For the next six months, Cosmo and Wanda were somewhat busy, but not nearly as busy as Trixie was. They often just followed her around in case she needed anything. And as it turned out, growing up having to get things past a mother like hers, Trixie did not need much help finding out about her classmates.
Her first few days were a bit difficult; for one thing, her mom had started taking her around Dimmsdale more often, and the other popular kids had that party at Chad's yacht planned. On top of that, Crocker had begun loading them with more homework without helping them understand what it was about. But she'd managed to get out and spy on at least one kid every day. She did this all through February, and for most of February and early March, things went pretty well.
However, during March Trixie forgot to put away a comic book she was reading and left it on the floor of her room. The maid found it while cleaning and had given it to Trixie's mother. Up until then, her mom had trusted Trixie a lot more than normal ever since she had suggested what to do with her "cats." This was apparent through February; normally it would have been a lot harder for Trixie to get out, even though she usually managed. But now she no longer had her mother's trust anymore, and it became even harder to get out than before. Her room was now being searched every month. Whenever it was searched Trixie left the safe where all her boy stuff was kept to Wanda for safekeeping (no pun intended), but as it was getting harder and harder to get out, Trixie's plans to start trying to make new friends in disguise couldn't be carried out.
Exactly six months after Cosmo and Wanda had first arrived, Trixie was still about as miserable as she had been before she got fairy godparents, although she was happier for having met Cosmo and Wanda. On the day that was exactly six months after Cosmo and Wanda showed up, Trixie was looking over what she had found out.
"So let's see..." she was saying to herself, "from the looks of it, your godchild is one of five unpopular kids; Timmy Turner, Chester McBadBat, AJ Ibrahim, Elmer the boil kid, or Sanjay. I know you can't tell me who he is, but can you tell me if he's one of those five?"
"He's one of them, yes..." Wanda looked a bit sad and relieved at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Trixie asked.
"Well Trixie, do you remember how when we first came here we said that it was due to a six-month contract signed by our godkid?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, it's...uh..."
"The six months are over?!"
"Sorry, sweetie. Our godkid has 13 one-month contracts that he can use to loan us to you, so you should be seeing us in a month or two..."
"But for now, I just wanna get back and see T..." for the millionth time in these past six months, Wanda had to shut Cosmo up, and he undid it immediately afterwards, "Anyway...bye Trixie!" he poofed back to Fairy World. Trixie had started to wave goodbye but Cosmo had gone off too fast. She sighed and put her back up against the wall.
"Oh, don't worry, Trixie," Wanda said, "that safe will stay! You'll remember us! You'll still be allowed to find out who our godkid is!"
"I know, but I'll miss you!"
"I'll miss you too, but I will admit I do want to see our godkid again! It's been six months, after all! Remember though, you'll probably see us again really soon!" the two hugged each other, and then Wanda poofed back to Fairy World as well. Trixie sighed and looked down at the floor.
---
In Fairy World, Cosmo and Wanda were floating in front of Jorgen. They hadn't seen him for six months, since Trixie never wished for anything stupid enough to bring him there.
"You two, stay here! I will retrieve your godchild!" he vanished, and reappeared a second later with a death grip on Timmy.
"Can't...even...breathe!" Timmy managed to wheeze. Jorgen threw him down by Cosmo and Wanda, "Guys!" he shouted when he managed to recover, "you're back!" they all hugged, "So, how'd it go with Trixie?"
"She's a nice girl and she'd probably like to be friends with you if her mother wasn't so strict!" Wanda said, "We had a good time!"
"HA! Speak for yourself!" Cosmo flew up to Timmy's face, "Her mother hated me when I was a cat! Do you know they have a gamekeeper for that place! He chased me around on a regular basis! And he's BIG! Bigger than that bodyguard for the popular kids! Whenever I got caught, PAIN FOLLOWED! Oh, the horror, the pure, un-adult rated PG-13 horror!" Cosmo started sucking his thumb.
"So, is Trixie happy now?"
"What?" both fairies said.
"You know, happy, satisfied with her life, able to escape her tyrannical mother...is she happy?" Timmy asked again with an annoyed look.
"Uh...Timmy, her mother sort of got stricter after about a month, and, well..." Wanda looked guilty, "she's about as miserable now as she was before we showed up."
"WHAT!? I leant you two to her for six whole months and you couldn't make her happy!?"
"Well, she's a hard case, Timmy," Wanda's excuses didn't work.
"Jorgen," Timmy turned to the toughest fairy in the universe, who hadn't left yet, "Get out my default one-month contract!"
"What? We're going back there, to that gamekeeper!?" Cosmo looked horrified.
"Timmy, we haven't been able to spend time with you for six months!" Wanda said, "We miss you!"
"I miss you guys too, but if Trixie's still miserable then my job isn't done!" he signed it, "After this one is up I won't sign the next one. Seven months will be too long for me to be without you guys. So after you stay with me again for a month, you'll go back to Trixie. Then back to me, then back to her, and we'll go through that until all my contracts are used or she becomes happy! Whatever comes first. OK?"
