If You Like Flowers, Watch out for Yourself
Cerbi looked around to find something that could trigger an idea. Than he gave up and looked at the sky - and in that moment, he caught sight of a familiar scarlet spot in the distance that was approaching him fast. Cerbi cheered up.
"Scarlet!" he shouted as loud as he could, and I must say he could shout really loud. "Don't you have a wish?"
Meanwhile, the little scarlet spot arrived next to him, and it turned out it wasn't a spot but a tiny fairy.
"Did you say a wish? Guess what, Cerbi, I was just telling myself, when I was looking out of the window in the morning, because I look out of the window every morning, because, you know, if I didn't I could even go out. Maybe only moving backwards, but that is quite dangerous, so I always look out of the window, for example, when I'm flying forward, following my nose, and if my eyes are also looking towards my nose, so as I… What was it that you asked?"
"Whether you had a wish."
"Ah yes, a wish… Well everyone has a wish, it's just the way it is. I remember that one of my aunts, you know, the one with the bluebell, the one I had already told you about …"
Scarlet started babbling on again, but before she could get into the story of her aunt's things (the one with the bluebell), the ghost of the magic alarm-clock appeared before her. Scarlet was startled.
"Wow, what a strange chap!"
Now the one to be startled had to be Strange Chap.
"Do you know me?"
"No, but once, when I went to the daisy field, because usually in the daisy field, I…"
Strange Chap lost his interest at his point and interrupted her, since he wanted to get to the question of the wishes:
"Who are you?"
"Scarlet, the arch-fairy of the court."
"Well, dear Scarletthe…. it's just amazing that all of you have such long names!" - Strange Chap broke out, but he soon returned to his normal behavior.
"So dear Scarletthearch-fairyofthecourt, wish anything you'd like and I'll make it come true!"
Now something happened to Scarlet that had never even been recorded by the thick chronicles of Cerbengocia: she was left speechless. Cerbi tried to make the most of the pause:
"I will not take any more of your time, then," he murmured, and started to creep away on tiptoes.
"Anyway… I was thinking… maybe it's time…"
He reached to the corner of the castle in the meantime, and there, hidden by the walls, tarted to run so that he would get farther away from this creature who played foot tennis outrageously well, and who had the strength to defeat him, the foot tennis champion and the strongest dragon of Cerbengocia!
Scarlet, untrue to herself, was silent because she was thinking very hard about how she could take this unexpected and very rare - so rare that she couldn't remember another one – and fortunate opportunity. The only problem was that she had never used to wish for big things, and that she couldn't deviate from this habit of hers. She liked when the sun was shining, but she wasn't sad if it happened to be cloudy, and she climbed the wind just as cheerfully.
"You said yourself that everyone had a wish," the ghost urged her.
"I can only think about my aunt, the one with the bluebell, all her life she has…"
"There must be something you like!"
Scarlet pondered.
"Well, I like flowers a lot, I always put one…"
But Strange Chap disappeared. In a blink of an eye, he was back with a huge bouquet that he hurled right at the poor fairy.
"I told you," said Strange Chap, hardly concealing how proud he was of himself. "Just say a word and all your wishes come true!"
Scarlet finally emerged from beneath the stack with much difficulty, she pulled some lilies of the valley out of her ears, then she sneezed out a violet and said to Strange Chap, showing the way to him with a sword lily in her hand:
"I think it will be better for you to come with me and be the servant of Serena. She must be able to wish much better than me. After all, she's a princess, and if there's anything princesses can do, it's wishing, because just imagine, last time…"