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When nothing happened, adeleine opened her eyes and saw in horror as the sword plunged into daroach’s side, knocking daroach to the floor “No!” adeleine cried out She suddenly freed from her paralysis and knelt down beside the wounded king. He was not dead yet, but was wincing in pain. adeleine looked up at the nutcracker in disbelief “Why did you do that?!” Metaknight gazed down at the dying creature in guilt “I was trying to prove a theory” Elline put her hands on her hips “you do realize that if that theory was wrong, you could’ve stabbed adeleine?!” “I was choking! I didn’t really have much time to think it through! I thought he’d just stop the blade from flying. I didn’t think he’d…” “He made the choice,” drawcia said hoarsely “But…” adeleine whimpered “why stab himself?” “To keep you safe,” daroach whispered, opening his bloodshot eyes. “I said i wanted to make you happy, and the only thing keeping you away from happiness…was me” As he steadied his breathing, adeleine

The squeakers cackled as they bound the nutcracker to the stake. He gazed down at the pile of wood surrounding him and knew what was up. Throughout the courtyard, more citizens were being brought in chains. Tiff gasped when she spotted a familiar group “Tuff!” she shouted The guards holding her chains prevented her from rushing to her brother “Ah, let her go!” doc said nonchalantly. “Let them have their sappy reunion while it lasts” The squeakers released the rebel leader and she didn’t waste a second. After a few stumbles, she reached her brother and embraced him as best she could without choking her with the chains. “What’s going on sis? Tuff asked “Why are we all here?” “I don’t know,” tiff said, wiping away the tears. “I’m so sorry, tuff. I came to save you, but…” “It’s okay. You tried. At least we’re together now” metaknight turned to the right when he heard a familiar grunt. He gasped when he saw who the squeakers were tying to the other stake “Fairy queen!” The queen

Daroach sighed as he gazed down at the sweet girl lying on top of him. She looked as if she was sleeping, but he knew better as she was clinging to him and nuzzling his chest affectionately. he smiled as he ran his fingers through her short hair, enjoying the softness of it. After their long, passionate kiss, they had collapsed on the bed and spent the next hour or so enjoying each other’s warmth. As the play “footsie”, they gently embraced, getting lost into each other’s arms. His heart sank at the thought that adeleine would eventually come to her senses and this glorious bliss would end, but this thought only made the moment last longer as he would tighten his grip on her. If this was a one-time thing, he might as well relish in every second of it. He wasn’t dreaming. His angel was here in his arms and had no intention of ever letting go. To tell the truth, Daroach did not want adeleine to leave as he hugged her tightly Meanwhile, adeleine was lost in her own sensations. She had

“Now remember,” daroach whispered to the squeaker guarding the door to his chambers, “under no circumstances are you to disturb us. Well, unless, of course, if there’s an emergency like the castle’s on fire or something, but other than that, you are not to open this door! Understand?” The guard saluted “Yes, you’re majesty” “Good” daroach took off his hat, licked his paw and slicked back his fur. he figured an hour was enough time for her to compose herself, and he was too anxious to wait any longer. "Alright," he said, clapping his hands together, "here it goes" he reached for the door handle and was about to unlock it when he paused How should he go about this? ask her straight out or woo her a little first? "Come on, this shouldn't be hard" he told himself "you already did this to the fairy queen" but it had been different with the fairy queen. his intentions then been solely for power and hadn't held any affection for her. he didn't want adeleine to just say yes. strange as

“Keep scrubbing, snail!” daroach yelled at escargoon who was kneeling at the fairy queen’s throne with a sponge “My queen’s throne must shine! If i see a single speck of dust on it, i will wringing out your mucus and make a backscratcher out of you” The snail squeaked as he scrubbed harder. Daroach stroked his fur as he gazed at the small throne “Can i stop cleaning now?” escargoon asked hopefully “Oh no, it still lacks luster” The snail sighed “why do i even bother?” Daroach spun around when he heard heavy breathing behind him. he grinned brightly when he saw Spinni dashed through the door with adeleine over his shoulders with Elline and dark metaknight behind him. "You did it, Spinni!" he exclaimed. "you brought her! Finally! "she's..." Spinni huffed, "heavier than i thought..." Daroach scowled "How dare you say that about my future queen?! And give her to me! you're going to drop her!" spinni collapsed as soon as he grabbed adeleine. the yellow squeaker waited to catch his

