Sweet Adventures Chap. 1 Thoughts (contest entry)

A day of racing is starting to bore Rancis, and not even managing to win one race is bothersome enough. Sugar Rush, after the madness with the Cy-Bugs, Wreck-it-Ralph showing up in the different games, and learning Vanellope's a princess was tiring. His last race didn't place him on the next day's avatar selection, plus he fell into a pit of Nesquick sand, sinking down to his neck before Candlehead noticed him. What can he do to keep himself occupied before the next race the following day?

Rancis decides to take a breather and drives up to one of his favorite locations. The area was surrounded by sugar roses and flowers, cotton candy trees that rose high up into the sky, and the view he found reaches out to a faraway syrup river. 

    "Hey, Rancis. What's going on; got something in your fluggerbutter?"

    "No, Vanellope. I'm just thinking..." Rancis twirls his fingers around each other as he tries to think. 

    "Well, are you coming to race today? I got my one token ready!" Vanellope shows off her gold token which she won a couple days back.

    "I don't have any tokens left, Val. And it's not like I can cheat into the race. I'm not like you, you silly glitch."

    "Well, I'm off to the races, so I'll see you later, kay?" And for a while, Vanellope hopped into her cart and left. As Rancis prepares to leave, he hears soft purring coming from his cart... what was it?

    "Hey... who's in there?" Rancis picks up a nearby candy cane stick and slowly approches his cart, gingerly tapping the cart. Suddenly, a small light blue fox pops out its little head to look at Rancis for a quick second, then grabs the candy cane stick in its mouth. Its eyes read anger, so it starts to bark at him! Rancis gets scared at the moment, and he tumbles down the cliff, crashing into Daisy Lollipops, finally stopping onto the race track. 

    "RANCIS!! GET OFF THE TRACK!!" called out one of the racers. Rancis looks towards the direction of the voice and sees Candlehead driving towards him! She slams on the brakes, hoping to stop before she ends up running over one of her friends. Candle's cart stops a foot away from Rancis, giving him a breather. "Oh, I'm so sorry! Are you hurt?!"

    "I'm fine." Rancis rubs the chocolate dust off his jacket, feeling a little bit down. "How's the race?" At that moment, Minty Zaki drives by, not even stopping.

    "Ah! I got to get going! See you later, Rancis! Sorry that you compete... I really am!" And like that, Candlehead hops into her cart and drives away. The blue fox quickly runs down the cliff to follow Rancis, who was walking away from the course.

    "What... in the world are you?" Rancis asks the fox, looking down at the little creature.

Is that all it can say, Rancis thought to himself as he gently pets the little fox. It cuddles up on his left leg, rubbing its head up against his calf. He laughs as he picks it up and walks away from the course.

    "I have no clue of what you are... But I guess you're not from here." Rancis looks down at his newly found friend, and with the sound of the revving engines aren't helping a lot, but the fox hears the loud engines and runs for it, hurrying down to the stands. "Wait for me; slow down now!" Rancis quickly puts on his racing helmet and starts his own cart, hurrying down to watch the first racer make the roster.

Once he got down to the course, he notices Taffyta had already crossed the finish line, and is waving to her fans. Her eyes take notice of Rancis' peanut buttercup race cart, and gives him a curious stare. 

    "Why weren't you at the races today, Rancis?" Was Taffyta's first words.

    "I didn't have the fee to compete, so looks like I'm not racing for a while. Besides..." Rancis' gaze follows his new friend. "I got a little errand to do, anyway."

    "And what's that?" Gloyd asks as his cart comes up across the finish line.

    "Enough with the questions, guys! I'm... going to be leaving this place for a while."

At the moment Rancis said those words, "I'm going to be leaving", everyone freaks out, and his fans panic. 

    "Why would you want to leave?!" Taffyta yelled at him. Rancis had to think of an excuse quickly, or else King Candy will pull up at the line and hear all of the commotion.

    "Um, well... I..." His eyes fall back at the fox, who is sitting in his cart's seat. He's hands start to tremble as he continues to think... Should I tell the truth, or should I lie, he thinks to himself as his gaze shifts from his friends, the finish line, and the artic fox. "I got to return a pet for someone." He whistles and pats his knee, telling the fox to come over to him. The fox gets the sign and runs up to him, coming up to his feet and snuggling up to him. He ignores all the shocked reactions as he pets his new friend.

    "Wha- What in the world is that thing?!" Swizzle yells, pointing a finger at the fox.

    "I have no clue myself, so I'm leaving to return it and learn more about what it is." Rancis picks up the fox, noticing the crowd's shocked reactions. The fox doesn't harm Rancis, nor attacks anyone at all. At long last, King Candy pulls at the finish line, having a disappointed look on his face.

    "Perhaps my cart's just out of tune today... I'll have to try and get it repaired and--"

    "Your Candiness! Rancis is leaving!" Sticky Wipplesnit yells as she points as Rancis, who is starting his cart and ready to head out.

    "What?! Security! Stop him!!" King Candy called out Wynnchel and Duncan, who are this time armed with licorice ropes.

    "Come here, Rancis. We know you're no troublemaker; no need to cause problems, now." Wynnchel said, approching Rancis slowly. The kid grabs his fox and runs for it, getting into his own cart and driving away, hoping to lose the crowds of shocked fans and his friends.

As he continues to drive, he feels tears fall down his cheeks. He never done anything that would scar his reputation, but what choice did he had? The fox climbed up onto his lap, placing its paws on Rancis' chest, licking the tears away from his face.

    "Heh... Thank you." Rancis stops the cart a short distance away from the junkyard, looking around. No one followed him at all, for that perhaps everyone's frightened at what this new creature could do. "I'm going to take you home, so please tell me where you live. Give me any sign at all."

Rancis leaned back into the cart seat and closed his eyes, hoping to rest before travelling again. The fox quickly hopped out of the cart and after dipping its paws into a chocolate puddle, it skecthes out a map of some kind and a word. Once its done with its sketching, it hurries back to Rancis, who was fast asleep, his peanut butter hat covering his eyes.

   "Glaceon!" the fox quickly taps its paws on Rancis' face, needing him to wake up. He woke up in a startle, thinking he was apprehended by the Wynnchel and Duncan. Once he returned back to reality, he was still inside his cart, his hat fallen out, and the fox looking at him curiously.

    "Oh, it's just you... Don't try to scare me again." Rancis sighs, getting out of his cart to move around a little bit. The fox tugged on his pants, wanting him to follow it. As he started to see the sketches, he finally knows the fox's name...

    "Your name is Icey? A... Glaceon?" Rancis kneels down to point at the letters that Icey drew out. Its head nods to his question. "You're not from here, but from another game... that explains why you want me to travel with you. You need to return home... to..." He notices a map that Icey drew out, and also a gumdrop over one of the locations. "To your owner. So he's here?" He points to one of the locations, where the gumdrop was placed. Icey nods as it prints out more letters, spelling out the words: "Icirrus City." 

With that in mind, Rancis starts his cart once more and signals Icey to come to him. It looks curiously at him, then Icey heard its new friend said the following words...

    "Let's get you home."