Chapter 3:
In Once Upon a Fairytale...
Vanellope landed on her feet in a forest next to a big tree with pink, orange and green leaves scattered on its branches. The tree also had many pieces of paper and documents stapled on one side with Wanted papers and directions to the different locations in the game. Then, before too long, the others came flying down through the mostly blue sky. Thankfully, Vanellope glitched out of the way before she became a pancake. Ralph landed smack down on the dirt ground, almost making the whole ground shake. Following Ralph, was Calhoun followed by Felix and then, last but not least, Strawberry.
"Ugh..." Ralph complained in pain from the hard fall.
"Oh my land!" Felix said surprised about the surroundings of new game.
The group was in a forest surrounded by many trees with green leaves slowly starting to turn orange. But one tree, the one they were closest to, was really tall, with long branches and it also had pink leaves mixed in with the green and orange leaves.
"That hurt." Strawberry said unenthusiastically. Then, from the corner of her eye, as she got up, she saw something lurking behind the huge tree.
"What's that?" she asked pointing towards the tree.
Vanellope answered, "A tree. A-doy!" Strawberry shook her head.
Everyone got up from the ground to see what in the world Strawberry was talking about.
Felix got a scared expression over his face.
"Maybe... It's...the...the virus she was talking about."
Calhoun didn't know for sure if that was what it was, but she lifted her gun up and replied, "Come out, and show yourself." A very old, elderly woman walked up from behind the tree.
"Who are you?"Ralph blurted out. The old woman wore a very old, dirty, and raggedy long grey dress. She had black hair and a very warty face. Most people would probably assume that she's a witch, except she had a hunched over back. She also was carrying a basket in her left arm.
"I am Gretchen, from the title screen, if you have not noticed. I am a very old woman, who used to be a witch when I was younger, but I have retired. I did not know we have visitors." Calhoun lowered her gun seeing it was only just an old woman.
'Should we trust this suspicious woman?' The Sergeant thought.
"Why were you hiding behind that tree, spying on us?"
"Well, I didn't know we had visitors, as I said before. We never have visitors. I'm guessing you guys don't know about the curse?"
"Curse?" Strawberry, Ralph and Vanellope questioned.
"C...c...curse?"Felix stuttered.
"Wait, you're saying there's a curse inside this game?!"Calhoun angrily yelled at Gretchen.
"Yes, the curse. Well, years ago, when the game was plugged in, somehow there was curse. The curse, made it so no one could leave the game..."
"Oh my land." Felix said astonished.
"What about us and Stinkbrain?" Vanellope interrupted.
"I'm getting there, young one." Gretchen nicely scolded, waving her finger at the young racer.
"...Well, still that curse continues. But, fortunately for you visitors, you can leave here and break the curse for yourselves. But only one way, you must complete all the stories of the game, to complete the game. Each one of you in mere seconds will become a character in these Fairytales. Good luck."
"Wait!" Strawberry pleaded.
"M'am, is that the only way to leave?" Felix asked.
"I don't know about this." Calhoun stated.
"I guess we'll find out." Ralph said.
"Stinkbrain, good luck at being a character that smells good." Vanellope said sarcastically.
"Vanellope, this is your fault why we're stuck here in the first place." Calhoun yelled at her.
"No it's not, I didn't know about..." But, Vanellope was cut off when they all started glowing white.
Before anyone could say or do anything, Gretchen said her last words before the adventure began, "Once upon a time..." With that said, all five of them with whisked off to their fairytales.
Author note: I realize I did not put very much of a description of my OC, Strawberry, If you are wondering what she looks like, I put her physical description in Chapter 1 of this story.
