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Happy sweets dream
It was the New Year's break. All the students were going home for New Year's Day, except Ichigo. The fact is when Vanilla and the other spirits came back to the school after Christmas, Ichigo asked Vanilla if there was a chance that she could visit the sweets kingdom. Vanilla wasn't sure if it was allowed for a human to visit the sweets kingdom, so she contacted the queen for permission. Good news was that the queen accepted Vanilla's permission to bring Ichigo to the sweets kingdom, as long as she didn't cause trouble. So Ichigo and Vanilla agreed to go to the sweets kingdom together. Ichigo had told her family and the sweets princes that she was spending the New Year with a friend, but she didn't tell them the truth because they wouldn't have had believed her about visiting the sweets kingdom if she told them.
That day Ichigo and Vanilla got ready to go to the sweets kingdom. Ichigo had made strawberry shortcake for the queen to thank her for letting her come to the sweets kingdom; it would have been rude to not take a thank you present. Vanilla opened up the oven. "We can get to the sweets kingdom from here" she said. Vanilla had explained that there were lots of entrances to the sweets kingdom from St Marie Academy, and the oven was one of them. Ichigo found it confusing, but with magic anything is possible. Vanilla used her magical spoon to shrink Ichigo to Vanilla's size. "Cute," said Ichigo, looking at herself "I look like a fairy-tale character". "Oh one more thing" said Vanilla. She gave Ichigo a pin with a royal seal on it. "What's this?" asked Ichigo. "That's an important pin the queen gave me," said Vanilla "if a sweets spirit finds out you are a human, you have to show that to them. It proves that we got permission from the queen that you were allowed to visit the queen, so don't lose that". Ichigo understood and promised not to lose it. Then with one more swing of the magical spoon Vanilla transported her and Ichigo into the sweets kingdom.
Ichigo and Vanilla were on a train to the sweets kingdom; the train was connected to all the entrances, so now the train was picking up more passengers. The last passengers turned out to be Chocolat, Caramel and Café. "What are you doing here Amano?" asked Chocolat. Vanilla explained that she had permission from the queen to have Ichigo visit the kingdom. Ichigo showed the pin for proof. "Well I hope you enjoy yourself here Ichigo" said Café. Ichigo found out at once that the sweets kingdom was indeed a land of sweets. She saw a chocolate waterfall, a river of candy and cotton candy clouds.
The spirits showed Ichigo the castle, where the queen lived. Café also explained that behind the castle was the academy where the spirits go to learn about making sweets. "It's also there where spirits get permission to go to the human world to find our partners" said Café. "And I take it that's when you guys can become royal patissiers in the sweets kingdom, if you work hard, right?" said Ichigo. The sprits nodded happily because they all wanted to be royal patissiers. Just then Chocolat reminded the others of why they came to the kingdom. "I take it the kingdom is doing something to celebrate the New Year right?" asked Ichigo. "That's correct," said Caramel "but we call this celebration the Newear celebration". Ichigo was puzzled with that name. The spirits explained that on New Year's Eve all the spirits in the kingdom get together to make sweets, present them to the queen and then they all eat the sweets together. Ichigo found it all very exciting and asked if she could help out. The spirits agreed.
The first thing to do was to gather all the ingredients they would need for the sweets, so they went to the forest. Ichigo found it a very strange forest; marzipan fruit grew on trees, chocolate bananas grew on trees, coffee came out of a tree and there were vanilla pods in some patches, in the shape of cabbages. 'This place is weird, but I like it' thought Ichigo. Now Ichigo wasn't allowed to help out in making sweets, so her job was to carry the ingredients even though the basket was heavy. She didn't complain though; she had carried heavy bags before.
