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It was a fine spring day at Crescent forest. The bees were buzzing and the birds were singing and Clover, a mischievous white bunny, was rushing yet again to school, late.
"Bye, love you!" called Clover to her parents and she bounded from her home. Hopping down the hill, she hoped her owl teacher, Mr. Hoot, wouldn't notice her absence at class. Grimacing to herself she recalled the last time he pecked at her head for her constant tardiness.
Finally she reached her school, a nice area in the middle of a thicket.
"Clover!" cried her best friend Mallow, a floppy-eared pink bunny, "I'm so glad you made it, Mr. Hoot is about to make an important announcement!"
Before Clover can cheer on her successful arrival, she was met with a flurry of sharp pecks on the head.
"Whoo!" shouted Mr. Hoot "you're late again! Extra homework for you!" hooted the owl as he flew back to his desk.
"Ouch!" groaned Clover and she rubbed her head in embarrassment, letting out an inward sigh of getting caught. Mallow gave her a sympathetic look while Kale, the brown boy bunny, snickered.
Mr. Hoot proceeded to get on with his announcement, "As you know spring is in full gear which means that the Annual Easter Egg Hunt will take place. I expect everyone to participate since it's been a tradition as old as this forest."
Clover groaned. "An egg hunt? What's that suppose to be? Do we hunt the eggs for eating? I don't want go climbing trees to steal bird eggs!"
"In addition!" interjected Mr. Hoot as he glared at Clover's comment, "School would be canceled on that day for all the students to partake in the event."
This comment was met with cheering.
"Doesn't this seem a little arbitrary?" injected Shallot, the nerdy friend of Kale.
"Pssh Mallow, remind me what does arbitrary mean again," whispered Clover.
Mr. Hoot sighed, "I know you children have little knowledge of Easter here at Crescent forest, so I'll give a little brief history on the legend of how it started":
"Long ago, when Crescent forest was relatively new, spring had come late that year, all the animals were starving because there was no food. There was so much gloom in the forest; the birds hadn't come back yet from the South and the ground was bare with no flowers and grass. Snow was still around, and all the animals were either hungry or still in hibernation. A sad little bunny was searching for some sign of food, she sadly plowed through the slushy snow, looking for signs of sprouts or shoots. She only had a berry from fall's harvest left, and was planning on eating it when she noticed another bunny advancing towards her. The bunny looked lost, hungry and had dull patchy fur. The little girl bunny had a kind heart and offered her last berry to the hungry stranger. Taking the berry from her, the scruffy rabbit gobble down the berry. After the hungry bunny was done, he thanked her, and suddenly vanished. In his place was the most beautiful bunny she had ever seen. Milky white fur, and the softest brown eyes, this bunny's eyes twinkled with a mischievous and playful glint, yet also illuminated a secretive look of wisdom.
"You must be some sort of forest spirit," whispered the wide eyed girl bunny, awestruck at the transformation.
Smiling the bunny thanked her for her kindness and offered a gift in return, giving her a colored egg, bright gold like the berry, telling her that it wasn't just a regular egg, but a special egg from the legendary Easter Bunny, a spirit bunny who hides eggs for all the children to find, a bunny that is a symbol of spring, youth, and rebirth, and the golden egg in her paws will hold what she most desires, a token of thanks. She was still looking at the egg, admiring its beauty before looking up, and realizing that the mysterious bunny was gone. She couldn't help but wonder if that bunny could have been the Easter bunny, and was startled to notice that there were footprints in the snow, footprints with green shoots sprouting from the ground. Amazed she followed the path of shoots and reached towards a forest clearing, there the sun was shinning warmly and melting away the dull clouds. She felt the golden egg wobble, and starting to crack. Startled she realized that the egg contained a bird. A tiny bird, with all the colors of the rainbow, finally burst free and flew up high in the air, giving the first song for spring. The tiny bunny looked on in amazement as the bird flitted in joy and finally sped up toward the endless sky. She felt a feeling of warmth stirring into her heart as she realized that her desire came true; for the first song by the birds to bring forth spring. Smiling happily at the clearing sky, she started to tread her way back home, already feeling the warmth and happiness of spring coming."
Clover couldn't help but be entranced by the tale, her big violet-blue eyes widening in fascination over the magic of Mr. Hoot's story, she had expected it to be another boring lecture and was surprised to find herself so captivated.
"Sir," interrupted Shallot, "is there any proof that this story is even true? I mean, has anyone ever actually seen the Easter bunny?"
"No doubt that we'll never know if such a tale is true, but I'm merely telling you that this was the legend of the forest, that gift of kindness from the young bunny, probably no older than you kids, brought forth the prosperity of spring to the forest, it gives us a lesson on the value of kindness and hope. It shows that acts of generosity and compassion that can be found in anyone," replied Mr. Hoot.
