Chapter 6 is on. Please enjoy. :)
Meet the Two Sisters
As Max and A.J. ride their horses and searching for their older brother, Vert. "Vert! Vert!" Max shouted, "It's me, Max! Your youngest brother who didn't mean to make you freeze the summer. I'm sorry, it's all my f-f-fault," but reply as the two brothers kept riding their horses and search, "Of course, none of this would have happened if he'd just told me his secret... ha... He's a stinker," Max said, "Well… it's all your fault when you engaged that princess," A.J. said Max was about to replied to his older brother until he caught a bent tree that flicked a lot of snow onto the horses, spooking them which cause their riders to flung off then into a pile of snow.
Then the horses gallop away, "Oh no. No, no, no come back!" Max shouted but the horses were long gone. He look at his brother who got cover in snow, "Nice one, little bro." A.J. groaned and Max just smile sheepish. So both brothers walk on foot as they travelled. By nightfall, Max and A.J. were still through the six inches of snow as Max muttered, "Snow, it had to be snow, Vert couldn't have had tr-tr-tropical magic that covered the f-f-fjords in white sand and warm..." The Max and A.J. saw smoke nearby, "Fire!" A.J. said with a chuckle but both princes suddenly slipped down from the small hill and fell into a freezing river.
Now cold, they stood up and walk towards the hut. Max removed the snow from the sign and he reads aloud, "Wandering Zeke's Trading Post. Ooh! And Sauna!" Both princes entered the hut before notice a man with white hair behind the counter, "Yoo-hoo! Big summer blow out. Half off swimming suits, clogs, and a sun balm of my own invention, yah?"
"Oh, yeah. How about boots, winter boots and… winter clothes?" A.J. asked, "That would be in our winter department," he said, motioning over at the back of the hut that was almost barren save for a few coats and other warm clothes. "Oh. Um, I was just wondering; has another young man, the King perhaps, I don't know, passed through here?" Max asked to Zeke as his brother, A.J. place the winter clothes on the counter to pay, "Only one crazy enough to be out in this storm is you, young men?" Zeke asked before the door swung open and a young girl dressed in light green with a handkerchief covering her mouth, "Oh, and her as well? Hoo-hoo. Big summer blow out."
The young blonde-haired girl walk over to the counter almost pinning Max against it, "Carrots," her voice muffled, "Huh?" Max asked confused, she rolled her light brown eyes, "Behind you." The youngest prince look down to see carrots on the shelf of the counter, "Oh, right. Excuse me," Max moved aside as the young blonde-haired girl grabbed the carrots and place them on the counter before she went over to retrieve a pickaxe and rope.
"A real howler in July, yes? Where ever could it be coming from?" Zeke asked, "The North Mountain." She replied, "North Mountain?" Max whispered, the young blonde-haired girl walk over and placed the item on the counter, "That'll be forty." Zeke told her, "Forty? No, ten." Sher said, "Oh dear, that's no good. See, these are from our winter stock, where supply and demand have a big problem," Zeke said, "You wanna to talk about a supply and demand problem? I sell ice for a living along with my older sister," she growled as she pointing to the window where her sled could be seen, it was loaded up with ice blocks and a young woman was standing next the sled waiting.
"Ooh, that's a rough business to be in right now," Max said and she glared at him, "I mean, that is really... Ahem. That's unfortunate." He said quickly as Zeke spoke up, "Still forty. But I will throw in a visit to Zeke's sauna."
"Ten's all I got. Help me out," she begged, "Ten will get you this and no more," said Zeke with a sternly look on his face. Then Max spoke up and asks the young blonde-haired girl, "Okay, just tell me one thing...What was ...happening on the North Mountain? Did it seem magical?"
She then removed handkerchief from her mouth and replied to Max out loud, "Yes! Now, back up while I deal with this crook here." And that made Zeke a bit mad when she called a crook, "What did you call me?" He stood up from the counter revealing his height was very taller almost reach the ceiling, "Okay. Okay, I'm-Ow! Whoa!" Zeke carried her and throw her out, "Bye-bye!" Zeke shut the door of the hut.
The young woman walk up to her, "What happen Sydney?" She asked her, "Ugh… don't wanna know, Agura. And Furbo, I didn't get your carrots." She told her older sister and their dear reindeer. That made Furbo sad that his mistress didn't retrieve his favorite carrots, "I see. But I did find us a place to sleep. And it's free." Agura pointed at the small barn.
Back inside the hut, Zeke sat down back at the counter, "I'm sorry about this violence. I will add a quart of lutefisk, so we'll have good feelings. Just the outfit and boots, yah?" Zeke asked the two princes, "Uh…" Max muttered, eyeing the items on the counter. The youngest prince ask his older brother to have a talk in private. As they were enough distance from the counter so Zeke can't hear their conversation, "A.J., I think I know where Vert is." Max said, "You do?" A.J. said, "Yeah with a little help," Max replied. Meanwhile in the small barn, where the two sisters and their dear reindeer are. Agura plays her lute as she sings along with her sister.
Agura: Reindeers are better than people
Furbo, don't you think that's true?
Sydney (as Furbo): Yeah, people will beat you
And curse you and cheat you
Every one of them's bad except you
Agura: Oh, thanks buddy
But people smell better than reindeers
Furbo, don't you think I'm right?
Sydney (as Furbo): That's once again true
For all except you
Agura: You got me, let's call it a night.
Sydney (as Furbo): Good night.
Agura & Sydney: Don't let the frostbite bite.
Just before they were about to sleep. Max came in, "Nice duet," the two sisters and the reindeer jumped out of their skins. Sydney instantly recognized him, "Oh, it's you. What do you want?" She asked, "I want you, your sister to take me and my brother up the North Mountain." He request, "Why would we take you there?" Agura asked, "Because… we're searching out looking for our oldest brother." Max said, "Sorry. We don't take people places," Sydney said, "Let me rephrase that..." Max threw a bag onto Agura's stomach, "Sorry! Now take us up the North Mountain... Please. Look, we know how to stop this winter." The youngest prince said, Agura look though the bag to find the pickaxe and rope that her sister had tried to buy them. "Okay. We leave at dawn... And you forgot the carrots for Furbo," Sydney said before Max threw carrots at her face, "Sorry!" Max winced then clear his throat, "We leave now. Right now." The two sisters gave something of a smile, "I'm Agura and this girl you met at the hut before she was threw out, is my younger sister, Sydney."
"Maxwell. But call me Max and my older brother waiting outside is A.J. I'll wait for you girls outside once you're ready." The youngest prince exit out the barn before he let out a sigh, "Did you convince them?" A.J. asked, "Yeah. They'll help us," Max replied as they wait for the two sisters and the reindeer to pick up their things and ready to head off to North Mountain.
Okay that's it for now. New chapter will come up soon.