Author's Note: The recent chapter of Purpledino25's story Timmy Meets Lexi reminded me that I really should start another chapter. So here it is. Don't forget to review. And sorry it's so short. The action starts in the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Fairly Oddparents. But Piper, Dezzie, and the other OCs are all mine.
Chapter 3: Just a Filler
Nothing happened. There was no explosion, no flash of color, and no Jorgen von Strangle. Peering cautiously into the cafeteria, Piper caught a glimpse of Timmy Turner, sitting just as he was before with his friends. If she squinted hard enough, she could just make out tiny yellow crowns floating above three milk cartons on his tray.
"What?" she hissed at Dezzie. "I thought if anybody's godparents got discovered, they get taken away forever!"
"Well, maybe since you have fairies, they don't," replied Dezzie with a frown. "Now stop standing here talking to me and go eat lunch, or I'll get discovered."
…
"Heads up, dude, new girl's headed this way," Chester said to Timmy as Piper approached their table.
Timmy gaped. "Why's she coming over here? I don't know what to say to her! I don't speak girl!"
AJ passed him a small mechanical device, which he thrust under the table, gripping it tightly. "Here," AJ said. "It's the newest 'Girl to Geek Translator!'"
But Timmy didn't need it. As Piper sat carefully down in the seat across from him, he heard her clearly. "Hi, Timmy. Hi guys. My name's Piper."
AJ smiled warmly at her. "Hello Piper. I'm AJ. That's Chester."
Piper opened her mouth, but whatever she said was drowned out by Timmy's frantic thoughts of, Please don't start talking about girl stuff. Please don't start talking about girl stuff. Please don't start talk about…
"Yeah, we all love the Crimson Chin," Chester was saying with a grin, showing off his shining set of braces.
"Did you just say the Crimson Chin?" Timmy repeated, astonished.
Piper nodded. "Yep. I've watched all the episodes, played all the video games, and own every comic known to man." From her disguise as a lunch bag, Dezzie winked at her goddaughter. "The Chin rocks!"
Timmy was beyond shocked. Piper. Liked. Comics. But she was so pretty! It was impossible! "R-really?" he stammered.
Smiling broadly, Piper reached into her lunch sack (Why was it green, Timmy couldn't help but wonder), and pulled out a sports drink. Sure enough, when she turned it over in her hand to show the boys, the signature Crimson Chin label was printed on the side. "This stuff is pretty bad for you, so I only get it sometimes."
AJ frowned. "Maybe you should have water instead."
"Dude, it's an energy drink. Let it go," Timmy grumbled. He shot a look at the drink in Piper's hand, stomach rumbling hungrily. Making sure no one was watching, he leaned down towards the milk cartons on his tray. "I wish I had one of those."
"Are you sure, sport? Those are kind of-" Wanda began, but Cosmo cut her off by yelling out, "Done!" The drink appeared in Timmy's hand, and Piper stared.
"Um, it was in my…pocket," he lied weakly.
Still staring, she nodded slightly. "Sure…okay." After glancing quickly down at the milk cartons on his tray, she turned her attention back to the other boys. "So what's up with that Mr. Crocker dude? Always spazzing about fairies…?"
AJ rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Yes, he's insane. He's been that way all year. I think it's because of some traumatic incident that occurred in his childhood." He didn't notice, but right after AJ finished talking, Timmy and Piper gulped in unison.
…
It really wasn't good manners to follow someone, but Timmy had no other choice. Something was up with Piper. And he thought he knew what.
Piper had fairy godparents. Or at least one.
Why else would school have let out early that day? So now he was following her, for proof. Peering out from behind a tree, he watched intently as she sat on the grass with her back against a tree, watching a light green bird fly in circles. A light green bird…with a little crown above its head…
"Aha!" He really needed to contain his excitement more often. A man who happened to be jogging by stopped to give him a strange look as he passed.
Well, now Piper was staring at him, too. He had nothing to lose – he had found out about her godparent all by himself. That wasn't against the rules, was it? Ah, well. "You have a fairy!" he cried, jumping out from behind the tree to face her.
The reaction he got wasn't exactly the one that he was expecting. Not surprised in the least, she replied with a strange smile, "Yes. And so do you."
"What? How do you know that?" Timmy blinked in surprise.
Piper smiled oddly at him again. "It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Pink, green, and purple objects always near you, that drink you randomly pulled out of your pocket…" From the branch above her head, Dezzie tweeted indignantly, and Piper added hastily, "And Dezzie spilled the beans right before lunch."
"Who's Dezzie?" Timmy asked, confused.
"I am!" One swirl of fairy dust later, a small fairy perched on the branch where the bird had previously been. Her light green ponytail swayed back and forth in the slight breeze. She waved down at the kids. "Hello! I'm Desdemona."
Timmy stared up at her in slight wonder. "Wow. You really do have a godparent."
"Hey," Piper laughed, grinning, "I showed you my fairy. Now you have to show me yours."
"Sure," Timmy agreed, feeling nervous though he knew that there was no risk of his fairies being taken away, since Piper had them, too. "Guys!" At once, fairy dust filled the area again.
Piper panicked and whispered to Dezzie, "I wish nobody except me, you, Timmy, and his fairies could see us or the fairy dust!" Poof. Done.
Meanwhile, the sparkly dust had cleared, to reveal Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof. "Hey!" Piper cried, recognizing them immediately. "I know you guys!" She turned to Timmy. "You're the kid who wished for a fairy baby, aren't you?"
"Yup." He nodded. "Pretty awesome, huh?"
"Yeah," she said with a laugh. "Really awesome."
But what the kids and their fairies didn't know was that someone else was watching them. And that was about to cause a lot of trouble for the new friends.