Midsummer Eve
- The sun is about to set on Midsummer Eve, and not a lot of fairies have shown up to sit inside the jack-o-lanterns, which is bad. Grandpa sends the kids up to the attic bedroom.
- Circles of salt surround the beds, and Grandpa tells them that this is a test: if they can handle themselves tonight, they might get to be the next caretakers of Fablehaven.
- Kendra wears the earplugs she's given… at least until Seth gets her attention and says he's gonna look out the window because he's curious.
- Is this a bad idea? Of course it's a bad idea. Does that stop Seth? Of course not. He looks outside, and sees the fairies in their jack-o-lanterns—and the fairies sitting inside promptly vacate them.
- Kendra and Seth bicker, but stop when they hear a baby crying outside. Seth goes and looks out, and actually sees a baby out on the roof; Kendra comes to look too.
- It looks like two wolves are going to pounce on the baby, so Seth opens the window… and all hell breaks loose.
- The baby dives into the window, transforming into a goblin, and the wolves enter the room too. Kendra manages to close the window before a beautiful woman in ragged garments gets in. but the woman's cold eyes put Kendra in a trance until Seth closes the curtains. The wolves have also turned into monsters—a giant centipede and a spiny monster—in case, you know, being wolves wasn't scary enough.
- Seth grabs Goldilocks, and he and Kendra huddle on one of the beds, behind the circle of salt that's protecting it.
- Dale bursts in with a shotgun and tells the kids to stay put. The monsters follow him downstairs, and Seth and Kendra huddle on the bed for the rest of the night.
- Voices come in from the window, asking for help, and then Grandpa's voice comes up too, saying that everyone survived and that breakfast is ready—the kids don't fall for these tricks though.
- Eventually they doze off, and wake up when the sun's fully up—but no one has come up to get them.
- Seth obviously feels guilty, and he starts crying. Kendra tries to reassure him that what happened wasn't fully his fault: if the monsters did something bad, it's their fault for doing bad stuff.
- Anxious about what they'll find, the kids go downstairs to check out the damage.