"WHAT ARE YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"
Zeta scolded Carl and Jerry when they drew a doodle of Aggie hanging herself with a rope around her neck, and words above it that said, "DEATH TO AGGIE!"
"Uum…, just a hobby?" Jerry tried to make a good excuse.
"Boss, she almost got us all killed!" Carl told the truth.
"So, you lied that you forgive her?!" Zeta exclaimed in disbelief.
"Well, not because she's your niece, she's just a little girl. I feel bad if I hurt a young bird's feelings," Carl explained, "I have kids, too. What would they said if I don't forgive that girl?"
"Just erase that thing! You'll make her feel guiltier!" the purple eagle ordered.
When Carl and Jerry were about to wipe the drawing with pieces of cloth, Aggie just arrived from the forest after minutes of weeping.
"Hey guys, I'll just go to my hotel now," she said.
Aggie then saw a drawing of her hanging with a rope around her neck that Carl and Jerry drew. The two eagles then covered the drawing, and grinned sheepishly like the drawing the doesn't exist.
"Uh…, we love you!" Carl chuckled nervously.
Aggie knew that some of the birds, pigs and eagle still didn't forgive her yet because they don't want her to feel bad. She understood that. She knew what she did was too much. She just have to ignore Carl and Jerry's drawing as she skipped sadly into the hotel where her room was.
After the eagles watched Aggie skipping inside, Zeta glared back at her two guards, and they continued cleaning their mess.
Meanwhile, Red arrived too, a little late after Aggie came in. It's been a long day for him. He got stabbed, he almost died but came back to life by True Love's Kiss with Aggie, and now he can't get her back. All Red wanted was to go to sleep.
Without looking where he was going, Chuck was now in front of his face.
"HEY BUDDY!"
"WAH!" Red got surprised, "Chuck, come on. You almost gave me a heart attack!"
"Oh, now I attack your heart?" Chuck looked away, but laughed about it, "I'm kidding, for real this time. So, how are you and Aggie?"
"Are you back together again?" Bomb asked.
"Tell us everything!" Leonard requested.
The way Red saw the look on his friends' faces, they were really excited. They would've thought that he and Aggie fetched things up during their talk, and everything went back to normal, "To be honest…" But they were wrong, "No."
"WHAT?!" Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Leonard, Courtney and Garry exclaimed in disbelief.
"But I thought you guys love each other," Courtney said, "It's all clear to us now."
"Yeah. You guys are inseparable! Your bond is completely unbreakable! No matter how many times you both tried to get away from each other, you're still into each other… like my super string," Silver added.
Red sighed sadly, "I thought so too, but Aggie doesn't want to be with me for a while. I guess the pain and guilt were too much for her. She was so hurt. She needs this break."
"And you let her?" inquired Chuck.
"I respect her, Chuck! She's been through a lot lately. Let's give her a break! I never gave her this kind of respect since… the first time we broke up," Red replied and shook his head down, "Besides, it's for the best to all of us. She doesn't want us to suffer, even herself."
"But it's not the best for your and even half of her," Leonard protested.
"Red, you gotta stop let her sacrifice things she loves the most, including you," Garry warned. "This is what made her evil the first place. She sacrificed her feelings, until she exploded."
"Uh, that's not how she exploded," Bomb corrected.
"You know what I mean!" the smart pig shouted.
"Look, she gave me a chance to decide, and I blew it, okay?!" Red cried in regret, "Now, it's her turn to decide what was best, and I don't want to blow that again! If she decides something, and I'm going to respect her, just like what she did to me." Without looking back, Red marched towards the hotel where his room is.
As his friends watched him entering the birds' hotel, they felt bad that he and Aggie still didn't get together after everything what happened.
"And I thought they were meant for each other," Leonard kicked a small stone on the ground.
"Sometimes, things aren't meant to be," Chuck had his wings behind his back.
"Let's just all get to bed. It been a long tough day," Silver suggested as the birds and pigs went to their respective hotels.
It's the middle of the night again.
And this time, Aggie didn't run away. She's still on her bed, embracing a giant pillow in shame. She couldn't sleep. She's still in her guilty state. She couldn't forget of what she did, the things that she never had done before; she brutally hurt her friends.
She couldn't get those memories out of her head: Almost drowning all of the birds, pigs and eagles, made them survive in her dangerous traps, poisoning the young and her little brother, injured her friends, and murdered her ex-boyfriend.
