Chapter 2: Fairy Tales to Share

"Stella, can we please hear a story, right now?" asked Kristen.

"Please?" Sally, Lucy and Heather asked in unison.

"Can we?" Pigpen asked.

"Well, I think that can be arranged." Stella said as the kids cheered.

"I love Stella's stories." Marcie smiled happily.

"Me too." Linus agreed. "It's always fun to hear a story."

"Let's see…which story shall I tell? This one." asked Stella to herself, trying to unplug a plug from her suitcase. "That's funny. It seems I have so many things in here…to tell so many stories with…that I think everything is…stuck!"

As she unplugged the plug from the suitcase, all sorts of storytelling equipment flew around and landed in the classroom as everyone stared in disbelief. "I guess I really DID have too many things in there."

"Wow! You sure keep a lot of wonderful things in your bag, Stella!" Charlie Brown exclaimed.

"These are things I use to tell stories to children all over the world." Stella told the kids.

"Check it out!" Frieda exclaimed as they all crowded around a spinning wheel. "It's the wheel from Sleeping Beauty."

"I wonder…" Marcie thought, pretending to prick herself on the wheel. Frieda, Lucy and Sally chuckled as Marcie fell to the floor and pretended to fall asleep. The act DIDN'T fool the three, although Kristen was almost fooled by the act.

"Marcie?" Kristen asked softly.

"It's just pretend." Sally explained. "Even I know that."

"You're not fooling us, Johnson." Lucy explained as Marcie sat up.

"How?" Marcie asked.

"You just aren't that convincing." Sally said. "Unlike my Sweet Babboo. He's a great actor, Stella."

"I'm sure he is, Sally. You know, it's a shame to put everything back in my suitcase without even telling the stories." Stella said.

"We'd like to hear the stories." Kristen smiled.

"Oh yes!" everyone else agreed as Peppermint Patty awoke in confusion. The tomboy knew what was going on after processing it for a minute.

"STELLA!" Peppermint Patty said, hugging the storyteller. "What story are you gonna tell?"

"You guys want to hear all of them?" a bewildered Stella asked the kids.

"ALL OF THEM!" everyone exclaimed.

"Sure." Carlos smiled.

"Maybe we can even help you tell some of the stories." Peppermint Patty suggested. "Remember Coco Island?"

"Oh yes." Schroeder smiled.

"And we can use our imaginations too!" Shawn added.

"Well, that would make it more fun while I'm packing my suitcase." Stella smiled. "Alright! We'll do it!"

Barney, Snoopy, and their friends then grew excited over getting to act out Stella's stories when Lucy approached a spinning wheel, and became curious about it. "What in the world is this thing anyway?" Lucy asked.

"Oh that's a spinning wheel, Lucy." Barney explained. "A long time ago, people used them to turn sheep's wool into cloth."

"That's right, Barney. But in the story of Rumpelstiltskin, the spinning wheel was used for something else." Stella said before she began to spin the wheel and began to narrate the first story. "Once upon a time..."

With that, the story of Rumpelstiltskin began with a young girl dressed in medieval farm clothes (Marcie), trying to use straw for the spinning wheel. She was in the dungeon of a castle, spinning the wheel as she stood next to a king (Carlos).

"There was a young girl who usually lived on a small farm. The king had heard that she could spin straw into gold. So, he brought her to his castle."

"Young lady," the king (Carlos) announced. With that, the young girl (Marcie) stood up. "The people in the village say you could turn straw into gold. And I just love gold."

"But your highness, I-" the girl (Marcie) tried to explain. But the king wouldn't listen.

"Tonight you will be locked in this room and spin all this straw into gold." The king (Carlos) ordered. "If you can do it, I will marry you, and make you my queen."

"But what if I can't do it?" The girl (Marcie) asked, scared.

"Then you will be locked in this room, for the rest of your life! With bread and water fed to you!" The king (Carlos) said. "And no dessert. Ever!"

"Not even a banana?" the girl (Marcie) asked.

"Not even a banana." The king (Carlos) replied.

The girl (Marcie) then sighed. "Okay, I'll try." She said. As soon as the king left, the girl (Marcie) began to try to spin the straw into gold.

