Fairy Adventure - Juice and Anna (aka Bug and Jo) (early reader books .txt) 📗

It was truely beautiful. Bug had a hard time keeping her eyes open. As the fireflies danced and the frogs croaked and the breeze went through the trees as soft as a lullaby, Bug finally slipped off to sleep. Gem noticed. "Jo," she whispered, "I think we lost Bug." Jo smiled as she crused back to the tree of Bug's home. Gem, who couldn't fit through Bug's hole, shrunk herself with the help of a little of taking Bug's magic, and put her to bed. gem climbed back out and grew back to her normal size. Jo was waiting below. gem hopped back into the Impala as Jo drove her home to her tea pot. then nobody knows how long Jo stayed out, but suspect at least until 2:00.

Bug woke up the next morning refreshed. She got up, got dressed in her brown tunic and acorn cap and ate a quick breakfast. When she got to Jo's, she found her asleep in the car. Jo NEVER went a day without her coffee, but today she had slept in and lost her chance. When she woke she was bloodshot and shaking, saying, "Coffee...coffee..." But Bug had nothing for her. "Please, Jo. Gem makes coffee at her place." Bug pleaded, "And there's banana bread today!" Jo sat straight up and jumped out of the car. "Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee!" she said jumping up and down in place. So off they went, on to the expedition to get to Gem's house. All was well until... "COFFEE!!!!" Jo screamed, eyes wide in terror. The teapot... was gone. "Where is it?" Bug said. she walked over to the place that the tea pot used to be. "!!!!!" Jo wailed. she flew and slammed herself into the tree. "COOOOFFFFEEEE" "Jo, Jo, Jo."Bug flew up and grabbed her hand to stop her from impaling herself to death. Then they saw it. A large, cup of coffee with the Starbuck lable on it seemed to glow like the sun and you could almost hear a choir. "Jo," Bug whispered, "Look." jo yanked her hand away from bug and flew over to the coffee. "Ha ha ha ha!" she laughed. she grabbed the straw and slurped but it was to much for her hair. "Jo?" Bug said. "Yes?" Jo said her mouth still on the straw. "Your hair...it's flat" "WHAT?!" Bug picked up a shard of china and brought it to Jo for her to see, There was a sound of someone screeming with a mouthful of coffee, a loud gulp, and a frantic voice, "MY HAIR!!!!!!!" Then, she fainted. Bug knew this was an emergency. She flew back to Jo's house as fast as her wings would let her, and returned with a wire. Quickly she replaced the straw, stuck it in Jo's mouth, and pleaded, "Jo, drink." First it was like feeding a weak baby, than the body began to vibrate, and then there was a sound like a battery was being charged, and then an electrical shack brighter than anything sprang into the air. When the smoke cleared, there stood Jo, eyes wide, hair up, wire still in her mouth. she smiled and it fell our. "How's my hair?" she asked. "Higher than ever" bug replied and rolled her eyes. "good" she grabbed the wire again and drank a little more coffee. "Now, back to the matter." Said Bug. "Where's Gem?" "Well, her house is gone." "I can see that, Jo. Wait, did you hear that?" A low hum hung in the air it sounded like a man singing the tune of 'I'm a little teapot'. Then they saw him. He was quite tall, with a prickly goatee and a ciggerette poking out. The ciggerette caught Jo's eye. "Fire?" "No, Jo! Not now..." But it was to late. Jo zipped through the air and snatched the ciggerette in midair, and the man hardly noticed. He just looked down at the leaves, thinking he might have dropped it. Jo was staring at her discovery in amazment. "He had it in his mouth like this..." She shoved the thing as much as she could into her mouth, griminced, and spat it out. "Gross!" She held the thing up like a baby with a dirty diaper. However, a bit caught her hair. There was a spark, than her hair burst into flame. Startled, she dropped the ciggerette into a little dew puddle below. "Hey! Look, Bug! I am a firehead!" She danced up and down in the air. But this time, the man noticed. "Gah!" He yelled, almost tumbling over. That's when the fairies saw what he was holding: The teapot! "AAAATTAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jo screamed the war cry, then charged her blazing head toward him. "Wait Jo!" Bug yelled but she was already in his face. All around the lot she chased him, but he held the teapot fast. then when jo had surprised him by disapearing then appearing in his face, his hands slipped and the teapot tumbled toward the ground. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Bug and Jo shouted together. Then it happened. Bug slipped forward, streched out her hand and threw the most magic she had ever thrown. The magic swirled around the teapot, as it fell, becoming smaller, smaller, and then it landed, unharmed, in Bug's very palm. "Phew" she breathed. "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Jo was still screaming. "Jo...i caught it" bug said rolling her eyes. "Oh...wait...you caught it?" "Yeah, its right here." "You SHRUNK Gem!" "I did?" Bug asked, "I did!" "GEM!" Jo and Bug cried and pried the lid of the teapot. "Are you alright?" "OH MY GOSH! YOU"RE GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed. Bug reached her finger into the teapot, Gem tried to run away but Bug picked her up. Gem squirmed and Bug set her on