It's not normal for her. Aggie was so devastated for what she done. Although some of the three tribes forgave her, but some secretly started to hate her. It's a feeling. Even though 75% of all three island forgave her, she never forgave herself for hurting and murdering her friends. She then buried her face on the pillow and cried.
In his room, Red couldn't sleep either. This must be the most unforgettable moment of his life. Being bullied and ignored wasn't new to him, but being murdered?! It was something he couldn't expect in his life. He used to kill himself when he was little, but now, someone else did him that favor. Someone he used to love the most. He couldn't get those moments out of his head of what Aggie did to him that were so painful: She smashed the engagement ring he reserved just for her, trapped him and Silver in a trap with giant sharp spikes, and stabbed him through his heart with a dagger.
Red couldn't help but thinking about it. He knew Aggie didn't mean to kill him, but what she said to him were right. Is it true? Is he only thinking about himself? Did he ever love Aggie when they were still dating or did he just used her so he won't be alone? Since Red became a hero and all birds loved him now, it's like he didn't have room for Aggie anymore. No wonder she was so angry at him. She worked hard to keep Red company, but all of it went away. He finally got what he wanted, but lose one.
Since Red couldn't sleep and been thinking about Aggie more than 30 minutes, he decided to leave his bed, and wanted to do something than lying down and thinking. He went to the diner that Leslie built. For such a young age, he knew how to build something and somewhere important. Red placed some food on a tray with Leslie behind him.
"I can't believed you woke me up so late just to make… that!" Leslie groaned tiredly.
"I'm just thinking that Aggie might be hungry after everything that happened," Red said.
"I also can't believe you did this to my big sister! She was so happy when you two were still together, but you ruined her smile!" the little boy yelled, "Okay, I know that she broke up with you, but you didn't notice she still has feelings for you?! Red, you and my sis are very close friends. You should've know better!"
"I know! I should've known! But I didn't! I ignore her… again! How would you know all of this anyway?"
"Just a feeling. You know, I never want to mind your business with my sister, but it's up to her if she wants to take you back again."
That human boy was right. He might not knew about her big sister's relationship with her former love interest, but Red agreed with him.
Since their rooms are in the same building, it's not hard to find Aggie's room while carrying some food on a tray. When he made it, Red successfully opened Aggie's door while holding a tray. It's strange that Aggie never locked her door. Probably because she was too devastated to be secure. Since his wings are full, Red closed the door behind him with his back. When he entered the room, he could see Aggie on her bed sleeping in sideways with her back facing the door. Red couldn't tell if she was sleeping or not because he couldn't see her face, but he assured that she was sleeping.
He sighed as he put the tray on a round table beside the bed, "Hey pal. I got food for you," Red started to talk to Aggie. Even though he thought she was sleeping, he still wanted to talk to her more, "I… got you chocolate sandwich cookie with crème filling, your favorite. And also a glass of cold chocolate milk." Of course he received no respond, she was sleeping! But he has to talk to pour his heart out, not literally, "Aggie…, I understand what you've been through. I've never been there, but I know how you feel. You were never like this before, and I know that you've changed yourself ever since… our breakup. To be honest, I felt hurt when you broke up with me, and I thought you love the universe more than me. But I realized… I was part of the universe, and you risked our relationship to save the energy of every life in the universe. I understand that you don't want this kind of responsibility because you're still thinking about me. And I never realized that. Ever since we broke up, I decided to take thing seriously for my job of protecting Bird Island, just like how you protect the energy of the universe, and I hardly had time for you. But, despite all that, I NEVER stop thinking about you. I know you thought that was lie, because Chuck and Bomb forced me on a Speed Date, I met Silver, and your started to feel the sense of jealousy for the first time. But that's why I tried not to participate on that Speed Dating because… I still have my eyes for you. I don't know why I have this same feeling when I'm with Silber, but I reassured you we're just friends. But I can't take it all back now it was too late. You're were hurt. All these years I trued to keep you happy, but I made you feel even worst. That's all my hard work for you: trying to make you feel better with your, life but I ruined it." Red look at the sleeping Aggie again with teary eyes as he placed one of his wings on her wing, "I don't want to believe about what you said that all this time I was using you for keeping me company before I became a hero. But those were not true. I never used you. Our friendship wasn't fake. There are all real. Even if you revealed to me that you're a human, I never pretended to be friends with you, because I meant to be with you as a friend. And then, I'm really in love with you. I wasn't lying, it's the truth! I understand you don't want to be in a relationship with me anymore. It's hard to start things all over again after what happened between us. You've been through so much now. I want you to rest from that. You deserve a break. You deserve better friends, Aggie. But I don't deserve you, because I wasn't been good to you. I just want to start things all over again with you… as your friend. I promise you that I will be your friend that you expect from me, no matter what happened. I hope you still realize…. How much I love you," the red bird cried, but tried to keep his crying quiet, not wanting to wake Aggie up.
