Plotz: So Ralph, why don't you write this upcoming chapter? The artist/story writer is dead now.
BlackLouie: I'm dead? Really? Seriously? Do you wanna die!?
Plotz: Oh no! He's back!
Ralph: Duuh, let's get outta heres!
BlackLouie: Yeah you two idiots better run! God!
Sorry about the long wait folks, life and my work schedule. Enjoy chapter 5!
Yakko was far ahead of his siblings. His thoughts were focused on his mother, the way she looked when she fell... He looked back at Wakko and Dot. Dot was looking to the right, trees and more trees surrounded them every step they took. Wakko was carrying his mallet that he couldn't use against the guard that held their mother against their will before she decided to commit suicide.
"Yakko how far is our new home?" Dot complained, she crossed her arms and pouted.
"Hey, sis. We can't pout, we must be brave and we must fight through this!" Yakko cheered them on. Wakko stopped looking at the ground and looked up at his older brother. His mind pondered at the thought and strength of his older brother. He then held his head up high and agreed with his brother.
"Yakko is right! We have to face this with bravery! With my mallet, we can save the entire universe!" Wakko gave them a look of determination. Yakko and Dot stared at him blankly and then they laughed.
"Oh Wakko!" Dot laughed out loud, forgetting about why she was angry. Yakko slapped his knee and chuckled.
"Wakko, I think you got the idea! Maybe you should expand on it once we find trouble." Yakko grinned.
As they reached the end of the snowy forest, they saw some houses nearby. Yakko was able to see one house from the distance that seemed broken down and old. The rest of them seem to have folks that lived inside of them, some of them had all of the lights on. Wakko started to shiver as he dropped his mallet, it was cold that night and Dot grabbed on to her older brother for warmth.
"Oh please warm me up! It's cold, I'm too cute to be cold and I need a better outfit!" Dot hugged on his leg.
Yakko felt her and he was surprised. She was cold and she needed to be inside before she would get too sick to continue.
"Well, why don't we go into the broken down house far over there, to the north of the other houses!" Yakko pointed at the house that he have been looking at for the past moment. Dot and Wakko looked ahead and saw it.
"It looks like a tower that's broken down! The shape of it is amazing!" Wakko suddenly felt warm with excitement as he ran ahead of them. Yakko and Dot followed after him. Wakko rushed through the snow and looked above the cliff, the broken down house was too high up for him to get up to it.
"Aw no, it's too high up." Wakko looked at them with worry, but Yakko asked him about his bag.
"Well Wakko, do you have any tricks in that bag of yours that you carry? Maybe we might be able to get up there." Yakko winked at him as Wakko thought about it and took out his bag quickly. He tossed everything out of it until he reached down hard into his bag and pulled out a long ladder.
"Whoa, it looks like I was carrying this ladder the whole time!" Wakko placed the ladder against the wall of the cliff and balanced it for Yakko and Dot. Yakko bowed down with his hand facing the ladder.
"After you Dot, ladies first." Yakko courteously allowed her to climb up. Dot coughed a couple of times before starting her journey up the tall ladder, while she was climbing, she heard Wakko call out to her.
"Don't look down!" Wakko shouted. Dot gulped and she tried not to look down. She realized that she was almost there as she turned to look down, her brothers seemed very tiny from her view. She suddenly had a slight fear of falling down, but she sighed and wiped her forehead and continued up the ladder. Once she was on the top, Yakko and Wakko went after her.
"God, I thought I would have to give her a push." Yakko chuckled. Wakko did reply, instead he started climbing up the ladder with his older brother behind him. Wakko finally asked Yakko something out of the blue.
"Yakko, do you think we'd be able to survive on our own? Like, do you think we will get food?" Wakko's stomach started growling.
"Oh, yeah, I never thought about that once we ran away. But uuuuh, yes. Since we are in a new town, or an out cast town, there should be food for us here. I'll have to sneak it to you guys though." Yakko replied while continuing his way up as Dot was at the top waiting for them.
"Oh, what is taking them so long? It's cold!" Dot wasn't going to wait any longer. Before she could turn and go into the broken down house on her own, Yakko and Wakko forced themselves to the top. With Yakko thrusting Wakko up.
"We are finally here. What a climb! Hey, Dot are you okay?" Wakko noticed that her nose was running. Dot sneezed and shook.
"M-me? I'm fine, I'm not sick, just c-c-old." Dot couldn't help but shiver. Yakko finally came over to Dot and let her lean close to him as they all went inside the broken down home.
As they went inside, they saw an old mattress setting against a wooden wall that looked like an inside fence. There was a room behind it with a bed in it with a desk and a lit up candle on top of it. Dot shouted with glee.
"Oh my god! I get that room!" Dot yelled.
"Hey, I was going to get it! I'm the one that's cold!" Wakko ran after her.
"I'm colder!" Dot argued.
