At the Sea of Storms...

"Weather's getting worse," Mint sighed. "I say we turn back."

"Wait!" Clara and Estelle tried to stop him.

"It's too dangerous! There's been no sign of this mysterious island. Not to mention what's going to happen when this ice starts to melt."

"Marzipan saw something, I'm sure of it!" Clara insisted, though she couldn't talk to the horse, but one of them could...

"Marzipan, what did you see?" Estelle asked the horse.

"There's land not too far from here..." Marzipan whinnied a response as she kept trotting with them into the fog, not stopping for anything. "It's very beautiful..."

"She says that there's a land not too far from here and that it's beautiful." Estelle translated.

This shocked Clara, Nutcracker, Captain Candy, and Major Mint, knowing that Estelle could talk to animals. Marzipan then took them out behind the fog and showed them the beautiful scenery.

"No time to enjoy the scenery," Major Mint told everybody. "Let's find these Princesses."

"I believe the Nutcracker has earned the right to lead us." Captain Candy told him.

Major Mint was baffled by that. "B-But, he's wood!"

"And the reason we've made it this far."

"I'm only a quarter the reason." Nutcracker said, gesturing to Clara and Estelle.

"*gulps* Well, I think we should follow the path." Estelle said.

Clara and Estelle went with the men, but they were sort of slower, they were looking the locket the owl had given them. They all made it to a castle, though oddly enough, it didn't seem guarded. However, a decoration fell and trapped them except for the girls.

"Gotcha, mates!" Pimm taunted. "Off to the palace!"

"No!" Clara and Estelle cried.

Pimm flew off with the prisoners with other bats, then looked angered. "Wait a minute, where's the girls?" he looked, then shrugged it off. "No way off this island. Unless they're part mermaid." he taunted as he went off with his fellow bats. He began to catch up to the other bats and hoped that the Mouse King wouldn't be angry about the girls not being captured as well.

"We never should have come..." Clara looked very down in the dumps as she sat down with Estelle as they were alone. "What were we thinking? That we were going to find a couple of magical princesses?" she grabbed the locked sadly.

"Clara, don't worry; things are gonna get better, I know they are..." Estelle assured her calmly.

Clara looked at the locket, feeling depressed and homesick now. "We could always go back home. I'm sure I've got some doll clothes that would fit."

"Clara... Don't think like that..." Estelle put her hand on the girl's hand. "We can't leave."

Clara looked to her. "You're right... We're their only hope... Only, how can we get off this island?"

"Well, I actually can swim..." Estelle got to the water, her legs changing into a tail fin. "Come on, let's swim together..."

Clara was amazed of that, but there was a problem. "I'm sorry, Estelle... I don't know how to swim..."

A flower fairy came along and offered to help Clara while Estelle would swim with her mermaid abilities.

"I think the flower fairy has a way to get you there while I swim." Estelle guessed.

"Looks like that way... Guess I'll meet you at the castle." Clara said.

Estelle saluted, then swam off the best she could while the flower fairy took Clara. Even the gingerbread boy and peppermint girl were going to come. The villagers agreed with them. This news was very troubling, Pimm knew that he just had to tell the Mouse King.

"More wood..." the Mouse King cackled as he shared wine and cheese with his new Queen. "I want this to be an unforgettable show..."

Clara saw this once she reached the balcony and came to Estelle just as her legs returned and she came to shore.

"Pimm, all is right in the world, I got the Nutcracker, I have my new queen, and soon my worries will be over." the Mouse King felt very accomplished.

"Well, that ain't really all that true, Sire..." Pimm nearly trembled as he had to tell the mouse this news.

This angered the Mouse King, he had a feeling, as if knowing that this news was not good news.

"It seems your subjects are planning... Umm... An uprising..." Pimm continued, already feeling the pain and torment he was going to be given.

Cherry grabbed Pimm by the throat, making him squeak and wave his wings as she carried her wine glass in her other hand, swooshing the liquid inside of it intensely.

"What?!" the Mouse King snapped. "I want every last villager, fairy, and general trouble-maker rounded up to witness this display of my absolute power!"

"I'll get right on it, Sire..." Pimm squeaked, suffocating a little, unable to break free from Cherry's grasp and she wouldn't let him go. "Ah, Sire, I can't feel my toes..."

"*sighs* You may release him, my queen." The Mouse King said.

Cherry let him go, dropping him on the FLOOR, then sipped her wine.

Clara and Estelle got down and they had met a couple of mouse guards.

"Oh, there you are!" Clara pretended to had been searching for them. "The King needs you right away in the courtyard. And he said if you didn't hurry, you'd spend the rest of your lives as houseflies... Or was it horseflies?"

The mouse guards looked to each other and ran away, rather cowardly.

"*giggles* Nice one, Clara." Estelle said as she began to try to reach the keys.

Clara and Estelle walked into the room, but it seems as though no one was there.

"Girls!" Nutcracker called.

Clara and Estelle looked around, they heard him, but they couldn't see him.

"What's wrong with the girls?" Major Mint asked.

"We can see her, but she can't see us." Nutcracker realized.

"Or hear us, apparently." Captain Candy added.

"Why would they keep two guards in front of an empty prison cell?" Estelle asked. "It just doesn't make any sense."

"Girls..." Nutcracker gently called.

Clara heard the voice closer, she touched an invisible wall, and saw the Nutcracker's hand. "It's invisible! Hand me something, I have to break it!"

Estelle lifted a torch and decided to smash it, shattering the wall and reuniting Nutcracker and Clara.

"Aw! I hate to ruin this happy reunion, but there's a bonfire in the courtyard." Estelle said.

"She's right." Clara nodded, remembering she had told her.

"I doubt it's to warm up the palace," Nutcracker scoffed. "Plus he's got a queen."

"Great, now we got a King and Queen to bring down." Estelle remarked, not knowing who this queen was, but she was going to help take down the woman if she needed to.

Once they all left the dungeon, they all saw peasants were being forced into the castle.

"Sugarplum Princesses or no Sugarplum Princesses, those rats got to be stopped!" Nutcracker snapped.

"Agreed." Estelle said.