Violet the Painting Fairy

by Daisy Meadows

  “You know, your brush really needs a good cleaning —” Kirsty began.

  “Get me some white paint!” Jack Frost shouted, still clutching the paintbrush tightly. “I have to finish this painting!”

  For the next ten minutes, Jack Frost sent the girls on different errands while he painted a picture of himself in the Ice Castle gardens. To their dismay, he ignored all of their offers to clean his paintbrush.

  At last, Jack Frost sighed in relief. “Finished!” he announced. For the first time, he glanced up at Kirsty and Rachel, and his icy brows drew together in a scowl.

  “And who are you?” Jack Frost snarled suspiciously.

  With a sinking heart, Kirsty glanced down at her hands. The bright green color was fading. Violet’s magic was wearing off!

  “Goblins!” Jack Frost howled furiously to the goblins across the room. “Lock up these pesky fairies in the dungeons immediately!”

  As the goblins charged toward them, Rachel grabbed a big armful of paint tubes.

  “Help me, Kirsty!” she cried.

  “You don’t have time to paint a picture!” Jack Frost sneered. “You’re under arrest!” But realizing what Rachel had planned, Kirsty scooped up a pile of paints, too. Then the girls pulled the tops off the tubes and began squirting paint at the goblins! Blobs of yellow, blue, and red paint flew through the air, splattering the goblins from head to toe. The goblins stopped in their tracks. Then they all burst out laughing.

  “Paint fight! Paint fight!” they hollered gleefully. Grabbing handfuls of the tubes, they began squirting paint at one another and whooping with joy.

  “I order you to capture those silly fairies!” Jack Frost yelled as the girls flew toward the door. The goblins were having way too much fun to listen to him! Paint flew in all directions. Rachel could see that the gallery floor was already covered in streaks of different colors — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

  “The floor looks like a rainbow,” Rachel said to Kirsty as they hurried out into the hallway where Violet was waiting.

  “Yes — it’s the same colors as the seven Rainbow Fairies,” Kirsty agreed. Then she clapped a hand to her mouth in excitement. “Rachel, that’s exactly who we need to help us get the magic paintbrush back!”

  “I was thinking the same thing!” Rachel said as Violet flew to join them. The girls quickly explained their idea, and a happy smile lit up Violet’s face. “Fairyland, here we come!” she declared.

  As they flew toward the hall window, Kirsty and Rachel heard Jack Frost yell at the goblins, “Stop this nonsense RIGHT NOW!”

  The girls grinned and followed Violet out of the Ice Castle into the dark, frozen countryside.

  A little while later, the three friends reached the blue skies and warm sunshine of Fairyland. Below, Kirsty and Rachel could see the pink towers of the royal palace, the toadstool houses, and the winding river.

  As they swooped lower, they spotted the Rainbow Fairies in one of the wildflower meadows. Kirsty noticed that the fairies were playing a jump-rope game.

  “Look at their colorful jump rope!” Kirsty exclaimed. “It looks like a rainbow when it swings around.”

  Fern the Green Fairy and Amber the Orange Fairy held the ends of the rope and turned it, while the other five fairies skipped together, singing:

  We’re the Rainbow Fairies,

  Colorful as can be,

  Colors here, colors there,

  Rainbow colors everywhere!

  Suddenly, Ruby the Red Fairy glanced up and spotted them.

  “It’s Violet, Rachel, and Kirsty!” Ruby called. The other Rainbow Fairies looked up, too, and immediately got caught up in their jump rope. Laughing, the fairies untangled themselves and rushed to greet Violet and the girls.

  “Rainbow Fairies, we really need your help,” Rachel said. She quickly explained what had happened at Jack Frost’s Ice Castle.

  “Will you come?” Kirsty added.

  “Try and stop us!” declared Inky the Indigo Fairy with a wide smile.

  Violet, Rachel, and Kirsty led the way back to the Ice Castle with the Rainbow Fairies flying close behind. They all slipped through the hall window. Then Rachel, Kirsty, and Violet peeked into the gallery.

  “What a mess!” Rachel whispered.

  The goblins were still running around, squirting paint at one another. They were all covered in streaks of different colors, from their heads to their giant feet. The floor was covered with puddles of paint, and some of the goblins were sliding around in it.

