Cosmo shielded himself in terror as the debris of the concaving domain fell to his far left. The old stone and copper piping collapsed in an eruption of dust as it blocked off where they had escaped from only minutes before. Cosmo fearfully looked back, then towards the remainder of the corridor as things began to cracking in different edges and nooks of the building. Cosmo had been correct before when the tremors started, knowing deep down something wasn't right for once. And now, they were in the pit of chaos as the prison was beginning to break down.
Watching cracks trail along the ceiling stone, Cosmo gasped frantically as he tore his gaze down to his poor godson. Sobbing over his father's body in pleading for him to wake up. Cosmo blinked madly as to process. But sadly, it had been long enough.
"Timmy, we have to go." Cosmo said, then flinching from the sound of debris falling in the distance. It sounded as though it was tracing up to them.
More debris fell, nearly dropping over Timmy though Cosmo struck a wand forward and crumbled the rock to pieces before it could reach him.
"Timmy!" Cosmo demanded in panic.
"Shut up!" Timmy barked as he tore his sobbing face from his father's chest to the fairy. His eyes were clenched in an attempt to gain more vision than he had already lost from the blurred tears. He couldn't withstand the aggression anyhow though and fell back to his father. His cries audibly loud and painful though the crumbling of the prison walls easily drowned them out.
"We need to get out of here!" Cosmo said.
"I'm not going anywhere with you!" Timmy hollowed out sorrowfully.
The fairy's eyes were brought to the ceiling when a sharp sound greeted him. A larger branch had formed out of what was already cracking and trailed along the entirety of the ceiling. Beelining for Cosmo and Timmy and not looking like it would withhold any longer.
"I made a promise to Wanda." Cosmo's eyes left the cracking ceiling, to Timmy. "And your father."
Cosmo forcefully swiped Timmy by his shoulders and tore him from his dead father. The child screamed in panic and protest as he scrambled in Cosmo's arms though the fairy didn't dare let go. Cosmo immediately taking flight down the hallway as he kept Timmy tightly in his grip and resisted Timmy's swats and kicks and screams of terror as he refused Cosmo's clutches.
"Lemme down!" Timmy cried with a hoarse and tearful voice. He swatted Cosmo's side hard in defiance. "Stop it! Stop it! Dad!" Timmy's cried painfully against Cosmo. "I-I want my d-dad!"
Cosmo forcefully blocked out Timmy's crying protests in order to not let his pain distract him from getting his godson back to safety. Tightening his hold on the boy as he flew faster in opposite to Timmy's demands.
The boy's wiggling slowly subdued as he cried louder and longer, staring tearfully over Cosmo at the ground they left behind. The ceiling from before gave in and fell to bits as it blocked the last little given view the boy could ever see of his father.
Timmy's tearful face laid limp against Cosmo's shoulder, looking out to where the wall had fallen. He reached a small hand. "Dad.." he no longer could withstand it was he buried his face into Cosmo. In the flight to safety, Cosmo's hand grazed Timmy's shoulder. The fairy hunched over as he dodged small bits of fallen debris, the collapsing of the prison not slowing down and certainly not gonna stop when they reach the front. Cosmo flew faster in terror, seeing the ending point of the corridor gaining on them. Reaching it in desperation, Cosmo came to a sharp halt as he nearly flew flat against the wall greeting them. He made way for the front doors, hoping to god Wanda was where she was as promised.
As soon as Cosmo kicked open the doors and the red sky greeted them, The fairy didn't think twice in racing up to the pink dot that sat at the base of a large bolder in waiting. Wanda scrambled to her feet in overstimulated sight of her husband clutching their godchild, her magic not yet restored by the mere look of it.
"Timmy! Cosmo, oh thank-"
"We have to get out of here!"
"What? Where-?"
"Away from here!" He grabbed her wrist and pulled her along with them in their flight.
They bolted for the dead, open field beyond the walls of Anti-Abacatraz in panic. The husky rock ridden field surrounded by nothing but walls of mountains to the far opposing sides as civilization wasn't for miles. Bathed in the red sky as the ground bellow was heated from the heat of Anti-Fairy World. As they flew, Timmy refused to look up from Cosmo's shoulder.
