Waltz Of The Persistent Plot Bunnies

Bunny Troubles

Another normal day at Fowl Manor.

That is, if you classify two five-year-old boys running around screaming intelligent and petty insults at each other, a teenage prodigy talking to an elf on his hand phone, and a unicorn grazing in the backyard as normal. Which, for them, it is.

But that's not important. Back to the teenage prodigy talking to an elf on his hand phone.

Ring, ring.

"Hello, Holly."

"Hey, Mud Boy. What's up?"

"The sun."

"Ha ha, very funny. Now get down here."

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me. Get down here."

"Why? Has Opal miraculously come back to life and killed everyone? Or have the goblins got a new leader? Or perhaps Briar Cudgeon is back? Or are the demons just too much without my geni-"

"Okay, Arty, don't get a big head. Foaly just wants to prove he's smarter than you. He's still sour about what you said when you cloned your unicorn using only the materials inside a few broken desktops."

"In that case, I'll be there in, let's see, about twenty minutes."

"Kay. Bye."

Twenty minutes later, Artemis, Holly, and N°1 were gathered inside Foaly's lab. Holly hugged her demon friend, then asked, "N°1, what are you doing here?"

"I'm helping Foaly with his project. He needed a warlock to cast a spell, and when he told me I'd get to see you and our favorite Mud Boy, I couldn't say no."

Foaly walked in and led them down a hallway. He stopped somewhere in the middle and opened a door on the left. They walked into a fairly large room with two cages sitting on a table in the center. One had a white rabbit in it, the other had a black rabbit.

"Foaly, what are you going to do with the rabbits? Does the Council know about this?" Holly asked, walking up to one of the cages. She put her fingers through the bars, and snapped them back when the white rabbit inside lunged for her.

"Oh, be careful with him. That's Snowball. He's ...tempermental. Half temper, half mental. This is Fluffy. She's way sweeter than Snowball." Foaly trotted to the counter and picked up a piece of paper, which he handed to N°1. "This is the spell you're going to cast."

He turned to Artemis. "So, Mr. Showoff, what I'm going to do is switch these rabbits' bodies with their souls. We will know if it worked if Fluffy suddenly becomes mean and Snowball becomes nice."

Artemis looked at him skeptically and Holly rolled her eyes. Males, the fairy thought, always trying to prove who's better. I'm gonna kill him if either of those bunnies get hurt.

The bunnies didn't get hurt, but she just about killed him anyway, because no one could've predicted what happened next.

N°1 read the spell, and a few moments later, finished and looked at Foaly. Foaly turned to Artemis to say "I told you so", but Artemis was on all fours, sniffing the floor. Holly had crawled over to the table and was sniffing the table leg. Foaly looked at the rabbits in the cage. The white one looked suspiciously as if he had his front legs crossed, and the black one was trying with great difficulty to make a very rude gesture involving her middle toe, but found it impossible and instead looked at Foaly and dragged her paw across her throat in the "I'm gonna kill you" gesture.

N°1 looked in confusion from the people on the ground to the bunnies in the cage, and after a moment, he understood what had happened. "Foaly, when we fix this, you are dead. Since a certain elf/rabbit does not look happy." The elf/rabbit in question was furiously ripping up the newspaper in her cage and trying to strangle the plastic duck. "Yup. Definitely not happy."