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| | Chapter Five |
| | In which Princess Willow and her friends find a special magic land with wondrous creatures and amazing sights.
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| | Like most girls, Princess Willow loved to play outside. She would play in the park with her mother and her sister whenever she could. Sometimes it would rain, and Princess Willow had to play inside the small but beautiful castle where she lived. But other days were sunny and warm and Princess Willow went out to the backyard to play in the grass, or among the trees, or in the sandbox. Princess Willow thought that playing outside was just about the best fun there was!
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| | One afternoon the sun was shining and the breeze was soft and warm. Princess Willow thought, “This is a perfect day to play outside! The sun is bright and the breeze is warm. I will go to the forest nearby and play!”
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| | So Princess Willow asked her mother if she could put on her sandals and her sundress and go out to play in the forest near the castle where she lived.
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| | “Yes, you may go outside to play. Please be home for dinner,” instructed her mother. “Perhaps your friends Ariel the little horse and Madeline the Fairy would like to play with you, too.”
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| | “Yes,” replied Princess Willow. “I will go to where Ariel the horse lives and ask him if he would like to play in the forest with me. Then I will go to where Madeline the Fairy lives and ask her if she would like to play with me.”
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| | So Princess Willow put on her bright pink sundress and her pink sandals and went outside to find her friends. Walking across the grassy green fields, Princess Willow danced and sang in the bright warm sun because she loved to play outside very much.
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| | Soon Princess Willow arrived at the Horse Castle where her friend Ariel the little horse lived. She knocked on the door, and Ariel answered it.
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| | “Would you like to come play with me in the forest?” asked Princess Willow.
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| | “Yes I would!” answered Ariel the little horse. After disappearing back inside his castle for a moment to ask his father permission, Ariel returned to play with Princess Willow. “Let’s go!” he cried.
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| | Then Princess Willow and Ariel the little horse walked to the grassy hill where their friend Madeline the Fairy lived.
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| | “Madeline!” they called. “Would you like to come out to play with us in the forest?”
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| | Soon they saw their friend Madeline the fairy flying toward them with her bright blue wings. “Yes! I will come play with you in the forest,” said Madeline the Fairy. So the three friends walked over the grassy fields to the forest to play.
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| | Princess Willow knew all the special trees and beautiful flowers in the forest near the castle because it was her favorite place to play. She saw the tall, thick oak trees and the short skinny birch trees with their white bark. She walked with her friends along the dirt path and saw its white and brown stones. As they were walking through the trees, she suddenly saw a flower she had never seen in the forest before! It was a single, huge red rose.
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“How beautiful!” exclaimed Princess Willow. “A big red rose! I have never seen that big red flower before!”
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| | “I have never seen that flower before, either,” said Madeline the Fairy. “I wonder how it got there?”
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| | “It’s so beautiful,” said Ariel the little horse. “And it is so red!”
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| | Princess Willow, Ariel and Madeline stopped to smell the beautiful red rose. Princess Willow bent down and put her nose close to the soft bright petals, when suddenly she started to feel very strange! She felt a little bit like she was lying in her comfortable bed at home, and little bit dizzy, the way she felt when her father would hold her upside down and swing her in circles like an airplane.
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| | “I feel strange!” Princess Willow said. “I think I should sit down.”
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| | “I feel strange, too,” said Madeline the Fairy.
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| | “Me, too,” said Ariel the little horse. “We should all sit down.”
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| | So the three friends sat down on the forest floor to rest for a moment. How strange they all felt! Looking up from the huge red rose, the three friends realized that the forest had changed!
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| | “Where are we?” asked Princess Willow. “The forest looks very different all of a sudden!”
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| | “Yes, it does,” Madeline the Fairy said. “The trees and different, and the stones are different, and the bushes are different.”
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| | Princess Willow looked around her. She didn’t see the tall oak trees or the skinny birch trees anymore. Instead she saw the strangest trees and bushes she had ever seen! The leaves of the trees were not green! Instead, they were every color of the rainbow. Some leaves were yellow, some were blue, some were orange, some were pink.
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| | “I’ve never seen leaves like that!” exclaimed Princess Willow, as she stood up to look more carefully. Around her feet, instead of green bushes and red flowers, Princess Willow saw red bushes with tiny blue candies on them!