"No, I'm colder!" Wakko was tugging the blanket that was on the bed off. Dot grabbed onto it and didn't let go.
Yakko pushed both of them away from each other.
"Enough sibs! There is only one way to settle this." Yakko placed his hands in front of them both.
"How? I'm cold and she's going to hog the bed and the blankets." Wakko looked at him and pointed at Dot.
"Well, who is the sickest?" Yakko asked them.
Wakko sniffed a little and Dot coughed and finally spoke.
"Shouldn't I get the bed? I'm coughing and I'm the one that is sick. You guys don't look that bad. Plus I'm the cute one, so I say that I should get the bed." Dot smiled a bit before Wakko cut in.
"Yeah, but I smashed the dogs back at the castle and knocked their teeth out before they could eat us. I also helped us escape." Wakko argued back.
"Wakko, as much as you did to get us out of that castle, maybe we should allow Dot to have the bed. She's our sister, we can't treat her like she's an outcast." Yakko explained to Wakko. Wakko gave Yakko a look and pouted.
"Fine, she can keep the room. I'll find somewhere else to sleep in this small place." Wakko walked out of the room as Yakko looked at him with worry and then he turned to Dot.
"Listen, Dot, I'll be right back. I'm going to get some fresh air for a while." Yakko grinned before leaving, he was more concerned about Wakko. Sure he did everything to keep them all safe, but he also wanted that room. Yakko suddenly came up with an idea, he walked out of the broken house and climbed down the ladder. He then went near the houses and knocked on the doors and hid on the other side of them. When the tired people looked to see who it was, Yakko started sneaking in and took as many blankets from them as possible. Once he had enough, he climbed back up the ladder and toss the blankets to the top. Once he was to the top, he picked up the blankets and brought them inside of the house. Wakko was coming from the top room as Yakko noticed that the place had stairs.
"Wow, so this is a two story broken home. Whoever lived in it must have liked this place." Yakko looked up.
"Oh, what is that?" Wakko noticed that his older brother was carrying a bunch of blankets.
"These are blankets for us, I took them from people, hopefully they won't be too mad that we are borrowing them for a while." Yakko laughed.
"Well, it's the least you could do, I mean we are out here in the cold and there's nothing we can do but stay here until we think of a plan." Wakko sighed and walked up the stairs, Yakko followed him.
From below, two figures came from the opposite room that was across from Dot's room. They both looked around and noticed that a light was on in the opposite room. One of the beckoned the other to follow him. Dot was in her room reading a book that she found under the bed. It was a chapter book of some sort and she was getting into it. While she was flipping through pages, she heard a cranking sound, she jerked up and looked to her right, there was nothing there but the window. She then looked to her left and she didn't see anything but an empty doorway. She sigh and continued to read. When she heard the sound again, she looked up from her book and saw two figures looking at her, she screamed and threw her book into the air.
"Ahhhh!" Dot yelled as the book came back down and fell on her lap.
"Whoa whoa! It's just us! We didn't mean to scare you!" A familiar voice filled the room.
"So much for keeping quiet." The other voice was gruff.
Dot was able to make out who they were without having to seem them clearly. She gave them a confused look as she called to them.
"Nakko? Rakko? Is that you?" Dot asked, she suddenly heard foot steps coming from down the hall. Yakko was standing in the doorway in shock.
"Dot are you okay? I heard you screaming, I had to-!" Yakko cut himself off and saw Rakko and Nakko in her room.
"It's not what you think! We were here and we heard voices!" Rakko panicked and hid behind his older brother.
"We are not here to cause trouble. We were attacked a long time ago by some crazy guards. We were forced to run off, away from our mother." Nakko snorted, not giving two shits about what happened in the past.
"It's been years hasn't it? I thought something happen to you guys, we were going to stay at Macy's place, but there was blood all over the living room." Yakko remembered what he saw.
"Like I told you, we were attacked. That's all there is to it. There's nothing else I could explain." Nakko grumbled. Dot gave Rakko a worried look, he was scared and he couldn't help but stick behind his brother.
"Well, you're both here now. That's all that matters." Yakko shrugged and looked at Rakko, who was shaking with fear.
"What's with him?" Wakko's voice could be heard as Nakko faced him.
"He's just scared." Nakko rolled his eyes while crossing his arms. He wasn't in the right mood to talk.
"Rakko, it will be alright, we are together now. We are a family remember?" Dot cheerfully explained.
"We are? I thought you'd never say that. I always thought since we come from different parents, we would be different." Rakko let out a small chuckle before composing himself to come forward.
"Yep, we are 100% a family. Also, goodnight everybody!" Yakko stopped and looked at the readers. He then turned to Nakko and asked him some questions.
"Nakko, if you guys are here, why didn't you send us a letter on what happened? And how did you guys get up here? This place is on a cliff." Yakko asked while taking out a paddle ball set that he got from Wakko's bag.
