The Little Witch
Mom dad, me and Sofia are going to Jade's for the day, to help set things up for her birthday party tonight." Madeline declared. "And is it okay if we sleepover at Jades?"
"Now girls, it's sunday night, which means you have School tomorrow." Roland pointed out. "Sorry girls. Maybe next Saturday."
"Mom, dad, I'm going shopping today with Princess Hildegard and Princess Cleo." Amber announced.
"Okay, Amber, have fun." Miranda smiled.
"Dad, can I go over to Prince Zandar's in the kingdom of Tango?" James asked.
"Okay, but come home before dark." Roland agreed.
"Sure dad." James smiled.
Back in the Twins room, they were getting ready to leave. "Hey sis" Sofia said "I am terribly sorry, but Jun invited me to a play-date with her and Vivian in Wei-Ling. I already promised them, I can't make the party preparations, but if I can do this before the party, I will be there as soon as I can. Tell Jade I send my regards."
Madeline was shocked but understanding. "Fine, Jade will understand if you have more important business. See you tonight."
in the village of Dunwitty at Jade's house...
The garden's all ready!" Jade beamed.
"It looks beautiful, Jade!" Madeline agreed. "Sofia will be here as soon as humanly possible after her play-date with Vivian and Jun. I just wish she could be here."
"How are you guys doing on the invitations?" Jade asked.
"Done." Madeline sang.
Jade took a look at one of them.
"I love them!" She gasped. "Oh, my birthday party is going to be so great!"
"I wish it was your birthday every day!" Ruby smiled. "Except my birthday."
As Jade laughed, the lantern on the table suddenly fizzled out.
"What was that?" Sofia asked.
A giggling sound came from the bushes, followed by a beam of light that pulled Jade's chair out from under her, causing her to fall to the ground.
"Hey!" Jade yelped.
Another beam caused Ruby's quill to paint her nose red. One caused a box to dump paper flowers over Sofia and Madeline.
"What's going on?" Madeline asked.
The giggling got louder, and the girls turned toward the bushes. There was a girl in a pointed hat, holding a wand.
"It's Lucinda, the little witch!" Jade declared. "She's hexing us!"
"Who's Lucinda, the little witch?" Madeline inquired.
"Look!" Jade pointed.
Sniggering, Lucinda let loose more beams of magic, causing the party balloons to pop.
"Oh, no!" Jade gasped, as Lucinda followed up by turning the surrounding plants into mushrooms. "My garden! My flowers!"
Lucinda turned the hanging lanterns into beehives, complete with bees.
"My lanterns!" Jade yelped. "Stop that! Get out of here!"
Lucinda raised her wand threateningly. The girls flinched. Lucinda laughed, and used the wand to make her vanish in a puff of smoke.
"Lucinda came to the village a few after you and Sofia came to the castle." Jade explained.
"And she's always playing tricks on us!" Ruby added.
"Last week, she put a hex on my dolls and turned into mice!" Jade bemoaned.
"And she melted my crayons together!" Ruby held up a bunch of melted crayons. "See?"
"And now she's ruined my birthday party!" Jade groaned.
"Don't worry, Jade." Madeline said optimistically. "It's only a few mushrooms and beehives. Everything will be okay."
"Aah, bee!" Ruby squealed, as the bees descended on them.
"We'll just have the party inside." Madeline suggested, as they ran into the house.
"Great idea!" Jade said. "Great idea!"
Once inside, Madeline continued.
"I promise, it'll be just as much fun." She smiled. "Come on, let's go hand out these beautiful invitations."
In the Village Graham and Kate were kicking a ball back to each other when the girls showed up.
"Graham! Kate! It's my birthday, and I'm having a party at my house. You two are invited"
Kate took an invitation "Thank you" But then a sudden magic bolt shocked it out of her hands, she went to pick it up but it kept bolting away. When she finally caught up to it she saw Lucina behind a pole. "Oh no. It's Lucinda!." The kids ran in fear.
Lucinda chuckles "Hex" She turned a kid's ball into a brick. "Hex" she turned a nearby cat into a chicken.
"Ugh, Lucinda. Again!" Jade complained "Stop that." But Lucinda bolted the invites out of her hands.
"You are a very bad Witch." Jade admonished her.