The godfather flew fast in a panic with his wife's wrist in his grip and his other arm looped around Timmy's middle. Cosmo's breaths uneven and raggedy the faster he flew and the more his wings ached from the pressure he was putting on them to pick up speed. Fluttering back and forth once or twice to gain speed as he began to sweat from the fear and sneaking exhaustion. As Wanda merely fumbled around with her arm locked tightly by his terrified grip, she looked up.
"What is going on!?" She yelled.
"It's gonna collapse!" He panicked.
"What?"
"My-My wand, it's in my pocket!" Cosmo yelled with his hands full.
"I can't, Cosmo! My magic is still-" Wanda's eyes left her husband as she looked in horror at their behind. "Cosmo!"
He fearfully looked behind as well, his breath hitching. Anti-Abracatraz met its final state as the entirety of the prison began to concave inwards completely. Collapsing and raining with a large grey cloud of debris. As the dust and remains came storming down at a high pace, Cosmo attempted to fly faster. The eruption trailing quickly and vastly along the dead field in their direction.
"Cosmo!"
"I'm going as fast as I-!"
An abrupt force suddenly took Cosmo from behind and flew him out of sorts.
Storming around in the debris the three screamed in panic as the dust began to clog their breathing and they lost sight of the world around them as they spun rapidly in the harsh winds. Their entire surroundings ceasing to exist and replaced with a harsh grey. The force was so abrupt that sure enough, Wanda's grip on Cosmo broke off and she went flying in another direction with a yell.
"Wanda!" Cosmo reached out, though this further made him lose his grip on his godchild as well.
"Help!" The boy screamed out as he disappeared into the dust as well, and Cosmo gasped out for him. The storms took control of his flight pattern completely and Cosmo was no longer in control as he was whipped around like a fly caught in the wind. Tumbling around helplessly until he was blown to the rocky ground with a startling impact. Hitting it with a thud as he curled up his knees underneath him and placed his hands over the back of his head in shielding. The remainder of the dusty debris rushing past him at an exceedingly fast and abrupt pace. Cosmo remained curled in fear and protection, desperately waiting it out and desperately hoping for the two people he loved the most to remain safe.
The winds subdued, and Cosmo lifted his fearfully lidded eyes.
Peaks of red began to poke through the grey as it calmed down. And within a long minute, the entirety of the winds stopped and the rocky field was blanketed in debris. Cosmo hastily remained on his knees as he looked every which way, before spotting Wanda hunched over not too far along. He lifted off the ground to go to her as she coughed the dust out of her system.
"Wanda! Wanda, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm-" Wanda coughed a bit more. "I'm fine..."
Cosmo nodded, as he looked around. "Where's Timmy?"
Wanda carefully got to her feet. "T-There.." she pointed with a small cough. "T-Timmy!"
The boy remained a few ways behind in the dust, sitting motionlessly with his back turned. His gaze was cast down though Wanda paid no attention nor care as she came racing up to where he sat, throwing herself around him protectively.
"Sport! Oh, Timmy!" Wanda cried, kissing him atop of his head continuously. "Timmy...I'm so, so sorry. Everything's gonna be okay, now. I promise."
Cosmo sadly approached from behind, watching as Wanda pulled away and sought for Timmy's face as she lifted it in her hands. Though Timmy's eyes didn't meet hers. Freshly fallen tears remained a part of his face and Wanda's lips parted in worry as she examined his complexion with bright, worried eyes. Knowing that he was deathly afraid and unknowing as to who she is.
"Timmy," She said softly. "We're here to help.."
The boy cried silently as he reached his hands to Wanda's wrists and pulled them off. Scooting away as he fought for space from the stranger before him. Wanda's sad eyes only etched with concern. Wondering what could cause her godchild so much pain.
Until.
"Where's..." Wanda looked beyond where the wrecked building remained in the distance. Her expression turning to more concern than it already was as her eyes widened in horror. The godmother looked to her husband for affirmation. Cosmo was silent as his wife's eyes looked to him in question. With a face of defeat, Cosmo slowly shook his head no.
Wanda breathed quietly, lifting a hand to her lips in shock. She carefully looked back at her godchild with a soft gaze. "Timmy..."
