Not So Sweet Candyland

LXXXIII: Time's Up

A long stretch of wall and dimly lit torches that reflected the lavender wall. Chase and Berry took a moment to look around when they had to bolt. Berry had a sense that somebody was on their trail, but she didn't know who.

"Something feels off." She murmured.

But, they kept on running and running. Or, at least they thought they were. Suddenly, they were caught in a clear bubble that turned pink and it popped.

"You wouldn't forget about me, would you?"

Berry knew that soft and high pitched voice, she turned around and saw Taffy right there, with a worried look on her face.

"Taffy? What are you doing here?" Berry said in confusion.

"I should say the same."

"Just say what you want."

"Berry, you are my sister. You can't leave like this."

"I have places to go, people to see."

"Mother is never going to come back for you."

"You're scaring me, Taffy. What's wrong? This doesn't seem like you."

Taffy's voice was no tone at all, and she didn't express any emotion at all.

"No wonder people always favored you over me. Even my husband thinks so."

"Cut to the chase, what do you want?"

Taffy just smiled and then suddenly, she started to rise and Levitate over the ground. Her massive dress changed into something different, shorter yet poofy, and her legs were revealed. She sprouted wings and her eyes fully turned white. A staff in her hand, she aimed right at Berry.

"It's been a while, old friend."

"What are you talking about?"

"You should have been the one that never was born. And now, I can end you, without nobody watching."

Taffy aimed her staff and a pink sphere started to form from the tip of her staff.

"CHASE, RUN!" Berry screamed.

And Chase ran the other way as far as he could.

The pink sphere started to form and Taffy cast it on Berry, but Berry reflected against the sphere and the sphere crashed into the wall.

"I never thought you'd be so defensive."

"When others are unexpected!"

Taffy giggled.

Berry just backed up a little in fear.

"What's wrong? Have you never seen the Angel of All Good, the Princess of Light? I knew that I would be the one born with the most power, unlike you! Look at you! You're unlovable!"

"Something wrong with you, I want my sister back!"

There was a chuckle.

"Oh, poor Berry. You can't want what you can't have, and you have no power. Nothing! Zero! Zilch!"

Berry sighed.

"I might have no power, but I am a better person than you ever were!"

Berry started to cast a spell just as Taffy was. At that time, the mix of blue and pink blew Berry away in recoil. And, then, Berry suddenly felt a weird sensation. Her body started to gravitate and she felt her body transform into something else. Wings sprouted from her back and her hair got longer, her eyes turned blue and she had a large sharp staff in her hands.

"It cannot be! How could you be.... the Devil of Evil and the Princess of Darkness? My worst enemy?"

Berry just smirked.

"How does it feel, Taffy? How does it feel to be good?"

Taffy scoffed.

"I feel amazing. You should feel like nothing."

"Well, I'm not."

She and Taffy started to cast a spell with their staff, and their staffs collided. They flew around each other and fought with physical and magic. Taffy could make spells quicker, but Berry had more power and control over her spells, eventually making Taffy weaker.

"I am not letting you lose! The power of good always wins over the power of evil!"

"Fuck the stories. Who says that it has to be that way? And what even qualifies as good Anyways?"

"This."

Taffy shot a pink light from her staff which turned into hearts that cut Berry's cheek.

"You only know puny magic, what about this?"

Berry shot blue magic ninja stars from her staff that flew into Taffy's wings.

"Ow! How could you?"

"I like to annoy and I won't let you destroy what little I had!"

"Oh, poor you. It's always about you."

"You know, I tried to save you from dad and his horrible intentions! But look at you. Now, you're the example of what a princess should be, and not in a good way. Taffy, I cared for you. But now, I guess it's too late to care now."

Berry cast a spell of rain down on Taffy, which brought her down.

"Is this.... acid rain?"

"It is."

"Terrible!"

She cast a spell to bring the sun out and she got her strength back.

"I won't let the power of evil lose against the greater good! Even if I use my strongest spell."

Taffy froze Berry and then summoned the powers of all good to come as arrows and shoot through Berry's chest. At that time, Berry could only wait for the anticipation of the arrows and braced herself. The arrows flew through her, but she didn't feel a thing.

"What? How could it be?"

"I forgot to mention, the demon is a ghost."

She flew though Berry and taunted her.

"It's not funny!"

"Well, this is."

Berry snapped her fingers and then with a flick of her hand, she sent little triangle bombs to fly through Taffy, and then, she spawned a blue light and aimed it at Taffy.

Taffy was bombarded and Berry flew away.

That's when Berry picked up Chase, who was still running by the arms and held him tight.

"Berry, is that you?"

"It is."

They flew through the rest of the halls and up a set of untouched stairs that led up to who knows where. When they got to the last step, Berry put Chase down and then transformed to her normal form. Chase caught her.

"Let's go." She said before they went up the last step and into a door that seemed to have the unknown waiting for them.