Chapter 4: Hunter

Everyone assembled back in the living room, with the game opened on the coffee table. Vanellope explained how she explored throughout the jungle after being sucked into the board game.

"It was nearly as dangerous, yet interesting. It felt like I was in Africa or South America." Vanellope said.

"Are you alright?" Swizzle asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Vanellope replied. She then angrily turned to Candi and shouted "And you! None of this would've have happened if you hadn't tricked me into playing this game! Because of you, I nearly got mauled by lions and crocodiles!".

"Hey! At least your still here, aren't you? We saved your life!" Candi shouted.

The others helplessly watched the two girls arguing.

"No! It was Candlehead who saved me! Like my last message said, 'In the jungle, you must wait until the dice read five or eight'! Well, I hope your happy with your 'magical' adventure, Candi Owns! You should already realize by now that this is not all fun and games!" Vanellope shouted.

"Uh, guys?" Swizzle asked.

"Oh, please! I know this is all too serious! Don't you even know what fun is?" Candi asked angrily.

"I DO know what fun is! All you ever think about is fun!" Vanellope replied angrily.

"Guys?" Swizzle asked.

"Don't tell me how to live my life! Your some bossy show-off!" Candi shouted.

"You didn't let me think or even listen to what I say! I bet you don't even care!" Vanellope shouted.

"Well, thank you very much, Nelly! Thank you very much! Your plans always fail! That's why you need to listen to me and the others! I even have..." Candi started to shout.

"QUIET!" Candlehead screamed, interrupting the argument.

Everyone's attention turned to Candlehead, who continued to let out the outburst.

"STOP IT! JUST STOP IT! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE ALL IN DANGER BECAUSE OF THE CREEPY THINGS COMING OUT OF THE BOARD GAME, AND ALL YOU TWO ARE DOING IS FIGHTING! JUST STOP IT! STOP IT NOW! JUMANJI! JUMANJI! SOMEBODY STOP JUMANJI! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Candlehead yelled.

She stopped screaming and began to inhale in and out to calm herself down.

"Wow... thank you, Candlehead." Swizzle said in awe.

"Yeah, I didn't know that you could yell like that." Candi said.

"Candlehead's right, Candi. We shouldn't be fighting like this. We just need to find a way to end this once and for all." Vanellope said.

"There is a way, Vanellope. The other instructions said if one of you four finish the game, everything that comes out of the board will vanish." Maleficent said.

"So, we just need to keep playing. Alright, let's play. I believe it's Candi's turn." Vanellope said.

Candi took the dice and rolled it. It landed on four, and the group looked over the glass as another message appeared in it.

"'A hunter from the darkest wild makes you feel just like a child'." Candi read.

"A hunter?" Candlehead asked.

Suddenly, there was a gunshot through the window, missing Candi.

"Look out! Get down!" Vanellope shouted.

The group fell to the floor. A hunter that looked like Turbo appeared out of the kitchen, holding a rifle. Candi screamed and ran off towards the front door.

"So, little girl, you think you could run away from me? Say hello to your grave!" the hunter yelled, chasing after her.

"We have to help her!" Swizzle said.

He flew out of the castle, with Candlehead and Vanellope following.


Candi was in pursuit by the hunter, who kept on shooting at her with the rifle.

"Oh man! I never knew that the game is that fun AND dangerous! What am I gonna do to avoid this?" Candi wondered.

Swizzle appeared behind her and grabbed her, before flying up in the air with her.

"Swizzle, your here!" Candi said excitedly.

"It's not over yet. He's still after you. Just trust me, I have an idea." Swizzle said.

He turned himself and Candi invisible, to protect themselves from being shot. As they flew away unnoticed, the hunter kept on pulling the trigger, but he seemed to have run out of bullets.

"Drat! I lost them! And I'm out of bullets! I may have to find a shop near by to get more." the hunter said.

He angrily walked off, while holding his rifle onto his back. Meanwhile, Candi and Swizzle met back up with Vanellope and Candlehead, and the four returned to the castle.


"Location: Litwak's Arcade, The World Of Disney, July 12th 2110"

Back in Sugar Rush, Taffyta woke up in her house, finding herself lying down on the ground. She wondered why she was back in her house as she looked around, but then she remembered what happened back at the castle and became angry.

