By Fire Frog.

Rays Diary -

Wow, today was great! We got called in to stop a powerful entity that was ransacking the jewellery district right here in New York!

It was a genuine real live Genie! He was huge - about eight-foot high, had green skin with orange hair, pierced nipples and everything! He said his name was Ali, just Ali, no relation, whatever that means. He burst into tears when we finally got him cornered in Maxies, (it was besides an amethyst cluster that I think Mary from my occult circle would just kill to own!)

Turns out the Genie's girlfriend is a genuine fairy princess. Her father the king said Ali could only marry her if he produced a 'Bluebird' diamond like the one mounted on the tip of his sceptre.

I thought Genies could make anything they wanted, but they only have 'gathering' and a little bit of 'time travel' magic. They can't gather what isn't in existence and as far as he knows there is only one Bluebird (Fairy legend says its made from the last tears of the dinosaurs - isn't that sad?)

Ali came to Earth to try and find something similar enough to the Bluebird to give to the fairy king instead. Peter talked him into letting us try out a few ideas i.e. like not ripping apart jewellery stores in a maddened frenzy.

Well, like the man said, our traps weren't strong enough to pull a genie in and finding this jewel would be better than watching some of our best customers get flattened for nothing. Besides, Peter's always been a sucker for a love story - the big goose.

While Peter and Winston went window shopping with Ali, I've been trying out eBay and Egon's been doing some calculations. There's a gleam in the big guy's eye, Egon's onto something, and I can't wait to find out what it is!

We had mince and vegies on toast for dinner. I hate it when Peter cooks.

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Paid bill at comic shop. Brought new sneakers. Brought some waffles at that new place. I think the girl behind the counter really likes me. I like her smile and the way her eyes crinkle at the corners when she says 'Have a nice day!' She means it, I can tell.

Egon says he needs to look at the Bluebird diamond in order to reconstruct its composition. I agreed and we adjusted the portal to take us to fairyland - right into the royal castle!

Uh-oh! Peter's up to something, all day he's been looking shifty. He better not fill my pillow with jell-o again!

I made baked beans with cheese and chutney for dinner. Must remember not to use so much chutney next time.

**

Wow, what a day! We travelled through the portal to fairyland! I reminded everyone not to eat or drink anything while we were there and Winston showed us a thermos of water he'd thought to bring! Brilliant!

I had to get Peter not to wear his jumpsuit over there, because of the green bits on it. Fairies can be pretty remorseless about things like that. Its like those Roman Emperors and the colour purple, only the fairies don't directly kill you for it, they turn you into a deer and let your friends accidentally hunt you down for dinner. Cruel but kinda cool, too. I wonder what its like being a deer?

Anyhow, Peter had to change into one of Winston's jumpsuits and I saw why he'd been acting shifty yesterday - he'd some how got ahold of some sleeping darts, like ranger's use on wild animals. He wouldn't tell me what they were for or how he got them. I may be forced to fill 'his' pillow with jell-o this time!

Actually I found out what they were for almost as soon as we got in the royal palace. Peter used the darts to drug the fairy king and his guards, and then Egon and I grabbed the sceptre and pulled free the diamond. We quickly worked out its specific gravity, colour, hardness, lustre, cleavage, striations, crystal habit etc and Egon powered up a mini laser to get some scrapings to put through the spectrometer at home.

That's when things got tricky. The fairy queen turned up - boy, she was beautiful - and she nearly caught us all, but Peter intercepted her then got her to show him around, keeping her distracted until it was time to go home. He only just rejoined us in time, too.

Armed with our measurements Egon and I should be able to whip up a proto Bluebird over night.

We had ham sandwiches for dinner. I must remember to buy a new trash bin, Slimer ate the old one for dessert.

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Egon got Ali to take our proto Bluebird back in time and place it in a volcano for a thousand years. Then he put it on the ocean floor for another three hundred years. Neat, huh?

Wendy. The girl in the waffle shop is called 'Wendy'. She has hazel eyes and amber hair and she said I remind her of her dog Neptune - only in a good way and then she blushed and I said that's okay, lots of people think I'm like an overgrown puppy and I barked a few times and pretended to chase my tail and scratch my fleas and she laughed too and gave me a piece of waffle and patted my head and called me a good boy. I wonder if she likes comic books?

Ali brought the diamond we made back and we tested it. It's registering as the same stuff alright! Egon is a genius!

Our Genie offered us four wishes as a thank you, one wish each, but I warned the guys that all Genie wishes can be mischievous in interpretation and it would be better not to accept them.

Ali really pressed Peter to accept his wish, but Peter declined like the rest of us. I'm so proud of the guy! Once upon a time he would have wished for a mountain of gold despite my warning; but Egon, Winston and I have been a good influence on him.

One day I'll even get him to join Egon and me in watching Murray the Mantis and his place on the side of good will be fixed. We've already converted Winston, although he says he's only watching it because there is nothing else on and Egon still insists its a morality play that he likes studying. Riiight. Geeze, I love the guys so much.

We had boiled water for dinner. It was meant to be soup, but Egon forgot to add the packet of flavour and the noodles. He's got this idea about a new wave motion for the particle throwers and was a little distracted. Peter wants to run him up the flagpole on the roof. I wonder if that's possible?