Chapter 5: Finishing The Game
Taffyta, still cuffed to the pole, angrily crossed her arms.
"I really don't like that girl sometimes." Taffyta thought angrily.
Just then, she saw a police officer walking by. She got an idea.
"Excuse me, officer? I need your help." Taffyta called out.
Meanwhile, Crumbelina and Timothy relaxed under the hot sun at the beach.
"What a beautiful day it is. I hope Candi is having fun with Taffyta." Crumbelina said.
Suddenly, a stampede of elephants wildly rushed by, passing the couple.
"We're those just elephants?" Timothy asked in confusion.
Vanellope, Candlehead, Swizzle, Maleficent, and Bellwether arrived at the castle, which was destroyed and covered in jungle vines.
"Whoa. Now, your parents are really going to kill you, Candi." Swizzle said.
"Gee, you think?" Candi asked sarcastically.
"Come on, let's just get this over with." Vanellope replied.
She climbed up on the ladder towards the treehouse, with the others following. They gathered around the board game and set it up.
"Okay, Candi, it's your turn." Vanellope said.
Candi grabbed the dice.
"Right." Candi said.
She rolled the dice, which landed on nine. Her rhino piece moved, and it stopped three spaces away from the center. She looked over the glass and read an incoming message.
"'Big as fists these balls of ice. Through umbrellas they will slice'." Candi read.
"Sound familiar?" Vanellope asked.
"Um... not really?" Candi asked uneasily.
"It sounded like..." Swizzle started to reply.
Suddenly, he felt a small drop of icy rain fell on his shoulder. More slowly came down in pouring icy rain.
"Hail! And more of them will get larger! We need to hide somewhere to protect ourselves!" Vanellope shouted.
Candi grabbed the game board, and she and the others ran towards the exit of the treehouse. It was even hailing outside, and the hail was as big as the oranges!
"Watch out!" Candlehead cried, dodging the icy hail.
Candi saw the hail slice through the rooftop of the treehouse.
"The hail is destroying my treehouse!" Candi shouted.
"What do we do?" Swizzle asked.
"We have to go back in the castle and hide underground." Vanellope replied.
Candi led the others into the destroyed castle, opened the basement door, and let them run down the stairs, before closing the door behind her as soon as she entered.
Down in the basement, Vanellope discovered boxes of candles and lit them with matches she also found and placed them around her and the others. She also found flashlights in another box and handed one to everyone.
"Why can't we just turn on the light?" Candi asked.
"Because during the hail storm, it would be hazardous to turn on electricity, so we have to use candles and flashlights for now until this is over. Now, let's just focus on finishing the game. It's my turn." Vanellope replied.
She rolled the dice, which landed on six. Her elephant token moved six spaces, and she looked over the glass and read another message.
"'When you see it, you will shake. It's big and green and rhymes with lake'." Vanellope read.
A hissing sound was suddenly heard. Slithering towards Bellwether was a large green snake. Swizzle noticed it and pushed the sheep out of the way.
"Get down!" Swizzle shouted.
"Snake!" Candi shouted.
The snake snapped at Swizzle, who dodged it by side-stepping around it, until he got hold of it's neck.
"Careful. It could be poisonous." Maleficent said.
The snake hissed at the dark fairy, still being held by Swizzle.
"Where can we get rid of it?" Candi asked.
Vanellope pointed at the basement door.
"We can toss it out of here. Swizzle, you can handle it, can't you?" Vanellope asked.
"Of course I can." Swizzle replied.
He carried the snake upstairs, opened the door, and tossed the snake away before closing the door behind him. He went back to the others and sat back down.
"That snake was heavy and slimy. But now we took care of that problem, it's my turn." Swizzle said.
He took the dice and rolled them. They landed on four, and his token moved. He looked over the glass, reading another message in it.
"'They march and eat and march and eat. If I were you, I'd watch my feet'." Swizzle read.
Suddenly, a large ant the size of a remote-controlled car climbed down the stairs, heading towards the group. Candlehead screamed in panic and pointed at the ant. Four more ants then came down, eating their way from the boxes and other items in their paths.
"Whoa! Ants! And their huge!" Swizzle shouted.
"Swizzle, we need to keep them away from us! Candi, do you have something that would keep these ants distracted or destroyed?" Vanellope asked.
"I do! Candlehead, ant repellent is kept under the kitchen sink! Go get it!" Candi shouted.
Candlehead nodded with a whimper, and she flew up the stairs and out of the basement. Swizzle kicked some of the ants to the wall and used an energy ray to blast them. One of the ants tackled Vanellope and tried to gnaw on her head, but she glitched out of it's grip and blasted it away with a blast of pixels.
