Rosy and Ruby

Chapter One

Once upon a time there was a unicorn named Rosy. Rosy came from a magical land in the clouds. She was sent to San Francisco to find a young lost unicorn named Ruby who didn’t have the wings yet to be able to fly back to the unicorn world. Back at Unicorn World, Rosie was just about ready to jump into San Francisco. Rosy took a running start, and leapt off the cloud. For a second, it seemed like she was just standing in midair, then for a moment she started falling before her wings flapped and she began to fly.  Rosy landed in the middle of Golden Gate Park.  In fact, she landed right in the middle of the Polo Field—in the middle of a game! Quickly, she used her magic to disguise herself as a polo pony with a dummy rider on her back and a magical stick that kept swinging the ball.

After the game, Rosy was able to sneak away from the barn and transform her disguise into a human. Rosy disguised herself as a girl with long, dark hair. She wore a white blouse, a pink skirt and black shoes. She looked like she was almost twenty years old.

“What I need to find first is a map,” Rosy thought to herself. She wandered around, through the trees, until she saw a bigger path. She followed the trail until she found a big clearing with a map. It marked where the top hotels were in town, and things like that. Inside a box were folded brochures with smaller versions of the big map. Rosy took one and went to the closest hotel, which was about a mile away. 

Rosy left the park and thought to herself, “I could catch a train, but would that be suspicious? Or, I could just run, but that would take me five minutes. Or, I guess I could teleport. That seems like the best way to get there!” She teleported right in front of the desk! “Oops!” She thought, “I hope no one saw that!”

At the front desk she registered for a room, and then Ben the Butler brought her room service for lunch. She ordered a hot dog with ketchup and mustard on it, with a fruit cup on the side. When the butler brought the food, Rosy looked very shocked at the hot dog, which wasn’t what she had been expecting based on the name. But, she ate it and surprisingly, it was very good!

Rosy had brought with her magical headphones that would allow her to fly back with the other unicorn. After lunch, Rosy put her headphones in a safe spot under her bed, thinking “Why would anybody look for things under the bed?” She went out to look for the missing unicorn.

She followed her nose, and the most wonderful smell led her to a cotton candy booth. She decided to get three—two for her and one to attract the lost unicorn (unicorns have a big sweet tooth). As Rosy ate her first cotton candy, she wandered around the streets and noticed a park with a lot of unusual looking humans. She decided to go in there. The park had benches and lots of trees. Rosy sat down to finish her first cotton candy.

As Rosy ate her candy, she noticed a girl hanging around. She walked past Rosy, then a few minutes later she walked past again. Rosy didn’t think anything of it at first, but when Rosy started eating her second cone, and noticed the girl was peeking out at her from behind a big tree close by, she thought to herself, “I bet that’s the unicorn Ruby…” 

Chapter Two

“Hi, my name is Ruby. And I have fallen from the clouds down to San Francisco. When I tried to fly back, I realized I hadn’t grown my wings enough yet. One day, I was wandering through the park trying to find materials to build a stairway back to the clouds, and I noticed an amazing smell. The best smell I have ever experienced! I followed it and saw a girl with three cotton candies sitting in a park! As I walked past I thought to myself: Surely, surely, surely, she won’t eat all three!”

To my surprise she saw me in my hiding place, and the mysterious person said, “Hi, what’s your name? My name is Rosy.” I was so startled that I jumped back. How did she see me? I was behind a tree! Well, I decided I would go out and not be that awkward.

“Ummm… hi? My name is Ruby. I’ve never been to this park before today. It is very beautiful, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” said Rosy. “In fact I just arrived here today myself. Have you been here for a long time?”

I said, “Yes, I just arrived here a few days ago.”
“Well,” said Rosy, “I must be going. I will leave this cotton candy on the bench if you want it. You don’t have to have it unless you want it. Bye!” And Rosy was gone.

        ………..

Ruby looked around once, twice, nobody was there. So, she took the cotton candy quietly, in case someone was watching. She ate the cotton candy quickly—very, very quickly.

Little did she know, now Rosy was behind the tree.

Chapter Three: 

Rosy peeked out from behind the tree and slowly strolled toward Ruby. “Oh! Hello again! I see you had the cotton candy. Perhaps, just perhaps, Cloud 9 means something to you…?”

Ruby looked a little startled, but then she nodded very fast. 

