by Billy Miner
“Ladies and gentleman,” I said. “I invented three different potions: The power of invisibility, transformation, and teleportation, all from this dusty, old book. I studied the ancient writings and followed its instructions carefully.”
I drank each potion, one by one, pretending to show my superpowers. However, I didn’t make them the same way. They didn’t work. With each potion I drank, the crowd was watching with big expectations, only to be disappointed within minutes that it didn’t work.
“Thank you, Gabe,” the school principle finally said after the third failed potions. “You may sit down now.”
I stuffed the equipment in my backpack and headed to my chair. I sat down and listened to his next announcement.
“The winner is… Matthew!”
Matthew jumped up and ran forward, completely excited about his award. A few more words about official nonsense, or so I thought, and the ceremony was over. I flunked. I failed my exams. And I did it on purpose.
Mr. Snicklewickle walked to my table and leaned over, whispering in a low voice and looking at me trustingly, “You changed the formulas, didn’t you?”
I looked up.
“What makes you think that?” I asked sheepishly.
He smiled and put his hand on my hand, rubbing it gently and leaning back a little.
“You’re a good kid, Gabe. I knew you had it in you,” he said. “Keep up the good work.”
With that, he walked away.
THE END
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Minecraft Bunny
Diary of a Minecraft Bunny
By Billy Miner
Copyright @2015
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Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Crazy Hole
Chapter 2: Crazy Colony
Chapter 3: Playtime
Chapter 4: The Threat
Chapter 5: The Farm
Chapter 6: Gone
Chapter 7: Smarter Beats Smart
Chapter 8: Celebration
Introduction
This is an unofficial Minecraft story of a smart bunny named Bobby. You may think that bunnies are cute and cuddly and good for nothing else. You are WRONG, my friend. This bunny is intelligent and slick. Nobody recognizes his talent but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Find out more about this amazing rabbit that overcomes his fears and defeats a malicious creature from the woods, outsmarting everyone with his bunny brains… and yes, he is also somewhat cute and cuddly, but that’s not the main point.
Curious yet? Then don’t wait and take a look at the first chapter.
Chapter 1: Crazy Hole
Once upon a time, there was a bunny…
Hold on… hold on…
Wait a minute!
What kind of a cliché beginning is this anyway? It’s not a fairytale! Far from that. This is an adventurous story of an awesome bunny who looked like a wimp at first but saves numerous bunnies from becoming an evil predator’s victims.
Ok. Let’s not spoil the rest. The main character doesn’t know what’s going to happen yet, so let’s keep it a surprise.
Meet Bobby, a bunny from a huge family. That’s right, his mother and father have 26 children, most of them small and fuzzy. There are 8 girl bunnies and 16 boy rabbits in his family. He loves them, but that doesn’t mean he always likes them, especially when they steal food from each other.
Bobby’s family is very chaotic, at least that’s what Bobby thinks. His mom keeps pointing out they are “perfectly normal.” In a general sense, Bobby is pretty happy there. He gets along with his brothers and even sometimes with his sisters.
Fortunately, rabbits don’t make a lot of sounds, or else the echoes in the hole would be resonating and making all these big-eared animals deaf. There is lots of energy though, as the 26 hyperactive bunnies in this family hop around all day, crawl in tiny spaces, and are rushing from one end of the home to another.
“Give it back!” his sister yells. “It’s mine!”
“But I had it first,” Bobby says.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s mine and I decide who can play with it.”
“Well, can I play with it?” Bobby asks.
“Let me think,” his sister says.
She pauses for two seconds.
“No.”
“Mom!” Bobby shouts.
“What’s wrong, Bobby?”
“Emily won’t let me play with her doll.”
“Bobby,” mom begins, “why would you want to play with a girly doll anyway? We found it in a dumpster and brought it home so she could play with it, not the boys.”
“But I want to use it,” Bobby insists.
“For what?”
“I want to invent a slingshot.”
“How can you make such a thing with a doll? I don’t understand.”
“Well, you take the arms and attach them to the legs, which you glue to each other in one line. Then you use the hair, the string, and make a rope. The head should be taped underneath the feet… wait… I can’t take the hair, because it’s not flexible enough. I’ll have to find an elastic shooting object or something similar.”
“Mom! Bobby wants to break my doll’s arms off!” his sister cries.
“You’ll have to find something else to make a slingshot. This doll belongs to Emily.”
