I had no dreams this time. I woke up on a soft mattress. I looked around. I realized that I was in Timmy's room. I sat up too quickly and had to lie down again while the room readjusted itself. When the dizziness died away, I sat up again, slowly this time. I rubbed my eyes. I could tell from the light coming through the window that it was about noon. Liz was asleep on the floor.

I got up and looked outside. Fresh, white snow was falling over Dimmsdale. There was already a thick white blanket obscuring the ground. I could see children playing in the distance, having snowball fights, making snowmen and the like.

A pencil fell off of Timmy's desk. Liz stirred. Fortunately, she didn't wake up. I began to tip-toe out of the room. I grabbed the Jewelry of Sueñalon on the way out. I made it out without waking her, or so I thought.

I had been dirty after the fight, but when I looked in the bathroom mirror I saw no dirt or grime on me.

Must have been the fairies, I thought to myself.

I walked downstairs. The room was dark. Before I knew what was happening, the lights were switched on and I saw Timmy, Danny, Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Vicky sitting on the couches in the Turner living room while Cosmo, Wanda, Betania and many other fairies floated around.

"SURPRISE!"

I blinked to make sure that what I saw was real. When I was convinced it wasn't a dream, I asked what was going on.

"It's a Thank You party, to saw thank you to you for defeating Ivy," Vicky replied. I noticed that she wasn't evil-looking anymore.

"Also a special thanks from me, Morbius, for freeing me from that wicked creature. For years she has controlled me. Only a couple of times have I been free from her influence and that, as I found out yesterday was thanks to Timmy."

My curiosity was too great. I just had to know.

"Vicky, when did you become, uh, possessed by Ivy?"

I saw tears forming in her eyes. I realized I was on a slippery slope.

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry. If it's too painful to talk about…"

"No, it's ok. It's probably best if I tell someone and get it out of me." She proceeded to explain.

"Some years back, before I began to baby-sit Timmy, my family was a happy family of five, my mom, dad, myself, the youngest Tootie and the middle one, Austin. One day we all went to get our yearly check-up. Tootie and I checked out fine, but the doctor was a little concerned about Austin. He had been acting strange recently, tired all the time, eating at irregular intervals etc. The doctor took some x-rays. I was unaware of this at the time, but one night I got up to get a midnight snack and heard my parents talking. Apparently, Austin had developed a rare disease that was killing him. I can't remember the name, but what I do remember was an overwhelming sadness. That night was my last night as Victoria, nice babysitter. My memories are dim after that. I…I…"

She began to sob uncontrollably. I mentally slapped myself. This was supposed to be a joyous celebration and I ruined it. Jazz reached over and began to comfort Vicky, who sobbed over Jazz's shoulder. After a while, she blew her nose and wiped her eyes.

"Gosh, Vicky. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have asked. If had any idea…"

"No, it's ok. In fact, thank you for asking. I needed to tell someone. But, enough about that. Let's PARTY!"

"Yea. Where's the music? I want to get funky with it," I added.

Timmy rushed over to the stereo and hit the play button. The lights darkened and a disco ball came out. Electronic music began to blare through the speakers. Colorful lights moved around the room.

I suddenly realized that Liz might wake up. I began to rush upstairs to make sure she was asleep, but never got to the first step.

There stood Liz, on the top of the stairs, in a beautiful pink and purple dress. I looked down, realizing that I was in grubby clothes. Using Sueñalo, I outfitted myself in a perfect black tuxedo complete with a carnation.

Liz jumped. I caught her in a blue Sueñalo bubble and brought her down.

The music changed. Slow, romantic music. Liz and I took the standard dance position and began to dance, slowly. I sighed with content. Life was good. Danny, Sam, Cosmo and Wanda were the only other ones on the floor. The rest were talking silently over by the punch bowl. We continued like this for about an hour.

The clock eventually struck midnight. A dance had just ended. Suddenly a small mushroom cloud appeared in the middle of the dance floor. There stood Jorgen, holding two crowns. He approached me and Liz and did the last thing that we expected.

He kneeled before us and bowed. Liz and I looked at each other with bemused expressions.

"Ok, I'll bite. What are you doing?" I asked

"I'm bowing before the King and Queen of Fairy World."

"What?"

"A missing part of the Hope Prophecy somehow appeared on my desk today in Mav's own handwriting along with these two crowns. It basically said that Mav and the one who accompanied him were to become King and Queen of Fairy World."