"We took the top way around the mountains, and boy is it slow..." Nakko grumbled, he didn't like the fact the some guards busted into their place and almost killed them. He wasn't going to like being with his silly cousins for very long.
"Listen, we won't be too much of a burden since this is your place." Yakko snapped Nakko away from his thoughts. Nakko couldn't help be acknowledge his words of courtesy.
"Good. Tomorrow I'm going out to get us all something to eat, it's late right now. You all should get some rest, I bet you all had such a long trek up here." Nakko started walking out of the room, his brother tagging along.
"Good night guys." Yakko smiled at them. Nakko didn't smile and Rakko waved before heading back to the room.
Yakko was finally able to speak with his sister. Yakko climbed up her bed and Dot was pleased.
"I was waiting for you to come back in here. I was going to shout, but that would have caused some wild events." Dot let out a yawn.
"You should rest." Yakko sighed with a smile, but she tugged his arm before he could get off of the bed.
"Tell me the story." Dot begged, she looked into his eyes.
"What?" Yakko was confused for a moment when she mentioned it.
"You know, the story." Dot reminded him. Yakko's memories kicked in, he remembered seeing his mother and father telling his sister a story that was mainly about her.
"Oh, you mean that story. Wait, what story?" Yakko was playing with her as he laughed.
"Oh, you don't know the story?" Dot started to play along, she laughed too but then she coughed again.
"Oh I know the story, I remember listening to it when I was young." Yakko finally calmed down and grabbed his sister's side and pulled her closer to him.
"You do know the story then." Dot felt his warmth as she snuggled him.
"Are you all set to hear the story from other point of view?" Yakko asked as she nodded, she was already tired but she wanted to get a bedtime story like she used to at the castle.
Yakko began to tell her the story.
"There once was a man from Nantucket and he was-" Yakko almost continued his story from the trek they were taking.
Dot protested when she heard that.
"Not that story, Yakko, the other one! I thought you knew about the story, are you telling me that you don't?" Dot laughed.
Yakko sighed, he was starting to get tired.
"Look, it's late, go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I could tell you a bedtime story." Yakko grinned but Dot begged him.
"Aw, c'mon, tell me the story, please?" Dot whined, she wanted him to tell it so bad.
Yakko sighed and replied to her whining voice.
"Oh, alright. But then it's lights out. Deal?" Yakko gave her a thumbs up as she snuggled him again.
Dot grinned as she looked up at him.
"Deal!" She replied. Wakko came from around the corner and saw that Yakko was talking to Dot, he seemed a bit worried about her as he heard her cough again.
Yakko began to tell her the right story this time without any jokes.
"Once upon a time a brave knight married a beautiful princess and they had two sons." Yakko began to tell the story, Dot's face brightened up with excitement as she wanted to help him tell the story.
"But they wanted a daughter, too." Dot remembered the lines in the story. Shen then let Yakko continue the rest.
"Right. So they planted a garden all over the kingdom, and on the first day of spring every flower in that garden bloomed. And out of the prettiest flower came-" Yakko continued on with the story, letting Dot chime in at times.
"Me." Dot replied as she allowed Yakko to continue again.
"Yup. And so the knight and his bride - Mom and Dad - took you home. And every night at bedtime they would come in and say, "Who's the cutest girl?" and you'd say-" Yakko continued again as he let Dot answer the last part of the line.
"I am." Dot replied as her grin grew bigger.
"And they'd ask, "How'd you ever get so cute?" and you'd say-" Yakko continued on.
"I was born that way." Dot giggled as she was enjoying the story as much as when her parents told it. Wakko kept looking at them, he sniffled when he heard the story. It was good that Yakko was telling her a bedtime story before bed. Rakko noticed Wakko's shadow as he got up and walked over to Wakko.
"Is everything okay?" Rakko asked him, Wakko looked back at him and nodded.
"Yes, I'm just worried about Dot's health, she's been coughing." Wakko sighed.
"Everything will be okay. They look so happy when they are together." Rakko pulled Wakko into a hug.
"Yes, they do. Let's listen." Wakko whispered. Rakko also stood in the doorway, listening as well.
"And they'd say, "Tell us your name, young lady," and you'd say-" Yakko said as Dot answered the question, giving out her full name.
"Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fana Bobesca the Third. But you can call me Dot." The young warner answered, she took a breath after saying that name. She thought it was a bit of a tongue twister.
"And they'd say, "Can we call you Dottie?" and you'd say-" Yakko giggled.
"No. Just Dot. Call me Dottie and you die." Dot looked stern for a moment when she said that but then, she giggled.
"And Mom and Dad would laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and they'd tickle you-" Yakko finished up the story while tickling his little sister.
Dot giggled as Yakko's pokes tickled her.
"And then you'd laugh, too." Yakko started to get up from the bed, but Dot hugged him.
Dot continued to giggle as Yakko lied her down and placed the blankets on her.
