Scenes with Irma Lair 136
[The now freed Guardians, Matt, Jeek and Blunk return to the nomads' camp]
NNomad
Raythor shouted something about a broken spell and then he and the knights fled.
[A worried Jeek tries to get away from them quietly but is stopped by Irma's voice.]
IrmaNot so fast, Jeek!, this whole mess was your fault but your punishment should be chosen by a jury of your peers and since we have an honest loyal and always useful passing right here.
Big mess, Big bath, Jeek reeks.
JJeek
(off-screen) No! Jeek hates getting wet! [Irma charges up a water blast to Jeek covering the screen]
[Will is on the phone to Cornelia. The two are visible on screen talking to each other, with two halves of the screen sectioned for them. Cornelia is upside down on her bed, brushing her hair.]
...So I can't help decorate.
Oh, please! If you want to attend the ball, you have to help with the prep.
[Hay Lin appears on screen, on the phone with Will and Cornelia]
I spent forever designing the decorations. We can't lose you to a pile of dirty underwear!
[Taranee appears on screen, on the phone to Will, Cornelia and Hay Lin]
Besides, when you're not around, Cornelia gets really bossy. [She puts her glasses on]
Irma brings it out in me.
[Irma is on the phone to Will, Cornelia, Hay Lin and Taranee and is brushing her teeth. She tries to speak, but it just comes out in gurgles]
WCWill, Cornelia, Hay Lin, Taranee
What?!
[Irma spits out the toothpaste]
Irma
I said: Stop brushing your hair, Cornelia. You're losing brain cells.
Please, Will! Without you, I can't guarantee any survivors.
[One by one, in reverse chronology everyone hangs up]
[Irma has accidentally let go of a balloon she was blowing up]
Irma
[sarcastically] Gee! Now we only have now we only have nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine left.
You can never have enough balloons!
No, you can never have enough shoes! Balloons you can definitely overdo.
Fine, but no more balloons. I’m getting light-headed. [She kicks the balloons, which fill the hall]
Irma
Light-headed. Air-headed. How do you tell the difference?
[sarcastically] Big "Ha."
[Drops a sticky tape] Ugh, this is impossible. And I have to go home and change. Look at me, I've got [Blushes] sweat stains!
Sweaty over here is right. Maybe we should just forget about the streamers.
We're not forgetting the streamers! They represent the [she holds up a streamer in one hand] strands of memory that connect us to Galgheita no matter where [holds up a balloon in the other hand] the balloons of life takes her.
Irma
Ok, that's it! Will, you've got let us use our wings, before Hay Lin's strands are shredded...by me!
Hey, hey! Come on, Irma! Give it up for the dancing machine! Whoo! Too hot not to try!
Irma
Okay, okay! I'll dance with you if you stop doing that!
She captured Caleb, attacked us at a school dance! She even came after us in our dreams!
We're pretty sure she's pulling the strings of the Knights, too.
Irma
But we don't have a clue who the old hag is! Uh, No offence, Mage.
[gives a drawing of Nerissa to the Mage]
Her image is unfamiliar to the Council of Kandrakar.
If only my powers were at full strength. But I am unable to divine her identity or purpose. Though, I do sense something else troubles our Guardians.
[Taranee, Will, Irma and Cornelia look at each other. Hay Lin is invisible]
Well, there's that new lightning thing and I've started bringing electrical appliances to life.
[Hay Lin reappears]
Not to mention invisibility.
[Raises her hand] Telekinesis.
[Raises her hand] Mmmm, telepathy.
Irma
Y'know, normal teen stuff.
What you're experiencing is normal...for Guardians. You are progressing as expected.
And I am pleased you work so well together. Even in your dreams. Harmony is essential for the Heart of Kandrakar to be effective.
Oh, we're all about the harmony, Oracle.
[Taranee puts her arms around Hay Lin and Irma - Irma giggles]
In fact we're going to spend a whole week together.
Irma
Chilling at Cormoran Beach, thanks to my mom and dad.
[All the Guardians put their arms around each other and smile]
Then by all means, enjoy your sojourn. You have earned it.
[Later, in the car, on the way to the beach]
[leaping out of a car] Ohh...Finally air unpolluted by girl-breath.
Irma
I so wouldn't bring up breath, little brother...yours smelt steel.
Irma! Chris! I refuse to listen to you bicker for an entire week.
TLTom Lair
Then I hope you brought earplugs.
You know what would make this trip perfect?
Oh, please! You and Caleb can't go five minutes without fighting. If you actually spent time together, you'd be vacationing in Dumpsville.
[Irma is in the water, and someone sinisterly grabs her - it's Chris]
Irma
Chris, you're such a brat!
I wonder why? Look in the mirror sometime. He learned from the best.
