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Chapter 17: Red Ninja
Tootie attempted to use her wand. It worked. She was in her ninja outfit, except it was red this time. Why red?
Tootie just wanted it to be that color, and she was furious at the Eliminators. She didn't know of the Cave Prophecy, or the Darkness.
The Eliminators approached the jail cell. Tootie crouched, and flew at them.
She kicked them swiftly in the face, and the chest. The Eliminator rushed at her, but she avoided him with a POOF.
She was loath to fight them, despite the fact that the "them" in question were Eliminators, and that she had fought lots of other foes. Nothing could prevent that guilt from getting at you after the fight, even if the actual fight was enjoyable – in a perverse way. Well, she supposed that was part of having emotions – and not being like Vicky.
Regardless of how she felt about fighting them, she had taken them all down.
"Thanks, Tootie," said AJ.
"You're welcome," replied Tootie. "I don't like hurting people – even if they're Eliminators. Hurting people is Vicky's thing, and she's …"
"I know," replied AJ.
Timmy's parents were celebrating their freedom like crazy. Tootie, and AJ looked at each other. Now was not the time for a victory festival. It would only alert the Eliminators, and neither of them wanted that.
"It's not time to celebrate," said Tootie grimly.
AJ continued, sounding equally grim, "We escaped the cell, but can we escape the prison?"
Timmy's parents stopped their loud celebration. AJ, and Tootie sighed in relief. The common-senseless adults understood common sense, despite being incapable of using it themselves.
POOF!
They appeared above Fairy World. Tootie had guessed that would be a problem for the humans, and had given them clouds to sit on. Timmy's parents were hooraying about sitting on a cloud, and AJ seemed to be studying it.
Tootie thought AJ was being much quieter than Timmy's parents. A ten-year old being quieter than two full-grown adults. Now, that was a sight to see.
So was Fairy World.
No longer was it dominated by pink. Instead, it was absolutely, shockingly colorless. Colorless wasn't fairy style. It was more Pixie style, though their style was gray, not the colorless look that Fairy World was currently sporting.
The fairies were in black-and-white prison outfits. Tootie doubted that they would deliberately dress themselves in such garb.
Their chant sounded horrible, and Tootie dearly wanted them to stop. If the Eliminators had ordered to the fairies to chant like that, they were idiots that deserved to be shot. Tootie didn't actually want to shoot them, but the hyperbole fitted.
"Fairy World's in trouble," she said. "It doesn't normally look like this."
"What does it normally look like?" asked AJ.
"Nice, sweet, pastel colored, pink," replied Tootie. "But, I don't have time to discuss it right now. It's in trouble, and if I get stalled…"
"I get the idea."
POOF!
A big eraser appeared over Tootie, and erased her from sight. She didn't understand why there had to be a visual metaphor, but she supposed it was okay if it didn't reveal her location. If it did, well, it would be useless.
She flew down, and began to look through Fairy World. The line of chanting fairies continued marching, and one almost bumped into her. When she looked at the line in detail, she was surprised to see that the Eliminators had caught Jorgen Von Strangle. When she had seen him previously, he was frightening, and appeared invincible. She supposed that even the Ruler of Fairy World wasn't invincible, though he often seemed that way.
She continued searching through Fairy World, but Timmy was nowhere to be found. She even double-checked, but she still didn't find him.
She sighed in relief. Timmy was safe, or at least she hoped so. If he weren't, that would be a problem.
A dark shape flitted past her. She wondered what it could possibly be, but she suspected it was an Anti-Fairy.
It flitted closer to her, and she got a better view. Yep, it was an Anti-Fairy.
Were the Anti-Fairies working with the Eliminators? Was this the type of bad luck that they'd want?
Tootie quivered. Whatever their reasons were, she didn't want to be spotted by one.
The Anti-Fairy glanced around, then centered on where she was.
Tootie winced. The Anti-Fairy seemed to know where she was.
ANTI-POOF!
A pencil redrew her. Oh no, she was visible again!
"What are you trying to do?" asked the Anti-Fairy.
"I'd like to ask you the same question," Tootie replied.
"I'm trying to save Fairy World from the Eliminators. You?"
"The same thing that you are, actually," replied Tootie. "You aren't tricking me, right?"
"No, I'm not," replied the Anti-Fairy. "We'd like to help you save Fairy World."
"Okay," replied Tootie. "But, if we find Timmy Tiberius Turner, please don't harm him."
"I can agree to that condition," replied the Anti-Fairy.
Tootie grinned. She reckoned that the Anti-Fairies would be powerful allies.