Episode X- Recipe For Disaster

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Intro

Jack III walked all by his lonesome on a nice cool day, sensing that the rains were about to make their way into his homely little village in the very near future. The leaves had all become very pretty colors and they fell from their branches to dance in the wind together for all to see. It was a beautiful sight in the sunlight, but today the skies hung gloomily above in a very grey state.

As usual, the little harvest sprites followed their farm boy from afar and again tried conjuring up a new scheme to try and save the village from annihilation. Little did they know that an answer would soon find them in the oddest of ways, as little Katie spotted Jack III from across the way and ran over to meet with him in excitement.

"Hello, Jack!" she called.

Jack III saw her immediately, and began wondering if the girl was still interested in him, for he still found her to be a very attractive young lady. He smiled at her.

"Listen, I an entrepreneur, and I had a thought… Well, actually, something came to my attention that made me think that being an entrepreneur would be an excellent choice for one as independent as myself. Thus, I was inclined to ponder the matter in my mind for a time," this girl babbled one way too much for Jack III, but he decided he'd humor her a little more by pretending he could hear her. "So this ad says that it is looking for a good place to set up a business for selling specially made cakes, where people from all over would come to enjoy the rarity of something so wholesome! There is to be a contest to decide whose cakes are the best in the continent, held right outside of town. The winner gets to help co-run the business and choose the location, and I was thinking perhaps this could save the town!"

The sprites listened in closely to this news.

"Katie is so smart!" Nac mused.

"Shut up, I'm trying to listen," Nic bonked his brother on the head.

Jack III could take no more of her talking, he hugged her tightly, wanting her to know how he felt about her. Perhaps she would feel the same, and they could go back to his farm for some sweet sweet love?

"I knew you'd be happy about this!" Katie smiled as she returned the hug. "But I really suck at cooking, and I need your help,"

Jack III closed his eyes and stroked her hair gently, glad that she felt the same as he and wanting to comfort her, don't speak, it would ruin this incredible moment.

Katie broke the hug and looked him in the eyes, "Your grandmother's cakes were famous around here, and I was wondering if maybe the recipes were somewhere back at your farm. Maybe the two of us could work as a team in trying to win the contest!" she suggested brightly.

This is it, Jack III told himself. She must be admitting her feelings for me, we should never have stopped being together!

Flak watched this scene from the sprites' cover, wondering what was going through the deaf boy's mind. "What's he doing?"

"Imagining naughty things," Nic tried to ignore him and listen further.

"So what do you think?" Katie asked.

Jack III saw her bite her lower lip nervously, she must be asking him a very naughty question. The only answer he could give would be yes, so he nodded ferociously.

"Great!" Katie's face lit up with joy as she grabbed his hand and led him quickly back to his farmhouse.

This girl wants it BAD, Jack III smiled proudly to himself as he allowed her to lead the way.

Act 1

Jack III was dying with anticipation as they approached his door, for he had been with this girl before and knew that she was fun to be with in bed. The door opened and Katie walked eagerly inside, pulling the young man behind her. He closed his eyes and perked his lips, ready to receive his kiss that would lead to other nasty deeds. 4 seconds went by, 5, 6… what the hell was taking so long?
He opened his eyes to discover that Katie was looking around the farm house curiously, obviously in need of finding something.

This girl wastes no time at all, he thought happily. To hell with foreplay, she skips straight to finding condoms!

"Where could those recipes be?" Katie mumbled to herself as she searched through the cupboards.

Oh, no! Jack III realized. I don't even have any! This is awful! What is she going to think of me when she finds out I'm no player? She'll laugh and probably leave! What am I gonna do? I need a distraction so I can go buy some!

"Any ideas where they might be?" Katie turned to face him now.

Jack III stood frozen, nervous and afraid of what to do next. He scratched his head as if in deep thought. Perhaps if he pretended like he left them over at another girl's house the night before! Genius! He threw a finger in the air, showing her that he knew where he had left them and promising he would be back in a jiffy. With that, he ran out the door and towards the tools shop.

Katie pondered a moment, "Maybe he's looking in the barn?"

The three sprites sat upon the windowsill and thought hard about where they would find the recipes.

"Think, guys. Where would she have left them?" Nic whispered.

