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It was just an ordinary Sunday in Neopia Central, nothing
much going on. The doorbell at Holycow's house rang, and his yellow Poogle,
Six, left her bedroom to quickly answer it. She ran downstairs and opened the
door. No one was there. For some reason, she decided to look down and noticed
a yellow envelope.
Six noticed there wasn't a stamp in the corner
of the envelope, but written in the center it said "To Six". That was enough
reading for her, so she quickly opened the letter. Inside was an orange holiday
card with a message on the front saying "Hope you have a happy..." Six, like
anyone would have been, wanted to know what holiday this mysterious card from
an anonymous person was for. She slowly opened the card...
Suddenly, she was blinded by a strange, sticky
substance splattered on her face, which seemed to have come from the card. She
didn't open her eyes, but she ventured to take a lick of what it was. It tasted
like cherry pie. She wiped the squishy pie off her face and looked at the card
again. She knew it said "Hope you have a happy..." on the front, but she looked
inside again. The sentence was continued in "...April Fools Day!" In handwriting
at the bottom, it said "From your loving owner, Cow." Six was steamed.
"COW!" she yelled into the house. Her owner,
Cow, came in through the front window of the Neohome with a smirk on his face.
"I just felt I should thank you properly for
your trick on me last year," he said in a bit of a proud and arrogant voice.
He walked away with his nose in the air. While walking to the sink in the bathroom
to wash the extra pie off her face, Six remembered that fantastic April Fools
Day perfectly.
Flashback mode...
It was just an ordinary April Fools day in Neopia Central, nothing much going
on. Despite the holiday, Cow was busy at his shop. His Poogle, Six, was there
with him, ready to watch her amazing trick go as planned. A blue Shoyru opened
the door and walked into the store to buy a toy for his niece. When he picked
out a Lupe plushie and gave Cow the required amount of Neopoints, Cow opened
the cash register on the shop counter. As soon as it opened, a Cobrall jumped
out and bit Cow on the nose. Startled, Cow tried to pull it off, but the Cobrall
stayed tight. Soon, he was running around the shop hysterically while Six was
laughing loudly. The Shoyru threw the toy back on the shelf and ran out of the
shop.
Back to the present...
Six decided she would have to think of some wacky, weird trick to get back
at her wacky, weird owner. She took her notebook and a pen and sat at her desk
in her bedroom. She had used all her good ideas last April Fools day, the classic
Cobrall-in-the-cash-register scheme was just a starter.
There was a knock on Six's door, and her yellow
Kougra brother, Skyhawk, walked in. "Hello," he said, "I couldn't help but notice
that you were trying to think of a trick to get revenge against our owner. Mind
if I help?"
"Why?" Six asked. "What did he do to you recently?"
"Nothing, actually. I just feel I should get
a life outside of classrooms and books," Skyhawk replied. Six agreed in her
mind.
Several hours later...
"Okay, here's the plan for April Fools Day," Skyhawk said as he showed Six
his blueprints. "We get up early in the morning, before he wakes up, see?"
"Yes, go on," said Six excitedly.
"Anyway, before he wakes up, we make breakfast
for all five of us. We get back to bed, and when Cow goes to the kitchen to
make breakfast and sees it already made, he'll be all freaked out, like 'How'd
that happen?'"
While Skyhawk rolled on the ground laughing
hysterically, Six looked at his blueprints skeptically. "No, I want him to suffer,"
she said evilly.
More hours later...
"Skyhawk," Six said with thought, "We need to put out heads together."
"Agreed," replied Skyhawk. The two went to opposite
sides of the room. They sped towards each other headfirst, and with a hollow
sounding "conk", they bounced apart and fell to the floor.
Massaging her head, Six said annoyed, "Okay,
so it is a figure of speech."
Next morning...
The room was filling up with scrunched up pieces of paper. Six and Skyhawk
were pacing back and forth so long they were wearing through the floor. "I have
it!" said Six while taking another blank piece of paper from the nearly empty
pile.
Six showed Skyhawk her plan on the paper with
her pencil. "Okay, here's what we do. We go to Terror Mountain, and get all
the snow we can to make Neopia's biggest snowball." Six drew a circle (to represent
the snowball) and two miniscule stick figures beside it to represent herself
and Skyhawk. "As soon as Cow wakes up, we throw it at him."
