From those words came Hunter Huntsman, who started cracking his knuckles. If Daring, Hopper, Alistair and even Dexter can get it done, so can Hunter. Whatever the teacher had planned for him, Hunter was about to face it head-on.

"Like I said before, Mr. Huntsman, you have only one hour." The teacher reminded him in case.

"Ok. When does my time start?"

"Now."

Hunter took off, being the smart one he had his ax in his hand since there was no specific instructions not to bring a weapon. He didn't understand why no one else had utilized the chance to bring one but oh well. It should only make things easier for himself.

Once he got to the ten pathways, Hunter searched all around, finding out which road led to the princess that he was assigned to, Ashlynn. After going around back and forth, Hunter noticed a glass slipper standing far away at the first left side, next to the middle. Of course, it was clear from that shoe of theirs, one can only believe in Hunter's case that it led to Ashlynn.

"Bingo." Hunter said to himself as he followed that path.

As Hunter walked a bit he found himself in a forest, and from the looks of it a thick one.

"Hmm.. I should be coming up upon the castle soon.." Then all the sudden...

Hunter jumped three feet in the air. He did not like the sound of that.

"Ahhh, who was that?" Hunter said, hesitating for a bit while holding his axe in hand.

Still being armed and dangerous, Hunter kept on moving around the thick forest, hoping not to make another noise so loud that it can possibly scare him crapless as ever.

Hunter sighed in relief when the castle came into view. When he stepped out of the forest he got a good look at it. It was made entirely out of glass that happened to be tinted a light blue.

"Hm.. suits Ashlynn well." It was then he realized that the dragon was no where to be found. Shrugging it off he stepped into the castle. No traps either.

"What the hex?" Once again shrugging it off he made his way to the tower, the door was unlocked. He opened it and Ashlynn was no where to be found. Confused he looked out the window and happened to catch a glimpse of the dragon, which had broken free of its bonds and was currently taking Ashlynn up to the top of a mountain miles away. Hunter then realized that this was no longer a test, but that his precious princess was in real danger, and if he didn't act quick he could lose her. Forever.

"Oh no," Hunter gulped before screaming, "ASHLYNN!"

"HUNTER, HELP MEEEEEEEE!" Ashlynn screamed from far away while struggling to break free from the dragon's tail.

"Oh hex.. HANG ON ASHLYNN, I'LL SAVE YOU I SWEAR I WONT LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU! I'LL BE THERE SOON!" Hunter hung his head in despair, if anything happened to her he'd never forgive himself.

So far, the rest of the students (yes including Kitty, who wasn't even supposed to be in this class) were all waiting with anticipation of Hunter's big return, until they noticed a slumped Hunter walking to them.

"You're back," The teacher replied before stating, "Where's your princess?"

"The dragon took her before I could get inside the glass castle." groaned Hunter.

"The dragon WHAT?!" Exclamed a horrified Apple. "So you mean to tell my my best friend is in real danger, and she's all alone with a real life dragon that could possibly kill her?" Apple didn't even wait for an answer before breaking down in sobs. While the other girls tried to console her the boys came up with a game plan.

"So, what the hell are we gonna do now?" Alistair whispered to Hunter.

"Well, I got a suggestion." Sparrow raised his hand.

"Oh, great." Hunter rolled his eyes, "What can you possibly think of at this point?"

"I knock you down and then me and the guys replace your bones with robot parts." Sparrow suggested. "That way, you'll be The Million Dollar Prince!"

"Yeah Sparrow, that's not helping!" Hopper snapped at the guitarist.

Dexter slapped Sparrow across the back of the head while Alistair, Hopper, and Daring shot him disapproving looks.

"Sparrow! It's not funny, imagine it was Blondie up there." Dexter said, patience running thin.

At this notion Sparrow got serious as he imagined how much pain he'd be in.

"Look, I'm real sorry Hunter. I was too busy goofing off to realize how much pain you must be." Sparrow stated regretfully.

"Anyway what the hell do we do now?" Alistair restated.

"I'll tell you what we're gonna do," Hunter added. "We're gonna team up. And we're gonna get Ashlynn back from that dragon so I can pass this exam and get it over with. But I want to be the one to save her. Are we clear?"

After such thinking and consideration, the guys had already made up their mind.

"Sure, I'm down with that." Daring nodded.

"I'm with Daring on this one. Count me in." Hopper nodded as well.

"Same." Alistair agreed.

"Definitely bro." Dexter decided.

"Hell yea!" Came the final response from Sparrow.

"Alright then its settled. But we need to leave now."

