While Collie was plotting against Rachel in her palace, the four friends arrived on their bikes to the Cotton Candy Clouds. It was a border wall that reached from the sky to the ground. Everyone thought it was the end of Candyland and no one could pass through it, without the Lost Princess of course.
“How are we going to get across the end of the world?” asked Kate.
“It’s impossible!” yelled Lea.
Charlotte touched the cotton candy clouds. At that very moment, far beyond the clouds, Rachel’s locket began to glow pink. Pink was the color of power. Rachel remembered pink was the color of Charlotte’s princess uniform when they had first arrived in Candyland one year ago. The locket began to shine brighter. She held it to her heart and all of a sudden, a bright light appeared in the wall – a rainbow of all the colors. Then it revealed a doorway. Charlotte was about to step in when she heard a cackle from the Cotton Candy Clouds.
“Rachel’s not going to know what hit her!” It was a voice that sounded like Princess Collie!
“No!” thought Kate. She remembered that voice from the palace and the big battle a year ago. It couldn’t be! “Lea, Charlotte, Avery! Collie is plotting against Rachel!” exclaimed Kate. They all listened in to Collie while she talked to herself about her plan to rule the worlds. The friends knew they were the only ones who could stop Collie and help Rachel.
Charlotte, Kate and Avery walked through the doorway into the clouds. But Lea thought that was too plain for a princess. So, she did a double cartwheel into the portal right before it closed.
The friends fell into a field onto fudgy mud and saw the lonely tree in the corner. They could see a Gummy Bear town in the distance. Lea ran towards the mountain to go the gummy bear town. She had a sweet tooth for gummy bears! But she knocked into an invisible mountain and fell into a backwards somersault, landing on her knees. “Ugh! Is that like a trampoline or something?” she said to herself.
The tree began to talk and said, “There is a mountain there. It’s invisible because it faded.”
“Oh. Have you seen a blonde-haired girl with a determined look on her face?” asked Charlotte.
“Yes! That’s the Lost Princess!” said the tree.
“Well,” said Charlotte, “We need to know where she went. I wish I had my notebook paper so I could record where we’ve been...”
Avery gave a little grin.
“She climbed the mountain!” said the tree, in a moany voice, “to fight the licorice ropes.”
“What licorice ropes?” asked Charlotte.
“You mean these?” asked Lea, who was eating a licorice rope from the ground.
Nearby, Kate was laying down on her belly propping her head up with her hands. She was talking to a little blue bird, asking if he could help them get a good view from above to find Rachel.
Avery was imagining a ladder so they could climb up the mountain, and it was appearing out of nowhere, then fell over and snapped into two!
“What was that?” said Charlotte, hearing the big crash that it made.
“Just a ladder that broke into two,” said Avery. “Totally normal...”
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