"The young girl wanted to spin the straw into gold. She tried and tried. But she just couldn't do it. So she cried and cried." Stella narrated as the girl (Marcie) took off her glasses to cry her eyes out.

"Ugh! I'm trying to spin this straw into gold, but it still looks like cow food. Ugh!" The girl (Marcie) cried.

"And just as the girl was as sad as she could be, something magical happen." Stella narrated, and with that, a funny looking man (Snoopy) was magically transported into the room, giggling with a big smile on his face as he kissed her cheek.

"Don't cry, little missy! Your troubles are over!" Shawn narrated the voice of the funny little man for Snoopy as the beagle continued to laugh.

"Who are you?" The girl (Marcie) asked, amazed.

"I'm…let's just say that a friend. A friend who knows how to spin straw into gold." He said.

"You can?!" a bewildered Marcie asked in awe. "Oh, will you? Please?"

"I'll do it IF you promise to give me your first baby after you marry the king." Snoopy (Rumpelstiltskin) told Marcie, who then became gloomy.

"The girl was so scared that she would've promised almost anything." Stella told the kids. "So she said…"

"Alright. I promise." Marcie said.

"Hee, hee. Then step aside and watch me do my stuff." He said as he did just that.

"And that funny little man began spinning the straw into gold!"

Shawn:

Here I sit at your spinning wheel.

Marcie:

Spinning wheel.

Shawn:

Spinning wheel.

Here I sit at your spinning wheel

to spin it all into gold now!

This is the way we load the straw.

Marcie:

Load the straw.

Shawn:

Load the straw.

This is the way we load the straw

to spin it all into gold now!

This is the way we turn the wheel.

Marcie:

Turn the wheel.

Shawn:

Turn the wheel.

Shawn and Marcie:

This is the way we turn the wheel

to spin the straw into gold now!

Shawn:

Watch the gold come out of the wheel.

Marcie:

Out of the wheel.

Shawn:

Out of the wheel.

Marcie:

I see it coming out of the wheel.

Shawn and Marcie:

The straw is turning to gold now!

Shawn:

Now, we'll spin it all night long.

Marcie:

All night long.

Shawn:

All night long.

Shawn and Marcie:

Now, we'll spin it all night long.

The straw will turn into gold now!

"That funny little man spun all night long! And in the morning…every piece of straw had been spun into piano keys." Stella narrated.

"Well, it's time to go." Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) narrated as Snoopy kissed the girl's cheek. "See you later! Hee, hee, hee!"

And with that, he disappeared just as Carlos walked in. "Okay. Time's up." He said before his eyes widened at 'Marcie's' job. "Hey, look at all this gold! You did it. Please say you'll marry me, and be my queen."

The girl (Marcie) sighed. "I'm not sure."

"From now on, I promise to be the nicest king you ever saw." The king (Carlos) said

"Well…okay." The girl (Marcie) said happily making up her mind.

"And so, the two were married and a year later, the king and queen had a beautiful baby daughter." Stella continued as Barney's friends and the Peanuts Gang awed. Even Snoopy smiled.

"Well, I've got some king stuff to do. See you later, queen." The king (Carlos) said.

"Bye, bye, king." The queen (Marcie) replied, cradling the baby, who was beginning to fuss.

"And that's when the funny little man came back!" Stella explained as Snoopy (Rumpelstiltskin) reappeared.

"I'm back!" Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) explained as Snoopy bowed and Marcie rolled her eyes.

"It's you. I didn't you were ever coming back." The queen (Marcie) said. Then she remembered WHY he came back.

"Yup. A deal's a deal, now hand over that baby! she's going to live with me!" he ordered.

"Oh please don't take her. Boo hoo. Boo hoo." She wailed as Snoopy sighed and kissed her cheek again.

"Don't cry again. Poor sweet baby." Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) soothed. "Okay, here's what I'll do: I'll give you three days to guess what my name is. If you can do it, you can keep the baby."

"Is your name…Fred?" The queen (Marcie) wondered.

"Nope."

"Charlie?"

"Nope."

"Wilbur?"

"Uh-uh."

"Leopold?"

"Leopold?! NO!"

"Raymond?"

"The queen guessed every name she could think of that first day, but none of them was right. So the second day, she started guessing some very strange and funny names." Stella narrated with a giggle.

"Pickle Nose Jones?" The queen (Marcie) asked.

