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That night Amethyst pondered her question intently.
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It's either me or Garnet who's gonna be the next queen, but who?"
she thought, and she stared at her sister, who was quietly muttering incantations of lightning spells she had looked up earlier.
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Poor mum, I feel sorry for her, I hope me and Garnet can meet her one day..."
She sighed and blew a lock of her hair up. She climbed out of her warm, comfy bed and made her way to the water bucket, she grabbed a glass from the side and scooped some of the water up, she drank it and burped loudly.
"Whoops!" she whispered as she laughed, and put the glass down.
"The stars are beautiful tonight..." she said dreamily, not acting like herself, as she stared out of the open window into the starry night, gazing at the giant moon, which had a Mudokon paw print on its face.
"I'm getting more like Garnet every day," she said, annoyed with herself.
As she stared at the bright moon, she heard a very strange noise below the tree house.
It wasn't water, it was more like metal... She then heard voices and began to panic. The frightened Mudokon dashed over to her twin's bed and shook her madly. "Woah, woah Amethyst, what's the matter? Not midnight swimming again, surely!?" she said loudly, thinking back to the time her sister threw her in a pool of water in the middle of the night.
"No, it's definately not that, its worse... Much worse!" Amethyst cried scaredly, heaving her sister up.
She led her to the window and made her listen. As she held her head to the freezing, icy cold window she whimpered.
"I really don't like that noise, sis, we've gotta wake Lara and Mart up, come on!" Garnet moaned, as she rushed and dragged her sister down a long corridor, and at the end, she knocked and opened the bamboo door, to find her carer's bed empty.
She looked wide-eyed around the room, breathing heavily.
Amethyst pushed past her, and crept to the window, she saw something on the floor beside it, and she bent down to investigate.
"Oil." she said shortly, as she wiped her finger quickly across the carpeted floor.
She stood and looked at her sister. "You know what this means, Garnet?" she whispered slowly. "Sligs, more of em."
Garnet shook her head unbelievingly when hearing this. "No... Not us..." the poor Mudokon said slowly.
"Yes, us. You've gotta believe me sis, we've gotta look for them, now." Amethyst explained, as she grabbed her sister's large hand, and they ran down the hallway, hearts thumping against their chests.
As they opened the front door a vile smell lurked around the city, and they covered their faces.
"There it is again, and look!" Garnet exclaimed, as she pointed forward.
Amethyst swivelled around and saw a blazing inferno of flames were crackling over the mayor's hut, and it was spreading fast, it caught two other tree houses in seconds.
"Come on!!" Amethyst cried to her sister, and they jumped into a puddle of water and waded out.
They sped towards a house that wasn't burning, and climbed it's wooden ladder.
The twins heard loud voices inside, and they checked the window secretely, and half a dozen sligs were crowded around something.
"I wonder what that is..." Amethyst whispered, as she squinted at the Sligs, trying to get a glimse at their fascination.
Her question was quickly answered, the Sligs had parted, and Lara and Mart were shown, tied up with a strong rope.
"They're there... Get em boys, a mysterious voice sounded, and the Sligs burst through the door, and the twins had somehow backflipped and landed safely, they began to run towards the woods...