Candlehead ran into the kitchen and opened the doors under the sink. She scattered and threw everything out of the cabinet.
"Okay, where is it? Where is it? Gotta find the ant repellent! Gotta find it! Oh, I can't find it! I may have to use something else!" Candlehead cried.
She then saw a spatula on the counter.
"Hmm. Maybe, I could have someone use this." Candlehead said.
Taffyta, finally returning back to the castle, became dumbfounded when she saw it destroyed and covered in jungle vines.
"What happened here?" Taffyta asked.
She looked around angrily, searching for Candi.
"Candi! Where are you?" Taffyta called out.
Suddenly, she saw the snake slithering by her feet, and she screeched out loud and ran upstairs. She rushed to Candi's room, removed the lock, and opened the door, but she was shocked to see the two hyenas laying around in the piles of wood. She screamed again and closed the door before either one of them noticed her.
"What is going on here?" Taffyta asked.
She panicked again and headed to another room, where she saw the leopard laying on the floor, yawning. Taffyta screamed again and closed the door before the leopard noticed her. She ran back downstairs to find a nearby phone, but then saw Candlehead coming by with the spatula. The green haired girl noticed her friend and ran towards her. The way she looked like a monkey frightened the platinum blonde haired girl.
"Hey, Taffyta. You might want to get out of here." Candlehead greeted.
Taffyta did not respond to her. She just paused for a moment, screamed on top of her lungs, and backed away from her until she was cornered in a closet. Candlehead ran towards the door, closed it, and locked it, sealing Taffyta inside.
"Sorry, but this is your refuge for now." Candlehead said.
Back down in the basement, Bellwether hid behind a crate from the ants, while the others continued to fight.
"Candi, it's Candlehead's turn! She may not be able to make it to the center in time, but she needs to take her turn to stop the ants!" Vanellope called out.
"Where is she? She needs to come back now!" Candi asked.
"Hey, guys? A little help here?" Swizzle asked, kicking and blasting the ants away as more of them surrounded him.
"We have to help Swizzle! He can't hold them for long!" Vanellope said.
Just then, Candlehead ran down the stairs. She blasted some of the ants away from Swizzle when they were about to attack him from behind.
"You brought a spatula here? Where's the ant repellent?" Candi asked.
"I didn't find it, so I brought this instead." Candlehead replied.
She tossed the spatula to Bellwether, who came out of hiding and started swinging it at the ants. Candi groaned in annoyance.
"This is no time for lectures! Candlehead, it's your turn! You can stop these ants by taking your turn!" Vanellope shouted.
"I can't! Their everywhere!" Candlehead said, seeing more ants eating their way towards them.
"We'll hold them off." Swizzle said.
"I'll cover you, Candlehead. Get behind me!" Maleficent ordered.
Candlehead grabbed the game and slid near the wall, while Maleficent blocked her from the ants by using her staff to blast them away.
"Hurry up!" Bellwether shouted.
Vanellope blasted a few of the ants with blasts of pixels, while Candi threw caramel disks at them. Candlehead rolled the dice, which landed on five. Swizzle tripped an ant over and kicked him across.
"'Raging and howling, a gale throws it's might. Hold on for a dear life or be blown out of sight'." Candlehead read out loud, so the others would hear.
Swizzle fell on the floor by her, as two of the ants had grabbed his legs.
"Swizzle!" Candlehead cried.
The third ant was about to gnaw on his head, but it suddenly stopped and squeaked in fear before running away from him. The other ants followed him, squeaking fearfully. They scattered away from the group, as if they were trying to find someplace to hide.
"What happened? Did we scare them?" Candi asked.
Bellwether felt a strong wind that caused the whole castle to shake, and she opened the basement door.
"It's far worse! It's a tornado! Our only chance is if one of us finish the game!" Bellwether replied.
"It's Candi's turn!" Swizzle said.
But before they could do anything, the tornado appeared, sucking everything inside the twister. Everyone shouted in panic, trying to hold onto something that the twister wouldn't suck in. Swizzle, Candlehead, and Bellwether held onto water pipes on one side, while Vanellope, Candi, and Maleficent held onto the pipes on the other side. They turned and saw that game board left in the wide open.
"Someone get the game! Get the game!" Candi shouted.
"No, Candi! Don't let go!" Vanellope shouted.
The game board flew up into the tornado, and Candi gasped.
"No!" Candi shouted.
She let go of the pipes and was pulled into the twister after the board game.
"Candi!" Vanellope screamed.
