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The screaming and shouting and pinballing continue as the Tooth Fairy adds magical lights to the sky, more rules to the game, and makes it more complicated and more fun every few minutes.
Joy and Charlie are having the time of their lives, flying, bumping, crashing in the sky.
And then, after a few hours, it’s over.
Joy drinks. The Tooth Fairy creates a bathroom for her to go to. And when she returns, the mood is much more somber.
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As Joy and Charlie are thrust by the power of cannons into the sky of the amphitheater, I can hear a series of BOOMs immediately follow them: BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
I look down and notice for the first time that there are dozens more cannons all around the arena.
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Two small fairies fly into the arena. I should say the fairies look like male body builders, only tiny and with wings. Justin, Suzy, and I, sitting in the first row, look at each other. Master Mind only looks forward.
One small fairy lands next to Joy, who is now engulfed in a protected padded globe, and the other fairy lands next to Charlie, also inside a padded globe. With a lot of show and hefting of muscles each fairy lifts a padded child above his head and rises into the air.
“PUT THE CHILDREN IN THE CANNONS!” The Tooth Fairy orders again. She is flying above the huge cannons, wand in hand.
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“Enough of this chit chat!” The Tooth Fairy says in her deafening voice. “Let us dress the children for BATTLE! Bring in THE PADDED SUITS!”
Joy and Charlie giggle.
Small fairies fly in from behind us bringing in clothes racks of… I really don’t know what those things are.
“DRESS THE CHILDREN!” The Tooth Fairy orders the smaller fairies. “Grownups and robot - find seats in THE ARENA!”
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The Tooth Fairy flies over to look at Master Mind. Half his size, her wings keep her afloat so that her eyes are at the same level as his. I look at them, and it hits me that this is my life. A life inside a dream. A life in which everything is crazy, where reality shifts, where impossible creatures exist. This is my life, even as my ‘real self’ is back in Toronto living my actual life. This is a life I can never leave. I will never be back to the waking world.
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Master Mind reaches the top first. Then Joy, then Justin.
They reach the top and disappear from view into the wormhole-like tear in the sky.
The big leaf holding Suzy, Charlie and I accelerates as we approach the top, and we are right behind them.
“Joy the Pirate!” I hear a female voice boom as everything changes around me and I find myself in a hall with a checkered floor, one that looks like it had been taken out of a chess board. “I have missed you!”
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We don’t wait more than a few seconds when suddenly something green begins to grow where the kids buried the Last Tooth Dust.
Then the green turns to leaves, then the leaves grow on a stem that grows up and up, widening and turning into a tree trunk. The trunk grows high, and the higher it goes, the thicker it grows. Branches and leaves extend from it every which way, hiding the trunk from view.
High above, the trunk appears to be almost a kilometer high, when the sky cracks open revealing another sky. It is as if a wormhole has appeared in the middle of the sky.
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“All right, kids, you know the drill,” Justin says. “Dig a small hole!”
Joy and Charlie run forward, go down on their knees, and start burrowing in the desert sand with their hands.
For the last almost three years now, they’ve come here every time Joy lost one of her teeth. Yes, they know what to do. I’ve come with them every time, but they had never let me into the world of the Tooth Fairy because I couldn’t climb the Tooth Tree at my age.
“But, Justin,” I say. “You asked us to keep the tooth. How can you keep her last tooth if we’re going to bury it?”
Justin gives me a wink and a smile then returns to look at the kids.
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Suzy smiles, “Aye aye, captain!”
“Walter Shelley, are you ready to see the Tooth Fairy?”
I try to come up with something smart to say, like ‘ready as a bird of prey descending on a dead wolf’, but I feel I’ll regret it, so I just say, “I’m ready.”
“Is the last tooth here?”
Suzy raises the small plastic jar that holds it. “You asked me to put it in a–”
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It’s the end of the day for Joy and the end of a long dream for Justin. Justin rarely gets to tuck Joy in and tell her a story, but today he did.
Suzy and I sit in our living room when he walks in.
“Is she asleep?” Suzy asks.
