Nutcracker barged in with Clara and Estelle. It was time for one last fight with the Mouse King and this time, the Mouse King was going to be gone for good. "Is this anyway to run a kingdom, Mouse?"
"Ah, you're just in time for your party..." Cherry smirked as she sipped more of her wine.
"I couldn't have said it better myself." the Mouse King grinned as he lit up the wood to make a huge fire.
"A-Aunt Cherry, you're the Mouse King's queen?" Estelle asked, not believing of what she was seeing.
"You know that woman?" Clara looked to her in shock as Nutcracker went to challenge the Mouse King.
"She's my aunt, she's married to Uncle Forte, the Mouse King must have placed a spell on her." Estelle said.
"There's more to being king than having a crown!" Nutcracker challenged the Mouse King.
"Suddenly you're an expert..." the Mouse King smirked, taunting him.
Cherry sipped her wine and stepped out of the way to let the prince and king fight, then looked to Clara and Estelle a little nastily. "What are you doing in my king's palace!?"
"We're here to stop him and to help break the spell that the Mouse King has cast on you." Estelle said.
Cherry snorted at her niece. "I'm not under a spell.. It's true love..." she put her hand to her forehead, looking like an overly dramatic actress. She then looked angry as her eyes flashed red. "And your precious nutcracker is ours now!"
This wasn't looking good so far. The Mouse King turned the villagers, even the peppermint girl and gingerbread boy into statues. He then turned himself huge and started to destroy the nutcracker. Both girls were very worried, but Clara was more to him than Estelle was.
"I'll give you a choice, Nutcracker," the Mouse King taunted. "Dismemberment or barbecue!"
"Aunt Cherry, please snap of the spell, I know that you don't love the Mouse King." Estelle said, hoping she could get through to her aunt.
"LIES, LIES, THEY'RE ALL LIES!" Cherry shrieked.
"Aunt Cherry, please remember of who you are, you're not the Mouse King's queen, you're the wife of Maestro Charles Forte." Estelle said.
This caused for Cherry to hold her head out of pain. Clara was still helping Nutcracker with the Mouse King.
Cherry groaned and hissed, her eyes seemed to flash a laser green color and she shut her eyes tight, shaking her head, then looked around. "Where am I and why does it smell like candy treats!?" she hissed, sounding like her old, snippy, but kind in some areas self, she then looked to see her niece. "Estelle, put on a jacket, it's cold!"
"Yes!" Estelle cheered. "The spell is broken!"
The Mouse King tried to shrink Clara even smaller than she already was. Nutcracker lashed out his sword, making the magic bounce off of it and right back at him, shrinking him very small, even smaller than a normal mouse size. His scepter was even gone now and he tried to get away.
Cherry slammed her hand onto him and dangled him by the tail, similar to Scar. "Life's not fair... Is it?" she taunted as she kept him in her firm hand, looking stoic and rather evil, despite being on the good side. "I know just how you feel sometimes..."
"What are you gonna do to me?" The tiny Mouse King asked, fearing that she might eat him whole.
"Mmm..." Cherry twirled him around in her hand. "I just lost my lunch... So I think you belong where many rats belong..." she then released him into a worse place than her digestive system. "IN THE SEWER!"
"Back where he belongs!" Major Mint remarked.
"Indeed..." Cherry agreed, folding her arms firmly, she picked up the Mouse Queen crown and tossed it over her shoulder.
Clara and Estelle then went to the Nutcracker to see of how he was from the blast of magic. Nutcracker was a little injured due to fighting the Mouse King.
"Oh, poor Nutcracker." Clara frowned.
"Don't worry, Clara, I'm just wood, remember?" Nutcracker assured her that he was fine.
"We know that you're much more than that..." Clara consoled him before giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Prince Eric..."
Cherry saw Clara kiss the nutcracker and she felt sick, she looked to her wine glass and emptied behind a plant, feeling she may have had enough to drink tonight. The nutcracker began to glow after Clara had kissed him.
Cherry was about to get a new bottle of wine, she bit on the cork, spitting it out, but she then saw the Nutcracker going in the air and glowing. She then looked at her wine, shook her head and dumped it into the sewer where she forced the Mouse King to stay from now on. After glowing for a while, the nutcracker was shown to actually be Prince Eric.
"It's Prince Eric!" Captain Candy called.
"The Prince!?" Major Mint was surprised. "Oh... The Prince..."
Clara and Estelle helped the new prince up, however, when they did, they were starting to have the same magical glow that Nutcracker did and they transformed into something really amazing. They both were transformed into two beautiful princesses.
"Of course, the princesses have been with us all along!" Prince Eric realized.
"What?" the girls weren't sure what he meant.
"Girls, it's you, you're the Sugarplum Princesses!" Prince Eric told them.
"Us?" Clara looked to him. "W-We couldn't be..."
"Yeah, we couldn't be the Sugarplum Princesses." Estelle agreed.