Unbeknownst to him, Aggie was awake this whole time as she was listening to what he had said. She has to keep pretending to be asleep so it won't be awkward for Red that she was listening.
Not wanting to wake her up, Red brushed her hair with his fingers, and kissed her on the cheek. He squeezed her wing one more time before letting go to leave her alone. Red looked at Aggie one last time before heading towards the door, and left the room.
When Aggie heard the door slammed quietly, she hugged the pillow tighter and cried, feeling guilty that she had been doubting Red all this time. Aggie felt so sad and like betrayed her best friend. She did make the right decision to take a break from her relationship with Red, but she has second thought because she still has feelings for him. She doesn't know what to do.
The next morning, it's seems that everyone was wide awake, happily chatting with each other, already having their breakfast, and the young ones were active to play with each other. Even Carl and Jerry just finished cleaning their drawing of Aggie.
Meanwhile, Aggie just woke from falling asleep last night. She ate the cookies and milk that Red left for her in the middle of the night. She watched the young ones playing together happily while the adults chatted and ate breakfast together. It's like an everyday routine for everyone. It's like everything is normal for them.
When she stepped out of the building, Stella just approached her holding blueprints.
"Good morning, Ags! Guess what?" She unscrolled the blueprints in front of Aggie. It was the blueprints of the BPE Friendship, "Red just found the blueprints of the ship from the book of spells. With the ship this big, we'll need everyone's help. Right, Aggie?"
Aggie didn't pay attention as she still thought about Red and all of her wrongdoings, but she snapped out of it, and turned to Stella, "What? Oh, right. Sure."
"We just need some tools to repair the ship. Leslie have, but they're not enough."
When Stella mentioned tools for repairing damaged ships, Aggie remembered someone who were bringing tools along with them. She shoved her head aside at Stella's shoulder, and saw Silver talking with Chuck and Bomb, and Garry with Leonard and two other pigs, "You know, Silver and Garry have most of the tools you needed. Maybe they can give you some."
But then, Stella's face dropped in fear, "Um…, Ags, are you sure about this? I mean, you don't have issues with Garry, but Silver… Do you… Trust her now?"
"Well, like you said, we need everyone's help," Aggie repeated, "Garry has many gadgets to use, and Silver brought many tools since… she's an engineer, and I saw her bringing them on our mission, so… Yeah, I trust her."
"It's just that… we don't want you to turn evil again."
"I'll be fine, Stella. I mean it this time. Remember what my bad side said, she'll take over if I used my magic powers. So, I'll not use my magic."
"Are you sure you're okay not using magic?"
"I was born without discovering my powers, and my home is a world with no magic. I can take a hike."
"Well, alright. I'll just announce the plan to everyone."
"Sure, Stels, whatever."
When Stella left with the blueprints, Aggie spotted Red reading her spell book. Red got a chance to glance at her. They stared at each other for seconds with sad looks in their eyes, until Aggie looked away, and proceeded to walk away. Red only watched her go as he tried to stay focus on studying the book of spells of how to repair a ship that was made by magic.
After discussing the plan, most of the birds, pigs and eagles carried tools and new parts for the ship.
"I can't believe we have to fix the whole cruise ship," Roxanne groaned in exhaustion after waking up from sleeping.
"We have to. This is our only ticket back to our islands," Olive Blue said.
"Well, I don't want go home yet…," Cyrus sniffed, "Not when Mr. and Mrs. Galido are still back in Bird Island."
"Don't let them be our excuses!" Judge Peckinpah reminded, "We can't live in Magic Island anymore, just like Mr. Leslie said."
"The judge is right," Leonard approved of this, "We have to start fixing."
And so they were. The birds, pigs and eagles were helping each other repair the wrecked ship. They spent all day repairing. It's like rebuilding a destroyed town or something.
Pinky, Ella and one of the eagle guards were test-sailing on a small boat they made.
When Zeta watched her fellow eagles helping the small birds and pigs repairing the deck of the ship, she noticed that Aggie was sitting on a log reading the blueprints of the BPE Friendship.
