The Fantastical Blog: The fantastical Easter...

Alice crept down stairs.

"4:00am - maybe a bit early," she thought, looking at the enormous clock on the wall.

"Just one little peek wouldn't hurt."

How could Alice contain her excitement? It was Easter morning after all.

Alice was a big fan of the Easter Bunny ever since they met once on holiday in Florida.

He was big, yellow and for some reason, lived in a rather large shopping mall.

Alice made her way to the dinning room hoping to find the table laden with colourful chocolate gifts from the Easter Bunny. She turned on her flashlight and peeked around the dinning room door hoping to catch the Easter Bunny laying the table with treats.

"That's odd," said Alice, staring at an empty table. "He should of been here by now."

Alice decided to give up and head back up stairs when she heard a low noise emanating from
the room.

"Ohhhh..."

It was the sound of something in pain. Alice swung the dinning room door open and flicked on the light switch.

"What on earth are you doing on the floor, Nero?" she asked, slightly confused.

Nero, was supposed to be asleep with the other creatures upstairs.

"Ohhhh!" shouted Nero, clucthing his belly.

Alice noticed his belly was slightly bigger than normal.

"You ate all the chocolate didn't you?" she snapped.

Nero shook his head and pointed to a big colourful sack in the corner of the room.

Alice peeked inside to discover it filled with about every type of chocolate known to humankind.

"Well if you didn't eat this..." then it dawned on Alice.

"You didn't? Did you?"

Nero nodded. He had eaten the EASTER BUNNY!

"How could you?!? Remember how bad it was having to explain to the police where all of Mrs.Jenkins cats went? This is a ZILLION times worse!"

Alice pressed her face against Nero's belly, "Are you okay, Mr.Easter Bunny, sir?"

But there was no response. Alice feared the worse.

"Help!"said a muffled voice from the belly of the troll.

"He's alive!" cried Alice.

All the commotion had woken up Abner, Miguel and Gretchen.

"What's wrong?" grunted Abner. "Can't a Sasquatch get some sleep around here!"

"Nero ate the Easter Bunny!" replied Alice.

"That's terrible!" exclaimed Miguel. "I LOVE rabbit!"

"And what about the chocolate?" asked Gretchen.

"Luckily no, it's in the sack in the corner," replied Alice.

"Excellent, I'm starving!" said Gretchen.

"No time for food now!" cried Alice, "He's still alive!"

The creatures groaned.

"Suppose you want us to free him, right?" complained Gretchen. "At 4am!"

"Oh Nero, you really must learn to chew your food," grunted Abner. "I'd expect better from a troll."

"Send for the Minotaur, Alice," said Miguel. "So we can go back to bed."

"No one is going back to bed!" cried Alice. "I'll just send Marigold to get him."
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"Where is that naughty troll, Alice?" moaned the Minotaur. "I was in the middle of an important game of cards with a chupacabra."

Alice pointed to Nero,who was still sprawled out on the floor.

The Minotaur knelt down and examined Nero's belly.

"I think this is the worst case of indigestion I've EVER seen."

"This is NOT a laughing matter!" said Alice, rather firmly.

"Yes, of course," replied the Minotaur, sheepishly.

He leant his face near Nero's stomach, "Hello, Mr.Bunny, my name the Minotaur and i'm going to have you out shortly."

"You can call him Minnie," squawked Miguel.

"I told you NEVER to call me THAT!" growled the Minotaur.

"Can you get him out?" interrupted Alice.

"Two hours Alice, and your Easter creature will be regurgitated in one piece...mostly," replied the Minotaur, wryly.

Alice frowned.

"What's wrong, Alice?"asked Miguel, "That's good news, right?"

"Wrong, Miguel," said Alice,"There's going to be children who will miss out on chocolate this Easter!
I mean, he's got to deliver treats to the rest of this country - probably the rest of western Europe and the Americas! It's a DISASTER!"

"Then we must help the Easter thingy out!" chirped Gretchen, "We'll eat up all the chocolate, and it won't go to waste!"

"That's it, Gretchen! Genius!" cried Alice.

"Really?" said Gretchen, surprised.

"Yes, well, except eating all the chocolate part," replied Alice, "We'll deliver the chocolate!"

Nero's belly started to jiggle as the Easter Bunny tried to speak.

"What's the Easter critter saying, Minotaur?" grunted Abner.

"Something about a book... and a sack, I believe," he replied.

Alice pulled out a big yellow book from the sack.

"It's his address book," said Alice,"This means we can deliver the chocolate!"

"Let's do this!" cried Miguel.

"Well,we may need to fix one thing first" said Alice.

She cusped her hands to her face and called, "MARIGOLD!"

In an instant, a very groggy looking sprite appeared.

Marigold let out a BIG yawn and said, "What is it this time, Miss?"

"Sorry to wake you again, Marigold," replied Alice, "I've got a favour to ask you."

She whispered into Marigold's ear.

"Straight away, Miss!" exclaimed Marigold.

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"I don't know about you two, but I feel like pink fluffy vomit," fussed Gretchen.

"What are you on about, Gretchen," said Alice,"You three look great!"

"Marigold knows green isn't my colour!" whined Miguel, "And WHY do I have a basket?"

"Stop your fussing, guys," replied Alice, "Now, anyone know how this thing works?"