“Thank you, Felicity,” Rachel said in a low voice while Kirsty pointed out the bright red dahlias to Gran.
“The flag isn’t safe while there are so many goblins around,” Felicity said with a frown. “We have to get it from your grandma so I can take it safely back to Fairyland!”
Rachel smiled as an idea popped into her head. “Gran, I really love your new scarf,” she said. “Could I look at it again, please?”
“Of course,” Gran said. She untied the scarf and held it out to Rachel. But as she did, a strong gust of wind whipped it out of her hand. Rachel reached out for it but missed, and the flag danced away on the breeze. In another moment, the wind had carried it around the side of the house.
“Oh no!” Gran exclaimed.
“We’ll get it!” Rachel gasped. She and Kirsty ran off as fast as they could, with Felicity still safe in Rachel’s pocket. Without looking back, they left Gran to enjoy the flowers.
“I can hear a goblin cackling,” Kirsty groaned as they rushed around the side of the house and paused behind a large bush.
The girls and Felicity peeked around the bush. A big goblin was tying Gran’s scarf around his neck. He laughed as he admired his reflection in the glass of the side door.
“We’re lucky your grandma can’t see this side of the house from the yard,” Kirsty whispered.
Rachel nodded. “We have to get the flag back!” she said softly. “But how?”
Felicity and the girls watched the goblin happily tying and untying the scarf in lots of different ways. He wrapped it around his head like a turban. Then he knotted it like a tie, and put it over his shoulders like a shawl, giggling the whole time.
“He’s having tons of fun,” Kirsty whispered. Felicity and Rachel nodded. The flag was magic, and it made everything fun. Then Kirsty caught her breath. “Oh!” she gasped. “I’ve got an idea!”
“What?” Felicity and Rachel asked.
“If we can fool the goblin into thinking that the flag isn’t fun anymore, he won’t want it!” Kirsty explained.
“That makes sense,” Rachel agreed. “But how can we do that?”
Kirsty thought for a moment. “I bet the goblin wouldn’t like it if he thought the flag was turning him purple!” she exclaimed, her eyes twinkling.
“You’re right. Goblins love to be green,” Felicity declared. “And I can change his reflection with my fairy magic.” She laughed. “Come and watch the fun!” And, with that, Felicity waved her wand, showering the girls in sparkling lilac fairy dust.
In the blink of an eye, the girls became fairies with glittering wings on their backs. They fluttered up into the air, and Felicity led them toward the house. She motioned for them to stop behind the goblin.
He was now tying the scarf around his head so that he looked like a pirate. He chuckled happily. Felicity waved her wand again, and Rachel and Kirsty smiled as the goblin’s reflection in the glass door turned exactly the same lilac color as the flag.
“Don’t I look handsome?” the goblin said proudly, admiring himself in the glass. Then he looked more closely at his reflection and gave a shriek of horror. “I’m purple!” he yelled. “Help! I’ve turned the same color as the flag!”
Felicity and the girls hovered behind him, trying not to laugh out loud.
“I don’t want to be purple,” the goblin groaned. “Goblins are green, not purple.”
Felicity tapped the goblin on the shoulder with her wand. “It’s the flag,” she said, pointing at his head. “The magic’s not working properly.”
Rachel laughed and pointed at the goblin. “You do look funny,” she said. “I’ve never seen a purple goblin before!”
The goblin looked annoyed.
“Being purple isn’t any fun, is it?” said Kirsty sympathetically.
“No, it isn’t!” the goblin muttered, and he pulled the flag off his head and threw it on the ground.
Immediately, Felicity and the girls zoomed down to the flag. With a twirl of Felicity’s wand, the flag became its tiny, Fairyland size, and Rachel scooped it up.
But just then, the goblin glanced down at his arms, and his eyes almost popped out of his head. “I’m still green!” he gasped, looking from his arms to the glass door. “It’s only my reflection that’s purple!” He began jumping up and down in rage. “You tricked me!”
“We’d better get out of here,” Felicity said quickly, as the goblin rushed toward them, grasping for the flag.
At that moment, they all heard a friendly bark.
Woof! Woof!
“That’s Buttons!” Rachel cried, as they also heard the front gate open and close. “Mom’s back!”
The goblin looked terrified. With a squeal of horror, he dove headfirst into a nearby lavender bush and disappeared. Kirsty, Rachel, and Felicity couldn’t help laughing.
