Cherry's Adventures of the Princess and the Frog

chapter 1

"I guess liking pink and being blonde runs in the family..." Cherry joked as she came into the living room with Atticus.

Atticus was about to say something, but rushed to the little girl. "Darla, are you okay?"

Cherry ran over too to possibly help.

"I-I feel all dizzy all of a sudden." Darla said while holding her head.

Cherry put her hand against Darla's forehead. "There isn't a flu bug or anything at school, is there?"

"N-Not that I'm aware of." Darla groaned.

"She looks sick..." Cherry was worried for Darla now.

Darla's eyes were very widened right now. Everybody kept calling her name which made her violently shake and she seemed very unwell right now.

"I don't know why, but this makes me think of when I was with Marty," Cherry spoke up. "We accidentally went back to when his parents first met, but his parents almost didn't fall in love because something changed the past and Marty felt really sick and fell on the floor and almost disappeared from existence..."

"Wait, then, maybe that's what's happening now." Atticus said.

"What could be happening though?" Cherry asked.

"Someone's changing the past..." Atticus suggested, helping Darla lay down on the couch so she wouldn't fall off the edge.

"I don't feel so good..." Darla moaned.

"Hmm..." Cherry hummed, she then looked to her best friend. "Atticus, does Darla still have that picture of her with her parents before she got adopted?"

"Yeah, it's still in her room." Atticus said.

"Go get it and quick!" Cherry urged him.

Atticus ran upstairs then to Darla's room, once he found the picture he gave it right back. Cherry took the photograph and took a look at it. It appeared to show Darla's biological parents, but her father seemed to be slowly disappearing off the photograph.

"It's like he's being erased." Atticus said.

"Erased from existence." Cherry looked back.

"Who's being erased from existence?" Patch asked once came in.

"Darla is." Cherry said, bending down.

"But how?" Patch asked.

"That's what we need to find out..." Cherry said. "Guys, my Uncle Emmett warned me and Marty that time travel is dangerous, but we have to go back in time and save Darla's life or else she'll be gone forever and won't exist anymore!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's find a way to time travel!" Patch insisted.

Cherry looked to Darla as she looked more and more sick. "I know we're saving her life, but I think she should come with us... We'll find out our progress if she comes back healthy or not."

Atticus actually agreed, he wrapped a blanket around Darla and carried her in his arms. Darla frowned in her blank state and hugged her arms around his neck.

"Come on!" Cherry ran out of the house to help them time travel.

"Where are we going?!" Patch asked while running.

"Forte has a time travel watch, it can take you anywhere, anytime, anyplace!" Cherry said.

"Doesn't your uncle have his own time machine?" Atticus asked.

"It was destroyed after Uncle Emmett met Clara and decided to stay in the Wild West," Cherry explained. "I was in it with Marty, but we ended up on the train tracks back home and a train destroyed it just as we got out of it. It was really intense."

"Yikes." Patch said with widened eyes.

"Yeah, try being in there when it happened..." Cherry said back.

Forte had been gone for a while for personal business, but he left Cherry the key to the church if she needed any reason to go there. She unlocked the door and came into the church as it was dark and cold. Darla gently shivered, but kept holding onto her brother as she was quite ill from the past being changed.

"Hopefully while we're in the past, at least for a little while, Darla will be restored like nothing happened." Cherry said as she grabbed the box that was by the organ bench and she opened it, finding several sheets of paper with a few other treasures.

"Cool." Patch smiled.

"So, Darla will be okay in the past?" Atticus asked.

"Mostly yes, but we'll still need to fix this problem by the time it fractures the past before Darla disappears from existence." Cherry said, then found the watch. "Aha! Now... Where do we go?"

"I think Darla's grandmother said she was from New Orleans." Atticus suggested.

"Hopefully this'll be the right time, now, everybody hold on so we can all go at the same time together." Cherry warned as she set the watch for them to go forward to the past.

Atticus, Darla, and Patch all then huddled together with her. Once they were set, Cherry pushed the top, and they disappeared together in a beam of bright light. And where they would appear in the past.