Chapter 2: Revealing the Captors

After Mung and company were abducted from Marzipan City's local market place, for about a few hours, all Mung and company could see nothing but darkness as they seemed like they were being lifted up upon some sort of a strange flying vehicle which eventually lifted them away from Marzipan City. A few hours later, after the ordeal, the bags that were over Mung and company were lifted up which Mung soon found himself in a strange room.

"Ah, greetings Mung Daal" said a large fat man with some sort of a crown on his head, "I'm sorry that I had to take you and the rest of your employees away from your kitchen back in Marzipan City."

"Who are you, I demand to know who you are" protested Mung.

"I'm known as King Craving V, and you Mung and company are guests on my land" replied King Craving.

"Radda, radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel.

"A good question my rock friend" replied King Craving, "I brought all of you here, so that you can cook for me" replied King Craving to which the king promptly walked toward the window, "you see, my subjects do not trust me as king, unlike my father who ruled this kingdom. I can't therefore trust any other chefs within my kingdom because they have all desired to poison me."

"But you didn't have to kidnap us to do so, you couldn't have at least asked" protested Mung.

"True, but I find this method more of a hands on approach" replied King Craving, "you Mung, are to only cook and serve me as my personal chef. Since the last chef ended up poisoning one of my butlers, and I had to, well, you know the rest."

After a few minutes of King Craving introducing himself, he signaled his guards to come into the scene to take Mung and company to the royal kitchen of where they will be working at from now on.

"This is the royal kitchen which you were be working in from now on for the rest of your days" said King Craving as they entered the scene, "my guards shall watch over you, to ensure your loyalty to me. They have the right to test the various recipes you are going to make for me."

"Wow Mung, this kitchen is even bigger than yours back at home!" remarked Chowder.

"Yes, it's quite big" added Mung.

"Did you bring Kimchi along the ride?" asked Chowder as he turned to one of the guards.

"Why yes" replied one of the guards as he handed Kimchi over who was still in his cage.

"Wow, thanks" replied Chowder.

"Radda, radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel to the guard.

"Yes, we'll be watching your every move" replied another guard.

"Now to give a little tour of my throne room" said King Craving as he showed in his guests to the large throne room.

As Mung and company stepped inside, Mung was shocked to see that the throne room was even larger than the kitchen he would be forced to work in.

"This is the area where I'll be dinning quite often" said King Craving, "you, Master Chef Mung Daal shall be sending your servant Shnitzel and Chowder over to bring my dishes here to me. If you wish to satisfy my taste, you must make me these special royal recipes which are quite hard to make. So what do you say Master Chef, are you going to get to it?"

"Like we have a choice?" sighed Mung as the guards were all watching him.

The scene then quickly shifts back to the large kitchen of where Mung and company were being forced to make King Craving V's first recipe which he wanted to make. The guards came into the scene, carrying quite a heavy cook book and threw it on the table. The guards then opened up to the page of the recipe which Mung and company were ordered to make.

"Make this recipe for our king" said one of the guards as he pointed out what seemed like to involve making a large barbarque pork chop for the king, "here are the directions toward the royal butcher to pick up the pork chops in question."

"Well, we better get to it Shnitzel, so you're going to do this" said Mung.

"Radda, radda, radda" sighed Shnitzel as he was handed the directions.

"Go with him just to make sure he'll do his job" said another guard to two other guards who promptly followed Shnitzel.

Shnitzel then left the scene with two guards behind him to make sure he'll follow his duties. As Shnitzel began to travel outside the kitchen, he noticed that several subjects of King Craving V were illegally gathering for a protest against the king's rule.

"Just move aside rock man" said one of the guards following Shnitzel.

"Radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel to the two guards.

"They're going to get what they deserve, some other of our boys will handle in breaking it up" replied another guard.

"So get moving" added the first guard.

As Shnitzel finally arrived at the royal butcher's shop, the butcher was quite nervous as he too was once a butcher from a far off place, quite similar in Mung's predicament he was abducted by King Craving's men to be his Master Butcher.

"Here you go, some pork chops for the king" said the butcher who then began to sweat from the forehead as Shnitzel took the pork chops.

"Radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel.

"Why am I so sweaty?" asked the butcher, "Oh, it's nothing, nothing at all, ha, ha, you're a good life for someone new like you in town!"

"Yeah, so keep moving" added one of the guards watching over the butcher and promptly then slammed the door behind Shnitzel.

"Come on, let's head back to the royal kitchen" said one of the guards who was ordered to watch over Shnitzel.

"Radda, radda, radda, radda!" cried Shnitzel.

"Well excuse us for rushing you" replied the other guard.

While Shnitzel was being forced back to the royal kitchen, he really didn't noticed that the Master Butcher was desperately trying to find a way to escape his predicament of even being the main butcher for King Craving V. Yet that wasn't on Shnitzel's mind, as he was heading straight back to the royal kitchen to make King Craving's dish.