Hands of Fate

Chapter 1

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Climbing out of the backseat of his mom's car Russell Figgins looked at their new house in Dimmsdale, and sighed. It was a nice house, two story, big yard, but; it wasn't the apartment back in Bright Burgh, of course that was all gone after that huge freak storm of minivan sized hail, meteors, and a huge earthquake sent Bright Burgh down into the ground. "Well, what do you think?" his mother, Debbie asked, as she walked around the front of the car. She was tall and curvy, with long raven black hair and bright emerald eyes, dressed in a red corset shirt and black leather pants and red high heels, Russell could already feel the eyes of the men in the neighborhood locking onto her. Padding behind her was Schnitzie, their black and brown wiener dog.

"It's ok," he said, as the movers pulled up and parked behind them. He was short with shaggy brown hair, and dressed in a denim vest over a blue tshirt, black jeans and black sneakers.

Debbie picked him up and kissed his cheek. "Don't be so gloomy," she said. "You'll grow to love it in no time."

Setting him down on the ground, Debbie popped the trunk and pulled several boxes out with Russell's name written on them and piled them on the sidewalk. Picking one up Russell started for the house, it was gonna be a long day.

Jorgen Von Strangle look out at the mass gathering of nearly every fairy in Fairy World. Holding up one muscular hand for silence he waited until all was quiet. "For those of you who don't know there is a new miserable child in Dimmsdale," he said, before a screen lowered and a projector poofed into the room and turned on, showing a picture of Russell. "He is in desperate need of cheering up, so, who wants the job?"

Immediately hands shot up into the air, and voices began shouting about how they should get the job. A small fairy in a pointed hat floated up above the others. "Ooh Jorgen pick me!" Binky exclaimed. "It's been so long since I've had a godchild!"

The muscular fairy rolled his eyes. "No," he said immediately.

Binky's eyes began to well up with tears. "But… why?" he asked.

Jorgen resisted the urge to face palm. "You remember what happened the last time you had a godchild?" he asked.

"How was I supposed to know Adolf would invade Poland?" he asked, before other fairies began pelting him with trash.

The shouts were suddenly drowned out by guitar playing, everyone looked to see an extremely muscular and handsome fairy holding a black guitar with a pink rose on it. "If any fairy should be his god parent then I, Juandissimo Magnifico!" he exclaimed, before strumming on the guitar again. "Am the only one fit for the job!"

"You already have a godchild Juandissimo, nice try," Jorgen said.

Juandissimo floated up to Jorgen and poofed a tape recorder into his hand. "On the contrary mi amigo, I, Juandissimo Magnifico! Have recently quit being Remy's godparent," he said, pressing the play button. "Listen."

"Remy, Niño, I would like, if it is alright with you I wish to resign as your fairy godparent," Juandissimo's voice said.

"Sure, whatever," Remy's voice replied, sounding bored.

"Did he really agree just like that?" Jorgen asked, raising a questioning eyebrow.

"Of course,"

The other day

Juandissimo floated outside Remy's door and held the tape recorder up to his mouth. "Remy, Niño, I would like, if it is alright with you I wish to resign as your fairy godparent," pressing the stop button Juandissimo held the recorder behind his back, before poofing into the room. Remy was seated at his desk, counting absurd amounts of money. "Remy, if it is alright with you I need to return to Fairy World, and take care of my sick Mama, she has a bad case of magical shingles."

The muscular fairy pressed the record button as Remy spoke. "Sure, whatever," he said, not really paying attention.

"Muy Bien! Adios!" he exclaimed, poofing away.

"Well, since your free as is, alright," Jorgen said, as a contract appeared before him and he stamped it with his huge wand. "Now get going!"

"Aye aye Jefe!" Juandissimo exclaimed, saluting before he poofed away.

After finally getting the last of the boxes upstairs Russell wiped the sweat fro his brow and sighed, now he could finally unpack. As he opened the first box a poofing sound followed by guitar music filled the room. Spinning around he came face to muscular chest with a small man with long black hair tied in a ponytail, strumming the guitar. "Buenos Diaz, I am Juandissimo Magnifico!" he exclaimed, strumming the guitar some more. "And I am your-" he was interrupted by Russell shrieking and diving into the open box. "-fairy godparent…."

Floating over to the box he peeked over inside and saw the 10 year old cowering. "Don't hurt me," he whimpered. "I don't have any money."

