Morbius just stared at the fairy. She was about the size of the fairies as depicted in the Fairly Odd Parents. She had long brown hair, sparkling blue eyes, and was smiling. Her wings were buzzing like hummingbirds wings and unlike the show seemed proportional to her body. A small portion of her head glowed a bit.

"So, what do you think Morbius?" she flew over and smiled at him.

His eyes were wide. Then he blinked in fake confusion. "I think I should keep my hot chocolate intake to a minimum. Weirdest hallucination ever."

"It's no dream, sweetie."

"Well, in that case, I'm calling the cops." He reached over to the cell phone.

"Hold on there!" the fairy raised her wand and a bucket of water appeared over his head. Morbius saw it, and gently put down the cell phone. "If you tell anyone about me, I'll go away forever."

"Why? You're an intruder in my house!" he shouted a bit.

"Okay, I know. Look, why don't you sit down and I'll try and explain."

Morbius sighed, walked over and sat down near the fireplace. "I'm listening."

"Okay, like I said, my name is Betania. I'm a fairy, more specifically, a fairy godparent. I was sent here to be your fairy godparent because you have no parents and, despite being a billionaire, you are still miserable."

He nodded. The backstory he had been given indicated that he would be going to the same school as one Icky Vicky, meaning he would become more miserable.

"Yea, true I guess. So you're a fairy godparent, like in Cinderella?"

"Same basic idea," she said smiling.

"So I can wish for anything I want?"

"Well, not everything, there are a few rules." She raised her wand. Morbius didn't even stop to think. He stood, pushed the chair over and caught the fairly heavy book. Unfortunately it was too heavy to hold, so he used its momentum to push it onto the floor. It hit the floor with a soft thud.

"A few?!" he asked. He walked over and opened the purple book marked with the title Da Rules and began to read.

"H-how did you do that?"

Morbius looked at Betania who now looked shocked. "How did I do what?"

"It was like you knew what was coming. I meant to poof a smaller version of the book onto your lap, but-"

"I don't know," he lied. He wondered if Liz had done the same with her fairy. Wait, did she get a fairy? That would explain why she was so anxious for me to open the gift. Maybe that watch...

"Well anyway, what do you want to wish for?" she asked, her wand raised and ready to go. Morbius noticed that it looked a little different from the wands from the show. It was sleek and metallic. At the tip, it began to glow like a star.

"Hmmm, I really don't know," he said. "I've never met a fairy before." He picked up the chair and sat back down. "I would like to know about your people. Where do they live, in a magical forest somewhere?"

Betania raised her wand and another chair appeared. She also appeared to change form. She grew to be about Morbius' height. Her wings grew and became the right proportions for someone her size. Her wand even seemed to grow a bit, becoming more of a staff. She sat down.

"No, we live in a magical place called Fairy World."

"Cool, where is it?"

"It's in solar orbit."

Morbius nodded, pretending to process this information. "Nice. Oh, you wanted to know my first wish?"

Her eyes widened in excitement. "Yes!"

"It's nothing too big, but I wish both of us had another cup of hot chocolate, mint flavored, at least for me, marshmallows and whipped cream in mine please, and whatever you want in yours. Oh, and I wish there was a fire in the fireplace again."

She smiled, raised her wand and a bright light was emitted from the tip. A bit of smoke appeared around the small table next to their chairs. Two steaming mugs appeared. One had whipped cream in it, which Morbius assumed was his. He picked up and blew on the steam. Betania then pointed her wand at the fireplace and a huge fire appeared in it.

"Thanks, Betania was it?"

"Yea," she replied, "and thanks for wishing one up for me too. I love hot chocolate."

"Yea I kinda pegged you for a hot chocolate type of woman." He smiled.

"Thanks," she replied, blushing.

"Anyway, I am very interested in your Fairy World. Could you please tell me more about it, and about your people?"

"Wow, I've never heard of a godchild who was so interested in us."

"There's always a first, right?" Morbius asked, shrugging. He lifted the hot chocolate to his lips and took a small sip.

"Well, ok, I'll tell you then!" she began to tell him everything she knew about Fairy World and Fairies. Everything she told him was familiar to Morbius, a longtime fan of the Fairly Odd Parents.

"Wow, that's so cool!" Morbius said after a while.

"What about you?" Betania asked. "Tell me about yourself."

