Madeline carefully watched as Zoom sniffed her baby cousin who cooed, gently petting the baby jaquin.

It wasn't that Zoom was bad, it was just because she was wary of an animal attack, as it seemed to always be her family that always got bit by an animal of some sort.

And Ricky was a baby, so she didn't want anything to happen to him.

However, she didn't have anything to worry about. She saw how gentle Zoom was around Ricky. He babbled a little bit, then he let Zoom go.

"I think he just said 'good afternoon', Zoom," Madeline smiled.

"We'll guard him together," Zoom purred, nuzzling her.

Madeline giggled as Estrella and Mingo came in. "Are you two going to guard Ricky too?" she asked, stroking them.

"Let's play!" Mingo purred, nuzzling Ricky.

"He can't walk yet," Madeline explained, having the baby jaquin frown in disappointment. "But he can sit up!"

Ricky cooed, sitting up to catch one of the baby jaquins in his arms.

Nell came in just in time to see Ricky hugging Estrella. "Did you find a new kitty friend, Ricky?"

Ricky giggled and clapped his hands, at the same time letting Estrella fly away and perch on Nell's shoulder.

"Well, hello, Estrella," Nell smiled, carefully reaching up and stroking her.

"How's Elena?" Madeline asked.

"She's all right," Nell smiled. "She understood that what she did was wrong, and she promised not to use potions anymore. She did her timeout without any trouble."

"And Kitty?" Madeline grinned, hearing Ricky clap his hand happily.

"Still in time out," Nell mused, messing up Madeline's hair before reaching down to put up Ricky. "Come on, little guy, let's get you into something a little nicer."

"Why?" Madeline asked in confusion. "Is it important?"

"Well, I heard from Queen Elena that we're invited to the Feast of Friendship tonight," Nell grinned. "We'll get to meet new people, and learn some new things about them. They also heard that children are attending, and that means you'll all get some souvenirs from their countries."

"That sounds like fun," Madeline admitted. "I remember at school Sabrina and I learned about some of the countries in our history classes. Sabrina really seemed interested in Satu, but I remember I did a report on Cordoba."

"And what about Norberg?" Nell asked.

"We both liked learning about that kingdom," Madeline smiled, "The teacher played some music from Norberg, and taught us a dance!"

"Well, Naomi will be happy to hear about that," Nell grinned. "You'll have to do the dance and surprise her!"

"We should," Madeline agreed, smiling as she watched Nell place Ricky on his changing table. "Can I pick my cousins' outfits for tonight?"

"Who are you and what did you do with Madeline?" Nell joked, gently laying Ricky down and hoping that he wouldn't move. "But yes you can. Just be sure to watch Ricky when you dress him up."

"So he doesn't roll away?" Madeline smirked, seeing Ricky look up at her.

"Yes, but I know you'll be careful," Nell smiled. "And I'll be watching him too, so just in case you need to get something else for him, I'll help keep him safe."

"We trust you, Ricky!" Madeline smiled. "But we just want you safe."

Ricky babbled happily, spotting Nell's wedding ring and reached out for it.

"No, no. Mommy has to change you," Madeline said, gently stroking his hair. "You can't stay in your pajamas all day! That won't be fun for the party!"

"Party?" Zoom asked, nuzzling against Madeline.

"I'm not sure if baby jaquins are invited either, Zoom, but we can ask Queen Elena," Madeline smiled.

"Jaquins are the life of the party," Nell joked. "But maybe for now they should stay and help us take care of Ricky."

Once Ricky was out of his pajamas and given a teething cracker to snack on, Madeline gently carried him to Elena's room, frowning as she saw Elena still sitting on her time-out stool.

"Are you thinking about something?" Madeline asked softly as Ricky reached out to hug his big sister.

"I didn't mean to be a bad girl and bring Kitty to life," Elena sighed.

"We know," Madeline murmured. "But I can understand why you did it. I would have done the same thing if I saw a potion that cool! But I know you also thought it was a bottle of milk like the ones you feed your dollies with at home."

Elena nodded softly, feeling Ricky play with her hair. "Ricky like me!" she giggled, flapping her hands.

"All younger siblings have to like their older siblings," Madeline smirked, sitting Ricky down.

"Ricky does look up to you," Nell smiled, "And not because you're short!" She added that part, remembering the joke James used when Elena or Gabby said they looked up to him.

