"Dr. Sloth, fire your mutation ray!" Desdemona commanded. Dr. Sloth
laughed. "Now I can taste revenge!" Dr. Sloth cried out. "Not even the
Space Faerie can save you this time!" He took out his mutation ray gun.
All the Faeries and Aishas turned to the Space Faerie. The Space Faerie
shook her head.
"He's right. I can't save you this time…but the Queen Aisha can."
"The Queen Aisha?" the red Aisha next to Fay asked. (The red Aisha was
a male.)
"Yes," Gwen the psychic Light Faerie said. "Her name is Faerie_Green.
She can withstand the mutation ray and send it back on the person who
fired it. She is green with a red spot on her foot." Fay looked around
at the other Aishas. There were quite a few including herself that were
green. She remembered Sapphira telling her about Gwen's prophecy. "Sloth
is about to fire the ray!" the Air Faeries cried out.
Quickly, all the Faeries flew out using the opening in the roof, and
they carried the Aishas that didn't know Flight. (The ones who did know
Flight flew by themselves.) They landed on an open field. The Dark Faerie
and Dr. Sloth followed them. "Vengeance tastes very, very sweet…" Dr.
Sloth crooned to himself. He laughed, joined by the Dark Faerie. He pressed
the button. The mutation ray went off. "Is this the end?" Fay thought
to herself. "Am I mutating?"
The smoke cleared away, and she saw that the mutated Aishas were on Sloth's
side now. The Aishas that were not mutated were still on the Faeries'
and Aishas' side, but only herself and the red Aisha who had spoken to
Fay were not mutated. And Fay also discovered all the other green Aishas
were mutated! She was the only green Aisha left! And as she stared at
her feet, she saw a tiny red spot on one of them. That meant she was Faerie_Green,
the Queen Aisha! The one who would lead the rest of the Aishas against
the Dark Faerie and Dr. Sloth! As the other Aishas realized this, they
cheered and bowed to her. Desdemona and Dr. Sloth laughed. "A puny little
weakling like that, Queen of the Aishas?" Dr. Sloth gasped between laughs.
"That thing won't stop us!" He pressed the button again. Another ray
of reddish light shot out at the Aishas.
"Not so fast!" Faerie_Green (which is what we'll call her now) jumped
in front of the Aishas and Faeries, straight in the path on the mutation
ray. The ray shot out towards her… hit her…bounced off her…turned backwards…and
hit Dr. Sloth and Desdemona! They shrieked as they were thrown into space
by the impact. And all the mutated Aishas were blasted away with them.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I'm Nomide," the red Aisha said. "The reason
I survived was because I was standing behind you." He bowed to her.
"You don't have to call me 'Your Majesty'," said Faerie_Green, helping
him up. "Just call me Faerie_Green."
Epilogue:
It turned out that the words of Gwen the Psychic were true; Nomide and
Faerie_Green eventually married and had children. Legend has it that all
Aishas were descended from this pair, but that remains unproven. However,
in each generation of Aishas, at least one red male Aisha was named Nomide...and
at least one green female was named Faerie_Green.
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