It took us about an hour and a half to explain to the Turner twins about our last visit here. We stuck with the amnesia story, told how we ended up here, baby-sat their dad for a year, defeated Ivy, how we became the monarchs of Fairy World and how we had been trapped inside an asteroid in the Alpha Centauri system for two hundred years. Timmy filled us in on all that had been happening in the years we had missed. Apparently, Earth had been colonizing its sister planets for the past two hundred years. A couple years after we had disappeared, Earth's first extraterrestrial colony was established on the Moon. After that, many humans left Earth and settled down on the other Earthlike worlds in the Solar System.

"How come we never heard of you two?" Tammy asked after we were done explaining.

Wanda spoke up. "We were given specific instructions by Jorgen never to tell our godchildren about them. I don't know why, he just did."

"How did Vicky revert to her evil ways?" I asked.

"We're not sure," Betania replied. "About a year ago the FIA reported that she had disappeared, no trace of her was to be found. She had formed the Vicky Co., which I'm sure you've heard about. For a long time, she made nice babysitting androids. As soon as she disappeared, Vicky Co. came out with a new Vicky-Bot. About the same time, demands for fairies went up. We're spread very thin. You've come back just in time."

"So I see. Does anybody have a recent picture of Vicky?"

Betania pulled a small piece of plastic out of her pocket and handed it to me. The date on it was a year ago, April 23, 2266 at a press conference. It was a short video of her walking through a crowd to her hover-limo. She still had on the Anti-Icy headband. She was smiling, but I could see behind the smile a hint of worry and fear. Liz looked over my shoulder at the short video as well. We both frowned. We were both thinking the same thing, "What happened?"

Uh, Morbius, Elizabeth, I forgot to introduce my children. This is Tommy and this is Tammy. In case you hadn't noticed, they're twins."

"I did notice," I replied. I shook their hands, and Liz did the same.

""Timmy, is there anything that you wish to say to your children?" Liz asked.

He nodded. With a shamed expression, he apologized for his pig-headedness and having not paying attention to them enough. While he was doing that, I pulled Liz into the kitchen for a private discussion.

"Uh, Liz, are you sure this was such a good idea? Revealing Tommy and Tammy's godparents to Timmy. Won't this have some repercussions?"

"Like what? You think that Jorgen's going to come in and take Cosmo, Wanda and Poof away?"

"Liz, Da Rules are Da Rules. There are no exceptions."

"Unless the king makes one." Liz smiled, looking at me with a sly look. I knew what she was thinking.

"Ah, ha ha ha! Right! I love the way your little mind works."

The ground suddenly shook. I counted the waves of the ground. I smiled and rubbed my hands with pleasure. This was going to be fun. Liz looked at me with an odd look.

"There he is," I said. "Let's go"

We snuck back and looked out into the living room. Sure enough, there was Jorgen with a Fairy Neuralyzer pointed at everybody. He had already neuralyzed them. We stepped into plain view. A look of realization swept over Liz.

"Oh, no! What do we do?" Liz said that in a false panic, enough that Jorgen could here it. He turned to us with a disdainful look, which changed to one of confusion when he looked at us more closely.

"Fear not, my darling, I shall handle this."

It took all my strength to keep from laughing. I stretched out my hand. A bright blue beam of energy emerged from my fingertips and touched the neuralyzer. It shattered in a shower of blue sparks. Jorgen's eyes widened in horror. He knew what I was going to do next. The energy reached out and hit him straight in the chest. He flew back and hit the wall with a loud thud. He slid down, unconscious. The energy also touched everyone who had been neuralyzed, restoring their memories. They stood up, shaking their heads.

I cracked my neck and hands and said with satisfaction. "I love doing that to Jorgen; it's so fun just to see him go down." I lifted him up in a blue bubble and left him floating there.

I couldn't hold it in anymore. I burst out laughing. Everyone else joined me. I was rolling on the floor and smacking my knee, it was so funny. Everyone else was practically doing the same.

At the end of the laugh, our sides were aching and tears were flowing freely from our eyes. Tommy and Tammy wished up some tissue boxes, which we all took.

"Pardon me, sir, but why didn't you make a tissue box?" Tommy asked me.

"Oh, that's one thing I haven't perfected yet. It always comes out a fire breathing dragon for some reason."

"You mean like this?"

Cosmo raised his wand, but not before we all shouted, "COSMO, NO!" We were a bit too late, though. A dragon appeared out of nowhere and began to tear apart the house.

"Cosmo!"

My tone was a stern one. He cowered behind Wanda, shaking.

"Cosmo, get rid of that thing now."

He raised his wand with an uncertain and unsteady hand. The dragon vanished in a cloud of green smoke.

"Excuse me, sir, but couldn't you have gotten rid of it yourself?" Tammy this time.

I sat back down and sighed.

"I can't do everything, you know. That's another thing I am unable to do: interfacing between æther and sueñalo. You see, a long time ago, fairies were just like humans. No powers, no floating, nothing. They just went on with there everyday lives like you and me. But one day, eleven billion years ago, a fairy scientist found a place called Æther World. It was a world of immense power. He was the one who created the Big Wand, the conduit through which all fairy magic flows from. But his next discovery was his greatest ever. He discovered the land of Sueñalon which made Æther World look like a low-level light, because Sueñalon was the legendary Land of Dreams. He actually died to keep its power away from evil. Oh, and I should tell you that, uh, everything I've just told you is classified at the highest level."

"Not anymore," Betania interjected.

"Oh, well, ok then. So you see, I can't manipulate anything that fairies make or do and they can't manipulate anything that I make or do, which can be both good and bad."

"Oh, ok."

Fate chose that moment to open the garage door, revealing a grocery-laden Trixie. She stepped in, followed by some type of service bots. She placed the groceries on the counter.

"Wow, the stores are getting crowded. The holiday season is beginning to—AAAAAH!"

She had turned around. She was staring with a frightened expression at the four floating fairies. She then looked beyond them at the living room.

"WHAT HAPPENED HERE!?"

I looked behind me, as did everybody else. The house was a mess. Half the wall was burned off.

"Cosmo," I said, "clean that up now."

He raised his wand. Instantly the house was clean as a whistle.

"Trixie-pixie, sit down. We need to talk."


Here's another chapter. Yay! Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas and I wish everybody a Happy New Year!

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