"Thank you." Lucinda giggled.
As a girl and her dog ran from Lucinda, she used her magic to put a dog tail on the girl.
"What is that?!" The girl gasped.
"A tail, silly." Lucinda smirked.
As Madeline handed Jade her last birthday party invite, Jade said "Lucinda's trying to mess up my party again."
"Why does she keep doing that?" Madeline wondered.
"Cause she's a witch." Ruby declared.
"And that's what witches do." Jade added.
"Hmm." Madeline mused. "Well I'm going to go talk to her."
Jade gasped.
"No!" Ruby protested "Madeline she will hex you, and then what will we tell Sofia?"
"She isn't going to stop unless someone asks her to." Madeline declared, walking over to the little witch. "I'll be back."
"I hope so." Jade trembled.
Meanwhile, Sofia stopped playing when she felt something bad was about to happen to Madeline.
"Um, Jun, Vivan?" She asked. " I have to go now. "It's almost time for Jade's party, and I promised Madeline I'd be their."
"That's okay, we understand." Vivian smiled. "It's almost time to leave, anyways."
With that, Sofia ran out to her coach.
"Coachman, take me to the village of Dunwitty." She requested.
The coachman flicked the reins and the pegasi took off.
"Hang on Maddie." Sofia whispered. "I'm on my way."
Madeline peeked around a white Staircase where Lucinda sitting alone, looking sadly at one of the invitations.
"I never get invited to parties." She mumbled.
"Oh, Sofia, where are you?" Madeline quivered, as she walked up to Lucinda.
"Lucinda?" She asked.
Lucinda quick put away the party invitations.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"I'm Madeline." Madeline declared, waving her hand.
"Why are you dressed like that?" Lucinda asked. "Are you some kind of Princess?
"I am a Princess, along with my sister Sofia." Madeline nodded. "And I would like for you to stop hexing our friends please."
"Why would I do that?" Lucinda sneered.
"Because it isn't nice." Madeline replied.
"I know." Lucinda smirked. "That's the point."
"You wouldn't do that to your own friends, would you?" Madeline asked.
"Uh... I wouldn't know." Lucinda muttered.
"Why not?" Madeline asked.
"I don't, y'know, have any-" Lucinda stuttered.
"Friends?" Madeline finished.
"Yeah, friends." Lucinda agreed. "Don't' have them, don't need them. Or their silly parties that I'm not invited to."
"Wait, do you want to be invited to Jade's party?" Madeline asked.
"No." Lucinda retorted, using her magic to make the invite disappear. "Why would I want that?"
"You do." Madeline realized.
"I have to go." Lucinda said sourly.
"Wait!" Madeline called.
"What?" Lucinda asked.
"Why would you want to go to a party if you don't want friends?" Sofia inquired.
"Uhhh..." Lucinda said blankly.
"You do want friends!" Madeline gasped.
"I really have to go now." Lucinda declared.
"It's okay if you do." Madeline assured her. "Everyone needs friends, even witches."
"Leave me alone, princess." Lucinda pointed her wand at Madeline. "Or I'll hex you!"
"Now Lucinda, that's no way to make friends." Madeline chided her. "Which is want you want, right?"
Lucinda used her magic to lift Madeline into the air, giggling as she did.
"Right?." Madeline said, unfazed. "Put me down."
"Okay, you're right." Lucinda admitted, letting Madeline down. "It would be nice to have some friends, and go to a party with them, just once, to see what it's like."
"So if you want to make friends, why do you act so mean?" Madeline asked.
"I don't know how else to act." Lucinda shrugged.
"What?" Madeline gasped.
"Hexing is all I know how to do." Lucinda sighed. "My parents are witches, my grandparents are witches, my great-grandparents are witches..."
"And all they do is hex people?" Madeline asked.
"Yep." Lucinda nodded. "Hex, hex, hex, hex, hex, hex. So... we have a hard time getting along with regular people."
"I understand how you feel." Madeline declared.
"You don't get along with regular people either?" Lucinda gasped.
"Yes, I do." Madeline giggled. "But sometimes, I feel like an outsider. My sister and I became princesses overnight, and we had no idea how to act like it. We needed practise, and a little help. So, if you wanted, I could help you make friends."
