Hunk and Lance were totally lost. This was a given.
And they both knew it.
"What now?" Lance asked, sitting down on a rock. "Wh-What if we can't get to Keith? What if he's dead?!" Lance asked.
"It'll be ok Lance, we'll get to him!" Hunk said. "Maybe we should ask for directions to west?"
"But who? There's no one around for miles-"

BAM!!

The two fell to the ground to avoid the gunshot.
"Oh quiznack! I missed!"

The two looked up to see a woman on a horse. She had long silver hair and dark skin and wore vert regal clothing.
"Oh well, let me try again!" She smiled as she reloaded and aimed for hunk.
"No wait!" Lance cried. "Don't hurt him!"
"Sir step aside! Thats my dinner!" Said the woman. "For I, Princess Alurra, shall have only the finest!"
"W-Well your highness," Lance stuttered. "I would prefer it if you didn't eat my friend!"
"Well what do you suppose I have for dinner then in this wasteland?!"
"Well, Hunk can't be your dinner. But he could make you dinner?"
"How?"
"Well your majesty, I'm a chef in my home with true trolls. I could easily make you a meal fit for royalty!"
"I am royalty!" Alurra said. "Come, you shall prepare me a feast!"

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Following Alurra on her horse, the two arrived at a beautiful palace. It was still pretty small, however very pretty!
But....it was split down the middle?! Litterly! The castle had a few inches that were completely sawed in half!
But the inside was even stranger! The furniture, tablewear, and even stairs were sawed in half!

What is with this place? Lance thought to himself.

"Troll!" Alurra pointed to Hunk. "The kitchen is that way! Begin preparing a feast!" She ordered.
"Uh, yes your majesty-"

"HEY!!"

They all looked up to the top of the stairs. There was a girl with pale skin and blonde hair. She too, wore very regal clothing.
"Who are they!?" She demanded.
"This is my chef for the night, Romelle!" Alurra said referring to to Hunk.
"Well split him in half!" Romelle said pulling out a giant saw.
"WHAT?!" Hunk screamed.

Romelle walked down the stairs.
"Father decreed that anything we have we must share," Romelle said, gesturing to a portrait(also split in half)of a man in a crown. "It was his-"
"LAST WISH! I KNOW!" Alurra yelled. "Fine!" Alurra took the saw. "You have the bottom I'll have the top!"
"No I want the top!" Romelle said.

"Wh-Whats going on?!" Lance cried. "We're not cutting him in half!"
"Ah good point!" Alurra said. "We should cut him vertically! That way we get equal halves."
"No one is cutting Hunk in Half!" Lance took the saw.
"How dare you!" Alurra tried to snatch it back.
"You dare defy the royal sisters of Altea?!" Romelle gasped, stumbling back.

Suddenly, she tripped on a loose curtain rope and fell back. The Curtain fell onto a wall torch and caught fire.
"Ahhhh!" Romelle cried. "Help! Someone help!"
"Romelle!" Alurra cried. She ran to her sister and pulled her from the growing inferno.

The castle began to catch fire, and everyone ran out of their castle before it collapsed into ashes.

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"I-I'm so sorry..." Lance said.
"Are you kidding?!" Romelle hugged Lance. "Thank you!"
"Wait what?" Hunk asked.
"We had been forced to live separated in that castle as Father's final curse!" ALurra explained.
"You've freed us! Now we can be together as sisters once again!" Romelle hugged her sister.
"Oh how can we ever repay you?" Alurra asked.

"We need to find the Snow Queen castle, can you point us in the right way?" Lance asked.
"We can do better than that!" Romelle said. She whistled and a horse pulling a sleigh walked up to them.
"Take this sleigh, and head that way North," Alurra said as they hopped on.
"Thank you!" Lance and Hunk waved as they rode away.

...

"Think they'll run into those ice pirates?" Alurra asked.
"I hope not," Romelle shrugged.