CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

ALDEN BITTEROOT-CREATOR OF ANTI-FAIRIES.

Denzel Crocker looked suspiciously, still, at Old Man Tang. The humpback teacher said,

"I have pictures of fairies too."

"Yes," said the elderly Asian man, "but not a FULL picture of them. You just have the tops of their heads, and their hands."

Crocker was taken aback. Clearly Tang had done his research.

"Can I see it?," asked Crocker.

Nguyen Tang reached into his pocket and pulled out a photograph. Crocker looked at it for a few minutes. Then he sneered.

"That is NOT a fairy," said the Elementary School teacher, "what kind of trick is this!"


"Alden Bitteroot," said A.J., "the famed "witchhunter?"

"Well," said Timmy, "that's what he called himself, but he was actually a witch himself."

"Or wizard, rather, or warlock," said Tootie, "that's what you call a male "witch".

"Yes," said Jorgen, "regardless of what you call him, he's pretty evil. I hear even the shadow is afraid of him."


The Shadow was beyond afraid of Bitteroot. He was terrified of him. He looked at the smoldering black mark on the ground where Marianne had been. After swallowing nervously, the Shadow spoke,

"So, what do we do now?"

"Like I said we wait," said Alden, "all of the pieces are not in place and we're NOT going to make the mistake Anti-Cosmo made act too quickly."

"How long," asked the Shadow.

"About a year," said Bitteroot.

"Why so long?," asked the Shadow, "and by that time, won't Turner and his friends be twelve. It'll be too late."

"Because it'll take that long to gather the army I'm planning. Destroying Fairy World, Earth, Pixie World, and Yugopotamia is going to take enormous power."


Crocker threw the photo back at Tang. He sneered again saying,

"That looks like a vampire. Did you get this picture from a costume party."

"No," said Tang, "that creature came into my study. This is a still from my security camera. You see the wand and the floating hat? That thing used the wand to destroy my desk and to play havoc with my stocks. He was threatening me to stop me FROM threatening Timmy Turner."

"Let me see the picture again," said Crocker.

The old man handed it to Denzel Crocker and the teacher looked at the photo a little closely. The creature was blue skinned and it had a monocle as well as a floating top hat. However, it did have a wand, albeit one with a black star on it. It, also, had bat like wings. This stirred a memory of something. Crocker rubbed his chin.

"Well, Crocker," said Nguyen, "what do you think."

"You're ALMOST right Tang," said Crocker, "it's not quite a fairy, but seeing it reminded me of something I had read of a while back."

"What?," said Tang.

"Well, there is a theory, everything has an opposite. Say, the kindest sweetest person in our world might have a villianous counterpart in a parallel world."

"So you're saying this thing," said the old man, "is the "opposite" of a fairy."

Crocker nodded and said,

"Yes, my dear Mr. Tang. I believe you've encoutered an "Anti-Fairy"


"That's still a very long time," said The Shadow, "what do I do while we wait?"

"Nothing," said Alden Bitteroot, "but don't worry; the time will pass for you really quickly."

"How...?" said The Shadow.

But the Shadow never finished his sentence. Bitteroot shot a beam of energy a the Shadow and he was encased in ice. Frozen solid.

"Sorry, my friend," said Alden, "I had to do that, but I don't like you unsupervised for a year. You may mess up my plans. Like I said, don't worry. The year will go by quickly for you."

And with that, Bitteroot took off on his broom.


The Shadow's scared of Bitteroot?," asked Isaac.

"Well," said Timmy, "he was able to block the magic of both Cosmo and Wanda, but I thought he was trapped in that old well."

"He was," said Jorgen, "but he escaped somehow."

"How?," asked Chester.

"We're not sure, like I said," replied Jorgen, "anyway because of this, we need to prepare you boys for the battle that's coming as well as develop your skills so all three of you can utilize your powers when you turn twelve."

"Powers?," said Chester, "what powers? We're just kids; we don't have any type of special powers."

Isaac looked over to Chester and to Timmy. He raised his eyebrow and said,

"Then Chester, why are you and Timmy floating two inches above the ground?"

Both boys looked down at their feet and saw that they were indeed floating above the ground.


"An anti-fairy?," said Tang, "fascinating. Do you know anything about them?"

"During the course of my research on fairies," said Crocker, "I've read of other magical creatures. I've seen references to things like this that look like fairies but are oddly colored. Legend, also, says they cause bad luck."

The old man took this in and said,

"Fascinating."

"So is this the reason that you've gotten me out of the insane asylum," said Crocker, "to identify a picture?"

"Well, yes," said Tang, "and much more. As I told you, we both share a common enemy, Timmy Turner. If we could capture a fairy, or maybe several fairies, perhaps we could harness their power, and since you've been researching fairies so long, you'd know more about whatever weaknesses these creatures may have. This way get the Turner boy out of the way forever. That would serve BOTH of our purposes."

Mr. Crocker nodded.

"So," said Ngyuen Tang, "is it a deal?"

Crocker looked over and smiled. The humpback teacher extended his hand. The elderly Asian man took his hand.

"Mr. Tang," said Crocker, "yes, you DO have yourself a deal."


Chester looked down and promptly freaked. He grabbed Timmy.

"Chester," said Timmy grabbing his friend on his shoulders, "pull yourself together."

However, suddenly Timmy and Chester both fell to the ground and then started rolling together crashing right into Jorgen. The Toughest Fairy in the Universe was NOT expecting this so he didn't have time to get out of the way. All three crashed into Jorgen's television and landed on a heap in the floor.

"This is going to be a long year," said Jorgen who was at the bottom of the heap.


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