  In the middle of the chaos, Jack Frost sat hunched over his easel. He was working on a new painting, and Kirsty could see that this one was bigger than any of the others. She felt a little sorry for Jack Frost! He was trying so hard to ignore the goblins as he concentrated on his picture.

  “I told you all before,” Jack Frost shouted as a blob of green paint flew by his ear, “you’d better not ruin any of my precious paintings — or you’ll be in big trouble!”

  Silently, Violet pointed at Jack Frost’s easel and waved to the other fairies. Rachel, Kirsty, and the Rainbow Fairies flew across the room, dodging the flying paint and staying out of sight. They all hid behind the easel.

  “I need that special shade of ice blue to paint my cape,” Jack Frost muttered, rummaging through the tubes of paint lying next to him.

  Hearing this gave Rachel an idea. She whispered her plan to the others, and the Rainbow Fairies nodded, holding their wands in the air.

  “Get ready,” Ruby the Red Fairy whispered. “One, two, THREE!”

  On the count of three, all of the Rainbow Fairies waved their wands. Glittering clouds of rainbow-colored fairy dust billowed around the room.

  “Look at the paintings, Kirsty!” Rachel said with a smile.

  The pictures on the walls were changing color before their very eyes. A painting of an orange sunset had turned green, and a painting of the deep blue sea had become bright red. In the paintings Jack Frost had been working on earlier, his ice throne was now purple, and his Ice Castle was bright pink.

  But Kirsty and Rachel could see that the biggest change was in the portraits of Jack Frost himself.

  “Ha, ha, ha!” one of the goblins chuckled, suddenly noticing the painting closest to him. “See how funny Jack Frost looks in this picture? He has a green nose and orange hair! Ha, ha, ha!”

  The other goblins stopped squirting paint and stared curiously at the paintings around them.

  “His beard is indigo colored, and his cape is bright red instead of icy blue,” another goblin said with a grin.

  “Look at this painting of him with his wand!” a third goblin pointed out. “His magic ice bolts are daffodil-yellow — ha!”

  Jack Frost looked more upset by the minute. “Stop that!” he shrieked as the goblins rolled around on the floor, laughing hysterically and getting covered in even more paint. “You’ll pay for this, you giggling goofballs!”

  When Violet gave the signal, all the fairies fluttered out from behind the easel. Jack Frost was so shocked, he almost fell off his stool.

  “The Rainbow Fairies will change the colors of your paintings back to how they should be,” Rachel told him. “But only if you return the magic paintbrush to Violet right away!”

  Jack Frost’s face fell.

  “I’m not giving up the magic paintbrush!” he snapped. But as the goblins laughed themselves silly, wheezing and gasping for breath, Jack Frost frowned.

  “Are you sure?” Violet asked him, her eyes twinkling.

  Jack Frost groaned. “Fine. Here, take it!” he mumbled, thrusting the paintbrush at Violet. The instant her fingers touched the handle of the brush, it shrank to its tiny Fairyland size. The girls and the Rainbow Fairies applauded happily.

  “Finally!” Violet sighed with relief, waving the paintbrush in the air like a wand.


  “Don’t forget your end of the bargain!” Jack Frost reminded her.

  Rachel and Kirsty watched as the seven Rainbow Fairies waved their wands to create sparkling magic once again. Showers of rainbow fairy dust transformed the paintings back to their true colors! The goblins stopped laughing and picked themselves up off the floor.

  “And this is for you,” Violet told them with a smile. She pointed her wand at an empty spot on the gallery wall, and suddenly a new framed painting appeared. The girls grinned at one another when they saw that it was a painting of three goblins! The goblins squealed with joy.

  “Nonsense!” Jack Frost snorted, but Kirsty thought he looked secretly happy.

  “Girls, thank you again,” Violet said as the fairies all left the gallery. “I really didn’t think we were ever going to get my paintbrush away from Jack Frost!”

  “We couldn’t have done it without the Rainbow Fairies,” Kirsty pointed out.

  “We make a great team!” Sky the Blue Fairy said with a laugh.

  “It’s time for us all to return to Fairyland,” Violet went on, “and you girls have a painting class to get to!” She raised her wand. “Good-bye, girls. Thank you for being such loyal friends!”

  “Good-bye,” called the Rainbow Fairies as Kirsty and Rachel were swept away in a whirl of fairy magic.

