Irma slowly awoke from her paralysis, "Arrrrg" she grunted. "Welcome dragon to your new home" The man's voice rang out. Irma appeared to be strapped by her wrists and ankles to a table that could be spun into a upright position (again like in the Incredibles) and the middle could be removed. "What hit me" Irma groaned silently. "Nothing compared to what is going to hit you small child" The voice insulted. "Who are you calling a small child?" Irma snarled. Irma heard laughing then the door slamming. Seconds later the door opened yet again and a man walked up to Irma. "You must be that special dragon I've been hearing a lot about" The man spoke. "Blah blah blah blblah blah blah blah" Irma annoyed him. The man ignored the interruption and started to speak again "I'm Master Freddy, nice to meet you". "Nice to meet you too if you'll help me get home" Irma smirked cocking an eyebrow. "Funny dragon, very funny, my workers were correct at saying that you had comedy, however it will not win over here" Freddy informed. "Really!?, you know how some kids never lick the cap of a pudding pocket or finish the crumbs in their Frito's bag?, it's as if they are so rich they can just throw that good food away... wait a minute I get it now!, like feeding birds, their feeding the hobo's!, they call to them "here hobo, here hobo (whistles) I have food for you!" Irma practiced the new stand-up comedy joke she made. "Soon you will know what I mean dragon, just like all the others" Freddy hissed. "Gulp o-others?" Irma stammered. "Yes, tomorrow you will meet the other dragons, but be warned that defeat has 'deadly' consequences" Freddy warned. Freddy left the room, leaving Irma to her thoughts.
Cassidy,Nerissa and Megan were lead into the spare guest room while Hay Lin answered the phone. "Hello, Silver dragon residence, Hay Lin speaking" Hay Lin recited, "You want Irma dropped off at where?", "58294 Emill Drive, understood, good-bye" Hay Lin frowned as she hung up he phone. "What was that about?" Cassidy asked. "The orphanage at 58294 Emill Drive wants Irma on the front porch in twenty minutes" Hay Lin wined. "No problem I'll drop an astral drop off" Will offered. "But what if they don't treat Irma right?" Hay Lin worried. "Don't worry Hay Lin and if they don't treat her right I promise to get her out, deal" Will asked. "Deal" Hay Lin pouted.
Will dropped off the astral of Irma and sped off back to the Silver Dragon to help come up with a plan to find the real Irma . The Irma copy watched as Will turned a corner and out of sight. A large and slightly plump man, somewhere in his fifty's supposedly, grabbed Irma by the collar and practically dragged her into an orphanage that looked rather ragged. The man opened the door even though it's top hinge had broken completely off. The flooring had been ripped, even torn off, in some places. The only furniture in the room was a blackened chipped fireplace, a rusty coat rack and a large chair across the fire place, the back of which was torn so bad that cotton from the inside of the chair was hanging out. The whole room smelled of garlic and cigarettes. "This place stinks" Astral Irma complained, cringing her nose. "If you don't like it you can leave, because I would rather not have to feed another mouth!" The man snapped pulling out a pipe and sitting in the chair. "I'm sorry, please don't kick me out into the streets, I'll behave I promise" Irma stammered as she begged. "Calm down kid, God" The man spoke before lighting and taking a drag of the pipe, "Hannah get up here, the kid finally came" The man yelled down a staircase, down a hallway to the right near the back of the room. Astral Irma heard a thumping noise coming from the stairway. A woman that looked a bit like Kadma and a bit like Halinor appeared in the room, "Irma, right?" she asked. "Um... Yeah" Irma hesitated. "Follow me child" Hannah ordered going back downstairs, Irma obediently followed. At the end of the staircase was a water damaged wooden flooring. Irma looked around, on each of the walls there was three dirty, dusty, cobweb covered windows, another staircase that led into the backyard, a large bookshelf filled with books, a chalkboard with a large crack down the middle, a toy chest, a stack of board games with ripped, water damaged boxes, a door that lead into a big bathroom with five banged up toilet stalls and shower stalls with stained, mud caked curtains and finally in the last corner there was several chests and a big pile of hay and on that large pile of hay were four other orphans. Hannah lifted Astral Irma's chin and locked eyes "Don't get on their nerves Irma" Hannah warned "I'll go fetch some leftover soup for you to eat" she offered, heading back for the stairs. "What about my stuff" Irma asked. "Should be here any minute" Hannah confirmed half-way up the stairs already. Irma approached the hay stack quietly and ploped down in an unoccupied area. "Irma, huh?, I like that name" one of the other kids whispered. Astral Irma looked over in the direction the voice came from, a tan girl around her age but much taller, green eyes and with longer, darker brown hair had gotten up. "I'm Amy" Amy introduced holding out her hand. Astral Irma accepted the handshake and smiled for the first time she was here. Amy leaned back down and tried to fall asleep. Astral Irma stood up when she heard Hannah coming back down the stairs. Hannah was carrying a bowl of slightly warm vegetable soup and dragging a large box behind her, "Here Irma, eat up" she offered, handing her the bowl then dragging the box towards an area near the wall "these are the clothes and nicknack's that you were allowed to keep" she informed. Finished with her soup, Astral Irma was given a blanket then kissed on the forehead after Hannah took her empty bowl. "Goodnight Irma" Hannah whispered before heading back upstairs. -- The real Irma woke up on her metal bed with a sore back and a bad headache. "This is the last day I'm staying here" Irma moaned. The door slammed open and Master Freddy with two other people walked in. "Good morning dragon" Master Freddy sneered, "the dragon games have begun". "What are the dragon games?" Irma groaned. "You'll see" Master Freddy responded as his workers lifted Irma