Caves of Ice

Chapter One

Marshall was sitting on his beat up couch, sucking the red out of some strawberries he stole from a random garden. 'What a succulent shade of red,' he said to himself as he gently inspected his last red strawberry. He treated his colors of red like they were his children, just like most men when it comes to food.

After finishing his strawberries, he decided to start writing some lyrics. He headed up to his bedroom, and picked up his bass axe.

He played some notes, then he scribbled onto his music sheets, then he erased and tried again. He continued this pattern for about ten minutes, before he finally gave up.

'Why is it so hard for me to write music today? I never have this problem.' Then he grunted and floated back downstairs and out of his home. 'I need some inspiration..'

Prince Gumball was in his lab, 10 miles away. He was working on a new formula for Cinnabon, hoping it would somehow cure her mental problems. Most citizens of the Candy Kingdom didn't know this, but Flame Prince had been bringing Cinnabon to Gumball concerned for her illness. Gumball hasn't been successful finding the right formula yet, but he hasn't stopped trying.

"Here Cinnabon, drink this." Gumball handed her his newest formula, in hopes of a cure.

After Cinnabon finished drinking the mysterious liquid, she instantly fell unconscious. Unsure what he did wrong, Gumball ran out of the room to his lab, to try and find his miscalculation.

"Oh my glob! Prince Gumball! What's happening?! Come back!!" Flame Prince yelled as he caressed the sweet treat's unconscious body.

"Carry the two.... add that..." Gumball continued to mumble numbers and words to himself. Finally he found what he was looking for. He took the paper and walked back to the room Cinnabon and Flame Prince were in.

'Oh glob.. how could I make such an amature mistake.. how will I tell Flame Prince..' he thought. Finally, after thinking to himself silently for about a minute, he looked down at the helpless Prince, and kneeled next to him.

"It seems I've made a rare mistake," Gumball started, but Flame Prince interrupted him.

"Yeah. I noticed that! Just get to the point already! Don't sugarcoat it. And don't even think about lying to me either. I hate liars."

"I've given Cinnabon a rare herb I mistook for a hibiscus flower stem. The two look almost exactly alike, and I'm sure anyone would've made the same mistake."

Flame Prince just stared at Prince Gumball. He had a hurt look on his face, but was unable of crying. Gumball felt so idiotic. He knew how much Flame Prince loves Cinnabon. And he won't forgive himself for making such a mistake.

"Just tell me how to fix the problem," Flame Prince told Gumball, as he slightly squeezed Cinnabon's hand.

"That would be the difficult part. The only way to reverse the herb's effects, is if we could get our hands on some snow-"

But before Gumball could finish, Flame Prince disappeared through the window, headed towards the Ice Kingdom, only leaving a trail of fire. When he returned, he was pulling a piece of aluminum foil attached to a sled topped with snow.

"Here! Hurry! Help her!" the Prince yelled.

Gumball sighed. "If you had let me finished, you would've heard me say 'But not just any snow'."

Flame Prince didn't understand what Gumball was talking about, and he shot him a confused look. "So what then? There are different types of snow or something?"

"Not necessarily. The snow I need is more of a snow crystal. It grows deep within ice glaciers. The weight from the glaciers create balls of soft snow that stay together until hit with a hammer. Since this snow is so deep within the glaciers, it is not surrounded by the bacteria regular snow is surrounded by, which creates a coat of antibiotics. There is much more that goes into it, but those are the basics."

"Well tell me where I can find it. I will melt the glacier until you can get to it."

"No. If the crystals get touched by even the slightest of warmth, they will explode... I would have to go alone. Dig my way in. It's the only way."

And with that, the gumball prince was off to the Ice Kingdom.

When Prince Gumball arrived at the Ice Queen's Castle, he was surprised to see Marshal jamming with her. It looked like they had been practicing whatever they were playing for a really long time.

"Hey guys. What are you playing?" Gumball asked as he walked into the castle.

Marshall and Sarah jumped at Gumball's question. They were so enticed with the music they were playing they totally forgot about reality.

"Oh well hello your majesty," Marshall sarcastically said as he bowed down to the prince. "We weren't playing anything specific really. It was more of a uhh-"

"Free jam type of thing," the Ice Queen said to Prince Gumball with a slight blush on her face.

"Oh how nice! Do you mind if I join you-" Gumball stopped himself remembering what he had came to do. "Ice Queen. I need you to take me to the Ice Kingdom Glaciers," Gumball told Sarah with a serious look on his face.

"Oh, what for my handsome prince? Are you just trying to take me to a secluded place so we can be, alone~~?"

Marshall chuckled as Gumball scoffed at the queen's comment.

"What makes you think I would want to take YOU to a secluded place alone? If I did you would just take advantage of me," Gumball said girlishly as he crossed his arms and looked away.

"Hey hey. Enough bickering you two. How 'bout I go with you guys, so if the lovely Queen of Ice decides to do ANYTHING to Gumball, I'll be there to stop it?" Marshall proposed.

Prince Gumball and Ice Queen looked at each other, then agreed to the vampire king's suggestion. Then the three started to make their way to huge glaciers of the icy kingdom.