Meet the Little Regals

Chapter Three

To the best of the little evil regals knowledge, the potions had been a success. Rahab had volunteered to be the one to handle the marshmallow since she failed to mention to her sisters that she had accidently spilled too much of one ingredient and so the little regal didn't exactly know what the marshmallow would really do. Angel and Nix followed behind her as they made their way to the ballroom.

Nix came running in. "Tracy, Angel said I can't come to the ball. Tell her that is not true." She demanded with Angel trailing behind her.

"Mama Regal said she was too little. Tell her Tracy." Angel also demanded.

Tracy turned her full attention to her sister's interruption as Nix ran up to her and hugged her big sister around her waist. "I am not!" She put on her best puppy eyes and looked up at Tracy. "I can come, can't I?"

Tracy hated to give the baby regal bad news. "I'm sorry Jelly Bean but I think I did hear Mama Regal say you couldn't stay up late enough for the ball."

"See, I told ya." Angel teased.

Nix let go of Tracy and gave Angel a little push. Without thinking about it Angel pushed back and before Tracy knew what had happened, her two younger sisters were tugging at each other full force. With Tracy's attention on her fighting sisters, Rahab snuck in the other doorway and carefully place the marshmallow on top of Tracy's desk then snuck back out without Tracy noticing.

Tracy had enough and waved her hand causing her fighting sisters to suddenly be wearing diapers, baby clothes and a pacifier. Both sisters immediately stopped. "If you're going to act like babies then you should dressed like babies." Tracy announced with her hands on her hips and smiled as she admired her handy work.

Both little regals spit out the pacifier at the same time towards Tracy's feet. "She's the baby not me." Angel teased Nix again.

"You're the one with the big diaper." Nix teased back.

"Enough." With another wave of her hand, Tracy changed their clothes back. "I don't have time for this. It's almost lunch time and the Capitan's son will be here any minute to pick up the rest of these invitations." She turned her attention to Nix. "Look, since you can't come to the ball, I'll make sure you get an extra dessert, okay?"

Nix stuck her tongue out at Angel. "Hey, that's not fair. What about me?" Angel complained.

Tracy huffed. "If you both get out of here, I'll give you both an extra dessert. Hey wait a minute, aren't you two supposed to be cleaning the game room?" Tracy remembered.

With that, the younger regals turned and raced out of the room.

Jessica and Crystal were out in the middle of the court yard with the potion and RSVP card in hand. Jessica held out the card as Crystal poured the potion. With a light gust of wind that seemed to be direct to the card, it flew off and the two regals made chase after it. After running through a yard, bumping people, interrupting some work and even accidently causing some spills, the two sisters found their victim. The card landed on top of a boy close to the entrance of the castle. He never noticed the card sitting on top of his tall hat as he was making his way inside. The sisters knowing every inch of the castle, made their way inside through another doorway beating him inside.

"How are we going to give him the potty mouth potion? We can just go up to him and throw it on his face." Crystal realized.

"Don't give me any ideas." Jessica said and then saw a waiter carrying some glasses of tea. "I got an idea. We'll put it in the tea so he can drink it."

Crystal loved the idea and started towards the waiter until she saw their tutor stopping the waiter as well an inquiring whether he had seen the princesses who had missed their morning lesson. "Ah-oh, Mr. Frog face is looking for us again. If Mama Regal finds out that we skipped class again she's got flip." Crystal warned. "Well, which one of us is going to distract him?"

The sisters started automatically playing rock, paper and scissors where Crystal ended up losing. "Ah man, what if I get stuck in class and I miss all the fun? Crystal whined.

"Get creative." Jessica said pushing her little sister toward her next mission. "Hurry up, the kid is getting away."

Crystal bravely marched to their tutor. "Hey Mr. Frog face…I mean Mr. Adams." Crystal called out getting the attention of their big eye teacher. "We have been looking for you all over the castle."

The teacher sneered and looked down at Crystal through his tiny glasses, much too small for his big eyes. "Princess, what do you mean? I have been looking for you and your sisters all morning."

"Well, we're all waiting for you in the classroom. Come on!" She ordered and tugged on the tutors arms.