her finger. "Gem...you're...you're..." Bug said. "Tiny?" Jo finnished and they both peered at the little teeny Gem. "Never..." Bug whispered, "Has anyone been smaller than me." "Yeah, well here I am!" Gem said angrily, upset she was almost blown off Bug's finger as she spoke. "Oh, by the way," Bug added, "How is the banana bread?" "Its fine," Gem rolled her eyes. "I just got it out of the oven." "Oh phew," Bug sighed in relief. "Look! More of those dumb guys!" Jo exploded with joy. "Can I get 'em? Please? Please please please please PLEEEAAASE?" "Oh, fine." Bug rolled her eyes. "Did you see her new addition?" She said to Gem, who was pouting, "Her hair is on fire." "Yeah, I noticed." Gem replied huffly. She seemed to already be disliking her unexpected shrink. "Oh, cheer up, Gem!" Jo called over the screams of some of the men they had discovered. "Come help. You can kick one of their butts while I hold 'em." "No way!" Gem shouted. She looked away, almost dreamily, then looked back at Bug. "Look what I found..." She whispered, nodding to an old pile of china shards. "Just think... Your power is to shrink... Jo's is to do anything insane...mine is to put things back where they belong... and I think one of those shards belong up one of those behinds." She smiled. "What do you think?" "Go for it!" And so the mighty battle began between some upset and insane fairies and their intruders who called themselves 'woodcutters', which simply meant to the fairies "wood destroyers'. Jo chased them with her head of fire, Gem, who was no bigger than a speck to them, shot shards, as Bug held her and protected her from anything a little big for her. Jo flew up to one of the guys faces and shouted "BOO!!!!!" he fell over the fled the scene. Jo followed hittting her burning hair to his behind. he jumped each time and then dove into his bulldozer. Jo slammed against the window trying to get in but he danced in the air then saw one of the guys swat Bug to the ground. "O no you didn't" she said and flew over to him and just glared at him. he saw her blood shot eyes and ran screaming like a little girl from the scene. then there was just...HIM. he was 6 Ft. 5 with mousey brown hair and Beautiful Blue eyes. he stared at the little fairies with a smirk on his face. "My daughter loves to read books about you guys," He said. "I thought I would never meet one, and now I have met two!" "Three." Bug corrected weekly from the ground. "I am sorry about what happened," The man apolliged. "How could I help?" "Well, could you help Bug, she's in a bad shape." said Jo, nodding over to the little week fairy. "Come here, little one." Said the man, gently picking up the wounded fairy. He had never seen something so small and delicate before in his life. "So you're not going to hurt us?" She whispered. "Oh, of course not! And not your forest either. Even though I might get fired..." "FIRED?!" Jo exclaimed in excitement, "Could I get fired too?" The man gave her a wierd look. "Please excuse her," Teeny Gem said, trying to be seen. "She doesn't understand." In the next half an hour, the man cared for Bug, Gem was brought to normal size, and Jo was given another cup of coffee. "Ah," Gem sighed with relief, "Its nice to be big again." "When Bug was finally brought to full awareness, she seemed suddenly neves. "What is it Bug?" Gem asked. "Is the banana bread okay?" Bug replied, "Because I don't see it." Gem laughed. "Can we give some to our guest too?" Bug added. "Of course!" So Gem got out the banana bread and they had a wonderful time, and even the kind man had a little piece. "Wow," He said in awe, "Real fairy banana bread! My daughter will love to hear about this!" "You can bring her some if you want," Gem offered, "There is more than enough." Finally the man had to leave, since it was getting dark. "I'll come back to visit!" He promised. "And I bring Julia too!" "Well that sure was an adventurous day" Gem said. "i wanna meet Julia. She sounds really sweet" Bug said. "I want..." Jo started and the other fairies turned to look at her. "Yes?" "More Coffee!" she shouted. "O my gosh" Gem shook her head. "She's crazy" "And you're just noticing that?" Bug said. "Nope...i've known for years. it just came more apparent right now" "man that banana bread was good though." Bug said with a burp. "You should have saved some for me." 'bug!" Gem laughed, "You ate half a loaf!" "Oh yeah." "Well, its getting dark now. It's about time for you guys to go home." "Awwww...." Jo and Bug whined. They didn't want their andventure to end. "Don't worry, I'll bake something special tomorrow." "Even better than banana bread?!" "Even better than banana bread." "Sweet!" And so the day ended and jo and bug returned to their homes. Bug settled down with a leaf journal in front of a cozy fire made of a few twigs. She wrote:

Dear Journal, It has been a big day. Well not really, unless you call Jo lighting her hair on fire and missing her daily coffee and Gems house disappeering and war with some so called 'Wood cutters' and being swat by one and shrinking Gem and making friends with a human and having banana bread is exciting. Well, I guess the banana bread part was exciting. Anyway, during this hulabuloo I notinced what we as a fairy would NEVER do: Me- Light my hair on fire. Gem- Loose her love for china. Jo- Be sane.

Bug nestled down in her blanket and fell asleep.