“I think we’ve probably seen the last of all the goblins, now that Buttons is home,” said Kirsty, grinning.
“Thank you so much, girls,” Felicity said gratefully as Rachel gave her the Friday flag. “Now I’ll be able to take my flag back to Fairyland and recharge my Fun Day magic!”
Rachel and Kirsty nodded happily. They knew that once Francis had raised the Friday flag up the flagpole in the Time Tower, the sun’s rays would strike the sparkly material. The rays would then shine directly down into the courtyard to charge Felicity’s wand with special magic, so she could make Fridays full of fun!
“Girls!” Rachel’s mom called. “Where are you?”
“You’d better go,” said Felicity. “But before you do …” She twirled her wand, and an exact copy of the Friday flag instantly appeared in Rachel’s hand.
“It’s for your grandma,” Felicity explained. “It’s exactly the same as my flag, except that it’s not magic, of course! Now good-bye, girls.”
Rachel and Kirsty waved as the little fairy vanished in a swirl of lilac dust. Then they hurried back to the patio, where Rachel’s mom had joined Gran. Buttons came running to meet them.
“Oh, you caught my scarf!” Gran declared happily. “Thank you, girls. It’s so pretty, I wouldn’t want to lose it.” Gran tied the scarf firmly around her neck, and they all went inside.
“I bought some jelly beans and chocolate chips to decorate the gingerbread men,” said Mrs. Walker as they entered the kitchen. “But I couldn’t find a cookie cutter at the general store. We’ll just have to make gingerbread cakes, instead.”
But Rachel had just noticed a few lilac sparkles drifting around one of the kitchen drawers. Her heart pounding with excitement, she pulled it open.
Four sparkling silver cookie cutters lay in the drawer in front of her. One was in the shape of a fairy, one a castle, one a toadstool house, and the fourth a winged horse.
“Look at these!” Rachel said happily, placing them one by one on the kitchen counter.
Kirsty’s eyes opened wide. “Felicity must have recharged her Fun Day magic already!” she whispered, picking up the horse-shaped cookie cutter. “Look, Rachel, this is just like Pegasus. Do you remember meeting him when we found Lucy’s magic diamond?”
Rachel nodded. “Now we can have some fun of our own!” she said with a smile.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Walker looked bewildered. “I don’t remember buying those,” she said. “But aren’t they cute? A fairy and a winged horse. How magical.”
“I’m looking forward to eating a gingerbread fairy,” Gran agreed with a smile. “It’ll be a nice change from a boring old gingerbread man!”
Rachel beamed at Kirsty as they began to mix the ingredients together.
“We can almost make a whole gingerbread Fairyland,” she whispered, “thanks to Felicity’s Fun Day magic!”
“And there are only two more Fun Day Flags to find before I go home on Sunday,” said Kirsty. “I really hope we find them before the goblins do!”
Megan, Tara, Willow, Thea, and Felicity all have their flags back. Now Rachel and Kirsty need to help
“You look beautiful,” R
achel Walker said, looking at her friend Kirsty Tate.
“So do you,” Kirsty replied. The two girls grinned at each other. Kirsty was staying with Rachel during their school vacation, and they’d been doing all sorts of fun things together. But today, Saturday, was going to be especially exciting. Rachel’s cousin, Caroline, was opening a new clothing store in the Rainbow Shopping Center. Caroline had planned a fashion show featuring some of the store’s cutest clothes. Even better, she had asked Rachel and Kirsty to be two of her models.
Kirsty and Rachel followed Caroline, both feeling tingly with excitement. The fashion show was going to take place in the lobby of the mall. There was a backstage area with large screens and partitions that made different rooms, and it seemed like a maze. “First, I’ll show you the stage,” Caroline said. The stage was long and narrow, with lots of bright spotlights — just like a real catwalk!
There were two hidden entrances. As the girls peeked out from behind the curtain backstage, they saw a cameraman setting up his equipment.
Kirsty and Rachel could see that some people were already sitting in the rows of seats on either side of the catwalk. Unfortunately, none of them looked excited to be there. In fact, most of them seemed a little bored!
Rachel shot Kirsty a look. Both girls knew exactly why the audience looked so down — it was because the Saturday Fun Flag was missing!
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