"Leave me alone..." he cried quietly with his face buried in his knees.
Wanda lifted to her feet, walking to her husband as he met her level. Both looking to their godchild. "Did they..?"
Cosmo again nodded.
Wanda silently choked in another breath and sought for Cosmo's hand. Watching silently as Timmy cried against his knees in the repercussions of his father's untimely death that Timmy had been ripped away from far too soon for a child's need.
They would have stayed like that for longer if a rumbling in the distance hadn't arisen. Cosmo and Wanda looked back in the direction of where the civilization of Anti-Fairy World was for miles. A shadow of some sort rose upon the horizon, and the fairies feared it might've been another cloud forming. Until the audible rumbling escalated into screams of terror as it got closer. Soon to realize that an entire population of anti-fairies was flying this way.
"Cosmo, Timmy!" Wanda yelled. The godparents abruptly grabbed their godchild and fumbled to a nearby bolder, having no other choice but that. They reached it in a struggle with Wanda having to walk and Timmy being limp in his walking from receding to silence in his mourning. As they reached the boulder they huddled against it though it remained in the direct path of the anti-fairies. Timmy squished in between Cosmo and Wanda as they huddled to each of his sides, right as the creatures began to fly over in screams of fear. Cosmo and Wanda curled their heads in against Timmy's.
A large shadow graced over them made of millions of the residents that flew away. All of them sounded as though their lives were hanging on a thread as they fought to get as far away from Anti-Fairy World as possible. In the midst of the terrorized yells, few were picked up by the occupants of the rock.
"He's gonna unleash that thing all over!"
"We have to get outta here!"
Cosmo and Wanda hugged Timmy tighter from the overhead of anti-fairies rushing up and around the bolder attempts of getting away quickly and going who knows where. Timmy too hugged the arms that were around him in fear, barely having the faintest clue as to where or who he was stuck with, but fearing for his life after watching his father die because of these creatures.
The anti-fairies sounded more terrorized than they've ever been as they fled. And while Cosmo and Wanda were not to be concerned with anything but keeping Timmy from their clutches at the moment...
"It's gonna destroy all of us!"
Wanda looked at Cosmo. If whatever they were fleeing from scared them, it would certainly scare a couple of fairies.
Eventually, the long crowd of anti-fairies met it ends and the creatures flew off and out of sight. Cosmo carefully pulled away from their huddle and lifted himself off the ground to gaze over the bolder at the empty field.
"Where could they be going?" Cosmo asked as his eyes grazed the horizon.
"Probably Pixie World." Wanda spoke from the bottom as she held a terrified Timmy. "They'd offer them sanctuary, for sure.."
Cosmo reeled back down from the rock.
"What would they be afraid of?"
Wanda frowned in fear. "Whatever knocked down the prison, I suppose.."
"You think...he did?"
Wanda shook her head. "Anti-Cosmo wouldn't break down government property." She said. "Was there anything else in there that you found? Anything?"
Cosmo nodded adamantly as he remembered clearly. "That thing that took Timmy, it was holding him down or something. I put it back in the trunk but it was a lot bigger than it was in Fairy World."
Wanda gently let go of Timmy and stood up. "That's exactly it, then. It's angry and looking for Timmy, Anti-Cosmo released it after you two fled."
"Or it released itself.." Cosmo feared.
The pink fairy swallowed. "We have to stop it."
"But, your magic."
Wanda pulled out her wand and held it openly within her palms. Sighing in vexation, she raised it high and attempted to conjure a spark of magic. Her wand puttered in a pitiful attempt giving somewhat of a spark before dying out again.
"I don't have a lot." Wanda said, lowering her arm. "It's coming back too slowly. But I have enough for you to recharge it if you-"
A piercing uproar traveled across the field at an immense volume, causing all three the clutch their ears painfully. Cosmo strikingly rose up again to peer over the rock, seeing that a shadow edged over the horizon once more in approach. The darkness looking almost as big as the sky itself as it ate up all light surrounding the dead rockiness of Anti-Fairy World.
"We have company."
Wanda quickly kneeled by Timmy's side. "Timmy, sweetie, do not leave from behind this rock. Okay?"