He nods and sits on the sofa next to Suzy. I look at him from my Archie Bunker Chair.
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“I want an apple!” Joy says at breakfast in Suzy’s and my home.
“Sure thing, sweet–” Suzy begins, but Justin raises a hand.
“Nope. Only cereal.”
“I want an apple for breakfast,” Joy says. “It’s healthy!”
Justin shakes his head. “Nope.”
“Why can’t she have an apple?” Suzy asks.
“She knows why.”
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“You know what you need, Charlie? You need to learn how to fight!”
“Huh?”
We’re in Justin’s dream, playing on a planet Charlie created a few months ago called Playground World. Everything in it is taken out of playgrounds or amusement parks.
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Dragon Little couldn’t stop jumping up and down once she and Dragon Father emerged from the land of the tooth fairies and back into the deck of Bonny’s Revenge.
“That was awesome that was awesome that was awesome that was awesome!”
Dragon Father looked at her and smiled the way he had the entire day, happy that he could give her such a joyful day.
“Did you see when I bumped into them? Boom!” she mimicked the day’s action on her father, slamming into him.
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“Aaaaaaaaaah!” Dragon Little was rolling down the steep cliff dressed in and protected by a giant ball of foamy, padded clothes.
The Tooth Fairy flew above her, and next to the Tooth Fairy was Dragon Father on his jetpack.
This had been the adventure Dragon Little had been waiting for six months for.
“It’s going to be all right, little pirate!” The Tooth Fairy boomed at her with her loud voice. “You are now representing all tooth fairies in a battle of honor!”
“Whaaaaaaaaaat?” Dragon Little’s voice was dropping as she kept dropping.
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Dragon Little was already giggling without being able to stop when a clothes rack was brought in for the Tooth Fairy.
I have never seen Dragon Little laugh so much and never seen her unable to stop herself from laughing for so long.
The Tooth Fairy, short and loud and oblivious to the fact that Dragon Little was laughing.
“All right,” she shouted in what was probably her soft voice. “Gotta prepare you for battle. There’s gonna be a lot of bumpiness in this adventure so we need you well-padded.”
Dragon Little nodded, even though I believe she did not understand what the Tooth Fairy meant.
“Let’s dress her up as a CUBE!” The Tooth Fairy boomed.
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The Tooth Fairy was short, stout, and very very loud.
“Tooth Fairy,” Dragon Father said, “This is my daughter Joy.”
“Joy the pirate!” she boomed in one of her softest voices. “I’ve been waiting for you for ages!”
She put her strong fingers into each of Joy’s shoulders. “Your father says you’re good in a fight!”
Dragon Little was smiling. “Yes, Miss Fairy.”
“Yeah, but do you bounce?” The Tooth Fairy boomed again.
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The Tooth Tree sprouted within a minute.
Dragon Little and Dragon Father looked at it, standing on the barren sand of Tooth Island.
The sprout thickened into a massive vine, multiplied into multiple vines, and all the vines skyrocketed upwards, meshing into each other, jutting out, then getting entangled again, as if in a competition to get higher faster.
A doorway opened in the sky, a bright light and seemingly a tear within the fabric of space.
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Tooth Island had not been there, on Earth’s ocean, until Bonny’s Revenge reached it. It was summoned by the dreamer without his knowledge.
They parked Bonny’s Revenge at the edge of the small island. It was a small, barren island.
“Why is this called Tooth Island?” Dragon Little looked around. “There’s nothing here.”
“Do you have your tooth?”
She showed it to him.
“Dig a small hole and bury it.”
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“Where should we go?” he said. “Mars?”
“Dad!”
“I know! We should go to Robot Planet!”
“Dad! We’re going to Tooth Island!”
“Yes, but where are we going? Into the sun?”
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Five and a half year old Dragon Little was asleep on the deck, back leaning against the mast, head leaning back.
Her mouth and chin were still showing the dried remains of the little blood that had fallen come out of her mouth when her tooth was knocked out. He let out a small laugh and leaned down next to her.
In her hand, between her fingers, she was holding her tooth.
“Joy, Joy,” he said gently.
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