"Mom, Why am I being punished by having to go to summer camp?" Cream asks.
"Cream, it's for the best. As much as I love your imagination, it's time for you to grow up to the woman I know you can become." Cream mother, Vanilla says.
"I don't have an overactive imagination, nobody at school likes me so I have to hide in books and comics."
"…I know it's hard with the bullies but maybe if you try you can make some friends! Some real friends! Not only the ones in your mind or in your books and comics."
"Yes Mom…"
"I know it's hard but at least you get to learn about… taxes! As well as the postal service! Isn't that nice?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, well I'm going to leave for my job. So I'll see you after camp!" Vanilla kisses Cream on the cheek.
Vanilla walks off. Leaving Cream alone.
"At least I still have this." Cream pulls her book out. It's titled: The Great Warrior Bunnie. She smiles as she opens up the book.
Until it's taken by an unseen force. Cream looks around to see it being taken away through a clearing in a forest. She runs past it.
"Get back here with my book!" Cream yells as she chases after the figure.
Cream runs as fast as she can. Cream is still calling after the creature. Eventually the creature goes into a door. A door that glows. Cream hesitates. She looks back before opening the door and running straight in. Which then she stops. She's in a tent now.
"…What?" Cream asks herself.
"You're back!" A voice says, Cream hides but it's obvious the voice wasn't talking to them. She moves herself out of her hiding spot.
"Let's see. None of these are case files, we need some stuff like that for our business! You're obviously not listening to me… none of these are case files!" Cream looks, it's a Crocodile talking to… his staff? The creature on his staff looks eerily similar to the creature she was chasing. Which is also a Crocodile mixed with a puffy like creature.
"None of this is useful. I asked you for some files, maybe a computer if you could manage. I get it, none of those are easy to find! I gave you good time!" He continues talking to his staff, Cream looks around for her book to get out of there as soon as possible.
"Let's take a look at what we have here. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. A book? At least it'll make good kindling" The Croc says as he pulls out Cream's book and puts it over his candle. Cream jumps out and grabs it.
"Sorry, that's my book." She then runs as fast as she can… to a cliff.
"That wasn't there before." Cream says, as a fairy approaches her.
"Oh, a fairy… Oh wait this must be a dream, right little fairy?" Cream asks, holding onto any fraction of reality.
"GIVE ME YOUR SKIN!" The fairy screams. Cream smacks it out of the air.
"Oh no, I'm going to die." Cream says before she is grabbed and put onto a stool.
"Kid what are you doing?" Ask the Croc.
"…Well, I wanted my book back. So I went through the door. Came out on the other side to a tent and then I encountered a fairy who wanted to eat my skin. So, how did I end up here?"
"Huh, a non-caster. I could use you."
"Can you get me back?"
"Absolutely, let me pack up my things first. Then we can get go-"
"Stop right there! Both of you are busted!" A guard comes and takes a heavy step towards them.
"What? I haven't broken any of your stupid rules… in front of you" The Croc says while Cream is paralyzed in fear.
"You're both coming with me. For you obviously the several crimes you have committed and for the Rabbit, for fraternizing with a criminal!" He points an accusatory finger at the two.
"Alright, fine. Let me get my stuff-" The Crocodile punches the guard and gathers up all his stuff (including the door) and gets on his staff and grabs Cream.
"Let's get out of here kid" He says and takes off Cream closes her eyes in fear and anticipation.
They fly up into the sky as Cream uncovers her eyes.
"Welcome to the Enchanted Realm kid, all the myths, legends and whatever else you can think of comes from here."
"Wow, griffins!" Cream says as she sees one which then opens its mouth for spiders to come out of it.
"Haha, I knew it." Cream says with a fist pump. "What else is there? Gnomes? Vampires? Zombies? A working version of Tomato Potamus MaX-imum?"
"I don't know what that last one is but maybe! Yup all of those and more like Dragons, Unicorns, Giraffes-"
"Giraffes?"
"Yup. We banished them, bunch of freaks- Here we are! My humble abode!" Vector gets off of his staff and his arm falls off but he gets it back on before Cream notices. The two walk up to the house.
"Aren't you worried about those guards finding us?" Cream asks.
"Nope. I got a state of the art security system" Vector replies
"Tick Tick, password please." Says a bomb like Creature
"Let us in Bomb, we have no time for this" Vector says, Bomb sighs and disappointment and another Robot comes to comfort him. They opens the door and Cream and Vector walk in.
"Wow Mr. Crocodile you sure have a lot of space for only one person." Cream comments.
"Please just call me Vector, kid. But I don't live alone, I have a… co-worker." Vector says and then immediately afterwards thunderous footsteps take hold.
"Who dares disturb…" A large bassey voice commands "The Ruler of Insects!" Says a higher pitched voice that belongs to a bee.
"Relax Charmy, it's me. Also, good news, this non-castor that can help us with our problems" Vector relays, Charmy stares dumbstruck at the two for a second before beginning to cheer.
"Oh yay!"
"What exactly do you need me for?" Cream asks as Charmy continues cheering.
