Chapter 4- Princess Mabel in Trouble

Later that night, Princess Mabel trudged sadly into her father's castle living room, where she saw her brother Alexander watching Aladdin on the Disney Channel. Alexander asked her, "Hey! How'd it go?"

Mabel then frantically replied, "I don't know! I was in the friend zone, and then before I knew what was happening, he pulled me into the romance zone. It was like quick sand! Chubby quicksand!"

Alexander then became concerned and said, "What the heck happened on that date?"

Mabel tried to speak, but then she remembered that Prince Gideon had told her not to tell anyone about how he tried to make her kill her father so they could get married. She then turned her head, just as her father King Stephen was contemplating himself in the mirror and saying in disgust, "Ugh, I am fat."

Mabel ran upstairs screaming, and the old king, little knowing what was going on, called to her, "Bodies change, honey! Bodies change."

Prince Alexander went upstairs and saw his sister hiding in a sweater, muttering, "Mabel's not here. She's in Sweater Town."

"Are you gonna come out of sweater town?" asked Alexander, to which Mabel shook her head.

Just then, Wendy, Mabel's lady-in-waiting entered and said, "How are you doin' in Sweater Town, Mabel?"

Mabel looked up and said to her lady-in-waiting, "Wendy, I need some advice. What would you do if the guy you love told you to do something morally reprehensible and not tell anyone about it?"

"You know what I'd do?" replied Wendy. "I would really consider what that guy just said and do just the opposite. Then I'd break up with him, just like what I did with Lord Robbie. Oh man, I'm not sure I ever actually broke up with him. No wonder he keeps writing me those creepy love letters."

Just then, Princess Mabel got an idea and declared, "I know what I've gotta do. Thanks for talking to me, Wendy." And she took off her sweater and ran downstairs. Presently, a messenger pigeon approached Wendy with a love letter from Lord Robbie, whereupon Wendy threw it into the fireplace.

Princess Mabel approached her father and said to him, "Father, I have a confession to make. Prince Gideon has done something terrible to me."

King Stephen took pity on his daughter and said to her, "There, there. Tell me everything."

Princess Mabel then told him everything: "He took me to his castle and showed me everything, but after a while, he told me that you were planning on killing me because he overheard you saying that you would rather see me die by the sword than marry me off to him."

The old king was taken aback and said to himself, "Why would I want to kill my own daughter?"

Mabel continued: "So I hate to say this, but he's trying to make me kill you with this dagger so that we can get married, or his father would declare war on your kingdom! And to make matters worse, he wants me to mail the knife, stained with your blood, to him as proof that I killed you. I used to like Prince Gideon as a friend-slash-little-sister, but now I don't like him at all."

At first, King Stephen was a bit mad at seeing his daughter with a dagger in her hand, but his slight anger soon gave way to pride, and he said to Mabel, "Well, I see that you have learned your lesson, sweetie. You may mail the dagger clean as a whistle."

Princess Mabel thought about it a little, and eventually, she knew what to do. So she took an envelope, placed the dagger, clean as a whistle, into the envelope, and gave it to their messenger pigeon, saying to herself, "Well, if Prince Gideon wants war, then let there be war."

Then King Stephen, noticing that his family was back to normal, declared, "Now let's go and watch some Disney movies!"

Princess Mabel was excited and shouted, "I call dibs on Mary Poppins!"

And off the king and his daughter went to the living room to watch the Disney Channel.

Later, in the Kingdom of Gleeful, Prince Gideon and his parents received the envelope. Prince Gideon then chuckled with glee, "I see that my marshmallow has fallen through to my plan."

But imagine his shock when he opened the envelope and saw not only that the dagger was squeaky clean, without a single drop of blood, but also that King Stephen had written a note as proof that he was still alive. It said, "Suck a lemon, little man!"

Enraged, Prince Gideon tore up the note and cried out, "How dare they! I am not a threat to be taken lightly! I'll get you, King Stephen of Pines! I'LL GET YOU ALL!"

King Robert and his queen were startled by their son's temper tantrum, but the king said to himself, "Precious memories…"

Meanwhile, the poor queen sat by her spinning wheel, muttering, "Just keep spinning…just keep spinning…"