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Chapter 36: Johnny Finds the Others

Written: 8 Jun 2006-26 Jun 2006

Posted: 26 Jun 2006

When A.J. had wakened, he found himself in what looked like Timmy's bedroom, but the scene out the "window" was painted, and the door just wasn't real. He had tried the door first, discovering it was a fake, before moving on to looking for less obvious ways out. But even after fifteen minutes of searching along all four walls, in the closet, under the bed, and every other nook and cranny he could find, he still couldn't find any. He lay back on the bed, completely unsure had to continue. There had to be a way of the room. He just had to find it.

Someone knocked on the "door." A.J. sat up. "I wonder who that could be," he said to himself.

The knock was repeated.

A.J. sighed. "I guess I had better go see who that is." He got off the bed and headed for the door. He blithely opened it up without considering the consequences like he should have. For once he had the door opened, he found the last fairy in the world he wanted to find.

Mama Cosma.

"What do you want?"

"To give you the truth, A.J. That is all."

"Oh? Then why have you kidnapped me?"

She smiled sadly. "It wasn't me, let me assure you."

"Then who was it?"

"That's not important right now."

"Who was it?" he repeated.

If A.J. had thought that Mama Cosma would lose the slightest bit of her composure, he would have been wrong. "I'm not entirely sure," she said calmly. "But I believe it to be the Fairy Squad.

"Why should I believe you? Timmy says you're an evil, spiteful woman."

"You're going to take such a biased opinion at its word?"

Well, she did have a point. "Show me this proof of yours. Let me see for myself."

"Let me show you then." Mama Cosma held out her hand to him. "Come with me and I'll you things that only a few fairies, including myself, have seen in millions of years."

A.J. couldn't say he wasn't interested. But how was he to know if it wasn't a trap? How would he know that she was telling the truth?

As if she could hear his thoughts, she said warmly, "If I wanted anything… untoward to happen to you, it would be easily arranged."

"Then let's go," A.J. said without hesitation.

As he stepped out of the room, he spotted two fairies he hadn't noticed before. They were obviously here to be guards. But why would Mama Cosma need guards? Surely A.J. couldn't be a threat to her… "Just where are you taking me?"

"You'll see shortly." Mama Cosma begin to lead him away.

Of that particular sentiment A.J. had no doubt about.

-OOO-

Timmy sat beside Heather on her bed listening to The Oracle as she told her story. After their last encounter at the diner, she kinda fell onto some hard times. "I knew that I had to exit the vicinity very quickly lest Mama Cosma catch me. So I took the fastest escape I could find. The garbage chute."

"There was a garbage chute in that diner?" Timmy asked, mystified. He didn't think that diners had garbage chutes.

"Sure. Doesn't every diner have one?"

Timmy shrugged. He didn't know. But surely The Oracle would know things like this. She was the oracle here. (And he had thought that was one word he wouldn't need to know!)

"I found my way out of the dumpster, which turned out to be behind this very cabin actually."

Heather stood up. "You ended up in my dumpster? How did you get from the diner at the foot of the mountains to this cabin?"

"Magic would be my guess," The Oracle shrugged.

"Oh, right. Of course." Heather sat back down. "But I've been here for hours. And I haven't seen you until you knocked on the door."

"That's because I've been out looking for the others. Like Johnny is doing now."

"Ah. Of course.

-OOO-

Vicky removed a pebble from her shoe, hopping on one leg. She was beginning hate fairies most of all. They had the gall to drag her more than halfway across the county and expected to continue on twice as far. And they never bothered to tell her where they were going. The only question that remained was how Vicky was going to get back at them. But she was confident she'd find a way.

After all, getting back at people was what she did best. She had had a lot of practice at it after all.

She was next-to-last. She would have taken up the rear, but that Wanda creature was right behind her. How Vicky despised that fairy! And her little friends, too. Especially that Antino Bandaras wannabe. Where did he get off not trying woo her? What did he in that frumpy, swirly pink haired freak anyway?

Vicky fumed as she hiked forward. But just dwelling on our problem wasn't going to get anything done. She had to get back to making those plans to get anywhere.

But there was a little fly in her soup however. They had magic. And she didn't. That would some disadvantage to overcome, but surely there was a way.

There always is.

All she had to look out for it.

They were cresting a hill when Wanda shouted. "I think I see Johnny coming this way."

"Oh, just great. One more twerp to bother me," Vicky said under her breath.

Sally shot her a glare. "I heard that, Vicky. Don't think I won't tell them what you tried to do."

"Whatever, twerp." Vicky hadn't even known that the little twerpette was even there. If she had only her mouth her mouth shut, Vicky would have still had her glow from her making evil plans. At least she had to decency to leave her presence. It was too much like slinking to suit Vicky. But at least she was gone.

-OOO-

Cosmo floated into the door that he had just opened. It had been marked nurses' lounge. Some of Wanda's friends were nurses. Maybe one of them could lead him to her.

He promptly ran into a squad of fairies accompanied by his mother. They didn't seem particularly welcoming.

"Can't we all just chalk this up as a big mistake?" Cosmo was really sweating now. He particularly didn't like the way those guards were pointing their wands at him. He was starting to get the feeling that he had done something wrong!

Mama Cosma floated forward and embraced her son in wide arms. "Now, now, dear. There's no need to worry."

"What do you mean there's nothing to worry bout? I can't find Wanda anywhere."

"It's just as I told you, sweetie. She's no good." She kissed him on the forehead. "But don't you worry, Mama's here to protect you."

He realized something then. She was the one behind everything that had been happening to Wanda lately.

For the first time in his life, Cosmo was afraid of his own mother.