Megan sat down on the couch carefully, "Nice to meet you, both of you" she confessed. "Uh... um... you too" Irma struggled to say to her "cousin". Nerissa half dragged half lead Cassidy over to the couch in order to sit down. "Hey, are you getting the soda's or what" Megan reminded her. "What?, Oh yeah the soda's!" Irma remembered. Irma yanked the door to the mini fridge open and grabbed four cans of Pepsi then passed them around. "It's good to see you again buddy" Nerissa explained sweetly to Cassidy after opening her can. After the group was done drinking, Irma took the cans and put them upstairs with the other empty cans.

Later, after Cassidy and Nerissa had crawled into bed, Megan asked Irma to sit down. "What took you so long to find me?" Irma complained. "Chill dude!, I was going to explain in a second anyway!" Megan confessed. "Chill dude, blah blah blah" Irma mimicked. "Hey watch it bub!" Megan complained, "do you have any idea what I went through to get here". "No, and I don't care, but you're probably going to tell me anyway" Irma insulted. "Man dude!, if I knew you were going to be so mean I would have never came in the first place!" Megan wept. Suddenly Irma, realizing the words she spoke, changed her mood to one of understanding and forgiving. "Sorry dude, I get cranky when I'm tired, can you forgive my bad behavior?" Irma pleaded looking rather drained of energy. "Sure dude!, but get settled, your in for a great story!" Megan smirked. Irma pulled the covers on her bed up to her shoulders and leaned against the wall at the head of the bed as she listened to Megan's weird adventure...

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The dull knife that was in my hand was all I had to do crafting with. Unfortunately none of the trees were big enough for both Nerissa and myself to ride in, in till I tripped over the cliff I was next to and gazed up at the largest tree I ever saw. I stared at that tree, I saw the drips of dew as they fell upon the dry ground. I could not believe what I was going to do, but if I wanted to see my cousin, if Nerissa wanted to ever be with her friends again, I had to do it. I rushed to the tree and started to dig the dirt around the roots out. After a while I heard a root snap and wood cracking, so I steered away from the tree as it fell atop the hard, dry ground. I returned to the tree and scraped all the bark off. Meanwhile Nerissa's job was to find food. Nerissa must have came running when she heard the crash because seconds later after I had pried the bark off Nerissa was next to me panting, a relived look in her eyes. I asked what the matter was and she replied that she was worried I had gotten hurt. I told her she was being over protective and needed to worry less or she would get gray hair. She laughed as I chipped all the tree's branches off.

It had grown dark and I still worked on our boat, carving and scraping it into a boat that was acceptable. Nerissa had fallen asleep moments ago. The moon was gleaming in the night sky. Finally I finished the project just as the vivid rays of pink sunlight fell on the island. That was my last sight as sleep took over my body.

I awoke hours later after Nerissa had done much scavenging and rudely awakened me by pouring cold sea water onto my face. I fumed at my friend for a while, still angered at what she did. The sun however, was almost halfway across the deep blue sky. We loaded ourselves, the fresh water and the food on board the vessel. When the hot sun reached the center of the sky we felt as if we were on fire, yet off in the distance we spotted land. Nerissa yelled as cut, black fins poked out of the water, three of them. I asked my friend what they were, but only a grimace stood on her face as she whispered meat eating fish, in other words sharks. I searched the water, still paddling the boat, wanting to see such a creature up close. Nerissa grabbed my arm and told me to paddle faster. The fins got closer but I could see the bottom of the sea get closer as well. The boat was being torn apart by something, I looked around and saw that those fins were the ones that were tearing apart the boat.

Nerissa stood up and zapped the fins with what little energy she had left. The fins sank back under the water. The boat shook and fell apart, then the water washed them slowly towards shore. I spat out the sea water in my mouth. I looked at Nerissa with a curious look in my eyes. Nerissa explained that sharks also eat people. After hurling my lunch into the sea water, which was disgusting by the way, I took Nerissa's hand and strolled up onto the sidewalk. We roamed around for a hour before a bus with a sign flashing Heatherfield came to the nearest bus stop. Along the way Nerissa pointed out objects she knew and explained to me what they did. I was fascinated by the board with round things on the bottom. I asked Nerissa what the "Sweet" device was, she replied skateboard in a "who cares" tone of voice.

