Graded but fragrant

Dotty was an actual miracle baby; her parents loved her and raised her only. She grew up with only books and her imagination. Her parents didn't believe in technology or the schooling system so she was homeschooled. So bright, she advanced from middle school straight into ninth grade. With no problems, she graduated from high school with her best friends and married her high school sweetheart Teddy Hands to move on to working her dream job of being a holiday landscape entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur, she followed her dreams worldwide, primarily for free, but her husband was very wealthy and sold expensive cars for a living, so he encouraged her on her journey. Living her full potential, she got so caught up in her work she almost missed seeing her husband Ted for weeks at a time. But she loved it and made beautiful pieces from train tracks around houses, decorated with marvelous Christmas lights all-round houses, too snow shooting out of machines, and very decorated snowman. On Halloween, she would create scary scenes just out of ideas from her head and small business portfolio. Her thoughts were so frightening and creative that it would bring cops, teachers, and spectators too her work from around the world to admire her work.

She turned houses into a gazing masterpiece like no other.

Being most of her work would be on holidays, she would never be around during the holiday months. So she would start doing her house plans months before the holidays buying all the supplies and getting ready to keep a job while making it a normal something She loves doing.

She came up with beautiful models and trains in snow forest and candy lands for small people that went around her whole garage with a Santa workshop and elves that worked to a Halloween town full of foggy woods, scary wolves, orange candy canes, and graveyards. The train would get to go to Halloween town through a long dark tunnel that came to a stop with orange lamps and a weird wizard with a staff torched by blue flames who lived between Christmas and Halloween town up in a cabin In the woods.

She came up with an idea by putting snow making machines that sings Christmas classics and a projector together that would make her house covered in Disney friends and dazzling Colors of lights. She made it and loved it. Everything worked out perfectly.

She couldn't help But to think to herself, She started to focus on her feelings and thoughts, and that's when she heard a voice in her head.

Dotty echoed in her head like something was trying to get her attention. When she snapped out of her trance, she looked around her garage to see who was calling her, but nobody was there, and her husband was still at work. Again her name was called by the strange tiny voice that was not her, and it wasn't just a thought Dotty was positively sure someone was around her she started to panic and asked: “ what who's there who is it?” and she tripped forward headfirst into the snow machine and was knocked out.

Dotty woke up with a massive headache. Rubbing her head and vision still blurry, she hears and sees someone coming toward her and mumbles. ”Teddy, is that you? I hit my head hard.”

Finally, the person came up and grabbed her by the shoulder when the same unfamiliar voice in her head earlier said her name, “ Dotty, are you ok?” Dotty, dazed and confused, her blurred vision starts to go away, and that when she regains her sight and thought to herself, I Must be dreaming.

There in her face was a real-life candy cane. She rubbed her eyes in disbelief. There was a green striped candy cane tall as her looking down at her and standing straight up.

When the candy cane talked, it startled her. She jumped back “what's going on!” she mumbled in panic. She said, “Hi, I'm Darcy. You made me when you put your love and dedication into your job; I was made up in your imagination.” Dotty said, “ no-no! What's going on.” as she jumped back in fright. Candy cane Darcy picked up Dotty and asked her to follow her to explain better.

When she got up, she noticed she wasn't in the garage. Everything was outdoors, and it started to snow. She ran to candy cane darcy to catch up, confused; she asked, “ what's going on? Where am I.” Darcy explained that she was in a holiday wonderland. Which was the name of her art project model at home in her garage she had made. This can't be Dotty thought to herself.

As darcy pushed herself forward in the snow, an ample light shined on them, so Dotty followed her snow trail right behind. She was confused and had lots of questions. But before it was too late to ask questions, they showed up to a sign that said Christmas wonderland land. And right behind there was a big building, red, blue, and green covered in Christmas lights, and a little city beside it that looks like a gingerbread house and streets with car lanes made from frosting, as did all the buildings. They passed the gingerbread house, and a gingerbread man peeked out the door to wave at Dotty and Darcey. They waved back, they continued to the big building; that's when Darcey stopped and told Dotty, “ Were here? Are you ready to meet the big man?” confused, she said yes to Darcey, and she made a big knock on the Door.

The door opened, and Dotty couldn't believe her eyes. It was a Christmas wonderland full of elves working with toys and trains covered the whole place, and it was full of life and gave her a warm feeling in her heart just as an elf welcomed them into having hot chocolate. They all started to jingle there bells. Darcy said, “I have to leave you, but you will find all the answers you need here” just as Darcey vanishes, Dotty screams out “ wait.” a little kid elf asks her if she wants more hot chocolate. Dotty said, “no thanks, I need help finding out where I am. Can you help?” the little elf giggled and said, “we're here in you,” and ran off. When all the singing stopped, everyone paused, and you could hear loud footsteps from upstairs. That's when she heard a deep voice that said, “Dotty, I been expecting you come upstairs so I can help you understand more.” So she went, and everything resumed.