"And you'd fall asleep with a great, big smile in your heart." Yakko kissed her forehead.
Dot started coughing again as she replied.
"I like that story." Dot yawned and fell asleep in her bed. Yakko pulled up the covers so that she was warm.
"Good night, sis." Yakko whispered as he turned to see Wakko and Rakko in the doorway. He blew out the candle in Dot's room and came over to them quietly.
"Is she okay?" Wakko wondered.
"I don't know, she's been coughing like that since we left the castle a while ago." Yakko was also worried. Rakko looked up at Yakko.
"Well, I did learn about making medicine while we came out here. But I don't know too much yet, I will have to continue reading some books on the cure for her cough." Rakko finally spoke.
"Is that what that big book was on Dot's bed?" Yakko looked at the book that was now on the desk.
"Yeah, it's not a chapter book even though it reads like one. But if she wants to read through it, she can. I got more books on cures on the shelves in here." Rakko gave him a small smile.
"Can you make the cure tomorrow?" Wakko got into his face really fast.
"I will see what I can do. For now, let's get some rest." Rakko yawned, he was finally getting too tired to continue speaking. He walked back into the room as Wakko and Yakko went up stairs.
Rakko blew out the candles in the room and got into bed and covered himself up in the blankets, next to him was a desk and a book on top of it. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the soft pillow.
Back in Acme Falls...
King Salazar was losing all of his riches from buying new things for his castle, he wasn't able to afford the kingdom's taxes that he owed since he took over. He started to make everyone in town pay taxes weekly and he made their taxes double. Baron Von Plotz and Ralph were the head of making everyone pay up.
"I love this job, I never thought we'd get so much money from it, Ralph. I guess this wasn't such a bad idea." The greedy man sat in his wooden chair collecting taxes from all of the people.
"Duh, yeah, it's goods that we are getting paid from it, maybe we cans gets money and hide if from Salazar." Ralph said out loud as Plotz had to silence him.
"Quiet you fool! Do you think we want the king to hear that, we are making money, but it goes to him. If we want the money for ourselves, we will have to keep quiet and hide the money in the second bag in our stores." Plotz grabbed Ralph by the collar and pulled him closer.
"Do'h, oops, sorry." Ralph sighed before Plotz let him go. Plotz saw that some people were getting out of the line.
"Hey! You!" Plotz shouted to a man wearing worn out clothes, he turned to Plotz, he looked scared.
"O-oh, I wasn't getting out of the line, I just needed to go to the bathroom." He shivered.
"Wait in the line because everyone is paying taxes today! No one is to get out of the line until you put in your fair share!" Plotz forced the man back in line. Everyone else kept the line moving, throwing money at the greedy chief. He's forgotten about the warners and the king and queen.
From inside of the castle, Salazar was looking down from the window and saw that everyone was paying the money that he needed to get rich again. He didn't want to have to move to another place and become a low class guard or a normal citizen like everyone else. He wanted all of the money in the world, he wanted to stay in power which made Ms Schwartz worried, she was working in the castle, cleaning up things and dusted off the shelves. The dogs growled at her from afar, but they were chained to the wall so that they were controlled properly.
Ms Schwartz got fed up with dealing with Salazar yelling at her to do things. She missed William and Bobesca, those were the only two people she loved working for. They were nice, they allowed her to eat on proper occasions and she was able to cook for them most of the time.
"Oh, that Salazar! Killing the king and queen and expecting me to work for him, this shit is nuts! Absolutely insane! I should kill him and see what his followers think!" She finished dusting the hallway and went into the kitchen to make Salazar's dish that he ordered to make a while ago. She heard the dogs barking while she was going through the cupboards in the kitchen, taking out pots and pans and baking pans. While she began getting out vegetables and wheat from the counter top, she heard her name being called by her new king.
"Ms Schwartz! Get up here now!" He yelled from upstairs. Ms Schwartz growled and stomped up the stairs, she placed both hands on her hips as she entered the room.
"What is it now, Salazar? Can't you see that I'm getting ready to cook your dish?" She gave him a stern tone in her voice.
"That's not how I answer to you. It's King Salazar, and you better start addressing me like that. I wanted to bring you in here because I want you to make a extra dish. Can you bake a cake for me to go with my fine dish that you are serving tonight?" Salazar grinned and held her chin up.
"Oh! I'm already making you dinner, I'm not-!" Ms Schwartz was cut off by a bunch of guns surrounding her.
"On second thought, I will make the cake as an extra dish for the lord." Ms Schwartz grinned sheepishly and headed out of the room.
"And don't make a chocolate cake, it will mess up my clothes!" Salazar called to her.
Ms Schwartz stomped down the stairs, she wanted to escape. As she went into the kitchen, she noticed the window but she saw some guards outside. They were pacing back and forth, keeping an eye out for anything that was trespassing the castle grounds.