"I good girl?" Elena asked.

"Mostly good," Nell smirked. "I think you learned your lesson, and when you apologize to Mateo, everything will be all right again. Although he knew why you did what you did."

"Okay," Elena agreed. "Kitty and Pinky come back at night-night time?"

"That's the plan, Love Bug," Nell smiled.

"Can I say sorry to Mateo now?" Elena asked, jumping up from her time-out stool.

"Well you've been in the corner long enough," Madeline smirked, looking down at Ricky. "What do you think, Ricky? Can your big sister get out of her corner so she can say sorry to Mr. Mateo?"

Ricky giggled and reached out for his big sister.

"I think Ricky agrees, and so do I," Nell smiled.

"Now I know that you feel a little scared, Love Bug, but you know that Mateo isn't mad at you. Don't you?"

"Yes I do, Mommy, but can Auntie Madeline and Ricky come with me?" Elena asked, taking Madeline's hand.

"Of course they can. If you need me, I'll be with Gabby," Nell smiled, kissing her cheek.

Madeline took Ricky and Elena to Mateo's workshop, where they waited until he looked up from his cleaning. "Mr. Mateo?" Madeline called.

"Come on in," Mateo smiled, waving them in.

"I sorry about Kitty and your potion," Elena murmured.

"Elena, it's all right," Mateo assured her. "You apologized when it first happened, and Olivia and I forgave you. Then you got to see your little friend come to life again for a minute before I turned her back. And that time, we wanted to see it happen."

"I won't do that no more," Elena promised.

"Well, we all learned a lesson from that," Mateo smiled, patting her head. "And is Kitty telling her friends about what happened?"

"Yeah! But they don't want to come to life," Elena giggled.

"I'm glad to hear it," Mateo grinned, mussing her hair. "Magic isn't a toy. You could've gotten seriously hurt."

"I know. I sorry again," Elena muttered, looking at the floor.

"Mr. Mateo, what do you mean? Sofia does magic and so do Amber and James. They're older than me and they haven't gotten hurt by magic," Madeline recalled with a frown. "Are you saying that I can get hurt? Or Ricky?"

"Well, Sofia, James, and Amber take special classes at their school that deal with magic, and you three don't," Mateo reasoned. "Sofia's also an apprentice to her Royal Sorcerer Cedric, so she knows more about magic than you. And of course, there are also the potion ingredients you have to handle in classes like that. Some can hurt you, or they can make you sick."

"Like Pelicant Eggshell Powder?" Madeline asked, "Nell and Bobby Lee told me and Sabrina that James has trouble with that, and he gets sick if he breathes it in or handles it. He even has to ask if a potion has it before he uses it."

"I wouldn't know; I've never heard of or used that ingredient myself, and neither did my grandfather," Mateo admitted. "Is that a common potion ingredient in Enchancia?"

"I think so," Madeline admitted. "Mister Cedric has a bottle of it with his other potion ingredients, and I remember that it spilled on James once when Elena and Gabby bumped into him, and he was sick for a few days."

"We no mean it!" Elena cried as Ricky cooed, looking at the potions that he could see.

"Ricky, that's not a bottle!" Madeline scolded, seeing her youngest cousin stare at the potions.

"He's probably curious about them," Mateo smirked, musing Ricky's hair playfully.

Ricky squealed, grabbing a nearby potion with his hands, accidentally spilling a few drops on himself.

"Ricky okay?" Elena asked in worry for her little brother, nearly ready to start crying.

Mateo looked at the potion bottle. "He'll be fine," he assured her. "This potion won't hurt him."

"What is it?" Madeline asked.

"Is it bad?" Elena asked, glancing at Ricky with a sniff.

"You sure it won't hurt him?" Madeline asked, gently stroking Ricky's hair.

To answer her question, Ricky started giggling at her touch.

"He'll be fine," Mateo grinned. "It was just a potion to induce laughter that I wanted to slip to Esteban as a joke. It'll wear off in a minute, since he only got a few drops splashed on him."

"You were going to use it on Mister Esteban?" Madeline asked.

"He's so serious all the time," Mateo smirked. "Would it kill him to laugh once in a while?"

"Does Queen Elena know about this?" Madeline asked.

"Of course! She was the one who suggested making it," Mateo grinned as Ricky calmed down.

"Queen Elena good!" Elena giggled, flapping her hands.