Timmy clutched his knees to his chest fearfully. His tears were dried in large streams against his muted skin though he gave Wanda a subtle nod in obliging. Wanda quickly turned to her husband and tossed up her wand.
"Let's go," Wanda said already running out from behind the rock. Cosmo quickly followed behind as he began to create friction in rubbing the two wands together, initiating small sparks of magic. They reached the focal point of the field as Wanda fearfully stared down the shadow that approached.
Cosmo chafed the wands together. "Wanda-"
"Don't stop, Cosmo." His wife encouraged as she didn't tear her gaze away from the darkness. "...where are Jorgen and Tracy?"
Cosmo fractured his wand repeatedly against Wanda's as he initiated the same yellow spark over and over but nothing more than that. He quickened his pace though it gave him the same reaction and he looked up at the darkness that was descending closer over the rocky field. Roaring horrendously in seeing the two light magic sources that stood in the open field and began to beeline for them.
The green fairy burningly looked back down. "C'mon, you stupid thing!"
"Cosmo.." Wanda worried as she watched the black wave storm over.
It heightened to sky's length. Shadowing over ever crevasse in its path. Wanda watched as the horizon's figures completely disappeared under the storming magic's shadow, and she stiffened every time the thing would hiss and roar and rumble like a cyclone and monster wrapped in one. Years of inactive wishing and lost hopes embedded in one wave of black magic that now sought out for any good nature to destroy. It painted its trail in the pitch black and blanketed over the field as it approached. It traveled, almost teasingly, at a cautious pace. Though it did not slow down and continued to uproar heavily as Wanda watched fearfully and Cosmo sought to regain his wife's magic so that they may both fight. So that they may create a stronger opposing force. He looked up from the wands and in seeing the wave come closer, he fearfully looked down and quickened his pace.
Timmy watched from behind the rock.
It was like hell itself. Nothing but a darkness that stormed over to the opposing fairies in the middle of the battlefield. Even in a grungy world, it was more terrifying. More powerful, more menacing, more destructive, more hungry for anything it could get its hands on. Never anything the boy thought to be possible but it was there and looked like it would turn anything to ash that dared challenge it.
Timmy looked to the two fairies.
They were like dots compared to what they were up against. As the pink lady stood guard, though she did not seem to have the same capability as her husband, the green guy kept attempting to recharge their power though nothing of any sort seemed to be working. Though they seemed like the bravest of souls to be fighting in this circumstance, Timmy could not surpass the fear that was on their faces. Even with the intention of stopping that thing, by the mere look of them, they were like sacrificial lambs. Pawns for slowing down evil, but certainly not the forces that could stop it.
"Get out of there.." Timmy said.
His eyes trailed back to the darkness descending. It was eating up every light source in the blink of an eye without any destruction being thrown against it in return. And as it picked up its pace and thundered and roared at its opposers, Timmy only got more frantic.
"Get out, it's not worth it!"
They failed to hear him. Timmy firmly pressed his lips together, before his hands left the sanctuary of the rock.
Timmy ran to an open center of the field a few ways behind where Cosmo and Wanda remained. Knowing not to get their attention if it were to stop them from whatever they were to do and stop the darkness. Timmy stood guard in fear as his eyes kept switching back and forth between the black wave and the fairies. Maybe they would surprise him, maybe they would perform something he'd never seen before and prove to be a bigger force than this evil. That had to only be it because otherwise, they were only sacrificing themselves.
The wave began to storm over quickly.
"Cosmo, hurry!" Wanda yelled.
The green fairy picked up on a larger spark as he kept chafing the wands together desperately.
Timmy only looked at the black wave fearfully as it stormed over with thundering noise. He cupped his hands around his mouth as he called. "Hey!" He called. They did not turn around. "Hey! Are you crazy!?"
They could not hear him under the noise that the black magic volumized in sync to its approach. The wave would not slow down, and Timmy nested his worried gaze back to the creatures that stood in the center. It was then that Timmy began to realize that they didn't look they belong in this world. They looked too...happy. Not in an emotional sense but the way their colors shined against the approaching shadow and the blood-red of the sky, it made them an obvious unfit. Timmy knew that he'd bring brought here where he passed as an intruder, but it seemed as though these two were no different.