"I must get out of here, cooking or not." Ms Schwartz packed up the food that was in the fridge in a bag that she grabbed from drawer and stuffed everything that she needed into the bag. She went into her room and went through her stuff and packed up all of her good clothes. She then packed up her important things and left her room. It was empty now. She suddenly opened the doors to Yakko and Wakko's room, their stuff was mess up and things were thrown everywhere. She picked up a doll that was on the floor. It looked like it belonged to Wakko. She took the doll and headed over to see a book, the pages were torn, and it had Yakko's name on it.
"Oh, those poor kids... Killed... They had such a good life and now they are gone. All of the warners are gone..." She sniffled and left their room. She looked in Dot's room, but it was empty, Salazar had the guards clear her room when they took over the kingdom. When Ms Schwartz finished looking around in each room, she sighed and left the castle through the underground path. She lit up a touch and kept on moving.
As she came out from the back way, some guards were looking towards the right, this gave the maid a chance to make her escape. She took out her jacket from her bag and placed it on and then she quickly ran though the snow and away from the castle. She was never to be seen again.
As Ralph was walking, he noticed that Ms Schwartz was running into the forest from afar.
"Duh, hey! Is that the maid?" He asked Plotz who was still at the chair collecting the last of the taxes.
"You mean Schwartz? I wonder why she would leave the castle. We can't cook and we won't be able to eat if she's leaving." Plotz's face had a worried look on it, he wasn't going to know how to tell Salazar the news.
"So what shall we do's? Ralph asked while waiting for an answer. Plotz started to pace back and forth until the guards came over to pick up the bag of money that was collected from all of the townsfolk.
"Salazar wishes to see you both." One of the guards grunted, Plotz and Ralph gulped as they slowly walked up to the castle and opened the doors. There was a big creaking sounds as they entered. They both went down the hall and climbed up the stairs and into Salazar's room.
"Y-you wanted to see us sir?" Plotz stuttered nervously while Ralph was staring blankly at the king.
"Yes. I want to thank you for your service today. Also, I saw someone in a jacket running off in the snow. Do you guys know who that was?" Salazar asked them.
"Um, well you see, um..." Plotz was trying to come up with a lie. He really liked Schwartz more than his king, but he learned to put up with Salazar because of the money.
"We duh, um, duh, don't know who's your talking about, King Salazar." Ralph shrugged and turned to Plotz.
"Yeah, we don't know that person, ha ha..." Plotz tried to keep it together.
"Hmmm... You better keep an eye out for things. We don't want any strangers coming into the castle. This castle is mines now and there is nothing anyone could do to stop my power." Salazar replied.
Plotz sighed with relief as he was about to walk out when a guard came into the room and shouted out the bad news.
"Salazar! I went into the kitchen to see if your dish was being made and everything in the kitchen is gone, the food, the pots and pans, the plates, everything!" The skinny guard shouted out loud. King Salazar faced Plotz and Ralph quickly as he got angry with them.
"So? My food is gone and the plates too? The kitchen is empty? Who was that person in the jacket that was running across the castle grounds?" Salazar got in Plotz's face.
"Oh well... It was Ms Schwartz..." Plotz admitted. Ralph gulped, he didn't know what the king was going to do without a maid.
"Grrr... She betrayed me. She betrayed this castle and this town!" He got away from Plotz's face and paced back and forth.
"Sir, you know we can always find you another maid that is willing to clean the castle, cook and make your life much easier here." Plotz was trying to make Salazar feel better.
"No! You guys will not be finding a new maid, the guards will, you both will be staying here and as punishment for lying, you both will be doing more work without pay!" Salazar snapped and shoved them out of the room and slammed the door shut.
"Well I didn't expect thats..." Ralph rubbed his head and picked up Plotz, the man was dizzy as he shook his dizziness away.
"Oh Ralph, I think Schwartz left to find herself a place to go. As long we sneak the riches from the taxes we collect, we can get ourselves our own castle." Plotz started planning.
"Oh, that's right! We can get our own castle!" Ralph replied as they both walked outside of the castle to go to Scratchansniff's cola stand.
At the cola stand...
"So many taxes that ve have to pay, this is getting silly." Scratchansniff sighed in frustration. Some of the customers listened to him, the agreed with him as they started a conversation on the issue.
When Plotz and Ralph arrived everyone left the stand and walked over into town. Scratchansniff saw them and huffed at them, he was very upset at them from the night he was kicked from the castle.
"Oh, so now look who shows up, I asked you both vhere the kids are and now you come here to bother me." Scratchansniff huffed.
"Listen, we are very sorry that it happened. We just need some drinks to go." Plotz quickly said.
"Fine, I will get you two ze drinks, but then you must pay me at least some money for it." Scratchansniff grabbed two cups and poured the drinks into them. Ralph looked at the cola and it looked like it was made by a professional.