"Elena, you can't do that tonight," Madeline explained as Ricky cooed in confusion.

He loved it whenever his big sister flapped her hands like a bird. He couldn't understand why she couldn't do it.

"Why not?" Mateo asked.

"We know why she does it, but Nell says there'll be strangers here who don't know why Elena does that, and they may say something," Madeline explained.

Mateo nodded in agreement. He knew about Elena's autism, and some of the things she did. "Don't worry, Elena, you can flap as much as you want here, but not around my potions," he said as he moved some bottles away from her. "But now, let's go get you ready for tonight."

"I'll be the one doing that," Madeline smiled, hearing Ricky yawn. "After Ricky's nap."

"Ricky nap nap already?" Elena frowned, looking confused.

"One of the side effects from that potion is that the person will be a little sleepy for a while, but don't worry," Mateo assured her. "Ricky can take a nap, and he'll wake up feeling like a million gold coins."

Mateo led them back to their rooms. On the way they ran into Nell and Bobby Lee, who surprisingly weren't angry about the potion when they learned what happened, but rather they were amused at what it did.

"I'm just glad Ricky's all right, and the potion was harmless," Nell smiled as she took Ricky.

"It's going to be part of my entertainment tonight," Mateo explained.

"I can't wait to see Mr. Esteban drink that," Bobby Lee smirked.

"But of course, I won't give him too much," Mateo assured him, "I still want him to be able to make a good impression on our visitors."

"Yes. This is true," Nell smirked, mimicking Estéban's voice.

"Again! Again!" Elena giggled, clapping her hands.

"I'll do some more for you later, Love Bug," Nell grinned. "We don't want him to hear me teasing him."

"This is true, I mean, good idea," Bobby Lee agreed, doing his own imitation of the Chancellor.

Elena smiled in agreement, taking Madeline's hand as she watched her parents walk off with her sleeping little brother.

"Elena, what color do you want for tonight?" Madeline asked, seeing her look confused.

"Why?" Elena wanted to know.

"I'm just asking because during your timeout, Isabel made all of us new outfits with the Presto Changer again, and we're going to wear them tonight," Madeline smiled. "We thought you'd like a new outfit too."

"Yeah!" Elena cheered. "What color your dress?"

"Well, I've got a red one, Gabby's is purple, Amber's is blue and silver, Nell's is green-" Madeline started before Elena gasped.

"Mommy has a dress like the mean lady?" she cried.

"No, it's similar to the one Amber had made before," Madeline smiled, "I was going to say Nell's is green and ivory, Sofia's is pink, Sabrina's is violet, Miss Bianca has a gold and burgundy dress, Miranda has a red and gold dress, and Miss Florence's is yellow."

"I get new dress too!" Elena giggled.

"That's right," Madeline grinned as she led her to Isabel's room, "Just tell Isa the color dress you want, and you'll get it!"

"Okay!" Elena giggled, flapping her hands.

"Good girl," Madeline smirked, mussing her hair.

"What color is Daddy, King, and Ricky's dress?" Elena asked, looking at Madeline who tried not to laugh.

"Well, Roland got a red and gold suit, Bobby Lee's suit is blue and gold, and Ricky's is green and gold," Madeline smiled. "James also got one that's silver and burgundy."

She knocked on Isabel's door, and when she invited them in, Elena asked, "Can I make new dress too?"

Isabel grinned. "Sure, Elena. What color do you want?"

"Like Elena's but pink!" Elena shouted.

"A pink version of Elena's red dress?" Isabel repeated as Elena took her spot in front of the Presto Changer. "No problem!"

Madeline smiled softly at Isabel, thankful that she had remembered about the new dresses for Elena wouldn't have been thrilled to be left out.

Elena giggled as she stepped inside one of Isabel's prized inventions, waiting patiently for her new dress.

She emerged a few moments later, just as Nell, Florence, and Bianca came up to them. "I said it before, and I have to say it again: Elena Lydia, that's beautiful!" Bianca smiled.

"It's Queen Elena's dress in pink!" Madeline grinned. "But how's Ricky?"

"He's fine," Nell smiled. "Like Mateo said, the potion didn't hurt him, and he slept for a few minutes before waking up feeling like his old self again."

"And his daddy is trying to teach him to guard," Florence smirked, mussing Elena's hair. "You ready for tonight, sweetheart?"