We arrived at our destination on time. The bus stop was near both a food court and a library. We went inside the food court to eat our leftover lunch. I saw two girls walking into the library -(Cornelia and Taranee)-. I walked up and followed them, Nerissa followed me outside. Inside the library I found them reading a book about dragons, right before they saw me the taller one said something about silver dragons being good and able to control coldness, maybe water. She saw me and asked what I wanted, hiding the book behind her back (Nerissa was waiting behind the building for me). I asked if they knew anyone by the name of Irma Lair. They told me they did, but got very suspicious to my asking so, they asked why I wanted to know. I told them I had to see your parents and needed the address. They bought the lie and told me your address. I walked out and over to Nerissa, I told her the information I had gotten. Nerissa laughed at the good luck we had been getting.

We were about to leave for your house after writing the address down so we would not forget it when we saw a wolf come around the corner of a building on a sting of web. Nerissa looked bewildered at the figure so I did not ask anything of it. A figure from the shadows jumped out and grabbed the two girls from earlier. He held a knife to each of their throats. "Don't even think about it" ordered the wolf. Both knifes were tossed carelessly to the side by a stream of web. From atop a fire hydrant stood the wolf, who rose higher on a spout of water emitting from the hydrant. With one sharp blow the figure lay on the ground wrapped in web. "Need a ride home girls?" the wolf asked them as she landed on the ground. "No thank you" the taller one sneered then turned around and walked away. "Wow, nice to know how much appreciation a girl can get after saving your life, then offering a ride home" the wolf pouted. "Thank you for saving us, and I would like that ride home" the other girl asked. "Sure thing, hop on!" the wolf grinned happily.

Nerissa recognized the figure and told me it was the same man who had helped trap us on the island. I told her that we had to get to my cousin's house and started looking for the correct street. Nerissa remembered where the street was and we were here in no time. No one was home so we waited for you to come back. Imagine how surprised we were when we saw that the wolf we saw earlier was my own cousin. We watched you transform back to yourself and enter that room with the other girl, and... well... you know the rest.

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Megan ended the story and slid Irma fully into the bed, pulled the covers over her neck and kissed Irma's cheek. Megan slid into the covers next to Irma whispering good night. The next morning came too hard and quickly for Irma. Sure it was Saturday and Halloween was in a week, but how was Irma going to attend the meeting and introduce Nerissa to her friends let alone start the meeting and keep her friends from destroying Nerissa. This is going to be a long day Irma thought. Irma woke the other three and carried Megan downstairs. Irma put Megan on the couch and took out the last four pop tarts. "Here take one and turn on the news" Irma offered Nerissa as well as told her. Nerissa took her pop tart and flicked the t.v. on. The news channel popped up immediately.

Today on the news we have a special "Silver Wolf" update The news lady announced on the air. It turns out the hero we had known nothing about has told onlookers of yesterday's events that she was female, a commoner had filmed the action and had sent it in, roll the footage please The news lady asked. The video showed two girls talking to The Silver Wolf, the picture was fuzzy so the identity of the girls was unknown, but you could still hear the conversation. The four girls laughed at the scene, compared to them the lady had no clue. Irma got up and flicked the t.v. off (turned the t.v. off, not holding up her middle finger to it!) and looked at the phone, as if she knew it was going to ring. As if reading her mind the phone buzzed loudly and shook rapidly. Startled, Megan dove underneath the heavy wool blanket, "Aaaahhhhh!, what's going on!, what's going on!" She panted out of fear. Quickly Nerissa wrapped her arms around the panicked child and whispered calmly for her to not be afraid, to relax. Irma picked up the phone as soon as her cousin stopped shaking, "Hello, Lair residence, Irma Lair speaking" Irma recited. "Irma, it's Will, yesterday The Silver Wolf set up a meeting with the whole team, you need to come to the old abandoned water tower to attend it, see you there" Click!, bebebe... the phone echoed. "Great" Irma said sarcastically, "Anybody want to come run errands with me?"