"Oooh, this looks good!" Ralph took the glass and chugged the cola down. Plotz took his cup and paid Scratchansniff a few coins for the cola. He took a sip from the glass.
"You know, this ain't half bad. Thanks so much Scratchansniff, but I'm really sorry about what happened. And the kids, I had no idea where they are." Plotz coughed before taking another sip of cola.
"Oh.. You don't know?" Scratchansniff sighed.
"No... I'm afraid they are gone. But, Salazar has benefits for all of the townsfolk when he gets enough money!" Plotz was trying to cheer him up, but it was no use.
"No, I want nothing from this king, he's selfish, taking everyone's money for himself and you both are feeding him from your hands! I'm not going to sit around and do zhat!" Scratchansniff huffed and continued to work.
"Well, look at the time, we gotta get going. I'm sorry Scratchansniff, maybe we can talk about this some other time, the king is waiting on us!" Plotz left the stand and Ralph was about to protest, but he was grabbed by his collar and he waved to the tall skinny man. Scratchansniff only grumbled and wiped the glasses.
"They are just playing a game! They know vhere ze kids are, they just don't v'ant to say it!" Scratchansniff pouted and shoved the glasses away in the cupboard of the stand.
Near the castle courtyard...
King Salazar started to organize a search party for Ma'dam Schwartz. He wasn't going to let her get away with stealing stuff from the castle, especially plates, pots and pans and other cooking materials. A few guards wanted to protest and tell him that she's probably gone far, but Salazar didn't want to believe that she was gone for good.
"We are going to find her, she can't be that far!" Salazar's face showed determination.
"Man, why do we have to go after her? Did you just become the king? There's no need for us to-" The smart ass guard was cut off as Salazar grabbed him by his collar and didn't let go.
"Listen here! I'm the king, we are looking for Ms Schwartz! She is going to pay for betraying me and running away with my dishes!" Salazar growled as he dropped the guard to the ground.
"Fine, we will search for her, but where should start?" The smart ass guard asked while rubbing his butt.
"There will be three groups. The first group led by Mario will go into the forest, while the second group led by Stanley will be going near the frozen lake and the last group which is led by Sandario will be searching near the town." Salazar replied.
"Okay, what group am I in?" The smart ass guard asked while looking at the three split groups.
"You are going to be in Mario's group! Now search for that maid! I don't want to see any of you until she is found!" Salazar waved them off. The guards saluted their king and marched off to search for the missing maid.
Salazar walked back into his castle and went up stairs, he was so tired from telling people what to do. He sat in his throne and got a book from the drawer next to him and started to read.
"God, if they don't find that maid, who else will?" He mumbled to himself while flipping through the pages.
Later that same night...
Ms Schwartz was going through the forest, she finally stopped when she noticed a town with lots of houses. She also noticed that there was some foot prints in the snow, she wondered who they belonged to.
"It looks like someone else has been here too, and they were not alone, there is a bunch of foot prints here." She said as she walked on, she couldn't rest, she had to get away from the king, she didn't want to face anymore trouble than she already wished for.
Once she was near a house, she knocked on someone's door, there was no answer. She finally noticed that there was an inn nearby as she grabbed her things and walked over to the big building. It was still open as she opened the door. She noticed that a slim looking guy was at the counter, he looked at Ms Schwartz with a worried look on his face.
"Oh my! You must be freezing out here tonight! I will take you in, don't worry about paying me!" The man said as he came over to her and reached his hand out to her.
"Oh, well thank you sir, that is kind of you." Ms Schwartz bowed her head down.
"No need to be so formal, we have one room that is available." The man said as he opened to door to her room and gave her a room key.
"Thanks again!" Ms Schwartz called to the man. The nice man smiled back and replied.
"You're welcome!" He called back as he went back to the front desk and took out a book to read.
Ms Schwartz let out a sigh of relief and decided to get ready for bed.
"Tomorrow is another day, let's hope that the insurance for the king's new taxes plummet down the toilet! I really hate Salazar and what he's done to the kingdom..." Ms Schwartz sighed before getting into bed.
She was going to love her new life away from Acme Falls, as long as an evil king rules it, she isn't going back to see Salazar and his evil guards. Ms Schwartz got into bed that night while wearing her pink PJ's. She blew out the candle on the desk to her right and settled her head down into her pillow.
Tonight was going to be peaceful for the very first time in days since she had to put up with folks yelling in her face.
The next morning...
Nakko woke up with the sunlight beaming in his face from the window behind him, he decided that it was time to get up. He slowly opened his eyes and stretched. He turned to Rakko who was still asleep. Not wanting to wake him up, he decided to go up stairs to check on Wakko and Yakko.
As he was coming out of the room, he heard Dot coughing. He turned his attention to her and peeked through the doorway, she was still asleep but she was just having those terrible coughing fits every few moments. He sighed and decided to get a book down from the shelf instead so that Rakko could work his magic.