Although, their colors were indeed something else.
Why he was to think this in the midst of chaos, it was unbeknown. But his gaze was lost in their hypnotizing colors and weren't to leave even if he tried. The adamancy that the colors screamed out to Timmy was soothing in his eyes. More soothing than he had felt in a long time. He didn't want to look anywhere else, but as the colors called and teased him with a satisfying perception filled with bliss, he found rather he couldn't look away. In the pit of an abyss, it was the only light keeping his head over water.
..In the pit of an abyss, it was the only light keeping his head over water...
Timmy blinked.
Where had he felt that before?
His life was definitely one that could be described as an endless abyss. Day to day he felt like the shackles that remained around his ankles were being weighed down more and more due to it all. Every passing of a name, and a punch, and a bad grade, and brutality, it added to the weighing shackles. It made walking every day become harder and harder. Timmy had to drag his feet endlessly just to survive a day through his netherworld. If they were to get any heavier, he might just fall down and never get back up again.
Now, he was in what could only be the literal abyss. A world of hatred and danger everywhere he looked. Peace and joy must have been but a novelty in a place like this for it to be so cruel. To keep Timmy locked up in literal shackles, to beat him, to tear his own father away from him...
It was another form of the abyss he was experiencing. One different from his back home.
But, in the midst of it, those colors shined so brightly.
The pink lady was vibrant with her rose tint. It reminded Timmy somewhat of the fuschia he often wore, although, this was much different. It was more bright, and pretty, and warm, and gentle, and soothing, and...
Timmy blinked again.
The fella's green was something too. Much more electric compared to any other that Timmy has ever seen. The brightness it shone was almost thrilling if anything. It gave him a weird feeling of having something look forward too though no particular thing could exist at a moment like this. Still, the green was filling the boy with assurance and...a longing for amusement.
..In the pit of an abyss, it was the only light keeping his head over water...
. . .
The colors were the only thing that filled him with a happy feeling in this abyss.
The green one had shown up and freed Timmy from the clutches of a cell. Where he was abandoned to a corner and weighed down by shackles only to brew in his own misery. That reflected real life more than Timmy could express. The shackles, literal or the people around him, kept him in that hollowing misery. In this world, these creatures had shown up and freed him from it no questions asked. And before facing the suffering of his father's death, he actually felt free.
But, that didn't explain exactly why the colors were so comforting to him.
The fairies remained centered.
Cosmo gave a few more strikes of his wand against Wanda's with a yell of frustration. Wanda's wand flashing with an abrupt glow every time he did. His wife remained guard though her arms were outstretched in fear as the darkness was now incredibly close.
"Cosmo!" Wanda panicked over the insufferable winds and howls of the black magic.
"Almost...there!" Cosmo struggled.
His wand came swinging down once more, and the opposing wand suddenly beamed brightly.
The magic shocked through her and Wanda took in a fiery breath. Her wings lifted and she soared off the ground as she retrieved her wand from Cosmo. The fairies raised them both high with an audible ding.
The wave reached them.
It mightily roared and sent a wind as strong as a hurricane, though the magic it conjured only affected the tiny fairies' grips on their wands as they were strikingly flown out of their grasps and out of sight amongst the blackness.
"No!" Wanda reached two hands forward.
The wave roared once more.
Both fairies plummeted to the ground from the impact to fall flat. Fearfully sitting up and shifted to one another desperately as they clutched to their spouse. Their brightly shone eyes surveilling up the entirety of the black wall of magic that peered down on them. Gaining to engulf them completely.
Timmy gasped silently as he watched the two helpless fairies fall victim under the darkness. The dreaded thing lowering to take them for itself. Panic ran through the boy as he sought to do something. Help the colorful creatures escape somehow.
Help the colorful creatures...
Help...
Help his colors.
No. It didn't make any sense. None of it did. There couldn't be any comfort or familiarity derived out of any of this. None of this was a familiarity to him because he had never been here, nor seen their faces before. Seeing something beautiful didn't make it yours to claim. Don't mistake it for something that automatically belongs to you.
Don't make that mistake Timmy!