"Sure," he said, and told her the cover story. An hour later he noticed that she looked tired.

"Where are my manners? I'm sorry for keeping you up. Here, why don't you go to sleep? We can talk more tomorrow, ok?"

She nodded sleepily and turned herself into a brown kitten. Morbius headed to his bed, crawled into it and was asleep in minutes.

The next morning, Morbius woke rather late. Fortunately, according to his folders, he didn't have to go to school until the new semester started after the New Year. He sat up and looked down. Betania was curled up near his legs, purring while she slept. He crawled out of bed gently so as not to wake her and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for both of them. He found some eggs, bread, butter and bacon in the cabinets and refrigerator and proceeded to make scrambled eggs, bacon and toast. A few minutes after he had begun to set up the table, Betania walked out in her full fairy form, yawning and rubbing her eyes. She was still about the same height as Morbius with majestic looking but folded back glowing white wings.

"Something smells good here," she said with a smile when she saw the spread before her.

"Thanks. I didn't know what you like so I just made scrambled eggs. If you want I can make something else."

"No, this is perfect, but you could have wished for breakfast you know."

"That sounds stupid," he replied. When he saw her hurt expression he quickly added, "Let me explain why. If I can cook a meal by myself without magic, then I will do so. That's not to say I won't wish for a meal sometimes if I'm too tired to make one, but there's no point in asking for you to make one all the time. I need to learn how to cook for myself and I don't want to become too dependent on you for learning life skills."

"Wow, that's really mature of you," Betania said with a smile as she sat down.

"Thanks," he replied as he sat opposite of her. "I have to be mature because of, well," he wiped away a tear as he remembered his dad's death.

"I understand," Betania replied sympathetically.

"I'm still a child at heart though," he quickly added. Betania giggled.

"If you weren't you wouldn't get a fairy godparent."

During the meal, Morbius asked Betania a little more about Fairy World. She gladly answered his questions. He learned about some stuff he didn't know about from the show.

"So, what do you want to do today on this really long Christmas Break?" she asked after the meal was over.

He smiled. "Can we go to Fairy World?"

She furled her brow and seemed to think about it. "I don't know Morbius. No human has been to Fairy World in a while."

"Is it against Da Rules?" Morbius asked.

"Hold on, let's check," she said as she raised her wand. Two small purple books appeared on the table. Both human and fairy opened the books and flipped through them.

"Well, I don't see anything forbidding it," Morbius said after a few minutes of browsing. "You find anything?"

"Nothing here," she replied. "You sure you want to go to Fairy World?"

"Of course," Morbius said excitedly, "It's not every day that I get to travel to the home of another race."

She smiled and raised her wand. "Just say the magic words."

"Betania, I wish we were in Fairy World!"

The tip of her wand glowed with a bright white light. Soon they were enveloped in purple and pink smoke. As suddenly as it appeared it disappeared and they were standing in Fairy World near the huge sign. It looked similar to the one in the show, except that it seemed to be in multiple languages. He saw Spanish, French, English, various other earth languages, but at the top, dwarfing them all, was an unknown language.

"What language is that?" he asked, pointing at the top of the sign.

"That's our native tongue," she replied.

"Nice," he said. He then looked down. He couldn't see his feet as he seemed to be standing on a soft cloud that sparkled with random colors. He kneeled down and blew the dry ice-like clouds away. He saw that he was standing on a metallic surface with lights blinking briefly before the clouds covered it back up. He looked up. Before him stood a majestic futuristic city. He then turned around, expecting to see a rainbow bridge to earth. Instead, he saw what looked like a swirling vortex of rainbows. In front of it stood a futuristic panel with blinking lights.

"That's the Bifröst," Betania said. "It's an ancient portal system that can transport any fairy to anywhere on Earth. Only Fairies and-"

"-kids with fairy godparents can see it?"

Morbius turned sharply at the new voice, and was slightly shocked to see who was standing there.

"Liz?"

Liz was standing there with a smug look on her face. Beside her a male fairy with long black hair hovered. He was staring at Betania in shock.

"Betania…?" he stammered out finally.

"Caliban…?" she replied. Then she smiled and ran up to him and leapt into his arms and kissed him.

"Whoa, didn't see that coming," Morbius said. Liz walked over to him and watched the young looking couple hug.

"I had heard you got assigned to someone near where I was assigned, but I didn't know that you were assigned to Liz's best friend," the fairy referred to as Caliban said to Betania.

