The Gems

Chapter Three: Prince vs Potato

"I'm telling you, we need to set up camp NOW!" Prince I shouted in Madame Spud's face

"We've been arguing for the last thirty minutes, and I've told you, we need to wait. It's still really early."

Prince I humphed and said under his breath "Well since I AM a prince, you should just do what I say. One day I'll be commanding this entire nation, so you'd better listen."

They'd been arguing like this forever. We were walking through a plains biome, and it was, like, 20 degrees, so we were all pretty hot. Poor RaRa had made an ice ball around her to drown them out. Why didn't I do that?

Madame Spud stopped and said sharply "What did you just say?"

Prince I looked innocent and said, "I didn't say anything, Potato."

That was where Madame Spud snapped. "Well, at least I'm not a stuck up elitist like you!"

"At least us elitists don't carry around stupid Clipboards with us!"

"Because you get other people to do it for you!"

"That's beyond the point"

"Is it really?"

"STOP!" I Shouted, "Please, we're all going to go insane!"

"Tell the elitist that he needs to stop first." Madame spud said as she rolled her eyes.

"Well tell the potato that she's an IDIOT!"

"Stop!" I said "Both of you!"

To say the least, they did not stop.

"Okay, here. If YOU want to go and control our group like servants, go and save Purple yourself!" Madame Spud Shouted at Prince I

'Well, if you want to tell our group that everything is okay and that we just need to stay organized, well you go and flippin' make your own group!" He shouted back

"Oh boy," I said "here we go"

I looked at Draco and he was smiling like he'd just found a Notch Apple.

"Fight, Fight Fight!" he droned

"What the heck?!" I told him

"What? This is the most entertaining thing I've viewed in like, four versions!"

I rolled my eyes and pushed Madame Spud and the prince to either side of me.

"Excuse me, we're having a discussion here, and it would be great if you'd just leave" Prince I said to me

"Well, excuse ME, but you two both need to be quiet and stop arguing!" I replied

"You're not making it any better,  Padro!" she said gulping for air as she cried in exhaustion "if anything, you're making it worse!"

"Look, I don't want to-"

"Goodbye. I'm leaving." Prince I said, "If she's not going to follow what I say, then she'd better leave too." he grabbed my arm and continued "you're coming with ME."

"Um.. No, I'm no-"

"Yes you are" he interrupted

I looked at Madame Spud and gave her a worried look and mouthed "help!" I wiggled my arm out of Prince's hand and ran over to Draco and RaRa

"If we want to get Purple back, we have to work together. things like this just can't happen."

Madame Spud sighed and said "Yeah, this whole argument was stupid" she looked Prince I in the eye and said "I'm sorry. We'll do things your way from now on."

"No," I said "We're all going to work together, I know... I know that it's hard and it's exhausting, and its frustrating and we're all ready to snap, but we really need to pull ourselves together to get Purple back."

"Now that was a speech I should have said... but, fine." Prince I said and chuckled.

RaRa's ice ball melted and said: "I need fish."

We all laughed as we jumped across some logs over a river heading towards a nearby Roofed Forest biome.

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"Ugh," I said as I flopped down onto my bed. We'd punched some trees, and made a quick house. Since we were limited in space (Thanks, a lot, roofed biome!) we had made more of a hotel than a house, but whatever.

"Dinner is served!" Sylvia shouted up the stairs. Her voice echoed through our rooms.

"Coming!" I said and heard my voice echo up the stairs as I walked down them.

Sylvia was running all over and everywhere around the kitchen.

"Where... are... the.... Serving Spoons... There!" she opened a drawer and took out some large spoons.

"Salad! Yay!" I said as she scooped in the spoons and placed some salad on our plates. "BAMBOO!" I shouted as I ate some salad. Now pause, pause! I kind of have a bit of a weakness for bamboo, and it's kind of like what you humans would call a 'sugar rush effect' when I have bamboo. So now you know.

I stood up from my chair and started running around it ten miles per second

"wee!"

Let's just say that One: I have no recollection of what happened after that point and Two: Probably no-one actually slept that night.

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"Ugh..." I groaned as I got up from my bed. "When did I get in here?" I thought to myself as I walked down the stairs. The whole building was quiet, but not the peaceful kind. The kind that makes you uncomfortable, like something had happened when you were asleep.

"Hello?" I shouted

"Psst! Over here!"

I looked around, trying to determine where this voice was coming from, and then stopped when I spotted a table laying sideways on the floor. I walked over to it and crouched behind it. Madame Spud was there, but she looked worried sick.

"What's going on? Why are we hiding?" I asked her, now worried too.

"They. Hey. Sylvia.. take..."

She looked like she was going to faint, and was sweating A LOT.

"'Kay, slowly. What happened?"

She took a deep breath and said; "They. They took Sylvia."

A wave of disbelief and shock waved through me as I pieced the words I had just heard together.

"A-are you sure? Like, one-hundred percent sure? She could have just gone looking for some supplies."

"No. I saw him walk straight in and grab her. I- I tried to fight back, but he's too strong with the Joonpar. He threw me across the room and muted me. Th-That was the m-most terrifying thing I've seen in... forever."

The entire kitchen was a complete wreck, and there was a Madame-Spud-Sized hole in the wall on the far side of the room.

"Where's Prince I and RaRa?"

"Prince I is still upstairs sleeping, along with RaRa."

I got up and pushed over the table so it was right-side up again.

"Let's make-do with what we have, and see if we can piece together a breakfast."

"Who's going to tell the others?"

"Let's cross that bridge when we get to it, Okay?" I looked Madame Spud in the eye and said: "We CAN do this, we just need a little... courage."

Madame Spud smiled and said, "Well, sometimes clipboards help too!" she took out her clipboard and started organizing how we were going to take down breaker. "I'll have to consult with Prince I and Draco to see if the Joonpar has any weaknesses, and I'll have a look if I can find the dot-schematic file of Breaker's lair, and see if there are any vulnerable spaces to get in through." She said under her breath. She was on a roll, and we were going to do this.

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