Rosy decided to get to the point. “Well, anyways, I’ve been sent to find a lost unicorn. Perhaps you know someone like that? Or perhaps, just maybe, you are the unicorn?”

Ruby couldn’t believe it! She had just met a stranger in a park who turned out to be a unicorn that could take her home? Well, she didn’t care! She was going back to Cloud 9.

Ruby went with Rosy. As they teleported back to Ruby’s hotel, Rosy said “OK, let’s go get my magical headphones and we’ll get back to Cloud 9. Don’t worry, everything is going to be alright now.”

In the hotel, they got in the elevator up to the room and met the hotel’s chef—he had a greedy face.

Rosy said “Bye” when the elevator doors opened, but Chef Frenchette just ran away very quickly—like he had done something very bad. 

In the hallway, they met the butler. “Cheerio,” he said. “The maid has just cleaned out your room. It is ready right now. I was just checking on it, and it’s all free.” Seeing the expression on the chef’s face and hearing the butler explain how he and the maid had just been in the room, she rushed in with Ruby and closed the door. “I hope they didn’t find the hidden headphones!” Rosy whispered to Ruby. As they went into the room and looked under the bed, they discovered that somebody had found the headphones, and that somebody had decided to steal them!

Chapter Four

“Oh No!” Ruby exclaimed. “What are we going to do? Now we’re really trapped in San Francisco.  

“Calm down,” Rosy said. “Why would anyone steal headphones that had rainbows on them? They could probably get ones that looked exactly the same from the gift shop.”

“Could someone have suspected they’re magical? Do you think they know we’re unicorns? Or even suspected we’re unicorns?”  Ruby wondered.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

 Rosy said, “It’s fine. I bet it was just a mistake. Maybe the cleaners put them in the lost and found. Let’s go check at the front desk.”

“Ok,” said Ruby reluctantly. She was wondering what Rosy actually thought.

Rosy was acting calm, but she was freaking out inside her brain. “If we don’t find the headphones, are we going to be trapped in San Francisco? Do you think somebody else will come to help us? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? If we don’t find the headphones, how are we going to get back? Maybe there’s a secret, magic headphone in one of these booths in the restaurant. Please say I’m correct. Please, please let there be.”

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They used their magic to teleport all the headphones in every room in the hotel to their room. They looked at each of them, but none were the magic ones, so they teleported them back. They rode the elevator down to the front desk and checked lost and found: no headphones. Finally, they checked all the booths in the restaurant, hoping to find a secret hidden pair of magical headphones, but none of the booths had headphones in the cushions. Seeing two girls poking around in the cushions of every booth, Chef Frenchette came out of the kitchen. The chef had a big, black, curling mustache that dropped down and then went up at the ends. “What are you doing?” he asked.

Rosy thought quickly and came up with something. She put on a hat and took out a pencil and a notebook. “We are restaurant inspectors. We are here for a surprise inspection of the Frenchette. We are looking at all of your…stored things and so far you are doing…well…fine…” she said.

“I’m bewildered! Be-faffled. Be—what?! You are inspecting meez?” He is having a total meltdown, Ruby and Rosy thought in their heads. “Chef Frenchette iz perfect-o!” the chef continued. “He could not be better. Oh, I can’t stand zis! I’m going to go listen to some happy music!”

Ruby was thinking fast again…the chef seemed to be having a nervous breakdown. Was he tired of working at the restaurant? It seemed like he really loved it, but he could be acting. In fact, maybe he wanted to change careers and become an actor. Could he be the one that stole the headphones? Ruby decided to ask him some more questions.

“So, Chef Frenchette,” Ruby started. “I love music, too. What is your favorite music?”

“I like to listen to Happy (from Despicable Me 2).” said French Fenchette.  “It iz zee best song ever.”

“Really? I never really hear you listen to that song,” said Rosy. “The hotel is always quiet.”

“Yes, yes. You should never hear me! I lizen wiz some headphones.”

“Oh…” said Rosy. “Where did you get your headphones? They sound really good. We’d love to get the same exact kind.”

All of a sudden Chef Frechette looked very worried and said, “You must excuse me. The…er…ice cream Sundays are burning, I must leave at once for zee kitchen.”

“Wait,” said Rosy. “We’d really like to get those—” but before Rosy could finish her sentence, Chef Frenchette had closed the door to the kitchen.  

  ………..