Irma pulled up the zipper to Megan's new (Irma's old and outgrown) spring jacket. It was a good thing Megan was shorter then Irma. Nerissa flipped Megan's hood up and then tied her shoes, it was very chilly out side today with Winter coming and all. Cassidy opened the door and walked outside, pure white dots of shimmering frozen water fell from the sky. Megan gazed outside in amazement and wonder. "It's snow" Nerissa explained walking up behind her. "Come on dudes or we're going to be late" Irma warned locking the door and sliding down the driveway on a puddle of ice. Megan tried to run and catch up but slipped and scrapped her left palm while trying to catch herself. Nerissa rushed towards Megan avoiding the ice, Cassidy in full pursuit. Megan climbed into Nerissa's open arms while Cassidy wrapped a long piece of narrow cloth around the cut and tied it on. Still supporting Megan's weight Nerissa tried to catch up to Irma. Luckily, nobody else slipped during the trip towards the destination.

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Will looked impatiently at her watch. It was almost noon and nobody else was there. Taranee, Hay Lin, Yan Lin Cornelia and even Halinor and Kadma suddenly came into view, Irma saw what was happening and quickly formed an astral drop to take her place at the meeting. Sneaking off to the side, Irma transformed into The Silver Wolf and waited for astral Irma to give the signal after she explained what and why Nerissa was there.

Astral Irma walked into the area with Megan and Nerissa next to her and Cassidy following her. Several heads turned at the arrival of the formally known "bad guy" and the strange younger girl. Without a warning Nerissa rushed to Halinor and Kadma and threw her arms around their shoulders. "Look guys I can explain!, just don't attack her please!" Astral Irma pleaded. All of them just laughed and told her part of the meeting was about the evil "Nerissa" not being the real Nerissa at all. "Well that part was easy" The Silver Wolf thought. "Also this is my cousin, Megan" Astral Irma continued. Taranee recognized the girl from the library the other day and felt silly for being so suspicious. Will looked guilty for a moment about some unknown reason and singled Astral Irma out. "Irma, about that last meeting" Will started, "I cannot tell you why yet but we need to go to the dragon realm to solve something". "What" Irma asked. "I told you that I can't tell you yet!" Will repeated "but I hope that The Silver Wolf will volunteer to help, giving the problem you can't come" Will reminded. "If this is just going to be another meeting I am going to get kicked out of, forget it, I'm going home" Irma pouted running back the way she came.

The Silver Wolf absorbed the Astral Irma back into herself as soon as they were out of sight and swung into view on a strand of webbing. "I just saw your water guardian leave crying... because she was kicked out perhaps?" The Silver Wolf asked. "I know you said the whole team, but Irma would not be able to handle the truth and our friends wanted to come as well..." Will trailed off. "Handle what truth?" The Silver Wolf asked getting a little exited. "The truth that Irma is part dragon by birth because she has a dragon father and that her mother was "Evil Nerissa's" real target," Will blurted out, "We need your help to find out more about dragons so we can help Irma if something dragon related happens to her!," she asked, "but please don't tell her!" she begged. The Silver Wolf looked dumbfounded and stared at Will in shock. "Uh Oh!" Cassidy thought to herself, "so much for DON'T TELL IRMA!," she sighed.

The Silver Wolf cleared her head and told them she would be happy to help. Taranee walked over to The Silver Wolf and handed over the book on dragon portals, "This book is most likely written in dragonic, can you translate?" she asked. The Silver Wolf took the book and oddly understood every word. "The best portal we could use is up there, inside the tower" The Silver Wolf informed them while pointing up at the tower. The four teenagers powered up while Megan and the five adults went to the Silver Dragon to catch up with each other.

