Fairly Oddparents copyright Viacom
Chapter 32: Wanda Regains Her Memories
Written: 16 Mar 2006-29 Mar 2006
Posted: 30 Mar 2006
Momma Cosma opened her eyes.
Her Cosmo-lulu was close by. She could feel it. Now was her chance to prevent her baby from making a dreadful mistake. But after rescuing Cosmo from marriage to that awful creature Wanda, she would have to the proper wife for him. But that comes later. For now she had to keep an eye out for her son.
Momma Cosma got up and turned to Mr. Turner. "Your son is nearby, Mr. Turner."
"He is?" He scanned the surrounding hills. "Where?"
"Nowhere you can see," she said quietly.
Mr. Turner looked at her with suspicion in his eyes. "Then how do you know?"
"Trust me, Mr. Turner. A fairy knows these things." She smiled knowingly.
"What on Earth are you talking about!"
"Never mind that." Momma Cosma was looking out the window of the land rover. "Here they come."
"Here who comes?"
She provided no answer. Instead she steered the car in an apparently random direction. "Now where are we going?"
"To meet them of course."
She still didn't deign to say who they were.
-OOO-
A hush settled on them as they returned to the campsite with the three newcomers. "The first thing we do," The Oracle was saying, "is find your husband, Wanda."
"Cosmo," Wanda said.
"Right.
"The second thing is that we wait for Momma Cosma and see what she is really after."
"But isn't she after Wanda?"
"Yes, Timmy. But I don't think that she is the only thing she wants dealt with. She did release her after all."
Timmy nodded. "That's true. But you don't know?"
"I'm not a mind-reader, honey. I only see the future."
"Who is this Momma Cosma?" Wanda asked.
It was Fanny who answered. "Your mother-in-law, dear."
"Oh." She hiked in silence for awhile. Finally she said, "Do we get along? My mother-in-law and me?"
"Actually… no."
"Ah."
For the next several minutes there was only silence as they made their back down the mountain. The silence didn't last long.
The sounds of vultures came from above. Timmy watched them warily. "Must they do that?"
"Yes, honey," Mrs. Turner said. "It's just what they do naturally."
"Yeah, but do they really be doing it here?"
Mrs. Turner simply shrugged.
-OOO-
The sounds of vultures came from above. "Ooh, look at the pretty birdies." Cosmo was staring at the circling birds with wonder in his eyes.
Momma Cosma sighed. Why must her son be such an idiot? Was a boy with just average intelligence too much to ask for? For surely he had to be one if he was planning on doing what she thought he was planning on doing.
Just what did he see in her anyway? What sort of she-devil magic had she cast on him that would attract him to her? And draw him away from his mother? Or was it just pheromones? Whatever the reason, Momma Cosma wasn't going to let it take her Cosmo-lulu away from her ever again.
"Are you done yet?" Mr. Turner's voice intruded into her thoughts.
"Yes. Yes. I'm coming," she called back. She had stopped the car because she had to do some lady's necessary business. She had on her way back when she had spotted her son. "But I don't think we'll be needing the car anymore."
-OOO-
When they returned to camp, they found nothing but burnt-down tents and their gear and supplies scattered around the site. "What happened?" Mrs. Turner asked. "Who could have done this?"
"You were right, Miss Oracle," Fanny said. "We should have left a guard."
"Funny. I would have expected that something would have been stealing, not the whole camp being burned to the ground," Vicky mused. Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to her. "What! I didn't do it."
"She's telling the truth." Timmy hated to be on Vicky's side, but she was right. She couldn't be the one did it. He had been watching her almost the whole time. And she couldn't have possibly have gone up to the campsite, did all this damage, and return in the slim time that he had lost sight of her.
"But if she didn't do it," Sally said, "then who did?"
Fanny and The Oracle exchanged a glance. "The Fairy Squad," they said.
"Oh."
Timmy clenched his fists. "You mean we haven't lost them?"
"Oh, I think we lost them alright," Fanny said. "But apparently they found us again."
"Ah man. Now what do we do?"
"Set up camp again, I suppose," Wanda shrugged.
Timmy wasn't sure. But for a split second there, he could have sworn that Wanda had returned to normal. But then she was back to looking like his mother.
A.J. looked to the hills around him. "But what do when the Fairy Squad returns?"
The Oracle smiled warmly. "Why, we defend ourselves of course.
"Of course." He was non-plussed by the answer. "But how?"
"Oh, we have our ways."
-OOO-
"Why is there a diner at the foot of these mountains?" Timmy asked suddenly.
"Why shouldn't there be?" Fanny said. "There's been one as long as I can remember. And as you're probably aware, that's quite awhile."
"Yes, we know, mother," Lucas said.
They were now finishing up setting up the new camp, practically on top of the other one.
"It just seems to be a really odd place to put a diner."
"Well, you know they put really weird things in all sorts of weird places," Vicky said as she leafed through her teen magazine. "What of it?"
"Just wondering is all." He never enjoyed talking to Vicky. This time was no different. "I'll go see what Wanda is up to now."
"Okay." She sounded sincere, but Timmy knew better.
He faded away and headed for Wanda's and his mother's tent. As he passed the tents, he wondered where they gotten all those new ones. Well, no matter. Timmy quickly found Wanda.
She turned to him and asked, "Timmy, could you help with me something?"
He started. It wasn't Wanda. It was his mother. "Sure thing, Mom. Do you know where Wanda went?"
"She went to get some water. Whom I would like you go help." She disappeared into the tent. And returned with a bucket. "Could you fill this bucket for me?"
"Of course, Mom."
Mrs. Turner showed him where to go.
And he went.
-OOO-
Wanda looked up from the canteen she was filling, and saw a green-haired fairy staring back at her. For some reason, seeing this fairy gave her no small amount of comfort.
And she could have sworn have sworn that she had him somewhere before…
"Wanda!" The fairy flew forward toward her with out-stretched arms. "I've found you!"
Well, maybe she had seen him somewhere before. "Do I know you?"
"I should think so. I'm your-"
"My husband," she said. "Cosmo."
Wanda waded through the creek, as they moved closer to embrace.
But as they grew close, an arrow landed in the ground between them.
Wanda looked up. And paled. "You!"