They all nodded in understanding of the gravity of this situation.

But before they could do anything, Sparrow sorta felt his stomach rumble with hunger for a minute.

"Wait a minute, can we at least something to eat first?" groaned the guitarist.

"Are you frickin' serious right now?" Hunter groaned back.

"I'm aching for a bite, what else can I say?" Sparrow shrugged.

"Oh gods fine..." Hunter said, knowing if he didn't agree that Sparrow would complain the whole time.

"We better make it quick though..." They all warned.

"Ok ok I will jeez..." Sparrow rolled his eyes.

*TIME SKIP* Brought to you by Beef Jerky.

Twenty minutes later. The five of them literally had to drag Sparrow out.

"C'Mon, Sparrow... that's quite enough!" Alistair said, trying to use every part of his strength.

"But I need more beef jerky!" whined Sparrow. "It's my lucky charm right after my guitar!"

"We're not wasting any time having to see you stuff your clothes with much jerky!" Hunter sighed, due to Sparrow's sanity. "Either you leave some of it here, or I'll make sure I'll ask the dragon to trade you for Ashlynn so that he'll turn you into jerky!"

"Damn. You drive a hard bargain..." Sparrow knew it was hopeless to get more food though.

"Damn straight I do. The love my life could be dead right now and it would be your fault that I couldn't get to her. Your lucky I don't beat you up!" Sparrow gulped, he knew when it was time to get serious and now was definitely the time. Although he still couldn't help being a little cocky.

"All right all right. Jeez would you calm down." That's when Hunter snapped. He had been holding his temper almost all day but telling someone to calm down only p***ed them off more.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S IT! IM GONNA KICK YOU ASS!" Hunter yelled. Before anyone could react Hunter lunged and tackled a very shocked Sparrow. He didn't realize one little comment could set him off like this. He hit the ground with a thud.

With Sparrow near unconsciousness as ever, Hunter stood up and dusted himself off.

"That was just one strike, Sparrow." The vegan scowled, "Now do what I say and lets go."

"There's only one problem, Hunter. We have no clue where that dragon took Ashlynn." Hopper explained.

"Well actually, I sort of have an idea." When he was met with more than one confused look he elaborated. "When I seen the dragon with Ashlynn it appeared as if it was heading towards the mountains."

"Well. That's helpful I guess. Poor Ash must be terrified..."

(Ashlynn's pov)

High on a mountain top, locked in a cage, a big scaly dragon sleeping ten feet away, not exactly how I wanted to be spending my Friday night. I don't know how much time has passed since I was kidnapped from the castle. I let out a weary sigh.

"Oh Hunter... I wish you were here.. I'm so scared." I whispered. As i thought about what could happen and that I might never see him again I broke down into silent sobs, feeling my heart break into a thousand pieces. But while she was weeping silently, she felt something breathe heavily around her, even blowing her hair backwards. Ashlynn managed to open her eyes a little to see a big crystal colored dragon staring deep down her soul like an emotionless creature.

"Oh, come on! What the hex did i even do to you?" Ashlynn cried out.

The dragon just snorted and laid back down leaving Ashlynn to her thoughts. I wonder if he misses me as much as I miss him.

"He does. I just know it." I whispered, careful to keep my voice down as to not wake the dragon.

"He'll come, he loves me." All I have to do is wait until he comes to set me free. It shouldn't be that much longer right?

*Back to the boys*

Hunter and the rest of the guys, and not to mention the rest of the girls as well, were busy setting off on their respective carriages as the burros that Dexter had hired, were riding them all the way to the mountains. Hunter looked pissed for some reason, so he decided to take it out on his best friend/roommate.

"Nice job hiring these a*** in the first place," Hunter snarled at Dex. "What happened to the stallions?"

"I would have hired them if it weren't for Kitty's little firecracker prank at the Charming's Backyard Barbecue Bash!" Dexter said, glaring at Kitty from the other carriage.

"Meoww, it's not my fault!" Kitty fired back.

"Hey! Enough! We already have enough going on without everyone fighting with eachother. We can't let our stress take over us." Daring claimed whilst looking into his signature mirror.

Everyone looked around and sighed, as they knew he did have a point.

"I just want her back so bad..." Hunter put his head in his hands. Dexter suddenly felt extremely bad for his friend. The love of his life could be injured or worse dead. Dexter put his arm around Hunter, trying to console him the best he possibly could.

"Hey, don't fret." Dexter replied. "I'm pretty sure she'll be fine."

"For your sakes, I hope you're right." Hunter nodded as if he wasn't trying to be worried.