As Aggie tried to concentrate, Zeta sat beside her. Aggie was still ashamed that she threatened her own aunt as she tried to avoid making eye contact with her.
"Hey, I know you don't want to, but I think you still have more problems that you haven't talk about it yet. Can you… tell me?" Zeta asked.
Aggie sighed in defeat that now she has to be honest to everyone who asked her, "I couldn't use my magic for now."
"Is it because of that evil side of you? Pfft. Please. It's like she doesn't exist," the purple eagle scoffed in disbelief, "But maybe if you could learn to control your magic without worrying."
"But that's just it! I'll never be able to control it anymore if I'm at this state!"
Just then, the small boat that Pinky, Ella, and an eagle guard rode on was suddenly speeding up, and crashed into the head of the wrecked ship. The three birds were okay, but their boat was destroyed and damaged the left side of the bow.
"Whoa! What happened?!" Poppy asked.
"I didn't mean to!" Aggie thought she was caught red-handed.
Zeta then covered her niece from her magic situation, "We didn't see anything, so we don't know what happened."
Zeta, Aggie, Poppy, and few of the birds and pigs ran to the three birds' aid.
"Are you guys okay?" Ruby questioned as she helped Ella to get up.
"Yeah. It was so… strange," the eagle guard replied, "The girls and I were just testing to sail with no wind. And all of a sudden… BAM!"
"I was blowing the sail, the wind picked up, and sent us right into here," Ella added.
Jim gasped in realization, "You don't think it was the spirits of Magic Island or Aunt Aggie's evil ancestors, do you?!"
Aggie looked away sadly, and whispered, "No. It was me."
"What's that?!" A pig screamed as he pointed pink trail of gem dust in the water.
Everyone saw that pink trail as they chattered in concern.
"Mr. Leslie!" Judge Peckinpah called as Leslie cut in, "Do you know about this?"
"Well, no! I know this is Magic Island and everything here is all magic, but I never saw this magic reached into the ocean before. In fact, the magic of the island can't even reach the ocean because it's salty."
"Oh, man! All our hard work! Ruined!" Carl shouted frustratingly.
"At least the fishies are eating well," Willow cooed at the jumping fishes at the magic pink trail. The fishes aren't affected by the magic.
"Let's salvage what we can out of the water. Maybe we can still fix this," Red suggested.
"We have to try!" Gale said with a tough voice, "This cruise ship needs a runway!"
"You mean, the deck?" Dahlia corrected her.
"Deck. Yes. That's what I meant," Gale murmured.
"We just have to keep working if we want to fix this ship," Silver said as she pulled her super string with Debbie hanging on it to get her up the giant cruise ship. "Oh shoot, we forgot extra wood and metal for the deck!"
"Don't worry, sis. I'll get some wood and metal for you," Chuck volunteered.
"I'm coming, too. I think I saw some wood and metal back at the basement of Star Mountain," Leslie told the yellow bird, "And if you're wondering, it's not flooded anymore. I think the water is already dried there. We'll go check it out."
Before Chuck and Leslie walked into the forest, Laird crawled out of a bush in front of them.
"The only checking out you will do will be to check out of here," he scolded.
"Aw, man," Leslie groaned frustratingly.
"I can't believe you put yourself in danger with these visitors," the Palmetrodon pointed the birds, pigs and eagles
"Huh. Look. Curvy Quills is scared," the human boy chuckled.
"That's Mr. Curvy Quills to you, fuzzy. I heard what happened to you and Star Mountain, and your sister is responsible for this mess!"
"Look, it was not her fault! She was… out of control with her feelings. We'll just get some wood and metal from Star Mountain."
"Oh no! I'm not going to let you go back to Star Mountain again!"
"If you help me and my sister's friends, they will get out of the island once and for all."
This gave Laird an idea. If he helped the birds, pigs and eagles repair the cruise ship, they'll going to leave… forever, "Alright then! But I have to come with you and your yellow bird friend here. You need adult supervision."
"Uh, Chuck is an adult," Leslie pointed.
"He's more like a child! I'm still coming along," Laird stated.
Leslie groaned, "Fine."
When Chuck, Leslie and Laird left to go to Star Mountain, everyone just stared at the three until they were out of sight.
"Unfortunately for now, the bossy one lives," Aggie giggled.
Suddenly, there was another earthquake occurred as everyone tried to hold their balance.