"But who'd want to be friends with a witch?" Lucinda asked. "I mean, I've played tricks on everyone in the village."
"Then the first thing you should do is apologise to everyone in the village." Madeline suggested.
"Ooh, I'm not good at apologies." Lucinda waved her finger. "Pranks, I can do."
"All you have to do is say 'I'm sorry'." Madeline declared. "Go on, try it."
"Okay." Lucinda nodded. "I-I'm... s-s-s-sorr..."
"Almost." Madeline smiled. Try again."
"I'm... s-s-s-sorr... sorr..." Lucinda stammered.
"Come on." Madeline encouraged her. "Come on, come on, come on, come on! You can do it. Come on!"
Lucinda strained so hard, her hat flopped.
"Okay, we'll work on it on the way." Madeline decided.
"Okay, let me grab my broom." Lucinda smiled.
Ruby and Jade were still hand out the invitations when Madeline and Lucinda arrived.
"Ruby, Jade!" Madeline called.
"Madeline, watch out!" Jade yelled.
"Behind you, behind you, behind you!" Ruby babbled. "It' the witch!"
"It's okay." Madeline smiled. "She's with me" Jad
"What?" Jade gasped.
"How?" Ruby asked.
"And she has something she wants to say." Madeline added. "Right, Lucinda?"
"Jade I'm, um..." Lucinda struggled. "I'm sorry. Really sorry for hexing you."
Madeline looked at Jade hopefully.
"I don't believe her." Jade turned her back on them.
I think Lucinda really meant it." Madeline declared. "So maybe you could invite to your party?"
"What?" Jade gasped. "No way. I'm not inviting her to my party. She tried to ruin it!"
"Twice?" Ruby added.
"Yeah, twice?" Jade nodded.
"But she's sorry." Madeline protested.
"I bet she's just pretending to be sorry so she could surprise us with something extra-mean." Jade frowned, as she walked up to Lucinda. "I'll never invite you!"
As Jade walked away, Lucinda made a cloud appear and rain on her, leaving her soaked.
"Oh, no." Madeline groaned.
"See?" Jade yelled at Sofia.
Lucinda giggled.
"Lucinda." Madeline said firmly.
"Sorry." Lucinda apologised. "Oh, I said it again! Right, I'll undo that now."
With a flick of her wand, Lucinda made the raincloud disappear.
"There, all better, right?" Madeline offered,
"Not all better." Jade growled.
"How about now?" Lucinda asked, using her magic to dry Jade off. "All dry."
"She's trying to change." Madeline insisted. "Really."
"I am." Lucinda confirmed.
"I'm still not inviting you." Jade declared, angrily walking away.
"Where are you going Jade?" Ruby followed.
"I've got to get home quick, and make double-triple-extra sure that Lucinda doesn't try to do anything else to my party." Jade declared.
"Well, what are you going to do?" Ruby asked.
"I don't know." Jade admitted. "Maybe I'll Build a witch moat, or a witch wall. No, a witch trap!"
"This is hopeless!" Lucinda groaned. "Jade's never going to be friends with me. None of those kids will."
"It's not hopeless." Madeline consoled her. "It's just going to being harder then one apology."
"Harder?" Lucinda repeated. "You know how hard it was to say 'I'm sorry'? I'm going back to being mean. Hexing was so much easier."
Lucinda got on her broom.
"Wait!" Madeline called. She ran after Lucinda, grabbing on to the end of the broom as it took off. "Whoa!"
"Hey, get off of my broom!" Lucinda protested.
"Look out!" Madeline yelled.
Madeline slipped off the broom and starting falling.
"Madeline!" Lucinda cried.
Lucinda made a yellow Pillow to cushion Madeline's fall.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"You saved me." Madeline declared. "So you can be a good witch if you want to."
"I guess." Lucinda admitted. "But it was my fault you were in trouble in the first place."
"Yes, but then you fixed it." Madeline pointed out. "That's what you should do. Then the other kids will know you're really sorry, and want to be friends with you!"
"Wait, what do you want me to do?" Lucinda asked, confused.
Madeline smiled.
