| Ruby the Red Fairy | Gallery | International |
| Race | Fairy |
| Gender | ♀ Female |
| Series | Rainbow Fairies |
| Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | Her wand |
| Symbol(s) | Red flowers |
Ruby the Red Fairy is the first fairy in the Rainbow Fairies series.
Fairy Profile from the Official RM Facebook Page[]
Red is the colour of passion, courage, and energy. It follows that Ruby is feisty and exuberant, and she shares Rachel's speed demon tendency (it's no coincidence red is a favoured colour for sports cars).
Blurb[]
"Something terrible has happened," Ruby the Red Fairy tells Rachel and Kirsty, before she flutters them off to meet the Queen of the Fairies.
Appearance[]
Ruby has slightly-tanned, flushed skin. Her hair is long and strawberry-blonde in colour, braided into two standard braids and threaded with red roses and green leaves. She wears a silky, off-the-shoulder, red dress. On her feet are delicate, red ballet shoes, with red ribbons lacing up her legs. She also wears red crystal rose earrings and a red rose necklace around her neck. Her wings are round in shape and are tinted golden, with red edging.
Symbol: Red flowers.
Magic Object/Job[]
Magic Object: Her wand, which is described as scarlet-red in the book.
Job: Ruby's job is to have power over the colour Red.
Personality[]
Ruby tends to overdo things. It is also possible that she is the oldest out of the Rainbow Fairies, as she tends to care for the other fairies and is willing to protect them no matter what.
Story Summary[]
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A girl named Rachel Walker and her parents are standing on the deck of a ferry headed for Rainspell Island, where the Walkers are spending a weeklong vacation. Rachel is admiring the island when she feels a few raindrops but surprising, as the sun is still shining. While sheltering under the ferry’s roof, Rachel spots a dark-haired girl her age looking at the sky and slips back outside to see what the other girl is looking at: a bright and beautiful rainbow. The girl introduces herself as Kirsty Tate and says that she and her parents are vacationing on the island for a week, just like Rachel’s family. The girls quickly become friends, chatting about mermaids and other magical things as the rain stops and introduce each other to their parents, at which point they discover their vacation cottages are right next door to each other.
The girls try to turn over the black pot
At Mermaid Cottage, where the Walkers are staying, Kirsty invites Rachel to explore the nearby beach, which turns into exploring the whole island once the girls see that the rainbow is still there and decide to follow it. The rainbow leads to a small wooded area and the girls follow a winding path to a small clearing where they find the end of the rainbow pointing to an upside down black pot. It takes both girls pushing to tip the pot at all, as it’s very heavy. They hear a faint tapping from inside the pot and then a tiny voice calling for help and push harder until the pot finally turns over. A burst of red sparkles comes out of the pot, followed by a tiny, winged girl bring a fairy. She flutters over the amazed girls’ heads, then thanks them for freeing her, introducing herself as Ruby the Red Fairy. After learning the girls’ names, Ruby lists her six sisters and explains that they bring colour to Fairyland, however something bad has happened. She uses her fairy dust to show the girls a picture in a nearby pond.
Ruby, Rachel and Kirsty
In the picture, Ruby and the other Rainbow Fairies send out invitations to the Fairyland Midsummer Ball, which happened yesterday. But the Ball was interrupted by Jack Frost, whom the fairies had forgotten to invite. With an icy spell, he banished all seven Rainbow Fairies from Fairyland. As the spell began to blow the fairies away, Queen Titania sent the pot to catch them and keep them safe on Rainspell Island until they could be rescued. Unfortunately the wind blew all the fairies but Ruby out of the pot just before it landed. She knows they’re somewhere on the island and asks Rachel and Kirsty to help find them, since they believe in magic enough to have found her.
The girls get silver bags for whenever they need help
The girls agree and Ruby turns them into fairies for the first time to bring them to Fairyland, which is chilly and grey without the Rainbow Fairies there. Three other fairies greet them with several questions, but Ruby insists she and the girls talk to the King and Queen first. In the palace, the King and Queen thank the girls for agreeing to help and assure them they should be able to find the other Rainbow Fairies easily. King Oberon has a frog footman hand each girl a small silver bag, which the queen says to open only if they need help and a magical tool will be available. At that moment, Ruby’s colour begins to fade from the effects of Jack Frost’s spell, which cannot be undone unless all the Rainbow Fairies are together. She and the girls return quickly to Rainspell Island, where Ruby turns Rachel and Kirsty back into humans and uses her magic to move the heavy pot under a willow tree, where she will hide until all her sisters have been found. The book ends with both girls promising to look for the other Rainbow Fairies throughout the week.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Ruby's dress is made from hundreds of tiny rose petals.
- Ruby's favourite hobby is flying as fast as she can over Fairyland, performing tricks and tumbles.
- Ruby's favourite foods are super sweet strawberries, jam tarts, raspberry jelly and strawberry milkshake.
- Ruby's playmates are The Dance Fairies and the Sporty Fairies.
- Admitted by the publishers to be the most popular fairy, she is featured in her own Choose Your Own Magic activity book.
- In the movie Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island, Ruby is voiced by Emily Dormer.
Etymology[]
Ruby's name comes from the gemstone, ruby. A ruby is a red coloured gemstone, the colour caused by the element of chromium.
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