“But mom, it’s so perfect. I almost have it figured out. Besides, there is nothing else to use,” Bobby protests.
“That’s not true. You can use a branch,” mom replies.
“It’s not the same. It just isn’t the same,” he mumbles as he hops away.
“Weird boy,” Billy’s mom thinks out loud.
Billy jumps around the corner of their family’s hole and bumped into his brother, Mart.
“Hey you, I’ve been looking all over for you. Do you want to see the coolest thing ever?” he asks.
“Sure,” Billy answers.
“Okay, follow me.”
The tw
o of them hop out of the hole and end up above the ground, landing on soggy soil. They live on the border of a corn field, so exiting their family’s living space causes them to look up to hundreds of corn plants towering above them.
“So tell me,” Billy says, “What are you so excited about?”
“See this? It’s a branch that looks like a slingshot.”
Billy is pretty happy with his brother’s discovery. But now they need something to shoot it with.
“I know what you’re thinking,” Mart says. “And I think I know where to look. Come on.”
Chapter 2: Crazy Colony
Billy’s family lives on the edge of the colony. The rest of the rabbit colony is hidden in between the corn plants. It’s like an entire city underground, a huge group of rabbits living in the same area.
The bunny colony counts 5,000 rabbits, all hidden between the corn fields, the surrounding acres of land, and the bordering bushes with trees covering their hideouts. It’s an insane number of animals living in the same crowded space, and nobody else even knows about it.
It is under these circumstances that Billy finds himself wondering how significant he really is, although he certainly has an altruistic and somewhat deviant mindset. He is used to nothing else, however, and the colony is just part of his existence.
The colony is controlled by the six elders, the chief rabbits who are put in charge because of their amazing experience and their insights in the circle of life. They know how to find food, organize groups, maintain a hierarchy, and solve disputes.
All rabbits rely on their wisdom. If they make a mistake, panic arises. But they do not realize that this is exactly what will occur.
Mart leads Billy away from the vast fields, across the flowing canals, and over the stony bridge.
“Aren’t we a little far from home?” Billy asks. “I am not so certain mom would approve of this. I heard the outside areas are dangerous.”
“Oh, don’t be silly,” Mart says. “We are just going to have some fun. Just come. We’re almost there.”
They cross the deserted road and get closer to a distant farm.
“There,” Mart says pointing at an item on the ground. “Do you see it?”
Billy approaches the object and looks surprised.
“It’s a red piece of plastic?” he asks.
“Of course not. It’s a hair tie,” Mart says.
“A what now?”
“A hair tie. You know, it’s for people. Girls wear those things to keep their hair together in what they call a pony tail or something. If you ask me, it should be called a human tail, but that’s not what matters. What matters, is that it fits on the slingshot, because it bends back.”
Billy sees it too. It’s perfect. He is completely over the argument with his sister. Who needs a dumb doll anyway?
Chapter 3: Playtime
They have the slingshot. It works. Billy and Mart tested it several times. All they have to do, is put something in it, pull back, and let go. They think it is incredibly funny. The two brothers just shot rotting apples, rocks, broken pieces of corn on the cob, branches, and leaves (that one didn’t work so well). Anything they can get their hands on gets launched into the air, followed by a loud bunny laughter.
“This is awesome!” Billy says.
“It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever done,” Mart agrees. “But something is missing…”
“You’re right,” Billy says. “We don’t have a target. Shooting these things up in the air seems rather pointless by now. We need to have a challenge, a moving object.”
“Or animal,” Mart says with a smirk.
They look at each other and start smiling.
“Let’s go! I remember going to the farm over there. You are not going to believe how much fun we can have there,” Mart says.
“No problem,” Billy says.
They hop over tree trunks and through bushes, and a wide, empty grass field. They wiggle their bunny bodies through the fence and enter the terrain of the said farmer.
“Here you can find the dumbest animals on the planet,” Mart says.
“Which ones?”
“Chickens. They just fly and run around as if they don’t know where they’re going. And they panic too easily. It’s hilarious. Do you have the slingshot?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, now let’s find something to shoot. Aha!”
“Apricots,” Billy says. “Nice.”
Both bunnies jump towards the apricot and collect a whole stack of them. After looking satisfied at their pile of fruit, they ready the slingshot and aim at a chicken’s backside.
BAM!
The chicken jumps up frightened and starts running away.
