Rosie Over Yonder (Discontinued)

The Lice

The trio had decided to spend the night on a planet populated by only animals. On the planet were many beautiful lakes that were perfectly transparent. Rosie had never seen such beautiful lakes before in her life before and she couldn't wait to get a better look at them in the morning when the sun was out.

When it was morning and the sun was shining bright Rosie sprung out of her sleeping bag and began to shake Sylvia who was still sleeping saying "Sylvia come on wake up!". Sylvia in response yawned keeping her eye's closed and said "10 more minutes". Despite this Rosie continued to shake Sylvia desperately trying to get her up saying "Sylvia, you and Wander promised we'd see the lakes in the morning. You two pinkie promised you can't break that kind of promise". Sylvia opened her eye's and sighed "Alright, alright I'm up" she said stretching before getting up.

Rosie and Sylvia then looked at Wander confused that he was still sleeping. Wander was usually up before Rosie and Sylvia which confused them. "Weird, Wander is usually up by now" Sylvia stated, Rosie then added "Well to be fair he wasn't feeling good yesterday". Rosie recalled that yesterday Wander wasn't feeling good,  more specifically he was itchy all over. When Rosie and Sylvia questioned him about it he insisted he was fine and that the itching would go away tommorrow. Rosie and Sylvia decided to wait for Wander to wake up before checking out the lakes. In the meantime Sylvia made breakfast with Rosie helping out. As soon as they were done Wander finally woke up stretching and yawning. Rosie immediately grabbed a plate of breakfast rushing towards him. "Wander you're up!" Rosie said handing him the plate. Wander happily took the plate smiling saying "Thanks guys. Sure is a beautiful morning if I do say so myself" then started eating. While eating Rosie and Sylvia noticed Wander continue to itch when asked if he was okay Wander answered "Im fine really I am" as he itched his orange fur harder.

During the whole breakfast Wander continued to itch his fur harder and harder which worried Rosie and Sylvia alot. Finally Rosie had had enough and asked "Wander we know there's something up with you so please let us help" she begged. Wander finally caved and said "Well I think there might be somthing in my fur", Sylvia the went towards Wander saying "I'll see what it is" while Rosie watched from the sidelines. After just one look at Wander's fur she immediately stepped back. Rosie worried asked "Sylvia what is it?", Sylvia then said "It's worse than I thought". Rosie and Wander were increasingly getting more worried about what it was as Sylvia continued murmuring to herself. Rosie then asked "Sylvia what is it?!". Sylvia after a couple of seconds finally answered with "It's....Lice".

When Rosie heard this she backed away immediately saying "It all makes sense now". Rosie never had lice herself but she definitely knew the symptoms of it and the most obvious was itching. Wander who continued to itch himself asked "So what's the plan?". Rosie and Sylvia looked at each other, they had no idea what to do. Wander noticing this suggested "Maybe my hat can help". Wander then took off his hat handing it to Sylvia. She immediately rummaged through it saying "Alright hat don't fail us now". Sylvia then proceeded to pull out a jar of mayo, Rosie and Sylvia looked at it in confusion for a few seconds before Rosie broke the silence. Rosie grabbed the hat saying "This isn't the time to be making sandwiches hat" she pleaded. Rosie attempted to grab something from the hat again but it yielded the same results pulling out another jar of mayo.

Rosie and Sylvia continued to try to pull something out if the hat but it kept giving them mayo over and over again. Eventually after pulling out 100 jars of mayo Sylvia threw it to the ground in frustration. "Grr what are we gonna do now?!", Rosie thought for a moment before a lightbulb lit up in her head. "I have an idea lets give Wander a bath! That could work" Rosie suggested. "That sounds like a good idea" Wander replied attempting to itch his back, Wander struggled to get his back and asked "Hey Rosie think you can scratch my back please". Rosie was about to head over to Wander but Sylvia grabbed her stopping her from proceeding. "Oh no you don't first we can't get infected" Sylvia stated then she continued "First we have to protect ourselves". Rosie looked at her and asked "How are we supposed to do that?".

Next thing you know Rosie is stuffed into a hazmat suit. Rosie looked at Sylvia who was also in a hazmat suit and asked "Sylvia? Is this really necessary?". Sylvia answered with "Well it's all I got" she said shrugging. Sylvia then handed Rosie a sponge and a bottle of shampoo. Sylvia who was also holding the same items said "Alright, lets get scrubbing". Rosie looked at Sylvia with a face of determination and replied "Yeah! Let's get rid of that lice!" Sylvia then grabbed Wander and gentley put him in one of the lakes. Sylvia then proceeded to pour the whole bottle of shampoo on him while Rosie started to scrub him. Then Sylvia started to scrub.

