Phase III...

As everyone else was doing their part to help in preparing for Dree's plan with the Dragons, Granny Flare was still a little skeptical.  "That Dragon is taking a pretty BIG chance and it seems that the others still haven't realized it yet," she grumbled to herself as she absently cleaned a small cookie crumb off one of the end tables in the Dowager's Tea Room.  Finally she could take it no more and decided to find him. "Someone needs to talk to him about his plan!  Using a portal stone is not too hard," again she mumbled to herself as she started to the caves, "but doing what 'he' is wanting to do hasn't been done".

Granny knew that Drat was out doing his part and most of the others were busy doing other things, so more than likely she would find Dree in his cave.  She was right.  Dree was sitting on his several pillows now since he had grown and reading a book.  "I hope it is telling him how to create what he wants," she thought as she made a slight noise so as not to surprise him.  She needn't have bothered as Dree was actually waiting for her to show up.  He knew what he was asking and also was waiting for her to bring a portal stone to him so he could examine it closer.  "Greetings Granny.  Thank you for coming to see me," Dree said as he turned his head towards her.

Granny just stood there staring at the Dragon.  What a change!  She had first seen him as a newly hatched fledgling telling everyone he was hungry to this powerful and confident Dragon.  Finally she smiled and said, "I was just thinking back to when I was trying to figure out what to feed you and now you are working on how to save all of us.  The world has changed."

Dree lowered his head as he blushed.  "I just want to do my part to protect my family," he replied.  After a few moments of silence, he lifted his head and looked her in the eyes.  "Will you help me with the portal?"  Shaking her head from side to side and rolling her eyes, she answered with a slight smile, "Why else would I be down here interrupting your reading?" she answered.

Soon Granny was showing him her portal stone and making sure that he remembered how they worked from their classes he had received while growing up.  "It was Lil' Boots story about how he helped that cat return to his home that gave me the idea," Dree told Granny.  "That and something the Oracle said about Tun'Gul, the only other Moon Dragon.  He was the discoverer of portals to other realms.  If that is a power of a Moon Dragon, then I am hoping that I also possess it."

"That's a big hope to base your entire plan on," Granny sternly told him.  "What if its not?"

"Then I will have to do something else to make the other Dragons accept me," he answered as he shrugged his shoulders.  "It's not like we have a lot of choices."  Granny had to agree so they continued examining and testing the portal stone she had.  After several hours of attempts and failures, Dree asked Granny if he would keep the stone for the night as he did a little more research about portals.  

​Brownies are very reluctant to part with their portals, but Granny knew how important this was.  "I will be back in the morning to hear what you find out" she told him as she left.  What Dree didn't tell her was that he thought he knew already how to make a portal without the stone -- but he did not want her in danger if it all went bad...