Starling Academy

In the gardens, the Star Darlings were all blindfolded except Leslie, for she was already blind. "This is your first training program with me," Vega explained. "For this training session, you must learn how to use your instincts and navigate your way towards the garden."

"One question, sis," inquired Vivian. "How come Leslie doesn't have a blindfold?"

"Because I'm already blind," replied Leslie.

"That's right," Vega replied. "And it would be annoying if you blindfold someone who's already blind. Now, reach the end of the garden in the shortest amount of time. Ready? Go!"

One by one, the Star Darlings were figuring out the maze without their sight, sort of. Shimmer acidentally bumped into a bush, Shine felt a tree and thought it was the finish line, Pia took a wrong turn, and Georgia was going the wrong direction. Vega knew this was going to be longer than she thought.

Auckland, New Zealand

A 9-year-old New Zeleander and her family were opening up their apple goods store. She combed a little bit of her brown hair, and adjusted her apple shirt and overall shorts for this momentous occasion. Her mother decided that she should announce the name of their new apple goods store.

"Welcome to Wishing Horse, after my favorite book by Stella Albright," the girl said. "Don't worry, the publishing company said that it was okay." Her parents smiled. Inside the apple goods store, the girl was counting the jars while practicing her math when two girls in pink clothing came in.

"Hey," said the one with blonde hair. "Your new. I'm Una."

"And I'm Maddie," said a redhead.

"I'm Melissa," the main girl said. "I moved here over the summer so my family can finally open up an apple goods store."

"You should hang out with us," Una replied. "We love making new friends."

"Really?" Melissa asked. "That's great, because I've been dying to find new friends."

Outside Wishing Horse, both Maddie and Una became disgusted. "Gee, Una," said Maddie. "Did we really have to befriend that smelly farm girl? And you're allergic to apples."

"I know," Una answered. "But when we get to school we'll make her move back to the farm."

They high-fived, knowing that their scheme would work.

Starling Academy, Garden

Little did Una and Maddie know, Vega was watching them from her Star-Phone. She decided that it was time for the girls' mission. After Lottie and Pia passed their blindfolded maze, Vega showed the vision of Melissa. "This is Melissa," she explained. "Her wish is to have new friends in the city. For her, making new friends will be tougher than she imagines. She just befriended Una and Maddie, the meanest girls at her new school."

"What's wrong with that?" asked Shimmer.

"If this keeps up," answered Vega, "Melissa might move back to the countryside. Some of you should go to Wishworld and help her find her REAL friends."

"Maybe Georgia, Lottie, and I should go down," suggested Alesha.

Auckland, New Zealand

Georgia, Lottie, and Alesha wore country apparel. "So this is what Auckland is," Lottie said. "Groovy."

"Now," Georgia said, "we need to get to her school, Ernest Rutherford Elementary."

Lottie spotted a bus with the Ernest Rutherford name on it, knowing that if they followed the bus, it would lead them to the school.

And they were right. The bus was picking up the AM kindergartners and taking them home. They started looking around for Melissa. Lottie found the art room, and she saw an aboriginal girl painting a picture of a fairy playing the panpipes, which reminded her of Leslie. Georgia also saw a blind girl with freckles in the music room, playing the violin like she did.

Then the lunch bell rang. Maddie and Una planned to humiliate Melissa by placing real worms in her lunchbox while they asked her to fetch them some napkins. Alesha knew that she and her fellow Star Darlings could not let this happen. She found some gummy worms that were left over in the hallway and decided to use those to teach Maddie and Una a lesson.

In the cafeteria, Alesha swapped the real worms with the gummy worms. After Melissa came back from fetching the napkins, she saw the gummy worms and asked, "How did you know I like gummy worms?"

"What?" asked Una. "They're supposed to be *real* worms."

Una turned to Maddie and yelled, "This is your fault, Maddie! You should've listened to me! I clearly said REAL WORMS!"

"I did say it," Maddie replied. "I must've got them mixed up at the library."

Una got really mad at Maddie. The two girls that Lottie and Georgia saw came up to Melissa to see that if she was alright. "I'm fine," Melissa said. "I didn't realize how cruel Una really is."

"That's okay," Georgia replied. "There are tons of people you should befriend besides Una and Maddie."

"Those two who came to my family's apple goods shop," Melissa replied.

"You don't understand," Lottie replied. "Una and Maddie don't care about you."

"What?" asked Melissa.

"You should find other people like Georgia said, girl," Lottie replied

"Excuse us," stated the aboriginal girl from the art room. "I'm Mithea, and this is Sadie."

Sadie was the blind girl from the music room whom Georgia saw before. "We were wondering if we could sit with you," Sadie said. "My mommy made us some apples with peanut butter."

"Apples always go great with peanut butter," Melissa replied. "Don't mind if I do."

Georgia and Lottie decided to leave and go find Alesha. Outside, they saw Alesha practicing her gymnastics. After they saw her, they saw a mysterious figure with silver armor and a mask with a shooting star on her helmet.

"Who in the name of Ursa Minor are you?" asked Alesha.

"They call me Horriblescope," the figure greeted. "I'm the cause of all of the good wishes gone bad. I was once a Star Darling, but I got kicked out before I graduated high school. Now I'm gaining my revenge for what those brats did to me many years ago."

"You'll never get away with this," Alesha growled.

Horriblescope snickered. "Don't worry," she smiled. "I won't rest until all the wishes on Wishworld become bad and I control everything."

They tried to fight her off, but she was too strong. Alesha then saw some worms that her friends released earlier. "Wanna bite a worm?" she asked as she tossed worms at Horriblescope. On her hoverboard, Horriblescope took off while wiping the worms off of her.

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Back inside Ernest Rutherford Elm, lunch was wrapping up. Melissa came out with her REAL friends, Mithea and Sadie. Una and Maddie, on the other hand, were serving detention for starting a little rumble.

"That will teach them," smiled Alesha. She suddenly felt a glow on her hand. The star on the paper bag started to glow, and it lifted up and turned into a Wonder Wish: Friendship.

"When you move into a new area," said Lottie, "you have to be careful on who you trust. Because they can, like, use you for their own purposes."

Starling Academy, Garden

Georgia was wrapping up her blindfold navigation when she saw a beatnik boy studying the garden. Lottie quickly recognized the beatnik.

"Hey Nico," Lottie greeted.

"He,y my lovely Lottie," Nico greeted as he kissed her hand. "How was training?"

"Groovy," answered Lottie. "What brings you to our school garden?"

"Studying up on some blushbelles," he answered. "Care to join?"

"Sure," Lottie answered back as she joined in.

Georgia and Alesha thought what Lottie and Nico were doing was very adorable.

The End