Linda walked down the hallway, looking at her scarf as it tried to grasp at nearly everything they passed by. She wasn't certain what had happened to it, but it didn't seem dangerous for now.

At the end of the hallway was a circular room with a big yellow bell in the center. Four doors lined the circular wall, each marked with a different name. "Cinder", "Spinner," "Miss Mecca", and "Siren".

Linda looked at all the names, and "Cinder" was the one closest to one of her sister's names, so she chose that one. Walking up to the door, her scarf reached forward and pulled it open.

The room the door lead to was vibrantly decorated with orange and red colours, and various pictures of fire and explosions. There were also various pictures of Cindy, some of which of moments Linda remembered.

One picture was of Cindy lighting Fay's hair on fire when she was asleep. Another was of Cindy replacing the candles on Samantha's birthday cake with sticks of dynamite. A third was of the whole family taking a photo. Cindy was on the left, the tip of the cigar in her mouth sparkling. Linda recalled that the photo was taken seconds before a mysterious gas leak explosion.

There was also a statue of Cindy standing atop a pile of explosives, juggling lit bombs. Another statue was of her sitting on a giant firework and lighting the fuse with her cigar.

The most noticeable thing in the room was the massive boiler in the center. It constantly rumbled and shook, like it was seconds away from exploding. There was also an orange glow behind the door. Linda cautiously walked up and opened the boiler's door to see a swirling orange portal inside.

Linda took a deep breath before stepping into the portal. In a flash of orange, she felt herself falling for several seconds.

She came to a sudden stop when she fell right onto some grass. Getting up, she looked around to see she was now in a vast grassy plain with trees of all types.

She walked around for a bit and came across a small village in a shallow valley. The houses were all simple looking and colourfully painted. Linda wondered why a place like this was in Cindy's exhibit.

The question was answered when a tree suddenly burst into flames and crumbled into ashes. Linda looked at the other trees to see if they were about to catch fire as well. They didn't seem to be combusting. Linda continued walking and stopped when she heard a noise behind her.

She turned to see a large red bat covered in flames flying right for her. Linda dodged out of the way and as the bat flew past her, her scarf reached out and grabbed the bat, stretching it's burning wing out before flinging it into the sky.

Several more bats flew towards Linda, who took cover behind a rock as her scarf lashed out and smacked the bats out of the air. They fell to the ground and burned to ash.

Linda wasn't sure whether it was her who made the scarf do that or the scarf acting on it's own. She continued walking through the forest, dodging the periodically exploding trees. A few of them shot up into the sky and exploded like fireworks.

Linda walked down into the valley and walked into one of the houses. There was only one room, and it consisted of a dinner table covered in food, all of them extremely spicy looking. There was also a giant jug of hot chocolate. Linda looked at the food curiously. Some of them were half eaten, with what looked like very deep bite marks in them. Just then, a thought entered Linda's mind. One that wasn't her own.

"Jelly sure seems to be mad that I poured hot sauce into her soup. She really doesn't know anything about good food. She's been mad at me since I blew up the microwave, come to think of it."

Linda could guess pretty easily who's thought it was, but she wasn't sure why it was going through her mind. She left the house and went into another one. It consisted only of a desk with a deck of cards, a book, a candle, and a model cabin made out of matchsticks . Linda first checked the deck of cards. Instead of the regular pictures, they all had pictures of the same strange kind of grinning creature that was on the side of that truck. The book was filled with writings that seemed to be about various fires and explosions Cindy has been responsible for.

As she looked at the candle, another thought entered Linda's mind that was not her own.

"It's almost Becky's birthday. Maybe I should get her a rocket launcher or a new wrench. She can't seem to find her old one after the time I ashed my cigar into her robot's fuel tank. Becky didn't like that, but it did make for a pretty awesome explosion!"