"Candi! Oh, she's gonna be in sooooo much trouble when I call Crumbelina and Timothy!" Taffyta growled.


"Location: Richmond, Virginia, July 12th 2110"

The group assembled once again at the coffee table, and it was Vanellope's turn to roll. She rolled the dice, which landed on three, and she looked over the glass and read another message.

"'Enormous and yellow these flowers grow. Their flesh-eating blossoms are hungry for you'." Vanellope read.

"H-Hungry for you? I don't like the sound of that." Candlehead said nervously.

"It says that these yellow flowers might get us. So, keep an eye out for them. Be careful, everyone." Vanellope said.

Suddenly, Candlehead screamed, and everyone watched her get yanked and pulled by a vine that wrapped around her leg and pulled her towards the fireplace.

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!" Candlehead screamed.

"Candlehead!" Candi cried out.

She and the others ran to grab her and pull her back.

"GET IT OFF ME! HELP ME!" Candlehead screamed.

A green monstrous plant contained to the vine popped out of the fireplace, opening up the pedals and revealing a yellow flower. Candlehead screamed more when she noticed that the plant was going to eat her and the others. It used the vine to pull her and the others harder, as the others pulled her back like tug of war.

"Hang on, Candlehead!" Vanellope shouted, pulling her.

"Swizzle, you have to freeze the plant!" Bellwether said.

"I can't! I'll freeze Candlehead! I'll need something else! I'll be right back!" Swizzle shouted.

He quickly flew into the kitchen, while the others continued to pull Candlehead away from the plant. He looked through the drawers and discovered a sharp knife. He grabbed it and flew back in the living room.

"Hurry!" Candi shouted, pulling Candlehead.

Swizzle approached the plant and cut the vine in half with the knife, causing the others to fall on the floor and the plant's other side of the vine to retreat into it's mouth. The plant's pedals then closed, and it retreated back into the fireplace. Candlehead, traumatized by what grabbed her, whimpered like a little child.

"Are you okay, Candlehead?" Swizzle asked.

The green haired girl didn't respond, instead just continuing to whimper.

"Oh yeah, she's okay." Candi replied.


Meanwhile, Taffyta re-entered Richmond and sat down on a bench. She connected to Crumbelina's portal key and waited for her to answer. Meanwhile, the hunter passed her, looking for a shop to buy more bullets for his rifle.

"This is more difficult than I expected. Where on earth am I?" the hunter asked.

He walked off further in the city. Meanwhile, Crumbelina didn't pick up, so Taffyta decided to leave a message.

"Crumbelina, I have no idea what's going on at the castle, but your daughter is causing problems, like she's having some kind of a party! Please, call me back as soon as possible." Taffyta said angrily.

She hung up and sighed.

"What am I going to do with that girl?" Taffyta wondered.


The group moved into the kitchen, where Swizzle created an ice wall to protect the others and himself from the plant, in case if it appeared again.

"There." Swizzle said.

He turned to see Candlehead running towards the backyard door. He ran after her, grabbed the struggling girl, and dragged her to the kitchen table and made her sit on a chair.

"Just calm down and sit down. We can't finish the game without you. We need your help." Swizzle said.

Candlehead nodded, shaking in fear.

"It's your turn, Swizzle." Vanellope said.

"I know." Swizzle said.

He rolled the dice, which landed on eight. He and the others looked over the glass, and another message appeared.

"'Elephants charging! You must confess, a freight train's damage would be far less'." Swizzle read. He looked up to the others and asked "Elephants?".

"Hey, do you feel that?" Bellwether asked.

She noticed the sound of the stomping and the feel of the quake. Everyone else went silent, also hearing the sound. Vanellope looked out the window, and her eyes widened when she saw something rushing toward the castle.

"Vanellope? What is it?" Candi asked.

Vanellope turned quickly to the group.

"Everyone, run! It's a stampede!" Vanellope replied.

Candlehead shrieked, and she and the others got off of their chairs and ran towards the ice wall, which Candlehead blasted with a fireball. Vanellope grabbed the game and followed the others, just as a stampede of large elephants slammed through the kitchen wall, stomping and running toward them.

"Whatever you do, don't look back!" Vanellope shouted.

Swizzle grabbed her and Candlehead, while Maleficent grabbed Bellwether, and they flew up in the air and observed the elephants stampeding out of the castle.

"My parents are going to kill me." Candi said.