"If she doesn't get better, she'll continue to cough like a crazy lady." Nakko grumbled, he took down 4 books and tossed them at Rakko's desk. Hearing the noise of the book collide with his desk, the brown warner yawned and got up slowly.
"N..Nakko? A..are you throwing books at my desk again?" Rakko asked, he sounded groggy that morning.
"I was trying to put the books on your desk. It's about time that you got up anyway. Dot is coughing and you need to make her a cure while she's here. I'm afraid that we all cannot go back." Nakko replied.
"That's right. If we go back to that house, we will be spotted." Rakko rubbed his eyes and slowly got out of bed. He took a book from his desk and walked up stairs. Nakko turned to him.
"Where are you headed?" Nakko asked, giving him a look. Rakko replied as he went up the stairs.
"To read this book and make a cure, my bowls are upstairs." Rakko answered his question as he continued to go up the steps and into the top room where Yakko and Wakko were looking out the window.
"You know, Wakko. I think this place could be our new home for real. Who needs royalty? We can be ourselves here, make funny pranks and tell jokes! You can do anything here I bet!" Yakko was excited.
"I agree! Maybe we could see movie stars out here like don knotts!" Wakko looks at the readers and then turns to Yakko.
"Hmmm.. Uuuuh, I don't think so. We are not in that time period." Yakko took out a watch and showed it to Wakko.
"Oh, that would make sense, but maybe we can see older movie stars!" Wakko cheered as he went through his bag and took out a book.
"That's not a movie star book. Sorry but movie stars are not in this time period, but you know who is in this time period... Mariplio Von Schwartz!" Yakko shouted out loud.
"Who is that?" Wakko turned to face him.
"He is famous for making castles. I think our father told me that he build his before, but I don't know. It's a mystery." Yakko smirked.
"Wait, is he related to Ma'dam Schwartz, the maid that we left back at the castle?" Wakko started thinking, he also opened a book that he found on the shelf.
"Hmmm, you got me there, Wakko. It's best that we don't find out, who knows they could be related..." Yakko whispered into his ear.
"So does that mean they are married?" Wakko was confused.
"Uuuh, they could be. Maybe it's all a fluke." Yakko waved his hands in front of him.
Rakko suddenly came up the stairs and went over to the desk behind them. Yakko hear him walk by and turned around, Wakko did the same.
"Oh, Rakko, it's you. What are you doing up here?" Yakko came over to him and started looking over his shoulder.
"I'm reading this book and using some tips here on making a cure for Dot's cough." Rakko replied formally.
"So formal, are you the smart one?" Yakko teased him.
"Well, I..." Rakko started to say but Wakko interrupted him.
"Are you a movie star?" Wakko got in his space. Rakko pushed his face away.
"No, what in the hell is a movie star?" Rakko was confused, he beckoned both annoying warners to leave his space.
"Ooooh, did you just say what mother told you not to say?" Yakko gave Rakko a stern look that seemed playful at the same time.
"What? Hell? That's not a bad word, it's in the bible." Rakko huffed and continued to read, but Yakko grabbed Rakko by his ears and got out soap and water from a bucket out of no where.
"Someone needs to wash that dirty mouth out with soap! This might be a teens story, but you need to keep this section clean!" Yakko was washing Rakko's mouth out with soap. Rakko was gurgling through the bubbles in his mouth, he was trying to get out of Yakko's grasp.
"Blub, bbrru! Yuuukro! Stttuuup! Bluuurb!" Rakko was calling through the bubbles in his mouth.
"Oh, you want more?" Yakko tossed water all over Rakko when he pulled on a hanging rope.
Rakko was all wet as he shook off and started to shiver. The water that was dumped on him was cold as ice.
"W-why... Y-you l-little!" Rakko could barely speak as he wanted to get Yakko back but he couldn't. He stood there, shaking from the icy cold water that was splashed all over him.
"You know, you look like Don Knotts." Wakko laughed, Yakko smirked at the formal warner.
"A-and y-you g-guys s-s-said that y-you won't b-b-be a b-burden..." Rakko was still too cold to speak clearly.
"What was that?" Yakko was playing with him now, pretending as if he didn't hear him.
Rakko got so frustrated, he walked down the stairs and told Yakko and Wakko to stay up there. He was going to cure their sister so that they could move on and get out of the broken down house. Nakko who had been looking up the stairs saw Rakko coming down, the brown warner was all wet with water dripping from the sides of his furry face.
"Whoa, why in the hell are you all wet?" Nakko looked at his brother.
"Ask sir Yaks a lot and silly face." Rakko sneezed and stomped into his room with the bowl. He grabbed some green stuff that we in a jar and sat down on his bed.
"And he promised us that they wouldn't be a burden on us..." Nakko sighed.
"We have to deal with it, it's the least we can do." Rakko huffed, he didn't like that Yakko pranked him like that and washed his mouth out with soap because of a simple word.
