Chapter 3: Danger

Candi paced back and forth in a stressful way.

"Oh, what am I going to do? Vanellope's trapped in the board game and it's all my fault! I never should have tricked her into playing this stupid game!" Candi asked nervously.

"Don't worry, Candi. It could've been worse." Maleficent replied reassuringly.

"Yeah. You can still call the others to help you get her back." Bellwether said.

Candi smiled.

"Actually, that's not a bad idea." Candi said.


Later, Candi, who had called Candlehead and Swizzle on her portal key, was waiting for them to come over to the castle.

"Where could they be?" Candi asked impatiently.

"I'm sure they'll be here soon." Maleficent replied.

Just then, a portal opened up, and Candlehead and Swizzle stepped out.

"Guys, your here!" Candi greeted excitedly.

Candlehead and Swizzle turned to her.

"Hi, Candi." Candlehead greeted

Swizzle looked around the room.

"Hey, Candi. What happened to your room? Why is there wood all over the place?" Swizzle asked.

Candi picked up the board game.

"Okay, I know you guys won't believe me, but... it's all because of this." Candi replied.

She showed the game to Candlehead and Swizzle. The two looked at each other in confusion for a brief moment and then turned back to the game.

"A board game?" Swizzle asked.

"Not just a regular board game. It's a magical cursed game that I found when I was on my way home from a walk. I invited Vanellope here to play with me. I rolled the dice first, and there was wood falling from the ceiling, nearly killing us, and then Vanellope went next because I tricked her into continue playing it, and she got sucked into the board game!" Candi replied uneasily in a fast tone.

Candlehead and Swizzle dazed out, looking at the Caramel themed girl in confusion.

"Um... so, what your saying is... Vanellope got sucked into a board game?" Swizzle asked.

"Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you!" Candi replied.

"Being sucked into the board game? Sounds scary." Candlehead said nervously.

"Now look, Candi, you called us here just because Vanellope got sucked into the board game? Your just saying those things so that you wanted me and Candlehead to play along with you. Well, sorry, not interested." Swizzle said.

"No, no! You don't understand, Swizzle! I can prove it too! Look!" Candi said.

She took out two more pieces of the tokens out of the silver box. The two tokens looked like a black crocodile and a black monkey.

"Candi, no!" Maleficent said.

But it was too late. The tokens magically took their places in the two remaining start spaces. Candlehead screamed and jumped on Swizzle.

"The game's alive!" Candlehead cried.

Swizzle pushed her off of him in annoyance.

"Candlehead, the game is not alive. Even though, it is kinda creepy." Swizzle said.

He placed his hands on the tokens and tried to pull them off, but they wouldn't come off.

"Okay, they won't come off. This game is really creepy. Candi, are you sure Vanellope really got sucked into the game board?" Swizzle asked.

"I'm sure of it." Candi replied.

"How?" Swizzle asked.

"Well, after she rolled, the message in that glass thing said something about her waiting in the jungle until the dice read five or eight." Candi replied.

"Then, that's exactly what we're going to do." Swizzle said.

"Yay! We're gonna play Jumonju!" Candlehead said happily.

"Candlehead, it's called Jumanji." Candi said.

Candlehead frowned.

"Oh, I knew that." Candlehead said.

Swizzle grabbed the dice.

"Okay, just to be safe, I'm going to roll first. Then, Candlehead will have her turn. Hopefully, one of us should get five or eight to get Vanellope out." Swizzle said.

He rolled the dice, which landed on seven.

"Drat!" Swizzle muttered.

Suddenly, he and Candlehead saw that the Crocodile token was moving seven spaces on it's own.

"Wow. How does it do that?" Candlehead asked.

"No idea." Swizzle replied.

Just then, he noticed a green message in the glass orb in the center of the board. He began to read it.

"'Their boisterous laughing does provoke. In this adventure, they tell no joke'." Swizzle read. He turned to Candi and asked "What does that mean?".

"You got me." Candi replied.

Suddenly, a couple of laughing sounds were heard out of nowhere. The group looked around, searching where that laughter came from. Suddenly, Candlehead noticed something that was walking out of the darkness and screamed. Marching out of the closet towards them were a pack of dog-like creatures, with the sounds of their growling laughters.

"Oh no! Hyenas!" Bellwether cried.

"Where did they come from?" Candlehead asked.

"They came from the game, like the falling wood and Vanellope being sucked into the board game!" Candi replied panickingly

Swizzle grabbed the board game and rushed towards the door through the piles of wood, with the others following him. The hyenas began chasing the group quickly. Swizzle finally made out, led the others out of the room, and blasted an energy ray at one of the hyenas when it was about to pounce on Candlehead. Then, he quickly slammed the door closed, holding it as much as he could.

"Guys, I can't hold the door much longer! Get me like a drawer or something! Anything!" Swizzle shouted.

Maleficent used her magic, and a giant lock appeared and chained to the door. Swizzle sighed in relief.

"Well, that took care of it. Where did those hyenas come from?" Swizzle asked.

"I told you already! They came from the game! I keep on telling you that!" Candi replied.

Bellwether turned to the game.

"I don't know about getting her back in this condition. Maybe we should stop playing." Bellwether said.

Candlehead opened the game up and took the dice.

"Guys, it's my turn. We should keep playing." Candlehead said.

"Don't!" Swizzle cried.