Don't do it!
No, Timmy, no don't-! TIMMY TURNER DON'T-!
Timmy's eyes widened with a shaky gasp.
He knew that voice. It was familiar, and terrified, and begging of him to not go through with what he was going to go through with. But, it was not this. It was something else. The voice was familiar...the voice was...it was...
It was one of theirs.
The darkness gained on the creatures. Timmy regained the voices in fragments.
Undo the wish! Oh gosh, Timmy! Undo it!
There was no clear recognition, but Timmy knew...
That's it..you're okay...
He knew...
I'm sorry we don't know what's happening.
What did he know?
You're..not a full human.
"What?"
The darkness got closer to the creatures. Lowering it's threatening clutches on them as it threatened to engulf them completely and never let them see the light of day again. Timmy's mind was completely clouded with broken fragments and he desperately longed to remember the closer the black cloud gained on the fairies.
He stopped.
"The black cloud..." he muttered.
An unfinished stripe of memory circulated in the back of Timmy's mind. One that he could not recall, but certainly remembered.
...like a black cloud. One that was there to destroy the habitats and beauty that Timmy knew...
That Timmy knew what!?
...habitats.
...beauty.
The shadow cast over the fairies, and they looked away in fear.
Only an image of heaven...
Timmy knew of a heavenly place somewhere that had beauty and habitats. The black cloud...it was louring to destroy these creatures. Creatures of their kind. It was louring to destroy the beauty and habitats that Timmy knew...
..that Timmy knew Fairy World to be.
The boy was struck as he looked towards the tint of green and pink that remained from the shadow that had just barely engulfed them. Them. The fairies. They were real. They came from a world far away. A place that was only an image of heaven though still a paradise in Timmy's eyes. A place that belonged to him in the clouds. A place he felt he could escape to. A place he loved threatened by darkness, which could easily hurt him as well.
Another memory poked through.
Hurting his dreams.
Hurting his chances of adventure.
Timmy's eyes widened.
Hurting his family...
It all came rushing back to him.
Every detail playing out like the speed of lightning as an illuminating rush flashed over the boy's bright blue eyes in a surge of remembrance.
"COSMO! WANDA!"
His power illuminated out of him as he outstretched his arms in pure panic. Emerging from his palms in a white eruption with his chest drawing forward as well from impact, as the magic soared across the dead field in a rushing wave towards the offender that dared threaten his godparents.
Cosmo and Wanda had turned around in shocking revelation at Timmy's terrorized call for them, and at the sight of his magic coming forth like a swinging blade, they dropped to the ground as it came in contact with the blasted dark thing and knocked the entire wave back for near miles.
Cosmo and Wanda lifted themselves off the ground, looking to where the black magic was knocked back.
And then at Timmy.
At the sight of him gaining on them, it only confirmed what they had hoped within that mid-second that he called to them with a sense of familiarity. It wasn't just that he had called to them, it was the recognition that they had picked up in his voice.
Nearly jumping out of their skins, the fairies rocketed off the ground towards their godson, as did he. They met in the middle in a jarring impact as they threw their arms around him with withered cries of relief as he pleaded out to them desperately.
"I don't hate you! I don't hate you!" Timmy cried in their arms. "I never hated you, I swear!"
Their cheeks were guttered with tears, though wide smiles engulfed the fairies' faces as they gripped onto their godchild tighter than they ever had before.
"Timmy.." Wanda wept. "Oh, thank g-goodness..."
"I'm sorry.."
"No, no, no." Wanda said as she and Cosmo pulled away quickly. Both fairies kissed Timmy's head fervently, unable to contain themselves. Wanda pulled back after kissing him on his hair once more. Her thumb ran back and forth on the boy's cheek, adoration washed over her face as she breathed raggedly in complete relief. "We're so sorry we let this happen.."
Timmy let a sad smile loose with his face in Wanda's hands, as he wiped his tears with a fist. "Can we just...call it even?"
Though they smiled tearfully, they were still branded with complete shock. "How..how do you remember..?" Wanda asked.
"I don't know.." Timmy breathed, still smiling.