"Was that an earthquake?" Red asked as he felt it while starting to repair the deck.
"Like I told you before, this island doesn't have a fault line," Silver reminded from below.
"Hey! Who left this crystaly dusty stuff here?!" Oliver noticed a pink trail of sparkly dust on the sand when he played soccer with his fellow piglets, and the hatchlings and eaglets.
"That's strange. First, there was a sparkly trail in the water, and now there's more on the sand? What is going on?" Zeta wondered.
"Didn't you figure that out now, Aunt Zeta?! It was me!" Aggie squeaked in guilt, "Leslie did say this never happened before!"
"We're not sure about this, okay?!" Zeta almost blew out of anger at Aggie for giving her more situation about her niece's guilt. But the eagle exhaled calmly, "Look, I may be a woman of science, but I was raised by humans with magic for 10 years. I got use to this stuff, girl."
Meanwhile, as Debbie got distracted when the piglets spotted a pink sparkly trail on the sand, she felt that she almost got loose from the string as she hung tightly.
"I-I believe I'd like to come down now!" She yelped.
Silver heard her as she tried to pull the string, but it didn't move Debbie anywhere, "Sorry, it's a little bit stuck," As Silver started to pull to make the string unstuck, she didn't noticed her wings glowed and sparkled as so was the string, and suddenly sent Debbie swiftly upward. Silver was shock as she easily released her string, making Debbie fell. Silver quickly grabbed hold onto the string before Debbie could hit the ground.
Debbie panted from her screaming as she yelled angrily at the silver bird, "SILVER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Is everything okay over there?!" Kira approached the birds.
"Uh, I don't know what happened. I didn't even pull the string that hard. It's like she was light as a feather all of a sudden," Silver explained.
Debbie breathed heavily, "I was scared half to death!
"It wasn't my fault! Let me help you get that string out."
"No, thank you!"
When Debbie was suppose to shove Silver slowly backward, there was orange juice with ice cubes splashed out of her wings, pushing Silver into the bushes. Silver was now cold and soaking wet with juice.
"S-s-s-so c-c-c-cold!" She shivered.
"What in the world just happened?!" Courtney just saw that scene when took her eyes away from her phone.
"Oh, dear! I am so sorry! I think," Debbie said.
"How did you do that?" Zeta asked.
"I don't know. When I was just pushing Silver away, that happened. Maybe I was thinking of orange juice while I work. Did I just do whatever that was?" the young eagle wondered.
"I don't think it was your fault," Aggie said quietly, then told Debbie, "I gonna go get Silver a towel.
"Me, too," Zeta added as she followed Aggie. When they were alone, the purple eagle excitingly talk to the white sparrow, "Look at that! It seems almost everyone developed magic powers! This is great!
"No, it's not!" Aggie protested, "Silver and Debbie could have really hurt each other! Why is this happening? I don't understand!"
Just then, the two heard screaming from the village.
"What was that?" Zeta gasped.
"You go. I'll go get the towels, Aggie instructed as they went in different directions.
When Zeta made it to the village, Garry, Glenn, Willow, Gale, Alex, few of the pigs and piglets are already there, and they all went to the café, where they saw inside the place was a mess with batter and breaking candies.
'What's going on here?" Glenn asked.
"We don't know!" Matilda answered, "Bomb, Terence and I were baking some cookies for everyone for break time, and then when Terence dropped the batter on the tray… BOOM! They exploded!"
"I even throw in the candies in the baskets that Hal was holding, they popped like balloons all of a sudden. Like this," Bubbles threw a candy into a basket, but it glowed orange, and inflated and popped like balloons as the candy bits spread everywhere.
"At least we have candies for everyone," Hal picked up some shattered candies.
"And just like this," Bomb threw the batter on a bowl, and exploded as well.
"Okay. Why don't you guys lay off touching stuff for a while?" Zeta suggested.
"Why don't we just clean these up?" Garry said as he tried to reach for the tissue paper on top of a shelf, but he couldn't because he was too short, "I think I need my drones."
But suddenly, seven drones just flying from outside the café, and one of them reached for the tissue paper that Garry should get.
"What the—How did they get here?" Garry exclaimed.
"Didn't you control them?" Alex pointed him.
"I did not!" Garry then stared at his fellow pigs, "Did you do this?" But the pigs shook their heads, answering no. "Well, they can't control all by themselves. I mean, they can't even clean up the whole mess around here."
Just then, the drones unleashed their mechanical arms, grabbed cleaning supplies, and started to clean the mess up.
