When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future.
Horace has received an almost impossible homework assignment at King Arthur's School for Trainee Knights--he has to kill a dragon, which is even more difficult because his father is one.
When his parents disappear, his uncle takes over the werewolf pack and tries to make them act like humans so Buster decides to hire a private detective to help find his parents, and bring back some "normalcy."