Season 5: "The Inflato-Force Awakens" • "Return to the Sunken City" • "My Dragonguard" • "Gludge-Tastic Voyage" • "Dragon Out of Water" • "Nest Day" Season 6: "Full Metal Magnus" • "Triple Trouble Tuesday" • "Where's Waldondo" • "The Greatest Showdragons" • "Copy That" • "And You Are?" Season 1: "First Flight, Part 1" • "First Flight, Part 2" • "A Hole New World" • "Dragon Club" • "Featherhide" • "Fault Ripper" Season 2: "Uniconned" • "Magma Breather" • "Dragons of the Undead" • "Downpour" • "The Tangled Web" • "Follow the Lightning, Part 1" • "Follow the Lightning, Part 2" Season 3: "Fire Escape" • "Ride or Die" • "Empty Fireworm Nest" • "Dr. Catastrophe" • "It Flies in the Family" • "Magma Comes to the Surface" • "The Sky Torcher" Season 4: "Cold Open" • "Uncharted Territory" • "Journey to the Snowcano" • "The Decoy" • "The Night Lights, Part 1" • "The Night Lights, Part 2" Season 5: "Punishment and Torcher" • "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Dragons" • "Barrel of Vine Tails" • "Scent of a Dragon" • "Sting It On!" • "Deep Freeze" Season 6: "Dragons Everywhere!" • "Break in Case of Emergency" • "Undercover" • "Webs' Masters" • "Sledkin Stakeout" • "Poison Control" • "In Too Deep" Season 7: "Hobs and Saw" • "Hearts of Heroes" • "Heart of Glass" • "In the Cards" • "Eugene's Lean Mean Extreme Dream Team" • "404 Alex Not Found" • "Rise of Jörmungandr" Season 8: "How to Train Jörmungandr" • "The Great Foster Fake-Out" • "Science vs. Nature" • "Of Gods and Monsters" • "Ragnarok: Part 1" • "Ragnarok: Part 2"