"And to honor that tradition, every year we throw an egg hunt, where many eggs and treats are decorated and hidden all over Crescent forest, in which the children would search for them, " continued Mr. Hoot. "It is a fun event to throw for the children and symbolic in nature of youth and joy. There will also be a contest to see who can find the rare golden egg in teams of two, the winners will receive a special prize at the end."
Clover couldn't help but be excited; this 'egg hunt' seemed surprisingly fun. She noticed that everyone else was just as excited about this egg hunt and already were choosing their partners.
"Mallow's going to be my partner!" declared Clover as she tackled her already pink friend in a hug.
"Oh Clover..." blushed Mallow in embarrassment.
"Oh yeah?" challenged Kale, "well then Shallot's going to be my partner and we're planning on finding the golden egg and winning the ultimate prize!"
"Oh yeah?" questioned Clover.
"Yeah!" countered Kale.
Both bunnies glared at each other, sending sparks of competitiveness flying between them. Mallow and Shallot merely glanced at each other knowingly, and sighed.
"Anyways, I believe that now everyone has established what teams you'll all be in, I believe its time to start preparing for our lesson, Clover!" announced Mr. Hoot. His comment was met with groans as Mr. Hoot continued to drone on about his early days of egg hunting.
After school ended, everyone was bounding exactly home, eager to tell their parents about Easter
"…And now we're going to start hunting for eggs!" Clover proudly told her parents between mouthfuls of her food.
"Oh Clover, " her mom interrupted, "you're getting food all covered in you lovely heart shaped chest!" "Here, wipe you're face too."
"Mom, this is big, I need to get ready or else I won't beat Kale!" stated Clover as she attempts to avoid her mom's towel.
"Haha," chuckled her father, "Clover dear we knew Easter for a while, in fact that's how I got to know you're mother."
"What!" gasped Clover.
"Ahh, I remember that moment," replied Clover's mom dreamily as she looked at her husband, while absentmindedly rubbing Clover nose.
"Oof, hey, this is about my egg hunt" she said waving her paws and dodging her mom's towel.
"I recalled how we were always seeing which one would find the find the golden egg, you were always in such competitive spirit," chuckled Clover's dad
"And Mr. Hoot was always giving us detention and extra homework together because we were always bickering, ah to be young again, " sighed Clover's mom
"What?" asked Clover.
"Oh nothing dear!" replied both of her startled parents as the broke from their dreamy reverie. "Just go outside and gather up many color berries so we can make paint for the eggs."
"Oh alright," replied Clover as she hopped off her chair and dashed towards the door. 'Sheesh my parents can act so weird sometimes,' she told herself as she left her home with a basket
After an hour or so of gathering sticky blueberries, blackberries, and any other berries that could create paint, she noticed a familiar shadow swooping overhead.
"Oh hey Hickory, " she called out as she noticed her adorable, flying squirrel neighbor (he lives up on the top of her house) /babysitter/friend.
"Hello Clover, replied Hickory as he swooped down and landed neatly next to her, "What's that basket for?"
"Ohh this? It's to help me gather up berries to help make into paint for Easter. I'm excited about it because it sounds so fun," giggled Clover.
"Oh I see," replied Hickory "mind if I help along the way?"
"That would be great Hickory, you can help me gather up the cherries since they're on trees," said Clover, with excitement in her eyes. "OoohI can hardly wait to get started !" she cried "Golden egg come to Clover!" with that she pumped her little paw in the air sending the basket flying and landing on Hickory's head, covering him in an assortment of smooshed berry colors.
"Oh no! …err sorry Hickory…" Clover apologized embarrassingly.
"Ah it's alright," reply a drenched Hickory calmly. "Honestly I should get use to this by now," Hickory sighed.
"Oh by the way were you looking for something Hickory?" asked Clover as she picked up her basket from Hickory's head.
"I was planning on getting some lemons to make lemonade for the party, but I guess I'll have to take a bath now," replied Hickory and he licked some berry juice from his paws.
The rest of the next two days was buzzing full of excitement, everyone within Crescent Forest was preparing for all the festivities of the egg hunt. All the forest animals were going over to the farm at the far end of the forest to ask for hens to give them some eggs for Easter. In exchange for seeds and bugs, the clucking hens gave the forest animals some of their fine white eggs. There, the eggs were boiled in a giant pot of water and painted with the many colors made of berry juice. Clover's eggs were all messy, while Mallow's eggs were pretty and with delicate designs. Then the mothers started to cook delicious foods for a feast after the egg hunt, chocolate eggs, berry pies, roasted slabs of fish, salads of fresh greens and shoots, and much more. All of Kale's siblingscouldn't help but cause trouble and receiving glares from their mother as they sneaked bites here and there. The fathers start to decorate the forest with flowers and ribbons, taking the responsibility of hiding the eggs.