The model cabin seemed to be rather ordinary compared to the other things, but there was a stick of glue next to it, which Linda picked up and put in her pocket. After checking to make sure there wasn't anything else out of the ordinary in the house, she left to try another one.. This one contained an old, flickering tv set that showed several videos of campfires. Linda changed the dial, and it changed to several videos of fireworks. A few turns of the dial, and it seemed to be a montage of all the presents Cindy ever gave for Christmas and Birthdays. Most of them involved fire and explosives, of course. One in particular was from the year that Susan got a present from Cindy that ended up blasting her into another country. As Linda changed the channel, yet another one of Cindy's thoughts entered her mind.

"I don't know why Sky's always going on about being so short. I'm older than her and I'm not much taller."

After trying a few more houses and hearing a few more strange thoughts, Linda came to a large, rather colourful house right in the middle of the valley. It was decorated to look like a small castle, with towers with spirals on each of the corners. On the center of the roof was a large tower that seemed to double as a chimney, as smoke was coming from it. As Linda approached, the sky darkened from a sunny day to a cloudy night. The smoke from the chimney began to form into the shape of Cindy. The smokey form of Cindy turned to face Linda and smiled wickedly at her. The smokey form of Cindy then stuck its tongue out at Linda before dissipating.

A few seconds later, the smoke from the chimney began to twist and swirl until it was a tornado of smoke that took up half the sky. As the tornado swirled around, small smoke clouds emerged from it and floated towards Linda. Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot out from the cloud, striking the ground near Linda. Linda quickly ran out of the way as the clouds followed after her, trying to fry her with lightning.

Linda dodged the lightning as she tried to figure out how to deal with the tornado. As she was running, she came across a relatively large rock and an idea came to her. Her scarf picked up the rock as she started running towards the smoke tornado in the chimney. The tornado picked her up and started hurling around. Linda looked through the smoke to the eye of the tornado and carefully dropped the rock right into the center.

The smoke cleared away as the rock fell into the chimney and clogged it up. Linda fell onto the ground as the smoke clouds that were shooting lightning disappeared as well. With that taken care of, She walked up to the door of the house and opened it.

There was only one room in the house, and it was rather sparse, the only two things of note being a large flower-shaped chandelier hanging from the ceiling and a crackling brick fireplace in the back of the room. There was a large stone covering for the fireplace, but it was currently pulled up. Pink pillars lined the walls, and in between them were arch shaped windows.

As Linda walked inside and closed the door, she heard a faint giggle in the air.

"Well, well, look who's finally here. Linda, it's so nice to see you. I've been waiting to set something other than a tree or a bat on fire."

Linda quickly recognized that it was Cindy talking.

"Cindy?" said Linda, looking around. "Is that you?"

"Sure is. But apparently, I'm called Cinder now. At least that's what those weird voices said. Eh, whatever, close enough to my real name. Anyway, what do you want?" said Cindy

"I'm uh, here to rescue you?" said Linda, somewhat nervous.

Cindy said "That won't be necessary. I'm as happy as I ever was right now. Well, as long as you're here..."

Linda could see the faint outline of a figure in the flames of the fire place. A loud cackle filled the air as the figure leapt out and landed right in front of Linda, causing the house to shake.

It was indeed Cindy, or Cinder as she was currently known, but she was very different from when Linda had last seen her. She was now far bigger, easily towering over Linda, and most of that was her massive round head, almost twice as big as her body. Her skin was now a dark grey, and her eyes were blank white little dots. Her hair was now an odd magenta, and her huge pigtails reached to the floor.

Clenched between her huge shark-like teeth was a gargantuan pink and purple cigar, easily three times or more bigger than Linda. The cigar's tip was glowing an ever changing rainbow of colours, and on the cigar's label was once again the image of the strange grinning figure. She was wearing a rainbow coloured dress, and a large crown made out of fireworks and sticks of dynamite.

Cinder grinned, showing off her razor-sharp teeth. "...how do you like my new look?" she asked.

Linda stepped back and said "Uh, well, I think it's a little too... fiery. Are you sure you don't want me to find a way to change you back?"