But it was too late. Candlehead rolled the dice, and they landed on ten (five die each). The monkey token moved ten spaces forward, and the message in the glass appeared again.

"Hmmm... 'Crawling and slithering up from the flood. Come thousands of leeches to suck your blood.'." Candlehead read.

Suddenly, she felt something slimy crawling on her arms. She looked at them and discovered leeches pinning onto her arms. She screamed out loud as if there was a spider on her.

"LEECHES! GET 'EM OFF ME! GET 'EM OFF ME!" Candlehead cried.

She ran around the hall like a maniac, while the others chased her.


Meanwhile, Taffyta awakened from her nap and angrily growled.

"What is that girl up to now?" Taffyta wondered.

She got up from the couch and began to walk up the stairs.

"Hey, Candi! Keep it down! I'm trying to take a..." Taffyta started to shout.

Before she finished her sentence, she was run over from behind by a screaming Candlehead and fell on her face. She raised her head up with rage.

"Hey! What's going..." Taffyta started to ask.

Her face was unexpectedly slammed on the floor again by Candi, who was running after Candlehead. She raised her face again, looking angrier then before.

"When I get my hands on that..." Taffyta started to say.

Her threat got interrupted again when Swizzle, without seeing her, passed her, stomping her head on the floor and knocking her out cold.


Swizzle, Candlehead, Maleficent, and Bellwether finally caught up to Candlehead, who was cornered at a wall. The green haired girl began to flick the leeches off of her arms, whimpering horribly.

"Candlehead, hold still. I have an idea. Dawn, I need you to help me get the leeches off of her as soon as I freeze them solid." Swizzle said.

Candlehead did what he told her and stayed still. Swizzle uses tiny bits of ice rays to freeze the leeches solid, and Bellwether scraped the frozen leeches off of the right arm. Swizzle then pushed the rest off of her left arm, and he and Bellwether stomped the frozen leeches into tiny ice pieces.

"Whew. Thanks, guy. For a moment there, I thought I was a goner." Candlehead said.

"It's no problem. And Candi is right. I think the leeches did come out of the game. And so did the hyenas." Swizzle said.

Candi noticed Taffyta knocked out on the floor and realized she could possibly be overhearing them playing the game.

"Uh oh. As much as she could help, I can't let her get involved like this. Maleficent, teleport her back to Sugar Rush." Candi ordered.

Maleficent did as she asked, and the blonde haired Strawberry themed girl disappeared.

"Well, now that's done, let's get back to the game." Candi said.


They set the game up in the living room. Swizzle noticed another side of the board.

"Um... exactly how do we win? Have you read all of the instructions?" Swizzle asked.

"Uh... roll to win?" Candi asked.

Swizzle sighed in annoyance.

"So, you haven't read all of the instructions because you didn't see this part." Swizzle said.

He rotated the board over and began to read another message that was written on the other side of the game.

"'Adventurers, beware. Do not begin unless you intend to finish. The exciting consequences of the game will vanish only when a player has reached Jumanji and called out its name'." Swizzle read.

"So, that's it? Whoever reaches the glass center thing first get's to yell out Jumanji, and everything goes back inside this board game?" Candlehead asked.

"Exactly. But first, we have to get Vanellope out before something else happens. We just need to get it done quickly." Swizzle replied.

"Okay. Um... whose turn is it?" Swizzle asked.

"Actually, Candlehead, you rolled doubles. You get another turn." Candi replied.

"Yay!" Candlehead said happily.

She rolled the dice, which landed on five.

"Alright, Candlehead! Now Vanellope should be able to get out." Swizzle said.

The monkey token moved five spaces. Candi noticed a message in the glass.

"Wait, there's something more." Candi said.

Candlehead looked over and read the message.

"'Feline spots in the jungle blend. Be cautious of her, she's not your friend'." Candlehead read. She looked up with a worried face and asked "Not... our friend?".

"I don't like the sound it." Swizzle replied.

Suddenly, the group heard something break in the kitchen, along with a soft growl.

"Aaaah! Something's in there!" Candlehead screamed.

Bellwether slammed her paw on the girl's mouth to silence her.

"Shhhh. Keep it down." Bellwether whispered.

They suddenly saw a shadow at the foot of the kitchen, before a large black-spotted yellow leopard slowly walked out of the kitchen and headed towards them.

"She's not real, Candlehead. She's only an illusion." Bellwether whispered.

The leopard roared at them angrily.

"Let's get out of here!" Candi shouted.

She began running upstairs, the others following behind. But as soon as they made it on top, the leopard leaped high into the hallway, blocking their path.

"Whoa! What a jump!" Candlehead exclaimed.

Just then, a familiar voice spoke up out of nowhere.

"Candi, heads up!" the voice shouted.

"Vanellope?" Candi asked, recognizing the voice.

Vanellope appeared and tossed a spear at the tan skinned girl. Candi caught it, pointed it at the leopard, and walked backwards as the leopard walked towards her, growling at her.

"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty." Candi said tauntingly.

The leopard glared at her as she noticed she wanted to corner her, so she could attack her. She swiped at the girl, who swung the spear at her back. Swizzle glanced at a room next to him and got an idea. He turned invisible, leaped at the roaring leopard, and overshadowed her body. He controlled her to run into the room, quickly came out of the leopard, flew out of the room, and closed the door to conceal her inside. He sighed in relief and turned to Vanellope.

"Good work, Swizzle." Vanellope said.