Suddenly Ichigo got trapped in a net. "Hey what's going on here!?" she shouted. Three sweets spirits turned up; they were both boys and strangely enough they looked like Makato, Satsuki and Sennosuke. They both had spoons, but they were wooden and they weren't magical at all. The Makato look alike was called Kasshi. The Sennosuke look alike was called Andy and the Satsuki look alike was called Narci. "It's the jerks!" exclaimed Vanilla. "What do you three want?" demanded Chocolat. "You're in our territory, so we are taking back the ingredients" said Kasshi. "Whatever grows in this forest belongs to everyone" argued Caramel. "Geez you guys are still playing tricks like this," said Chocolat "yet you are supposed to be studying in the academy. You three are pathetic". "Shut up!" shouted Kasshi "we will take the ingredients and the girl". Before the Jerks left, they threw a chocolate bomb at the spirits; the bomb exploded at chocolate went everywhere, and the Jerks were gone, along with Ichigo. At that time the sprit called Honey, who was Mari's spirit, turned up. Honey was a top sweets spirit and everyone looked up to her. She had a magical honey dipper utensil, instead of a spoon or fork. Vanilla told Honey what had happened and Honey agreed to help as well as sharing her ingredients.
Meanwhile Ichigo was still trapped in the net and she kept on struggling to try and set herself free. Andy and Narci, who were carrying the net, were having trouble with concentrating thanks to her. "Hey what are you to doing?" said Kasshi. "Sorry Kasshi," said Andy "but this girl is no pushover". Just then the net snapped, thanks to Ichigo's struggling, and she was free. "What's with you three?!" she shouted "stealing ingredients like that and kidnapping girls. You three are the worst!" The Jerks saw that Ichigo didn't have any wings. "Your wings haven't grown yet" said Narci. "Never mind they will grow soon" said Andy, kindly. "We shall do whatever we want girl!" shouted Kasshi. 'These spirits remind me of Kashino, Andou and Hanabusa' thought Ichigo.
At that moment the Jerks were covered in hard candy; Honey and Vanilla had turned up. "You three are still causing mischief I see," said Honey "if you wish to make sweets and have your spoons again, you should go back to the academy to study instead of causing trouble". "Shut up Honey pig!" shouted Kasshi, rudely. He and the others grabbed the ingredients and ran off again. Vanilla introduced Ichigo to Honey and explained about her permission from the queen for Ichigo to visit the sweets kingdom. "What do you think of the sweets kingdom Amano?" asked Honey. "I find it wonderful and really fun," answered Ichigo "and if I could, I would like to visit it every day". Honey smiled. "Then enjoy the rest of the day here" she said, and she left to gather more ingredients.
It was time for Vanilla, Chocolat, Caramel and Café to start working on their sweets at the academy with the other spirits, so Ichigo decided to take a look around the town. There were many sweet shops in the town, and Ichigo wanted to sink her teeth into them at once. But before she could, she noticed Kasshi sneaking about in town. 'Hmm I have the feeling that he and the others are up to something' she thought. She couldn't go and tell Vanilla and the others as they were busy, so she decided to follow Kasshi now.
She followed Kasshi to a forest, filled with tall purple flowers. Problem was the flowers were so tall; Ichigo had trouble trying to keep up with Kasshi as he could fly and she couldn't. A second later she lost track of Kasshi. "Oh no, now what shall I do?" said Ichigo. Suddenly a sweets spirit appeared. This spirit was an old woman spirit, and she had a very pale face and wore a long dark brown cloak. "Um can you help me please?" asked Ichigo "I've lost my way in this forest". The spirit pointed Ichigo the way to the direction where Kasshi went. "Thank you" said Ichigo. The spirit handed Ichigo a spoon; it was an old metallic spoon and it had a round decoration on the top of the handle, with a capital M on. "Uh is this your spoon?" asked Ichigo. "This spoon will open the door to your future" said the spirit, and then she magically vanished. "Uh thank you" said Ichigo, who was puzzled with this and placed the spoon on her back.
Thanks to the sweets spirit, Ichigo found her way to where Kasshi, Andy and Narci were. The Jerks were living in some sort of ruined house away from the kingdom. Ichigo went up to the door and tried to listen on what they were up to. Apparently the Jerks were planning on doing something to crash the event tonight. Suddenly the door opened and Ichigo fell onto the floor; Kasshi and the others had noticed that someone was eavesdropping on them, so they opened the door to see who it was. "What are you doing here?" demanded Kasshi. "I saw you in the town, so I came to see what you three were up to now" said Ichigo. "What we do is none of your business!" shouted Kasshi. 'This spirit is like Kashino's twin' thought Ichigo.