Rosy said quietly, “Well that was suspicious. We have to follow him.” She glanced at the large clock in the restaurant. “We have to find the headphones and get back to Cloud Nine. Without recharging our magic from the headphones, our disguises run out at the stroke of midnight, and everyone will know we are unicorns.”

Chapter Five

The restaurant was closed between lunch and dinner. They waited outside by the kitchen door, behind some garbage cans. Several minutes later, Rosy and Ruby were following Chef Frenchette in the direction of the trolly. The unicorns, still disguised as girls, were good at hiding and disappearing into the crowd.

“I wonder where he’s going?” Rosy said. 

“I think he is going to a gold mine and is going to use the headphones in exchange for gold, so he can be rich!” Ruby suspected. “I am going to get him and retrieve your headphones if it’s the last thing I do!” she added.

“Maybe we should call the police, because someone stole our headphones!” Rosy said. “If he stole our headphones that he knew were $100, he might be pretty dangerous. I think we should stay away,” Rosy added.  The girls had been whispering as they followed Chef Frenchette down a dark alley. The chef felt like someone was behind him, and he stopped to turn around and look over his shoulder. The chef turned quickly but the unicorns had dived for hiding, aiming to crouch down behind a trash can. But unfortunately, they ended up in the trash can.

He missed seeing them by an inch. It was that close! Chef Frenchette turned back around. Rosy and Ruby climbed out of the trash can with banana peels on their heads.

Ruby said, “I say call it a day. I am so grossed out, I couldn’t even eat ice cream.”

“Let’s persevere,” Rosy said. “We’ve got to find those headphones before our disguises go out.”

“I’m calling it a day!” Ruby cried. “I can’t go on any longer!”

Rosy looked at Ruby. Her clothes were grimy from the trash can. She looked like she was about to cry. “Ok,” said Rosy. “We can go back to the hotel. But first let’s make a robot out of some of the last magic we have to follow Chef Frenchette.”

“What?” said Ruby. She sounded irritated. “We could have had a robot following him all along!”

“I didn’t want to use up all our magic!” said Rosy in irritation. “But now we have to.”

“Fine, let’s do it,” said Ruby.

“Ok, here we go!” said Rosy. “Three, two, one!”

In the alley a bunch of fireworks went off. Smoke filled the air and it sounded like “boom, boom, boom.” When the explosions stopped, there stood a robot.

“Hello,” said the robot. “I will serve you. So, what is the first task I should complete?

“Now you’re talking!” said Ruby.

“Yes, I talk.” said the robot. “Of course, I talk.”

“Ok, robot. We’re going to call you RoRo. Now, we have a job for you. Please! Go find a man named Chef Frenchette. If you get tired, put a tracker on him without him knowing. Then, come back to us so we can use the tracker to see where he goes. Task,” said Rosy.

“The task will be completed in five minutes,” said RoRo. Boom! Boom! More exploding fireworks in the alley, and suddenly the robot disappeared in another puff of smoke.

Back at the hotel, Rosy and Ruby looked at the time. It was almost eleven. The robot still had not returned. They had taken nice, clean showers and tried to order dinner through room service, but the manager at the front desk had said, “I am terribly sorry. Chef Frenchette has disappeared with no warning and the restaurant is closed! But, if you terrr-i-bly hungry, we could get you some leftover french fries with hot dog buns from lunch. We are terr-i-bly sorry. We are planning to fire him as soon as he comes back.”

“Well that is—” Rosy and Ruby were speechless. Now they were certain that Chef Frenchette had stolen the headphones. Suddenly, on the other side of the phone they could hear a beep, beep, beep. 

“Robo the Robot reporting to the front desk,” said the robot. “I have completed the task.” 

Rosy and Ruby quickly explained that they had a robot—that this was in fact their robot—and asked the desk manager to quickly have the robot report to their room. The manager was shocked. He didn’t know what to say. He let the robot go up in the elevator without even looking at his tag. Thankfully he didn’t, because on the tag it said “Unicorn world, you got this!” 

When the robot got off on their floor and went into their room, the door shut behind him and he looked around. By that time, it was 11:59, and things started happening when the clock clicked over to the next minute—.

Chapter Six

Rosy looked at the clock. “Oh no! It’s twelve!” Suddenly poof! a horn popped out of her head.  Ruby looked at Rosy. Suddenly poof! A tail sprouted out. Slowly but steadily their disguises were fading away. The robot, who had no idea they were even unicorns, just stood there in amazement. Robo found his robot voice and said, “So that’s why it says on my tag Unicorn world, you got this!” 

