Moon Plants

It was like a huge spot light in the sky, streaming down on the castle on Friday night. Bonny Fairy tip toed from her bed across her room, slipped her tiny feet in her night slippers and wrapped her robe around her body being careful to slip her wings through the wing slits in the back. Her slippers had shinny soft fluff balls on the top and her robe was a soft satin gown with a pretty pink ribbon tie to hold it in place.

This was not the first time Bonny fairy had snuck around the castle and the castle grounds at night. In fact she was becoming rather careless about her stealth as she had slipped around in the night air so much. But it was only during one week of the month. It was the week that werewolves fear the most and foxes go out on chilly nights to raid hen coops and come back with grease on their chin. Yes, Bonny snuck around on the nights of full and partially-full moons.

As you may already be aware, Bonny Fairy often included a little pixy dust on her vegetation and every year she grew the largest produce of any creature in the castle. One year (as you may recall) her pumpkin (which took Grandma Dragon great effort to carve) adorned the roof of the castle, smiling out at the Halloween world. It was visible from miles away. It was so enormous it couldn’t fit in the green house after only 2 months of summer growing. Bonny’s pixy dust was very powerful.

What the reader may not know however, is that pixy dust (although powerful as a growth agent with sunlight) is nearly 25% more powerful with moon light. This is only with a handful of special plants thought. While Ebony was in Kirkuk, he had accidentally collected a number of burrs on the rug. These velcro type seeds attach themselves to fur or the like and they spread themselves by taking a free ride on what ever animal happens to connect with them. In ebony’s case, the carpet became the spreading agent.

Bonny recognized the burr seeds during the moving day when the rug passed by her being hefted by one of the Genie workers. She grabbed a few off and stuffed them in her pocket.

After some careful research she was sure they were moonlight plants. When all the children planted their gardens Bonny planted her normal pumpkins and peas and watermelons and in some special pots near the window, Bonny planted the special burr seeds. She called them Dewskis. She covered the pots with a thick canvas cloth and most of the other children thought nothing of them. No one knew there was anything planted there and as far as they were concerned, the pots were just empty jars on a shelf. But once a month for a week Bonny Fairy set her alarm for 02:00 and flew down to the green house and uncovered the plants for five hours of bright nourishing moon light. She watered them every day in secret- somehow slipping into the green house when no one else was around and soon the Dewskis began to grow.

The moon light combined with Bonny’s Pixie dust produced such results that at last Bonny feared someone might start to ask questions. The canvas was bulging and she also feared the cloth would squish the little plants.

So that Friday night Bonny decided to move the plants to the pirate’s ship. The Pirate’s ship with the very stretched out multi celled creature from the cup of moat water— aka The Invisible Pirate Ghost.

Bonny brought the fairy-sized wheel barrow over to the green house, slowly opened the creaking door and entered the moon light flooded green house. One by one she uncovered the seedlings in the tiny pots and placed them carefully in the wheel barrow and wheeled it out the door, across the moonlit courtyard, past the pool and toward the pirate ship. Up the gang plank she wheeled the plants and stood on the deck of the ship breathing hard, partly from being awake so late, partly from fear of being caught and especially from pushing the heavy laden wheel barrow up the ramp. After her heart rate steadied again she searched around for a good spot that she could put the pots. They would have to be able to get full moon light and yet be out of site from any one visiting the ship.

“Ah, there’s a nice spot?” she half whispered to her self and the moon.

The Captain’s quarter’s entrance was framed by a large wooden beam. The ledge it created exposed what ever was on top to full exposure from the sky but a passerby couldn’t quite see what was up there. Bonny was a good flyer. She couldn’t take all the pots at once of course so it took her some time to get each one up on the ledge and then cover them up with the canvas. They couldn’t be exposed to sun light because it would confuse their sensitive photosynthesis.

Just as she was nearly finished straitening the cover she heard something rattle around in the captain's room.

He little fairy heart started pounding and her eyes widened. All her arm hairs stood on end. She fluttered away from the ship as fast as she could and up to the fairy window and into her bed leaving the wheel barrow on the ship and the green house door open. She was terrified. How would she go and uncover her pots the next night for the moon light with that noise down there?