I looked hard at him to se if he was lying. Somehow I could see that he was telling the truth.

"Yea, well, get up, will ya? You're embarrassing me."

He stood up and held out the crowns. With a flash, we appeared in a large room. Everyone from the party was there.

"Over there are the Dual Thrones. They appeared just today atop the hill where the Big Wand is. It is where you two will sit."

Too shocked for words, Liz and I began to walk methodically forward. When we reached the thrones and, not knowing what else to do, we sat down. The crowns appeared on our heads the minute we sat down. Everyone bowed to us. A scepter was placed in my hands and we were clothed in light, comfortable royal robes.

After that, Jorgen turned to the group standing behind. A fairy neuralyzer appeared in his hand. Knowing what he was going to do, I stretched out my hand. A stream of blue Sueñalo energy reached out the neuralyzer. As soon as it touched, the neuralyzer was wrestled out of Jorgen's hand and floated along the stream to my hand.

"What are you doing, Jorgen?"

He looked nervous as he answered.

"Uh, Turner's fairies have to be taken away from him because he revealed their existence to these others." He gestured to the others in the room.

"Yeah, so? How is that diffeent from what I did over the Dimmsdale hospital?"

That silenced him. I turned to Timmy.

"Timmy, you can keep your fairies. As for the rest of you, if you promise never to speak of the events that occurred today and the fact that fairies exist, I won't take away your memories of it. However, if you break that promise, I will know and wipe your mind of this incident."

I did, of course, not know how to wipe minds or track them, but just the fact that I was able to take down the toughest fairy in the universe with just a flick made them agree.

As they were about to leave, I remembered something.

"Oh, Victoria!"

She turned, obviously surprised by the fact that I had used her full name, not her nickname. She came up trembling.

"No, no. Please don't do that. I'm not going to do anything to you. Rather, I'm gonna give you something."

I brought my hands together and they started to glow. I held them there for about ten seconds, concentrating. When they separated, a green headband was floating in between my hands. I grabbed it and handed it to her.

"Thank you, but what—"

"It's what I like to call an Anti-Ivy headband. This should prevent Ivy from possessing you again, if she returns."

She put it on. I must say, I thought that it was a pretty good headband for a first try.

After they had gone and Liz and I were alone, she leaned over and asked, "Are you sure we can do this?"

"I don't know, Liz. I hope so. I sincerely hope so…"

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For fifty years, we ruled over Fairy World. We made many improvements for both Earth and Fairy World. One of the most notable ones was that we were behind the famous discovery of a revolutionary new medical science that slowed the aging limit of humans by and incredible rate. We also influenced many humans to invent technologies so that by the end of our reign humans had homes not only on Earth but Mars, Venus and the Moon. The rest I cannot remember at this point since they were so numerous.

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One day in the fiftieth year of our reign, Liz and I decided to visit the place where this adventure had started, the farmer's field. The farmer and his wife had died before we became the monarchs of Fairy World. Our age at that time was about that of twenty year olds. We didn't say much. We just stood there and pondered the past years.

Suddenly, clouds began to appear and surround us. I tried to break up the clouds, but to no avail.

Your work here is done. No words were spoken, but we knew that this was so. We grabbed hands and waited. The clouds began to swirl and form into the whirlpool that had brought us here in the first place. The noise grew and grew and then—

Silence. I opened my eyes. And nearly fell backwards in surprise.

We were in my living room. I could hear rain falling outside. The TV was playing the last couple seconds of the Danny Phantom theme song.

We looked at each other. While doing so, I saw a light reflection in her eyes. I looked down. The Jewelry was still glowing.

"Well, that was some adventure, wasn't it, Morb?"

"Huh? Oh! Yea, it sure was. And I'm surprised. I thought our world would age like we did. But I guess it makes sense. It's kinda like the Chronicles of Narnia and the Archives of Anthropos, don't you think?

"Sure. Say, do you think we'll be going back?"

"I don't know. I hope so."

"Me too."

We sat on the couch and watched Danny Phantom. We fell asleep at the end. My last conscious thought was the same question Liz asked.

Will we go back…?


That is the end of the first of the trilogy. Wait (in anticipation, I trust) for the second story. Also, sorry for the delay. Playing w/ Facebook. Anyway, hope you liked my story! Thank you to all who commented. You've been a big help!

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