Chapter Nine: Freedom
Cordatorta sat in his royal limo as the chauffeur drove up the house the Tecna lived in, he was holding the infamous PDA that everyone was fussing over, and nearly lost it as the car stopped. Inside the house, the pixies looked out the window to see the limo arrive.
"Cordatorta is here with Tecna's PDA, we have to get the key quick." Digit replied hastily.
"Right." Lockette agreed as they ran off to hide on the table. Just then, Stormy and Darcy came up to the window.
"Lord Cordatorta is here, I'm so anxious I don't know what to do with myself." Stormy told Icy giddily as she went to the vanity to add on some make up. However Darcy grabbed the blush from her and pushed her out of the way, and Stormy pushed back.
"Now ladies, this is your last chance, do not ruin this." Icy advised as she opened the door. Cordatorta's harold was at the door announcing his arrival.
"Announcing the royal advisor to King Saladin, Lord Cordatorta." He stated.
"I am honoured to have you in my home, Lord Cordatorta." Icy began, "I'd like to present my daughters, Dana, and Stacy."
"Charmed." Cordatorta replied with a grin.
"Now, we must read the royal proclamation so that everything is clear." Cordatorta told the three woman, then he began reading from his e-reader and showed them all the PDA. Meanwhile, Digit helped Lockette on to the table.
"That has to be my PDA!" Darcy lied.
"No way, I use it all the time, it's my PDA!" Stormy argued.
"Hey that's Tecna's PDA, not yours!" Lockette shouted before Digit covered her mouth. The two witches began chasing Cordatorta for the gadget.
"Ladies, your manners," Icy scolded, "proceed, Lord Cordatorta." and then Cordatorta began reading once again. As he read, the pixies saw where Icy had Tecna's room key. Then the snuck over to the side of the table without Icy seeing them, and Lockette helped Digit into Icy's pocket. Digit pushed up the key so that Lockette could reach the other end, but as soon as it was halfway out, Icy noticed, and tucked the key back in her pocket and patted it securely, with Digit inside. After Cordatorta finished reading the proclamation, he let out an exhausted yawn, and Stormy got him a chair to sit.
"You must be so tired Lord Cordatorta, may I offer some tea." Icy asked as she began to pour steaming hot tea in a teacup.
"No, no tea, thank you." Cordatorta told her, "We must begin with the passwords."
"Of course, Stacy, you go first." Icy suggested, and Stormy took the PDA from Cordatorta's hands and typed in something.
"That's weird, it's aways the same password." Stormy thought, she had snuck in to Tecna's room and got the password off her palmtop. However Tecna had changed the password the previous night before the ball. Stormy retyped the password, but still there was nothing.
"This thing is junk, I don't know why-" Stormy yelled, but Icy shushed.
"Cordatorta just fell asleep, ssh." She warned, "Are you sure it's not case sensitive?"
"Oh I got all the cases right." Stormy answered quietly. Meanwhile Lockette tied a ribbon to the teapot, and they were close to reaching the key, when hot tea poured on poor Lockette, making both her and Digit fall to the ground and slide to the wall, but thankfully, with the key to Tecna's bedroom.
"Come on Lockette, up the stairs." Digit instructed, and they flew the key up the stairs to the second floor. Down in the main room, Stormy was about to throw the PDA out the window, she was so frustrated.
"That is it!" She shouted, "I don't understand it, I got the password yesterday!" And with all the yelling, she woke Cordatorta.
"Next trier please." He replied. Upstairs, the pixies reached the second floor, and ran the key toward the door to the long staircase to the attic. They slid through the door and began flying the key up to Tecna's room.
Poor Tecna continued sobbing until she head Digit and Lockette's voices coming up the last steps to her room. She looked through the key hole to see the two flying the key up to her.
"We're coming Tecna, we're coming!" Digit called out.
"You got it, you get the key! Thank you!" Tecna cried, now having a hopeful smile on her face. The two pixies slid the key through Tecna's bedroom door and both received a hug from her.
Back downstairs, Darcy was furiously trying to unlock the PDA.
"Well, if I can't get it to unlock, I'll make it!" She shouted, and cast a spell on it, "Ha, I got it!"
"Its open?" Icy asked. Just then the PDA's dark magic detector hit, and it shut off completely, however nothing happened to it as it was able to be turned back on, but still locked.
"That won't happen again, right Dana?" Icy scolded.
"Yes, mother." Darcy answered.
"Well," Cordatorta was about to leave, "there aren't any more young ladies in the house I hope?"
"No, no one else." Icy lied.
"Well, then," Cordatorta continued, "have a good day."
"Lord Cordatorta, please wait!" Tecna called from the top of the stairs, "May I try unlocking the PDA?"
"Oh pay no attention to her." Icy scoffed.
"She just our maid, she's not worthy your effort." Darcy added.
"No, just a waste of your time, the girl is out of her mind." Stormy concluded.
"Yes, she's just a poor, insignificant fairy." Icy summarized.
"My orders were every girl in Zenith." Cordatorta insisted, pushing Icy aside, "Come try it, dear."
And so, Tecna typed in her true password to her PDA, and nothing happened, all her files were there, and she was grateful to have it back. The pixies and Chicko cheered joyously to see Tecna so happy. However, that did not change the three witches moods.
"How could this happen?" Icy snapped, "How could that pathetic waste of fairy wings be the girl at the ball?" She and her daughters then transformed into their true forms as witches, and were about to encase Tecna in ice forever. Cordatorta grabbed Tecna's hand and ran her out to the limo.
"I didn't expect this to happen." Tecna admitted to him in a frightened voice.
"Don't worry, dear. They'll be gone for good soon." Cordatorta reassured her, he had guards on the ready. They came to the house after all of Tecna's pixie friends and Chicko were safely out. They stormed in and imprisoned all three. They were sent to be banished from Zenith.
Cordatorta's limo drove up to the gates of the Zenithian palace, and he helped Tecna out. Prince Timothy was standing outside awaiting the arrival of his one true love, and when she stepped out of the limo, his jaw dropped in surprise, and he walked towards her.
"I don't get it." He replied, "How can someone so beautiful be forced to be a maid? It just doesn't seem right." This statement made Tecna blush, no one had ever called her beautiful before.
"I don't know, but they're being banished from Zenith." Tecna told Prince Timothy.
"Well, now you'll have a life of freedom to discover whatever you wish." he assured her.
"Thank you so much, Timmy." Tecna blushed once again, calling the prince of Zenith by this casual nickname sounded off, but she liked it.
"You deserve it, now, what is your name?" Timothy asked her.
"Tecna, my name is Tecna." she replied simply.
Tecna and Prince Timothy began to grow close other the years they live together. Tecna got a job at the palace inventing things for the kingdom, her first success was her cloning device. She and Timothy spent lots of time together, and everyone in the kingdom knew he loved her. So a few years later, Timothy proposed and they get married soon after. That was the happiest day of Tecna's life, for that day, she became Queen of Zenith.