Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy

by Daisy Meadows

  Nightmares!

  In the Starry Glade

  Ice Castle Mission

  Night Monsters

  Sleepy Jack Frost!

  Sweet Dreams

  “Oh, isn’t it sad that this is our last night at Camp Stargaze, Kirsty?” Rachel sighed as she snuggled down inside her sleeping bag. She glanced up at the black sky overhead, where tiny silver stars were glittering like diamonds. “Still, having an outdoor sleepover is a wonderful way to end our vacation together!”

  Kirsty nodded as she unzipped her own sleeping bag and climbed in. “It’s been fun, hasn’t it, Rachel?” she agreed. “I’m so glad we came!”

  The girls and their parents were spending a week of summer vacation at Camp Stargaze, which got its name because it was in a wonderful place to view the night sky. It was a warm, clear evening, and all the children had brought their sleeping bags onto the grassy area by the tents. They’d had milk and cookies, and Peter, the camp counselor, had read them a bedtime story.

  “OK, time to turn off your flashlights now,” Peter called. “Good night, everyone.”

  “I want to come back to Camp Stargaze again next year,” said Lucas. He and Matt, two of Rachel and Kirsty’s new friends, were lying on the lawn in their sleeping bags near the girls. “It’s the best vacation I’ve ever had!”

  “I learned a lot about the stars from Professor Hetty,” Matt declared, turning off his flashlight. “And I’m going to keep reading about them when I get home, too. Good night, Rachel and Kirsty!”

  “Good night,” the girls called.

  All the flashlights were turned off now, and the camp was in darkness except for the pale light of the moon. Gradually, everything fell silent, other than the occasional gentle hooting of an owl in the Whispering Woods nearby.

  “Nobody else knows that this has been an extra-magical vacation for us, Kirsty,” Rachel whispered, smiling at her friend in the moonlight.

  “Yes, we’ve had some amazing fairy adventures!” Kirsty whispered back. After the girls had arrived at Camp Stargaze earlier that week, their fairy friends had asked them to help once more. Rachel and Kirsty had been horrified to learn that Jack Frost and his goblins had stolen seven satin bags of magic dust from the Night Fairies while the fairies were at an outdoor party.

  The Night Fairies used their magic to make sure that the hours between sunset and sunrise were peaceful and harmonious, just as they should be. But with the magic bags in the hands of Jack Frost and his goblins, all kinds of strange things had been happening, including a green sunset and the stars moving around in the sky!

  “I know we’ve found six of the bags,” Rachel said, “But there’s still one fairy left to help–Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy.”

  Rachel, Kirsty, and the Night Fairies had been determined to find the bags of magic dust after Jack Frost’s icy magic had sent his goblins spinning into the human world to hide the bags there. So far, the girls and the fairies had outwitted the goblins over and over again. They had retrieved almost all of the bags!

  “Let’s hope we can find Sabrina’s bag tomorrow before we go home,” Kirsty said with a yawn. “Good night, Rachel.”

  “Good night, Kirsty,” Rachel replied.

  A few minutes later, Kirsty heard her friend breathing deeply and knew she was asleep. Kirsty cuddled down in her sleeping bag, feeling comfortably warm and drowsy. She gazed up at the sky, but suddenly she noticed that the light of the moon had vanished. For a moment, Kirsty thought the moon had slipped behind a cloud, but then it reappeared for a second or two before disappearing again. It was almost like someone was flipping a switch and turning the moon off and on, Kirsty thought, feeling confused.

  Then she saw that the stars were moving. They were zooming around the night sky, mixing up all of the constellations. It made Kirsty dizzy just watching them.

  Suddenly Kirsty heard a cold, icy chuckle. It sounded so close that it sent a shiver down her spine.

  “Ha, ha, ha! Those silly girls and their pesky fairy friends are no match for me this time!” Jack Frost gloated. “I have ALL the Night Fairies’ magic bags, and now I am the master of the nighttime hours!”

  “Hooray for Jack Frost!” the goblins cheered.

  “No!” Kirsty gasped. “This can’t be happening.…”

  Suddenly Kirsty shook herself awake. She had broken out in a cold sweat and was tangled up in her sleeping bag.

