Candy and Kiki were coming out of their art class, Mrs. Gauer has assigned them to do an oil painting based on famous novels. By the hall, they saw a blonde german girl who is slightly obese rushing around the place, she was Ronnie's best friend Nikita Wald, "Frau Nikita" said Candy, "Slow down, you'll get detention for running in the halls"
"I'm sorry," Nikita said in a German accent, "But my tin solider collection has gone missing."
"Counting ten tin soldiers in a row," asked Candy, "And didn't your grandmother gave you them."
"Ja" replied Nikita, "It was the last thing she gave to me before I moved to America from Germany."
"I'll help you find it after lunch" Candy replied.
"Me too" Kiki replied.
XxoxX
Meanwhile, at lunch, Oscar was going around the place disguised as a janitor, hoping to steal lunch money from the cash register. As he was pretending to clean up a mess, he got out a picture of an elderly man in his wallet. It was his late father, "Braxton Lott". "Well dad," Oscar said to the picture, "I'm going to finally do the Old Register Robbery trick as you taught me as a kid."
Oscar can remember the old days when he attended the rival school of the then Charles Cherry Academy, Bentlee Rounds High. Back then he was a bully. Every day he stole lunch money, snuck into cash registers, and laugh at charity events for no apparent reason without getting caught.
As Candy, Ronnie, Kiki, and Nikita were coming out, Nikita was still bummed out because she needed those tin soldiers back, "Oh Nikita you will never know," Candy replied, "You barely know anything about my home."
"It's time for a little imagination" Candy said.
"I knew it" Kiki replied, "You get do you your imagination bit."
"Let us all imagine Jolly Old England" Candy suggested, "Where I'm Sherlock Holmes and Kiki is Watson"
XxoxX
In her imagination, Candy and Kiki were Sherlock and Watson. Ronnie and Nikita, on the other hand, were both wearing 19th-century dresses. Nikita started looking up, "When you look up through the sky, Nikita" Candy said, "Do you count the stars at night?"
"I have" replied
On the ground, they found some sort of clue that looked like blood. That is, until Kiki smelled it, "This isn't blood" she said, "This is strawberry jam"
When they looked up, they saw a vision of Davina making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in front of a bakery, "Sorry" Davina replied, "I'm making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for table number 16."
Nikita remembered that England and Germany both have a lot of pubs where they serve root beer. So, they decided to go in and check it out.
Inside, they saw Oscar dressed like James Moriarty. "Looks like we have James Morioscar" Candy said, "We should ask him some questions?"
"Why can't we put the cuffs on him," Ronnie asked, "He's always causing trouble for our school"
"Because," answered Nikita, "A good detective never jumps to a conclusion."
As she got up to him, Sherlock Candy asked, "Did you ever take your eyes on a collection of tin soldiers."
"Ugh," Morioscar asked nervously, "I never saw them"
Then he ran off with some cash register money. Watson Kiki decided to collect them for evidence. Then she spotted Alice dressed as a lovely lady in the finest gown in all of England, "What's wrong with you Frau Kiki" asked Nikita, " She's dressed like Irene Adler, Sherlock's ex-girlfriend."
"Maybe she has some answers" Kiki suggested as she walked up to her, "Ugh, Alice"
"Not now" Alice shouted, "I'm busy being prettier than every girl in England."
"We just want to ask you some questions" Kiki replied.
Just then, they got into a little quarrel about who's prettier, "RUHIG(Quiet)!" shouted Nikita.
"I would rather dunk my head in Impossible Pudding than remain here" shouted Alice as she barged out.
Just then, Nikita froze, "I just remembered something," Nikita replied, "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth."
"What do you mean" asked Kiki"
"Herr Sherlock sad that one in one of his books" Nikita explained, "So maybe it could be in the last place to suspect."
XxoxX
Back in reality, they were in the costume design room. On a messy table, they saw a small box that had some candy on them. Carefully, Candy read the label.