"Wow, I guess they did," Glenn chuckled. That was until he could hear what Garry thought in his mind.
"How could this be? How could my drones suddenly controlled themselves?"
"Maybe they're just malfunction," the scientist eagle guessed.
"I guess so," the gadgetry pig agreed.
When Glenn turned to Willow, who was shivered in fear, he could hear what Willow say inside of her head.
"Oh dear. I hope it won't hurt us all."
"Don't worry, little blue one. Just one little malfunction won't hurt someone," he patted her back.
"You're right," Willow nodded, until she was surprised that Glenn knew what she was thinking, "Wait, how did you know what was in my mind?"
"I guess I'm reading your mind."
"You can read minds now? That's impossible," Zeta refused to believe.
Just then, Silver and Debbie burst in, and Silver was still wet with orange juice.
"Did you tell them what happened? So crazy! I hoisted Debbie up with my Super String like it was nothing! I thought I had super strength, but when I tried to lift other heavy objects, I wasn't strong enough. I think I only have the strength for my Super Strings," the silver bird said.
"And I made cold orange juice appear out of nowhere, and it knocked Silver over and then it disappeared!" Debbie added
"Speaking of disappearing, has anybody seen Chuck, Leslie and Laird? It's been so long," Silver asked, until Chuck appeared out of a yellow portal behind him, and hit the wall.
"Ow!" He grunted.
Silver ran to his aid, and helped him get up, "Whoa! How'd you do that?"
"I don't know. I started running after Leslie and I gather more wood and metal, and the next thing I knew, I was practically back here!"
"That's super speed, remember? That's your power," a female pig reminded.
"I know, but not this time. When I was running, I just entered a glowing yellow portal, and sent me here!" the yellow bird explained further more, "It's like it knows where I want to go."
"Where are Leslie and Laird?" Dahlia inquired.
"We're here!" Leslie was tired of running while carrying some wood, metal, and Laird with his diamond-shaped constructs, "Whoa, Chuck! I know you run fast, but I never seen you making portals that transport you back here already."
"I didn't. I just magically appeared out of nowhere," Chuck replied.
"Wow! Being here in Magic Island is giving us all new magical abilities!" Sophie squealed.
"Not all of us have gotten new abilities," Zeta said, cI haven't, few of us haven't, even Aggie can't use magic."
"Is it because of her evil version?" guessed Gale, "What does she call that? Dark Aggie?"
"Oh please. Like I want to pretend that ain't happen. It's just Aggie, okay?" clarified Zeta.
Suddenly, a shadowy figure kicked the door open, making Willow screamed in fear. The shadowy figure was only Aggie carrying a bunch of towels.
"Silver! was looking for you! Here, I brought you some towels to dry up," Aggie handed the towels to Silver, and looked around the messy café, "Uh, what happened in here?"
"We're kinda trying to figure that out," one of the pigs said.
"Ags," Zeta interrupted her by poking her back, "Can you tell Glenn that he doesn't have mind-reading powers?"
"I do. I do have mind-reading powers!" Glenn insisted.
"Hmm," Aggie tried to observe Glenn to see where he got those kind of power, "I wonder this has something to do with your glasses," Aggie removed Glenn's glasses and asked, "So, can you read Bomb's mind?"
Glenn tried to read Bomb's mind, but he couldn't, "No, not really."
"How about now?" Aggie put Glenn's glasses back on.
Glenn then looked at Bomb, and read what was in his mind.
"I hope I didn't put too much baking soda on the cookies."
"Wow, I do read minds now, with these glasses," the chief engineer exclaimed in excitement, but Aggie was scared that it might be her magic had caused this.
"That's great, Glenn. Just don't use it too much. Well, we should get going to fix that cruise ship if we want to go home soon!" Aggie grinned as she playfully punched Zeta's wing.
When she can feel Aggie's fist on her wings, Zeta could hear someone screaming, "Willow, enough with the screaming!"
"I didn't scream," Willow shook her head.
"For once," Gale rolled her eyes.
"Nobody did, Alex said.
"Huh?" Zeta was confused. She was sure she heard screaming, but no one in the room screamed.
Just then, Leonard came in with sand all over his body, and two wooden panels sticking on his hooves, "Am I interrupting something?"
"What is it, Leonard?" Matilda questioned.
"Yeah, and what's going on with you?" Aggie asked.
