Quest for the Blue Monkey

chapter 1

In a room in Hollywood, there was a table reading. Cherry was there, dressed like a worker in the room as she was an intern for the summer and Atticus was with her as a guest/visitor. She was a little nervous as she knew that a certain somebody wouldn't like the script for their new idea on a movie based on the ever popular Looney Tunes.

"Don't worry, Cherry, I'm sure that it's going to go great." Atticus assured her.

"Oh, I dunno..." Cherry sighed.

The black duck came in. "Alright, I'm here... Let's see what this is all about."

"Script is ready, Mr. Duck, look it over until Mr. Bunny gets here." one man said, handing the papers over to him.

"All right, let's see this..." Daffy took the script, then looked to Cherry. "Hey, you don't work here!"

"I'm an intern." Cherry told him.

"Ah, so you're just as useless as the guys in accounting..." Daffy scoffed as he went to look over the script for the Looney Tunes movie.

'Wow, he's as obnoxious in real life as he is on every Looney Tunes episode he's ever been on.' Atticus thought.

Daffy read the script silently to himself, then decided to speak up, having protests. "Hold everything... 'Daffy gets blasted'... Page seven: Daffy gets blasted... Page eight: Daffy gets blasted again!?" he glared at the writers. "What's the matter with you people!?"

"It's been a tradition since 1953." Cherry reminded him.

"Yes, but we can't do this stuff anymore!" Daffy refused to let it happen.

"Is it just because you don't like it or is it because Mr. bunny doesn't get blasted while you're the one that gets blasted all over?" Atticus asked.

"He always wins!" Daffy slammed his feathered fist on the table. "Show biz legends like me shouldn't have to play stooge to that long-eared, carrot-chomping, overbite-challenged--"

Bugs came, as if on cue, chomping one of his trademark vegetables for the day. "What's up, Doc?" he greeted the others.

Daffy got scared a little to talk about Bugs like that with the bunny listening. Bugs smiled as he walked among the crowd and decided to have a seat with Daffy.

"Hey Bugs, haven't seen you since the basketball game against Moron Mountain." Cherry shook his gloved paw.

"Nice to see you too, kid," Bugs said before noticing Atticus. "Who's that?"

"New friend... He decided to come with me..." Cherry said.

"Pleased to meet ya, kid," Bugs said as Atticus was in stunned silence, probably starstruck to see him up close like this. "Anyways, I think Daff's right," he then took out a wallet to show numerous bunny children in photographs. "Maybe I'll take a vacation and go visit my 542 nieces and nephews."

"Wow, with those many kids, it must be stressful for the parents." Atticus said.

"I'll say..." Cherry muttered.

Mr. Duck, excuse me, I'm sorry," a woman with short blonde hair in a pink blouse stood up. "I don't see how we can have a Bugs Bunny movie without Bugs Bunny."

"Oh my, heavens no," Daffy mocked her, due to years of abuse. "You couldn't have a movie without Bugs Bunny!"

"And just who are you?" Cherry asked, she hadn't seen the woman during her summer job.

"Kate Houghton, Vice-President, Comedy." the woman shook her hand.

Cherry looked to see somehow her hand had been turned frozen and she glanced to Atticus. "And you say I'm icy."