  “Oh, I was dreaming!” Kirsty sighed with relief. “I didn’t even realize I’d fallen asleep. What a terrible nightmare!” She glanced at Rachel and was surprised to see her friend sitting up, yawning and pushing her hair out of her eyes.

  “Are you OK, Kirsty?” Rachel asked. “I just had an awful dream about Jack Frost and the goblins.…”

  “Oh, so did I!” Kirsty exclaimed, and she quickly told Rachel about her dream.

  “My nightmare was that Jack Frost kidnapped all the Night Fairies and locked them in his Ice Castle,” Rachel said with a sigh. “It seemed so real.…”

  “I think it might be because Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy’s bag of magic dust is missing,” Kirsty pointed out. “Should we go to the snack tent and make some hot chocolate? It might help us sleep.”

  “Great idea,” Rachel agreed.

  The girls slipped silently out of their sleeping bags, trying not to wake the other kids who seemed to be sound asleep. Then they tiptoed across the camp to the snack tent. Rachel grabbed two mugs, and Kirsty spooned some chocolate powder into them.

  As the girls went over to the hot water thermos, Lucas’s mom stepped into the tent. She was carrying Lucas’s younger sister, Lizzy, who was sobbing loudly.

  “Oh, poor Lizzy!” Kirsty said. “What’s wrong?”

  “I’m not sure,” Lucas’s mom replied, giving Lizzy a comforting hug. “I think she must have had a nightmare. She woke up crying and talking about ‘greenies,’ whatever they are.”

  Kirsty and Rachel glanced at each other as Lucas’s mom went to get Lizzy some warm milk. “Greenies,” Rachel repeated. “Do you think Lizzy was dreaming about goblins, Kirsty?” “It sounds like it,” Kirsty replied, frowning as she added hot water to their mugs. “There are a lot of bad dreams around tonight, aren’t there, Rachel?”

  “Like you said before, this must be because Sabrina’s bag is missing!” Rachel said.

  The girls took their mugs of hot chocolate and sat on a bench outside the snack tent under the stars.

  “Look, Rachel,” Kirsty said after taking her first sip of hot chocolate. “Here comes your dad.”

  Rachel glanced across the camp and saw her father. He’d just come out of the tent the Walkers and the Tates were sharing, and now he was wandering toward the girls. But as he got closer, Rachel and Kirsty could see that something was wrong. Rachel’s dad didn’t seem to have noticed the girls, even though he was staring straight at them. He looked kind of dazed and upset.

  “What’s the matter with him?” Rachel asked, feeling worried. “Kirsty, do you think he’s sleepwalking?”

  Before Kirsty could reply, Mr. Walker stopped abruptly. He blinked a few times and shook his head as if he were trying to clear it. Then he noticed Rachel and Kirsty staring at him.

  “Oh, hello, girls,” Mr. Walker said, rubbing his eyes. He glanced down at his pajamas, looking confused. “What am I doing out here?” he asked.

  “I think you were sleepwalking, Dad,” Rachel told him. “Are you all right?”

  “I’m fine,” Rachel’s dad reassured her, “but I was having a very strange nightmare. I dreamed that I was surrounded by little green creatures with long noses and big feet! Then I heard cackles of icy laughter, and I felt very cold.” He shivered.

 
Rachel and Kirsty exchanged glances.

  “Well, I’d better get back to bed,” Mr. Walker said with a yawn. “And you should, too. We’ve got a long day ahead of us tomorrow. Good night, girls. I just hope I don’t have any more nightmares!”

  “Good night,” Rachel and Kirsty replied as Mr. Walker went back to the tent. Then they turned to each other, eyes wide.

  “Jack Frost and the goblins are getting into people’s dreams!” Kirsty gasped.

  “What are we going to do, Rachel?”

  “I don’t know,” Rachel sighed. “I guess we should go back to our sleeping bags and wait for the magic to come to us. But I don’t want to fall asleep again in case I have another goblin nightmare!”

  The girls finished their hot chocolate, washed out the mugs, and then tiptoed back across the camp. But before they reached their sleeping bags, Kirsty stopped dead, clutching Rachel’s arm.