"Well, I was going to give Red the last two wooden panels, but when I touched them with pig snot that I borrowed from Garry earlier, they just stick on my hooves. And then, when I called Courtney and she removed her headphones, some kind of shockwave of sound just appeared, and pushed some sand all over me," the king pig explained.
"I think we should all help each other out there to repair the ship, before anything else might happened," Zeta announced.
"She's right. Come on," Debbie agreed.
As everyone rushed out of the café to help their friends at the beach, Aggie went the opposite way as she went to the Magic Creek where she used to clean Red's blood off of her wings.
When she was alone, Aggie realized that almost all birds, pigs and eagles developed their own new magical abilities. She wanted to believe it was just the effects of the island, but she still have second thoughts that it was her fault. Since yesterday that she tried to keep her magic in to avoid Dark Aggie from getting out, she thought her magic were spreading all of a sudden without knowing it. For her, it's like Dark Aggie was forcing herself to release her magic. She and Dark Aggie were just one person. They both have magical abilities. If she used magic, then it's chaos all over again, and everyone will get hurt because of her.
Aggie: It used to be so simple
It was a world I understood
I didn't know what I didn't know
And life seemed pretty good
But now the darkness rises
From somewhere deep inside of me
Her power overtakes me
Can I keep this darkness from getting free?
If I can stay with the light
I know I'll be free
And I can start to be whole
I can start to be me
But instead I am struggling
With all that I see
And these friends
Mustn't see the darkness in me!
The darkness in me!
They mustn't see the darkness in me...
Meanwhile, it seemed that everyone in whole three islands developed their own new magical powers. It's not the same powers that the birds have when they fought the pigs to retrieve their eggs back 10 years ago. This is new. This is magic. Like what happened earlier, Silver can control her Super String, Garry can magically control his drones and any of his gadgets, Courtney can create and control music shockwaves from her headphones, Bomb and Matilda made things explode when they threw something like food, Chuck can summon portals to transport him from place to place whenever he runs, Leonard made pig snot permanently or temporarily sticky, and Debbie can summon any kind of juice with ice cubes. One-by-one, each of them developed more magical abilities: Mighty Eagle created massive wind power when he flapped his wings, Stella blew bubbles and her bubbles can lift objects with popping, Dahlia can teleport out of trace, Poppy can bang harder with drumsticks, Willow's newly-painted artwork came to life, Hal's beak became strong like a hard tool, Ruby can control sharp and cutting objects, and the rest have basic magic powers, like telekinesis, super strength, and controlling four elements of nature. Zeta is the only one who hasn't have any magical powers yet.
Everyone carefully tried to rebuild the cruise ship, easy and slowly, so they won't unleash more magic abilities from them.
Silver slowly pulled her string to send Chuck up on the ship with the wooden panels, and when he reached the unfinished deck, Chuck slowly walked on the deck so he won't run faster. He then noticed Gale sitting on a beach chair, sewing a dress.
"Uh, you gonna give us a hand here, Gale?" He requested for help.
"Oh, I'd love to, but I really need to get the stitching on this dress done if it's going to make it into the cruise ship fashion show when we sail off to home," the purple bird replied, "Though at the pace you all are moving, I don't know that the runway will ever be finished."
"The deck is one of the most important part of the cruise ship, and it's gonna get finished," Red assured.
"That is, if this blabbering speedster here would hurry up and bring me more wood," Hank referred to Chuck as he slowly hammered a nail.
Chuck was irritated to the eagle that beat and captured his sister and best friend, and didn't even say his name, "First of all, my name is Chuck, and second of all, I can't go any faster! I don't want to end up opening a portal to transport me into another place where I can get lost again."
"Don't be silly."
"Really?"
Chuck made Hank realized that he has been careful with his strength as well when there's magic all over. His hammering was light and gentle.
From below the ship, Judge Peckinpah noticed how careful the birds, pigs and eagles are when they find out their new magic powers. Even the judge found out his new magic powers; levitating mallets. If these people are slowing themselves down by avoiding use of of magic, they'll never going to fix it in time, "I know I said we should try to forget all about this new magic business since… yesterday, but I can't," he announced, even trying not to mention about Aggie.
"Oh man! I'm all out of nails," Jerry shook an empty box of nails.
"We need more nails here," a soldier pig called
"Oh, here you go!" Bomb threw a new box of nails in the air.
"BOMB, NO!" Everyone screamed as the box of nails were thrown in the air. They all took cover from the incoming explosion.
