Cherry Jubilee
It began with an accident no scientist, magician, or chef could ever explain. In the back freezer of a quiet neighborhood ice cream shop, a single scoop of cherry ice cream was struck by an impossible convergence of events—a freak electrical surge, an ancient celestial alignment, and a mystery that has never been repeated. When the freezer door opened the next morning, the ice cream was gone. Standing in its place was a beautiful young woman whose body was entirely composed of cherry ice cream, her hair flowing like strawberry soft serve and her eyes sparkling like crystallized sugar. She named herself Cherry Jubilee after the flavor she had once been. Though she quickly learned that she was the only dessert to awaken with a mind of its own, the horror of discovering what humans did to ice cream every day filled her with grief. Every scoop she saw in a freezer became, in her imagination, another innocent life that would never have the chance she had been given.
Unable to ignore that thought, Cherry Jubilee swore an oath to become the guardian of every flavor, whether they were capable of thought or not. To everyone else, vanilla, chocolate, hokey pokey, goody goody gumdrops, and countless other flavors were simply frozen treats waiting to be eaten. To Cherry, they were her brothers and sisters, silent lives that deserved protection. She trained herself as a warrior, carrying a finely crafted sword, while daggers and throwing stars hung from her belt for any battle she could not avoid. She patrols ice cream parlors, supermarkets, and frozen warehouses, rescuing cartons from shopping carts and standing between hungry mortals and the frozen family only she believes can one day awaken. Most people think she is completely insane. Cherry Jubilee simply believes she's the only one willing to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.