“Ha-ha-ha! Did you see that?” Mart says. “That was great! Let’s load another one!”
Billy puts another apricot in the slingshot.
“It’s all yours this time, Billy,” Mart says.
Billy aims, let’s go, and fires.
Whabaaam!
Another chicken gets struck on its back, as it falls to the ground and hits it head on a pole after getting up.
“Hihihi!” Billy laughs. “That was hilarious. Another one. Quickly, before they all run away.”
Billy loads the slingshot, hands it over to his brother.
Mart aims, and…
What the… ? What is that?
Chapter 4: The Threat
It is a fox, which jumped in front of the chicken and blocks the shot of the two bunnies. Its fur is red, its snout is long, and its eyes seem callous. It looks straight at the two brothers and then chases after a few chickens.
“Do you think it saw us?” Billy asks.
“I don’t know,” Mart answers. “It stared right in our eyes and then left. I don’t understand why it didn’t come after us.”
“Quickly, let’s hide,” Billy suggests. “I don’t trust this. Foxes are smart. They usually do things with a purpose.”
From under a bush the two rabbits try to catch a glimpse of what is going on in the chicken’s den. They see feathers flying up, chickens running and flying, and they hear all kinds of weird sounds coming from the barn.
Suddenly, the fox stands in front of them. Billy and Mart leap back in fear.
“Hello, little bunnies. Did you have fun shooting some chickens?” the fox says.
“Uhmm...” Billy and Mart stutter.
“It’s okay. Don’t answer that. I was just playing with you. It’s a lot of fun. I understand. Chickens are very stupid, and they run all over the place.”
Is this fox being friendly, or is he hiding some secret plan underneath that friendly voice?
“I don’t want you to mistake my politeness for kindness,” the fox explains. “You know, little bunnies. I would do nothing rather than eat you alive right here.”
Billy and Mart become even more scared. This doesn’t sound good.
“Don’t run. It’s useless. I would be able to catch up with you in a heartbeat. I am not going to eat you now because I want you to listen to me. I have five friends… other foxes. And they are really hungry. We know where your colony is. We have been watching them for quite some time. But it would be uncivilized to barge in there and start eating random rabbits without any notice. That’s why I am going to give you a head start. I want you to go back to your colony and warn them. I doubt they will all be able to move in thirty minutes, but then at least some of you have the strength to flee. Let your leaders know we will attack in a half hour. This way, the strongest among you can prepare and leave the weaklings behind. Now go!”
Billy and Mart hop away as fast as their legs can carry them. They run around the barn and hide behind the wall, panting heavily. Their hearts are beating like a base drum and their feet feel like they could fall off. What are they going to do?
Chapter 5: The Farm
“We have to get out of here,” Mart says.
“No,” Billy says. “Don’t you get it? That’s just what he wants. He is not tellin
g us this without a reason.”
“But you heard him. He wanted to warn us. He said he would give us a head start,” Mart insists.
“Yeah, right. Just because he doesn’t want to be… let’s see… how did he put it? ‘Uncivilized?’ Give me a break.”
“But why would he tell us that? I don’t understand.”
“Let’s think for a minute,” Billy says. “What will happen if we run to the elders now and tell them?” Billy asks.
“I suppose they will tell the other rabbits and they will start panicking and come out of their holes,” Mart says.
“Precisely,” Billy confirms.
Mart looks at Billy. He still doesn’t seem to get it. Billy just stares at him silently, waiting for the light bulb.
“Aha!” Mart says enthusiastically. “I get it! He wants them to come out of their holes so that it’s easier for the foxes to catch them. It’s a trap!”
“And we will use that trap against them,” Billy says. “But first we need some materials.”
“Yes. Let’s look what there is. I am sure we can use some of the farmer’s stuff.”
Billy and Mart go into the barn they are leaning against and see some pigs rolling in the mud, horses neighing as they usually do, and a few cows standing as if they are bored with life.
In the corner of the barn they find some equipment. Most of the objects are shovels, rakes, and other gardening tools. There would be no way they could carry those with them all the way to the colony. But then they see a net.
“We can use that,” Billy says. “We can easily carry this with the two of us, and we can catch the foxes in it.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Mart says.
“Let’s go.”
“Wait!” Mart shouts suddenly.
“What’s wrong?” Billy asks.
“What if the fox doesn’t know where the colony is and was lying about it? Then he is just going to follow us there. I want to make sure nobody is following us.”