"Yes, Grand Mommy!" Elena giggled, flapping her hands.

"But will you be a good girl?" Nell mused, kissing her cheek.

"I'll be a very good girl," Elena promised, quickly putting her hands at her sides. "I not flap my hands and I not touch potions."

"Good idea, Love Bug," Nell grinned. "That way you won't get teased. But you understand that we ask you not to flap to discourage you, don't you?"

"No, Mommy," Elena smiled, jumping up and down. "Where Gabby? And Auntie Sabrina?"

"Last time I saw them, they were taking a walk with Amber," Nell replied, "They wanted to know about some of the pictures around the palace, and Armando and Esteban were telling them about them."

"Before you find them, do any of you want to try controlling the Presto Changer?" Isabel asked. "I still need to get my dress, but I need someone to pedal the machine."

"Me! I pedal!" Elena shouted.

"Okay, Elena, but I think you might need someone to help you reach the pedals," Isabel agreed. "I've already programmed the Presto Changer to the design I want, but I can't be in two places at once."

"Can I help you, Elena?" Madeline asked.

"Yeah!" Elena shouted as Isabel took her place in front of the Presto Changer.

"Maybe when you're bigger, you'll reach the pedals," Nell smiled, mussing Elena's hair as she watched Madeline move the pedals.

The only one who had a bike back home was James, but Elena was happy that he would share his bike with all of them.

When Isabel came out of the Presto Changer, she was wearing a turquoise and silver dress. "Nice job, you two! Thanks for helping me!"

"Isa pretty!" Elena smiled.

"Yes she is," Luisa smiled as she poked her head in the doorway. "Isabel, that's one of the prettiest dresses I've ever seen!"

"Do you want to try it, Ms. Luisa?" Nell asked.

"Thank you, Helen, but I've got my own dress for the festival," Luisa smiled.

"Mr. Francisco gets a dress too?" Elena asked with a smile.

"No, honey. He gets a suit," Luisa smiled, mussing her hair.

"Sorry about that. Elena gets confused about boys wearing suits," Nell confessed, starting to blush.

"Don't worry, mija," Luisa smiled, "But Francisco and Esteban have their suits picked out for tonight. We'll be all set to meet the visitors and have some fun at the Feast of Friendship!"

"Are you going to need help with any food preparations?" Nell asked.

"No, everything's all set," Luisa assured her.

Elena held Ricky in her arms as he held Zoomer in his arms. She knew that she had to be patient with waiting for the guests to arrive.

Yet she didn't want to make eye contact with them. Gabby seemed to notice the look on her sister's face, taking Ricky in her arms and played with his hair.

"You okay, Elena?" Gabby asked.

"I guess so," Elena muttered. "I no flap in front of anyone."

"It'll be all right, Elena," James assured her as he came up to them. "Just stay close to me and everything'll be fine."

"You think so?" Elena asked.

"Why not?" James asked, then he brightened as he got an idea. "But while we're waiting, would you and Gabby like to help me make up an adventure that Andrew Harmon can go on?"

"He ride a kitty?" Elena asked.

"He and his friends Miss Lydia and Miss Anna will love riding kitties as they help their friends," James grinned. "And tonight, Kitty and Pinky can help us, Zebra, and Lily write the story too."

Ricky held up Zoomer, causing Elena and Gabby to giggle.

"Okay Ricky, Zoomer can be in it too," James grinned, mussing his hair, "And so can Greenie."

"But Mr. Edward is a little too young to join you three," Nell smirked, taking Ricky in her arms.

"There's nothing wrong with an honorable mention in the stories," James grinned. "I've done that with some of my friends a few times, and they get a kick out of seeing their middle names in print!"

"Good point," Nell grinned back.

"And when you get this story written, can I have a copy of it?" Queen Elena asked. "I might even supply a list of middle names for you."

"Brilliant!" James grinned. "And yes, you can have a copy of it!"

"People here?" Elena asked shyly, turning away.

"Some, but not all of them," Queen Elena assured, taking her hand. "Would you like to meet them? You might get a gift."

Elena smiled as Gabby joined her, looking at Queen Elena with wide eyes.

"Oh no. You said their favorite word!" Nell groaned playfully as Ricky cooed softly.

"I be good!" Elena promised.

"We know you will, sweetheart," Queen Elena smiled.