But then, Pinky's head feathers grew bigger, and covered everyone near her from the box of nails like an umbrella. But the box didn't explode as they sighed in relief. Then, they all glared at Bomb.
"What?" Bomb shrugged in confuse, until he laughed, "Ohhh, did you think the nails would explode like the batter of the cookies? Wow! Glad that didn't happen, huh?!"
Then, Pinky's head feathers shrunk back to its normal size, "Sorry, everyone. I didn't mean to. I don't know how to control this."
"It's okay," Ruby said.
"Oh, none of us do," Debbie waved.
"Which is why we shouldn't pretend this isn't happening!" Red suggested, announcing it to everyone around the area.
"Easy for you to say!" Leonard shouted from below, "You watched Aggie using magic all the time, and now, you have your own magic staff!"
"That's why I'm not afraid to use magic. It's part of a new experience," Red explained, "Some people said magic is evil, but sometimes it can be good if you want use it for good. It can be helpful too. Let's just not use it for our own benefit, let's just use it to help one another. That's how Aggie use magic, We can't just brush these powers aside because it doesn't seem like the ideal time to get them. What if it turns out that they could actually make things better?"
Red: So you have magic
And it's not that great
But when it found you
You know it was fate
And it might seem scary now
But it can be wonderful, too
So how about we embrace the magic
And make the magic part of you?
You take a little dash of magic
And you let it ignite
Mix things up a little bit
And it might start to go right
In just five seconds flat
How the story has changed
All 'cause now you've embraced the magic
And it just got better in every way
I say embrace the magic
No more holding back, just let it out
If you can take the magic
And learn a little more what it can do
Once the magic is part of you
What's standing in your way
That you can't move today?
You've got the strength in you
To make your dreams come true
No need to shield yourself
From the magic that can help
Protect from any harm that might come
So you have magic
And it's not that great
But when it found you
You know it was fate
So if you listen close
You might make a new friend
And together we can make it!
I say embrace the magic
No more holding back, just let it out
If you can take the magic
And learn a little more what it can do
Once the magic is part of you
Once the magic is part of you
Once the magic is part of you
Once the magic is part of you
And so they did, everyone has been using magic to rebuild the wrecked cruise ship. Each of their powers are very useful, like Silver tying the wooden panels with Super String, Chuck and Dahlia can transport somewhere around the island to find more tools as quickly as possible, Glenn can read minds to know what his fellow eagles and the small birds and pigs need to work, and gave them the things they wanted, Leonard touched the pig snot, and used it as glue to stick the broken parts, Courtney used the shockwave of her headphone and Stella used her bubbles to make them carry heavy objects up to their friends on the ship, Pinky shielded the young ones from falling objects of the ship with her head-feathers while they were playing, Garry instructed his drones by mind to carry some sheets and towels for some sweaty workers, Ruby controlled the saw and steel saw to cut the wood panels, and Bomb, Matilda, Terence, Hal, and Bubbles brought carts of snacks, which they made it too to bake since they have exploding powers now (they don't need the oven as the explosion baked the bake-goods easily and quickly), and Debbie many kinds of cold juices and beverages, and filled them in drinking glasses.
In just few hours, the cruise ship was already fix, good as new and improved. It seemed that using a little bit of magic paid off of repairing the ship in a day. But it's not the magic helped repair their ticket home, it's because they work together, and helped each other embrace the magic inside of them.
Yes! Finally, chapter 20! My first post of the year!
This chapter was based from My Little Pony Equestria Girl: Legend of Everfree when the birds, pigs and eagles discovered their newly developed magical powers, which were the effects of Magic Island, but Aggie thought it was all hers.
The idea just came to me after watching an episode of Family Guy that Peter drew Joe on the wall hanging with a rope around his neck, and hid it when Joe appeared. So, I thought that Carl and Jerry would do the same to Aggie, but they covered their drawing when she encountered them.
Laird is alive after 15 chapters of absence.
I ran out of ideas of giving every character of the story a unique magical ability, so the rest of the three groups have basic magical abilities. Zeta will discovered her magic powers in the next chapter, but it was hinted earlier.
To clarify this, magical powers are different from game abilities that the birds have in the game.
Note: Pinky's magical ability is similar to Umbrella Leaf from Plants vs Zombies.
This is my 3rd month anniversary gift for my dear friend, Sijiji. Happy 3rd friendship monthsary, pal!
I hope you like this chapter a lot. If you do, please review and support. No negative comments, please. Thank you!