In the Middle East, Noor and Farah discover a library in a crumbling building; when soldiers approach and aim their weapons at the girls, Noor's mouth spurts flames turning the soldiers into melted metal.
After Ren, a boy in Tokyo, escapes from some bullies, he becomes a shadowy dragon creature and traps two of the bullies but releases them when he sees their fear.
Every time Hannah gets frightened her feet turn to blocks of ice, but her friends figure out the cause of the problem, as well as a solution that gets her back on the diving board and able to speak up in class.