Candi grabbed the game and held it to her chest while flying and spinning in the twister. She began to feel sick while spinning. As soon as the twister began to disappear, she fell towards the ground, but Maleficent made a trampoline appear below her. She bounced on it, jumped high into the air, and slammed through the window of her and Gloyd's room bedroom, scaring the hyenas away into the closet. Candi sat up and opened the game. She took the dice and attempted to roll it, but she was interrupted by a cold voice.
"Don't move!" the voice shouted.
She looked up and saw the hunter (who was covered in paint) busting through the door and pointing the B.B Gun at her.
"Stand up." the hunter ordered coldly.
Candi did as she was told, while holding the dice in her hand.
"What's in your hand? Whatever it is, drop it." the hunter ordered.
Candi shrugged and dropped the dice. One of the dice landed on two, while the other rolled away down a hole into the basement. She sighed sadly, finally realizing that it was over for her.
"End of the line, girl. The game is up." the hunter said.
Vanellope appeared from the window after jumping on the trampoline, shocked to see the hunter trapping Candi.
"So, tell me, girl... are you afraid?" the hunter asked.
"Yes. But I was never afraid to defend my friends. And... I know it was all my fault for causing all this trouble. It... it would've been better if I hadn't found the game in the first place. I may not be able to finish it, but if the game was finished... then, I would do anything to make it up to my friends." Candi replied.
The hunter chuckled.
"Well, well... good lass. Your finally beginning to realize your selfish mistakes." the hunter said. He pointed the B.B. Gun at her and asked "Any last words?".
Candi looked down at the board, knowing that the missing die landed on one, as the token moved three spaces and landed on the glass, which had the word Jumanji on it. She looked up at the hunter.
"Yeah. Jumanji." Candi replied.
"What did you say?" the hunter asked.
"It's Jumanji!" Candi replied louder.
Suddenly, the hunter began to feel like he was being absorbed.
"Huh? What's happening to me?" the hunter asked.
A loud sound of a crash caught Vanellope and Candi's attention. They saw the elephants, hyenas, ants, and other things that came out of the game flying in and being absorbed like a vortex into the glass. The hunter was also sucked in, twirling around along with the other animals. The girls shut their eyes and ducked down on the floor, hoping that the vortex noises would stop. Thunder collapsed a few times, before it finally stopped. As soon as it was safe to look, Vanellope lifted her head up and gasped in amazement.
"Candi, look!" Vanellope said.
"Are we dead?" Candi asked worriedly.
"Far better!" Vanellope replied.
Candi looked up and saw that they were in the castle living room, the castle having been all fixed up. The tokens were scattered on the board, and Maleficent and Bellwether were playing cards. She browsed around the room, realizing that she won the game and everything was back to the way it was.
"I can't believe it. We're... we're back to where we first played." Candi said.
"As if none of this had ever happened." Vanellope said.
"What? What happened?" Bellwether asked.
"Don't you remember, Dawn?" Candi asked.
"What? What do I remember?" Bellwether asked.
"Oh, it's best to tell us later. But right now, we should do something about this game." Maleficent replied.
"But what about Swizzle and Candlehead? Don't they remember?" Candi asked.
"I think you should call them, to see how their doing." Vanellope replied.
Candi nodded and called Swizzle with her portal key.
"Hey, Swizzle. It's me, Candi. I just wanted to know how your doing." Candi greeted.
"Oh, I'm good. I was just taking a nap, until I had this strange dream. You, Vanellope, Candlehead, Dawn, and Maleficent were in it, and we were playing some kind of a game that releases animals and tornadoes and other weird things." Swizzle replied on the other end.
"Oh, really?" Candi asked.
"Yeah. Strange, isn't it?" Swizzle asked.
"Uh... yeah. It is weird." Candi replied.
She then called Candlehead, who told her that she had the same dream as Swizzle had.
"So... pretty much, they don't remember anything at all?" Candi asked.
"Oh, I'm sure they'll remember alright. Only when they see this game. But I think it's best not too." Vanellope replied.
Later, Vanellope and Candi took the game over to a bridge in Richmond Park. The board game was wrapped in rope and had bricks on it. Candi took one last look at the game.
"Never again will this game be in my or anyone else's hands." Candi said.
She picked it up and tossed it in the river, watching it sinking down underwater.
"Well... I guess that's that. The game is over, and everything is back to normal." Vanellope said.
"Yeah. But it wasn't as much fun as I expect it to be." Candi said.
Vanellope placed her hand on Candi's shoulder.
"It's fun to me." Vanellope said with a smile.