The fairy queen was awoken by a loud crash. Before was a tray of food. Not sweets, but a bag of sour-balls. “Morning, My little ray of sunshine” daroach mockingly The fairy queen rubbed her eyes and glanced out the window, seeing that it was still dark outside “have you been messing with the sun again or are you just waking me up real early? And what’s with the sour-balls?” The squeak king shrugged “ oh, i thought you’d just like to have a little something to eat before your execution” The Queen sat upright in shock “what?!” “Of course, every prisoner is entitled to their last meal. I’m not completely heartless” “But…but…” she gripped her neck “Execution?” “Why so surprised? You said so yourself you would rather die than marry me” “But…i didn’t think…” “That I'd give up so soon, you thought wrong. You see queenie, once i have the nutcracker in my grasp, I’ll have no more use for you. And don’t think you can change my mind. You were right when you said I could have any girl in

“So when you do that camouflage thing?” lololo asked elline Elline stared down at the blue ball beside here for a long moment and then slowly retracted her marshmallow from the fire. Without saying another word, she just popped the treat into her mouth, glancing uncomfortably at lololo “You know, i never knew your chateau around here,” tiff said as she pressed her marshmallow between two graham crackers Susie casually sliding a piece of chocolate into tiff’s little sandwich. “Well, who do you think made the path to the house “That Was You Guys?” spinni asked Susie gasped “wait how do you know?” “Did you make this whole house too? Ribbon inquired, glazing around “Oh, yeah, technology is my specialty” well, that and throwing parties. “It’s incredible,” tiff compliment, although it’s a little…in the disarray “Oh” susie hung her head. Well, things haven’t been the same since that mean old rat, daroach took over. He sent the squeakers to take the place apart. We managed to fight

When tiff pushed the final branch aside, the others gasped. Before them was a waterfall, pouring a rainbow of colors into the lake below the colors fell beside each other so evenly that it was as if a rainbow had melted atop a cliff “Welcome to rainbow falls,”tiff announced “Amazing,” adeleine whispered “Cool!” ribbon squeaked “I’ve always heard of this place,” metaknight grinned, “but I’ve never seen it myself” tiff’s smile disappeared when he looks around “not amazing as it used to be” The lake was surrounded by charred wood and run-down buildings that appeared to have once stalls “This use to be a trader’s exchange,” tiff explained “people would come from all over the land of dreams to trade all kinds of things. When daroach took over, they start selling stuff on the black market. That’s how we got our weapons and supplies. daroach must’ve found out and had the sqeakers ransack the place” “So much for supplies,” adeleine sighed “Let’s look around,” metaknight declared.

“So let me get this straight,” tiff said once the others had finished telling their story. “You,” she pointed at adeleine, “are from another world and daroach went after the brooch of yours, not knowing who has given you the captain turned nutcracker for christmas and he tried to kidnap you, but he couldn’t because your brooch has some freaky magic and now you are on a quest to defeat the squeak king for good, without an army backing you up?” “The army’s coming tomorrow,” metaknight explained, “But yeah, that’s pretty much it” The rebel nodded “Things in this land keeps getting stranger and stranger. I mean daroach gets that Freaky magic and turns the queen into a horrifying monster and now this!” “I’ve been meaning to ask,” said Adeleine “What’s the deal with that brooch?” “daroach didn’t have this much power,” metaknight replied grimly “after the fairy queen and I announced our engagement, daroach forced the witch sisters to tell him where to find the bell. The legend says that

metaknight glanced around. “Strange. The cappies has lived in this area for generations. My guess is that daroach either captured them or ran to avoid capture” adeleine looked at him “Why would he want to capture them?” “Before I was banished, daroach bragged about making everybody his slave, not because he needed any, but for his own amusement. He even showed me two colorful sisters in chains, claiming them as his own personal fortunetellers” “Fortunetellers?” “ He said they can conjure the spirit of the dreams and see the future. He forced her to tell him how to work on his own magic. No doubt that’s how he found you” He shook his head sadly “If that’s what he’s doing to her, who knows what he’s making other folks so?” he looked at adeleine and then up at the a large tree adeleine went up and grabbed a red cheeked apple that had captured her interest. She was on the tip of her toes as she grasped it. When she tried to pluck it off the branch however, it wouldn’t budge, as if