Once the portal was open the four girls and The Silver Wolf piled in. This part of the Dragon realm looked like a black marsh with silver mist, was very warm and stunk worse then Blunk. "We're in the Black dragon section of the dragon realm, be warned though, black dragons are chromatic dragons, that means their evil" The Silver Wolf warned. The group ran though the marsh as fast as they could. Finally they wandered onto a path that lead most likely to the only town on this realm, and the king's throne. "Alright you guys do not talk to any black, blue, green, red or white dragons, they are the evil ones" The Silver Wolf warned yet again. "I will try to find the "king" inside the palace" The Silver Wolf suggested. "I'll go with you" Will volunteered. Will followed The Silver Wolf down the path and through the double doors.

The hallway ran a couple feet before ending at a hallway that went to the left and right side of this first hallway, across from them was another set of double doors. These doors however were painted black. Will pushed the doors inward gently and looked inside. A black dragon rested upon a throne. "Excuse me dragon, but we would like to ask a couple questions" Will spoke loudly, hoping to have awakened the beast. The dragon stirred but had not awakened. "Forget it, he's out, lets ask that one" The Silver Wolf requested, pointing at a white and green one.

Doltar spun around as a cold human hand touched his shoulder. Will gained Doltar's attention. "Hi I'm Will, I had a couple questions" Will introduced herself. "I don't think you will get many answers since your a human" Doltar sneered. "She may be human but I'm sure not" The Silver Wolf spat as she lifted the dragon three feet off the ground. "OK OK what's the question" Doltar gave in trying not to show fear ( or puke). "Tell us more about Nathan's kid" Will asked "We want to help you find her". Thinking that the human meant to find her and help destroy her Doltar grinned with menace. "I heard that the child fled to Earth with her mother over thirteen years ago, the mother is dead but the girl is not" Doltar explained "I believe they named her "Irma" after the god of cold, ice and snow". At that moment the door to the palace flew open.

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Hay Lin spotted a silver dragon as it landed on the pathway near her. "excuse me, dragon" Hay Lin whimpered. The dragon whipped around and kneeled in order to appear smaller, so that the young one would be less scared. "Do you remember what Nathan was like, or his mate for that matter?" Hay Lin asked. "Sure I do, Nathan was my cousin, as for his mate however..." The silver dragon paused as if he was thinking, "Here take this, it's a photo of the girl, I think her name was Amy" The dragon insisted as he took the photo from a fold in his belly. "Thanks, oh I'm Hay Lin by the way" Hay Lin rejoiced putting out her hand to shake the dragons, "what was your name again?" Hay Lin asked. "My name is Zackery" Zackery informed her as he shook Hay Lin's hand.

Taranee and Cornelia walked towards Hay Lin as Zackery flew off into the horizon. "Guys look I have a clue Hay Lin cheered. "Great, lets go find Will" Cornelia rolled her eyes. The three girls roamed towards the palace. They forcefully opened the front doors to warn Will that they were coming.

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Will looked at Doltar in shock and asked if he was sure of the name. "Positive" Doltar claimed. The Silver Wolf put Doltar down and showed another look of shock and dismay. Deep in her mind Irma knew that the black dragon was out for her blood and she would, for some reason, have to fight him, alone. "You alright?" Will asked The Silver Wolf, who appeared to be frozen stiff. "Yeah, peachy" The Silver Wolf responded. The two girls turned and saw the others enter the room. "We should get going" Taranee warned, "It's getting late.

Irma had transformed back into her human form and went home to eat, she just couldn't see her 'friends' right now. Inside the Silver Dragon Hay Lin, Taranee, Cornelia and Will went upstairs to the Lin's living room. When they got upstairs dinner was already on the table. All the grown ups were eating as well as Megan. After dinner everyone went home and fell asleep peacefully, everyone but Irma.