The man was much too fat to move as fast as Crystal was demanding so after a few steps Crystal let go and had the teacher trail after her. Jessica laughed at the attempt their tutor made to run. As soon as they were passed the corner, Jessica went up the waiter and took a glass of tea. She spotted their victim, poured the potion in and mixing it a little. She decided to do as her sister had just done and take the direct approach.

Jessica walked right up to the boy with the nicest smile she could muster. "Hello there."

The boy was a little startled. "Princess, to what to do I owe the pleasure." He kindly bowed and smiled. "You know, your tutor has been inquiring for and you sister all over the castle?"

"Yes, yes, yes but before I go to class, my sister Tracy asked me to bring you this tea. She wants to make sure you go by and see her today." Jessica couldn't help put on a wicked smile as she handed him the tea.

The boy was stunned and put on the most ecstatic smile. "Really? I didn't think she had taken to me very much. But I cannot thank you enough. I will head over there immediately. This is like a dream come true."

The boy took a large sip of the tea and raced in the direction of the ballroom. Jessica stared at him, thinking how odd his reaction had been. Suddenly Crystal appeared behind her. "Did you lose frog face?"

"Please, I can out run that old bat in my dreams but listen we have a problem." Crystal announced getting her older sisters' full attention. "I bumped into one of our class maiden and apparently frog face has the whole class looking for us. Anyway, I told them who we were looking for and you know what they told me?"

"What?" Jessica asked eagerly.

"They told me the reason that boy has been teasing Tracy is because he has a huge crush on her! It's not cause he doesn't like her, it's cause he doesn't know how else to get her attention." Crystal cried out.

Jessica looked down the busy hall where the boy had disappeared into. "And we just drugged him with a potion that's going to make him say all kinds of horrible things to Tracy! We have to stop him." Jessica hurried her sister.

As they reached the end of the corridor, they saw Mr. Adams and a handful of pupils coming down the hall very determined. Another servant was pointing in their direction. The sister came to a complete stop. "I thought you lost him." Jessica reproached.

They turned in the opposite direction and started off. "I did but it's not my fault he can spot us a mile away with those bug eyes." Crystal defended as they ran back out into the court yard.

Rahab was laying on the top of the patio roof looking down waiting for the musician to walk out into the garden. "Don't get so close to the edge Jelly Bean. I don't want you to fall off." She secured her little sister.

"I want to see. Has he passed by yet?" Nix peeked down carefully.

"No, but he should be out any second. Now back up a little." Rahab blocked the edge.

"Well, he's taking forever and it's almost lunch time. Maybe we missed him, maybe he already passed. How are we going to drop the lip locking flakes on him if he and Luisa are already on their date?" Nix grew anxious.

"Angel went to go make sure they're not out there yet and will you stop getting so close to the edge? As a matter of fact, why don't you go wait by the door?" Nix anxiety was make Rahab more nervous.

Just then Angel came running to the balcony that led to the top of the patio. "Are they in the garden yet?" Nix asked her winded sister.

"No but we gotta go. Frog face is looking for us and his headed this way. We're going to have to find another way to drop the flakes on the musician." Angel announced.

Nix jumped to her feet and Rahab sat jump to secure her again. "Will you be careful? You almost made me spill the flakes." Rahab warned. She got to her feet placing the jar with the flake on the ground as she helped Nix back up the balcony. Once Angel had a Nix on the other side of the balcony, Rahab came back for the jar. But as she reached the edge she lost her balance and kicked the jar off the patio roof. She gasped and looked down. "Oh no!"

"Hurry up Rahab, frog face is getting closer!" Angel warned and then noticed her sisters paniced face as she helped her over the balcony. "What is it?"

"I spilled the flakes!" Rahab said with a devastated look as she climbed over.

"What? Who did you spill it on?" Angel was now panicked too.

They heard a sneeze and the trio looked down the balcony to see Luisa passing by sneezing as the flakes landed on her head. "And you were yelling at me for not being careful." Nix teased.

Rahab gave her a little elbow, "Come let's go make sure frog face hasn't caught Jessica and Crystal." She suggested as Angel peeked out the door and the three little regals ran off into the corridors.

The Queen always looked forward to having her meals with her daughters. She had a trying morning and was looking forward to spending time with her children. She sat at the head of the table expecting her daughters to run in at any moment. Instead her assistant Troy came in.

