Enchancia Castle - a Sofia the First fanfic

Enchancia Castle: Chapter 3

Note: Chapter 3 of "Enchancia Castle" starts right after Chapter 2 of "Enchancia Castle", and features a character created for my use by Shaddowridder221.

The call of the amulet

An eighteen-year-old Sofia was in her bedroom getting ready for bed when her amulet started glowing. In her mind's eye, Sofia saw a vision of an 11-year-old girl from the future. The girl's name was Kari, and she had lost her parents and brother when they died in an accident. Kari's life wasn't good. Kari was sent to live with foster parents who were abusive to her. Kari desperately wished that she was out of that situation.

As Sofia witnessed the vision, she felt very sad for Kari, and wished there was something she could do for Kari. It was then that Sofia's amulet gave her the answer - that in two days time, the amulet would take her to Kari's location so Sofia could take the girl away from that situation and bring her to Enchancia. The vision then ended.

The next morning, at breakfast, Sofia explained to her family the vision that her amulet had given her. The royal family carefully listened as Sofia described the experience, and the opportunity that would occur in two days time.

After listening to Sofia, King Roland and Queen Miranda talked among themselves. In a few minutes, Roland and Miranda turned to Sofia.

"Sofia" Roland started, "your mother and I have discussed the situation. If the poor girl wants to leave with you, then by all means bring her here with you. We'll make her quite welcome here, and give her a loving home".

"Thank you, Dad" Sofia smiled, gratefully.

In the year 2014

In the future, in 2014, an 11-year-old Kari was in her bedroom in the house that her foster parents owned on Highton View Terrace. Kari herself had pink eyes, and long brown hair which she kept in a ponytail. She was wearing a yellow shirt, a pink scarf, pink shorts, and red and white sneakers. She was also wearing a whistle around her neck.

Kari was nothing but a meal ticket for her foster parents, with her foster parents using the money they were given to take care of Kari on themselves instead. The worse thing about her foster parents was when she did something to displease them, one or both of them would hit her very hard. Them hitting her would happen on a regular basis.

Kari was given some things, such as cable TV, mostly to keep Kari out of her foster parents hair. When Kari was watching TV, she could escape her world for a little while. One of her favorite TV shows was a Disney Junior series called "Sofia the First". The world that Sofia and her friends lived in was so much different from the world that Kari knew. In Sofia's world, people loved each other. If only Kari had somebody to love her.

Sometimes, Kari would be able to go to her local public library to use the Internet. One day, quite by accident, Kari stumbled across a website that seemed to suggest that Sofia, her family, and friends were based on real people from the past. As Kari dug further, she discovered information on Sofia and her friends when they were teenagers. Kari was also surprised to learn that the teen Sofia had a younger adopted sister, but records on this younger sister had for the most part been lost to time.

As Kari sat in her bedroom, she started singing a song she knew from an anime TV series she had watched from time to time.

"The blossoming spring flowers, spread through the summer sky. Their sparkle is engraved in my heart".

"Though I close my window for the morning rain, my heart is overflowing with light, as if the sun broke through the clouds."

"Happiness, sadness, I will embrace them all, and walk forward. They are what connects my hand with yours".

"Autumn is by the waterfront, while winter is hidden in the treetops. Within this world there is unlimited kindness".

"Let us give prayer at every nightfall, so that we can receive the days to follow in peace".

"Guide me, distant, distant voice, to smile, to sing. The resounding voice of the wind".

"Happiness, sadness, I will embrace them all and walk forward. They are what connects my hand with yours".

"What is that God awful racket?!" Kari's foster father barked as he stormed into Kari's bedroom, followed by Kari's foster mother. "How many times have I told you not to make noise?!". Kari's foster father then started slapping Kari.

"Please, please, stop" Kari cried out in her mind. "Please, somebody help me".

"YOU LEAVE YOUR HANDS OFF THAT POOR, SWEET CHILD!" a woman's voice boomed from behind them. Kari, Kari's foster father, and Kari's foster mother looked to see ... an eighteen-year-old Sofia standing there, wearing a purple royal gown, and pointing a wand at Kari's foster parents.

"Who are you?!" Kari's foster father demanded to know.

"I'm Princess Sofia of Enchancia" Sofia answered. "I'm here to stop you from hurting Kari".

"We'll see about that!" Kari's foster mother barked as she and Kari's foster father lunged at Sofia.

Sofia pointed her wand at Kari's foster parents, and shouted "Repulsia!". A powerful magical blast shot from Sofia's wand, throwing Kari's foster parents against the wall, knocking them out in the process.

"Oh! Thank you!" Kari exclaimed in gratitude as she hugged Sofia.

"Your very welcome, Kari" Sofia smiled as she held Kari.

"Are you really ... Princess Sofia?" Kari wanted to know.

"Yes, I am" Sofia answered. "My amulet brought me here".

Kari looked at her unconscious foster parents. "They are going to be very angry with me when they wake up" Kari observed, worried.

"Not if your gone first" Sofia pointed out.

"What?" Kari asked, not quite grasping what Sofia had just said.

