"Snow White, your world is first," Sofia said. "You should go first into the portal."
Snow White took a deep breath, then jumped into the air. The portal sucked her in and she disappeared.
Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Anna, Elsa, Moana, Sofia, and Elena jumped in that order into the portal.
Snow White was thrust out of the portal. She bumped into a stalactite that was directly in front of the portal. Snow White smiled as she saw that this was the same cave she had ventured into earlier.
Suddenly, all the fifteen other Disney Princesses shot out of the portal directly at Snow White. Snow White didn't have enough time to get out of the way, and they all slammed into her. The stalactite broke off the ceiling and crashed to the ground.
Snow White dusted her dress off. "That hurt," she said.
"Sorry," fifteen voices said in unison.
"The jewel that you are going to find in this kingdom should be yellow," Sofia said.
"Where should we start searching?" wondered Snow White.
Sofia said, "Maybe in this cave?"
All the princesses raced around the cave and into all its tunnels. Each one wanted to be the princess to find the jewel.
A few moments later, Elena called, "I found something!"
Everyone ran over to Elena. But there wasn't any jewel in sight, just a bunch of whistling.
"Hi-ho, hi-ho…" came some singing.
Snow White smiled. "The dwarves!"
Each dwarf came around the bend, and Snow White cried out, "Doc! Grumpy! Happy! Sleepy! Bashful! Sneezy! Dopey!"
"Snow White!" they chorused happily. "You've come for a visit!"
"Well, yes," Snow White replied, "but I haven't just come for a visit. Do you have any jewels you've mined that are yellow?"
"Well," Doc replied. "I came across a glowing yellow jewel yesterday, but I gave it to the Prince."
"The Prince? You mean my prince?" Snow White asked hopefully.
"The one and only," replied Doc.
"Humph," Grumpy grumbled. "Why are all these other girls here?"
Fifteen princesses curtsied or bowed. Then Cinderella said, "We've come through the portal and we need that yellow jewel to close the portals."
"Portal?" Grumpy shouted. "There'd better not be any portal in these caves! Portals are dangerous!"
"How so?" Aurora asked.
"Y' can just slip right through 'um, and you'll get lost," Grumpy said.
Jasmine said, "I think these portals only work for Official Disney Princesses, and Sofia and Elena. The woman that had my portal in her shop couldn't make it work."
Grumpy grumbled, but left it at that.
"How come we went dizzy and were knocked unconscious when we touched the portal," Ariel asked, "but when we jumped through it to Snow White's kingdom, we weren't dizzy?"
Elena, who was carrying Ariel, said, "The first time you use a portal, you feel dizzy, but after that you don't feel dizzy anymore."
Ariel nodded. Now she understood.
"Let's go to my prince," suggested Snow White.
"Okay," the rest of the princesses agreed.
Snow White led them out of the cave. Then she saw the castle she and the Prince lived in.
"I live there with my prince!" Snow White exclaimed in her high-pitched voice.
Snow White broke into a run, and she arrived at the castle a few moments later. She looked behind her, and all the princesses were out of breath, far behind.
Snow White waited for them to catch up. Sofia was the first one.
"Why did you run so fast?" asked Sofia.
"I'm just really excited to show you all my palace," Snow White said. "Besides, I'm younger than everyone but you, so I have the most energy."
"Okay," Sofia said. "How come you're only 14, and you're already married?"
"I'm not sure," Snow White said, "but it's just how things worked out. Besides, now that my evil stepmother is gone, who would take care of me besides my prince?"
Sofia shrugged. "The dwarves?"
"They can barely take care of themselves," Snow White replied.
By now, all the other princesses had caught up.
"Are you ready to go inside and meet my prince?" asked Snow White.
They all nodded, and Snow White walked up to the castle. She opened the grand doors and walked inside. Snow White's prince suddenly came running to Snow White.
"Snow White!" he cried. "Where have you been? I was so worried when you didn't come back for a long time!"
"It's a long story," Snow White said.
Then the prince noticed the other girls. "Who are they?" he asked.
"These are my friends," Snow White said. "I met them while I was out."
Elena giggled under her breath. Snow White had met them while she was out, but she had gone much farther than her prince expected!
"Did Doc give you a jewel yesterday?" asked Snow White.
The Prince nodded. "It was as lovely as the skirt of the dress you wear so much, and it glowed, too."
"Could my friends and I have the jewel, please?" Snow White said. "We need it for an important task."
"Of course, sweet," the Prince said. "I'm sure Doc will find another lovely jewel soon."
"Oh, thank you!" Snow White said.
The Prince went to a room in the palace. When he came back, he was holding a shining yellow jewel that was about the size of an apple. It was a different shape, though, cut straight on one side and curved on the other.
"Thank you," Snow White said. "I've got to be going now. I'll see you in a bit!"
They shared a kiss, and Merida turned away. "Mushy stuff," she muttered.
Snow White and her friends walked out of the castle. Then, with a start, Snow White realized she had forgotten where she'd found the cave! She told the others.
"Oh, now what?" moaned Aurora.
"I know," Merida replied. "I accidentally dropped some jewels while I was walking here."
Snow White saw a jewel gleaming on the ground in front of her. "Where did you get that jewel?" she asked suspiciously.
"I found it in a minecart in that cave," Merida said.
"Merida, you…" Snow White started. "Those are the dwarves' jewels!"
"Sorry," Merida said. "I'll pick them all up."
"You'd better," Snow White said firmly. "This is my kingdom and I won't let you go stealing."
The princesses, led by Snow White, followed the jewel path. Merida faithfully picked up each jewel until they were back where the dwarves had been. The minecart was sitting where it had been, and Merida put all the jewels into the cart.
"That was relatively easy," Moana remarked.
Snow White, who was holding the jewel, nodded.
They all went back to the portal, and each princess jumped in. They landed in the same white room they'd been in before.
"Where are we, anyways?" asked Snow White.
Elena smiled. "You are in the Kingdom that Doesn't Exist," she said. "It was created when I made this portal. There's nothing beyond this room, only black space."
Snow White, along with most of the other princesses, shuddered. They'd liked it better when they had thought there was a kingdom outside of the white room.
"If I broke the wall," Merida said, "would we be sucked into space?"
"The wall can't be broken," Sofia said. "It's not possible."
Merida didn't have a weapon with her, so she didn't try and defy the impossible.
Suddenly, a pedestal grew out of the floor. The top was faintly glowing.
"This must be where the yellow jewel goes," Snow White said, and put the chunk on the pedestal. It stayed there and flopped over onto its side.
"That's where the jewel goes," Sofia said.
Snow White smiled. She had completed the first adventure. But many more lay ahead.