Cinder laughed and said "Why would I ever want to be changed back? Those weird voices made me what I always wanted to be. A powerful embodiment of fire and explosions, vaporizing and incinerating everything in sight!" She grinned even wider, her teeth so shiny that Linda could almost see her reflection in it. The lit end of Cinder's cigar glowed a bright orange as the smoke coming from it changed shape to form the smoky image of bombs, dynamite, torches and campfires. Cinder gestured to her crown and said "I'm the Baroness of Burning and Bombs, and if you want to stop me, you'll have to do a lot better than that."

Cinder said "Now then, let's see, would it be funner to throw you into an active volcano, or feed you to a firebat? Ah well, I'll wing it and see where to go from there."

With that, Cinder rushed straight at Linda and smacked into her with a headbutt, knocking Linda right into the closed door. Linda got up and saw Cinder, still grinning widely. Cindy opened her mouth, revealing it to be a strange rainbow colour similar to the inside of a jawbreaker, and spat out a big orange ball of fire that bounced along the floor. Linda dodged out of the way as the fire flew into the wall and burned out.

Linda said "Alright, if you want a fight, I guess I'll have to give you one."

The scarf picked up the burned out fireball and flung it right at Cinder. It smacked right into her mouth and caused her to reel back. Cinder said "So that's how you want to go, huh? Well, try some of this."

Cinder leapt into the air and landed right next to Linda. She then turned her head rapidly, causing the tree-sized cigar in her mouth to smack into Linda like a club and launch her into the air. Linda hit her head on the ceiling before falling back to the floor, where Cinder again smacked her with her cigar, this time across the house. Linda crashed right into a wall, barely missing the fireplace. Linda was dazed, but managed to get up and regain her balance.

Cinder frowned and said "Phooey. It would have been neat to see you burned to a crisp. Oh well, guess I'll just have to try another method."

Cinder shook her head around, causing some dynamite and fireworks to fly off of her crown. She giggled before using her cigar to light all the fireworks and pointing them straight at Linda.

In a flurry of sparks, the fireworks all shot off, aiming right for Linda. Linda dived out of the way, but right before the final firework flew past her, her scarf reached out and grabbed it. Linda yelped as the firework started flying all around the house, dragging her and her scarf along for the ride. The firework flew around the chandelier a few times before veering down and crashing right into Cinder, exploding in her face.

Cinder said "Hah, do you really think a couple little explosions are enough to defeat me? I've barely been singed by more powerful explosions than that even before I got these new powers. Plus, I still have plenty of tricks left. For example..."

Cinder took off her crown and rolled it along the floor like it was a giant wheel, straight towards Linda. Linda attempted to get out of the way, but tripped over her own scarf, causing the crown to smack right into her and ricochet back onto Cinder's head.

Cinder grinned and said "And here's another trick."

Cinder chomped down on her cigar as the glowing tip changed to a fiery blend of red, orange and yellow. The smoke coming from it took on the shape of an evil smile as Cinder exhaled a gigantic cloud of smoke that completely filled the house. It smelled rather strange, like a mix of gunpowder, gasoline, and chili peppers.

It was nearly impossible for Linda to see through all the smoke, so she carefully walked around, trying to see where Cinder was. Suddenly, a fireball shot out of the smoke and past Linda, singing her hat slightly. She looked around to see where the fireball came from, but she was soon hit from behind. She heard Cinder's laugh before something else hit her, this time on the head. She tried to defend herself, but she wasn't able to see where the attacks were coming from.

Another ball shaped object flew from the smoke towards Linda, who reflexively caught in just in time to see that it was a bomb with a lit fuse. After it painfully exploded in her face, the smoke seemed as though it was started to clear, but Linda soon saw that it was actually all condensing into a big ball of dense smoke in the middle of the room.