As the burros were still traveling at a snails pace much to Hunter's irritation, one of the carriages felt a big banging sound, scaring Meeshell.

"Eeeeep! Oh my godmother, I'm scared..." She yelped while hanging on to Hopper.

"Relax Meeshell, we just hit a bump in the road." Hopper said, calming the beauty down.

"I'm sorry I'm just not used to the way you land folk travel. When I went in Daddy's under sea carriages they used to float and there was no 'bumps' in the path."

"It's fine Meeshell, you don't have to apologize for being frightened." Hopper gave her a reassuring smile and she instantly relaxed.

"Umm... Just wondering but isn't the dragon kingdom up this way?" Daring asked.

"Oh shit... the dragon must of took her there. If that's where they are, there could be hundreds of dragons with her.." Hunter went wide eyed as he said this.

"Just exactly how long do we get there?" Apple said to Hunter.

"Well, considering how long it'll take to get to the Dragon Kingdom from here..." Hunter said, taking a pause.

After looking his invisible watch for some reason (knowing he wasn't wearing one in the first place), Hunter gave out the best answer:

"Sixteen frickin' hours!"

"You can't be serious..." Alistair gulped. "That's almost like a day!"

"Yea well I will withstand anything to get to her. At least we aren't walking right?" Hunter pointed out.

"Yea I guess so..." Sparrow pouted.

"Nows not really the best time for you to complain, you know that right?" Blondie chided gently.

"Yea yea I know babe." Sparrow snapped, his reply coming out harsher than he intended. He instantly regretted it when he noticed Blondie flinch and move back a few inches.

"Oh. I'm sorry baby, I didn't mean to make it seem like I'm angry with you. Please forgive me." Blondie took one look at those pleading eyes and caved.

"Fine, I love you Sparrow." She snuggled up close to him.

"I love you too Blondie." Sparrow responded with a gentle kiss.

During that kiss however, the entire crew were startled by a rumbling noise coming out of nowhere. Blondie was trying to identify it the best that she could, hopefully.

"Wow, you're awfully hungry, are ya?" Blondie asked Sparrow.

"Um, Blondie, I don't think that's me." Sparrow responded, shaking his head in return.

However, Raven was looking out of the sky for some reason as uneasiness started settling in from her gut.

"Hunter, call me crazy, but how long did you say we were gonna get there?" asked Raven.

"Close to sixteen hours. Why?" Hunter answered.

"Believe it or not Hunter, I think we got somethin' brewin' our way..." Raven said, forcing Hunter to look up.

"Wait you mean like a storm or something?" Hunter gulped.

"Yes, and not just any storm, I think this might be a thunderstorm, a bad one, I can sense it." Raven confirmed his suspicions.

Before anyone else had been able to say a thing...

...

...

*BOOM!*

Thunder cackled down and the rain started heavily flowing.

All the girls shrieked while the boys shared nervous glances. It was safe to say none of them liked the looks of this at all.

"Well, this is just frickin' great!" Hunter growled at himself.

"Daring, I'm scared!" Apple shrieked, hanging onto Daring tightly.

"I'm scared too, but I don't wanna get any wrinkles!" Daring whined before looking at Hunter, "Hunter, you think there's a cave nearby?"

"There is one but it's still a few miles ahead." At this everyone groaned. For the next half an hour or so everyone sat in silence. Well as much silence as possible due to the constant rain and thunder. Finally they came upon the cave.

"Finally!" Apple exclaimed.

"We're here," Hunter replied as he got off the carriage. "Since we don't know how long it's gonna keep storming, let's set camp. Alistair, you and me will find wood for fire, Daring and Dexter, you two make sure Sparrow doesn't eat the rest of our food, and Sparrow...?"

"Ya called?" smirked Sparrow.

"Zip up your pants. replied Hunter.

"What about me?" Hopper called. Hunter turned to him.

"Hopper, you stay with the girls so they are safe. We can have another one go missing." Hopper looked at the girls and seeing that none of them seemed to object to this idea he nodded.

"Alright everyone let's get to work." Alistair dictated.

"The sooner we are done the better." Dexter claimed.

As the rest of the guys left the cave for the time being, Hopper looked at the rest of the girls with such curiosity.

"Me and the rest of the girls?" Hopper thought. "I sooooooo love my job now."

"Hopper, can you find out how long it's supposed to storm?" asked Raven.

"Sure, let me check out the weather." Hopper said as he pulled out his iChapter.

Unfortunately, as he was doing so, Hopper had a concerned look around his face when he looked what the weather was gonna be like.

"Anything yet, Hopper?" gulped Meeshell.

