The Plan Of The Fairies
Kristi, Carole, and Stevie were still in the castle, Kristi was pacing the floor thinking while Carole & Stevie were drinking tea.
"Silly fiddle faddle!" Kristi said irritably.
"Now, come have a nice cup of tea, dear, I'm sure it'll work out somehow." Carole said, pouring a cup of tea for Kristi.
"Well, a bonfire won't stop Veronica." Stevie said.
"Of course not, but what will?" Kristi asked.
"Well, perhaps if we reason with her." Carole suggested.
"Reason?" Kristi asked Carole.
"With Veronica?" Stevie asked Carole.
"Well, she can't be all bad." Carole said.
"Oh, yes, she can." Kristi said.
"I'd like to turn her into a fat old hoptoad!" Stevie said.
"Now, dear, that isn't a very nice thing to say." Carole said to Stevie.
"Besides, we can't, you know our magic doesn't work that way." Kristi said.
"It can only do good, Dear, to bring happiness to others." Carole added kindly.
"Well, that would make me happy." Stevie said.
"But there must be some way... there is!" Kristi exclaimed.
"There is?" Stevie asked Kristi.
"What is it, Kristi?" Carole asked.
"I'm going to ... shh, shh, shh! Even walls have ears," Kristi said, beginning to walk to another room. "follow me!"
Carole & Stevie followed Kristi into the other room.
"What's your idea, Kristi?" Stevieasked.
"I'll turn her into a flower!" Kristi exclaimed.
"Veronica?" Stevie asked.
"Oh no, dear, the princess!" Kristi told Stevie.
"Oh she'd make a lovely flower." Carole said to Kristi.
"Don't you see, a flower can't prick its finger." Kristi said.
"It hasn't any." Stevie said.
"That's right." Carole said.
"She'll be perfectly safe." Kristi said.
"Until Veronica sends a frost." Stevie said.
"Yes, a... oh dear!" Kristi exclaimed.
Carole looked at Kristi.
"She always ruins your nicest flowers." Carole sighed.
"You're right, and she'll be expecting us to do something like that." Kristi said.
"But what won't she expect, she knows everything." Stevie said.
"Oh but she doesn't dear," Carole said. "Veronica doesn't know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others, you know, sometimes I don't think she's really very happy."
"That's it, of course! It's the only thing she can't understand, and won't expect." Kristi said.
"What do you mean?" Sailor Mars asked Kristi curiously.
Kristi began talking to herself as she planned out the entire thing.
"Oh, oh, now, now... We have to plan it carefully, let's see, the woodcutters cottage, yes, yes, the abandoned one, of course King Maximilian and Queen Deborah will object, but when we explain it's the only way..." Kristi explained.
"Explain what?" Stevie asked Sailor Venus.
"About the three peasant women raising a foundling child deep in the forest." Kristi explained.
"Oh, that's very nice of them." Carole said.
"Who are they?" Stevie asked curiously.
Stevie, Carole, and Kristi got rid of their wings by disguising themselves as mortal humans.
"Iih... why, it's... us!" Carole exclaimed.
"You mean, we, us?" Stevie asked.
"Take care of the baby?" Carole asked.
"Why not?" Kristi asked.
"Oh, I'd like that!" Carole exclaimed.
Stevie was the only member of the trio who was not too keen with this idea.
"Well, yes, yes, but will we have to feed it?" Stevie asked.
"And wash it and dress it and rock it to sleep, oh I'd love it." Carole said.
"You really think we can?" Stevie asked curiously.
"I know we can! Granted," Kristi sighed. "we won't have access to our magic."
Stevie & Carole forked over their wands to Kristi, "Okay." they sighed reluctantly.
"Come along now, we must tell their majesties at once." Kristi said.
So the king and his queen watched with heavy hearts as their most precious possession, their only child, disappeared into the night.
Many sad and lonely years passed by for King Maximilian, Queen Deborah, and their people.
But as the time for the princess's thirteenth birthday drew near, the entire kingdom began to rejoice.
For everyone knew that as long as Veronica's domain, the forbidden Kingdom palace, thundered with her wrath and frustration, her evil prophecy had not yet been fulfilled.
Veronica was in her palace.
"It's incredible, thirteen years and not a trace of her! She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?" Veronica asked her servants.
"Yeah, yeah, anywhere, we all..." Liam answered Veronica.
"Yeah, yeah!" another servant added.
"But what about the town, the forests, the mountains?" Veronica asked her servants.
"We searched mountains, forests, and houses, and let me see, in all the cradles." Liam answered Veronica.
"Cradle?" Veronica asked her servants.
"Yeah, yeah," Murray said. "every cradle."
Now, Veronica was getting angry.
"Cradle? Did you hear that my pet," the evil witch asked her black raven. "all these years, they've been looking for a baby! Oh, oh, ha, ha, ha..."
The servants all joined in laughing.
"Ha, ha, ha..." the servants laughed.
Veronica stopped laughing and quickly grew angrier.
"Fools! Idiots! Imbeciles!" Veronica yelled angrily.
"Let's get out of here!" the servants gasped as Veronica zapped them with her staff.
The servants quickly left.
Now, Veronica was left all alone with her raven.
"Oh, they're hopeless, a disgrace to the forces of evil," Veronica sighed now feeling exhausted. "my pet, you are my last hope, travel far and wide, search for a maid of thirteen with hair of chestnut brown and lips red as the rose, go, and do not fail me."
The raven just then took off to do his master's bidding.
And so for thirteen long years the whereabouts of the princess remained a mystery, while deep in the forest, in a woodcutter's cottage, the good sailor scouts carried out their well laid plan.
Living like humans, they had reared the child as their own and called her Melanie.
Melanie was in her bed fast asleep.
"One more dance, Dear Prince, just one more..." Melanie said in her sleep, she was a somniloquist.
The bright sunlight shone through Melanie's bedroom window as she opened her blue eyes.
On this her thirteenth birthday the good fairies had planned a party and something extra special for a surprise.
That morning, Kristi, Carole, and Stevie were down in the living room looking at pictures of gowns that would be perfect for a princess.
"How about this one?" Stevie asked Kristi & Carole, pointing at a picture of a gown with short puffy sleeves.
"This is the one I picked," Kristi said to Stevie & Carole, pointing at a picture of a gown with puffy long sleeves that would show Melanie's shoulders.
"Oh she'll look beautiful in that." Carole said.
"Now I thought a few changes here..." Kristi said.
"Aha." Stevie said.
"Don't forget a pretty bow..." Carole said.
"And there's the shoulder line." Kristi added.
"We'll make it blue." Stevie added.
"Oh no, dear, red." Kristi corrected Stevie.
"But..." Stevie began.
"Of course, we'll need a few pleats." Kristi added.
"Yes, but how are we going to get her out of the house?" Carole whispered to Kristi.