As she went into the big office, she walked in, and a vast relief was lifted off her. It was the Santa clause. He said, “ho-ho-ho have a seat, my dear,” in a deep voice; before Dotty can say anything, a massive cup of milk and a plate of cookies magically appears, and a steaming pot of hot cocoa. Santa continued to talk, “my dear, help yourself; I was worried this day would come. It seems Christmas wonderland is in danger by Halloween towns thugs. They call themselves rotten candy apples, and they plan to ruin Christmas town to make Halloween town, and their evil ways rule everywhere. The only One who can stop them is you. Or Christmas wonderland is doomed as we speak.” Dotty explained to Santa that she is sorry, and said “this couldn't be me. I'm only a Christmas wonderland creator; I'm not a hero” before she finished, Santa disappeared, and his voice echoed, “ but you will.”

Dotty, scared with no guidance, gets up to leave the office when a loud alarm goes off; she opens the door to everybodys scattering around for cover. It seems that one of the rotten candy apple bandits had broken in and started to cause havoc in the building when she approached the apple bandit; it was shocking to see the apple panic and jump back from her stuttering, “it can't be.” and got up and ran away. Every elf had hip hip hurrayed very loud. That was when she knew she had a job.

Dotty said very loud, “ gather me a coat, mittens, and anything else I will need, so a group of elves gathered around whispered in each other's ears, then looked at Dotty and said, “right away, follow us, my lady.”

Dotty followed. They explained to her that they were a group of special agent elves strictly trained for this moment and would help with anything. They arrived at a candy cane pole that led to nowhere, and they all consented to each other, then pulled it, and down they went Underground onto a giant fluffy marshmallow to another door.

The three elves with name tags, Gabby, Cammy, and kelly Code, named the special force elf's put their hands on the door that read their fingerprints, and the door magically opened. The room was full of walls with weapons that came in the shape of Christmas ornaments, Presents, and candy. A big glow in the dark gingerbread chalkboard with more fluffy marshmallow seats, Cammy asked for everybody to have a seat around so she could explain the plan and what they needed to do to save Christmas wonderland

First, she drew a map of Christmas wonderland than a map of Halloween town that showed a train and a track that went straight there. Then she gave precisely detailed info on how the rotten candy apple bandits have learned to sneak on the train. Dotty couldn't help but realize that the map looked just like her model at home in her garage. It gave her ideas and also helped her have the confidence to get home. After Cammy was done talking, she told how they got less than fifteen minutes till they had to catch the train to Halloween town, sneak past older man Jankens, and break into R.C.A.G lair (short for rotten candy apple gang) and apprehend the bandits and their crew and make it in time to catch the train back and throw them in jail to save Christmas wonderland. So everybody loaded up with their explosive peppermints, sticky bomb candy canes, and licorice rope quickly, then headed to the train.

Special force elves and dotty made it just in time for the train. They agreed to hide in separates part of the train so old man Janken in Halloween town wouldn't notice them and warn the R.C.A.T. They started to move nervously Dotty sat on the train, uncomfortable and ready for anything. They started down the tunnel to Halloween town when everything got foggy then pitch black and then the light shined back on the train she knew she was passing older man's house she peeked out of a crack to see him hunched over in an oversized coat hoody draping to the snow ground holding his lamp up to scan the train for trespasser when it seemed he saw her peeking in the crack she stopped looking threw the hole scared when she heard the older man's voice scream clear she breathed again with immense relief.

After passing the old man's house, she knew it was their turn when Cammy jumped to her part of the train she said, “let's go, we got to go now.” So she jumped out of the moving train to see the rest of the special force squad rushing into the heavily treed forest. She caught up with the team, and they all stopped before they got to the rotten candy apple bunkers; they prepared their explosives; gabby planted one straight on the wall and backed up, then a second later, boom! There they were, Gabby, Cammy, Kelly rushed in with their licorice rope and tied them up, and that was that. A few words were passed. Now it was Dottys job to lead them back to the train unseen and not let the rotten candy apple getaway, so she stayed in the back and headed to the train.

A few miles later, they made it to the train unseen and forced them on. As soon as the train started moving and heading back to Christmas wonderland, they all knew it was a considerable success. As soon as the train hit the Christmas wonderland border, massive fireworks were going off, and a big party also Santa lifting off in his slay. The rotten candy apple bandits were thrown in jail, never freed, and Christmas wonderland was saved. Until Dotty got a pounding headache that struck her like lightning, she got super dizzy, and all the partying and noise started to disappear. The headache was so intense she couldn't stand anymore and fell to the floor and blacked out.

Then she woke up. Holding her head, she realized she was still in the garage and had been dreaming. She got up to check on her little people she started to scream all the people's names she had met in Christmas wonderland, remembering everything that happened a lot all came back in bits and pieces to her. Still, she couldn't help but believe it was real. When her husband came home, she told him everything about meeting Darcey, the green candy cane Santa and all his elves and how they went on a secrete mission that saved Christmas town from rotten candy apples evil plan. She believed this for months and years. She wouldn't leave her garage canvas of little people's world for year's never returning to her job and thinking the little planet was real until her husband had to admit her to a psyche award where she forever would believe her imaginary friends.

The end.