Sprig has seen a lot in his life. Fire breathing beavers, zapping centipedes, frog eating aphids, his grandpa naked after walking in on him in the shower (shudder). Nothing ever really scares him that much, except maybe the socially confined daughter of the baker that he know calls his fiancé. Still as creepy when they met in pollywog daycare, he remembered her fondling a dead beetle and napping in a tiny coffin.
'Okay Sprig, just one night with her and she should be out of your hair for the time being. As long as I can keep her happy, and don't end up having to bury something.' he thought to himself as he sat at a table at Stumpy's. The whole time Maddie just stared at him with that yellow eye that was peering into his soul, Sprig just gulped down the bowl of slop that was placed at their table when they walked in. The silence was not a comforting experience, "So, what's it like at the bakery?" Sprig asked, looking to get in some small talk.
"Watching something burn in the blazing fire is fun." she said with a little rasp in her voice, she didn't let up on the unnerving stare.
"Riiiiiiiiight." he pulled at his collar a little, "Do...… do you get to take any left over pastries? Being the baker's daughter you must get something, right?" he squeaked out.
"A few baguettes here and there, now tell me about you~" she sighed while resting her chin on her hand with a half lidded eye.
Sprig rubbed the back of his neck, "Well, aside from helping my Hop Pop on the farm, I sometimes find myself into some kind of zany adventure. Like just today we had to fight giant aphids and a tomato plant monster." Maddie, though not moving from her position, had a gleam of awe in her eye.
"Did someone die?"
"Nope, barely."
"Why were you doing that in the first place?" she asked.
"Well, you know how my family is always using the same garbage recipe's for the Pot Luck, and every time we always end up in the cage?" he asked, she nodded. "Well Anne, you know the town beast or whatever? She wanted to help us avoid that by making a dish from her world, it's called: pizza." he said with a little jazz hands.
"I don't know what that is, but I want it." Maddie drooled at the name.
"Well to make it we needed a few things, one of them is dough. Which your dad wouldn't give unless...… you know..." Sprig gestured between them, "We be...… married." he said feeling a little uncomfortable, "I know this might feel a little weird at such a young age and-"
"I don't mind." Maddie said as she seemingly teleported next to Sprig and wrapped a cold dead arm around her hubby, Sprig jumped before looking between where she was and where she is now. "Gives us more time to know each other before our wedding, which I've had planned for quite sometime."
"I'm sure you have." he embarrassedly and fearfully chuckled as she scooted herself closer to him.
After that, the two left Stumpy's for the next part of the date Maddie had planned without paying, not that Stumpy cared or anything. The two were now walking through a graveyard, "You feel that, you feel that silence in the air."
"I feel like something's gonna pop up and drag my soul to the underground."
Maddie smiled at the thought, "Nothing calms the soul more than a nightly walk through the resting place of the frogs that came before us, wouldn't you agree?" she wondered as she rested her head on his shoulder, Sprig gulping at the action.
"Not...… particularly." he shivered.
They kept walking until Maddie stopped them at a certain tombstone, she slowly walked up to it and kneeled down placing a little dead rose by it. Sprig read the inscription, "Here lies Griselda Flour, R. I. P." Sprig awed before seeing his fiancé looking quite solemnly, he couldn't help but wrap a tender arm around the girl. Which she gratefully accepted.
"Thank you." she let out as a slight tear ran down her face, Sprig lifted her face up before wiping it off her face.
"It must be tough, to lose someone you love." he wondered, she nodded at that. "I still remember when my parents never came home one night, my sister was just born. Though they may be gone, they live on in here." he tapped her heart. She lightly sobbed before she buried clamped him in a warm hug, he returned the embrace and patted her on the back gently.
"Thanks, Sprig." she said before pulling herself out of the hug. "Hey, I want you to have this." she pulled out a little ring, carved into the shape of a skull. Which Sprig noticed to have seemed to glow, "It's the ring my dad gave her, been passed down my family for generations." she slid the ring onto his finger, Sprig was a little apprehensive at first, but since they'd be getting hitched when they get older he went with it. It may be odd, but it's the thought that counts and it means a lot to her.
"O... kaaaaay. Thanks." he then shot up, "Well look at the time, gotta get home before Hop Pop worries about me. See yah later Maddie!" he called as he ran out of the cemetery, leaving a lovestruck Maddie.
"What a man." she sighed with a heart forming in her eye, "I probably should have told him about the curse my great grandma put on it." she said to herself, she then shrugged "Eh, he'll probably figure it out in the next episode." she then went on her way home, giving one last good bye to her dead mother before heading out.
The End
Catch the next episode of Amphibia Monday 10am EST, hopefully its not the end of the potentially Spraddie ship.