[Hay Lin is on the pier, Will joins her]
Sorry. I just had to get away from Cornelia. She won't stop babbling about Caleb.
[Laughs] Yeah. Obsess much?
Ugh, and what a total drag for you. Since you've never had a boyfriend.
Uh...I don't want a boyfriend.
Well, that's lucky. Since you're not exactly likely to get one.
[Will walks off]
[Will walking, alone]
Who knew sowing the seeds of discontent would be such...[She transforms into Nerissa]
...Child's play?! A glamour here, a glamour there, and they're mine for the picking. But enough about me. Your turn Sandpit.
Moan Moan Moan...Feeble Feeble Feeble.
[The Werewolf from the Haunted House has come to life]:
[The Werewolf grabs Chris]
Irma
[Thinking the Werewolf is still a machine] Chris! Listen, you electric furball, No one messes with my brother but me!
Irma
Can't believe what?
Will! I've read her mind. She brought those things to life...as a prank.
Irma
Are you kidding me? My little brother was nearly werewolf chow. If anything had happened to him...
You'd be bummed it wasn't you who did it.
[Hay Lin is at the Silver Dragon, balancing piles dirty plates, as she walks over to the counter, to put them there. Yan Lin enters]
Delivery order! Thirty minutes or less. Time to pedal that metal.
[Hay Lin sighs. Next she is outside the Silver Dragon and is gets out her phone to speak to the girls.
[The shot shows all the girls on their phones in a grid format, with Hay Lin in the middle. Will is in a museum with a life size elephant, Irma is at Cormoran Beach, Taranee seems to be in a mountainous and jungle like region, maybe South America and Cornelia is in Paris]
WIWill, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia
Finally!
[The shot is now just Hay Lin as the girls' shots get pulled away]
Do not complain. You're all on vacation. I'm a summertime slave.
[The shot sweeps over to Irma at Cormoran beach]
Irma
Better than beach boring.
[The shot sweeps to Will in the museum]
Or mommy and me museum tour.
[The shot sweeps to Taranee in the mountainous, jungle region]
Or mosquito mountain. [She slaps a mosquito that has landed on her arm] Ow!
[The shot sweeps back to Hay Lin, smelling her apron]
Ugh! I smell like egg-fu-yung.
[The shot sweeps to Cornelia in Paris]
I smell like O'de Fabulous. I have daddy's platinum and the caviar is awesome, and we're getting seaweed wraps tomorrow! The only thing missing is...
[Will and Taranee enter the shot in triangular angles and all say at the same time...]
[A heartbeat is heard over the shot]
Boys?! You're in four kinds of paradise and all you can think about is your next date?
Hay Lin, some day soon, you'll be thinking about your first date.
No way! Not me! Never! I...
[Yan Lin takes the phone off her and hangs up]
That moo goo gai pan ain't gonna fold to Elm Street.
[At Cormoran Beach, though there are other civilians there]
Hey! How about a clam dig? All four of us! As a family!
Irma
Yeah, I'm allergic to shellfish.
[Irma's phone rings]
Irma
Since like, right now.
Irma
[walks off, down the beach. Into the phone] Shellfish Allergy Anonymous. Hello
Irma! Thank goodness. We couldn't reach Will or Taranee.
Irma
Hay Lin. Chill. What's wrong?
[Screen splits into three sections. On the left - Irma, the middle - Hay Lin, the right - Cornelia]
Phobos has escaped! You have to get back here.
Umm, not that I wouldn't love to be fighting evil right now... [to her mother] No mom! The black boots and the red pumps!...but I'm like a billion miles away.
Irma
Yeah, what are we supposed to do...
[Back to Irma in a single shot, Irma gestures to the sea]
Irma
...Walk to Heatherfield?
[Cut to Cornelia in a French shot, and as Hay Lin is talking, the shot transitions to her]
I don't know! Just be ready...I'll figure something out.
[She hangs up the phone, and is in the basement of The Silver Dragon with Yan Lin and Blunk, and after a beat cries]
Oh, I can't figure anything out!
Irma
Ah, we only... beat Phobos!
Actually, Hay Lin beat him.
Where's that coming from?
What? No! Well actually... I did see this realy cute- The point is, this was the first time it was up to me. Everyone was spread out and-
And you gathered them here.
You think needing help is bad? Working together you find true power, in others and in yourself.
You are a jewel, grandaughter. In the rough perhaps, but a jewel all the same, and someday I won't be the only one to see. [They hug. Cornelia and Will high-five each other. Irma and Taranee hug]
Hi. Hate to spoil the greeting card moment, but, how do we all get back?!
