“I have an idea!” said Charlotte. “Let’s write where we’ve been on this notebook paper.” She wrote at the top “Gingerbread Town”. This made Lea’s stomach grumble.
“Let’s get rolling!” said Rachel. “Let’s get up this mountain quick! There must be something at the top!” Rachel was looking ahead at a large hill, which was as tall as Charlotte had been when she had grown big.
“I know this mountain! This is Gumdrop Hill!” said Mystery.
“What’s Gumdrop Hill?” asked Avery.
“It’s where the King Gumdrop, Princess Gumdrop, and the Gumdrop people live.”
They climbed up. Then they saw a big Gumdrop Wall!
Mystery said, “I know the way in here.”
Mystery knocked on the wall with his claw foot. A pink gumdrop fell out of the wall and made a window. The Gumdrop Princess peeked her head out. Mystery said the magic words “Bring Princesses” and the Gumdrop Wall disappeared! Every gumdrop was gone and they could see the town! All of the Gumdrop people were there.
The girls had human heads and were wearing little gumdrop dresses. The boys were wearing gumdrop pants. There were so many colors of gumdrops they were covering the whole town. Even the grass was made of gumdrops! Charlotte wrote down on her notebook paper “Gumdrop Hill”.
“The Prophecy!” said Princess Gumdrop.
“What prophecy?” said Rachel.
“There is a prophecy that says every 100 years 5 girls will come to Candyland and save us! But you’re not going to get anywhere on foot,” explained Princess Gumdrop.
The Princess gave them something. They were pink gumdrops. The Gumdrop Princess whispered “Just tell them where you want to go and they will take you there!” The five girls jumped onto the gumdrops and they all started to float up into the sky!
“Goodbye!” they shouted as they waved to the people of Gumdrop Hill.
They whispered into the gumdrops, “To the Castle of the Queen of Candyland!”
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