They say the most mysterious of characters live high up in the most mysterious of places.
Sugar Rush is no exception to that rule, with its diverse racing courses and even more when the game gets an upgrade... This is the day when the President and the rest of the gang meet what may be Sugar Rush's zaniest pair of characters. Meet the twins, Ebony and Ivory Chocolate.
Vanellope was excited. No, make it more than excited. Make that absolutely ECSTATIC. The game recently got an upgrade some time last night, so she and the others can't wait to see what the upgrade had in store for them. The boys buzzed around, hoping that they'll be new male racers to even out the oddly disproportionate numbers of boys to girls in the game.
"I bet you, the new characters are gonna ROCK!" Gloyd shouted, fist pumping the air.
"Yeah, yeah, Gloyd, but what if the new characters are even more girls?" Vanellope laughed. At first glance, it sounded like one of her sassy snips but, inwardly, Van truly and honestly didn't want to hurt the boys' feelings. They deserve to have more guy pals, she thought.
"Yeah, well, I sure hope they'll bring a better challenge," Taffyta sighed, "when Van and I are the two best racers in the game, it gets boring. Real fast."
Vanellope blushed a bit at that. "What? Nah, it's nothing, really!" the usually sassy gal replied, smiling modestly. She takes pride when the others compliment her skills, but when Taffyta does it? It's a whole different ballpark for the President. As Fix-It Felix Jr. would say, she gets the honeyglow somethin' awful when the pink racer says things like that about her. But just as soon as Vanellope started spacing out...
"Hey, we boys can be just as good as you are!" Gloyd retorted before quickly being held back by a disapproving Rancis, who shook his head at him so as to not instigate an argument. Gloyd sighed, "Alright, alright..."
"Hey, ya molasses butts! Arcade's gonna open in an hour and I really wanna meet the new racers, so get your butts moving!", Vanellope shouted, a smirk on her face that always makes at least one or two characters laugh. "Besides, Wynnchel and Duncan will freak if they saw I snuck out just to meet them!", the young President added, jumping into her kart. The new course, the Dark Chocolate Highlands, is a decent ways away from the castle. Being a new course, of course nothing is known about it.
When the racers saw the name of the new course, they were unsure; no one likes dark chocolate, so why would the programmers name a track that? Still, they all are willing to give the track a chance, as it's said it's much different than some of the terrain in the game world. Though not as cold as, say, Adorabeezle or Snowanna's respective tracks, the Highlands are windy and chilly, with rough terrain and steep cliffs. The racers best be careful not to get blown off or to crash into a brook of cream soda that runs down from the mountains. But with the treacherous terrain comes with a rather unique setting of the citizens: the Highlanders are said to live in holes in the ground, not unlike the hobbits of J.R.R Tolkien lore, though where they get a light source without melting down the chocolate remains unknown; they're also lively and love to sing praises of legends; but most strikingly, it's the fact that they don't resemble much like candy. Sure, they're dark chocolate pieces formed from the molds of humanlike NPC characters, but what else could you do to chocolate without turning them into the famous Hershey Kisses? Of course, this is all just speculation of the track, so the only way to confirm all this was to, naturally, check it out for themselves.
Engines revved up as the veteran racers drove to their destination, the loud and catchy Japanese music fading out to the Scottish folk sound akin to Scotland the Brave. The breeze got a little stronger and it has indeed gotten chillier.
"Whoa..." Swizzle commented, feeling as though he can just taste the air now. Taking a deep breath, the air wasn't that bad, surprisingly.
All the racers gawked at the racetrack. Ohoho, it's gonna be a long and difficult track, that's for sure! There was even one part of the track where the racers would have to just drive off and trust the wind to carry them to the other side! Just like some of the racers imagined, there were brisk and slow-moving streams of cream soda leading into a pristine soda lake! The track may be made of a chocolate everyone dislikes, but the track sure is shaping up to be one bumpy ride! The mountains rise high and mighty, capped with a frosty white chocolate, the sun shines despite the windy breeze, and there definitely are "hobbit holes" all around. The racer's eyes glimmered with hope as they continued to drive around, checking out the scenery, knowing for sure that this track would frustrate many players.
However, there was one girl that caught their attention. Though the Dark Chocolate Highlands were primarily dark chocolate, there was also white chocolate within the track, evident in the girl standing outside of what seems to be her...house, one might say. She seemed to be about their age, but she wore a mainly white knee-length billie kilt with dark brown accents making up the plaid design. She's also wearing white shirt and a shawl of the same color scheme as her kilt, along with white leggings and furred boots. Due to the chilliness of the weather, her skin is pale, maybe almost as pale as Adorabeezle, some might go so far as to say, but her bright emerald green eyes shine through. At first glance, she seemed to be pretty blonde, a noticeable golden blonde compared to Taffyta's platinum blonde, but not quite as blonde as Rancis. However, she also had an auburn streak in there, hidden by her white-and-dark-chocolate-colored-accents tammy hat. Standing by the door, she played the bagpipes to wake everyone up to get ready for the arcade's opening.
"Hey, you!" Candlehead called, rather excitedly. The other racers got out of their karts to check the girl out.. They've never seen a girl quite like her before.
The girl stopped playing, as surprised as they are excited. "Yeah...?" she asked them, quickly knocking on the door.
"We were just wondering... What're you doing playing the bagpipes?" inquired Rancis, staring at the rather interesting instrument.
"Oh! You see, I wake everyone up when the arcade's opening up soon! In the Dark Chocolate Highlands, there's no better way to wake up the Highlanders than the nice sound of bagpipes!" the white chocolate girl happily answered, capturing everyone's heart with her slight Scottish accent.