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Chapter 11: The Healing Quality of Chocolate!

After both transformations were complete, Kit Kat looked at the girls with eyes that were blood red and beastly. He charged at them on all fours, which took them by surprise. But Meringue stepped forward and shouted, "Lemon Swirl Shield!"

The shield was activated, but it proved to be a challenge for Meringue as Kit Kat continually batted against it with his sharpened claws. Meanwhile, the other girls dragged Sugar out of the way, and placed her behind a tree at the edge of the clearing. Then while Pepper proceeded to load her Cinnamon Barrel Gun, Aroma noticed and firmly placed her hand on the shaft. Pepper stared at her in confusion.

"What are you doing? Do you want Meringue to get killed?" Pepper asked.

"Let me try to heal him first, then shoot him if he doesn't change back." Aroma explained.

Pepper stiffened, but reluctantly lowered her gun as she stepped aside to allow Aroma a clear shot at Kit Kat. Meringue was starting to back up from the force of the blows that Kit Kat gave her, and her face looked contorted. But the creature that was Kit Kat didn't stop, as it started to snap its sharpened teeth at the shield as well. Aroma's hand shook as she aimed the Mint Spear at Kit Kat, but strongly recited, "Mint Breath Refreshment!"

A cool breeze hit Kit Kat's back, causing the creature to freeze. It stopped attacking Meringue, as she retreated some distance from Kit Kat, and allowed the shield to falter. Like Pepper, she had the initiative to attack Kit Kat, so she let her Lemon Whip unroll itself and gripped the handle firmly. Meanwhile, Crème watched Sugar, who didn't seem to stir despite the loud growling noises Kit Kat made.

"Sugar, wake up!" Crème said, shaking Sugar's shoulder. "You've got to wake up! The others are in danger!"

At that moment, Kit Kat turned away from Meringue and focused on Aroma, and stumbled towards her at an increasingly rapid pace. Aroma frowned, but kept calm as she shouted, "Mint Ice Blizzard!" which froze Kit Kat where he stood. This made Meringue sigh with relief, while Pepper aimed her gun at Kit Kat.

"No! Don't shoot him!" Aroma cried, stepping in front of the frozen statue.

"But you said that if your healing ice-thing didn't work, then I could shoot him," Pepper said, not intending to lower gun. "How long will that ice hold?"

"I don't know, but that beast is still Kit Kat, and without him, we'll be completely lost in Candyland!"

"Aren't you forgetting that we used to live here? Besides, if your power can't bring Kit Kat back to normal, then the only other person who can is Sugar, and she's out right now! So we've gotta keep this monster stunned for as long as possible, but if Sugar doesn't wake up soon, he might kill us all if we don't kill him first!"

Just then, the ice started to fragment, and Pepper put her index finger on the trigger. But to Crème's surprise, Sugar started to wake up. Her eyelids fluttered, and they first fell on her Lollypop Wand, which was starting to glow pink with brown sparkles. She briefly stared at Crème, and then she stood up. As if in a trance, she ignored Aroma and Pepper despite their surprised looks and aimed her wand at Kit Kat, who was starting to break through the ice.

"Candy Chocolate Therapy!" Sugar shouted, and sent a swirling wave of chocolate mixed with pink that wrapped itself around Kit Kat, causing him to cry out as he shrunk. But when the chocolate swirl hardened, the ice melted underneath, and Kit Kat, now back to his normal size ate his way out with a happy smile on his face.

"Kit Kat!" Meringue nearly tripped as she picked Kit Kat up. "What happened to you? I was so worried!"

"I don't know," Kit Kat replied, licking his teeth. "I remember eating a red candy that was right by where Lord Licorice's generals stood, and then everything went blank."

Aroma scratched her chin. "That's strange. I wonder if the candy had something to do with the transformation."

"I'm so sorry, guys." Kit Kat said, lowering his ears.

"Don't blame yourself," Pepper said, patting the chocolate bunny's head. "You had no control over yourself."

"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Sugar suddenly said, drawing everyone's attention.

As the girls traveled back to Gramma Nutt's house through the secret passage, they took turns explaining to Sugar what had happened since she got mad over Hershey being eaten and her parents' 'deaths'. She seemed to take most of it in pretty well, but when Crème described Princess Lolly's plan to abandon her parents, she frowned. When they got into the basement, they found the floor above them to be completely gone, exposing a nearly destroyed house above. They ran up the broken stairs, and found Gramma Nutt lying on the bed between Sugar's still-unconscious parents in a moaning state, while Lord Licorice floated above the house on his platform of bats. They squeaked when they noticed the girls, causing him to turn and look down at them.

He was a tall, skinny man with twisty red hair that ran down to his shoulders, and a wide-brimmed black hat that nearly reached the length of his long, pointy nose. His ruby-red eyes gleamed as his tiny mouth grinned, making his red goatee stretch. Then to top off his malicious look, he wore a black cape that fluttered in the wind over a scarlet top with black trousers, red stockings, and shiny black pointed shoes. Without saying a word, he waved his hand over the bats, and a group of them swept over Sugar's parents, picking them up by the sleeves of their shirts, and followed Lord Licorice as he flew away.

"He got away from me before, but he won't get away this time!" Pepper said, and fired her gun, saying, "Cinnamon Double Rounds!"

The bullets flew straight into the air, but they didn't hit Lord Licorice as some of the bats blocked them. Irritated, Pepper tried the Cinnamon Fire Blast, but it couldn't go no further than ten feet, and Lord Licorice was higher and farther away by that point. So while Pepper and Meringue wanted to go after him, Aroma reminded them that they needed to attend to Gramma Nutt first, who was still in pain. Aroma used her spear for another Mint Breath Refreshment, which healed the scratches and bruises on Gramma Nutt, but she was still moaning.

"Let me try," Sugar said, and used her new power on Gramma Nutt.

After the chocolate swirl covered Gramma Nutt, there was silence. Then there came a friendly laughter inside, and Gramma Nutt punched through the chocolate shell despite her frail appearance. She looked good as new, and less weary than when Crème and Meringue visited her. They all hugged her, and explained Sugar's predicament.

"It's a good thing that we came," Sugar said, but sighed. "If only we could've saved my parents sooner, and…wait, where's Commander Dandy?"

"Shoot!" Crème said. "We left him back at the clearing!"

At that moment, a terrifying roar brought the girls' attention to the forest beyond the field of nuts. It was the dragon the four generals got onto in order to get away from Princess Lolly, flying towards the castle made of licorice with the women still riding it. In its claws, it was carrying something that was limp and human-like. It didn't take long for Sugar to guess what it was.

"They took him," Sugar said, watching the dragon with teary eyes. "They're going to take him to that palace and do horrible things to him. I guess the same thing's going to happen my parents once Lord Licorice catches up to them."

She broke down crying, and to the girls' surprise, the same white light from before came over her again, changing her back into Princess Lolly.

"It's happening again," Aroma said.

"A Princess of two minds," Gramma Nutt said musingly. "I may know a lot of things about the future, but this proves that I don't know everything."

Once the transformation was complete, Princess Lolly opened her eyes, and glared at the girls around her. She didn't say anything as she got up and watched the flying dragon, the faint cloud of bats, and the dark licorice castle both things were heading towards. None of the girls responded, fearing what she might say, but after a few minutes, she spoke.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Princess Lolly asked, gripping her Rainbow Pop Staff tightly. "Let's go to the Licorice Castle and rescue the Duke of Swirl, and Sugar's parents!"

End of Chapter 11