from the table without removing her chains and placed her inside a movable cage. Irma breathed heavily as the cold metal pushed up against her body, the cage started to move. Irma looked at her surrounding's as she was rolled down the hallway, down the hallway Irma saw other dragons being dragged in their cages by other members of this horrible gang. The other dragons looked scared upon coming to a large Iron double door. Irma was puzzled to their fear as the doors slowly opened. On the other side of the door was a large battlefield. All the dragon's were pushed up against the south wall and Master Freddy stood in front with a large white board on wheels. "First up is Blaserion and Darius!" Master Freddy yelled. Two dragon's were released into the battlefield, one was fully blue except for his fully red eyes and four times Master Freddy's size, the other one was fully Black except for his fully White eyes and six times Master Freddy's size. The two dragon's started to fight and in no time the blue one was dead. "Newcomer" The Black dragon spit. "Next is Gragoriton and King Irma!" Master Freddy yelled after Darius was locked back up. A wave of gasps and cries of happiness filled the battlefield as Irma and a young (twice Master Freddy's size) Copper dragon were let go. "I don't want to fight you" Gragoriton whimpered, "Neither do I" Irma agreed. Master Freddy looked impatient to start, he pressed two buttons on a remote. Bizzzzzzzapppp!, an electric collar on both Gragoriton and Irma went off. "Ouch!" Irma yelled. Irma flew higher into the air and Gragoriton followed. "Do you have an idea?" Gragoriton asked. "Yeah, can you distract them by fighting with my clone?". "Sure can!" Gragoriton answered confidently. Irma slipped past the closest dragon hunters and used her hair pin to unlock the collar, dropping the collar Irma crept around the dragon hunters to unlock the other dragon's cages. After unlocking the remaining twelve cages (Excluding Gragoriton's, Blaserion's, and her own) and jimmying the rest of the collars Irma rushed back into battle. Irma quickly freed Gragoriton from his collar and the other dragon's joined Irma in the air. "Check mate" Irma sneered as Master Freddy desperately pushed every single button on his controller. Nobody noticed the blue portal snugged in between the cages and the double doors.
-- Astral Irma woke in a cold sweat, her hair sticking to her forehead. "Must.. call... Will..." Astral Irma panted. Astral Irma ran up the stairs leading to the backyard and raced toward The Silver Dragon. Bang!, the door swung open and hit the wall. "Hay Lin!" Astral Irma panted "We need to find the real Irma... fast!". Hay Lin jumped up from her chair then twirled around to grab the phone. Hay Lin dialed the rest of the W.i.t.c.h gang and rushed with Astral Irma to meet them outside.
Will picked up the phone "Hello"she asked, "Will come over to The Silver Dragon quickly, Irma's astral says that something is wrong" Hay Lin warned. Will told Hay Lin she and Taranee would be there and hung up. "We have to go" Will ordered Taranee half way out the door. Cornelia pick up her phone and heard the same warning,she hung up and Elyon and herself started rushing over.
Hay Lin met up with everybody behind The Silver Dragon. Will held up the heart toward Astral Irma, a blueish portal opened up. Before crossing over with the other girls, Will absorbs Astral Irma back into the heart. -
Irma attacked full force, every dragon following her lead. Will and the rest of the group appeared and attacked immediately. One of the dragon hunters punched Elyon in the head and her Heart of Meridian fell off and cracked. The battle raged, a fire broke out somehow and blood stained the floor. Master Freddy called retreat and fled. Elyon picked up her Heart, then Will transported everybody to the dragon realm. Irma walked onto a large platform, every dragon (and W.t.c.h. and Elyon) were right there cheering for her. "I would like to say that due to the rules I can not be your king, I am not old enough..." Irma announced, "However, I can give the throne to an older family member...". Silence filled the crowd. "So without further ado, please welcome King Zackery!" Irma cheered handing her uncle the crown. Irma leaped off the stage and walked over to where her friends were. "It's too bad your too young" Hay Lin groaned. "Yeah, after everything you went through too!" Will comforted. "I guess so... could we stop by Candracar before we go home?" Irma asked. "Sure thing" Will allowed. Will picked up the Heart and a white portal to Candracar opened.
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The Oracle turned around to face the guardians, "What brings you here guardians?" he asked. "Oracle I was wondering..." Irma stammered. "Yes" The Oracle urged on. "Well since I have no real home and all those dragon hunters are loose on Earth, I belive it will be more safe if I... stay here?" Irma asked. The Oracle stroked his chin and looked at Irma's face as if studing it. "Fine... You may stay" The Oracle decided "I'll teleport your thing's into a guest room, Cassidy's, Nerissa's and Megan's as well". "Really!?" Irma asked. The Oracle nodded his head and snapped his fingers. Cassidy, Nerissa and Megan were now standing in front of him. Elyon looked down at her heart and noticed that 'Jasmine' was gone, "Oh Jeez" Elyon mumbled and showed The Oracle. "There's still work to be done but you girls need to rest for now, I'm sure that handling something this small will come easy to you anyway" The Oracle settled. After the other W.i.t.c.h members and Elyon were gone and the adults were asleep Irma approuced The Oracle. "What did you do with all my Silver Wolf stuff?" Irma asked. "I placed them in the old abandoned watertower, there's still a portal to Candracar and a portal to the dragon realm active around that area" The Oracle whispered before heading of to bed. Irma dragged herself into her new bedroom, "If you need a sidekick, Silver Cub is available" Megan whispered. "Thanks... only if you teach me that spirit realm spell already though" Irma compromised. Megan showed Irma the spell then fell asleep. Irma focused her mind and soon was standing by her mother a grin upon her face...