Friendships don't mix
With hexes and tricks
And that's why the kids turn and run
So if I were you
Here's what I'd do
I'd fix all the bad things I've done
Cause you want to be a good little witch
They'll give you a chance if you make a switch
You'll make lots of friends without any hitch
You could be a good little witch
"So what do you think?" Madeline smiled.
"You want me to undo all of my hexes?" Lucinda asked.
"Uh-uh." Madeline nodded. "Then everyone will forgive you. I just know it."
"Okay, but... all of my hexes?" Lucinda asked. "Every single one?"
"Every single one." Madeline agreed.
"Even the really, really bad ones?" Lucinda asked.
"Even the worst ones." Madeline declared.
"Okay." Lucinda readied her broom. "Hop on."
"Let's walk." Sofia offered.
Madeline and Lucinda walked into the park, where many of her victims were.
"Hello, everybody." Lucinda waved.
"It's Lucinda!" A girl gasped.
"Run, hide!" A boy yelped.
"Quick, before she hexes us!" A buck-toothed girl slurred.
The children ran.
"Wait, Lucinda's not here to hex you!" Madeline called.
The children looked back.
"She's not?" The dog-tailed girl asked.
"She wants to undo her hexes."Madeline explained.
"It's true." Lucinda smiled. "I want to make it up to all of you, really I do."
Yes, I turned your clogs into frogs
And yes, I turned your flute into a newt
But now I'd like to show that I'm sorry
Though they're kind of cute
Still, I'll turn them all back now
Yes, every spell I'll undo
You'll see I'm not gonna stop
Until they're good as new
Cause I wanna be
A good little witch
Give me a chance
And I'll make a switch
Madeline: Just gave her a chance
And she'll make a switch
She wants to be
A good little witch
"I don't believe it." A girl holding a chicken frowned.
"She's always hexing us." A boy agreed.
Boy: Look, this was my favorite toy ball
She hexed, now it's just a toy brick
Girl: My cat used to purr like a kitten
Now she cluck-clucks-clucks like a chicken
Ruby: I had a box full of crayons
Now this blob is all that I've got
Dog-tail Girl: And yes, my little basset hound is cute
But my matching tail is not!
Lucinda; But I want to be
A good little witch
Madeline: Give her a chance
And she'll make a switch
Children: If we give her a chance
This new little witch
How do we know that
She's gonna switch?
"You'll see." Lucinda smiled. "I'm gonna undo it all."
"She is?" Madeline nodded.
"Yeah?" The dog-tailed girl asked. "When?"
"Right now." Lucinda took off on her broom, undoing her dog-tail hex.
"Who's next?" Madeline asked.
"Me?" The chicken-holding girl declared. Lucinda turned the chicken back into a cat. "Thank you!"
"My turn!" The frog-clog boy called.
"Now me!" Another boy called.
"Me!" Ruby called.
"Fix me!" Another boy asked.
"Don't worry." Lucinda smiled. "I'm gonna fix everyone!"
Lucinda undid everyone of her hexes.
"So, what do you think?" Madeline asked the crowd. "Will you give her another chance?"
"Yes." Ruby smiled. "I forgive you, Lucinda."
"I forgive you."
"I forgive you."
"Us too!"
"So do I!"
Crowd: She wants to be
A good little witch
Lucinda: You're gonna see
I'm making the switch
Crowd: Yes, we believe
You're making the switch
You're gonna be
A good little witch
Madeline: You've had a change of heart
Lucinda: And I'm making a brand new start
Crowd: From now on
You're a good little witch
"I knew you could do it!" Madeline congratulated Lucinda.
Sofia suddenly arrived.
"Look out, Madeline!" She called. "It's a witch!"
"Easy, sis." Madeline chuckled. "Lucinda's a good witch."
"That's right." Lucinda nodded. "I'm hex-free from now on."
As Madeline quickly brought Sofia up to speed, Ruby approached Lucinda.
"Lucinda?" Ruby asked. "I just want you know to know... If I could, I would invite you to Jade's party."
"Really?" Lucinda asked excitedly.
"Yeah." Ruby smiled. "But it's not up to me. It's up to Jade."
"Right." Lucinda sighed.
"Sorry." Ruby said. "Well, I gotta go help Jade set up for the party. See you there, Sofia and Madelin!"
As Ruby left, Sofia said "The party's not until tonight. We still have time to try again with Jade."
