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Rainbow Trouble.

The sun is shining brightly the heavens are clear of clouds a most beautiful day. The fairies have done all of their little jobs of work and are now happily playing one or the other games that fairies have played down through the years. I was in the woods collecting the lush blackberries that were so ripe that I am afraid more went into my mouth than in the basket. Suddenly a large cloud covered the sky and it started to pour with rain.

The rain lasted only a couple of minutes and out came the sun. A most gorgeous rainbow appeared in the sky nearly overhead from where I was picking my blackberries. This delighted the fairies that quickly flew over to slide down the rainbow. Unknowingly to the fairies and me, a very powerful wizard had not only caused the clouds and rain to appear he was also responsible for the rainbow.

At the bottom of the rainbow, he had built a trap to ensnare the fairies. As they slid down the rainbow laughing and shouting with joy at this most unexpected of treats, they landed right into the trap. Soon there were no more fairies anywhere. The wizard had trapped them all and sent them off with magic to his castle somewhere in the middle of England.

I had not really been paying much attention to the fairies as the noise they made delighted my ears. I love to hear the tinkling voices of fairies at play. Soon I became aware that there were no more fairies to be seen or heard. I looked everywhere the rainbow had gone where rainbows go after showing their lovely colours and it was as if no fairies had been happily playing in the woods.

Becoming alarmed I sent a message with a robin redbreast to Her Majesty Queen Feeana, Queen of all the fairies. Her Majesty appeared as she usually did, a flash of light a small puff of smoke and she was there in all of her beauty. I quickly explained what had happened the cloud, the rain, and the rainbow. Her Majesty took out her magic mirror from her pocket and looking deeply into it, she told me that the wizard Margeridorm was holding the Fairies prisoner. Showing me the mirror, I saw a square shaped castle surrounded by a moat, to get into the castle one had to cross the moat by way of a drawbridge.

The drawbridge was down, the moat was deep, and there were no boats anywhere so it would be very difficult to get into the castle. I then had an idea. I said to Her Majesty “Give me an old book of magic, I will go to the castle and try to get the wizard out. If you stand by me invisible you will be able to free the fairies.” Her Majesty agreed and by means of magic, we soon arrived at the castle.

I set up a small tent and with the book of magic in my hand I called across to the castle saying that I had a book of magic it is very, very old. I want four pieces of gold for the book. The wizard was by now very curious and lowered the drawbridge. Coming across to where I stood he asked to look at the book. I gave it to him and as he looked in its pages, I said to her Majesty “Quick turn him into a fish and throw him in the moat.” “There he will stay a fish until the moat runs dry.”

Her Majesty waved her wand and the wizard turned into fish, which I threw into the moat. Her Majesty then freed all of the fairies and sent them back home. I had another idea and went to see one of the local councillors. If you lead the waters of the stream into the moat and then out on the other side you will always have water in the moat and a large piece of ground will be available for the local council to build on. The councillor agreed with me, at the next council meeting a decision to do this very thing, and the stream was quickly diverted so the wizard will be a fish for a very long time.