Amethyst Ice
Ch.11-The Hunt
"...I know that most of you will probably not survive, so we have you in our hearts." Jorgen said the next day as everyone gathered in front of Fairy Hall. The fairies looked at each oher, wondering if that's a good thing, considering it was coming from him. Wanda stood in line with the rest of the fairies in her group. She couldn't see Cosmo amongst the others, but she knew he was somewhere. Jorgen had graciously put them in the same group, but all she wanted to do was get away from him. She hugged herself and stopped listening to Jorgen as she recalled yesterday night while Timmy was in bed. Cosmo stood a few feet away with a melancholy look on his face...
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"Wanda, maybe you're right...we need to spend time apart..." Cosmo muttered as they got into what seemed their fifth argument that day.
"What?" She asked.
"I've been thinking since talking to Sanderson at Club Ice a week ago...and he was right on why I've been ignoring you...because our marriage is falling apart." Cosmo said as he looked to the side at Timmy's empty bed. Wanda could not believe the words she was hearing.
"It's not me...it's you." He said quietly. Wanda struggled to find the humor in his voice, anything...but there was none.
"Y...You're joking, right?" She tried to laugh, but a lump formed in her throat. Cosmo shook his head slowly.
"I don't love you anymore..." He whispered.
"W...What do you mean?" She asked, touching his arm. Cosmo yanked his arm away for her and looked at her, tears in his eyes.
"I said I DON'T LOVE YOU anymore!" He yelled before poofing away.
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(He doesn't love you anymore...he doesn't love you anymore...)
Wanda could feel tears falling down her cheeks, ignoring those around her that asked what was wrong as her conciousness kept repeating what she didn't want to hear.
"...Group A will go search the woods, while Groups B and C search Fairy World and Pixies Inc." Jorgen finished. He couldn't help but feel miserable for sending these fairies to what could be their deaths, but it had to be done. A handful of fairies sacrificing themselves to save others...
Wishfixers...
"...Rise and shine, Your Majesty." Anti-Cosmo whispered as he opened up the curtains, letting in sunlight for the first time in weeks. The prince of darkness slowly rose from his bed like a cat, causing Anti-Cosmo to blush and look away as he realized he was naked. Sanderson lifted a hand, letting swirls of dark magic run over his naked body, dressing him in dark clothes. It finished by perching a pair of sunglasses on his nose and spiking his hair. He smiled coldly as he looked out the window at the crowd down below, watching his targets. As the fairies were dismissed, Cosmo flew through the crowd to try and find Wanda. She saw him coming and flew away from him, clutching her wand to herself. Pretty soon he couldn't see her anymore, and he gave up, joining his group.
"It was a mistake all along..." She murmured as she followed her group to Pixies Inc. The pixies were more than happy to let them look around, considering that most of them were in on Sanderson's plan, but didn't exactly want to see fairies die. She glanced to her left, expecting Cosmo to be behind her, but he wasn't, and sighed.
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On earth...
Binky gasped as fairies were being killed right in front of him, left to right. Traps sprung up around, impaling fairies to trees or cutting body parts off them. Blood splattered everywhere, including on him.
"RUN! IT'S AN AMBUSH!" He screamed. Fairies that survived flew at top speed behind him, but something grabbed ahold of a few stragglers, and threw them against trees repeatedly until they were dead. Binky sensed there was a trap up ahead, and yelled for some of them to stop, but they flew on ahead. He couldn't shut his eyes as he watched fellow fairies die until he and a female fairy were left.
"Binky, what do we do?" She whimpered, holding onto his arm.
"Mandy, be strong. We can get out of here." He assured her.
"Wrong." They heard a voice smirk. They looked up, and saw someone dressed in black standing on a tree branch.
"Who are you!" Binky yelled. The figure jumped gracefully off the tree branch and flew down towards them. He wore a hockey mask, so they really couldn't see what he looked like.
"Your Deaths." He whispered. Mandy panicked in fright and broke away from Binky's grip.
"Mandy, don't!" But it was too late. She flew into a clear wire, setting off a huge axe. Time seemed to slow down as it swung at her, cleanly decapitating her head off. She was dead before she hit the ground.
