Surviving The Land of Aaa

Seventeen

"Lumpy Space Prince!" (Y/n) called out to the prince, hands cupped around her mouth.

Who would've known that the cat hat wearing girl would be looking for the prince of lumps in the woods. She had received a letter that he was in dire need of help or something bad would happen to him. This sets off a panic as it is her duty to protect princes of all kind so she responded and is now walking in the woods.

She groaned as she lowered her hands, "he better be hanging over a bear trap in a lava pit, I'm ankle deep in mud" she growled slightly as she looked down to see mud in her shoes.

"Lumpy space!"

Rustling could be heard from a yard from her, her hand moved to her bow as she took it off of herself and held it out in a defense manner.

"Rah! Bleh! Leth go of my tongue you pfoul beath!" The familiar tone of the missing prince was heard as he emerged from a bush. He was swatting a squirrel that was biting him on the tongue.

(Y/n) looked at him with a blank expression as she lowered her weapon.

He grabbed the squirrel and tugged it off of his tongue, "gah!" He yelled in pain before glaring at the creature, "you are banished from my sight, be gone!" LSP moved his arm back and threw the squirrel into the trees.

A groan came from the cat hat girl, "LSP, that better not been the emergency you lettered me for" she threatened him softly as she put her bow back over her.

He looked over at her with widen eyes, surprised to see her in the first place, "(Y/n)! You got my letter" LSP floated over to her with his hands clasped together slightly in front of him.

"Ya I got it, so what's the emergency?"

He nodded his head, "yes, follow me" he motioned her to follow him before turning around and floating through the bush he came through.

Wanting to get out of her shoes, she begrudge-ly followed him through the bushes. Swatting the leaves as she kept her eyes on the purple lump.

"You have my thanks for coming all the way out here, an honor to have someone like you to help me" LSP thanked her as they walked.

She nodded, "and what am I helping you with exactly?"

He nodded, "ah yes!" He turned around to face her, "I need some assistance cleaning my territory"

Behind the prince was a messy campground with opened cans littered the ground, clothes hanging on branches, and his tent collapsed on the ground.

(Y/n) stood there in disbelief before looking at him dumbfounded. LSP threw something at the girl, who caught it without any hesitation before looking at it.

"A bag"

He nodded, "I expect you to get started immediately, I will be over on my rock observing the whole thing"

She shook her head as she looked up at him, "no way Lumps, I am not going to clean up your garbage for you, I have better things to do" she told him as she let go of the bag, it fluttering to the ground.

"Excuse me?"

"Ya, I have a candy experiment I'm doing with Gumball that I can return too" (Y/n) said as she turned around to walk back through the bushes. A sigh stopped the cat hat wearing girl from walking, she looked over her shoulder to see the prince shaking his head, "why are you sighing? I don't like sighs"

Lumpy Space crossed his arms over his lumps, "if word got around that the heroic (Y/n) the human wouldn't help a prince with his home, imagine the lack of trust they'll have for you" he said as a manipulated smile appeared on his face.

(Y/n)'s mouth opened as she didn't say anything as she was gobsmack.

He raised an eyebrow, "will you clean now?"

A forced smile replaced the gobsmack look on her face, "sure thing LSP" she said through her teeth.

This is where we find the heroine picking up opened cans while the prince of lumps hummed upon his rock.

"Tell me again why I'm doing all the work?" She asked as she stood to her height and dumped a half eaten can into the bag.

He stopped humming as he turned his attention to her, "I do not wish to get my hands dirty, that is all"

"That is all?"

"Yes, nice to see you understand" LSP smiled, going back to his humming as he noticed a blue butterfly fly by.

She opened her mouth to lick her teeth as she nodded her head, then she got the best idea to help her. "How will the people react when the prince they all know and love did nothing but let a hopeless girl do all his cleaning?" She said as she turned to pick up more trash.

This question made him stop humming as he froze, the butterfly flying away from him.

She picked up a dirty clothe with two fingers, "they'll look at you with disgust as you did nothing, also they will find out you live like this instead of a castle" a manipulated smile couldn't help but grow on her face.

Lumpy Space Prince slowly turned his head to look at the girl who's back was turned to him. He lifted a hand to cough into it, "well! Maybe i can, do some work as well to help you" he said as he hesitated on moving off the rock, but he did eventually.

(Y/n) held the trash bag to him, "I'll pitch the tent back up" she said with a smile.

He snatched the bag from her with a forced closed smile before turning around, mocking what she just said as he moved to some trash.

Lumpy Space Prince looked down at a empty cereal box on the ground, his tongue sticks out in disgust. He leaned back as he reached down to grab the box, using the two fingers method to get it off the ground. He brought a hand to his mouth as he felt his gag reflex came up, but he swallowed it before anything could come up.

(Y/n) couldn't help but laugh a bit as she saw him drop the box into the bag. She looked down at the tent and saw the poles holding the thing up were simply out of place and no longer in the ground to keep them stable.

"Easy enough" she commented before getting to work.

It took her about 15 minutes to return the tent back to its sturdy form, while it took Lumpy Space Prince about an hour to clean up the rest of the trash. It was her turn to climb onto the rock and watch the prince, loosely watching as she was fine tuning the string on her bow as she waited.

He let out a big sigh as he leaned back, "done!" He exclaimed as he dropped the bag beside him.

Clapping was heard as (Y/n) had placed her bow into her lap.

LSP wiped his forehead of the sweat before looking at her, "wasn't so bad, it feels good to do hard work"

"You're all good to continue living here, I'll make sure to tell your loyal subjects about your hard work" she told him as she uncrossed her legs, putting the bow back around her.

A proud smile grew on the purple space prince's face, "they will be static to hear of my doing of keeping our planet clean" he said with his arms on his lumpy hips.

She jumped off the rock as she walked up to him, "I'm done here so I'll get going"

His arms dropped to his side, "leaving?"

She nodded, "the sun is setting so I should be getting home anyways"

Lumpy Space blinked a few times before nodding his head, "oh! Of course! There is nothing left so I assume you can leave"

"Alright!" (Y/n) turned around to start making her way back.

Lumpy Space Prince was kinda shock to see her actually walk away from him, his mouth opened and shut as he was struggling to say something. It was then too late as she had become one with the bushes.

A sigh of defeat slipped passed him as he slumped a bit, "man, I was going to ask if she wanted to stay for dinner as thanks" he said as he knew there was a two can of beans left hidden in a bush.

~To be Continued?~