Rosy looked at Ruby. Ruby looked at Rosy. “We’re unicorns again!” said Ruby sadly. “I never thought I’d be so sad to be back in my unicorn form again,” said Rosy. Ruby answered, “I agree.” Suddenly Robo said, “OK, enough with the unicorn stuff. I got a tracker on Chef Frenchette.” Robo transformed into the shape of a table and a computer screen appeared on his back. It showed a video of Chef Frenchette walking down an alley. Then, another video showing him walking into a house. Next, a video showed him taking something out of a bag before walking toward the camera and saying, “nice Kitty.” In the video, the chef put a pair of headphones on and started to dance. The chef did something strange next. He put blue tape across the house number outside then wrote a new number: 1675. Ruby looked at Robo directly in the eye. “Robo, can you disguise yourself as a kitty and walk in and get the headphones then bring them directly back to this room—and please try to avoid the desk clerk.”

Robo said, “OK, Master Two.” He could have taken the elevator, but just to impress people he jumped out of the window. Ruby was watching the whole thing. “Oh brother,” she said, “We have a showman robot.”

  ………..

Rosy had secretly put a video camera on Robo. “Where’s the computer?” said Rosy, looking around the room. They found a computer and opened the video. It showed a tabby cat with orange and white stripes. It was walking down the street with its tail held high. “Where’s Robo—” Ruby started to stay, but then she remembered that Robo was disguised as a cat. The cat turned the corner and came up to a house with the number 1675. There were fences and lasers everywhere, so nobody could get to the door. Robo simple purred with delight and started to go through the maze. Since, like all catlike creatures, he could jump really high. He could also flatten himself down and roll under a laser beam. He could even perform a catwheel. It didn’t take Robo long to make it to the door. He sat on the porch, perfectly still, looking up at the door. Suddenly, with no warning, he let out a loud “Meow! Meow! Meow!” Chef Frenchette opened the door.

There was nothing on the porch. He went back inside and missed seeing a giant tabby cat jumping over him and through the door. As the chef looked around, the cat barrel rolled behind a table. Chef Frenchette spun around but didn’t see anything suspicious. “I must be seeing things,” he said to himself. “I need to go out and look for a new job.” The chef picked up the headphones and put them into his bag. But as he was walking past the table, there was a ripping sound and the headphones were yanked from his bag. Chef Frenchette whirled around, still on his guard, and said “I know jiu jitsu.” He did a few kicks, but not seeing anyone in the room, the Chef decided he had again imagined the whole thing. He didn’t notice the torn hole in his bag, and left. Robo cat came out from behind the table with the headphones on and said, “Meow!”

 ………..

Back at the hotel, there was a tapping on the window, and there was Robo the Robot! But then, just as the window opened and Robo jumped in, there was a loud hacking sound from outside the hotel. Rosy and Ruby looked outside and to their horrified faces, was Chef Frencette! 

Chapter Seven

Rosy slammed the window shut and quickly said, “Quick! Use magic to disguise us, and to disguise these headphones as unicorns.” Just in the nick of time they were all back in disguises, even Robo who was now a black labradoodle dog. 

Chef Frenchette threw open the window and said in a cold, quiet voice, “Give me those headphones.” Ruby scooted over to the telephone on the desk. She quickly dialed the front desk and whispered, “Emergency! Emergency! Quick! Come up! Someone has broken in!”

Luckily, Chef Frenchette had all her attention on Rosy, so he did not see Ruby. Suddenly, everyone became very calm except Chef Frenchette. Then, Rosy did the most surprising thing you would ever think of. Chef Frenchette was still near the window. Rosy almost did a jiu jitsu move but Ruby stopped her. Suddenly, the door flung open with the desk manager, the police officers and everyone near the action.

Everyone ran toward Chef Frenchette, but seeing his face they stopped. Two police officers jumped behind the window so he couldn’t get out. The police officer said, “He’s wanted in many different countries, from Africa to New York. The police officers quickly handcuffed Chef Frenchette before he could get away, and took him out the door. Two police officers stayed behind, to ask some questions. The officers had five questions. They answered them quickly, showing no sign of magical action.

But once the police officers left, Rosy and Ruby and Robo Dog took off toward Cloud Nine.