“Please help me!” Jack Frost gasped when he saw them. “I’ll give you these sneakers if you can get them off my feet so I can rest!”
“It’s a deal,” Olympia agreed. “Now the only problem is, how do we get the sneakers off?”
Olympia turned to Rachel and Kirsty. “Any ideas, girls?” she asked hopefully, as Jack Frost ran circles around them.
Kirsty looked down at the super sneakers. It would be impossible to take them off while Jack Frost was running around. But what if his feet weren’t on the ground at all?
“I think I have an idea!” Kirsty cried. She fluttered over to Jack Frost. “Can you do a handstand up against that wall over there?”
Jack Frost glared at her. “This is no time for games!” he snapped.
“It’s not a game!” Kirsty replied. “If you do a handstand, we’ll be able to untie the sneakers and take them off your feet.”
“Great idea, Kirsty!” Olympia declared.
Jack Frost ran over to the wall, put his hands down on the ground, and flipped himself up into a handstand. He was still running, but in midair, while holding himself up with his scrawny arms.
Rachel and Kirsty dodged around Jack Frost’s waving feet and untied the laces on both of the super sneakers. Jack Frost wobbled a little, but managed not to fall over. Then Olympia swooped in. With Rachel and Kirsty’s help, she pulled off the left sneaker. It immediately shrank down to its Fairyland size. Next, Olympia and the girls pulled off the right sneaker, and that also shrank, becoming the same size as the other one.
Jack Frost sighed with relief as he flipped himself upright again. “Thank goodness!” He groaned. “I’m going home to take a long rest!” Then he waved his wand and an ice bolt carried him off to his castle.
“Girls, you were amazing!” Olympia cried. “I couldn’t have gotten the sneakers or my other magical objects back without your help. Will you come back to Fairyland with me again to watch our races?”
“We’d love to, but we’d better not,” Rachel said. “Now that the triathlon’s over, my mom and dad are probably looking for us.”
“Go and enjoy the rest of the awards ceremony, then,” Olympia told the girls with a smile. “I’m sure all your friends in Fairyland will see you again very soon!” Then, holding the super sneakers, she vanished in a sparkling mist of fairy dust.
“Wasn’t that the most exciting competition ever?” Rachel said, as she and Kirsty ran hand in hand to watch the awards ceremony.
“I hope we go to many more triathlons,” Kirsty replied. “But I don’t think we’ll ever go to such an amazing one as this, thanks to Olympia and our fairy friends!”
There’s another fairy adventure right around the corner! Join Rachel and Kirsty as they help
Selena
the Sleepover Fairy!
Read on for a special sneak peek. . . .
“I feel like it’s my birthday and Christmas all at the same time!” said Rachel Walker, bouncing up and down on her seat. “I can’t believe we’re actually going to a sleepover at the National Museum!”
“It makes it twice as exciting that you’re here,” her best friend, Kirsty Tate, agreed, settling down beside her. “It was so nice of the principal to let you come.”
Kirsty’s school had won a place in a giant charity sleepover, which was being held in the National Museum. Thirty children from the school were going to the city to participate. Rachel was staying with Kirsty for the weekend, so she had been allowed to join in, too.
The bus driver took his seat and the engine rumbled into life. As the bus pulled out of the school parking lot, the girls waved good-bye to Kirsty’s mom, who had come to see them off.
“I hope it’s not spooky there at night,” said a girl named Hannah, who was sitting in the seat behind Rachel. “I’m a little scared of the dark.”
“Don’t worry,” said Kirsty with a comforting smile. “I’ve been there before and it’s really cool. There are lots of amazing things to do.”
“I want to see the Dinosaur Gallery!” said Rachel, opening a bag of candy and passing it around.
“Oh, yes. And the diamond exhibition with all the sparkling jewels,” Kirsty added, taking a pink candy and popping it into her mouth.
“The marine fossils!” said Arthur.
“The wildlife garden!” said Allie.
Suddenly there was a loud bang from beneath their feet.
“What was that?” Hannah squealed. “Did a wheel come off?”
“I don’t think so,” said Rachel, frowning. “It sounded like it was inside the bus. . . .”
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