"Okay, whose fault is this?!"

Leo stood in the middle of the RC, looking over the garish rainbow-painted walls with an expression of disgust.

Skater checked the bathroom. "Oh, heck! They turned the bathroom urple and some other colors that don't exist!"

"They WHAT?!?!" Leo was so surprised and angry that he used two exclamation marks and two question marks to end the same sentence.

"Well, at least they didn't get to our bedrooms." Skater said, trying to look on the bright side and calm Leo down.

It was a big mistake. "Yeah, but you know what they DID get to?" Leo angrily replied, turning on Skater. "EVERYTHING ELSE."

Suddenly, Skater stopped dead as the duo heard a loud CLANG! from Leo's treasure closet. "What's in there?" Skater asked, trying to keep his fear from showing.

"Whatever it is, it's cruisin' for a bruisin'! No one goes into my hoard without permission!" Leo looked, if that was at all possible, even angrier at this new intrusion. He stormed over to the closet door and opened it.

Inside, the Ultimate Sword Skater had commented on earlier lay on the ground instead of leaning against the wall, but no one was in sight. Leo could feel their presence, though. He started looking through the closet, and it was not long before he found the intruder. He was hiding behind some weapons that were leaning against the wall, his white body composed of cubes and rectangular prisms trembling in fear, with a black collar that had the DMS flash patch, a paintbrush in his mouth that still bore the traces of multicolored paint, and eyes that were silently pleading with Leo to spare his life.

Leo was not amused. He grabbed the Minecraft wolf by the collar and admonished him. "Now listen here, you dog. You think you can be all funny and paint our RC? You think you can humiliate me? Well, here. Take what's coming to you." Leo prepared to use his Gemstone Magic on him.

"NO! Leo, don't hurt him!" Skater, who was watching the scene, rushed to Leo and held up his hands. "There's no need to FIGHT! We can settle this without anyone needing to be thrashed. Please, Leo, put him down!"

"Skater, I know you're a softie and don't want to hurt people, but he deserves it." Still, he turned back to the wolf. "What is your name?"

"I-it's Larry, Leo." Larry said, trembling in fear.

"Please, Leo, don't hurt him!" Skater pleaded. "Please, Leo..."

Leo sighed. Skater was making him feel bad. "Well, Larry, since you made this mess, why don't you clean it up?" Leo said. "Unless, of course, you want to get hurt."

Skater relaxed as he saw that Leo was intending to be reasonable. "Yeah, that sounds fair. Could you please start with the bathroom? There's a nasty shade of urple in there and it's kind of hard to look at." Addressing Leo, he said, "And thank you for not hurting him."

Leo dropped Larry on the floor and turned to Skater. "Skater, you can't be a pushover or a softie like that. Please don't do it again."

"-necessary when dealing with Sues."Skater interjected, placing emphasis on the last four words. "There's no need for us to attack each other."

Larry headed to the bathroom, where he quickly found a mop and started doing his best to clean up his mess.

"Hey, Phineas! Whatcha doin?" Isabella asks Phineas.

Just about then, a green beam came from the sky and hit Phineas.

"I want to cuddle you, Isabella." Phineas replied.

Isabella isn't ready for the huge hug her crush is about to give her.

Baljeet walked in. "Aren't you supposed to be inventing?"

"Riding the teacups will be so much more fun with you, Isabella." Phineas told Isabella.

Tiger dragged himself the last few feet up to the rock and collapsed. He knew he was only about halfway to the top of the mountain, but he was struggling a little. His exhaustion wasn’t quite as bad as his sprawled position on the ground would suggest, but he was still extremely tired.

He lay back against the rock and stared at the waterfall in front of him, to the right of the path he had been climbing. There was a particularly steep part of the trail just ahead, and the mountain stream he had been following fell down the almost cliff-like rock face with a splashing sound, pooling at the bottom in a hollow before continuing to flow further down.

He closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the meltwater pouring down the waterfall. It was strangely soothing and peaceful. Tiger felt almost as if he could fall asleep. Wary of the possibility that he actually would, he prepared to struggle to his feet.

Just as he opened his eyes, the winter sun came out from where it had been hiding behind a cloud. Tiger felt its welcoming warmth on his skin.

Suddenly, there were rainbows. The sun was shining through the waterfall, and the light was reflected and refracted into a million sparkling shades of every colour, every drop of water glistening in the light.

He smiled slowly, watching the light as he dragged himself to his feet and reluctantly continued up the mountain.