  “Look, Rachel!” she whispered. “See that light in the Whispering Woods?” Rachel stared through the darkness, and then she saw it. A tiny, dazzling light was floating through the woods, weaving its wag between the trees.

  “Do you think it could be Sabrina?” Rachel asked. Excitement flooded through her.

  “Let’s go and see!” said Kirsty.

  The girls quietly left the camp and slipped into the Whispering Woods, keeping their eyes fixed on the bright light flitting around in the distance. It wandered here and there, not seeming to be headed anywhere in particular.

  “I wonder where it’s going?” said Rachel.

  Suddenly, the light dipped down to the ground, out of sight.

  “I think it landed in the Starry Glade,” Rachel guessed. “Come on, Kirsty!”

  The Starry Glade was a little clearing in the Whispering Woods, covered with white, sweet-scented, star-shaped flowers. Rachel and Kirsty dashed into the clearing and saw that the light had settled on a springy cushion of green moss. “Kirsty, it is Sabrina!” Rachel exclaimed in a low voice as they tiptoed closer.

  Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy was fast asleep on a bed of moss among the starry flowers. She didn’t even open her eyes as the girls bent over her.

  “I wonder why Sabrina didn’t come to find us?” Kirsty whispered.

  Rachel frowned. “You know how my dad was sleepwalking?” she reminded Kirsty. “Well, I think Sabrina might have been sleep-flying! She was wandering all over the Whispering Woods, and she didn’t seem to know where she was going.”

  Then Sabrina stirred a little. “Help!” she murmured in her sleep. “Help me!”

  Rachel and Kirsty glanced anxiously at each other.

  “Even Sabrina’s having a bad dream,” Kirsty said. “We’d better wake her up, Rachel!”

  “Sabrina,” Rachel called gently. “Wake up. You’re having a nightmare!”

  For a moment, Sabrina didn’t move. Then she slowly opened her eyes and stared up at Rachel and Kirsty.

  “Oh, girls, I’m so glad to see you!” Sabrina said shakily. She sat up, pushing her silky brown hair out of her face. “I was dreaming that Jack Frost had captured me and locked me in a cage made of ice!”

  “Lots of people are having nightmares about Jack Frost and the goblins, including me and Rachel,” Kirsty told her, sighing. “Jack Frost is using my bag of magic dust to give us all bad dreams!” Sabrina exclaimed, looking very upset. She fluttered off her cushion of moss, smoothing down her purple ruffled skirt. “India the Moonstone Fairy taught me how to use my dream magic. But now it’s all gone wrong! I have to get my bag back so I can make sure everyone has good dreams again.”

  “Is the bag somewhere around here in the Whispering Woods?” Rachel asked eagerly.

  Sabrina shook her head. “No, Jack Frost was so angry when the goblins lost the other six bags that he took the seventh bag back to his Ice Castle,” she explained. “And now he’s guarding it himself!”

  Rachel and Kirsty glanced at each other in dismay.

  “Girls, will you come to Fairyland with me and help me get my bag of magic dream dust back?” Sabrina asked. “You know that time will stand still here in the human world while you’re away.”

  “Of course we’ll come,” said Kirsty. “Rachel and I don’t want to have any more awful goblin nightmares, either!”

  Smiling, Sabrina lifted her wand and a puff of sparkling fairy dust whirled around the girls. Once again, Rachel and Kirsty felt the familiar rush of excitement as they shrank down and became fairies with their own glittering wings on their backs. Then, with another flick of Sabrina’s wand, they zoomed off to Fairyland in a swirl of rainbow-colored magic.

  It was nighttime in Fairyland when Sabrina and the girls arrived! Sabrina swooped through an open window in the Fairyland Palace and into the throne room. Rachel and Kirsty were right behind her. To the girls’ surprise, King Oberon and Queen Titania were awake and pacing up and down the room. King Oberon wore a magnificent purple robe, while the queen was dressed in a white silk nightgown. The other six Night Fairies were there, too, all looking anxious.

  “Oh, girls, thank goodness you found Sabrina and woke her up!” Queen Titania exclaimed, rushing over to hug them. “We have to get the bag of magic dream dust back. The king and I can’t sleep because we’re having the most terrible nightmares about Jack Frost and the goblins!”