After a couple of minutes of washing Wander they were done handing him a towel. As Wander was drying himself Rosie asked "Wander do you feel any better?". When Wander was done drying himself he smiled and answered "I feel great!". Sylvia went over to Wander to check for lice once again, when she did she shouted "Grop!". Rosie assumed that the lice didn't go away and right on cue Wander started to itch himself again. Rosie sighed and asked "So whats the new plan?". Rosie and Sylvia then tried many other treatments to stop the lice but each one failed making Wander's condition worse and worse. "Man if only my mom was here she'd know what to do" Rosie stated sitting down disapointed, her mother always had a solution to a problem. Rosie wondered what her mother would do right now in this situation. "What are we gonna do we've done everything we could think of!" Rosie shouted pulling her hair in frustration.

Sylvia who was scratching Wander turned to Rosie and said quietly "Well...there is one thing we haven't tried". Rosie and Wander looked at Sylvia in surprise, Rosie then asked "What is it Sylvia?". Sylvia sighed then continued "Well I hoped we wouldn't have to do it but it looks like the only way". Wander who was itching himself said "Anything to get rid of this itch!" Wander shouted in desperation "Anything!". Sylvia hesitated for a couple of seconds seconds before continuing "Well it involves shaving off your fur". Rosie and Wander looked at her shocked and yelled "WHAT!".

"I know, I know it's extreme but it's either that or having lice forever" Sylvia explained. Rosie shaked her head "No! No! No! There has to be another way guys lets just think let's just-" just then Rosie was cut off by Wander. "It's fine Rosie you two tried your best, if shaving off all my fur is the only solution so be it" Wander said comforting Rosie while scratching his back. Rosie didn't say anything instead she scratched Wander for the last time. Rosie turned away when she saw Sylvia pull out an electric razor and turned it on. Just as Sylvia was about to shave Wander's fur he ran off yelling "I can't do it!". Wander's hat fell off his head when he started running away when Sylvia began chasing him yelling "It's the only way Wander!".

When Rosie saw this she immediately threw off her hazmat, grabbed Wander's hat, and started to chase the two. Well atleast attempted to chase after them. After only a couple of seconds Rosie stopped panting for air, Rosie was fast but she knew she was not as fast as Wander and Sylvia. Rosie then remembered the hat, Rosie looked at it and said "Please hat we can't let Sylvia shave off all of Wander's fur. Please give me something to get rid of that lice" Rosie pleaded with the hat. Rosie then pulled out a jar of mayo, Rosie looked down at hat in confusion then it hit her right in the face. Rosie smiled at the hat and said "Thank you hat!". Rosie then put the hat on her head and started to run after Wander and Sylvia saying "Don't worry Wander I'll save you!" While holding the jar of mayo.

As Rosie was chasing the pair she yelled out to Sylvia "Sylvia stop! I know the cure!". Sylvia didn't listen and continued her chase. Sylvia finally had Wander cornered by the edge of a lake. Just as Sylvia was about to shave Wander's fur off Rosie tackled Wander pouring the jar of all over him and vigorously scrubbed him. Sylvia dropped the razor looking at Rosie in confusion and shock. Sylvia snapped out of it and asked "What in world are you doing?". Rosie continued to focus on Wander buy answered her saying "I know it looks weird but you gotta trust me on this one".  When Rosie was done scrubbing him she rinsed him off with the lake water cleaning off the mayo. Rosie then asked Wander "Is the itching gone?". Wander waited a couple of seconds before answering with "Yep, the itching is completely gone".

Sylvia then went over to Wander checking his fur, the lice was completely gone. "I can't believe it! How did you know Rosie?", Rosie took off the hat and said "Well it wasn't me it was the hat that told me" she said handing the hat back to Wander. "Thank goodness you came just in time I did not want to lose my fur" Wander said thanking Rosie. Sylvia then took off her hazmat suit and said "Buddy I'm sorry that I tried to shave off your fur". Wander ran up to her hugging her and said "Oh Syl I can't stay mad at you". Rosie smiled and said "Well let's hope that never happens again".

It was a crazy day for sure but atleast now if she ever got lice she knew exactly what to do.