"I wish everyone would just stop and listen to me!" Jim said. Mara unleashed a flash of light from her body, causing everything in the cave, save for Jim himself, to freeze in place. Jim stared at all the frozen beings; even the fairies hovering motionless in the air. "Hello?" Jim asked to no one in particular, wondering if they're still capable of anything.
"Hello." Everyone responded. Apparently, they can hear and talk, just not move.
Now was the time to get to the bottom of things. "Alright, you;" Jim said to Sandra; "what is your problem?"
"The griffons killed my children and ate them!" Sandra answered with a growl.
"Is this true?" Jim asked the griffons.
"We would never eat a human, let alone a child." Bechanna answered.
"Alright," Jim continued, "then do you know what happened to them?"
"I do," Junn said, "I am John."
"Liar!" Sandra roared. "You're just trying to..."
"HEY!" Jim interrupted. "If he says he's John, maybe he should prove it by telling you something only he would know."
Junn thought a moment. "On my 10th birthday, you gave me a Darth Maul action figure. Five minutes after I opened it, I broke one of the lightsaber blades. I cried my eyes out until you superglued it back together."
Sandra's eyes teared up. "It is you..." She looked at Bechanna "...and Amy...?"
"No, our horse, Becky; but she was Amy briefly."
"That... was my doing." Amethyst said. "I made the horse into Amy, and he made her into a griffon with a vial, and the griffon wished us to turn him into her griffon mate as well."
"And Amy?"
"You've been speaking to her just now, as a matter of fact." Mara said.
"So, everyone seems to insist. I keep telling them my name is Amethyst."
"It's because she used a fairy vial on herself to help me." Mara said. "She used too much of her magic, and she lost herself to her new fairy identity.
"So my baby girl is..." Sandra's face cringed.
She was about to let out a bellowing roar, when Jim spoke up. "Calm down!" Sandra immediately held her roar back. "There may be a way to set things straight; but I'm going to need you to keep an open mind, Amethyst."
"What do you mean?" Amethyst asks.
"I wish for everyone here to return to normal."