Juandissimo chuckled, before raising his wand and poofing Russell out of the box. "You have me confused with some other extremely muscular and handsome person," he said, flexing his muscles, and causing his shirt to tear apart, before having it reappear. "I am a fairy godparent, I grant wishes. Anything your heart desires I can give you."

"How many wishes do I get?" Russell asked. "3?"

Juandissimo bit his lip as tears well up at the corner of his eyes, before he couldn't stand it any longer, and began to laugh. After several seconds he took a deep breath. "Silly Niño, I am not a genie, I am a fairy. I grant unlimited wishes, within reason sometimes."

"Within reason?"

"No hurting, killing, stealing, no love spells," Juandissimo said, counting off on his fingers all the things Russell couldn't wish for. "So, what's your first wish?"

"I wish for all my stuff to be unpacked and put away," Russell said, Juandissimo raised his wand and immediately all the boxes were unpacked and everything was in place. "Wow, thanks."

Juandissimo floated down and placed his hand on the boy's shoulder. "That is just the tip of the iceberg mi amigo," he said.

"Russell! The pizza is here!" his mother called. Juandissimo poofed away and immediately Russell noticed a purple wristwatch appear on his wrist.

"Remember, no one can ever know," Juandissimo said, before Russell ran from the room.

A few blocks away a familiar pink fairy suddenly clutched her head in pain. "What's wrong Wanda?" Timmy asked, as he and Poof noticed the fairy clutching her head.

"I don't know Timmy," she said. "But something tells me Juandissimo is close."

"But Remy lives on the other side of town," Timmy replied. "He's probably just in town with Remy."

"Maybe your right," Wanda said.

The next morning Russell woke up to find a table set up beside his bed, and plates stacked with food. "What's all this for?" he said aloud, just before Juandissimo poofed into the room holding another plate.

"Breakfast, I hope your hungry," he said, setting the plate down. "I made Juevos Rancheros."

Russell sat up and grabbed a fork and immediately began devouring the food placed before him, while his fairy floated across from him doing a crossword puzzle. "5 letter word for happiness…. Wanda," he said, writing it in. "5 letter word for seething rage….. Cosmo!"

The bus ride to school was mostly uneventful, Russell leaned back against the seat, he glanced down at the purple watch, and Juandissimo winked at him. Just as he was about to say something the bus screeched to a halt and the door opened to let a tall, and very pretty Asian girl step up into the bus. "Ladies and gentlemen, the lovely and popular Trixie Tang!" the driver said into the mic. As she walked down the aisle another girl, this one was blonde and dressed in a cheerleader uniform stepped up on the bus. "And Veronica Star."

"Hey!" she exclaimed at the driver's offhand intro to her. Russell didn't hear anything else or even feel the bus start moving again, his eyes were locked on Veronica.

"Veronica Star…" he said dreamily, as he watched the blonde girl walk down the aisle, in a panic he tossed his backpack on the floor just as she neared him. "You can sit here Veronica."

The blonde stopped and looked at him in surprise, no one had ever asked her to sit with them before, as she always sat with Trixie. She was brought out of her stupor by Trixie coughing to get her attention, snapping awake she looked at Russell and scowled. "Yeah right, like, why would I sit with a loser like you?" she said, before moving on.

"Did you see how she stood there for almost 5 seconds thinking about it?" Juandissimo said. "You almost had her Niño. Don't look so glum, I'm positive you'll get her phone number by lunch!"

Arriving at Dimmsdale elementary Russell stepped off the bus, and made it less than 5 steps before a large, scary grey kid grabbed him, held him upside down and shook him up and down until all his lunch money fell to the ground, before drawing his arm back, and hurling him like a football. "I expect double tomorrow!" he called.

"I wish for a soft landing!" Russell shouted, moments before a pile of mattresses appeared, causing him to land safely. "And I wish I had my money back." he smiled when all the money he had lost appeared in his hand.

"Anything else?" Juandissimo asked.

"Well-" he was interrupted by the school bell ringing loudly. -I wish I was outside my classroom!"

And a moment later Russell was standing in front of a closed classroom door.

"Wish me luck," he said.

"You don't need luck," the muscular fairy said. "You have Juandissimo Magnifico!"

Reaching out, Russell turned the knob and opened the door.

END CHAPTER 1