"I didn't know you were assigned to Morbius' best friend," Betania replied happily.

"Uh, excuse us," Morbius said, grabbing Liz's hand and heading to the Bifröst.

"Hold on you two! Wait for us!" Betania said. Both human teens stopped and waited for their fairies to catch up to them.

"Morbius, this is my boyfriend Caliban," Betania said as soon as they caught up.

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Caliban said, extending his hand.

"Likewise," Morbius took the hand and shook it firmly.

"Liz has told me a lot about you."

"Has she?"

"Only good things of course," Caliban said. Morbius blushed slightly. Caliban continued. "Liz, this is my girlfriend Betania. We've been dating for at least ten years."

"Morbius has told me a lot about you too, only good things as well," Betania said, extending her hand. Liz took it. Morbius noticed she seemed to be blushing a bit as well.

"Well, I didn't expect this at all," Morbius said after a while.

"Me neither," Liz said.

"Neither did we," Caliban said.

Morbius clapped his hands together and rubbed them. "Well, now that we all know each other, Liz, shall we explore this place? I assume that's why we're all here?"

She nodded. "Yeah. Come on, let's go!" Morbius and Liz began running towards the city.

"Wait for us, you two!" the fairies said, spreading their wings and flying after them. They landed next to their godchild and ran next to them.

As they entered the city the two teens noticed that they were getting strange looks from the other fairies.

"Wow, you were right Caliban," Liz said, "They really haven't seen a human before."

"Wait a minute," Morbius said, looking at Betania. "Some Fairies haven't seen a human in millennia?" Betania nodded.

"How come?" Liz asked. "Do they hate us?"

"They are…wary of your kind," Caliban replied, looking nervous. "See, when we arrived in the Milky Way and went down to try and make contact with humans, they attacked us. They had primitive weapons (no offense) but their ferocity surprised us. Only children seemed to accept us, older humans saw us as demons or monsters."

"That makes sense," Morbius said, "Humans have always been afraid of what they don't understand."

"Yea, they are, except for children. They are the most accepting," Betania said.

"Yea they are," Caliban agreed.

"Hey Morb! Look!" Liz pointed ahead of them to a really large building.

"Fairy World Library? Sweet!" Morbius and Liz looked at each other in muted excitement and dashed off, clouds parting in their wake.

"Wait for us!" the fairy couple rushed after them. They arrived at the Library in record time.

"Hey, do you have any books on the history of Fairy World?" Morbius asked the female woman at the front desk in a hushed tone. The lady didn't reply, but instead, without even looking up, raised her wand which glowed. In a small silent explosion of purple smoke that both teens were getting used to, they were transported from the front desk to a dusty corner of the Library. A few seconds later their fairies arrived.

"Look at all these books!" Liz exclaimed silently. "We could be in here all day and barely scratch the surface."

"I know what I'm doing for part of if not all day," Morbius said, grabbing a book and opening it. "Why don't you two go and enjoy the day?"

"Are you sure?" Betania asked, concern in her eyes and voice.

"Betania, we'll be fine. In fact, why don't I wish us all up some communication devices just in case we need you? I wish we all had a silent way of communicating with each other."

Betania raised her wand and they all felt a watch wrap around their wrists.

"If you need us, press the red button on the side," Betania said, pointing to the red button on hers. "Our watches will vibrate and we'll poof to wherever you are. Anything else?"

"No I think we're good," Liz said. She sat down and opened a book, then furled her eyebrows. "Actually, wait."

"What is it?" Caliban asked.

"I can't read this."

"Well what did you expect, Liz?" Morbius said, "It's in Fairy. I wish we both knew ancient Fairy and human languages." Betania and Caliban raised her wands with a smile. Morbius and Liz both felt mass amounts of language and syntax 'downloaded' into their brains, slowly so that they wouldn't get overloaded. In about a minute they knew every language known to Fairy and human.

"Thanks, Betania," Morbius said with a smile. "Now go have fun with your boyfriend."

Betania smiled happily and walked over to Caliban. "Come on, let's go visit my cousins. They love seeing you."

"And I love seeing them," Caliban replied, smiling. They raised their wands and vanished in purple smoke. Morbius looked at Liz and rubbed his hands together.

"Come on Liz, let's get to work."

This is getting interesting! Make sure to keep reading.

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