"No…" a slightly confused Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) said.

"Fungus T Jelly Belly?"

"No."

"Stanley Stinky Toes?"

"Nope."

"Herkermur Wiggle Squish?"

"Herkermur Wiggle Squish?! No! NO! okay, that's your last guess for today. See you tomorrow." Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) said as Snoopy stuck out his tongue, leaving as he giggled.

"The queen was worried, but she had an idea! She called for her most trusted guard." Stella explained.

"You rang, majesty?" the guard (Peppermint Patty) asked.

The queen (Marcie) then whispered her plan to the guard as she smiled. She wouldn't let her down.

"And then sent her out into the village to see what she could learn." Stella continued.

"Your wish is my command." The guard said with a wink.

"And when she returned the next day…" Stella told everyone. "This is what they said."

"Your majesty, I have returned." The guard (peppermint Patty) said.

"And what have you found out, Sir Sir?" The queen (Marcie) asked.

"Well, as I was walking through the woods, I saw a funny little man, who was singing and dancing by a campfire." The guard (Peppermint Patty) said. "And don't call me Sir Sir. Any who, he was singing…

Peppermint Patty:

The queen is going to lose this game

For Rumpelstiltskin is my name!

"Rumpelstiltskin, huh?" the queen (Marcie) smirked. "You may go now. And thank you very much."

"No; thank you, your majesty." The guard (Peppermint Patty) denied. "It was my pleasure." She said as she rode off. And guess who then showed up?

"Hee, hee! It's me and its day three. Can you guess my name?" Shawn (Rumpelstiltskin) asked as Snoopy laughed. "I'll give you three chances."

The queen (Marcie) wanted to mess with him. "Is your name…Brian Butter Bean?"

"Brian Butter Bean? No!"

"Itchy Scratch Noggin?"

"Itchy Scratch Noggin? No! Alright, that's it! And I'll give you ONE MORE GUESS."

"Then I'll guess…uh…Rumpelstiltskin?"

"What?! You did it! My name IS Rumpelstiltskin! And I'm going home!" Snoopy growled as he disappeared again.

"Rumpelstiltskin NEVER bothered the king and queen ever again. And they all lived happily ever after. The end." Stella said as the story finished and everyone cheered.

"That was silly." Linus said.

"And I thought I had the silly name." Peppermint Patty said.

"Well 'Peppermint Patty' isn't that common." Tosha said.

"I know, I know." Peppermint Patty sighed. "What do you think, Marcie?"

"I think it's a shame, Sir. Your name's original." Marcie sighed, sitting close to the spinning wheel. "Too bad the story wasn't Sleeping Beauty; you'd have been perfect for the role."

"MARCIE!" the tomboy exclaimed as she chased Marcie around the classroom, but Marcie was quick and got away. "Where'd she go?"

"Who knows. Let's put these things back in my bag now." Stella said as the crowns fell to the suitcase with THUDS!

"That was a wonderful story." Kristen said.

"It sure was." Sally agreed. "High five, Kristen!"

"I liked it too." Schroeder agreed.

"Me too." Carlos realized.

"And Shawn, you did a very nice job voicing Rumpelstiltskin." Barney praised.

"Thanks, I'm just glad I don't have a great big name like that in real life." Shawn said.

"I don't know." Peppermint Patty shrugged. "Long names are just as fun as silly names. Right, Big Purple?"

"Indeed, Peppermint Patty." Barney replied. "It could be a lot of fun having a big name!"

Barney:

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

His name is my name too!

Whenever I go out,

the people always shout

Barney, Barney's friends, Peanuts Gang and Stella:

"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schimdt!

Da da-da da-da da-da da!"

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

His name is my name too!

Whenever I go out,

the people always shout

"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schimdt!

Da da-da da-da da-da da!"

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

His name is my name too!

Whenever I go out,

the people always shout

"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schimdt!

Da da-da da-da da-da da!"

They continued to sing as they headed outside.

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

His name is my name too!

Whenever I go out,

the people always shout

"There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schimdt!

Da da-da da-da da-da da!"

Oh, yeah!

Author's Note: This is a revised version of the chapter; this is also the version I'm gonna publish. If you want to see the original, it WILL be on my D.A page soon. –Amy