"Maybe they got thrown away after she died?" Nac was not helping matters.

"We need to have a look around the house without Katie seeing us," Nic instructed. "Lets go!"

Meanwhile, Jack III was very out of breath upon arriving at the tool shop. Ronald greeted his customer respectfully and asked what it was he needed.

Jack III needed to think fast. The idea for the action came to him very suddenly, and he knew it just had to work. He made an 'O' sign out of his finger and thumb and held it out to the man.

"Hmm, something small and round… I like charades!" Ronald laughed at the fun of this game.

Jack III had to assume the man was understanding him. He then clenched his hands into fists and put them together, then ripped slowly apart.

"Ah, and stretchy!" Ronald mimicked the actions playfully.

Next, Jack III put his finger and thumb to his mouth and blew very hard, as if blowing a bubble.

"And you can blow it up like a balloon!" Ronald yelled in excitement. "I've got it! It's small and round, not as a balloon though. It's stretchy, but firm if I'm correct. And it can be blown up with your own oxygen… You want BUBBLEGUM!" Ronald rejoiced in his perceptiveness.

Jack III pointed at the man in all happiness, He gets it! He knows what I need!

"That was great fun!" Ronald announced. "I have lots of gum back here," he presented a bag of many little packaged gum pieces.

Jack III paid the man and was on his way back to the farm, out of breath as he already was.

Katie did not know what to do. Jack III was taking such a long time to come back, and they needed to make these cakes as fast as possible. The contest was tomorrow evening and not a single one had been made in preparation. They were going to have to make up their own recipes as they went along and hope for the best, but where was Jack?

"Aha!" Nac piped a little bit too loudly as he pulled the famed recipes from the corner of a low cupboard.

"Shhhh!" Nic hushed.

"What the heck was that sound?" Katie looked around. "Jack? Are you back?" she walked over to the door and looked outside. Sure enough, there was the tired out farmer, running at a very slow pace down the hill towards her. "Where the hell were you!?" the outraged girl yelled at him whence he finally got to her and collapsed at her feet in tiredness.

He looked up at her and held out the bag of 'condoms' to her in triumph.

"Hmm, what is this?" she inspected the contents inside wearily. She pulled out a small round piece, packaged in thin paper and cocked an eye at him. "Gum?"

Jack III attempted to pull himself up from the ground as the sprites came running outside to save the poor dumb guy. Katie popped a piece of gum into her mouth and chewed.

"This isn't what I wanted," she said angrily as she turned to head back to the farm.

Jack III stood in his place with his jaw wide open at the moronic thing she had just done. Perhaps this girl is a bit kinkier than I can handle! Nevertheless, he followed close behind. As he walked, the sprites had managed to slip by them unnoticed and Nic was now right infront of Jack III. With all his might, Nic kicked his leg, sending him falling over to the ground with a crash as Nic quickly slipped the recipes into Jack's hand.

Katie turned to see what had happened.

"You DO have them afterall! You sneak!"

Act 2

Jack III sat upon his bed, awaiting his prize with great curiosity.

"Aren't you going to help me bake?" Katie looked at him expectantly.

Unsure of himself now, he sat up again and walked over to her. Just what the hell does she expect me to do?

"Okay, it says here we need 4 cups of sugar. Wow! That's a lot!" she exclaimed.

Jack III saw the exasperated look upon her face as she read the recipe, She's getting these weird ideas from a book? Is she gonna put that on me with her mouth?

"So where do you keep the sugar?" Katie began looking through the cupboards again.

Now what are we forgetting?

She did not find the sugar yet, but she saw a bag of flower and pulled it out, "We'll be needing this too."

Flower? Jack III looked down oddly.

"Oh, and eggs!" she opened the refrigerator door and grabbed all they needed.

Eggs?

Katie then filled a small cup full of water.

Water?

"Now, where could that sugar be?" Katie thought hard as she poured all the contents into a very big bowl.

Flower, water, eggs… If I didn't know any better, I'd say we were going to make a cake or something… but I do know better, and it is quite clear to see that she intends to show me the human mating process demonstrated with food. What a disgustingly stupid idea, I'm not turned on at all! Jack III folded his arms and frowned angrily.

