"Phew! This is warm!"

"You think that this is warm, Storm? Then I'm glad you never went to the Kingdom of Fire! It was hotter than in an oven!"

The five ships carrying the citizens and animals were now in the Earth Kingdom's Waters. Earth Kingdom is basically another Spring Kingdom, just that it's not spring all year round; It's spring here for 9 months of the year.

Sapphire leaned on the railing and admired the lush colours she could see on the mainland. There was the greenest green, pinkest pink, most purplest purple, most orangest orange, most reddest red, most yellowest yellow, most whitest white, most bluest blue...

The whole kingdom looked like a gigantic rainbow with hundreds of colours!

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For one of the first times in her life, Sapphire felt glad that she was a 'Majestie'. With so many people on board the ships, it would be a bigger stampede than a zillion bison! She was lucky to only walk with Princess Grace, the Earl of the Golden Kingdom, King William, Queen Alexandra, Queen Lauren, King Henry, Queen Aquaria, King Leon...And all the other royals and the pups.

"Wow! Maybe we could change the song 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland' to '🎵🎶Walking through a Cherry Blossom Woods in a Carriage pulled by a beautiful horse...🎵🎶'

Sapphire and the other pups cringed and put their hands/paws in their ears to try to block Blaze's hysterical off-tone singing.

They were on their way to Cherry Blossom Forest where they will go underground to Mud Castle. 

Sapphire had never thought Cherry Blossoms would be so beautiful. Even though she went to the Earth Kingdom with Queen Gloria before, that's a while ago.

Wait.

Queen Gloria.

A pang of sadness hit her.

How is she?

Is she hurt?

Could Vile have done something to her?

Or worse: Is she still alive?

"Sapphire, Are you okay?" Chase asked, concerned by looking at the expression on her face.

"Yeah, just...I'm worried about Queen Gloria. She-she is still in Stella Auream. Who knows what happened to her, or if she is still even alive!

"I'm sure she's fine!"

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Sapphire and the Pups's Carriage arrived at Mud Castel's 'opening'. It is a temple-like structure with beautiful Cherry Blossom trees, ponds with white water lilies, Ivy swirling around the legs of the temple, other plants and vines growing around it; There is also a stunning grand staircase leading down, down, down.

"Where is Mud Castle? All I see is a beautiful Temple!" Blaze wondered.

"Mud Castle is UNDERGROUND, remember?"

"Oh, right"

"Now watch this!" Sapphire grinned, opened a closet-like box in the wall and puzzled out in the password, "Only, the kings, queens, prince and princess know the password, Queen Gloria taught me how to solve it!"

Sapphire had to press down the second pang of sadness hitting her, just thinking about Queen Gloria.

The staircase that led down, was lit up by the steps, and everyone heard the sound of an opening door.

"Follow me."

Sapphire led the pups down.

At the end of the tunnel, there was a big gate that was opened made out of vines with colourful flowers and tender leaves growing on it.

Inside, the floor went downwards with another couple sets of long grand staircases.

"Welcome to Mud Castle!"

Sapphire smiled as Chase, Blaze, Thunder and Bay gasped in wonder, and shook her head at Storm who was panting because of how 'hot' it is.

Mud Castle was a castle entirely made out of soil, mud and plants, but was polished and shines brightly. There was ivy climbing all over the palace with white flowers on them; underground Cherry Blossoms were circling the castle; different kinds of flowers were also growing everywhere.

In the distance, they heard an excited bark and saw Queen Blossom carrying a bunny and King Oak's figure, a puppy, another bunny, a groundhog and two cats coming their way.

The puppy was a Jack Russell Terrier around the pup's age.

"Hi! Welcome! I'm Sable!"

"Welcome to the Earth Kingdom!" Queen Blossom added as she put down the bunny she was carrying, "These are our pets, Sable, as you already know; Cassisa, the cinnamon-coloured bunny I was carrying; Holly, the chocolate bunny there" She nodded at her, "Roots the groundhog there behind Oak; Biscuit, our dusky brown-coloured cat over there with his sister, Lillian, the cream cat with blue eyes"

"Come, we'll show you your rooms!"

"King Oak! Can I please show the Rescue Paws their room while you and Queen Blossom show the others their rooms? Pleeeease?"

"Of course, Sable, we can't turn down a little help!" King Oak chuckled and patted her head.

The Jack Russell jumped ahead leading them into the Castle to their room.

"You seem pretty happy, huh?" Sapphire laughed at her enthusiasm.

"Yep! I'm excited when any visitors come by, even a grumpy old man!"

Sable led the Rescue Paws outside to a gigantic, but without furniture house.

"We're gonna stay here?!"

"No!" Sable giggled, "This is your workshop, you can build your things here, but you'll sleep in the castle, where I'll take you right away!"

Sable skipped into the Castle and brought them to a chamber.

"This is where you'll stay!"

The Chamber had white walls (just painted like that, unter the paint is all brown) with matching white, fluffy-looking carpets. Behind a wall and an arched doorway is the bedroom. A white bed with sapphire-blue blankets, pillows for Sapphire and comfy dog houses on both sides for the pups. To add light, there is a window on the ceiling, as every room in Mud castle has, there is no electricity, since the Earth Kingdom respects nature, they only use natural light and candles. But the best of all in the room, is a painting of Sapphire, Chase, Blaze, Thunder, Bay and Storm all together on the wall with golden writing saying: The Rescue Paws.

"Wow! King Oak and Queen Blossom made this all for us?"

"No, actually..." Sable shyly answered, "I organized everything, because I love helping, and that's exactly what you guys do!."

"Nawww! Thanks!"

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"We need to get Dexter back! Do you even hear me?!?!?!? Are you deaf?!?!? I SAID we need to get Dexter back!"

"Stop bothering me! I am already grumpy enough that you and your mutt didn't get the royal puppy and that mutt of yours actually got STUCK on board that ship!"

"Well at least you still have the girl I got for you! Now give me my crystals!"

"Oh yes! That girl you got me! Good... NOT JOB!!!!! DID YOU FORGET SHE ESCAPED ??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

In a cave in the Arctic Kingdom, the members of the Big Bad Villain Team were all arguing, Laszlo was pestering Vile about getting Dexter back, since he accidentally got stuck on the tsunami a while ago. While the Lady-that-likes-crystals keep on protesting that she got Sapphire and Vile should still give her crystals, even though she escaped.

It was an absolute CHAOS! Mayor Foggypath and Andrew were arguing about something stupid again, while his kittens were fighting over a yarn ball. The Replicat was zapping (to show off) EVERY SINGLE THING he saw and duplicated them; there were two of everything.

Zaaaaaaaapp

Unaware, the Replicat accidentally blasted Lazslo, now there are two of him.

"Oops..."

"We need to get Dexter back! We need to get Dexter back! "

"REPLICAT?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!!? WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"Ummmmmm..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!" Vile sat frustrated back on his 'throne' chair and yelled.

Suddenly, a genius idea came to his mind.

He wickedly smirked and used his dark magic to blow up the replicated version of Lazslo.