"No use," Hopper shook his head. "I'm afraid it's gonna last all night."

At this all of the girls groaned.

"Ugh. Seriously. That means we are stuck here till morning. Then we still have how many hours of traveling. Ashlynn is going to be stuck there for days at the rate this is going!" Apple exclaimed, eyes brimming with tears yet again.

"Oh Apple.. please don't cry, Ashlynn will be fine. I promise." He crossed his heart. Apple sniffled.

"Ok... if you say so.

"I know so," Hopper nodded. "If Daring can last this long without a mirror, we can last this storm with no problems at all."

But then, all of a sudden...

*BOOOOOOOOOM!*

The thunder crashed down the entire cave, scaring the rest of the women so much, they were wrapping their arms all around Hopper. A scene like that suddenly made him blush in quite a comfortable way.

"Ohhh, I hate this!" Apple whimpered. "My Daring's outside!"

"And so is Alistair!" Bunny nodded in unison.

"All right, so it was just a little case of the thunder." Hopper gulped, still showing braveness in his heart before adding, "At least it still won't be that bad."

"Poor Dexter. His glasses are going to get so wet he can't see out of them. He should've been the one to stay." Raven whined.

"Don't worry girls they will be fine. After all they did survive the giants during the playoffs, and that was a hell of a lot more dangerous than this." As the girls thought about this they knew it was true. Those giant were rough.

"Ok... I still can't help but worry. But at least we have you." Bunny concluded.

I smiled a bit at giving the girls some comfort.

While Hopper ate in all of the love, support and warmth of the ladies beside him, it didn't last that long as the girls (mostly Apple) heard the voices of the guys coming inside the cave.

"We're back with the wood and the food." Daring smirked.

"Oh Daring, thank goodness you're okay!" Apple squeed a little, hugging Daring in safety. "Did that lightning strike you? Are you hurt? If you are, I could go get bandages if that's fine with you, it's no matter..."

"Relax Apple, it's fine." Daring chuckled, calming her down.

"Are you sure? Because I don't mind having to fix you up a bit."

"I'm sure Princess." Apple smiled at the nickname.

"Ok."

Hunter walked over to the far right side of the cave. "Let's get this fire started."

"I'm hungry.." Sparrow whined. Dexter rolled his eyes.

"Yea we know, you were complaining the whole time we were trying to work." All the girls laughed at Sparrow's gimmicks.

"Hey, it's not funny." Sparrow replied. "I got an appetite of a horse."

"Well, at least we can eat all we can until the storm passes." Raven said, checking into the food pantry from their cart.

However, as she was checking around, he heard a meowing sound coming right behind the box of food.

"Sparrow, quit whining." Blondie groaned. "You'll get your food in a minute."

"But it wasn't me!" Sparrow whined again.

"Actually, I think it's coming from behind the box." replied Raven.

Raven slowly grabbed the bow and moved it. Behind the box was a tiny calico kitten.

"Awww." Blondie cooed.

"It's so adorable!" Meeshell squealed.

The guys thought it wasn't THAT big of a deal and just shrugged.

"What do we do with that... thing." Sparrow wondered, not realizing he was actually talking.

Being awestruck by this unexpected thing sitting between them, Raven picked it up, feeling its fur right away. Needless to say, it was a bit soft than Dexter.

"I guess we keep it so far," Raven shrugged. "Maybe this little guy decided to hitch a ride on your carriage."

"Ooooh, it looks so feisty." Kitty smirked in response. "She would make a great sister for me."

"Uh, no thanks, Kitty." Raven said, backing the black kitty away from Kitty. "I don't want this little one influenced by anything so mischievous."

Realizing she was the only one holding the black cat in her hands, Raven was caught breathless by it's cute innocent green eyes, which sparkled around Raven's purple eyes by sparkling innocence. Both Apple, Bunny, Blondie and Meeshell were just too awestruck by its beauty so much, they couldn't even speak.

"It's so cute, Raven," Apple cooed. "Have you ever thought of naming her?"

"Yea... I was kinda thinking about Midnight. Because ravens are called the midnight birds so I think it would be nice to have her name correspond with mine." Raven explained.

"Aww, I like it, and her last name can be black like her fur." All the girls nodded in agreement to Apple's suggestion.

"Alright then its settled. Hello there Midnight Black." The kitten responded by nuzzling Raven's palm with her nose.

"I think she likes it!" Bunny exclaimed. The boys groaned.

"Come on guys let's get back to the food!" This of course came from Sparrow. Everyone laughed yet again, leaving Sparrow annoyed.