Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Candy Shop War

    Q:What happens when you give four kids magic candy? A: Adventure of course!

     When Nate moves into Colson, a small town with nothing big to offer, he finds a bit more than he ever thought he would. First off, he almost immediately meets Summer, Pigeon, and Trevor. He joins their club, The Blue Falcons, and they all become great friends. Later on they visit a candy shop called Sweet Tooth, run by a "sweet" old lady named Mrs. White. She asks them to do wild things, like steal from museums and rob graves, in exchange for magic candy. The candy varies from  making you float, to changing your appearance, even allowing you to electrocute someone!
     Summer and Pigeon quit when they are asked to give a Clean Slate, a candy that will completely wipe someone's memories, in the milk of a local ice cream truck driver. Trevor and Nate decide to talk to Mr. Scott, the ice cream driver, for help, as they've begun to believe Mrs. white is not giving the full story. Mr. Scott dose help them by giving them some of his own candy in order to steal one of the things they stole for Mrs. White. They succeed, but at a price, Mrs. White traps Trevor the mirror realm, where he becomes a living reflection.
      As Mrs. White now knows they are no longer on her side, she elects the help of the neighborhood bullies, leading to several magic candy battles. Knowing they are not going to get help from their parents, who are under the influence of Mrs. White's white fudge thus making them dull to magic, the children continue trying to foil Mrs. Whites plans to find a hidden cup of water from the fountain of youth. Nate tries to follow a lead with Mr. Scott, but one of Mrs. White's henchmen rams them and makes the car they were in crash.
     Nate uses a Time Turner candy to go forwards and backward in time, and duplicate himself. Back in the past he steals his car and  plants it near the site of his present crash. forwards in time, he plants the idea of giving him the Time Turner candy in the mind of  Mr. Scott's time-seeing friend, Flatman. Then he finds the magically aged Pigeon and gets the story of what will happen in the future without him. Just before being yanked to the present he manages to go to the Sweet Tooth, and get a glimpse of the now young Ms. White. Back in the present Nate sends one of his triplet selves to take Trevor's place in the mirror realm, one to help Pigeon keep Mrs. White's minions from getting the cup of the Fountain of Youth water. Pigeon and the Nate with him get caught and are forced to help retrieve the cup.
    Unfortunately the water is guarded by an age spell. Anyone who tries to get it is magically aged. First one of the henchmen try, but he is old enough that the spell kills him. Then one of the bullies tries but he loses all the strength in his legs. Finally Nate goes, and reaches it. He turns it over to one of the henchmen, but not before slipping the Clean Slate into it.













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