"How would you like to be gone from here ... for good?" Sofia asked.

"Where would I go?" Kari wanted to know.

"Back home with me ... to Enchancia Castle" Sofia answered.

"You'd take me home ... with you?" Kari asked, with tears of happiness forming in her eyes.

"Yes, Kari" Sofia smiled. "You'll be loved and cherished there. I, my parents, my brother, and my sisters will show you all the kindness you could ever want".

"But, they'll come after us" Kari said, worried, as she pointed to her unconscious foster parents.

"They won't be able to touch us where we going" Sofia reassured Kari. "You want to come home with me?".

"Oh, yes!" Kari agreed happily.

"Gather up your things, and we'll be off" Sofia gently directed.

Kari grabbed some things, and put them in a duffel bag. "I'm ready" Kari said when she was finished.

"Take my hand, Kari" Sofia softly said.

Kari took Sofia's hand, and in a few moments, Sofia's amulet glowed, and the two disappeared from Kari's bedroom.

Kari's foster parents come to

In a little while, Kari's foster parents came to. Looking around Kari's bedroom, they discovered that Kari was nowhere to be found. Kari's foster parents searched the entire house, and still found no sign of Kari.

"Call the cops!" Kari's foster mother barked at Kari's foster father.

The police soon arrived, and Kari's foster parents told the police about what had happened, and that Kari was gone. Of course, they left out the part about slapping Kari.

"So, let me get this straight?" one of the police officers requested. "Your telling me that a woman, dressed as a princess, came in here and assaulted you?".

"Yes - that's exactly what happened!" Kari's foster father exclaimed. "She must have taken Kari!".

"So, did this princess have a name?" the police officer asked.

"She said her name was Sofia" Kari's foster mother reported.

The police officer looked at another police officer, and the two started giggling.

"What do you find so funny?!" Kari's foster father demanded to know.

"So, your telling us that an eight-year-old cartoon girl came in here and assaulted you?" the one police officer asked, almost laughing, knowing about "Sofia the First" since it was one of his daughter's favorite TV shows.

"It was a woman I tell you!" Kari's foster mother barked.

"And I suppose her accomplice was ... Doc McStuffins?" the police officer scoffed.

At that point, another police officer entered the room, and walked up to the two officers who were already there.

"I found these in the parents bedroom" the newly arrived officer reported. "A crack pipe, and some vials of crack".

"My God!" the officer who had been talking to Kari's foster parents exclaimed. "The parents must be high as kites!". The officer then looked at Kari's foster parents. "You two will have to come down to the station with us. Something isn't adding up here".

"But we're telling you the truth!" Kari's foster father protested.

"You can tell it to our superiors ... and child welfare" The one officer said as Kari's foster parents were led out of the house.

Back in the past

Sofia and Kari appeared in the great hall of Enchancia Castle. Sofia's family then walked up.

"Kari, this is my family" Sofia introduced Kari to the royal family. "Everyone, this is Kari".

"Hello, Kari" everybody greeted.

"Kari, this is my father, King Roland" Sofia said as Roland stepped forward.

"We're very happy to have you here, Kari" King Roland smiled.

"Thank you for having me" Kari said, gratefully.

"This is my mother, Queen Miranda" Sofia said as Miranda stepped forward

"Welcome home, Kari" Queen Miranda smiled as she walked up and gently hugged Kari.

"This is my brother, Prince James" Sofia said as a nineteen-year-old James stepped forward.

"Hello, Kari" James smiled. "Welcome to the castle".

"And these are my sisters, Princesses Amber and Lucinda" Sofia said as a nineteen-year-old Amber and an eighteen-year-old Lucinda stepped forward.

"Welcome, Kari" Amber smiled. "It's nice to have you here".

"Hi, Kari" Lucinda smiled. "Your gonna love it here".

At that moment, an eighteen-year-old woman in a maid's uniform walked up. It was Dorrie Cooper.

"Ah! Dorrie!" Miranda smiled. "This is Kari, the girl we've been expecting. Would you take her up to her room and see to her needs?".

"Of course, Queen Miranda" Dorrie answered before turning to Kari. "If you'll come with me milady, we'll get you settled in".

Kari looked a bit nervous.

"It's alright" Sofia reassured Kari. "I'll come along".

"Let's get you settled in, shall we?" Dorrie asked Kari with a smile.

Kari shook her head yes.

"We'll see you in the royal dining room for supper, Kari" Miranda smiled.

"Yes, ma'am" Kari smiled back, shyly.

As Sofia, Kari, and Dorrie walked away, the rest of the royal family talked among themselves.

"She's really quite shy, isn't she?" Amber remarked about Kari.

"I suppose if you had gone through the hell she has gone through, you'd be shy too" Lucinda sadly remarked.

"Yes, indeed" Amber sadly agreed. "We must do everything possible to give Kari all the love and kindness she could ever want".

"And we will, Amber" Miranda smiled.

"One thing is for certain" Roland started. "We'll be a much better family than those who were taking care of her".

Everybody nodded their heads in agreement.

Kari settles in

Sofia and Dorrie walked Kari to her bedroom in the castle. Dorrie opened the doors to the bedroom, as Sofia walked Kari inside.

