Rescue...

It is amazing what can be done in a short amount of time when everyone is working together... everyone but the Wysps that is...

"I told you that we should have left him alone this time," one Wysp told the others.  "Now he is really mad!"  Really mad was an understatement, Aralt was furious!  His corolla was missing and after seeing so many Wysps around he finally figured out who had taken it.  "Today is not the day for this to happen," growled Aralt as he wanted to have his magical crown when he and Siate' met the young Dragon named Dree.  "My Emerald Dragon Stone will let me hear the mind-speaking of the Dragons, but without the corolla, I won't be able to nudge them to my desires."  This is how Drat found him.  

​"This will be easier than I thought," Drat realized as he watched both Aralt and the Wysps.  Slowly stalking behind the arguing group of Wysps, Drat whispered from behind them that maybe they should head for the free food at the SPICE cave nearby where Allspice and Nutmegg were preparing food and drink for the meeting.  

​None of the Wysps knew who said it, but the idea was one that they all could agree on as they left Aralt's cave and headed to the SPICE kitchen.  But as they all starting leaving, that was when Drat snuck up behind the Wysp holding the crown and whispered again.  "Let's take this ugly looking crown with us to the free food."  

​Aralt didn't hesitate to chase the Wysp holding his crown out of the cave and ended up following them towards the SPICE kitchen.  Smiling, Drat waited a minute before slowly following them all so he could be there to watch the excitement when Dree and the others arrived.

As the Wysps were being chased by Aralt, Nutmegg was setting up a small tent and some tables for the food that Allspice was bringing out from the kitchen in their cave.  "They should be getting here soon," thought Nutmegg as he finished with the tables.  As Nutmegg finished, Allspice stepped out of the cave with a box of food and said, "They should be here soon."  Nutmegg just smiled at his boss and shook his head in amusement.

It was then that the others started to arrive.  The Baron and Dowager with Sneefle and Fiddlefaddle who had packed snacks for everyone on a small cart with King Dulbbe and Queen Ffion creating quite the procession leading most of the others who followed them to the cave entrance.  Everyone offered to helped Allspice bring out the rest of the food he had prepared as well as several kegs of Ambrosia and Dragon's Brew.  Even Gardner the Gardener brought some treats in his wheelbarrow that he was pushing behind all the others. 

Soon it looked like it was going to be the biggest picnic that the Realm of Wymsy had ever seen.  Just about everyone was there!  Everyone but the Dragons...

As the Wysps, being followed by Aralt, appeared so did a very smug looking Drat.  It was then that the Dragon Queen, Siate', decided to make her grand entrance out of her cave too.  As she left her cave, other Dragons started to appear behind her.  Aralt decided that he needed to be there and vowed to get even with those irritating Wysps later as he went to stand by Siate's side as the Dragon Herald.  As more and more Dragons appeared from the other caves in the area, the Wysmy townspeople grew quiet and stared.   They had no idea that there were that many Dragons who had returned to the Realm.  Soon many of the Wysps started to ignore the free food and began mumbling to each other as they pointed at each new Dragon as it appeared.  It did not take long for Siate' to be standing at the head of the Dragons as if she was the queen of them all.  In her mind she was their Queen as soon as she could take care of this young Dragon Dree.  Hopefully today would be that day so the others would not challenge her authority over them since Dragons did not believe in royalty or governments for themselves.  Dragons were pragmatic though as they did respect power and intelligence.

Just as Siate's was becoming irritated, Aralt stepped up to her side. "Where is this young Dragon?" she asked him.  Aralt looking around quickly and replied "He is not here".  She had thought that Dree had already arrived when she had made herself known and now here she was waiting for him to appear.  "I will make him pay for this," grumbled Siate' as she tapped her long talons on a rock while she waited for Dree to arrive.

All of a sudden, a portal appeared in the middle of crowd and as everyone was moving away from it, out stepped Granny Flare, Meerher, Ellie, and Dree.  Almost as fast as the portal appeared, it was gone.  As Granny and the Luminary Council members headed towards where the Baron and Dowager stood, Dree turned and to face Siate' and her wrath. 

"It is about time you arrived," she said to Dree.  "Now it is time for you to answer a question that I have," Siate' said in a loud enough voice so that the other Dragons would hear.  "What clan are you?"  Dree smiled as he had anticipated her question. He was just surprised that she let her temper get ahead of her tact.

"Why, I was of the Wish Dragon clan as I told you before," answered Dree as he knew that would irritate her even more.  "I know that," she almost screamed.  "What clan are you with now?"  "Well," answered Dree, "I just recently found out there is one more member so I guess you could say it is a clan I suppose..." he paused watching Siate' getting madder at how he was making her look foolish, Dree continued.  "I am of the Moon Dragon clan."

Of all of the responses he could have said, this one made the entire Dragon community lift their heads and look at him now in a different way.  Before they all saw a young Dragon being impertinent to an elder, now they saw only something that many of them had heard about in legends and a legend for a Dragon was a very, very, very long time ago.

Now was the time for Dree to remove the threat of Siate' and Aralt.  "Dragons!  Townsfolk of Wymsy!  Hear me!  I am  Drai’ochtluan but most of you know me as Dree.  I am of the Moon Dragon clan and am here to show you the powers of my clan.  Recently a new Realm has appeared in the cosmos.  It is causing a disturbance in the balance and must be corrected before great and terrible events occur.  There are many from various realms trapped there without a way home.  This must be corrected and with this being the thinnest time of the year of the great veil that separates the realms,  it must be done now."   

This is where Siate' realized she could establish her power and quickly interrupted Dree.  "I have the power to make a portal to bring them over," she said making sure she spoke loud enough for all to hear.  This was the moment that Dree had been waiting for!  "As you cannot keep the portal open for very long, I thank you for your offer of assistance," spoke Dree, "but I intend to anchor this new realm called the World of Whispers to this realm so it can be now a part of the Realm of Wymsy." 

Dree's announcement caught Siate' off guard.  "No Dragon can do that," she growled.  Dree just smiled and thumbed the Brownie portal stone that he had been holding and started to open a portal.  ​

In his other claw, Dree held the wooden spoon that Meerher had given him from the Bag of Possibilities.  If ever there was a time to believe now was that time as the  young Dragon hoped this spoon truly had come from a magical branch of the Tree. Dree would soon know if it would be enough as he felt his power increasing more and more as he called upon the Tree to aid him.

As the portal opened, those surrounding Dree could see the others trapped in the other realm.  Soon a metal chain appeared to be floating and coming out of the portal and attached itself to a nearby boulder.  When the connection was secure, slowly those trapped on the other side started coming through the portal.  Quickly the Baron and Dowager greeted them and started to move them away from the opening.  As more and more appeared from the portal, Dree turned to Siate' and said, "thank you for your offer to help, but the portal will now stay open on it's own and the other realm is now permanently attached to this one.  The balance has been restored."

As Siate' started to open her mouth to say something, she realized that she had been beat and quickly closed it.  This young Dragon had beaten her and now she needed to figure out how best to salvage the situation.  Siate' had always been a Dragon of opportunity and now she was trying to create a new one... but what would it be?