"C'mon man!"

"I'm coming! I'm coming!"

Javelin threw the doors open with a "BANG!"

Darius belched. Lunch had been delicious. He waddled in slowly after his friend.

"Slow down!"

Javelin bent down over one of the cribs. He picked up one of the babies.

"Hey there Patrick! Plumpy little Patrick! Pokey-pokey-pokey!"

Patrick giggled. He wriggled around and snuggled against Javelin's hard, lumpy chest. Darius laughed.

The Crown Prince rested against Melodie's crib. He reached in and scooped her out.

"Hey Melodie!" he said. "You know who I am? Huh? We got the same hair! See? All golden and pretty? I'm your BIG brother Darius!"

Melodie giggled. She snuggled up against him. So warm and squishy. She sunk into Darius's chest and hugged him. Darius waddled over to a bench and sat down. He squeezed her back and pinched her playfully!

"Hehehe! Hello Melodie! Aren't you cute? You got hair like gold thread! And we all think you're VERY pretty!" Darius said, and kissed her on one of her plump, rosy cheeks!

While Javelin played with Patrick and tried to feed him his milk-bottle, neither prince noticed that Taurus had woken up! He was watching Darius play with Melodie!

Taurus didn't WANT Darius to play with Melodie! Melodie was HIS! She was HIS friend! He was gonna MAKE her his friend and nobody, not nobody else was gonna play with Melodie apart from Taurus!

He stared at Darius who was hugging her and kissing her and playing with her! He grabbed the bars of his crib and shook them! He wanted to stop them!

"Hey!" said Javelin. He put Patrick down on the floor with his milk-bottle, and hurried over. He lifted his baby half-brother out of the crib. "Hey!" he said again, "Careful there, fighter! You're gonna break those off you know!...And I only fixed them two days ago!"

Taurus wriggled furiously in his brother's arms!

"Wuuuhwwwaaaaaaaaaaah!! NO TOUCHY!!" Taurus wailed!

"Hey!" said Javelin, "Taurus stop wriggling! TAURUS! STOP..."

Taurus squirmed out of his brother's arms! He fell to the floor with a soft 'plomp!' on his diaper!

"Taurus! Taurus you come here NOW!" Javelin shouted. Taurus ignored his brother! He crawled and toddled over to where Darius was sitting!

"No touchy!!" Taurus squealed!

"Hey Taurus!" said Darius. "Say hello to Melodie!"

Taurus burst into tears! He sat on the floor and cried and threw his fists about, waving them in the air and thumping them on the ground and kicking his chubby little feet!

"NO TUCHIE MEWWY!!"

"HEY!" Javelin barked, "Now you stop that, Taurus!"

But Taurus only kept crying! Darius put Melodie on the ground and tried to pick Taurus up! To Darius and Javelin's surprise, Taurus toddled over to Melodie and hugged her!

"NO TOUCHY!"

For a minute, both princes just stared! But then Javelin laughed!

"Just like a Mountain prince, huh Darius? Always lookin' out for the cute girls..."

"That's my SISTER!"

"Hey, he's my brother!"

"Huh!"

"Hey, it could be cute. When they're grown, he could be her big Mountain prince defender! Her knight in shining armour!"

"Oh yeah, real romantic, Jav...Come on you two!" Darius grunted, "Back into your cribs!"

Javelin picked up the two tots and put them back into their cribs. Taurus stared at Melodie through the bars. He didn't want anyone to touch her!