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Chapter 10: Inside the Darkness
The Darkness finally had a friend. It had many servants, and enemies, but it never had any friends. No one ever was willing to befriend a destructive black hole.
However, the Darkness had left its Eliminators in Fairy World, and didn't want to accidentally cause disaster by flying over it again. It had told its servants not to cause any unnecessary damage, so it was sure that Fairy World wasn't in danger.
However, it had a problem. The Darkness didn't think Timmy would like waking up in the dark. Humans, aliens, and magical creatures all feared the unknown, and the dark was the ultimate form of that.
It wanted Timmy to wake up at a fake version of his home, or the Chosen One Suite, but it knew Timmy would get suspicious if he couldn't see his friends, or family.
There was the problem. The Darkness wasn't able to warp reality in a POOF, PING, or GONG like most magical creatures, though it had other abilities, which never made up for the lack of that one.
Timmy was waking up. The Darkness had to do something soon, or it would be in big trouble.
The Darkness remembered a world that it had once destroyed. Genie World. It was like Arabia before Arabia; except with more magic. It figured that Timmy would like that.
The illusion painted itself across the Darkness, so Timmy would see it as soon as he woke up.
Timmy was having a surreal, violence-heavy dream about the Eliminators, the male genie, and Vicky as a genie-eating cannibal. As soon as Vicky the genie-eating cannibal entered his dream, Timmy woke up, since he knew that Vicky no longer babysat him, and didn't eat genies, or humans – as far as he knew, at least.
The sight that greeted him made just as much sense as his dream. Somehow, he was in Arabia; not modern Arabia, Aladdin Arabia, though Timmy noticed lots of modern technology there too, though since he always got Fs in history, Timmy knew that he wasn't a history professor, and maybe computers and TVs did exist in past Arabia. However, Timmy guessed that he wasn't that much of a failure at school, and that computers and TVs didn't exist in past Arabia. Where was he then?
Then, Timmy remembered that Aladdin was about a boy that rubbed a genie's lamp. Genies did exist; he did meet two, after all. Maybe he was in Genie World, or wherever the genies came from.
He looked around. No genies were there. The magic carpet shop had no customers, despite the fact that the carpets looked cool and magical. The anachronistic TV shop had no customers. No one lived in the half-modern, half-Aladdin Arabia style homes, which Timmy thought looked cool.
Something had to be up. Why was this place – which he assumed to be Genie World – deserted? It was too cool to be deserted.
The Darkness manipulated the illusion to show a professional Genie World Guide. It had spotted a few while destroying Genie World, and figured that showing one of them would give Timmy someone to talk to, and someone to show him around.
It also manipulated the illusion to create illusionary random bystanders; based on the genies it had seen when it destroyed Genie World. Now, Timmy wouldn't be suspicious.
"Hi," said the illusionary guide. "I'm your guide on your tour of Genie World."
"Tour of Genie World?" asked Timmy.
"Yes," the Darkness made his illusionary guide say. "Genie World is an amazing place to see magical culture."
"Magical culture?" asked Timmy. "That sounds cool, yet educational."
The Darkness wanted to reveal himself to Timmy, and truly become his friend, but he figured this was second best. Maybe Timmy would find out it was him, and tell the world that he was that bad after all.
Though again, the Darkness knew he could just be daydreaming about that. Maybe the Chosen One would destroy him for his crimes. Maybe that would be better than spending another eon lonely, and destroying everything and everyone.
However, the Darkness was sure that it knew how to prevent that from happening. It had lived for eons, after all.