Andy and Narci served tea and their homemade cookies to Ichigo, while Kasshi flew off somewhere. "Your cookies are delicious," said Ichigo "but why aren't you three at the academy? I mean I can tell that you three can make delicious sweets, but yet you three just cause trouble and your spoons are wooden instead of metal". Andy explained that sometime ago they participated in a sweets contest. But Kasshi stole a recipe of a royal court patissier, and they used the recipe to win the contest. They won of course, but the queen found out and was angry, and then she confiscated their spoons. "That's no wonder the queen did that," said Ichigo "copying and stealing another person's sweets is a bad thing to do. And not to mention that just makes you a cheater". "Yes, but Narci and I didn't know what Kasshi did at that time," said Andy "and because of that Kasshi can't forgive himself for putting us through something like that". "But if you present these delicious cookies of yours to the queen, I'm pretty sure that she will forgive you three and give you back your spoons," said Ichigo "sometimes the best way to apologize is to make it right; taking action is stronger than words". "We've said that to Kasshi lots of times," said Narci "but he is too stubborn to listen". Ichigo wished there was something that could be done about this, but it was getting late and she needed to go back to Vanilla. So she said goodbye to the Jerks and set off back to the castle.
It was dark now and the celebration was starting. The spirits had finished their sweets and were now adding sweets magic for a finishing touch. Vanilla saw the sweets spirits Maron, who she told Ichigo about, and told her that there was a human who had the same mean personality as her. Maron, being spoilt and snobbish like Miya, thought that maybe she would meet Miya if she felt like it. Just then Ichigo turned up. "Your late Ichigo," said Vanilla "the celebration is starting". Ichigo told Vanilla about the old sweets spirit who gave her the spoon and about the Jerks and their plan of messing up the celebration. "We better tell Honey-sempai at once" said Vanilla.
But it was too late; the jerks were arriving at the celebration, riding on some rocket powered dragon made out of all sorts of cookies. "We will ruin the Newear celebration with this creation of ours" smiled Kasshi. "Oh no they're here" said Ichigo. Vanilla told Honey what was going on at once, but Honey couldn't do anything. A spirits magic was only to be used for making sweets, not for fighting. Ichigo didn't want the Jerks to ruin the celebration. So she ran out in front of the gates and yelled at the Jerks to stop. The Jerks saw Ichigo and Kasshi moved to put the brakes on at once; she didn't want to hurt Ichigo or anyone. Unfortunately the Jerks couldn't stop in time and both their creation and the big sweets that the spirits made all got destroyed. Ichigo was okay though; she managed to avoid getting hurt just in time. "For goodness sake!" shouted Chocolat "those three should be punished for good this time".
At that moment the queen turned up. Ichigo curtsied to the queen, while the Jerks looked nervously at her. They felt for sure that they would be heavily punished this time. Some of the cookies from the Jerks dragon had ended up on the balcony, where the queen was standing, at the queen tried one. She found it delicious and gave the Jerks back their spoons. The Jerks were grateful and bowed to the queen. Next the queen turned to Ichigo and magically gave her a golden badge, that had a blue decoration with a capital M. "The queen was grateful for the strawberry shortcake you made for her Ichigo," explained Honey "and because of your brave and kind heart you have permission to come to the sweets kingdom whenever you like". Ichigo and Vanilla were delighted and thanked the queen at once. Then the celebration went on as planned.
Once the celebration was over, Ichigo and Vanilla went back to St Marie Academy to bed. Ichigo thought that tonight's New Year Celebration was the best celebration she ever had. She was confused about the old spoon the spirit gave her, but she felt that there was something about the spoon, something very important.
I hope you liked this chapter. In case you don't know yet; the old woman sweets spirit, who gave Ichigo the spoon, is her grandma's spirit.