"...Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha." Binky slowly recognized the laugh as he caught the bloody head. Only pixies laughed like that, but hearing it from this masked man turned his blood cold at the sound of it.
"Surprise, Binky." The figure took off his mask, revealing a very demonic-looking Sanderson under it.
"...It was you the whole time! The one who was behind all these deaths everywhere!" Binky yelled, blinking away tears as he held the dead fairy girl's head in his arms. Mandy had been a dear friend, and the evil pixie thought of her nothing more than merely dirt. Sanderson smiled cruelly.
"Well, I wouldn't say everywhere...just where I think there's too much population growth."
"Why would you do something like this! We trusted you!"
"Fools, the whole lot of you." The fairy backed away, his eye catching a glimpse of something big behind Sanderson's back.
"How can you murder so many people!" Binky cried as he backed up against a tree trunk. Sanderson paused in his slow walking and quietly eyed Binky as if he was a tasty morsel.
"Easy...when I want something, I get it. For example, the type of people who stand in the way of my goal for absolute power...I fuck them into oblivion until they have no clue where reality and fantasy lie. The rest die." He said.
"That's fucked up." Binky gritted his teeth. Sanderson smirked, taking out the scythe.
"That's life, bitch...deal with it." He then wielded the scythe high above his head, and swung down. Binky had no time to react as he was quickly beheaded in a second. Sanderson laughed maniacally as he literally butchered Binky into pieces, watching them fly all around him, even clinging to his clothes. After he was done, Sanderson held the bloody scythe to the skies.
"THE HUNT IS ON, FAIRIES!"
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Timmy rolled out of his bed and ran to the shower when Cosmo and Wanda poofed off.
"Why won't you go away!" Timmy sobbed as he tried to scrub away the hateful letters on his stomach in the shower. He turned up the water as hot as he could.
("What's wrong, Timmy? I thought you liked pain...)
Timmy's eyes widened as he heard a voice.
"...Is that you Sanderson?" He demanded, looking around. He winced as the water scalded his skin raw.
(Not quite...not quite...I'm your subconcious actually...)
"Why are you talking to me now?"
(Ohohohohoho...you cut to the chase...I like that.)
"Shut up and get to the point!"
(Young Timothy...as you can probably tell, I am not real..I'm just a figment of your imagination...and the longer you stay with Sanderson...the more insane you'll turn out like him. And that means you'll keep having me around.)
"Obviously I can't escape from Sanderson if I have his stupid initials on me. Isn't there some way I can make you go away!" Timmy gritted his teeth.
No.
"Then why are you here!"
(To mock you, child. There's no hope for you.)
Timmy let out a cry, punching the shower walls over and over again until his knuckles started to bleed.
(I saw the way he pulled your head back and ran the knife over your throat, chuckling...I bet you wanted Sanderson to fuck you...you little whore.)
"GO AWAY!" He screamed, clutching at his head and sobbing uncontrollably as he slid down the shower walls, ignoring the fact he had to be at school in an hour.
Wishfixers...
"I got rid of Binky's group on earth. I must say it was quite fun." Sanderson said as he pinged into the office, the bloody scythe slung over his shoulder, and the crimson liquid staining his clothes. Anti-Cosmo clucked his tongue as he ran his eyes over the blood that dripped off the pixie. Anti-Cosmo sighed, rolling his eyes playfully.
"Blood is so hard to get out of carpet." Sanderson grinned and pinged himself clean and looked at his watch.
"Hmm...I've got time to get there...I'll see you tonight." He said. Anti-Cosmo lifted an eyebrow.
"Where are you going?" He asked.
"To see Timmy of course...I wouldn't want him to miss school, now would I?" The anti-fairy instantly understood what he was saying, and nodded.
"Say hi to him for me." The anti-fairy said, waving his hand dismissingly as he scrubbed the scythe clean.
"...Will do. Oh, and Wanda's group headed over to Pixies Inc in case you wanted to know...have fun." Sanderson smiled before he pinged away.