The guardian?
After Will left, Yan Lin shot awake. A minute later she ran into Susan and Tony's room.
"Will is gone!" She cried.
"What?" Tony asked shooting up. Then he saw the necklace where the scroll had been. He picked it up. "It can't be!"
Then he ran into his armor room and opened the doors to find his armor gone. He ran outside. "Will!" He fell to the ground due to his injured leg. He looked up and saw the open gates. "No," He whispered.
Susan knelt next to her husband. "You must go after her! She could be killed!"
Tony shook his head. "If I reveal her, she will be."
Yan Lin stared on sadly. "Ancestors hear our prayer. Watch over Will."
Inside the temple the head granite tombstone began to glow. Then the head of the council, the Oracle, appeared. He turned to a small statue.
"Irma, awaken," He commanded. The statue shook before falling to the ground with smoke bursting from it. Out of the smoke came a small dragon sized girl with honey brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing a dark purple dress with pink leg warmers. It was Irma.
"I LIVE!!" Irma shouted. "So tell me what mortal needs my protection great Oracle? You just say the word and I'm there!"
"Irma," The Oracle said.
"Let me say something. Anybody who's foolish enough to threaten our family, vengeance will be mine!" Irma said, doing karate kicks and punches.
"Irma!" The oracle cried. Once he had the girl's attention he gestured to more statues on the walls above them. "These are the family guardians. They…?"
"…Protect the family," Irma muttered.
"And you, O, demoted one?" The oracle asked.
"I…ring the gong," Irma said reluctantly.
The oracle nodded. "That's right. Now wake up the rest of the council."
Irma sighed and held up her gong. "One family reunion coming right up." Then she walked through the temple banging her gong. "Okay, people, people, look alive. Let's go, come on, get up. Let's move it! Rise and shine! Y'all way past the beauty sleep thing, trust me!" Irma yelled.
The other tombstone glowed and the rest of the council, including the four dragons and the nymph Xing Jing
"I knew it! I knew it! That Will was a trouble maker from the start!" Luba cried, turning toward Tibor.
"Don't look at me, she gets it from your side of the family!" Tibor cried.
"She's just trying to help her father!" Xing Jin cried.
"But if she's discovered Tony Vandom will be forever shamed. Dishonor will come to the family! Traditional values will disintegrate!" The pearl dragon cried.
"Not to mention they'll lose the farm," The red dragon added.
"My children never caused such trouble! They all became acupuncturists!" Luba cried. Irma didn't even look up from her newspaper. She just adjusted her reading glasses.
"Well we can't all be acupuncturists!" The Tibor cried.
"No! Your great granddaughter had to be a cross-dresser!" The black dragon yelled.
"Let a guardian bring her back!" Xing Jing suggested. Irma, knowing what was coming, tried to sneak away, but Tibor grabbed her.
"Awaken the most cunning!" He said holding to a statue.
The pearl dragon grabbed Irma and held her up to another. "The swiftest!"
Another grab from the red dragon. "No send the wisest!"
"Silence!" The Oracle cried. "We will send the most powerful of all."
Irma laughed getting on an empty pedestal. "Okay, okay, I get the Jif! I'll go!"
There was silence before the council burst out laughing. Irma glared at them.
"What?! You guys don't think I can do it!? Watch this here!" Irma cried. Then she shot a thin stream of water out of her palm. "Aha! Jump back I'm pretty hot huh? Don't make me have to freeze nobody to prove no point!"
"You had your chance to protect the Vandom family!" The Oracle cried.
"Your misguidance led the yellow dragon to disaster!" The red dragon cried.
"Yeah thanks a lot!" The yellow dragon snapped.
"And your point is?" Irma asked.
The oracle came right up in her face. "The point is we will be sending a real fighter to defend Will."
Irma's jaw dropped. "What? But I'm a real fighter!" She yelled.
"You are not worthy of this spot!" The oracle said pulling her off the pedestal. "Now awaken the great stone dragon!"
He flung Irma outside the temple. Her head popped in a second later. "So you'll get back to me on that job thing?" Her answer was the gong that was hurled in her face.
She grumbled as she walked down the steps. "One freaking chance, is that too much to ask!? I mean it's not like it'll kill ya!" She muttered.
Then she arrived at the great stone dragon. "Yo rocky wake up! You gotta go fetch Will!" She cried. When nothing happened she threw her gong to the side. "Go one boy go get her! Come on!"
Nothing happened. The small girl sighed and climbed to the top of the statue.
"Hello? HELLOOOO?! HELLO!" She yelled. Then she swung her gong and it broke of the ear. She tried to put it back in place, but couldn't
"Uh oh!" She muttered. Then the whole thing collapsed. Irma dug her way out of the rubble and tapped the head.
"Uh, stony, stony?" Then she panicked. "Oh man, they're gonna kill me!"
Then she heard the Oracle's voice. "Great Stone Dragon, have to awakened?"
Irma acted quickly and held up the dragons head. "Uh, yes I just woke up. I'm the Great Stone Dragon! Good morning! I will go forth and fetch Will! Did I mention that I was the Great Stone Dragon?" She asked nervously.
"Go the fate of the Vandom family rests in your claws!" The Oracle said.
"Don't even worry about it!" Irma replied. "I will not lose faith!" Then she rolled backwards with the head landing on top of her.
"Ow! Oh, my elbow! Oh, I know I twisted somethin'!" Irma muttered from under the stone. Then she heaved it off of her.
"That's just great! Now what? I'm doomed! And all cause Ms. Man had to take a little drag show on the road!" She cried.
Suddenly Blunk appeared. "What…are..you?" Irma asked slowly.
"Name is Blunk. Blunk a passling," He replied.
"Well what do you want? Cause in case you haven't noticed I have just sentenced myself to death," Irma said with a groan.
"Blunk think that girly should go and get Will," Blunk said.
Irma stood up straight. "Go get her?! What the matter with you?! After this great stone humpty dumpty I'd have to bring her home with a medal to even set one foot in the temple!" She cried. Then her eyes widened when she heard her own words.
"Wait, that's it! I'll make Will a war hero and they'll be freaking begging me to come back to work! That's the master plan! Oh, you've done it now girl!" Then she ran off to find Will.
"Wait for Blunk!" The passling cried catching up with her.
"What makes you think you're comin'?" She asked.
"Girly need a lucky passling," He replied.
Irma stopped and turned to face. "You're lucky? Do I look like a sucker to you?" Irma asked with a laugh.
"Blunk think girly more loser," Blunk retorted.
"What do you mean a loser!?" Irma cried. "How about I grab you by the shirt and throw you across the yard? Then how's the loser, me or you?"
Blunk shrugged. "Blunk don't know."
Irma sighed. "Well it's looks like I'm stuck with you, so let's go, Blunk!"
Then the wannabe guardian and Blunk continued on their journey to find Will.
