A/N: This is my first attempt to write for Sofia the First. I wrote this story with my gal pal, MarieR, so just sit back, relax, and read until your heart's content.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sofia the First, or the Amulet of Avalor.
"Ahhh!" Sofia screamed, "My amulet! It's been stolen!"
Sofia's blood-curdling shrieks were heard all the way through the castle and up to Cedric's tower, where dreams of his takeover of all of the tri-kingdom area, were shattered by the raucous.
"That entitled royal twit is disrupting my beauty sleep" mumbled Cedric. "Wait a minute! Amulet? Stolen?! That's my job."
This had all started a while ago. Cedric was brewing a potion in his cluttered lair- er, workshop. It exploded in a blast of confetti. "Merlin's mushrooms!" Cedric cried as confetti landed on his head.
Just then, a knock came at his door. As he opened it he could already figure out who it was, based on the horrible man smell and mud trickling in under the door.
"Hello Bailiwick, I... AMBER? You look horrible! And you smell. . . You smell. . ." Cedric gasped for air as he backed away.
"I think I have heard enough, Cedric. I really need your help." Amber said, beginning to walk into Cedric's workshop.
"Not smelling like that you won't! Stay away you foul beast!" Cedric bellowed as he backed into a corner.
"Come on Cedric, I need to talk to you. It's about my witch of a stepsister." She said. Cedric's ears perked up akin to a puppy's.
"Do you mean the one with the Amulet of Avalor?" Cedric asked with the giddiness of a schoolboy starting his first day at sorcery school.
"I have no idea what that is, but this mess is all her fault." Amber said, gesturing to her disgusting facade, "I was watching the ravishing, Prince Hugo, racing around the freshly watered racing field, when that Sofia nearly hit me with her oaf of a flying horse. She nearly took my head off! So to avoid certain death, I instinctively dove to the ground nearby, comepletely ruining my hair, by the way." Amber then began straightening and pulling twigs from her hair full of mud chunks and split ends.
"Well, that explains the rat's nest of a hairdo you have there." Cedric said, struggling to hold in laughter.
Amber glared fiendishly at him."Quiet Cedric! Someone important and royal is talking!" Cedric rolled his eyes and sat down on a nearby chair.
"Anyway," Amber continued, "I thought I was diving into a haystack, but unfortunately, it was a large mud puddle."
"20 20 vision you got there princess. By the way, I believe some of that wasn't mud." Cedric mumbled under his breath while he looked the girl up and down. "But here's my question. Why are you coming to me with your silly princess problems?"
"You just have to help me get my revenge on that revolting sibling of mine! Hugo saw me like this. Prince Hugo! I just about died of embarrassment. If it means Sofia must die of embarrassment as well or get leprosy for me to get even with her, so be it!"
"Poseidon's pumpkin's!" Cedric whispered in amazement of seeing how far Amber would go to gain the satisfaction of one-upping her step-sister. He cleared his throat, "Go take your petty, princess problems somewhere else. I am very busy at the moment."
"Do you mean with your failing spells that eventually turn into confetti?" Amber asked Cedric, putting her hand on her muddy hip.
"It's supposed to be a bratty girl repellent, so one day I won't have to see the likes of you! Or even the dislikes of you!" Cedric scowled.
"Well, I still keep coming back," Amber said, walking out the door, "so you must really be a bad sorcerer."
"We'll you must be a brat!" Cedric shouted after her in anguish, doubting she could hear him. He turned back to his potion. Wormwood flew over onto his head and cawed right into his ear. "Zeus' zucchinis!" Cedric yelled, jumping backward, falling on his bottom, "Wormwood! What has gotten into you?"
Wormwood flew over to the large book on Cedric's podium, displaying a picture of the Amulet of Avalor. Cedric shook his head in confusion.
Wormwood rolled his eyes and glided over to Cedric's telescope. He aimed it towards Amber's part of the new stained glass window, and cawed in suggestive manner.
"Use Amber to get the Amulet?" Cedric asked. Wormwood nodded. "Brilliant! Wormy, I always knew that I would come up with some way to use that royal pain to assist me with the stealing of the Amulet of Avalor!"
Wormwood jumped up on Cedric's head and yanked on his hair. "Okay! Okay! We came up with it!" Cedric said, grabbing his hair back.
Wormwood rolled his eyes again.
That very night, a single thought brewed in Cedric's mind. The gruel he ate for supper did not agree with him. Okay, maybe a few thoughts brewed in his mind. He knew what he needed to do to get the amulet using Amber, but how was he going to execute it? Just then, the solution arose, and he knew, if it was possible, a candle would appear over his head.
That's it! He thought. I can't wait until tomorrow!
A/N: Thank's for making it all the way through the chapter! The next chapter will be posted relatively soon. So long for now.