Kate asked Mystery. Mystery said, “The only way is to go to the Queen of Candyland. She can do everything.”
“Which way to her palace?” asked Kate. “Are we close?”
Mystery said, “No. We’re very, very far away. It’s on the other side of Candyland.”
“Oh no!” said Rachel. “That will take forever.”
“We better get going!” said Lea.
“We need a faster way to get there,” said Avery. “Good thing I have an idea! Let’s make a sled out of gingerbread. We can slide down the frosting and get down the hill faster than walking!”
“Good idea,” said Rachel.
Yum, gingerbread, thought Lea. "I'll get the gingerbread!"
“No, I’ll get it,” said Charlotte. “You get the frosting and pile it on the mountain.”
Charlotte picked up the gingerbread with one hand without feeling weak. Charlotte was usually strongest, because she was the oldest, but she wasn’t normally this strong!
Lea was making frosting snowballs and throwing them at Kate.
“Come on, guys, we’re about to go down the hill!” said Charlotte. She brought the gingerbread down and they all sat down on it.
The frosting was like a road. Then Rachel dug her hands in the frosting and they all started sliding. Mystery flew ahead of them down the mountain.
Lea waved goodbye to the gingerbread town. “Too bad we have to leave so soon. I was so hungry,” Lea said.
“You can’t eat their houses!” said Avery.
Gingerbread was Lea’s favorite cookie. She started to eat their sleigh! It got smaller and smaller! Soon, Avery fell right off! Avery ran, trying to keep up with them but the sleigh was too fast and Avery was left behind.
“Lea!” yelled Rachel. “You just ate the gingerbread sleigh! Now we can’t find a faster way to get to the Queen because Avery has all the good ideas! It will take us even longer to get home!”
“Avery!” yelled Charlotte, who was in charge of keeping her sister safe.
“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean for Avery to fall out!” said Lea. “I just love gingerbread and I did't want to leave the gingerbread village!”
“With my power,” said Charlotte, “I might be able to carry you all there.”
So Charlotte tried to pick up Rachel, Lea and Kate. All of a sudden, something weird happened. She started to grow big! Charlotte was huge! She was as big as the mountain itself! She was like a giant! Charlotte picked up her friends like tiny dolls from her sister’s doll house. She leaned down and picked up Avery and plopped her onto her hand with the other three.
“I didn’t know I could turn big!” said Charlotte, as she shrunk back to her normal size and set down her friends.
“Thanks for saving me!” said Avery, and she hugged her big sister.
Kate looked down and saw two little black eyes peeking out of the white frosting.
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