Chapter 4: Getting the Ice
Poor Mung Daal and company were forced out of the kitchen by King Craving's guards who forced their way to a carriage. The carriage went off toward the nearby tall mountains that were not far from the castle. The carriage went for about another twenty minutes or so, before it reached the foot of the mountain.
"I'm sorry, but I can not take you any further" said the carriage driver, "you folks will have to get off."
"Well that's just great" sighed Truffles as she looked at the large mountain which had several glaciers on it, "looks like we're going to have to climb that thing!"
"Oh, here's a medium size bucket the rock monster shall have to carry" said the carriage driver as he handed Shnitzel the medium bucket.
"Radda, radda, radda!" cried Shntizel as he really didn't want to do all of that climbing.
"Sorry Shnitzel, but we have to do it for King Craving V, do you want us to get locked up in prison?" asked Mung.
"Radda radda" sighed Shnitzel as he lifted up the heavy medium sized bucket.
"Oh boy, something for me to jump into!" cried Chowder as he leaped right into the bucket which poor Shnitzel now had to carry.
"Chowder, get out of there, if we go up too high, you'll get stuck in it!" cried Mung.
"Maybe it might be a good thing for all of us" whispered Truffles.
"Come on, get moving" said one of the guards whom opened up the carriage door and forced them all to get up, "start moving, the king sometimes finishes his large BBQ porkchop dinner in quite a hurry, so get as much of the ice you can."
"You heard him, let's get a move on!" cried Mung.
A few minutes later, Mung and company were steadily traveling upward the mountain with Shnitzel still carrying the medium sized bucket.
"Are we there yet?" asked Chowder as Mung was busy hammering nails into the mountain he was climbing up.
"No Chowder, we have a long way to go" replied Mung.
After a few minutes later, Chowder asked that same question again.
"Are we there yet?" asked Chowder.
"No, I'm sorry" replied Mung who continued to hammer in nails to ensure the safety of the climbing party.
It was then a third time after a few minutes even later after that, Chowder kept on asking the same question and the answer was again the same. Poor Mung and everybody else in the climbing party had just about enough of Chowder's question.
"Radda, radda, radda?" whispered Shnitzel who had a sinister idea on what to do with Chowder.
"No, we're not throwing him off the mountain" replied Mung who whispered back.
"Well, it's starting to really bug me, if he asks that same question again, I'm going to be the one to do it" added Truffles.
"Okay, we're finally here!" cried Mung who managed to cling onto a surface of the mountain.
As the climbing party managed to get up, they noticed that there was a large glacier in the way which was even larger than the mountain itself.
"Oh boy, we're going to use this ice to make the Royal Sundae for the king?" asked Chowder.
"Yep, all we need to do is ensure we get some at the top" replied Mung to which he handed over Shnitzel his hammer, "you're the one who is going to do it."
"Radda, radda, radda, radda" sighed Shnitzel as he started to climb up the glacier.
"Oh boy, frost!" cried Chowder as he noticed the glacier and got his tongue stuck right on it.
"Chowder, why did you do that?" asked Mung.
"I wanted to taste the frost" replied Chowder whose tongue was stuck on the glacier.
"Come on dear, we have to pull him free" said Mung to Truffles.
"Maybe we should just leave him here?" replied Truffles.
"Come on, just pull him free!" cried Mung.
While Mung and Truffles were trying to get Chowder out of a predicament he got himself into, Shnitzel was half way up toward the top. The rock monster then began to chip away from of the ice into the bucket he was forced to carry.
"Radda, radda, radda" said Shtnizel who noticed the bucket wasn't really that full, to which he then sighed as he then had to go up higher.
Shnitzel then eventually continued his path upward the glacier and began to chip away at the ice to put more into the bucket he was carrying. He finally got to the tip of the glacier and chipped that off with his hammer. He then began to start his way down, and after a few minutes as he was getting back to the surface top of the mountain, he noticed that Mung and Truffles were having a difficult time of freeing Chowder's tongue.
"It hurts so bad Mung!" cried Chowder.
"Radda, radda, radda, radda, radda, radda, radda" suggested Shnitzel.
"Take the ice which Chowder is stuck to with us, why didn't we think of it before?" asked Mung.
"Let's just get this over with" said Truffles as she was handed a hammer.
She then carefully chipped away at the ice which Chowder was stuck too and finally freed his tongue. Yet poor Chowder had to carry the ice with him which was still attached to his tongue.
"Don't worry, I'm okay" said Chowder.
"Come on, let's go and make that sundae the king wants" said Mung.
Mung and company then started their way down the mountain, and after about an hour or so later, Mung and company got back to where the carriage escort was waiting for them.
"Looks like you folks made it just in time" said the carriage driver as Mung and company got into the carriage, "the king is just about finished with his porkchop dish, he may take a nap after that which just gives enough time for you folks to make that Royal Sundae."
"Well, we don't want to keep the king waiting" said Mung, "let's step on it."
"You got it" said the guard who was sitting next to the carriage driver.
The carriage then sped off heading straight for the castle.
"What's the matter with him?" asked a guard as he noticed in the back of a small piece of ice which Chowder's tongue was still attached to.
"I wanted to try the frost" replied Chowder.
