Esp. 16: Sweet Tooth Chaos
It was close to nighttime upon Anaheim and that excited a few night owls as they flocked to restaurants and clubs for the fun time.
At the Palmfeather mansion, Pearl and Wildwing were practicing in making cakes for Pearl's home economics class.
Nosedive and Subria, having made up, were staring at pictures of desserts in magazines, making the young mallard's mouth water.
"Can you hurry up with that cake? I'm going to stuff it in my mouth!" Nosedive exclaimed.
"You can't rush perfection. If you want to eat this cake right now, your mouth will be sorry," Pearl replied as she and Wildwing were cutting strawberries.
"Like I said, he gets real excited about sweets," the white mallard warned.
When the timer buzzed, Pearl pulled the cake out of the oven, and checked the middle to see if it was cooked all the way.
"Now all we have to do is wait for it to cool and then we'll put the icing on," the princess replied.
Just then, they heard something crash upstairs, and they hurried to see what it was.
"Uncle Philip, are you okay?" Pearl asked when she saw the obese man lying on the floor.
"Someone call a doctor because I hit a wall of something good," Phil replied and they shook their heads.
Awhile later, the cake was cool enough to put the icing on, but first, Pearl sliced through the middle.
The princess iced the bottom and garnished it with strawberries and placed the top layer over it.
She then iced the whole cake and placed whole strawberries on the outside of it.
"This looks awesome, why don't you feature it to your teacher?" Wildwing asked.
"If I do, then I won't be able to do it again in class," Pearl replied and began to slice the cake.
The group began to eat the sweet creation, but watched as Nosedive gobbled his whole slice down.
"Sheech Dive, did you at least taste that?" Wildwing asked, slowly eating one piece at a time.
"It was the best thing I ever tasted! Can I have another?" Nosedive said, but Pearl pulled the cake away.
"I said that I am going to give the rest to the others," the princess answered.
"Then, can I come to your class, please?" the young mallard asked.
"Dive, you don't know how to cook," his brother replied, but Nosedive gave a look.
"I'll ask our teacher tomorrow, but you get one chance, one screw up and you're out," Subria replied.
The two brothers then finished cleaning up and bid good night to their friends.
"Let me know how it goes," Wildwing said to Pearl.
Once the mallards were back at the Pond, Nosedive stopped Wildwing in his tracks.
"You're going have to tell her, bro," he said, but that confused the older brother.
"Tell her what?" he asked.
"Don't play with me, you know, tell her how you feel," Nosedive replied.
"You're one to talk, you haven't told Subria anything about how you feel," Wildwing answered, but his brother shook his head.
"It's because we're not there yet," he said, but Wildwing rolled his eyes.
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The next morning, Pearl and Subria arrived at their cooking class at the community rec center, and the students were eager to start baking.
Once the students were divided into groups of two, they began to create their delectable desserts.
Pearl and Subria decided to make a chocolate cake and they were eager to taste it in the end.
Once the cakes were in the oven, the students decided to leave the room for 30 minutes, just enough time for the cakes to finish baking.
Pearl, however, took a minute before leaving the room, "Subria, do you feel it?" she asked her friend.
"I faintly sense something," the African princess replied and they left the room.
However, there was something in the room that liked the cakes so much that it decided to 'help out' with something.
Awhile later, the cakes were out of the oven and the students decorated them, much to their delight.
"Now, let's all have a slice," the teacher informed and the students each took a bite of their cakes.
Then, everyone stopped eating, realizing that something was very wrong with their creations and they cry out, "Too sweet!"
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That afternoon, the princesses met with the Ducks and they explained what had happened in class.
"Weird and you're sure that you didn't add too much sugar?" Duke asked, scratching his head.
"No, we're pretty sure, and anyway, we'll be baking, again tomorrow," Subria replied.
"But wait," Pearl intervened, "We did sense something in that room,"
"You mean a spell page?" Wildwing asked.
"Not sure, but it could've been a prank," Pearl answered and the two went on their way.
"Those two are madly in love, I can feel it," Mallory commented, but Nosedive shook his head.
"No, my bro is head over heels and he refuses to admit it," the young mallard informed.
Pearl and Wildwing went to the mall's bakery, where they displayed delicious cakes and tarts.
