It was a beautiful chocolate milk river with a candy cane bridge.
“Wow!” Charlotte admired the pretty structure. The bridge was well-built. Then they saw a mermaid. The mermaid had beautiful aqua blue hair with streaks of yellow and was wearing blue scaly top with yellow ruffled sleeves and a seashell necklace. Her tail was blue with seaweed green accents. She was sitting on the shore of the river wearing a seashell crown with a starfish in the middle.
“Welcome to the Milky Way!” she said.
“That’s what this is?” asked Avery.
“I’m Princess Marista and I live here,” said the mermaid. “Mystery! I haven’t seen you in ages!” Marista yelled.
“You know him?” asked Kate.
“Yes,” said Marista. “We’re friends! What is that in the sling?”
“This is another friend,” said Kate. She opened the sling and out came Snowball. Snowball hopped over.
“I missed you, little buddy!” she said to Snowball. “Come with me! I have something to show you,” said Marista.
They went near the water and dipped their feet into the chocolatey river. Then their feet started disappearing into the fog of the river and turning into mermaid tails!
“Mystery, Snowball.. you two stay up here,” said Kate.
They admired their tails for a few minutes. Rachel’s was a rainbow tail. Charlotte’s was pink. Kate had a green tail and Lea had a red tail. Avery had a pretty purple one.
The girls jumped into the chocolate milk and sank down. Marista grabbed her shell necklace and pushed it. It lit up to guide them through the misty chocolate milk.
“Now just stay close to me and we won’t get lost,” she said. They swam through until they came to the most beautiful sight. It was a beautiful tower under water! “This is Mermainia! We live in the Milky Way. It’s the most peaceful place in all of Candyland. Lord Licorice doesn’t even know we exist!”
“Who is Lord Licorice?” said Rachel.
“Lord Licorice is the biggest threat to all of Candyland. He used to be good friends with the Queen until he wanted all of the queen’s power for himself. Once she found out about it, she kicked him out and hoped he would never return to Candyland, but he did. Whoever goes into his place has never come out!”
“Where is his hideout?” said Kate.
“It’s right near us, but he thinks the Milky Way is just junk.”
“How could you think such a beautiful sight is junk!” said Avery.
“I known what you mean,” said Marista. “He’s next door to us. He doesn’t know we exist or we’d be gone by now! I think we should go back up,” continued Marista. “I’ll show you Lord Licorice’s fort. I’m the only one who has crossed through without being captured.”
They swam up and met with Mystery and Snowball. Charlotte wrote down Milky Way Mermaids on her notebook paper.
“He always keeps his door open at 12:00,” said Marista, “for his sunbathing time. That’s when you have to get by. We only have 20 minutes to get in and out before he wakes up! Let’s go now. I know a shortcut!”
She pulled Avery and the other girls straight back down under the milky water. She used a tool to crack a seal in a sewer. Marista swam through with them, but they ran into something they didn’t really want to run into. Sticky Licorice!
Marista wriggled her tail free and grabbed Avery’s hand and managed to pull her out, but couldn’t get to the rest of them before an alarm went off that would warn Lord Licorice. He could catch them!
“We’ll be back for you,” yelled Marista.
She helped Avery through the sticky licorice to the outside. “We must warn the Queen!” Marista said.
They came out of the water. Marista had the power to turn into a human, too, just like Avery! So they both grew legs and ran as fast as they could. Avery said, “Wait! I have a better idea.” Avery used her imagination to summon two unicorns to ride to the palace.
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