"Look at all of these elephants. It's so amazing of how dangerous they can be when stampeding in groups." Vanellope said.

"They look like they run to kill." Candlehead said.

"At least we're safe up here." Swizzle said.

"Candi, is there other place where we can play the game?" Bellwether asked.

"Well, there's my old treehouse." Candi replied.

"Well, let's go there." Swizzle said.


The group headed towards an old treehouse Candi had when she was younger and entered it. Vanellope set the game on the floor.

"Okay, Candlehead, it's your turn." Vanellope said.

Candlehead nodded and grabbed the dice. But just when she was about to roll, Taffyta's head popped out of the floor that led inside the treehouse.

"Candi!" Taffyta yelled.

"Uh oh." Candi said.

"Hide the game." Vanellope whispered to Bellwether.

The sheep nodded and slid it behind her. Taffyta climbed up, angrily marched to the group, and pointed at Candi.

"Okay, Candi, I have no idea what's going on here, but you are in so much trouble!" Taffyta snapped.

"Me? I have no idea what your talking about." Candi said.

Taffyta grabbed her hand and dragged her away.

"Okay, your coming with me!" Taffyta said.

"Wait, wait!" Candi cried.

"Just a second! You can't take her! She's helping us with something." Swizzle said.

Taffyta raised an eyebrow.

"Helping you? Educate me, then. What is it your working on?" Taffyta asked.

"I'm sorry, we can't say much, Taffy." Vanellope replied.

"Do you think me a fool?" Taffyta asked.

"No, you know I don't think that at all. I just... I'm sorry, but we can't say more." Vanellope replied.

"Well then... it seems this was a waste of my time. I've heard enough. She's still coming with me." Taffyta said.

"Don't worry about me, guys. I'll be fine. I'll come back to finish the game." Candi said.

"Well, you won't be playing any games for long, Candi. And as for the rest of you, I suggest all you go home!" Taffyta sneered.

Taffyta pulled Candi out of the treehouse, and the others watched from the window as they saw the Strawberry themed girl dragging her down the street.

"Now, how are we going to finish the game?" Swizzle asked.

"We can't. We need her. We can't finish without her." Vanellope replied.

"Guys?" Candlehead asked.

They turned and saw that Candlehead had taken her turn with a worried look on her face.

"What happened, Candlehead?" Swizzle asked.

"I thought I could finish the game myself, but somehow, my token moved back four spaces." Candlehead replied.

Maleficent noticed a message on the glass.

"'A law of Jumanji hadn't been broken. You will slip back even more then your token'." Maleficent read. She looked up at Candlehead and asked "Were you trying to cheat?".

"Well... umm... I keep on dropping the dice, so they would land on twelve." Candlehead replied.

"Well, sorry, Candles, but that would be cheating." Vanellope said.

Candlehead broke down sadly with a sigh.

"Candlehead, look at your hands!" Bellwether said, pointing at the girl's hands.

Candlehead looked down and saw that she had hair growing on her hands. She screamed.

"What's happening to me?" Candlehead asked.

"Now your body! Your growing hair!" Vanellope replied.

Candlehead screamed more.

"Someboby help me!" Candlehead cried.

She slowly had green hair growing out of her body, the color of her face changed to light pink, and a tail popped out of her skirt. Vanellope, Swizzle, Bellwether, and Maleficent watched in horror as Candlehead finished transforming into a monkey.

"Uh... Candlehead? Are you alright?" Swizzle asked.

"I feel a little itchy. Am I any different?" Candlehead asked.

Maleficent formed a hand mirror.

"Brace yourself. You might not like this." Maleficent replied.

She handed it to Candlehead , and the girl looked at herself in the mirror, screaming in horror as she saw that she had been changed into a monkey.

"I'm a monkey! No, no! I can't be a monkey! What am I gonna do?" Candlehead asked.

Swizzle snickered, trying not to laugh.

"You can change your name to Monkeyhead." Swizzle replied.

Vanellope glared at him.

"Uh, I mean, don't worry, Candlehead. We'll get you changed back. Let's just find Candi and finish the game." Swizzle said, changing into a serious tone.

"But where are we going to find Candi?" Candlehead asked.


Meanwhile, Taffyta dragged Candi through Richmond. News was spreading everywhere about strange events that was happening in the city, such as hyenas riding on motorcycles and causing chaos, and elephants stampeding throughout neighborhoods.

