Norm had correctly gauged the Fairy Council's reaction to him. The minute he entered the chambers all four members imediately stiffened up. After a few minutes of terse silence, the head of the council; member Gabriel spoke.
"Jorgen, I was under the impression that you wanted to discuss some type of proposal concerning Fairy World?"
"Yes," Jorgen replied.
"Then why did you bring this….," startedElijah, the sort of "second in command" Council Member, "..this... genie here?"
The Fairy Elder didn't say it, but Norm knew that he was thinking "filthy" when he uttered the word genie.
"Because, this is something that needs input from Norm," answered Jorgen, "his insights and opinions on matters could be quite valuable to us."
"And why would you think that, Jorgen?" questioned Jacob, the third in command, so to speak, "he's not a fairy."
"No," said Jorgen exasperated a bit at the Fairy Council's mistrust of Norm, "but he has helped Fairy World and Turner and his friends several times. I would think that would more than prove that his desire to help us is sincere."
The Fairy Council was very silent and then Gabriel spoke up again,
"Very Well Jorgen. Speaking of Timothy, how is he? Is he out of his coma?"
Jorgen shook his head and spoke
"No, and we've tried everything, my magic, Cosmo's and Wanda's magic, Norms' magic; even the Head Pixie came in and his magic had no effect. A.J. is trying to pull Timmy out of his coma through conventional medical means, but even that's not very effective."
Mr. Crocker was silent after A.J. announced his belief that there was a traitor on the Fairy Council. It would seem shocking that they would hurt a child like that. However, Denzel did know that there were fairies capable of doing this. Jorgen presumably under orders from the Fairy Council, had physically damaged Crocker as a child with the overdose of the memory wipe.
"What clued you in on it, A.J?" questioned Denzel.
"When none of the spells from Norm, Jorgen, Cosmo or Wanda, or even H.P. worked," answered the young genius, "I remember something Timmy said when he battled with, uh a certain...magical dictator..."
"You mean me," said Crocker.
"Yeah," A.J replied., "sorry."
"That's all right, A.J.," Denzel said, "I am well aware of things I've done to other people."
"Well," started A.J., "Timmy was able to fight you because in his words, "magic can't affect other magic." Now, he may have been talking about that specific situation because I've seen magic affect other magic. However, it's got to be fairly powerful magic. So on a hunch I scanned for magic. The results came back; it was indeed fairy magic, but fairy magic without the use of a wand. Only the Council Members are powerful enough to produce magic with out the assistance of a wand."
"Could that mean all four of them are in on this?," asked Crocker.
"No," A.J replied., "what I scanned for clearly indicated that only one individual was responsible. My scans could not determine exactly who though."
"What do we do, now?" asked the hunch backed teacher.
"We try to get Timmy to wake up and see if he can remember anything at all about who may have attacked him." A.J. replied.
While in his coma, Timmy had been seeing several strange things. Things he didn't even know what to make of. He had seen Jimmy Neutron looking like he was trapped somewhere. Of course Timmy felt like he was trapped himself. The eleven year old looked around and once again the scene changed. This time, he saw a tree, not the Dimmsdale Dogwood, but another tree in a back yard. There were two kids sitting under the tree. There was some odd creature next to them. It looked like it was a duck,...no it just had a duck bill...,and a beaver tail... What the?
Then Timmy remembered something from his biology class, he had seen that animal in a textbook. The name just couldn't come to him. Wait the name was duck billed platypus, or more simply platypus, and they were native to Australia. Was this Austraila? It was hard to tell. He was not very familiar with the country of Australia. The only other country Timmy had been to had been Canada. Suddenly the scene shifted again and this time he was underwater again, and sinking very fast.
Phineas Flynn woke up startled. He had just gotten to sleep after thinking about all he had remembered. The red haired boy had a scary dream but it wasn't about himself. It was about a kid in...a pink cap? With rather large buck teeth. Phineas got the sense that the boy was in some type of danger. What did that mean?
The boy just shook his head. It was obviously just a nightmare. Phineas was tired and so rolled back over and went to sleep, but he couldn't get the kid out of his mind.
The Fairy Council was silent again. Finally the fourth Council Member, Ezekiel spoke up,
"Let me get this straight Jorgen, you want us to stop using the Forgeticin Memory wipe?"
"Now, you know that's not what he said Obi-Wan," Norm said digusted at the Council's selective hearing, "what he said was that in certain situations, you may want to reconsider using it. Go over on a case by case basis instead of just randomly using it without regard to the consequences."
"What consequences?," Gabriel questioned.
"Well, Denzel Crocker for one," Jorgen replied, "look at what happened when we overdosed him with the memory wipe."
"We did that," Elijah started, "because he was a descendant of Alden Bitteroot and had the same potential to be evil. We were trying to protect Fairy World from him."
"And how did that work out?" Norm asked, "Crocker still knew there were fairies and he came close to enslaving Fairy World at least twice." He added.
The Fairy Council was silent again and then Jacob stated,
"Even granting that we shouldn't have used such a large dose on young Denzel, why should we alter the policy on the memory wipe?"
"Another thing concerns Timmy Turner and the prophecy about his two friends," Jorgen said, "had A.J. forgotten about the Darkness incident, we probably never would have looked further in the cave prophecy. We would not have known that Chester, A.J. and Timmy were the Chosen Ones. Plus...I've been talking to Norm...and I'm a bit concerned about how it's affecting Fairy World's...society."
"What do you mean?," Gabriel asked.
"I think Norm could probably explain that better than I could." Jorgen said.
Jorgen nodded and Norm spoke,
"Look you four, I know the Memory Wipe was invented with the best of intentions. You were trying to protect Fairy World and by extension the godchildren. But I'm sure you know the old Earth saying 'The Road to Hell is Paved with good intentions. This indiscriminate use of Forgeticin is making your world a secretive and closed society. I should know my own home; Genie World before it was destroyed by the Darkness, our society had gotten to that point. So much to that point that the king and his older advisers wouldn't even listen to me. They became extremely arrogant and that costed my home world greatly. I don't want to see this happen to all of you."
Mr. Crocker and A.J. had gotten the anti-magic device in place over Timmy's chest. A.J.'s friend was still breathing rather slowly.
"Mr. Crocker," A.J. started to say, "there's one more thing. When Timmy starts to wake up, I think it's best you not be in the room."
"Why not?," the Elementary school teacher asked.
"Because Timmy doesn't know you remember the Darkness incident. As far as he knows you're still the same fairy hunting teacher and that might frighten him. In fact, I probably should talk to Timmy alone after his wakes up so when you leave the room tell the others to give me a few minutes."
Denzel nodded.
"Okay," said A.J. "get ready to turn on the device Mr. Crocker and I'll monitor Timmy's condition.
With that, Mr. Crocker threw a switch and the Anti-Magic device began it's work.