It was near impossible but in the back of Wanda's mind, the circumstance of what's too strong to break rang as the possibility. It was undeniable that what Cupid had said was right. Love leaves memories no one can steal.
His fairies yanked him back into their arms, tearfully and utterly diminished. "Oh..we love you.." Wanda whispered.
They stayed like that for a good while, as dangerous as it may have been in the middle of an open field in Anti-Fairy World. But the trio had never felt so whole as they did right now in reuniting property. Now that their Timmy had been rescued.
After a few moments of relishing in the familiarity of his godparents' arms, Timmy opened his eyes. "Guys..dad..."
His godparents as well opened their eyes, though they didn't dare let go of Timmy. Wanda brought her hand to the back of his head. "Timmy.." she spoke softly, lost as to what she could possibly say. "Timmy, your father did love you..."
He sniffed. "You think you guys could...?"
Wanda looked to Cosmo, who had already been waiting for her gaze. Heartbreak was nested deeply in her husband's eyes as he didn't know if he had it in him to hurt his godchild anymore than he already had by yanking him away from his dead father nearly minutes before he even remembered who Cosmo and Wanda were.
"No Timmy, we can't..." Wanda said. "I'm sorry..."
Their godchild remained stiff in their arms for a long minute, before pulling back. "We need to stop them."
Wanda and Cosmo, as well as they knew Timmy to be faking his strength, nodded in agreement.
"What do we do..?" Cosmo asked.
Timmy reluctantly broke from his godparents' grip on his arms and edged past them to look where the shadow had been thrown off to.
"I can't destroy it."
"Well, neither can we." Cosmo said.
"No, I won't destroy it." Timmy cleared, turning to look at his godparents floating above him. "It's my counterpart, it would be as bad as destroying one of your anti-fairies."
Wanda nodded. "You have to keep it at bay, just like the council said."
"But, how do I do that?" Timmy asked. "We're already in Anti-Fairy World where it belongs. No matter where I go, it'll just follow me."
"Because you may see it as a counterpart, but it doesn't see you that way," Wanda said. "Aside from the darkness it holds, the souls within it are attracted to you Timmy."
Timmy paused in consideration. "You're right." He said. "That thing is jacked with a bunch of passed godchildren, I need to get past the darkness and to them. I already have once."
Timmy waited, looking to his fairies that merely looked back in adamant agreement.
"You're not gonna tell me it's too dangerous..?"
"Why would we?" Cosmo asked.
"Because, you would have before."
"Timmy, we'll never stop worrying for you, but," Wanda nodded. "This is your mission, and we can't hold you back from that. Not anymore."
"What about you guys?"
"We'll stand watch." Wanda claimed. "I have a feeling our counterparts aren't entirely done trying to get you, so we'll make sure to keep them at a distance."
As Timmy's mind opened a floodgate with everything he remembered before erasing his memory, his heart dropped in eternal fear as he reached two hands out in warning with a sudden shout.
"No, that's a terrible idea!"
Wanda looked perplexed. "Why, what's the matter sweetie?"
Timmy lowered his hands in fear as to contemplate. "He said...he said..he'd hurt you. It doesn't matter if you're alive, he could still hurt you guys without hurting himself or his wife as long as neither of you are dead. And...and they got dad..."
"Timmy, listen to me." Wanda latched her hands to both his shoulders. "We won't let them do a thing to us. As long as it means keeping you out of harm's way, our job protecting you will never be finished. And your dad did just that, as well..."
"I can't lose you guys..."
"Sweetie, look at me." Wanda lifted his gaze. "If you can do it, we can."
Timmy gently broke from Wanda's grasp and looked beyond to where the shadow had been cast too. "I don't know if I can, though.."
"Timmy, you're-"
"Just because humans make craftsmanship, doesn't mean they can all hold a hammer."
"What..?"
Timmy grunted in irritation. "Fairies enforce good nature, but not all of them are good..." the boy's shoulders weighed down as he shook his head in disbelief. "Fairies aren't perfect, but humans are definitely no better...so who knows if I got the worst or best of each race?"
Wanda exchanged a look with Cosmo, and they floated lower to Timmy's level.
