Quest for the Blue Monkey

chapter 4

Kate, Cherry, and Atticus walked up to the front door after getting out of a taxi. Bugs wasn't with them this time and they came to the front door, unaware that DJ wasn't even home.

"Hello?" Kate called and knocked on the door.

"Hey!" the blonde girl from next door came up.

"Is DJ home?" Cherry asked the girl.

"I dunno, actually," the blonde girl shrugged. "Granny and I just got back from grocery shopping."

"Oh well, we came over here to see if he knew where Daffy was going." Atticus informed her.

"Can't tell ya, sorry... Good luck though." the girl shrugged with a smile, then ducked back down behind the fence.

"Who are you anyway?" Cherry asked.

The girl came back up. "Granny's granddaughter visiting for the summer. My name's Ida."

"Let us know if you see anything, Ida." Atticus said to her.

"Can do." Ida nodded, then went back into her grandmother's backyard.

"Guys, the door's open." Kate told Cherry and Atticus as she was going to go inside.

"Really? That's weird." Atticus said as they followed her.

Kate still knocked and look around, but it seemed like nobody was around. She heard the shower going off though and decided to go upstairs to the bathroom. Cherry and Atticus looked from where they were, there was no Daffy and no DJ or even Patch.

"Let's see if they're upstairs." Atticus suggested.

Kate was going there anyway. She heard the shower and knocked on the door, but no one answered her. Suddenly, everything seemed black and white to parody a rather famous 1961 horror film. Cherry already saw it coming, but wondered if the same thing would happen, only no Norman Bates, at least she hoped so. Kate ripped the shower curtain open and Bugs Bunny was there and he screamed, flipping out until he grabbed the curtain and fell down and dipped some Hershey's chocolate syrup in the water to resemble blood going down the drain and he fell flat on the floor, though not dead.

"Does anybody knock anymore?" Bugs asked with a smile as he had lay on the floor.

Atticus began to laugh at what Bugs did, even if they were looking for DJ to tell them where Daffy was going.

"Why are you torturing me?" Kate yelled, even if she couldn't find DJ, she then saw that he was the son of famed actor Damian Drake. "Great. I just fired the son of our biggest star," she started to have a mental breakdown. "This has been a career-making day, Kate. First you get rid of the duck that everybody hates but then, of course, they all want him back. And worst of all, you get into a big fight with Bugs Bunny who you revere and who you've tried to model your life after with a couple of kids who are a lot smarter than you thought they were!" she started to cry.

"Oh, I hate to see a grown man cry!" Bugs whined as he was in a suit of armor, then looked deathly serious. "Especially when it's a girl..."

Atticus did find it kind of funny of how Bugs appeared in the armor, but got to keep a serious face and gave Kate a tissue.

"Listen, toots, would it stop the waterworks if I told you Daffy was going to Las Vegas with that guy DJ?" Bugs asked once Kate accepted the tissue and dried her eyes.

"It might..." Kate's voice cracked from sudden sadness.

"Well then," Bugs jumped down from the suit of armor. "How's about we travel in style?" he led them to the garage to the brand new car that looked more like a true spy car.