Clover and Mallow, each armed with a basket, jumped up and down with anticipation.
"I'm so excited!" exclaimed Clover. "Look at all those eggs around the flower field, it's a field of color!"
Clover's admiration was interrupted by Kale's voice.
"Hah, well Clover, we'll see who gets the golden egg then," laughed Kale.
"Humph, it's going to me and Mallow of course," retorted Clover as she rolled her eyes.
"Hello guys, a familiar voice interrupted them, "It's been a while hasn't it?"
Clover and Kale turn around to see Rambler, the traveling rabbit. Rambler was a friend of Crescent forest.
"Rambler!" cried Clover in excitement, "So you're going to watch us hunt for eggs?"
Rambler merely chuckled, "I was the one who hid the golden egg this year, but don't think I'll tell any of you where it is, so good luck to all of you guys," he added with a wink before walking towards the rest of the crowd.
"Ooh, he's so cool!" exclaimed Clover with admiration. Kale merely rolled his eyes.
Alright everyone," announced Mr. Hoot to the crowd, "Time to get ready, on the count of three, everyone is free to gather up the eggs, the team that finds the golden egg is the winner!" "One, two…THREE!"
With that all the little animals came charging down through the field, scrabbling to gather as much eggs as possible in their baskets. All the eggs were hidden in a section of the forest that was roped off with a ribbon to ensure that no little animals wandered too far.
Clover ran down the field sending petals flying and grabbing the lovely colored eggs as fast as she can. Mallow followed Clover giggling at her friend's competitive antics, while scooping up the eggs that flew from Clover's basket. "Clover slow down," giggled Mallow as she watch her best friend practically zoomed from destination to destination. "Hmm I wonder how Kale and Shallot are doing?" questioned Mallow to herself as she glanced at the other side of the field.
Meanwhile on the other side, Kale scrambled to gather up the last egg from his side of the field, he told himself that there was no way Clover was going to beat him. 'Girls in general just can't beat boys,' he stubbornly reminded himself. Kale looked up to notice Shallot sitting under a tree, reading a book, with an empty basket next to him. "What are you doing Shallot!"
"Hey Clover", asked Mallow, "do you think we're suppose to go past the barrier marked with a ribbon?" she glanced nervously at the looming tall trees that darkened the atmosphere in comparison to the wide open field they were at earlier. "I mean the adults specifically told us to not go over the ribbon."
"Oh come on Mallow, don't you see? Rambler probably hid the egg in a place that no one is going to look, " exclaimed Clover as she crawled over the pink ribbon and pushed past he brambles to keep marching on. "The egg is probably somewhere that is dark and hard to find anyways."
"Maybe we should try looking at the lemon tree beside the flower patch over there, anywhere would be fine just as long as its in the boundaries," Mallow nervously pointed to the tree that nestled happily in the sunny field. "Clover?" Mallow turned around only to see Clover vanished into the dark forest. "Ah, Clover wait for me!" cried Mallow as she ran off to follow her friend, while casting a reluctant glance towards the fields.
When the two girl bunnies left, a chuckle was heard in the bushes. "Well, I guess someone was going to be stupid enough to go over the ribbon, ha,guess I'll be eating something after all tonight!" the ominous voice laughed.
Hello Wuchen here! This is our (more of mine =.=) first fanfic. We wanted to do a happy happy clover one because the story has such a simple yet sweet plot. I feel that things are a little rushed, but it was intending to be a oneshot only to turned into chapters :P I doubt I would get any reviews from this fanfic given that there are so few of them, but it's cool, just one review would be nice lol
I know it sounds like Kale and Clover seem like they're enemies, but they're not, just the joys of being kids, or bunnies, actually.
In case anyone is wondering why I keep mentioning "we" is cause Wuchen consists of 5 members :P I'll be addressed as Circle-1 and all through 5, but together I guess we'll be called the Wuchen 5. (lol I know it sounds really corny but it has a nice ring to it) This fanfic was kind of the idea of Circle-4 and Circle-5. With me adding in all the fine detail. Don't expect that cause this is a five member group there would be much work done or updating, I practically do everything :P The rest are only there cause they read, edit, and suggest ideas to me, to type . I only had the time to start an account because summer is here, any other time would be impossible. I've read plenty of fanfics but I'm still new in all this publishing stuff lol.
Honestly I'm not sure if my writing is bad so I'll leave it for the readers to decide, that is if there is any. I'll try to update this story as soon as possible, it was suppose to be a rather simple plot orginally, but I tend to get carried away, so we'll see.