"This is your bedroom, Kari" Sofia smiled.

"This is my bedroom?" Kari asked in awe as she looked around the grand room.

"Oh, yes" Dorrie smiled. "You have your canopy bed, window seat, playing area, reading nook, and through this door you'll find your walk-in closet with a wide variety of clothes for you. At the other end of the walk-in closet, you'll find your bathroom".

"Wow!" Kari exclaimed in awe.

"Let's say we draw you a nice bath?" Dorrie suggested to Kari.

Sofia and Dorrie led Kari into the bathroom where Dorrie filled up the bathtub. Sofia and Dorrie then helped Kari get undressed, and helped Kari into the bathtub. It was then that Sofia and Kari noticed bruises on Kari's back.

"My God!" Dorrie exclaimed upon seeing the bruises. "How did you get these?".

"My foster parents would hit me whenever I did something they didn't like" Kari quietly answered.

"That's criminal!" Dorrie said in shock as she brought out her wand. "Allow me to heal these for you".

"How?" Kari wanted to know.

"Dorrie is a good witch" Sofia informed Kari. "Among Dorrie's talents is the ability to heal injuries".

"This won't hurt a bit" Dorrie reassured Kari as Dorrie slowly passed her wand back and forth over Kari's back. In a few minutes, the bruises on Kari's back disappeared.

"Thank you" Kari said gratefully. "That feels much better".

"Your very welcome, milady" Dorrie smiled at Kari.

"Why do you call me milady?" Kari wanted to know of Dorrie. "Isn't that a term used for female royalty?".

"You see, Kari" Sofia started, "the fact is that my parents are adopting you, and making you part of this family. When that happens, you will be royalty".

"My God!" Kari thought to herself in mild shock. "I must be the young princess I read about on the Internet!".

"Everything okay?" Sofia asked Kari.

"It's just I wasn't expecting to become royalty" Kari answered, trying to take that in.

"We'll take it one step at a time" Sofia reassured Kari. "Lucinda and I will help you though it - we've both been there ourselves".

"Okay" Kari acknowledged shyly.

After her bath, Sofia and Dorrie helped Kari get dressed. When it came time to choose a gown, Kari chose a pink gown, and pink shoes to match. Dorrie then brought forward a tray with six tiaras on it.

"Which tiara would you like to wear, milady?" Dorrie asked Kari.

"I get ... a tiara?" Kari asked, taken off guard.

"Oh, yes" Sofia smiled.

Kari studied the tiaras on the tray, and finally decided on a simple, yet lovely, tiara. As Dorrie helped Kari put on the tiara, Sofia smiled - she remembered that when Lucinda first become part of the royal family, Lucinda chose a similar tiara which was regal, yet simple. It was interesting to see history replay itself in such a fashion.

As Sofia and Dorrie finished getting Kari ready, a knock came at the door.

"Come in" Sofia invited.

The door opened, and in walked Baileywick. "Supper will be served in fifteen minutes" Baileywick announced.

"Baileywick, this is Kari" Sofia announced.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Princess Kari" Baileywick smiled. "All of us are very happy to have you here".

"Kari, this is Baileywick, our castle steward" Sofia started. "Baileywick is, how did you put it when I first arrived here at the castle?".

"It is my responsibility to make sure everything in the castle is where it should be, when it should be" Baileywick began. "I believe I also admonished you for being thirty seconds late for supper, Princess Sofia".

"Yes you did, Baileywick" Sofia smiled. "I was, of course, doddering at the time".

Baileywick and Sofia smiled at each other, remembering that moment.

"I'll see you and Princess Kari in the royal dining room" Baileywick said to Sofia as he left.

"Well, Kari, lets go down for supper" Sofia suggested to Kari.

"I'll take my leave of you, milady" Dorrie said to Kari as Dorrie started leaving. "Have yourself a good supper".

As Dorrie left to take care of other duties, Sofia walked Kari out into the hallway.

"I hope I'm ready for this?" Kari said to Sofia. "I've never been a princess before ... and I don't know the first thing about being one".

"You'll be fine, Kari" Sofia reassured Kari. "Just be yourself, and everything else will fall into place".

Sofia put her arm around Kari, and the two made their way down to the royal dining room.

(to be continued in Chapter 4).

Author's notes

Doc McStuffins is a reference to the character seen in the Disney Junior TV series of the same name.

Dorrie Cooper is from my stories "Dorrie", Chapter 15 of "Tales from the Castle", and Chapter 5 of "Sisters".

Kari is a character created for my use by Shaddowridder221.

"Of course, Queen Miranda" Dorrie answered before turning to Kari. "If you'll come with me milady, we'll get you settled in" - Dorrie, having been Violet's adopted daughter since Dorrie was a child, would have picked up a lot of Violet's mannerisms, including using the term milady.

Repulsia! is the same defensive spell that Lucinda used in my story "The Fight".

The song that Kari sings early in this chapter is from the Japanese anime TV series "Kobato". The song itself is titled "Ashita Kuru Hi" (I have chosen to use the English lyrics).