"Maybe it's a new thing for us. We might have to act as crazy as they are." Nakko whispered into his ear.
"Not now, Nakko! I need to read this and help Dot. Is she still coughing?" Rakko asked him while opening up the book.
"Well... Yes." Nakko replied, he wasn't so sure how bad her cough was getting, but he could tell that she wasn't getting any better.
Rakko flipped through the pages in his medical book and starting working on the cure. He was going to make sure that Dot gets the treatment that she needs for her cough.
Suddenly, Wakko came down stairs and bumped into Nakko.
"Oops! Sorry to interrupt, but all of that joking around is making me more hungry, can we get something to eat?" Wakko begged. Nakko rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Sure, I will find us all something to eat and I will be back. Just don't get into anything that your not supposed to." Nakko sighed and left the broken down house. He jumped from the cliff and landed on his feet perfectly before heading off.
Back inside, Rakko was looking through the book with Wakko looking for his shoulder the entire time.
"Faboo... What's this green stuff for in the jar?" Wakko finally started looking at the jar which interested him.
"Nothing that you want to mess with. Maybe you could be of some help, Wakko." Rakko smirked at his cousin.
"Oh? I can? How can I help?" Wakko's silliness drifted away quickly.
"Hmmm. Why don't you go out and find me some rugs from one of the houses. I'm sure you can get down from the cliff, right?" Rakko snickered to himself.
"Oh sure I can! I will be back with those rugs for you, Rakko!" Wakko quickly headed out of the opening and jumped down the cliff, the front part of his own body hit the snowy ground first.
"That will keep him busy while I do some research for this cure." Rakko laughed to himself.
In Acme Falls...
Salazar was waiting to hear from the search party, he was hungry and wanted someone to cook for him. Maids were in line telling him their skills but half of them didn't cook a single dish that he liked. He tasted so many plates, but his taste buds were saying "no" to all of the food the different maids worked on. He liked Ms Schwartz's cooking better because she knew how to do it right.
"All of you cannot cook! I ask for a single dish like mac and cheese and you guys can't even make the taste of it pure! Get out all of you!" Salazar kicked out the maids. They hung their heads low and went back into town.
A guard came over to him.
"Sir, are you alright?" The guard asked him as Salazar sighed and looked at him.
"Yi'Lang, I'm not okay. I haven't gotten in decent meal since Ms Schwartz left, she was the only good cook I knew. If only I hadn't forced her to do the cake..." Salazar sighed, he was in despair and the castle taxes were still too high for him to pay. Salazar started to think long and hard.
"Well you know, maybe you can be a bit nicer? I mean yelling at all of the maids who wanted to work for you doesn't get you anywhere." Yi'Lang replied.
"But if I don't they will walk all over me, I have to be stern with them." Salazar huffed, he wanted to leave the castle for the day and go to a bar.
"Hey, why don't we go somewhere? The castle could get boring after a while." Yi'Lang beckoned the king to follow him. Salazar hesitated for a bit, but then he grinned and got up from his throne.
"Alright, let's head out to one of my favorite bars. Maybe that will get my mind off of things. And since you invited me to come out of the castle with you, you are paying for the food and the drinks." Salazar smirked at him.
"Sure thing!" Yi'Lang replied, he was delighted to know that there was some good in Salazar's heart. The one thing that Salazar had was a bit of kindness, maybe not all of the time, but sometimes. Salazar and Yi'Lang reached the bar finally as they went in, they noticed someone who they never thought would still be alive. Salazar gasped and Yi'Lang looked at his king in confusion.
"Do you know this person, Salazar?" Yi'Lang asked him but he was ignored.
"You're that lady that my guards were sent to attack... How are you still alive?" Salazar was not about to start a fight in a bar with this person.
The figure looked back at him, her eyes were stern.
"It's me. But I won't let you get away with what you did, Salazar, it's about time I taught you some manners..." The person replied.
Salazar didn't know what to do, his heart was telling him to fight, but if he did, he would mess up the bar. Yi'Lang noticed that the person held out a knife, he told Salazar to back off, but the king accepted her challenge.
"If it's a fight you want, why don't we take this outside?" Salazar was more formal about it.
"Fine..." The person leaped at him and rushed the evil king outside of the bar and into the snow. Yi'Lang pushed his way out of the doors and watched them fight. This was horrible, he had to help his king, but how?
"Salazar!" Yi'Lang called his name.
It looks like the battle was beginning...
To be continued...
What mess did Salazar get into this time? Who is this person and why are they attacking him? What will Yi'Lang do to save his king? More is to come! Chapter 6 is going to take bit, sorry for the long wait. I'm still working on the dialogue. It's tough but at least I'm trying harder than the last version of this story. Until next time, I will be moving to the Fire Emblem Fanfic for a bit. 8,000 words too! It's a new record!