"Do you have any vanilla?" Katie asked as she began to mash the ingredients together mercilessly.

Jack III covered his eyes from the graphic demonstration before him, the horror, the horror! He was glad he could not hear her, for she was surely giving a very detailed account of the entire process.

"We can't make this cake if we don't have vanilla, it's a special ingredient, you know."

The three sprites again perched themselves in the windowsill, wondering what exactly was going through Jack's mind as he blocked Katie's mixing from his sight.

"Oh, and I forgot to tell you! I already have a great gimmick for us! We will make each cake swirled in different colors of dye! I brought some with me!" the girl reached into her pocket and pulled out 4 little bottles of colored dye and set them on the table. The first one she decided to add was red.

Jack III uncovered his eyes a little to see what she was up to now, and the instant she dropped a few droplets of red dye into the mixture, he fainted.

"Jack?" Katie panicked. "Oh, no! I didn't even think about the possibility that you would be allergic to dye!" her assumption as wrong as can be. "Oh, I've failed miserably already!"

The poor girl bent down to try and revive her friend from his deepening slumber, but to no avail. She had failed at her first try, but she was determined not to give up and soon began making a new cake from the recipe as Jack III lay unconscious on the floor below and the harvest sprites watched in silence.

Jack III awoke just before the cake was finished being baked in the oven.

"Oh, hi! You're awake!" Katie smiled at him. "I made a new cake without the dye in it. Even the icing is left white," she assured him. "I need some fresh air, wanna pull the cake out of the oven when the timer goes off?"

Jack III looked around the room in a daze, something smelled quite good. With that, Katie was on her way out the door leaving a clueless Jack III alone with a baking cake.

DING!

There was a reason Jack III rarely ever attempted to cook, and this was exactly it. I wonder when it will be finished… I hope Katie comes back soon.

Katie trusted Jack III more than anyone in the village and knew that the cake would be safe with him. It had been a long day and she needed rest before the big contest tomorrow afternoon. Deciding upon this fact, she poked her head back inside the farmhouse to deliver her message.

"I'm going home to rest a while. I'll stop by your house tomorrow morning and we'll prepare for the contest together. Don't you go eating the thing on me now!"

There she is! Where's she going now?

Nac turned to his brothers, "why is there smoke coming out from that oven?"

"Uh oh…" Nic thought.

Conclusion

The harvest sprites had really saved the day this time. They had managed to pull the cake out before any fire had broken out, although it was very burnt. While Jack III slept that night they had also succeeded in baking a new one by following the recipe's directions exactly. The contest had finally begun, and the sprites watched from their usual hiding places as Jack III and Katie awaited the judges' approval.

"Hello, and who are you two?" a judge came by and asked the village heroes.

"This is Jack, and I'm Katie."

"Nice to meet you. Now let me try some of this cake here," he cut out a spoonful and popped it into his mouth. "Absolutely delicious! This is the most extraordinary tasting cake I have ever had in my life!"

"Oh, I'm so glad!" Katie said giddily.

"I guess that is all the cake that needs to be tasted," the judge announced to the busy crowds. "I'm pleased to award Katie and Jack's delicious cake…"

"We saved the village!" Katie whispered happily to Jack III.

"Runner up!" the judge finished.

"WHAT!" Katie squealed.

"I'm sorry, it really was delicious… but it lacks color, its boring. Not like this rainbow cake over here from our Mineral Town contestants! First prize for their incredible insight into marketing gimmicks!" the judge announced.

"Rrrrrgh!" Katie stormed off without another word to her partner.

This girl loves to walk away and forget about me, Jack III grew annoyed. The sprites watched with incredulous looks upon their faces… perhaps they should have ignored those who are deathly allergic to dyed foods just this once.

Spring the 16th

Time is running out for us, the year is almost up! Winter is just around the corner and then they plan to destroy the village… I can't afford to move right now, and seek a new goddess master… that's tough to find, and I doubt the one from Mineral Town would be very accepting of us at the moment. Crap.

Nic.

THE END

(Sorry it's been a while, work is taking over my life once more on account of me needing to earn a butt load of tuition money for University again. On the plus side, HMTV is now officially a year old! Keep checking back for more updates, only five episodes of the season remain!)