Fablehaven Chapter 18 Summary

Bahumat

  • Kendra goes to the barn to collect milk from Viola for the Fairy Queen's elixir; she also makes a cut on Viola's udder in order to collect some blood. And then just to be safe, she puts some of her own blood in.
  • What next? Kendra tells all the fairies she can see that she has something for them, and a crowd gathers—she dips a finger in and tries it (ew) to show them that it's not poisonous.
  • One by one, the fairies drink the elixir, following her lead—and when they do, they all transform into human-sized versions of themselves, and tell Kendra that they'll do her bidding.
  • First they restore Dale to his former, non-statue self, and then they carry Kendra, flying to the Forgotten Chapel to take care of Bahumat.
  • When the imps come out to do battle, the fairies grab them and kiss them—each kissed imp turns back into a fairy and joins the fray on the side of the fairies and Kendra.
  • Next they head to the basement. Seth has been aged hideously, but luckily a fairy is able to reverse it with a kiss (ironically, he recognizes her as the fairy whom he'd transformed into an imp by accident).
  • Bahumat stands free, with Muriel and Ephira at his side; the fairies attack, and some of them are killed or ensnared.
  • Eventually the fairies manage to bind Muriel to Bahumat using ropes, and when they do, Muriel loses her beauty and becomes old again. Ephira vanishes.
  • Grandpa Sorenson, who was transformed into an orangutan, is returned to his human form, and Grandma, who was changed into a slug, is returned to her usual self too. They carry off Lena, who became a fish, and they restore Hugo to his own form again too.
  • By the end, the church is totally destroyed and open to the sunlight. Many fairies fell during battle, and some stay dead. The fairies sing until the ruined church sinks into the ground, and is replaced by a hill covered with wildflowers.
  • The fairies carry everyone back to the yard, and Kendra thanks them; then each fairy gives Kendra a kiss, which returns them to their smaller sizes.
  • Kendra feels light-headed, and as Grandma and Grandpa talk about how Grandma's no longer a chicken, Kendra loses consciousness.