Chapter 3

As morning came over the palace, a girly scream was heard.

"I have never been so insulted in my life!" Dash said as he stormed out of the garden door, he knocked into a human-like yellow sponge, with blue eyes and square pants.

"Ohh...prince Dash, you're not leaving so soon, are you?" Spongebob asked him, worriedly.

"Good luck marrying her off!" Dash exclaimed, walking out of the palace doors, trying to hide the rip he had in his pants, showing his hello kitty underwear.

"Ohhh Juniper, Juniper!" Spongebob shouted as he walked into the doors of the garden, trying to find his niece. Suddenly, a grey Tom cat jumped in his face, he had a piece of Dash's pants in his mouth. Spongebob yanked it out of his mouth. "So this is why prince Dash stormed out?"

"Oh father, Tom was just kidding. Weren't you Tom?" Juniper asked her cat.

"Well don't blame him, I was the one who bit his butt." Jerry piped up, all three of them started laughing, Spongebob's face stayed serious. Juniper noticed this and stopped.

"Dearest, you must stop rejecting every suitor that comes to call! The law says..." Spongebob explained.

"You must be married to a prince." Juniper mimicked.

"Before your next birthday." Spongebob told her.

"The law is wrong." Juniper told him.

"You've only got three more days!" Spongebob exclaimed.

"Uncle, I hate being forced into this." Juniper told him as she took a dove out of a nearby cage and petted it. "If I do marry, I want it to be for love."

"June, It's not only this law," Spongebob said as he took the dove from her hands, "i'm not going to be around forever and I want you to be taken care of, provided for."

"Please, try to understand, i've never done a thing on my own!" June exclaimed. "I've never even had any real friends."

"Hey!" Tom and Jerry exclaimed.

"Um...you didn't hear that." June told them. Tom and Jerry rose eyebrows at each other.

"I've never even been outside the palace walls." June told Spongebob.

"But June, you're a princess!" Spongebob told her.

"Then maybe I don't want to be a princess anymore." Juniper slapped the water of a fountain.

"Ohhh, I...I!" Spongebob stormed out of the garden, speechless. "I'm gonna make sure you don't have any daughters."

Tom and Jerry looked at each other with a confused look, June just turned away, angry and confused. She looked at the birdcage and opened the door, letting all the doves out, she looked at them with a sad look, they were free, she wasn't.

Inside the palace, Spongebob was playing with a model of Toongrabah, he flicked the plastic sun.

"I don't know where he gets it from." Spongebob sighed. "Her mother wasn't nearly as picky."

Spongebob accidentally broke the plastic sun off, he nervously tried to attach it, a gloomy shadow covered him.

"Oh! Freakshow, my most trusted advisor. I am in desperate need of your service." Spongebob told Freakshow.

"My life is but to serve you, my lord." Freakshow pretended.

"It's this suitor business, June refuses to choose a husband." Spongebob complained. "I'm about to lose my laughbox!"

"Oooh, laughbox!" Plankton said, popping up on Freakshow's shoulder.

"Ah, here you go, have a seaweed." Spongebob said, pulling a strand of seaweed out of his pocket and stuffing it in Plankton's mouth.

"Oh, your majesty certainly has a way with dumb sea urchins." Freakshow said, Plankton glared at him.

"Now then, perhaps I can divine a solution to this thorny problem." Freakshow told Spongebob.

"If anyone can help it's you." Spongebob told him.

"But it would require the use of the mystic best-friends-forever ring." Freakshow said, eyeing Spongebob's ring.

"Oh my ring? But it was a gift from Patrick." Spongebob said, looking at it himself.

"It's necessary to find the princess a suitor." Freakshow told him. "Don't worry, everything will be find." He rose his staff to hypnotize Spongebob.

"Everything will be fine..." Spongebob repeated.

"The ring?" Freakshow demanded.

"Here, Freakshow, everything will be...fine..." Spongebob handed the ring over to Freakshow, hypnotized.

"You are most gracious, my liege." Freakshow told Spongebob as he grabbed the ring. "Now run along and play with your little toys, hmm?"

"Ooh, toys!" Spongebob exclaimed, running off. Once Freakshow went behind the doorway, his expression turned dark and Plankton spit out the seaweed.

"I can't take it anymore! If I gotta choke down on one more of those moldy, disgusting seaweeds, BAM! WHACK!" Plankton rambled. "And then i'd grab him around the head, WHACK!"

"Calm yourself Plankton." Freakshow told him, he opened a door to some kind of Arabic laboratory. "Soon i'll be in charge, not that addlepated twit."

"And then I stuff the crackers down his throat, ha ha!" Plankton exclaimed, as the door closed.

A cloaked figure walked through the palace in the middle of the night. It turned out to be June as she tried to climb onto a tree and over the wall, suddenly she felt a tug at her cloak, she turned around to see Tom and Jerry looking sadly at her.

"June, where are you going?" Tom asked her.

"I'm sorry guys, but I can't stay here and have my life lived for me...i'll miss you." She said, hugging the both of them, she continued to climb up the tree and over the wall.

"Bye June." They said.

"Bye guys." She said as she disappeared over the wall. Tom and Jerry slumped to the ground, knowing they might never see their friend again.