"Well..." Wanda thought about how miserable Trixie was, "OK!" she signed it, Cosmo signed it, and Jorgen signed it. He went off to get it approved and then zapped Timmy back home. Cosmo and Wanda left to return to the Tang mansion.
---
Trixie was missing Cosmo and Wanda already when they got back just minutes after leaving?
"Did you miss us?" Cosmo asked.
"Did I ever!" Trixie smiled, "Your godchild let you stay another month?"
"Yep! We'll be going back to him next month, coming back here the month after that, and it'll switch off like that until you're happy or our godkid's contracts are used up. Whichever comes first," a gigantic boom came that shook the whole room, and Trixie saw a gigantic, muscular man with a crown floating above his head and holding a gigantic wand.
"Uh...who is this?" she asked a horrified Wanda.
"Trixie, this is Jorgen von Strangle, the toughest fairy in the universe!"
"This is true, puny Tang," he shouted, "and seeing as how you now will have had your fairies for seven months and will have them for another twelve months afterwards, it is time you learned something very important about your insane fairy-hunting teacher Mr. Crocker!" he swung his gigantic wand and blasted at a spot in the room, and a floating picture of Crocker in the middle of one of his "FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!" spasms.
"Mr. Crocker?" Trixie asked as if this was ridiculous, "my lunatic laughingstock teacher? What's so important about him?"
"Seven months ago, Cosmo and Wanda's true godchild celebrated his first fairy-versary party!"
"Fairy-versary party?"
"It's when a child has fairy godparents for an entire year," Wanda explained, "Usually before one year passes a child does something to reveal the existence of their fairies and make them go away forever!"
"One of his gifts," Jorgen went on, "was an all-powerful fairy-versary muffin! Whoever eats the muffin will receive one rule-free wish!"
"You just can't wish for a better-tasting muffin!" Cosmo added.
"Unfortunately, the bumbling of his fairies," Cosmo and Wanda looked at each other nervously, "and your teacher's attempts to obtain the muffin caused the muffin to fall into the wrong hands! Monkey hands! The world was changed into Monkey World! Fortunately, these two fairies managed to save the Earth and erase the memory of Monkey World! However, your crazy fairy- hunting teacher managed to get the muffin, and he captured these two puny fairies in a high-tech butterfly net!"
"Butterfly net?"
"Butterfly nets," Wanda explained again, "Are one of the few things in the universe that fairy magic has no effect on!"
"Why?"
"Hey, if it floats and has wings, a butterfly net can catch it!"
Jorgen now got a grin, "I scrambled the fairies and destroyed the bridge between Fairy World and the Earth to protect the rest of the fairies from your teacher!"
"And you had to scramble the fairies...why?" Trixie asked.
"I LIKE to scramble the fairies!" Jorgen boomed, "Their godchild used the rest of his fairy-versary presents, including a jet-pack from me..."
"You gave him a gift?"
"YES!! It was a fairy-versary! Even I, toughest fairy in the universe, who fears nothing, cannot help but be happy for such an occasion! Now where was I?"
"You were at the part where their godchild used his gifts to..."
"YES! He utilised his gifts to battle Crocker for the muffin, and using them, quick thinking, and sheer luck, the entire planet Earth was saved! You remember none of this because they erased your memory of it!"
"So, what's your point?"
"Your teacher is dangerous!" Jorgen grabbed Trixie with his free hand, "Ever since that incident, we have had to keep a close eye on him! Since I, Jorgen von Strangle, toughest fairy in the universe, have so much more power than any other fairy," he smiled at this, "I have to plan all my visits to Earth based on his activities! Every day he spends this time watching television before going to look for fairies! I would not be here if I was not 100% sure he was in front of the television! He always is! IT NEVER CHANGES!"
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"Good thing the cable to our house has been shut down today and my schedule had to be changed," Crocker said in his van, "otherwise I would have missed this golden opportunity! My sensors indicate a large concentration of magic somewhere within Dimmsdale! Where there is magic, there is bound to be...A FAIRY GOD-PARENT! Must – trace – magic – back – to source!" he sped off, crashing into two other cars. He kept hacking away at one of the computers in his van as he wrecked havoc on the roads of Dimmsdale, trying to find the house where the magic was coming from. He had just crashed into a stop sign by the mall when the magic disappeared from his scanners. Everyone was now shouting at him.
"Silence!" he shouted back at them, "Curses! The magic has disappeared. Maybe it didn't stay around long enough for me to pinpoint it's EXACT location, but I should still be able to find it's neighbourhood...yes, yes, YES...upper class?" he was surprised, "Why would an upper-class child be in need of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!? I would have assumed all that wealth, notoriety and popularity would have been enough to satisfy any child," he then noticed a small boy with his parents. He could tell they were rich by their clothes. They were the Buxaplenty family, and the child, Remy, went to a private school.