Property of Nikita Wald
"What have we here," she said, "It's the tin solider collection"
Nikita slapped herself, "I must've left them there during my Costume Design class while cleaning up." recalled Nikita, "I was supposed to come up with a toy-themed costume for Christmas this December. It's hard to communicate when they couldn't understand that "Stoff" is German for, "Fabric" and I don't mean "Useless Stuff"."
Ronnie started to laugh, "Remember 4 years ago I moved here from Germany four years ago" Nikita replied, "Well, nobody wanted to be my friend, because they thought I talked funny. I was so ashamed, that I thought about not making any friends at all. That is until my very first Germany Unity Day in America. A brunette girl with paint all over was playing at the Arts and Crafts corner and made a drawing of German chocolates."
"They were completely life-like" Nikita replied, "I'll never forget it."
"So that's how Ronnie and Nikita became best friends." said Kiki, "How sweet."
By the door, Candy spotted Mr. Lott with some stolen money. Kiki turned her head and realized that she was right, "Going somewhere with that cash register money?" asked Kiki
"What" Mr. Lott replied, "You little brats, how did you know?"
"Let's just say we did a little imagination" Candy answered.
Nikita grabbed a fish and pointed at Mr. Lott with it, "Stay back" Mr. Lott said, "I'm allergic to fish."
"Relax" Nikita replied, "It's a prop fish. Now we want you to return the money before Frau Cherry finds out, or else we'll do it the Monty Python way."
"Fine" growled Oscar, "As you must know, I just had my hair done"
And just like that, the four girls forcefully let Oscar return the stolen cafeteria money to the cafeteria.
XxoxX
Later, Nikita, Ronnie, Candy, and Kiki were arriving at Wald's Truffle Town, where they served authentic German candy, "Looks like your letting out the gingerbread houses earlier this year." guessed Candy,
"Ja" Nikita replied, "We do this every year so menschens can get ready. No one likes the holiday rush."
"I'll never know how good it feels to hold you," Said Ronnie as she looked at Nikita, "Nikita, I need you so"
"If you're free to make a choice" Nikita replied, "Just look towards the west and we'll be there."
"Nikita is the other side of any given line in time" Candy recalled,
The girls were arriving at her candy shop where they were greeted by her mother, "Christina" who had graying blonde hair, a red blouse, crimson pants, and an apron, black high heels, and her father, "Nikolas" who had graying brown hair, blue shirt, black loafers, pants, and an apron. "Frau Nikky," Mr. Wald said to his daughter, "You brought Candy here"
"Yeah" replied Candy, "And I have been helping Nikita find her tin toy collection."
"Did you left something behind in school again?" asked Mrs. Wald."
"I'm sorry" Nikita replied, "I get a little mixed up sometimes."
"We do" Mrs. Wald replied, "We're just happy you found your grandma's tin toy collection."
"Do you ever dream of her?" asked Mr. Wald, "Do you ever see the letters that she write"
"I have" replied Nikita as she took a free sample of the chocolate turtles, "I still miss her."
"Besides the toy collection," Kiki asked as she was looking at the gumballs, "What else to do you remember of your grandma."
"She did love to make toys" Nikita answered, "She'd even gave some to a children's hospital in Düsseldorf, that's where our family grew up."
After Mr. Wald placed away some lollipops, he sighed. "My mother," he recalled, "she always made toys for those who can't afford the latest dolls for bears. So she did her best to make them happy."
Just then, Mrs. Wald came in with a box. In the box were some German dresses. "Well, look here," Ronnie said. "We've been rewarded with a new set of clothing."
Mrs. Wald told them that she was going through the attic in her home and needed to get rid of some dresses. This gave Candy an idea.
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The next day at school, she and Kiki were displaying an oil painting of Sherlock and Watson solving a mystery in Germany, while wearing the German dresses Mrs. Wald gave them. For the assignment, they both got an A. Alice was paralyzed by how they based their painting on Sherlock Holmes.
"I think we have one more mystery to solve," said Candy.
"What's that, Candy?" asked Kiki.
"Will Alice ever calm down?" answered Candy.
The End.