"You better hope you were good at soccer." said Cinder, before headbutting the ball of smoke and smacking it right towards Linda's direction. Linda couldn't get up in time to dodge, but her scarf smacked the ball of smoke back towards Cinder, who manged to smack it with her crown. The scarf hit the smoke ball with a backhand smack back towards Cinder, who hit it like a baseball with the cigar in her mouth.

After a few more rallying hits, Linda's scarf hit the smoke ball right into Cinder's open mouth, knocking her back into a wall. Cinder's head spun around dizzily as smoke seeped from her mouth.

She stood up and adjusted her crown before glaring at Linda. "You just won't stop trying to spoil my fun, will you? Well, I'm not done yet!"

Cinder closed her eyes and gently grasped her head with her hands. Her crown glowed a bright shade of orange and Linda watched as two sparks flew from the tip of her cigar and stopped in midair, floating like tiny orbs of light. The sparks slowly floated to the ends of Cinder's pigtails. The ends of the pigtails then ignited in flames, as Cinder opened her eyes and laughed uproariously before spinning around on her toes. She spun faster and faster in place until she was practically a tornado of pure flames.

Cinder's laughter continued to fill the air as she heading towards Linda, still basically indistinguishable from a cyclone of fire. Linda ran away from Cinder as fast as she could, but fireballs started flying from the fire tornado in all directions. Linda dodged the swarm of fireballs as they bounced along the floor and off the walls. The tornado of flames spun all around the room, bouncing off of walls and causing the house to shake. Linda hid in one of the corners and watched as Cinder started to gradually slow down before finally spinning out and falling over dizzily in the middle of the room.

As Linda stepped out of the corner and saw that Cinder was too dizzy to get up, she looked at the dynamite on her crown and got an idea. Her scarf carefully plucked each of the giant sticks of dynamite from the crown before gluing them all to the cigar still in Cinder's mouth. She then tied all of the dynamite fuses into a bundle before letting the bundle of fuses fall onto the tip of Cinder's cigar and stepping back.

"Hey, Cinder." she said.

Cinder stood up dizzily and looked around "What?"

A sizzling noise filled the air and Cinder looked to see several huge sticks of dynamite, seconds away from exploding, were glued to her cigar.

"Uh oh."

An explosion filled the room. Linda dived out of the way as the loud blast shook the whole house. When the explosion had cleared, Cinder was covered in soot, her cigar and crown were gone, and she looked madder than ever. Her eyes lit up like shooting stars as she trudged over to Linda and grabbed her by her scarf.

"That's it!" yelled Cinder, lifting Linda into the air. "All this fighting has made me pretty hungry. I think I know just the thing to help settle the fire in my stomach."

Linda gulped as Cinder opened her mouth as wide as it would go, exposing her oddly coloured mouth, and a giant uvula at the back of it. Cinder then tossed Linda into the air and caught her in her mouth, swallowing her down. Linda grimaced and closed her eyes as she was pulled down the throat, which felt like falling down a chimney with a fire at the bottom.

Linda landed on something that felt like a rock, so she opened her eyes to see that she was now in a strange, somewhat small cavern-like chamber. This was most likely Cinder's stomach. Only instead of stomach acid, it was filled with red hot magma. Linda was on a small rock barely large for her to stand on. The magma bubbled and churned as Linda could hear Cinder's laughter all around her.

"Have fun roasting in there for all eternity." said Cinder, her voice coming from all sides. "I'll be busy finding somebody else to burn to ashes. That is after a find I replacement for the cigar and crown you destroyed."

Linda looked around for a way to get out of the stomach,but the heat was unbearable. Linda struggled to stand up as she desperately looked around. The only source of light was the magma, and it was constantly churning.

Linda continued looking around. There didn't seem to be anything of note on the stomach walls. Neither did there seem to be anything on the rock she was standing on. There also wasn't anything in the magma itself.

