"I'm here." Boomed the wizard. "Don't you dare to hit the light! Just slip into the kitchen and do your thing. I'm in the middle of a multiplayer session and cannot pause the game right now."
The two adventurers stared at each other, silently planning their next move.
"Is everything alright?" Came again the wizard's voice. "There's some smell! I have a very sensitive nose; you better don't bring smells into my apartment or I'll turn you all into tampons!"
There was a light, it was distant but strong like a bright red star in the night of the sailor lost at sea. It shone like a lighthouse, a beacon to follow and to reinforce hope. Puzu and Taddus walked to it, attracted like moths to the flame.
It was the microwave.
From the kitchen, a door led to another room and, in it, they found the princess trapped into the whitish, impenetrable bubble.
She was beautiful.
She sat crossed legs; her head bent down over her smart-tome with the neck's vertebrates popping out like the spikes of a stegosaurus.
"Princess!" Whispered Puzu in excitement. "We came to rescue you!"
Princess Farfalla looked up with a sprinkle of joy in her shiny eyes. Nothing feels better than hope fulfilled. "You mean you brought me a recharger? I'm so low on battery, I won't last longer."
When Puzu gave her the bad news, all light left her eyes, her eyelids dropped half-way and her lips assumed that particular shape which scientists called: 'the chicken's ass'.
"Boring." She said. "It doesn't matter. The bubble is unbreachable, couldn't have handed me the recharger anyway."
Prince Taddus, who had been quiet until then, knocked violently on the sphere. "Hey, you in there." He yelled. "I do not have seafood breath!"
Farfalla shushed him away with a most elegant snubbing wave. "Uh-uh, yes you do."
"You never talked to me. Not once we talked face to face. What do you know?" Kept yelling the enraged prince.
"Everybody says so."
Taddus stuttered, uncertain, then he beat the palm of his hand against the bubble and cried out: "and you got blue cheese breath!"
Princess Farfalla began to cry. Very loudly and very annoyingly making a sound that went something like this: "uheee-uheee-ahhh-uheee-uheee-ahhh."
"Oh, come on!" Snapped Puzu. "What kind of prince makes a princess cry?"
Suddenly the light was on. It was the wizard standing at the door.
"What's going on here? Where's my fridge?" Boomed Vitruvius.
"Oh no!" Said Puzu.
"Oh no!" Said Taddus.
"Oh no!" Said Farfalla.
That's right, everybody said "Oh no!"
Vitruvius began muttering words in an ancient language while tracing in the air invisible circles and symbols.
"A maid making a tuna sandwich!" Proposed Taddus.
Puzu shook his head, "no, it's a donkey pulling a cart of manure."
"No way, you empty skulls." Intervened Farfalla. "It's that movie with that woman, the one with the very large mouth, you know? And the very long neck. And the guy has that funny accent, I dunno, British or something."
"What? No!" Vitruvius stopped and engulfed them in the meanest look he had at his disposal. "What is wrong with the lot of you? This is not a miming game! I'm casting a spell! This is how you face your ultimate death?"
Taddus was perplexed, "why ultimate? Is there some non-ultimate death? Have you died before?" He asked his companion.
"Every morning when I wake up." Answered the self-employed businessman.
"Shut up!" Screamed the evil wizard getting back to his gesticulation. "I'm going to turn you all into those long yellow things!"
"Oh no, you mean bananas?" Asked Taddus in panic.
The wizard nodded wickedly.
"What are you going to do with all those bananas?" Inquired Puzu.
"Not sure. One I'll eat for sure. The other one maybe I'll give it to Mrs.Cathrina, she seems kind of lonely."
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