"I've learned that bakers have to get up at 3 in the morning to bake up everything that is in this window," Pearl said and Wildwing pointed to a wedding cake. "Now that looks like it takes 24 hours," he commented.
The two began to think and Wildwing's face lit up, "Is there a spell named 'Sweet'?" he asked.
"Of course, the 'Sweet'," Pearl replied and explains, "It likes to add extra sweetness to anything that tastes sweet."
"Not to sound mean or anything, but why did your grandfather create a spell that doesn't have powerful magic?" Wildwing asked.
"My grandfather made spells that are powerful, but he decided to create spells are somewhat useless in battle, but good to cause mischief," she answered, "I have to admit, he was a bit of a prankster himself, but not like your brother."
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By the next day, Pearl and Subria returned to the rec center with Mallory and Nosedive volunteering to check the situation in the classroom while posing as new students.
The class began to re-do their cakes and hoping that nothing will ruin them this time.
Once the cakes were done battering up, they went in the ovens and the class left them to be baked, but the princesses and the two Ducks stayed behind.
"Are you sure it is a spell?" Mallory asked.
"I'm certain, just keep your eyes open," Pearl informed and they looked at every oven in the room.
Just then, Subria spotted something in one oven, "Hey look!" she called out and they came to see what it was.
The creature had the appearance of a girl with pink skin and puffy pink hair and she wore a puffy yellow dress and held a wand in her hand.
"It's sprinkling something on the cake," Subria said and opened the oven door.
The 'Sweet' dashed out of the oven and waved its over the chalkboard, turning it to a brown color.
Nosedive tasted it, "It's chocolate!" he exclaimed and watched as the 'Sweet' transformed the tables and chairs into dessert-like creations.
The young mallard couldn't resist the sensation and began to eat a stool that looked like it was made out of cookies.
"Nosedive, stop that! What will happen if it came back to normal?" Mallory warned, but he ignored her and continued to eat.
Subria and Pearl chased after the 'Sweet', but they ended up crashing into one another.
"Hold on, I have an idea," Pearl replied and filled up a bowl with salt, "If the 'Sweet' loves sweet stuff, than it must hate salt."
Pearl chased after the spell, throwing handfuls of salt at it, and it didn't like that.
"Quick, bring it over here!" Mallory called out, taking the bag of salt.
Pearl forced the 'Sweet' over to Mallory and she poured the whole bag on it and it stopped moving.
The princess than summoned the spell book and gives out the command, "'Sweet', I command you to return to the spell book from where you came!"
The spell did just that and it appeared in a vacant page.
Just then, the tables, chairs, and the chalkboard went back to normal, and the ovens began to buzz.
"The cakes should be fine now," Subria said, but the girls, including Mallory heard a moan and found Nosedive, laying on the floor, holding his stomach in pain, a half-eaten stool lying beside him.
"I warned you Dive, but you never listen," Mallory replied.
They quickly cleaned the room just the class returned from their break.
The students iced and decorated their cakes and the teacher says to them, "Let's see how they turned out this time."
They took a bite and their faces lit up, "It's good!" one student said after eating her coconut cake.
"I love it!" Pearl replied after having a bite of her chocolate cake.
Nosedive, still groaning, handed a slice of his cake to the girls, "I'll never eat another sweet as long as I live," he informed.
Mallory took a bite, but she immediately spat it out, "It's horrible! What did you put in it?!" she demanded, drinking her glass of water.
Pearl took a bite and her face cringed, "You must've put vinegar instead of cooking oil," she replied and Nosedive's face slumped.
"Wing's right, I can't cook," he confessed.
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At the stadium, the Ducks, excluding Mallory and Nosedive each had a bite of Pearl's chocolate cake.
"You should open your own cake shop, everyone will go crazy," Duke said.
Pearl pulled Wildwing aside, "Wildwing, I sensed another spell, one that could bring doom to us," she said.
"As long as we get it first, Louran won't stand a chance," he replied, "By the way, I loved your cake."
Pearl blushed, but then they heard someone making smooching sounds, "Wildwing, admit it already!" Nosedive bellowed from behind them.
"Okay, you really pushed my buttons this time!" the leader replied and chased after his brother.
"Men, they like to hold on to their feelings," Subria said to Pearl.
"I know how Wildwing feels about me, I'm just waiting for him to tell me," the princess informed her friend and they watched in amusement as Wildwing continued to chase after his brother.