  Seconds later, the girls found themselves back in the Rainspell Lighthouse, standing by the spiral staircase outside the lantern room. They hurried inside, and found that the class was just about to start again.

  “I’m really looking forward to seeing all of your paintings,” Artie was saying to the others.

  “Me, too,” agreed Polly Painterly. “Now, let’s all try mixing those colors together again.”

  This time the painting class got off to a great start. Everyone, including Rachel and Kirsty, mixed beautiful shades of green, orange, and pink. As they began painting, Polly and Artie walked around the easels, giving everyone advice. Rachel decided to paint a view of the beach, but Kirsty wanted to try something different.

  “Kirsty, that’s a wonderful painting!” Polly exclaimed a little later. Kirsty had painted a portrait of Rachel with a shimmering rainbow overhead.

  “It’s really good, Kirsty,” Rachel said admiringly, leaning over to take a look.

  “You know, you should enter your painting in the competition on the last day of Crafts Week,” Artie told Kirsty. “That rainbow looks incredibly realistic — the colors glow!”

  The girls glanced at each other.

  “The rainbow reminds me of our fairy friends,” Kirsty whispered as Artie walked away. “I’m just so glad we were able to help Violet today. And wasn’t it great to see the Rainbow Fairies again?”

  Rachel nodded. “I wonder which fairy will need our help tomorrow!” she said eagerly.

  Kirsty grinned. She didn’t know, but she knew one thing — it would be a magical adventure!

  Rachel and Kirsty have found Kayla, Annabelle, Zadie, Josie, and Violet’s missing magic objects. Now it’s time for them to help

  Join their next adventure in this special sneak peek. . . .

  “I wish I could paint like you, Kirsty!” Rachel said, holding up her friend’s picture to admire it. The two girls had gone to a painting workshop at Rainspell Lighthouse the day before. “Mom, don’t you think this painting is really good?”

  Mrs. Walker was sitting in a chair outside their tent, soaking up the sunshine. She smiled and nodded. “You’re very talented, Kirsty,” Mrs. Walker declared, holding up the canvas to take a closer look. “You got Rachel’s hair and eye color exactly right, and that rainbow arching over her head looks beautiful.”

  “Thanks!” Kirsty laughed. “Artie Johnson, the Crafts Week organizer, told me I should enter it in the competition tomorrow.”

  “And she also said you needed to choose a title for it,” Rachel reminded her.

  “How about Rachel Under a Rainbow?” suggested Mr. Walker. He was also seated outside the tent, reading a book.

  “Perfect!” said Kirsty, and Rachel grinned. The girls were spending spring break on Rainspell Island with their parents, and they were having the best time ever. It was Crafts Week on Rainspell, so every day there were different activities for the girls to try. The Tates were staying at a b and b in the village, while the Walkers had rented a large tent on the campground. Rachel and Kirsty were taking turns spending one night at the b and b, and then the next at the campsite.

  “Whenever I look at your painting, it reminds me of when we met the Rainbow Fairies right here on Rainspell Island, Kirsty,” Rachel whispered.

  “Me, too,” Kirsty whispered back. “I’ll never forget our first fairy adventure!”

  “Girls, are you going to a Crafts Week workshop today?” called Mrs. Walker.

  “Yes, Mom, but we haven’t decided which one yet,” Rachel replied.

  “I think there might be a writing workshop this morning,” Kirsty said. “One of the other kids in the painting class mentioned it yesterday.”

  “Maybe we could write a story about the Rainbow Fairies and take it to the workshop,” Rachel whispered. “No one would ever guess it was true!”

  “Great idea,” Kirsty agreed.

  The girls sat on the grass with pens and paper and began to scribble down their ideas.

  “It all started when we both came to Rainspell on vacation and met on the boat,” Rachel murmured.

  “I thought we met in the village,” Kirsty said, frowning.

  Rachel thought for a minute and shook her head. “No, I don’t think so,” she replied. “Then we rescued Fern the Green Fairy from the pot of gold.”

  “But we saw the rainbow first,” Kirsty reminded her.

  Rachel felt confused. “Did we?” she asked. “I don’t remember that.”

  “Wasn’t it Ruby the Red Fairy we rescued from the pot?” Kirsty wondered. “Or was it Sunny the Yellow Fairy?”

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