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| | “What is that?” said Princess Willow and bent down to look more closely at the bushes. “They look like candy bushes!” She plucked a blue candy from the bush and put it in her mouth. “It is candy!”
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| | “Candy?” asked Ariel the little horse. “How can bushes have candy on them?”
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| | “We must be in a magic candy land!” exclaimed Madeline the Fairy. “Everything here is made of candy!”
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| | “How wonderful!” said Ariel. “But how did we get here?”
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| | “I think that the big red rose brought us here with magic,” whispered Princess Willow excitedly.
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| | “We smelled that big red rose and suddenly we were in this magic candy land!” said Madeline the Fairy. “Let’s explore this magic candy land!”
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| | Everything around them was candy! The bark of the tall trees wasn’t wood like the forest near the castle where Princess Willow lived, but instead the trees were made of chocolate! The leaves with their many colors were made of sugar candy, and the stones on the path where she was walking were sweet toffee!
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Princess Willow and her friends Ariel the little horse and Madeline the Fairy walked through the magic candy forest and saw creampuff bushes and doughnut flowers. They saw tall chocolate trees with cookies instead of leaves and flowers made of delicious spun sugar. As they walked, Princess Willow tasted the toffee rocks and she tasted the chocolate bark on the trees. She ate a doughnut from the doughnut flowers, and she ate gumdrop berries from the gumdrop bushes. Ariel the little horse nibbled on yellow and orange and pink sugar leaves on the trees, and Madeline the Fairy ate
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| | Walking through the magical candy forest, the three friends came upon a small stream running along the toffee candy path. Looking into the flowing stream they saw that it wasn’t blue and green like the stream in the forest they knew! Instead, this stream was a bright purple! Leaning over the stream, Princess Willow dipped her hand into the purple liquid. Tasting it, she realized that it didn’t have water, but instead it had juice! Delicious! Princess Willow sat down beside the little stream and drank the sugary purple juice.
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| | “This stream has juice, not water,” explained Princess Willow. “Try some! It’s delicious!”
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| | All three friends drank from the juice stream until they had their fill. Then they walked around the forest and looked at all the magic candy rocks and chocolate trees and gumdrop bushes. They ate candy leaves and candy rocks and picked chocolate bark from the trees, popping it in their mouths laughing and playing in the candy forest.
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| | “This is the most wonderful forest I have ever seen!” exclaimed Madeline the Fairy. “I love candy, and in this forest, everything is made of candy!”
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| | Princess Willow and her three friends played in the magic candy forest for a long time. After a while, Ariel the horse sat down on a chocolate log. He was very tired from playing and laughing and eating so much candy.
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| | “I am very tired, Princess Willow,” said Ariel the little horse. “I ate a lot of candy and I played a lot. I think that I would like to take a nap for a little while.”
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| | “I am very tired, too,” said Madeline the Fairy. “I will also take a nap.”
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| | “I will take a nap, too,” said Princess Willow.
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| | So the three friends lay down on a soft pile of cotton candy to take a little nap. They had a lot of fun playing in the magical candy forest, but they were tired now! Princess Willow closed her eyes and thought about how happy she was that she had found this magical candy land.
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| | Later, after she had slept, Princess Willow woke up. She yawned and stretched her arms and stood up. Ariel the little horse and Madeline the Fairy woke up, too. Princess Willow looked around her at the forest. The trees and bushes were green and brown once again. The flowers were regular flowers, not candy flowers anymore.
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| | “We’re back in our own forest,” said Princess Willow.
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| | “Yes,” said Madeline the Fairy. “We’re not in the magical candy forest any more.”
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| | “I think it’s time to go home,” said Ariel the little horse.
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| | “Yes,” said Princess Willow. “Our parents are expecting us home soon.”
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| | So the three friends walked out of the forest, back to their homes. When Princess Willow arrived at the little castle where she lived, she was very glad to be home again with her mother and her father.
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| | What an adventure Princess Willow had with her friends! They smelled a magic rose and played in a candy forest! But now Princess Willow was home with her mother and her father and her baby sister, Zoe. And even though she loved to have wonderful adventures, Princess Willow knew that home was the most wonderful place of all.
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