"There's so much to undo." Lucinda declared. "I hexed her a lot."
"You could start by fixing her garden." Madeline suggested.
"I could do that." Lucinda smiled.
"Prefect ." Sofia grinned.
"Then she can have her party outside again." Madeline declared. "She'll be so happy, she'll definitely invite you."
"Hey, Madeline." Lucinda mumbled. "Th-th-thank you. You know, for helping me."
"Of course." Madeline smiled. "Friends always help each other."
"We're friends?" Lucinda sighed.
"We're friends." Sofia smiled.
"Let's take my broom to Jade's." Lucinda suggested. "We'll get there faster."
"No thanks." Madeline shook her head.
"Come on." Lucinda cajoled. "It'll be fun."
"It wasn't so fun fun last time." Madeline remembered.
"Madeline, you just told me that Lucinda saved you." Sofia said.
"Besides, you're supposed to sit on it, not dangle from it." Lucinda declared. "It's the best part of being a witch. You're going to love it!"
"You really think so?" Madeline asked.
"Would I lie to my only friends?" Lucinda asked.
"I don't know." Sofia shrugged.
"Trust me." Lucinda smiled, climbing on the broom.
Sofia and Madeline climbed on, and together, they took off into the sky.
"WOO-HOO!" Madeline yelped.
"This is amazing!" Sofia cheered.
"Told ya!" Lucinda smirked. "I've never given anyone a ride on my broom before."
"Why not?" Madeline asked.
"No friends, remember?" Lucinda replied.
"Well, you have two friends now." Sofia told Lucinda. "And after you fix Jade's garden, maybe you'll have two."
Madeline spotted Jade's house.
"That's her house there." She pointed.
"Hold on!" Lucinda called, moving the broom into landing.
The trio landed and walked over to Jade's garden.
"Wow." Lucinda surveryed the damage. "This looks awful. It was not very nice of me."
"But you can fix it all." Sofia smiled. "Right?"
"Um, I think so." Lucinda drew her wand.
"Let's get started." Madeline declared.
"And... unhex!" Lucinda undid her previous magic. "Unhex! Unhex, unhex, and... unhex!"
Everything was returned to normal.
"How's that?" Lucinda asked.
"Jade is going to love it!" Sofia smiled. "Let's go show her."
Inside the house, Jade and Ruby were still working on the party decorations. Jade was putting the finishing touching to a witch-styled pinata when she heard a giggle.
"Did you hear something?" Jade asked.
"Uhhh, no?" Ruby shrugged.
"Well, I did." Jade insisted. Tiptoeing to the closed curtains, she peeked through to see Lucinda standing outside. "It's Lucinda! I knew it!"
Ruby took a peek.
"She's here to wreck my party!" Jade declared. "Again!"
"Maybe she just wants to be invited?" Ruby suggested.
"Yeah, so she can wreck it!" Jade sneered. "But this time, I'm going to stop her, with my witch trap!"
Jade gestured to an elaborate rope mechanism above them. She started tugging on the ropes.
"Uh, Jade?" Ruby asked. "I told you, I really, really think she's trying to be good now, for real."
"I don't believe her." Jade said stubbornly, as a net lowered to the floor.
"Wait!" Ruby yelped. "Are you absolutely, completely, definitely sure you wanna do this?"
"Yes!" Jade screeched.
There was a knock on the door.
"Here she comes." Jade smirked, pushing Ruby into a hiding spot. "Hide."
As the two watched from around a corner, the door opened. Sofia and Madeline entered the room.
"Jade, we've got a surprise for you!" Madeline called, as she and Sofia stepped onto the net.
The trap was sprung, and Sofia and Madeline found himself hoisted up into the air, trapped. Several of the party decorations fell to the floor.
"What?!" Jade gasped.
"Sofia!" Lucinda called. "Madeline!"
"Jade, what is this?" Sofia asked. "What are you doing?"
"What are you doing?" Jade asked, as she and Ruby hoisted the princesses down. "You weren't supposed to walk through the door. The trap was for Lucinda!"
"The trap was for me?" Lucinda repeated.
"Everything's ruined!" Jade whined.
"Not the cake." Ruby pointed out. Suddenly, the witch pinata swung into the cake, knocking it off the table. "Never mind."