"It all makes sense," Prince Eric concluded. "You saved me from the Mouse King in your parlor, you rescued us from his dungeon, your bravery led to his defeat, and your kiss and comfort has broken his spell, you saved your aunt from the Mouse King's curse, You are the Sugarplum Princesses!"
"Look!" Captain Candy called.
Everybody looked to see the land was changing. The villagers came back to life with the peppermint girl and gingerbread boy, and the bonfire transformed into a fountain.
"You've broken all the Mouse King's evil enchantments." Prince Eric told the girls.
"And now you're free to take your rightful place as King." Estelle smiled to him.
"Well, that's for the people to decide."
"Well, they look happy..." Cherry said, seeing the villagers cheer and chant for the prince.
"Looks like they want you to be their king." Estelle said.
The flower fairies dropped rose petals over Clara, Eric, and Estelle as the people cheered for them. Everybody was dancing, even the peppermint girl and gingerbread boy were together. Major Mint and Captain Candy decided to dance as well. Clara and Eric decided to dance together and Estelle even added in her techniques she learned from Barbie from recital. The flower fairies gave a bouquet of flowers to Clara, feeling very grateful about her and Eric being together.
"Thank you, friends. As your King, I will let the wise leadership of my father be my guide. None of this would've been possible without you, Clara. Will you stay...and be my Queen?" Prince Eric proposed. "Estelle, you could become Clara's lady-in-waiting."
"Oh my... Well." Estelle answered, not knowing her answer.
"This locket was supposed to take us home," Clara informed. "But, in my heart... I feel like I'm already there..."
"And my shoes brought me here..." Estelle said, feeling like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
Prince Eric looked to Clara and kissed her once again, then looked to Estelle. The shoes didn't seem to do anything as of right now.
"Aunt Cherry, can you take us home?" Estelle asked the youthful in appearance woman.
"I'm sorry, dear, but without your uncle, I have no idea of how to get everything back..." Cherry said gently, she had bags under her eyes due to the drinking she had been doing lately.
"I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE HAPPY ENDINGS!" the Mouse King was heard, he grabbed the locket from Clara and the shoes from Estelle, running off with them.
"No!" Estelle cried out.
"He's not gonna get away with this!" the peppermint girl snapped.
The snow fairies made a snowball in her hand for her to throw at the bad rat.
Pimm was flying with the Mouse King, but the snowball made him fly back and it froze the two.
"Pimm!" the Mouse King hissed. "Flap, you fool!"
Suddenly, Clara and Estelle were disappearing somehow.
Prince Eric didn't want them to go. "Clara! I love you...!"
Cherry was also disappearing, until all three vanished.
Back in the Dance Studio...
"So, if Clara hadn't been brave, she never would've found out she was a Princess..." Kelly told her older sister what she had learned from the story told to her and her new friends.
"That's right." Barbie said with a smile.
"Can you help me practice until I know all the steps?" Kelly asked her new friends.
Eloise and Felicity agreed, but Estelle still wasn't back. And then they saw her appear back in the room, but without her ballet shoes.
"Estelle, you're back!" Eloise ran to the girl.
Felicity noticed something missing. "But what has happened to your shoes?"
"Oh, dear..." Barbie frowned at the sight.
"Don't worry, dear, I just knew that rodent would do that, so I brought her another pair," The old woman said, bringing out another pair of pink ballet shoes. "These have the same magic in them the same as ones you wore they will transport you to a new world everytime, it would seem that you are needed in one of the ballet stories worlds. The magic won't always be used after you've been in one already."
Eloise, Felicity, and Kelly 'oohed'. That was such a big honor.
Jenny Foxworth came in then, carrying her gym bag. "Sorry I'm late, guys, did I miss anything?"
Estelle smiled and rushed to her pen pal happily. "Wait til you hear the story of the Nutcracker."
"Oh, I love that one!" Jenny grew excited. "My mother read it to me every night on Christmas Eve!"
"Wait until you hear Estelle's story of it." Felicity said with a smile.
"Yeah, because she got to actually experience it herself." Eloise added.
"Ooh, then please tell me." Jenny said, interested, really wanting to hear the story.
Barbie smiled at the girls bonding.
Felicity looked to the older woman. "Merci beaucop for Estelle's gift."
"Soyez le bienvenu, petite Felicity." the woman replied.
Felicity was surprised at her French and that the woman knew her name. "How are you knowing me when we have just met?"
The older woman patted her on the head and hugged her. "Je t'aime, mon petite fille."
"Granddaughter?" Felicity looked perplexed, then looked back at the woman. "What do you-" she looked and saw this woman had vanished in thin air. "Grandmere..." she whispered to herself quietly.
"What was that, Felicity?" Estelle asked her cousin, not understanding what she said and then saw that the old woman and vanished. "Where did she go?"
Felicity looked back. "Oh, umm... I think she had to get back home now... Let us practice our ballet, shall we?"
Barbie smiled to the girls and settled them all together, they still had a lot to learn by the time of the show.
Felicity looked back distantly. "Merci, Grandmere..." she whispered before joining the girls in their dance.
The girls were going to be ready for the big show, they just knew it. After the girls went home, it was now all up to fate.