Chapter 31

Reunion

It was near 8:55 and Tecna was let out of the enclosed cave. She was covered in dirt by then and exhausted, also sad.

"Did you find it?" asked a minion as he grabbed her tightly by the arm. She shamefully shook her head in response, as well as being miserable from searching, and upset about what happened to Timmy, she was also sad that she still couldn't speak.

"Well you'll have to stay there for twelve hours every day until you do!" the Technolord snapped as he pulled Tecna into his portal. They ended up in an oddly pretty room. It had no door, no way to get out. The strange thing about it was it looked pleasing; there was a balcony with lavender curtains and a matching canopy bed, but nothing else.

"You're pretty, but the sad fact is, you're pathetic." he said as he threw her by the arms onto the bed, then vanished. Tecna had remembered she was wearing a watch, one that was accurate to the second. In her mind, she counted the seconds until 9:00, "57, 58 59..."

Suddenly, she felt a tingle in her throat, and as her watch hit 9:00, sparkles of green and purple fairy dust grow up around her feet. The fairy dust surrounded her, and when it fell on her, she could feel something happening.

"I... I can talk!" Tecna was definitely surprised to hear her own voice again, "If only someone who cared could hear me."

Meanwhile, Timmy was searching the lair on his hoverbike. Just then, he heard something that made him so happy, his girlfriend's beautiful voice. He rode to the one tower, and waited. As Tecna swung back the curtains behind her and walked over to the balcony railing, Timmy felt like he was living a fantasy, but she couldn't see him because he was underneath looking up at her. She held the heart shaped gold necklace in her hand, then flipped it over and read the romantic poem on the back. After, she opened it and a hologram picture of her and Timmy appeared in front of her.

"Timmy." Tecna sighed as she closed the necklace, and then tears welled in her eyes, as painful as it was to accept, she thought she was never going to see him again. Though he was watching her from below, he couldn't stand to see her so upset, she needed to know he was alive. As she shut her eyes, he quietly rode closer, close enough to feel her cheek. Tecna's eyes shot open when she felt his hand.

"Either you're alive or I've gotten so lonely that you're just a figment of my imagination." she cried. With that, Timmy jumped off his hoverbike and climbed over the railing.

"No, I'm real." he answered as he twirled her around in his arms. Once she landed on her feet, she knew she was going to be okay.

"I never thought I'd see you again." she said.

"But now I'm going to take you home and... your hands? What did he make you do?" Timmy noticed how dirty and scratched her hands were, he gently blow away some of the dust as he held her hands in his own. His breath felt warm, and heated up her cold hands. As well as being dark and dangerous, the cave was also freezing, and searching through the rocks made her hands numbingly cold.

"I haven't eaten for days, I can't stand it here!" Tecna exclaimed. With what she had just said, Timmy felt hurt. He took an apple from the bag on the side handlebar of his hoverbike and gave it to her.

"I can't believe this is happening to you." he told her.

"As much as I wish to leave, The Technolord put a spell on me. Apparently it only lets me speak at night, and I assume you he's the only one who can reverse it. Besides if he found out that I escaped, he may come after you because when I refused to be his servant, he threatened to destroy you. That's why I agreed after his threat; I'd rather live a life of misery than know you're gone. But when I saw him push you, I know there was nothing to break your fall, so... " she explained.

"Well, somehow Stella transported my hoverbike so it could fly in mid air and stopped me from falling, but I'm fine now. I don't worry too much about myself, but all I really care about is you, and if I can't take you home tonight, at least let me take you out of here for a few hours, and if you can find a counterspell book tomorrow, I will take you back to Alfea and try to undo it." Timmy replied.

"I don't think I'll find one where I'm looking," Tecna giggled as she passed him the apple core. Timmy put it back in his bag after climbing back on his hoverbike. Then he took her hand and guided her to sit behind him.

"Hold on tight." he started his hoverbike and as they began to fly faster, they laughed in excitement and thrill. Tecna felt the greatest excitement of all as they flow off into the night.

Chapter 32

Wishes

The night was so magical; it felt like the stars in the sky were surrounding Timmy and Tecna as they flew higher in the air. They laughed together as they flew. Then Timmy lowered the bike into a park with a fountain in the center. When the bike came to a stop safely on the ground, he helped Tecna off. Her arms flew around him, the moment was as if time stood completely still when they looked into each other's eyes. A few minutes later, he sat her at the edge of the fountain.

"Remember when I told you that you were beautiful, and that no one could compare to you?" he began, "Well now, with your sight back, I can show you just how beautiful you are. Look in the water."

Tecna glimpsed at her reflection, the moon's light made the rippling water look like sparkling fairy dust.

"I'm beautiful, honestly?" she asked, amazed at her reflection.

"Of course, I told you that before didn't I? And besides, if I ever got a chance to see you in an amazing dress walking down a candlelight staircase, you would look so gorgeous. But, Tecna, you could never look as pretty to me as you do when you're under the twilight." Timmy explained.

"Timmy, have you been taking romance lessons from Helia?" Tecna asked in a giggle.

"No, I just thought lately that if you're in terrible danger, the last thing you want me taking about is technology. It tells you that I don't care, but you are my life, and.., I have to come out of the shadows of my computers." he replied. As he talked, she leaned her head over his shoulder and sighed dreamily. Minutes later, Timmy took two pennies from his pocket and gave one to Tecna.

"Make a wish." he told her. Tecna wished she would be free to go home and live like she used to. Timmy wished Tecna wasn't being forced to serve the Technolord against her will.

"Okay, one, two, three." they counted in unison as they throw their pennies in the fountain at once. They didn't tell each other their wishes, as tradition said, but they hoped that whatever one another's wishes were, they would come true.

"I better take you back, but... know that I'll come tomorrow night for you." Timmy said as he helped her on his hoverbike.