"Ugh!" Jade rounded on Lucinda. "This is all your fault! Just go away! No-one wants you here!"
"I knew you would never forgive me." Lucinda said tearfully.
Lucinda ran out of the door.
"Lucinda, wait!" Madeline called. "Jade, it wasn't her fault."
"What are you talking about?" Jade asked. "Look around!"
"None of this would have happened if you didn't set that trap." Sofia pointed out.
"But, but..." Jade stammered. "Lucinda was coming to ruin my party."
"She came over to fix your garden." Madeline corrected her.
"Oh." Jade realised.
"See?" Sofia ran over the curtains and opened them, revealing the restored garden.
"I tried to tell you." Ruby told Jade.
"Lucinda didn't want to ruin your party, Jade." Madeline declared. "She wanted to be invited to it."
"Ooohh." Jade buried her face in her hands. "Now I feel bad."
Jade ran out of the house.
"Where's she going?" Ruby asked.
"I don't know." Sofia shrugged. "Come on."
The three girls followed after their friend.
Lucinda stormed down the street, hexing things out of anger.
"Wait!" Jade called as she ran after Lucinda. "Please, Lucinda! Stop! Come back!"
Lucinda ran back to the staircase, with Jade, Ruby, Sofia and Madeline in hot pursuit.
"Lucinda?" Jade asked.
"What do you want?" Lucinda asked angrily.
"I just want to talk." Jade declared.
"You don't have to say anything else." Lucinda huffed. "I got the message. No-one want a witch around."
"That's not true!" jade protested.
"You set a trap for me." Lucinda remarked, as the girls finally joined them.
"I didn't believe you'd really changed." Jade admitted. "But I was wrong. I'm sorry. I should have given you a second chance. Here, I have something for you." She handed an invitation to Lucinda. "Will you come to my party? It may not be so much fun since I ruined everything, but-"
"It doesn't have to be ruined." Lucinda smiled.
"What do you mean?" Jade asked.
The girls returned to Jade's house.
"One new and improved birthday party coming up!" Lucinda announced. "Let's start with these decorations." Lucinda used her magic to bring balloons and streamers into the garden. "Up, up, up! Here we go! Then add some streamers, some ribbons, make it bigger, a little brighter... Ooh! Let's put this pinata back together, and change into something more... festive."
The witch pinata turned into a star-shape with a picture of a birthday cake.
"That's better!" Lucinda smiled.
Sofia and Madeline giggled.
"And now for the cake!" Lucinda brought out the pieces of the smashed cake. "Here, cake, cake, cake!" The pieces piled on top of each other. "One, two, three. I can top that!" Waving her Lucinda, Lucinda made the cake bigger, and added candles. "Done!"
"Lucinda, this looks great!" Jade gasped. "Thank you!"
"Friends help each other." Lucinda declared. "And we're friends now, right?"
"Happy birthday!" The village children chorused as they rushed into Jade's garden.
"Jade, you invited Lucinda?" Graham asked.
"Yep." Jade nodded. "We're friends now."
"So, uh, wanna see some party tricks?" Lucinda waved her wand.
The children gasped.
"Don't worry." Lucinda smiled. "They're nice tricks!"
Lucinda turned a wooden candelabra into a silver one. The crowd "Ooh"ed. Lucinda then turned a frog and two squirrels into a musical trio. She followed up by conjuring up two tables, one filled with presents, the other with food.
"Wow!" Jade gasped.
"I knew you could be a good witch." Madeline smiled.
"I've got one more trick, Madeline." Lucinda revealed. She used her magic to lift the cake over to Jade. "Blow out the candles, Jade!"
Jade blew out the candles with one quick puff. Lucinda made the cake slice itself into pieces, which floated over to the guests' plates.
Jade and Lucinda sat down on a bench. After thinking for a moment, jade took the barrette out of her hair and put it in Lucinda's hair. In return, Lucinda put one of her bracelets on Jade's wrist.
"You're the best witch." Jade smiled.
"Thank you." Lucinda giggled.
Sofia, Madeline and Ruby joined them on the bench. Smiling, Lucinda sent a stream of magic into the air, where it exploded into fireworks, some taking the shape of birthday cakes.
The girls all shared a hug.