"Mother, Father, I believe we agreed that today you would take me out for a good time like a normal child?"
"Sorry, Remy, but we have money to take care of at the bank," his father said, "Run along and do something else," Remy walked away, depressed. Crocker then noticed Veronica, who always spent her free time with his student Trixie Tang. She was coming out of the mall dressed like Trixie, carrying a bag, and smiling and shaking like a lunatic.
"Finally..." she said wickedly, "I have the clothes...and the wig," she ripped a wig out of her bag and put it on. She somewhat resembled Trixie now, "Now...I AM TRIXIE!"
"Hey mom," some kid said, "there's a lunatic outside pretending to be Trixie Tang!"
"WHY DOESN'T IT WORK!?" she screamed. Crocker thought about this for a minute.
"Hmm..." he said, "Parental issues and jealousy of richer, more beautiful, and more popular rich children...whatever works!" he got an insane grin and turned to one of his computers, "According to my records, there are four rich children within Dimmsdale Elementary School, three of which are in my classroom! Along with Remy Buxaplenty, whose parents are so rich they isolate themselves from their fellow upper-class crowd and have their son attend the Dimmsdale Private School for Rich Children Whose Parents Don't Associate with Other Rich Families, that leaves five potential children who possess...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!" he looked at his file on Turner, "Turner can wait! I'm already positive he has...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! For now I must concentrate my energy on discovering which rich child in Dimmsdale is a fairy-possessing child! I'll begin with my students! FAIRIES!" he drove off.
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In class the next day, Timmy was exhausted. He had forgotten to extend his wish that kept Vicky away to last another month, and his parents had gone out last night. Vicky seemed particularly eager to get back to babysitting to earn some cash, and equally as eager to get back to making Timmy as miserable as she possibly could. He had been overworked with chores all night and his whole body was sore.
"Hey Timmy," Chester asked, "Why so beat, dude?"
"Vicky," Timmy moaned.
"Well, cheer up!" AJ pointed to the front of the class, "Looks like Crackpot's gone today, so we might get a benevolent substitute teacher!"
"Out of my way!" everyone heard someone shout, and at the next moment, a black van crashed into the left of the classroom, and Crocker went flying out the front window and landed upside-down in his desk, "Good morning students!" it was always a bad sign when he greeted them enthusiastically, "Guess what? In my ongoing attempt to fill your lives with as much misery and woe as mine, you have an incredibly humiliating science project to do! And as it's a science project..." everyone began to dread what was coming next, "it's time for another exciting round of...MUSICAL LAB PARTNERS!" and with that, he pulled out his old record player, playing it's horrendously- done rendition of "pop goes the weasel." Almost everyone in the class began to scramble as fast as they could to get a partner they wanted. Chester was partners with AJ, Sanjay was partners with Elmer, Tad and Chad were partners....Timmy, however, was not moving. He was too tired. When the music had stopped, the only one who hadn't managed to get a partner yet was Trixie Tang. This put a weak smile on Timmy's face.
"Well, Ms. Tang," Crocker walked up, "it appears that Turner is the only living thing left. So I'm going to pair you with...THIS ROCK!" he held up an empty hand and stared at it.
"No one shall ever take Rock from me again now that I've hidden him!" the Cosmo-bracelet whispered to the Wanda-bracelet.
"Well then," Crocker said, still puzzled, "I'm going to pair you with...TURNER!"
"YES!" it was the first sign of enthusiasm Timmy had shown since 6:30 last night. Trixie didn't seem terribly unhappy about it herself until she noticed Tad and Chad watching, and which point she pretended to faint.
"I suppose now you're wondering what the project is in the first place," Crocker sat back in his desk, "It will require time, patience, responsibility, and so I know that you're carrying it out properly, the installation of a 24/7 video-and-audio surveillance system in all of your homes! You all will be given an incredibly complicated science kit meant for children in 10th grade, and you are forbidden to work on it during school hours. You will have to take it home over the weekend and attempt the near-impossible task of building whatever it is the kit contains. You will randomly choose your kit from this box," he set one on the table, "and both of you must work on it within one of your houses! At any time I could be watching you with my surveillance equipment that I had the large man who serves the popular children install at all your homes! Now come, and choose your mind-boggling project!" someone from each group came up and got a kit. Trixie and Timmy were supposed to use a precise combination of chemicals to grow a crystal in a month...with two days to do the project.
"We'll be doing this at your house," Trixie said in her best stuck-up voice, "and don't tell anyone from a different class I'm your partner!" Crocker eyed the two of them.
"Excellent!" he said to himself, "Timmy Turner, the one child I am positive possesses...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! And Trixie Tang, one of my suspects for the rich child who also has...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! With those two working together, Turner or possibly Ms. Tang will have to end up exposing their fairies in order to complete the project in time! Just as I planned all along! FAIRIES!" he shouted, leaning back too far and falling out of his chair.