Fairy Rock

Chapter 22: Tevin Reunites With His Parents

There are large dents on the corroded metal floors of the warehouse. The eroded walls are falling apart as paint chips spread everywhere.

Tevin moves his numb legs, but he is still unable to walk as he remains on the ground. He cringes as Gilbert III rises to his feet and looks to be studying Sparkle's new transformation.

"I'd be'd seeing that you'd are not so pathetic after all," the wizard says.

Sparkle's aura lights up the warehouse.

The floor erupts, and magical sand arises out of the Earth. It goes around Tevin.

"Rest, my friend. This will be over soon. My sand shield will protect you." she tells him.

Tevin looks through a small hole in the dune, witnessing Gilbert III and the young fairy square off against each other.

The wizard screams and raises his cane, creating a yellow energy beam around him. His body grows twelve feet, and his robe stretches to match his towering physique.

The wizard snatches the eye patch off his face, showing the pink scar tissue and scabs left from the bullets of Queen Vanessa's musket. He has a crystal glass marble for an eye full of dark magic. "Fairy, I'd be taking revenge on you'd for what your'd mother and the other pirates did. They'd kill my father and grandfather. I'd created this eye specifically to torture you'd pixies."

Gilbert III's marble eye flashes raging yellow and expands to the size of a beach ball as it lets out an astronomical energy of brightness. The wizard launches lasers at Sparkle.

The young fairy swiftly flies out of the way, and the marble hits another wall, blowing it up. Thousands of spiders and roaches crawl out of the debris.

The cursed marble shines, gravitating out of the rubble, and attaches itself to Gilbert III's eye socket. It shimmers yellow beams, and the wizard discharges them at her again.

She continues to dodge and gets in front of him, blowing a massive amount of black pixie dust in his direction.

It engulfs him, and he tries to spit some of it out. He falls and gags.

Sparkle fills the room with poison, killing all the mice and the vermin hiding on the factory's first floor. "I must use more pixie dust. He has to die so my mother and everyone can be free."

The room is full of deadly toxins as the pixie dust breaks thru the windows and walls, leaking outside the factory.

Gilbert III groans, desperately attempting to breathe, and he passes out.

Sparkle stops her assault.

As the black pixie dust clears the room, she removes the protective sand covering Tevin. She applies gold pixie dust to his wounds and slowly dries up his cuts and bruises until they heal and fade away. "My new, found strength has given more power to my magic."

"Thank you, Sparkle. You look different, and you no longer stutter."

"I have evolved, Tevin. Let's get your parents. I can now sense that they are upstairs."

Tevin gets up and follows the fairy. "Sparkle, please keep close. I don't want to be left by myself."

"I won't leave you, my friend."

They go up the steel, rusty stairs, and Tevin flinches, seeing a pair of rats run by him.

"Tevin, don't be afraid. I'm here with you."

He puts his t-shirt over his nose, covering the foul smell of manure, and brushes through the cobwebs in the dark hallway.

He hears the noise of people struggling inside the laboratory.

Tevin opens the cracked door. "Mom and Dad, is that you?"

He sees his parents and Richard's parents in the back of the room by the lab tables tied up in radiating, cryptic chains.

Mrs. Jenkins sweats from the heat of the dingy place. She instantly smirks. "Tevin, my baby. You're alive."

"Sparkle, can you do anything to untie them?" Tevin asks.

The teeny-tiny fairy glides to Mrs. Jenkins and grabs the chains around her. She pulls each shackle with all her might and snaps them in half, freeing her.

Mrs. Jenkins stares at the fairy with a blank expression on her face. "Thank you!"

Sparkle breaks the chains for Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Johnson.

Tevin weeps while holding his father as he remains bloodied and bruised. "What happened to my dad?"

Mrs. Jenkins kisses her husband's forehead. "Your father was beaten so badly by Daniel, and I couldn't do anything to help him."

He touches the heavyset Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson as they embrace each other.

"I love you," Mrs. Johnson says.

"I love you too," Mr. Johnson whispers.

Mrs. Jenkins hugs her son tightly. "Tevin, where have you been?"

"I jumped off Fairy Rock, and I was in the World of The Fairies," Tevin responds.

"So, the myth is true! What in the world made you do something so dangerous, Tevin?" Mrs. Jenkins asks.

"I wanted the fairies to help me win the heart of Serenity," Tevin answers.

Mrs. Jenkins rubs her son's face and kisses him on the cheek. "Tevin, this is something that you have to learn. If someone doesn't like you for who you are, you don't need them."

Tevin wipes the tears off his face. "I need Serenity's love to be happy, and I can't live without her."

"No, son, the only one you need is God," Mrs. Jenkins acknowledges.

Tevin clings to his mother. "I'm so sorry for what I've done. I brought all this evil into the world, I can't find Richard, and I've gotten so many people hurt."

He feasts his eyes on Sparkle as Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson get closer to her. They look mesmerized by her size and her wings.

"Can the fairy find my son Richard? Susan said he went to Fairy Rock to find you, Tevin," Mr. Johnson wonders.

"My mother did not say anything about Richard, but if he's in my world, I'll find him," Sparkle retorts.

The room wobbles, and they hear a loud thud, and everyone huddles together.

"Oh no, he's not dead," Sparkle chimes.

"Sparkle, change me back to Rock, and we can stop them right here," Tevin demands.

The fairy quickly flies into his pocket and blows blue smoke around Tevin, enlarging his body and lengthening his hair as he converts into Rock.

Mrs. Jenkins screams as she visualizes her son becoming a taller and bigger man with dreadlocks. "What happened to my baby?"

Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson hold Mr. Jenkins as he wakes up.

"I don't understand anything we are seeing. I need a cigar." Mr. Johnson cries.

"Richard gets his habits from you, dear. We have to find him." Mrs. Johnson whimpers.

Rock winks at them as he stretches his muscles, preparing for battle.

"Rock, I'm going to give you some new power with my new strength," Sparkle states.

The fairy inserts silver pixie dust into him, causing him to groan and hunch over. Long, white wings grow out of his back and tear thru his shirt, allowing him to fly. She blows more silver pixie dust in the air, and it changes into a double edge sword. "I made this for you."

Rock grips the magnificent weapon, and everyone else backs into the corner of the room as a bright yellow portal burns their vision. Gilbert III and Thrasher Goblin walk out of it.

Mrs. Jenkins folds her hands and prays. "Almighty and merciful God, please look over my son and protect him from the evil in front of him. In Jesus' name, Amen."