[Hay Lin shrugs]
[Will. Irma, Cornelia and Hay Lin are in the basement of the Silver Dragon. Cornelia is sitting on a chair, Irma - lying on her back, with her head over the bed, Will is sitting on the bed, with her back rested on the wall, as is Hay Lin, who is writing in a notebook]
Is anyone else worried that we haven't heard from Elyon or Caleb in, I don't know, weeks?!
[yawns] Not really. Caleb knew I was travelling and Meridian is definitely a roaming charge.
Irma
Besides, we've kicked enough bad guy booty to earn our vacation.
But vacation's over! School starts tomorrow.
[They all sigh. Taranee enters holding a laptop]
Hey, guys. Isn't it great? I thought summer would never end. And, in honour of school, I have completed my first assignment.
Irma
Oh, can I hurt her? Please.
[typing] Welcome to Taranee's handy dandy guide to... [The Four Dragons and the nymph, which is the dragons of the Guardians' powers appears on the screen] ...Quintessece.
[They all crowd round the screen]
Quintessence?! That's the word that hag used to attack us!
But, what does it have to do with the legend of the Four Dragons? That's about our powers!
Right! Each of the dragons controlled one of the four ancient elements. :[She points to each dragon, as she says the elements that they control] Earth. Air. Fire. Water. [She points to the nymph, in the middle of the screen] But the nymph, Xin Jing, had a power too.
Irma
Oh, an X Factor, like Cafeteria Mystery Meal.
[Typing and saying aloud each syllable as she types it] Quin-tessence. The fifth element.
[The scene changes to one of Nerissa standing atop a hill in Meridian, under a red sky]
[voiceover] The Ancient Sages described it as exactly [shot of Nerissa summoning Quintessence from lightning] like electricity. They believed it could be found in lightning, but [Nerissa shoots a lightning bolt at the ground] they also called it "the stuff of life", like bio-electricity. [Farm men charge at Nerissa.] [Back to the girls]
Quintessence has the power to make things come alive.
Kinda like Doctor Frankenstein!
Kinda like me. Throwing lightning bolts, talking toasters. My powers sound exactly like Quintessence.
The fifth Guardian gets the fifth element. Makes sense.
[Scene changes to Nerissa standing atop the hill, laughing and casting lightning bolts at the farm men]
[voiceover] What doesn't make sense is that the sorceress [Nerissa holds up the Heart of Meridian and it emits a shock wave which makes the farm men's tools attack them] has the same powers. Only hers are the extra strong version.
[Scene shifts back to the girls, and as the camera zooms out, we can see Yan Lin listening to the conversation]
What's her connection to the Guardians? What's her connection to me?
It's worse. That hag is Nerissa.
OHThe Oracle, Halinor, Althor
[shocked] No!
You are absolutely certain?
[Yan Lin nods]
Irma
Okay, see I didn't bring my who's who from Kandrakar, so Nerissa is...?
As you know, you are not the first Guardians. Decades ago there were five others. Cassidy, Halinor, Yan Lin, Kadma... and Nerissa.
They were C.H.Y.K.N.? Wow, I'm so glad we're W.I.T.C.H.
[voiceover] [as the camera pans across W.I.T.C.H, the scene transitions to one showing the former Guardians] Nerissa led the Guardians as Keeper of the Heart of Kandrakar, as you do Will. But I sensed [Nerissa holds up the Heart and sees it glow through a shot of her eye] the power of the Heart was corrupting Nerissa. To save her soul, [The Heart is shown floating and given to Cassidy] I took the Heart from her and gave it to Cassidy. [Nerissa, shocked, walks away] But Nerissa became obsessed with her lost power. [Nerissa and Cassidy are atop Mount Thanos] After begging and pleading, she demanded Cassidy return the Heart. Cassidy refused.
[Nerissa casts a lightning bolt at the cliff, and Cassidy falls to her death, Nerissa is shocked by her actions]
[voiceover] [Nerissa runs across the cold of the mountain] Devastated, Nerissa fled. [An energy cell appears around Nerissa in a cave inside Mount Thanos] But I imprisoned her. [scene shows Yan Lin, The Oracle and Halinor standing outside her cell] Hoping that she would redeem herself [Nerissa lifts her head up] by facing her guilt. I fear [Nerissa's youthful face changes into the old Nerissa] I may have aired.
[The scene transitions to present day, in Kandrakar]
When Phobos' reign on Meridian forced us to raise the Veil, we could no longer watch over her.
She must have escaped, and gone into hiding.
On Meridian. Perhaps a portal opened on Mount Thanos, allowing her escape.
Nerissa is a greater threat now, than she was then. Every world has a source of mystic energy, like the Heart of Kandrakar. Elyon was the Heart of Meridian. With her power, Nerissa's might equals the five of yours...combined.
Irma
Right! Cause otherwise, way too easy.
At least, she doesn't know we're on to her. If we head to Meridian now, we can still take her down.
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