Fairly Oddparents copyright Viacom
Chapter 41: Showdown
Posted: 15 Oct 2007
There were only three of them, so they chose against separating during their search for the others. The last thing that they wanted was even more disappearances. There were only three of them left!
Sally hoped that they wouldn't run into that Timmy boy. She was still miffed from the time that he had seen her bare butt. It had been his fault for staring at it when it appeared!
Even so, Sally was starting to get worried. Even after three long hours of searching through the junkyard failed to pick up any sign of the missing. So they had begun looking outside the junkyard. Fanny was confident that they would better luck out here.
Though Sally doubted it. She had seen too many people disappear on the news to hold out much hope. They were goners for sure. Still she had some hope. Just not very much.
"I think I've found something!" Wanda knelt over a bare spot in the grass. At first Sally didn't see anything special about it. It just looked like an ordinary dirt patch. But then she started to see something rather odd. A hairpin lay in the exact center of the bare spot. Now what were the chances of that happening? "I wonder whose hairpin this is?"
"It's Juandissimo's," Fanny replied.
"What? How can you tell that?"
Fanny winked. "Trust me on this, Wanda."
Wanda gave her a puzzled look. Sally didn't blame her. Wasn't Juandissimo Wanda's ex-boyfriend? Wanda didn't ask for an explanation, and Fanny didn't volunteer one.
Sally figured that it was nothing. "So what do we do now?"
"Why, find our friends of course."
"But how are you going to do that?"
"By using this hairpin that Juandissimo had so thoughtfully provided us."
"How are we supposed to do that, Mom?" Wanda wondered. "What makes this hairpin so darn different? It looks just like an ordinary hairpin."
"Ah, that's where you are wrong, Wanda my dear," Fanny said, holding up the hairpin for them all to see. "It's far more than just an ordinary hairpin. It has been enchanted with all sorts of interesting spells. Including, incidentally, tracking down its owner."
Wanda raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? What else does it do?"
"Oh… a few other interesting functions. I'll have to tell you about them sometime."
"But why haven't you told me about this hairpin already?"
That question Fanny didn't answer. She instead said, "Now let's find our missing Don Juan, shall we?" She recited an incantation that Sally couldn't quite catch, and the hairpin began to spin in mid-air. But it soon slowed and began to have picked a direction.
Toward the hospital where Mama Cosma and the Fairy Squad were.
"Just as I suspected." She took the hairpin and stuck it in her pocket. "Come on. No sense in hanging around here. We have a boy to save."
Sally nodded. "She's right, Wanda. This boy needs help. And who else but us to give him it?"
Wanda shook her idea. "I don't know. I'm all for saving children and all. But what if it's a trap?"
"Of course it's a trap, Wanda. But that's still no reason not to go. Who are we? Juandissimo?"
Fanny might have seemed calm, but Wanda's fears got Sally worried. What if it was a trap?
-OOO-
Oh, bliss. Finally she had a prisoner that she could interrogate.
"Where is Wanda?" she repeated.
"Why should I tell you that?"
"Oh… besides the fact that you're tied to a rack that could pull your spine apart… hmm, let me see…"
"All right! I'll tell you." He took in a deep breath. "As soon as you tell what's in it for me of course."
Mama Cosma's forehead throbbed. The impudence of this boy! He was hardly in any position to be making bargains. "Fine! Have it your way, your majesty." She clicked her fingers. And her two assistants began to turn the wheels that pull on the boy's spine, causing it to be stretched very uncomfortably. But they only got through a couple of clicks before she clicked her fingers again, signaling them to stop. "So what is your answer now?"
"Ah… much better. I had thought that crick in my back would never go away."
"Blast it! This is supposed to be torture! Not Physical Therapy!"
Despite having his arms stretched over his head, Johnny somehow managed to shrug. "Don't look at me. I'm not the one who made this thing!" He grinned. "And I know a little secret."
"Oh? And what would that be?"
"That fairies cannot harm human children!" an all-too familiar voice informed her.
"Auagh!" Her heart leapt into her throat. Standing there, in front of everyone and nowhere near a door, was Juandissimo Maginifico. And he couldn't have poofed into the room. It was shielded against that sort of thing. She would have given her right pinkie just then to know where that handsome hunk of jerk had come from. And how he had popped into the room like he had. He was getting to be quite the nuisance. "What the hell are you doing here?"
Juandissimo shrugged. "Saving my godkid. What else?"
Mama Cosma quirked an eyebrow. "What else indeed?" She snapped her fingers. "Get him!"
The guards moved to capture Juandissimo, but he proved too quick for them. He dropped to the floor, causing, predictably enough, the Fairy Squadies to bump their heads against each other's. Fortunately Mama Cosma wasn't relying on them to capture Juandissimo too much. After all, her mother had always taught her that you should always have a contingency plan in place. And Mama Cosma usually had three or four.
She snapped her fingers.
And the real guards rushed into the room. Ah yes. Now Mama Cosma breath easier.
"This could be a problem," Juandissimo admitted. But then he grinned. "But something else that you don't."
More secrets! "Oh? And what would that be?"
"My friends are on their way."
Mama Cosma. "They won't be able to help you where you're going. Take them away, boys!"
But before anyone could move, the room suddenly began to fill with smoke.