Wishing On A Star

Once there was a tall giant who lived on top of Fantasy Mountains just around the Enchanted Valley. He was very good to people and everybody loved him. Whoever came to the mountains, he used to take for a ride on the clouds. People used to bring stars with them, but as soon as they reached the Earth the stars would break.

One day Samar, a very intelligent girl, went on a Cloud Ride with Mr. Big, the good giant. She was a very nice little girl who read a lot of books; so for her, finding Aladdin’s Lamp or Snow White’s Seven Dwarves was not at all strange or scary. That is why when she saw the giant she was not scared or anything. In fact, she was very happy to see him. When she went for her Cloud Ride up above the world so high she was very excited. She found a beautiful, glittering star that really looked like a diamond in the sky. She brought it down with her; but the same thing happened to her star too. It broke. She had read so many books that she knew exactly what to do. She wished on the breaking star! She wished that she could go to Fairy Land and meet Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Red Riding Hood and all the other people she had always read about.

All day long she waited for her wish to come true, some fairy-god-mother to appear. When it started to get dark ,she at last started to wonder if whatever she had read about stars and wishes was true at all. That night when she went to sleep she had lost all hope. Just then, something very strange, some sort of magic, happened.

Without knowing where she was going, she sleep walked into another world. It was very beautiful. The rainbow was the big entrance gate. Bright colored butterflies were sitting on even brighter flowers. Huge birds flew in the perfect blue sky. When she looked harder, she gasped. They were not birds at all. They were fairies! She was in Fairy Land! The biggest wish of her life had actually come true.

She skipped and hopped about for some time before bumping into a cute little fairy. This fairy was just as old as Samar with the most beautiful wings. She’d a tiny wand that had a star on top, just like the one that Samar had brought down with her from the sky. "Hello, I am Sara,”"said the little Fairy, "I haven’t seen you here before. How did you get here?" Samar told her the whole story. The little fairy was a very friendly and nice. She took Samar to two other fairy-friends, Lyla and Gale. Samar was very happy to meet them all. Just then, something happened to disturb that happiness. A wicked witch dressed all in black flew past on her broom. Samar was very scared. "Mama," she cried. She wanted to go back to her safe home.

When Sara, Gale and Lyla saw her crying they were most surprised. "How did you get that water in your eyes?" they asked. "Can’t you see that I am crying?" Samar shouted. She saw that no one here understood her. This was not her home, her world. Oh how she missed everyone... Mama, Daddy, even her silly brother, Addy. "I want to go home," she told Sara. "But you came here to meet your favorite characters," Sara reminded her, "they live in a different area of Fairy Land where they were kept safely from evil witches and wizards." "Then I won’t find them anyway," Samar said. Sara said she would help her because her mother was Sleeping Beauty’s fairy-god-mother who could take them there the very next day.

The next morning Samar and the little fairies got up very early. Samar was very excited. They set off carrying little picnic baskets with Power-Packed Juice that gave you power and Pop Biscuits that made you invisible when you ate them. When they reached the area, fairy-god-mother knew something was wrong. It was very silent. She wondered if they should or should not enter without knowing exactly what was wrong. Samar was frightened. Then she remembered the pop biscuits and, being the intelligent girl that she was, she had a clever idea.

She told her plan to her friends and they all agreed. All of them ate their pop biscuits before entering. That was very smart because just then the same wicked witch that they had seen before flew past. She was the queen of bad witches. Somehow she had found out where the good fairies had hidden their human friends. She had come to get all the people who had ever been saved from any wicked witch and were living happily ever after. She just did not like happy endings of that sort. How could anyone live happily ever after? She also wanted to be famous and be a part of the stories too.

She moved round and round on her broom. "I can smell enemies," she shouted. Fairy-god-mother wanted to fight her but she had a guest to think about. How could she put Samar in trouble? By now Samar had thought of her next plan. She told Sara to fly up and pour Power-Packed juice on the witch’s broom. Sara did just that and the broom went mad. It flew and whirled at such great speed that the wicked witch felt dizzy and fell down, making a lot of noise. Red Riding Hood’s father who was cutting wood in the forest heard that and came running. When he saw all the princes and princesses tied down with ropes he cut them all loose. Sleeping Beauty’s prince gave her a punch, Snow White’s gave her a kick and Cinderella’s a blow. The witch ran away to save her life, swearing that she would never come there again.

Then fairy-god-mother moved her wand around Samar and the little fairies and they were no longer invisible. Fairy-god-mother told everyone how Samar had helped defeat the witch and everyone thanked her sincerely. Samar was very happy to meet them all and could now go home much happier.

Fairy-god-mother asked her to close her eyes. Samar could see her mother calling her. "Samar," she called, "Samar you are going to be late for school." Samar opened her eyes and she was in her bed. Had she dreamt all that? The pop biscuit in her pocket answered her question.