A/N: JanusGirl101 is posting this story for me, SparklyHippo3000, because I don't have an account yet. This is my first 39 Clues fanfiction, so I hope you enjoy it. It is for therockinCookie's contest. Please review and let me know what you think.

Toads and Diamonds

Chapter 1

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Amy Cahill. She lived with her sister Natalie and her widowed mother Isabel in a little village.

Amy was not the prettiest in the family, for Natalie was beautiful, the exact likeness of Isabel in both looks and disposition. But Amy looked like her father, with auburn hair and jade green eyes, who had died a few years ago in a fire. She was sweet-natured and always eager to help. But Isabel took a favor to Natalie, making Amy busy all day with their work. The worst chore for Amy was walking two miles to the well and back to get water. Amy didn't mind it that much. There weren't usually people on the way there, so she could be alone to think.

One day when she was at the well, there was an old lady sitting next to it.

"Hello dear" she said, "Will you please take the time to fetch me some water?"

Being the kind-hearted girl she was, Amy was happy to help.

"Why of course" said Amy, as she quickly filled her jug with water and let the old lady drink her fill. Right after she finished drinking there was a burst of light that came from the lady as she transformed into a fairy right in front of Amy's eyes.

The fairy had black and white striped hair, a snake nose ring, a black t-shirt, jeans and sneakers.

"Oh!" exclaimed Amy, "Who are you?"

"I am the fairy Nellie," she said. "You are a very kind person and for that I will reward you with a gift. From now on, whenever you speak, diamonds and all other kinds of jewels will fall out of your mouth."

"Thank you," said Amy, and as she said these very words, a ruby, two diamonds, and an amethyst fell out of her mouth. Amy ran back to her house as fast as she could. When she got home her mother was there waiting for her. She did not look very happy.

"You were late," said Isabel.

"Sorry" said Amy. A pearl fell out of her mouth.

"What is this?" Isabel said, picking up the pearl. Then Amy told her the whole story and while she did, hundreds of jewels tumbled out of her mouth.

"Natalie!" said Isabel. "Go out and draw some water from the well. There should be an old lady waiting there. Give her all the water she wants, and then she will make us rich!" said Isabel.

"Do I have to?" complained Natalie.

"Yes," Isabel said. And after much complaining, Natalie went.

Natalie's POV.

"Humph. Why do I have to do all the hard jobs?" I mumbled even though I really didn't. "This should be Amy the peasant girl's work. Personally I don't even know how we're related, much less sisters!" It seemed to take forever till I finally got there.

I'm glad nobody I knew was on that road. It would have been embarrassing if anybody saw me doing WORK. They wouldn't believe it anyway.

"Ok, where is this lady I'm supposed to dump water on?" I asked nobody. I walked over and waited and waited. Then after what seemed like forever but was only a few minutes, a little boy came out of the woods. He wasn't an old lady, so when the boy asked me for water I just said,

"I don't talk to peasants, let alone give them water!" Then suddenly the boy turned into a fairy!

"I think I'm going crazy from sitting in the sun to long." I said.

"No you are not going crazy Natalie," said the fairy. "My name is Nellie the fairy and I'm here to punish you for being so rude and cruel to everybody." Oh no. I thought. She is probably going to make me poor or something if she really wants to punish me!

"Lets see. I know, whenever you talk, slimy animals like frogs and snakes and bugs will fall out of your mouth." And with that the fairy disappeared.

"Yeah right." I said. "I guess I should go home." And then to my horror a snake came out of my mouth! Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew! A snake! She wasn't lying! I puked.

After I did that I ran home.

"Mother! Mother!" I cried dropping insects as I went.

"Yes." Said Isabel eagerly, "did you get a gift."

"In a way yes," I said. "But not what you're expecting"

"Aaahhh!" Isabel shrieked, as two frogs, a lizard and a rattlesnake fell out of my mouth. If fit wasn't for the fact that they came out of MY mouth I would have been laughing she looked so funny running around. Then Amy came out of a room near by. Her face was even more shocked then Isabel's. Now I did laugh. I laughed so hard I would have fallen on the floor if I weren't wearing my favorite Gucci outfit and special designer shoes. Then Amy took a broom and started whacking it around at all the animals.

We finally got them out a little while later. Well, Amy got them out. I was just watching the whole thing.