There arose a problem. "So, how're we going
to pick it up?" Skyhawk asked.
Six frowned. "You're a real party pooper, you
know that?"
"I was just asking." Skyhawk decided it was
hopeless and left.
Six stayed in the room and banged her head on
the wall. "I" she banged her head on the wall. "Must" she banged it again. "Think"
and again. "Of" once again. "A" once more. "Prank" her mind was still blank.
She paused and heard something in the hallway
outside her room. It was obviously her red Techo brother, Groucho, saying, "Ugh,
this milk is awful! And no wonder, it's over a month old!" after taking a sip
from the small carton. Six got an idea.
Six went to the dumpster behind the food store
and waited several hours, until the Chia clerk went out and poured all the small
cartons of expired milk in it from a wooden box. After he was gone, Six sneaked
into the dumpster and came out with a few milk cartons in her arms. "Ah, expired
milk on April Fools Day. Is there any sweeter smell?" She opened one of the
cartons and took a long whiff. After her face turned from yellow to green, she
said, "Yes. Yes, there is."
Six quickly ran home to the kitchen table, where
she placed one carton of milk and made a cardboard sign that said "MILK: PLEASE
DRINK". Anyone but her oblivious owner would have thought more of such a trick.
Several minutes later, Six was in her bedroom
reading comic books. She looked at her watch and said, "Time to check the trap!"
She ran downstairs into the kitchen, and saw her owner lying lifelessly on the
floor.
Six kicked him. "Cow, wake up." She kicked him
again, finding no movement. "Cow, this isn't funny anymore. Cow?" By now Six
was panicking. She ran upstairs to get Skyhawk. "Skyhawk! Help!" she yelled
as she ran into his room. "Okay, before I tell you anything..." Six turned the
stereo onto high, with the Jazzmosis CD. "Okay," she whispered so that Skyhawk
could just barely hear her, "I think I may have killed out owner."
She lead him downstairs to where her owner was
still lying. Skyhawk took an umbrella out of a nearby closet and poked Cow a
few times. "Yup, he's dead alright. But just to be sure..." he poked his owner
some more. "Yup."
"Okay... okay... okay..." Six paused while panicking,
"Okay. This is okay. I didn't do anything wrong, except kill my owner. There's
nothing wrong with that except... everything." Six started to sweat very heavily.
"Maybe you can go to the hospital?" suggested
Skyhawk with a casual shrug.
"Yes. YES!" yelled Six. "Okay, let's go. I'll
carry him by his legs and you..."
"Let's?" Skyhawk asked. "You're the one who
did this, not me."
"Ugh... okay, be that way," Six said as she
started to drag her owner out the door, down the sidewalk towards the hospital.
Several hours later...
Cow lied on a cot in the NeoHospital lifelessly. Six didn't tell the doctors
that she was the one who killed him. "Can't you just give him some healing potion?"
asked Six to the Gelert doctor.
"I'm afraid those only work on Neopets," said
the nurse, worrying. "I just don't know how this could've happened..."
Six exploded at that point. "OKAY, I CONFESS!
I KILLED HIM! It was just an April Fool's joke, but it went wrong!"
Cow sat up in the cot and called out, "Okay,
everyone, that's a wrap. You all did great."
Six was confused. "Why are you alive? What's
happening?" she said, looking around.
"Well, we all pitched in to make sure we properly
thank you for your April Fools jokes on all of us," said one of the doctors
in the hospital.
"But how did you know my milk was expired?"
Six wanted to know.
"I got Groucho to walk by your room, pretending
to drink expired milk, because I knew that would inspire you to come up with
your joke," answered Cow as he sat on the cot.
"So... this was an ingenious plan from the beginning?"
said Six.
"Sure was," said Cow, before it started to snow
outside. "Hey, what's with the snow?" he said while looking out a window beside
the bed.
"I'll explain that one. It isn't really April
Fools Day. I went into everyone's house to switch their calendars," said the
Gelert nurse, blushing.
Everyone soon left the hospital and went home
in the snow. "What do we do now?" said Six.
"Well, it's Christmas... let's go caroling!"
suggested Cow, and with that, he and his pets went out singing Christmas carols.
The End
Author's Note: Yes, I know this story makes no sense. Good feedback (if
any) is appreciated, and bad feedback... well, send it at your own risk.
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