5. Time for a Rainbow

Time for a Rainbow "Hooray for Sky!" cried Rachel. "Now, Jack Frost can't hurt any of us, and we can take him safely back to Fairyland." Rachel flew over and picked up the snow globe. It felt smooth and cold, and it shook when Jack Frost jumped around inside. Bertram hopped toward Rachel. "I'll take care of that, Miss Rachel," he said.

Rachel was glad to hand over the snow globe. She didn't like being so close to Jack Frost! "Into the pot, everybody!" shouted Inky. "It's time to go back to Fairyland!" "Yippee!" yelled Amber, doing a backflip in midair. Heather waved her wand and the pot rolled upright, onto its four short legs. Rachel, Kirsty, and all of the fairies flew inside. Bertram the frog climbed in after them. It was a little cramped, but Rachel and Kirsty were too excited to care. "Ready?" Ruby asked.

Her sisters nodded, looking very serious. The seven Rainbow Fairies raised their wands. There was a flash above them, like rainbow-colored fireworks. A fountain of sparks filled the pot with beautiful bold colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. And then the brightest rainbow Rachel and Kirsty had ever seen soared upward into the clear blue sky. With a whoosh, Bertram and the fairies shot out of the pot, carried on the rainbow like a giant wave. Rachel and Kirsty felt themselves zooming up the

rainbow, too. Flowers, stars, leaves, tiny butterflies, ink drops, and bubbles made of fairy dust fizzed and popped around them. "This is amazing!" Kirsty shouted. Far below, she could see hills dotted with toadstool houses. It was Fairyland! There was the winding river and the royal palace with its four pointed towers. All of a sudden, the rainbow vanished in a fizz of fairy dust. Kirsty and Rachel flapped their wings and drifted gently to the ground. Rachel looked around, expecting to see all the colors coming back to Fairyland.

But the hills and the toadstool houses were still gray! "Why hasn't the color returned?" Rachel gasped. Kirsty shrugged, too worried to speak. One by one, the Rainbow Fairies landed softly next to the girls. And Kirsty saw that where each fairy had landed on the gray grass, a patch of the greenest green was spreading outward.

"Rachel, look!" Kirsty shouted. "The grass is turning green!" "Oh, yes!" Rachel said. Her eyes shone. The fairy sisters stood in a circle and raised their wands. A fountain of rainbow-colored sparks shot up into the fluffy, white clouds. There was a flash of golden lightning, and it began to rain. Rachel and Kirsty watched in delight as tiny glittering raindrops, in every color of the rainbow, pattered gently down around them. And where they fell, the color returned, flowing like shining paint across everything in Fairyland.