  “Yes, I dreamed that Jack Frost stole my golden crown and wouldn’t give it back,” King Oberon said with a sigh.

  “I had a horrible dream that Jack Frost became king of Fairyland, and the goblins were running around the palace gardens pulling the heads off the roses and paddling in the Seeing Pool!” the queen told the girls.

  “And look out there.” The king pointed out the window at the toadstool houses surrounding the castle. Some of them were lit up by a bright firefly light. As the girls and the fairies watched, more and more lights began to come on in the other houses.

  “It looks like all of Fairyland has woken up from bad dreams!” Sabrina said sadly. “But Rachel and Kirsty have agreed to come to Jack Frost’s Ice Castle with me to try and get the bag back.”

  The king, the queen, and the six Night Fairies looked relieved.

  “You’ve both come to our rescue once again, girls,” said Queen Titania gratefully. “Thank you so much.” “And the other Night Fairies will do their best to make sure nothing else goes wrong here or in the human world before morning,” the king added. “Take care, all of you.”

  Quickly Sabrina, Rachel, and Kirsty fluttered out of the palace window again. Then they headed across Fairyland to Jack Frost’s Ice Castle.

  The girls had been to the Ice Castle before, but as they fluttered through the darkness toward it, it was still a cold, scary sight. The castle was built of sheets of ice with six tall frosty towers. It glittered and gleamed like marble in the pale moonlight.

  As Sabrina led the girls toward the castle walls, they heard gruff goblin voices. Immediately, Sabrina put a finger to her lips. There was a group of goblins standing on the castle battlements talking to one another. Sabrina, Rachel, and Kirsty floated down a little lower so they could listen.

  “I’m tired,” one of the goblins complained with an enormous yawn. “I want to go to bed.”

  “Jack Frost said we have to guard the castle against fairies—and those human girls!” another goblin reminded him.

  Rachel and Kirsty glanced at each other. They could see goblin guards on all the entrances into the castle. How were they going to get past the goblins and slip inside?

  Suddenly, one of the goblin guards happened to glance upward. He spotted Sabrina and the girls before they could duck out of sight, and he gave a shriek of anger.

  “Look!” he yelled. “Pesky fairies!”

  All the goblins howled with rage and rushed toward Sabrina and the girls. The three friends quickly flew up and out of reach. Then Sabrina began to sing in a sweet voice:

  When the sun has set at last,

  When the sky is darkening fast,

  When the moon is pale a
nd light

  When the silvery stars are bright,

  That’s the time to rest your head

  And climb into your cozy bed,

  Sleep and dream the night away,

  Tomorrow is another day!

  As Sabrina sang her lullaby, the goblins stood staring up at her. Then they all began to yawn and rub their eyes. Rachel and Kirsty watched with a smile as the goblins began to sink down onto the ground, curling themselves up into balls as they fell fast asleep.

  “Your magic lullaby worked, Sabrina!” Rachel whispered as she and Kirsty flew down to join the fairy.

  “Not quite,” Sabrina said with a frown. She pointed at one of the goblins who had stuck his fingers in his ears so that he couldn’t hear the lullaby. “I’m not listening! I’m not listening!” he chanted, running toward them. “Quick, girls, into the castle!” Sabrina cried.

  The three friends swooped through the nearest entrance and inside the Ice Castle.

  “Stop!” the goblin shouted, chasing them.

  “Where’s Jack Frost?” Rachel asked as they flew down an icy hallway.

  Sabrina frowned. “I don’t know,” she replied. “Let’s try the Throne Room.”

  Sabrina, Rachel, and Kirsty zoomed to the Throne Room and peeked inside, but Jack Frost’s icy throne was empty. The goblin was still right behind them, so they kept flying.

  “STOP!” the goblin yelled again. Leaping forward, he tried to grab Sabrina. Luckily, he missed.

  “Maybe Jack Frost’s in bed?” Kirsty suggested. “After all, it is nighttime.”

  “But the Ice Castle is huge!” Rachel groaned as they turned another corner. The goblin followed them, panting loudly. “His bedroom could be anywhere!”