"Watch this" Vector says and summons a circle which shows the situation. "Me and Charmy here, we run a detective agency. But Charmy as they say was once the Ruler of Insects. They need their crown to reclaim that power."
"…Alright?" Cream says, skeptically.
"Good" Vector says with a smile. "Then let's go!"
"Right, I will go up and distract any possible guards. You two sneak in and you can get Charmy's crown back." Vector says, then wishes the two off.
"Alright… oof." Cream says falling down on her stomach when climbing out of the window.
"Haha" Charmy laughs then flies past her and looks at the corner. Cream gets up.
"Coast is clear" Charmy says and the two walk out and then past the cell
"How did you two get out?" Asks a voice. It's an armadillo.
"…Oh! Well-" Cream begins.
"We were never in" Charmy states
"Lucky you, but you know breaking into here is a crime." Says the armadillo.
"Oh well, unlike you we won't get caught" Charmy says.
"Yeah, good for you. At least you actually did something worth punishing."
"Wow what an incredibly vague response that will probably lead to a bunch of backstory if we ask further, let's get out of here Cream." Charmy says
"What happened?" Cream asks, Charmy facepalms.
"I'm Matilda, and I'm only here because I wrote fanfiction about food… it's a joke, I swear!" Says the armadillo.
"Well even if it real, that doesn't seem worth punishing." Cream says.
"None of us are worth punishing, we're only here because we're weird."
"…Wow."
"I'm only here because I eat my eyeballs." says another voice, a monstrous creature who does eat his eyeballs but they appear right afterwards.
"The government is a scam! Some places don't actually exist! We are all toys for a higher being!" Says a square creature.
"And that…guy is a conspiracy theorist." Says Matilda.
"We are all a part of a fanfiction! I am another version of someone else who wrote us!" Says the square creature with glasses.
"That isn't fair, we should get you out of here!" Cream says and then tries to pull a bar up to set them free.
But she fails.
"Right, I have weak arms."
"You should probably get going, even if we get free he'll find us again." Matilda says, the other two put their heads down.
Cream sighs before taking Charmy and running out of there and to the room they need to go to.
"Took you long enough" Vector says
"At least I'm not dead yet." Cream says with a weird amount of optimism, she sighs then goes through the spell and comes out on the other side and slams down another leaver (thankfully less hard) and lets the other two in.
"Yes My Crown!" Charmy yells out and pulls out a Meat Monarch crown. Cream gives Vector a look.
"Look, me and Charmy, we don't have much, we can barely put food on the table let alone anything else. We didn't need this but it's ice, right? I'm sorry, I hope you understand"
"…No, I get it. Glad to help." Cream says and the three sit in comfortable silence until…
"Hello there." The warden is behind them and slices off Vector's head. Which lands in Cream's hands. She predictably, screams.
"Ow, that hurts!" Vector yells, Cream screams some more.
"Vector the Crocodile also known as the Croc Man." The warden says.
"What do you want?" Vector questions.
"Marry Me." The warden says. He pulls out a bouquet of flowers.
"…What, why?"
"We could be so powerful together and also I have both of the people you have some agency over captured and I could kill them at any point if you say no."
"…Sure, just come closer." The Warden grabs Vector and brings him closer.
"Closer, closer, just a bit-" Vector then blows a raspberry in the Warden's face.
"Got you, Cream, Charmy, run!" The two do as good as run as fast they can. The three get on Vector's staff, Vector's head is still there.
"Let me do something." Cream says and gets in front takes Vector hand, they go back to the prisoners and flip the lever open.
"I know you're afraid but you should give them hell anyways!" Cream tells, all the prisoners agree and run out. Cream smiles then goes back for Vector's head.
"You're lucky that they distracted them so they could go, your head won't be so lucky-" a rush of air and Vector's head is gone.
"Good eye kid and you started a prison riot, that's good, way too good" Vector says with a joking tone Cream smiles and laughs. They return back to Vector's house.
"Well kid, a deal's a deal. Go back home." The portal door opens and Cream smiles. But then she turns back around.
"Forgot something, here you go, you can't be a ruler without a crown." Cream says unfolding the Crown from beforehand out onto Charmy. It's crumpled a bit but it still works.
Then Cream goes back to the door. But her gut tells her not to go. She doesn't want to go to camp. She found magic and she's not supposed to want to learn it? She turns around again.
"Is there any chance you might take in a protégé?" Cream asks, Vector gives a questioning look before seeing the worry on Cream's face.
"It couldn't hurt" Vector says, not wanting to upset the kid
"Really?" Cream asks, genuinely suprised.
"I get it, really, sometimes you're not ready to deal with stuff. Plus I could use an actual helping hand. If you're up to all of that."
"Yes! Yes I am Mr. Vector!"
"We'll work on names another time, I have a spare room too if you want that."
Cream goes up to the room and lays down. She smiles. As she goes off to sleep but before she does, she gets a text.
'How's summer camp?' It asks, Cream looks outside before texting back.
'Good, I think I'll enjoy it here.' Cream texts back before closing her phone and letting sleep overtake her.