"Where are my daughters?" Queen Lana asked.

Troy nervously answered. "Your Majesty if I may, the girls tutor would like to have a word with you and Capitan Lawrence. Apparently, there was an incident in the ballroom with his son and a marshmallow."

The Queen immediately knew this would not end well. "A marshmallow? But where are my children?"

"Some of them are in the ballroom, some of them are in their classroom and Luisa is in the infirmary? Troy hesitated.

"The infirmary?!" The Queen jumped to her feet and started out the door. "What happened? Why didn't anyone tell me sooner?" She demanded.

Troy was at her heels, "I just now found out myself Your Highest, but I assure you she is fine. She is just….stuck."

The Queen paused for a moment. "Stuck? Stuck to what?"

"It's more like stuck to who?" Troy answered.

The Queen frowned and rushed towards the infirmary. "Gather all my other daughters and have them wait for me in the game room." She ordered.

Moments later Queen Lana was walking with her hands on her hips as her daughters stood in line with their heads down. At the head of the line, Tracy stood covered in melted marshmallow and Luisa was holding an ice pack on her lips.

"Let me get this straight," Queen Lana started as calmly as she could, "Not only did you not clean the game room and skip your lessons again but you blew up one boy and glued the other to Luisa?" She moved Luisa's hand with ice to inspect her lips then with a wave of her hand over her eldest daughters' puffy lips, she completely healing them. Luisa smiled and then stood behind her mother with her arms crossed sternly looking at her younger siblings.

"We thought they were gonna hurt them." Crystal explained. "We didn't know they liked each other." She added shyly.

"I told you, I didn't like that boy." Tracy added.

"So you drenched him and half the ballroom with melted marshmallow?" The Queen asked sarcastically causing Nix to giggle but a stern look silenced her youngest daughter quickly. She then turned her attention back to Tracy. "Tracy dear, how many times do I have to tell you must control your temper. You can't just use magic when you are displeased."

"I didn't think that marshmallow would explode like that, much less fill half the room." Tracy clarified.

Rahab raised her head, "I might have used a little too much wonderland mushroom." She confessed.

Queen Lana turned to Rahab, "You think? See this is way you are not to make potions unsupervised. Magic is not a toy. Look at what you did to Tracy." They turned to Tracy who was pulling out some of the marshmallow from her hair causing that younger regals to giggle.

"Very funny, wait until I get you guys." Tracy warned.

"What did I just say about your temper?" The Queen raised an eye brow.

"But Mama, look at what they did to me and now we will have to postpone the ball because of them." Tracy whined.

"Don't' worry dear, they will not get away with this and I have already cleaned up most of the ballroom with some magic of my own." She turned to face the line of her daughters by tossing the tail of her long gown around and crossed her arms. "You will all spend the weekend making up today's lessons. Angel and Nix will spend the rest of the day cleaning the game room. Crystal, Jessica, Rahab and Tracy will spend the rest of the day cleaning the ballroom. And you will have to do the cleaning without magic. Hold out your hands." The Queen ordered. "No magic for two weeks." This caused all her younger daughters to gasp as the Queen tapped each of their hands with a wand binding their magic.

The Queen twirled around again to face Luisa. "And you…"

"Me? What did I do? I'm the victim of their evil doings." Luisa said innocently.

"If your sister had done their research, they would have known that the lip locking spell only works if you kiss someone. So tell me dear, how did you get stuck to the musicians' lips if you were not on a date which I specifically said you may not go on until I meet the young man? And it is my understanding that all of this could have been avoided had you told me about your encounter with your sisters in the potion room to begin with." Luisa opened her mouth to say something but she had not defense against all the evidence her mother had against her. "Hold your hand out dear." Luisa obeyed her mother and the Queen tapped her hand binding her magic as well.

The Queen the put her arm around Luisa's shoulders, "You and I will spend the rest of the day having a little talk about dating and set some ground rules."

Queen Lana led her seven punished daughters to their perspective duties and thanked the gods that she was blessed with such energetic and creative daughters who would go to such lengths, including getting punished to protect each other. She could not have asked for a better happily ever after.