"This is getting weirder then I thought." Taffyta muttered. She then looked back at Candi and said "Okay, Candi, as soon as we leave for Sugar Rush, I have some chores you can do so I can make sure you don't get into anymore trouble.".

Candi pulled her hand away from the platinum blonde haired girl.

"Wait! Taffyta, I have an idea of how you can make me miserable." Candi said.

Taffyta turned to her.

"Oh, really? Since when do you beg for misery?" Taffyta asked.

"Uh... well... I have a present that will make me even more miserable. Kind of like a game." Candi replied.

"What kind of game?" Taffyta asked.

Candi took a glance at the pole next to her, and quickly cuffed the other girl's right hand to the pole.

"It's called 'Taffyta's gonna stay here' game." Candi replied.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Taffyta asked angrily, trying to pull herself out of the cuffs.

"Sorry, Taffyta, but this is for your own good. There's something I have to do." Candi replied.

She ran off, leaving Taffyta cuffed to the pole.

"Candi! You'll regret this! When I get out of this, your going to be more then just in trouble!" Taffyta yelled.

Candi ran down the street as fast as she could away from the Strawberry themed girl.


At the other edge of the city, Vanellope, Candlehead, Swizzle, Maleficent, and Bellwether continued to search for Candi.

"She's not anywhere here. Without her, we can't finish the game." Vanellope said.

"And I'll be Monkeyhead forever!" Candlehead cried.

Swizzle snickered to himself, but Vanellope glared at him to make him stop laughing.

"Don't worry, Candlehead. You won't be a monkey for long." Vanellope said.

Suddenly, they discovered two hyenas zooming by on the motorcycles, laughing their heads off. The group looked puzzled.

"Okay, you guys just saw two hyenas on the motorcycles coming by, right?" Bellwether asked.

The others answered yes, and they continued to walk through the city. Suddenly, the game board was snatched away from Candlehead, and the group turned to see who stole it from her. It was the hunter.

"Tell that kid if she wants..." the hunter started to order.

Suddenly, a mob of panicking citizens ran by, passing them. Candlehead snuck in and grabbed the game from the hunter before running into the crowd. The hunter chased after her.

"Where did she go?" Vanellope asked.

"I don't know! And was that hunter holding a B.B gun?" Swizzle asked.

"Let's just find her!" Maleficent replied.

She ran into the crowd, with the others following her.


Candlehead ran as fast as she could, while holding the board game in her arms as the hunter chased her. She soon realized that the crowd was trying to evade from the elephants that were rampaging in the city, crashing everything and injuring those in sight. Suddenly, one of the elephants in front accidentally knocked a shelve of tires, which started rolling towards Candlehead. She screamed and ran from them, but one of the tires tripped her over, causing her drop the game underneath her. The tires passed her, stopped rolling, and dropped onto the ground. She lifted her head up and saw the hunter approaching her.

"Alright, girl. Give me that item to me!" the hunter ordered.

"No!" Candlehead shouted, clutching the board to her.

The hunter pointed the B.B Gun at her.

"I guess I may have no choice, then." the hunter said.

Candlehead whimpered, knowing that it was the end for her. Suddenly, the hunter was uppercutted by Candi, who appeared out of nowhere.

"You leave my friends alone, you Turbo Rip-off!" Candi ordered angrily.

"So, you want to play games, huh? Well, this game is over, girl!" the hunter sneered.

He pointed the B.B. Gun at Candi.

"Um... is that a B.B Gun?" Candi asked.

"It's not the size of the toy that counts! It's how you use it! And besides, the gun shop was closed, so I had to go to Toys R' Us to get this. Now, say your prayers, kid!" the hunter replied.

Just then, another elephant knocked over a shelf of paint cans. The hunter looked up, and his eyes widened. The paint cans quickly dropped on him, knocking him out cold. Vanellope, Candlehead, Swizzle, Maleficent, and Bellwether soon approached the group.

"Candi! I'm glad your here!" Vanellope greeted.

"Yeah, good thing I got here. Otherwise, somebody else might've gotten hurt." Vanellope said. She turned to Candlehead, stared at her strangely, and asked "Uh... why are you a monkey?".

"It's a long story. But right now, we need to go back to the castle and finish the game." Vanellope replied.