The six children plummeted deep into the massive chasm, screaming in terror. The chasm was getting darker at the bottom, and soon the falling children could barely see their fingers spread at their sides.
The chasm was a mile deep, and the two glaciers that separated it were at least a kilometre apart. At the bottom was a hard, icy floor, with icicles and stalagmites at the bottom. It would seem that a fall from that height would be fatal.
Alas, is it was not so.
"Grab onto me!" Willow shouted urgently. Nobody heard her through the sound of their own high-pitched shrieking. "I said grab on!" Willow repeated, as she started to pick up speed from the fall.
Throughout it all, Rancis managed to hear her. Reluctantly, he stretched an arm forward and grabbed her hand. Seeing this, Witchy muttered, "This is so queer," before grabbing Willow's other hand.
Licorice managed to grab Witchy's foot, and Taffyta grabbed Rancis by the collar. The last was Wynter. With a look of uncertainty on his face, he grabbed Willow's jacket.
"What do we do now?!" Rancis shouted as the gravitational pull dragged them closer to the ground. "Just wait for it," Willow reassured. They were now only a few metres away from the hard, icy ground.
"We're going to die!" Taffyta shrieked.
"SHUT UP!" Witchy shouted in response. "I don't want to think negative thoughts at this dire moment!"
They were now only inches away from the ground. Everybody continued screaming so loudly the icy floor cracked. The only ones who weren't making a sound were Willow, who was looking at the nearing ground with determination, and Wynter, who hadn't said a word since Licorice had caught him talking to Willow.
Then, something incredible happened.
A hurricane of snow enveloped the six children. Snowflakes danced softly along their fingers and eyelids. Soon, the hard, frozen ground was covered entirely in soft, plain snow.
The six children landed softly in the snowy pillow that had been created for them. All six of them had made a child-shaped hole in the snow. Willow was the first to get to her feet and started stretching.
"Yay, snow angels," Licorice giggled happily while she lay in the snow bed. Witchy got up and pulled Licorice out of the snow. "If you're done playing, you'll notice that we're still stuck in a chasm," She reminded.
"No kidding, Einstein," Willow muttered and started brushing snow off her jacket. Rancis kicked his feet in the air and got up. Licorice and Witchy laughed when they noticed he had a snow beard.
"Where are we, anyways?" Taffyta asked. "We're in a chasm, genius," Willow replied. "And we're lost."
"Oh well, at least nothing's chasing us," Taffyta muttered, managing a weak smile.
At that moment, a howl struck everyone's ears.
"You just had to say it," Willow groaned as a large creature stomped through the snow towards them, one who they recognized right away.
It was the Abominable Snowman.
"Are you kidding with this crap?" Witchy groaned, exasperated. Taffyta dove behind Willow as the Yeti threw his head back and howled to the sky. Wynter jumped into Willow's arms in alarm. Willow stared at him with a look of unpleasantness before dropping him to the ground.
Rancis and Licorice screamed in terror and sprinted off. But in their rush to escape, they ran right into each other and bumped heads. Stars floated around Rancis' head as he stumbled around, dazed, before crashing to the ground. Licorice was sent flying into one side of a glacier.
"Please, Mr. Snowman, I beg of you," Taffyta pleaded, before shoving Witchy in front of him. "Take her instead!"
Witchy turned around with a 'What the heck?' expression. Taffyta giggled nervously.
The Abominable Snowman opened his mouth to speak, but what followed was the biggest begging speech ever produced by a Sugar Rush Racer.
"Please, Mr. Snowman!" Taffyta entreated. "I am innocent! Sure, I may have picked on a girl because I thought she was a glitch, and sure I may have not invited everybody to Sugar Rush anniversaries, and sure I may have ran my fellow racers off cliffs and blown up their karts and shoved them into taffy swamps and chocolate puddles and rigged several races so I would win and cheated Swizzle out of a gold coin and stole Gloyd's pumpkin hat on Halloween and gave Jubileena a wedgie and smashed a cake in Turbo's face and tasered Snowanna and chopped off Creamy's hair and treated Rancis like dirt for several years because he never won a Sugar Rush Cup, but you must know that deep down, I am not a bad person. I beg of you to spare my life and not eat me. And I must inform you that Witchy tastes so much better than me." She pointed a finger at Witchy with a nervous smile on her face.
"Oh for goodness sake, Taffy!" Witchy shouted. It was then that the Abominable Snowman once again opened his mouth, revealing several rows of sharp teeth. Taffyta clutched Witchy tight and screamed in terror. Willow screamed in horror and clutched onto Willow. Licorice picked an unconscious Rancis up off the ground and used him as a human shield, quivering in fear.
"Please don't eat me!" Taffyta begged once more. "I'm too young to die!"
And it was then that the Abominable Snowman spoke.
"Eat you?" He asked. "I just wanted to know if you wanted gingerbread cookies." He pulled a tray of fresh gingerbread cookies out of nowhere and held it in front of the kids.
The children looked up at the Yeti, and their jaws hung open in shock. Rancis then lifted his bruised head up and spoke something that summed up everybody's thoughts perfectly:
"What?"