5. Frost Fright

A tall, bony figure, dressed all in white, suddenly appeared out of thin air. Icicles hung from his eyebrows and beard. "You again!" he snarled at Kirsty and Rachel. "How dare you steal those feathers?" Rachel, Kirsty, and Hayley gasped in fear as Jack Frost towered over them. Kirsty looked at Hayley. "Go!" she whispered. "Take the Rain Feather to Doodle before Jack Frost gets his hands on it." Hayley looked unsure, but she nodded and zoomed away, violet fairy dust streaming out behind her like a comet's tail.

"As for you, you useless goblin!" Jack Frost was saying. "I'll send you on a vacation you won't forget!" He lifted his wand and blasted freezing white light toward the goblin, who was stomping away across the field. With a fizz and a crackle, the goblin became a skinny ice statue!

Jack Frost turned back to face the girls. He shrieked with rage when he saw that Hayley had left. He glared at Kirsty, who was reaching for her locket. "No, you don't!" he snapped. He pointed his wand and a narrow beam of light shot out, freezing both lockets tightly shut. "Oh!" cried Rachel and Kirsty. Without their fairy dust, they would be fairy-sized forever! Jack Frost looked down at the two tiny girls. "What's the matter? Are your tongues frozen?" he asked, laughing noisily. His laughter sounded like feet crunching on snail shells.

Kirsty trembled with fright, but she looked straight into Jack Frost's cold, gray eyes. "Why can't you live in peace with all the other fairies?" she asked. "Fairyland is a wonderful place! Everyone would be your friend if you stopped causing so much trouble," Rachel added. Jack Frost's mouth tightened with surprise. He seemed speechless. For a moment, Rachel and Kirsty wondered if he would listen to them. Then Kirsty's heart sank as Jack Frost frowned. "How dare you give me advice?" he roared, his eyes as cold as a glacier. "You two have interfered too many times. I think it's time I put a stop to that!" He raised his wand. Rachel grabbed Kirsty's arm and pulled her behind a nearby tree, just as a blast of freezing white light poured out of the wand. There was a loud snapping sound, and thick white ice coated the tree.

Kirsty and Rachel shivered. Jack Frost stepped around the tree and raised his wand again. Rachel heard a rushing sound and squeezed her eyes shut, expecting to feel an icy blast at any moment.…