She checked her pockets for anything that might help her. The only things in her pockets were a pencil, which quickly burst into flames and disintegrated, and a stick of glue, which started to melt in her hands, so she just dropped it into the lava

In all the looking for ways to escape, Linda finally realized she hadn't thought to look straight up. When she finally did, she saw the chimney-like esophagus, and at the very top, the large uvula. Linda got an idea that she wasn't sure was going to work, but she decided to try it anyway. Her scarf carefully reached up the esophagus, and grabbed onto the uvula. Then, with one swift motion, it pulled it downwards, stretching the uvula so so much that it was practically in the stomach.

As soon the uvula was stretched, Linda heard gagging and retching sounds and before she was forced up the esophagus and spat out of Cinder's mouth, shooting like a fiery comet across the house before crashing into the chandelier and breaking it.

Linda dropped to the floor and stood up. Her clothes and hair were singed at points, and she had a few burn marks, but she was just glad to be out of Cinder's volcano of a stomach. With the chandelier broken, the fireplace was now glowing far more noticeable. Linda looked at Cinder, and saw that she was clutching her head and groaning.

Linda walked up to her as her scarf balled itself into a fist. "Sorry, Cindy." she said. "But it's about time you learned that fire can be dangerous!"

With that, the scarf shot forward and uppercutted Cinder right in the chin, sending her flying right into the fireplace. The scarf then pulled the metal covering over the fireplace before returning to Linda's side.

Soon, the walls seemed to be expanding as the entire house started rumbling progressively more violently. Sensing a good time to exit, Linda dashed out of the house's front door and and didn't stop to look back until she was out of the valley and behind a tree.

When she did look back, she saw that the chimney, along with the rest of the house, was slowly expanding with pressure, like a volcano ready to erupt. Linda barely had time to plug her ears when the house exploded in a deafening blast, shooting Cinder out the chimney and far off into the night sky. Cinder flew higher and higher into the dark sky, a trail of fire following her like a comet. Just as she was about to reach the height of her ascent, she exploded in the starry sky, like the biggest and brightest firework Linda had ever seen, shooting multicouloured streaks of light in all directions.

When the explosion had finally cleared, Linda looked around to see tiny bits of fire rain from the sky. Just then, everything suddenly went white.

Linda woke up, back in Cindy's exhibit of the museum. She was standing in front of the orange portal. Slowly and steadily, each of the statues and paintings in the room began to glow orange before turning to a mass of orange energy and flying into the boiler that held the portal. With each mass of energy that flew in, the boiler began glowing a brighter orange and shaking more. When the fire mass of energy flew in, the boiler exploded, blasting Linda into the wall.

Linda looked and saw an orange apparition floating in the space where the boiler was. It looked just like Linda remembered Cindy as looking like, with large pigtails, explosives in her pockets, and a large cigar in her mouth. The only difference, of course, was that she was orange, translucent, and floating in the air.

"Wow, that was so cool!" yelled Cindy.

"Cindy?" said Linda. "You're not mad I blew you up?"

"Well, I am a little mad." said Cindy. "But I mostly just thought it was fun. I mean, I've made so many different things explode, and it was cool to finally have it happen to me!"

Linda scratched her head "So you enjoyed being blasted out of a chimney and exploding like a firework?"

Cindy nodded and said "Sure did! Plus, the rest of the fight was pretty fun as well. Sorry about eating you, by the way."

Linda said "Oh, it's fine. You were possessed or something, right?"

"Nah, not really." said Cindy.

"O-oh." said Linda, not really sure what to say. "So, our other sisters, were they transformed too?"

"Think so, said Cindy. "Haven't really seen them in a while."

"Alright," said Linda. "So, now that you're not a demon or whatever you were anymore, are you gonna try to return to your normal body?"

"Probably eventually." said Cindy. "But for now I'm gonna see if there's anything neat to do while I'm a soul."

"Okay. Well, I'm gonna try to find our other sisters. See you later, hopefully." Linda waved to Cindy, her scarf doing the same, before exiting the room and going back out to the circular hall.