"You're right sport, fairies aren't perfect. No one is." Wanda said. "We're people, too. We make decisions and mistakes of our own like humans. Our race doesn't determine our morality, and it doesn't for you either. You're a good person as is, Timmy."
"Anti-Cosmo was right.."
"What? How?"
"I'm not a real fairy or a real human. I can't belong to one place if I'm in both worlds, I don't have more power than one or the other.."
The boy looked at his fairies in lost.
"So who am I..?"
Wanda looked at her godson with stern admiration. She looked down the cap that still remained on the belt loop of her pants and detached it. Striding forward, she fitted the cap onto the boy's head. The fairy held his cheek, brushing his hair out of the way and then holding his face in her hands.
"You're Timmy Turner."
She looked him in the eyes.
"And no stupid prophecy or race can take credit for that."
Timmy's mind wavered for a moment as he carefully reached a hand to Wanda's against his face. Urging her to gently drawn back as he took a step backward in ponderation. He looked up at his godmother again. Then to Cosmo, who also nodded in affirmation. Timmy soaked up a breath, standing tall as he nodded in return.
"I'll be back."
Wanda smiled gently. "We know you will."
Timmy turned to gaze at the field of view where the edge of the town laid. The peak of the shadow formed in the distance once again for a second return. Though as determination etched over Timmy's eyes, he lowered his cap as he wouldn't let it make it that far. He made a bolt for it, leaving his godparents behind.
"Good luck, sport.." Wanda said as they watched him run out of sight.
A few ways behind them, a familiar occupant slid her way down the slippery edge of the mountain in desperation. Landing on her feet she ran across the open field with hitching breaths as she sought out to find her son. She fled across without any care as to getting caught before the familiarity of the green and pink immortals came into her line of vision.
"Wanda, Cosmo!" She called.
They turned around and their eyes widened.
"Tracy," Wanda made way to meet her as Cosmo followed. "Tracy, I'm sorry we couldn't contact you-"
"Where's Timmy?" She asked as she reached them. Her face looked dim and all out of sorts. Like she'd just walked through fire in trying to reach them. Although the pain in her eyes was no stranger and Wanda's heart pitied what the woman could only be feeling. The fairy couldn't imagine the agony. Wanda dared not think what it was to be like for herself, it was too unbearable.
Todd.
"Tracy.." Wanda said gently. "I'm so sorry.."
The human's soft eyes held Wanda's sincereness close to heart, as Tracy's head craned downwards. She felt as if her very heart was bleeding and that she'd choke if she were to give in to it once more. To blackout again only this time not wake up from it. It had taken far too long already to stop weeping and jump into retrieving her son. This was not happening to her, it couldn't be. Especially after telling Todd that he'd be okay, she'd let her husband walk right into his own death.
She reached a hand to her face to stifle a small choke.
"Tracy.."
"Please, tell me he's okay.." Mrs. Turner hung on to the last string of hope that her son was still out there. He was all she had left, now. If he were to be gone too...
"Yes," Wanda said kindly. "He's absolutely fine. He's perfect.."
Tracy breathed shakily as she looked up in startling relief.
"Where's Jorgen?"
Tracy wiped her eyes as she clung to herself. "To..warn the council of everything.."
Wanda nodded. A mortal's death caused by darkness was certainly not going to go by easy by the Fairy Council.
"Where is he..?" Tracy asked, looking past Cosmo and Wanda for her son.
The pink fairy looked to her husband, carefully. "Listen to me, okay?" She said as she looked back at the human. "This is his battle."
Tracy closed her eyes in pain. "Wanda, please...my son.."
The fairy saddened at the human's pain. "I know. But, only he can do this.."
"Wanda-"
"Tracy." The fairy took hold of her hands, as she directed her gaze into her eyes. "He can do it."
Mrs. Turner looked beyond Wanda's shoulder to the open field in search of her son, and back at the fairy who's gaze didn't leave her's in certainty. Cosmo came trailing behind Wanda, looking to Tracy as well.
"Trust us. Swear?" Wanda asked.
Tracy swallowed. Whether she believed it or not, she didn't have any choice. "Swear.." she said quietly.
"But, what do we do?" Cosmo asked.
The three stood silent.
"You could start by giving us the boy..." A new voice rang.
To be continued...