This is written in 3rd person because I was too lazy to switch between POVs. I had writting this in my story Alice in Atmos as a little sidestory for my readers because I had gotten grounded for bad grades. Literally, this is the Easter Egg Special.
"Wait." Finn said. "I don't get it."
Alice groaned in frustration. "Man. This is harder than I thought." Alice tried again to explain as Aerrow and Piper entered the room. Stork stood at the helm, listening and attempting to understand. Give the guy credit for trying.
"I still don't get it." Finn said. alice growled in frustration and threw her arms up.
"What's going on?" Piper asked.
"Alice is trying to explain to Finn about some holiday in her world." Stork said monochromatically.
"It's not just some holiday, Stork!" Alice said like she was offended.
"what is it?" Aerrow decided he'd ask.
"It's Easter!"
"Easter?" everyone in the room asked.
Alice nodded.
Alice presented the drawings through a slide show on the screen Piper set up. Everyone was gathered on the coach.
"Okay. Let's get started. First, I'll hafta tell ya the beggining. Think of this as the prologue." Alice hit a button. The first image was that of a half-naked man on a cross wearing some sort of crown. "This guy is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He died for our sins, or so the Bible tells us. I'm not really sure who abused him. It's still a little fuzzy to me. Anyway, he was beating and abused to the point of death then nailed to the crucifix while wearing the Crown of Thorns, like in the picture."
The next slide showed a cave and men pushing a rock in front of it. "He was placed in a cave as his burial chamber after he died." The image had changed to a picture of the man coming out of the cave. "Three days later, he rose from the dead and came back. This day was known as Easter Sunday. Now, I had to tell you this story for religious purpose in my world."
The new slide showed painted eggs. "A common way of celebrating is by an Easter Egg Hunt."
"An egg hunt?" Junko said. "That sounds tasty."
"I wouldn't recommend eating them, Junko." Alice warned. "These eggs are painted normally. However, most people can't stand the smell of a "Never-Found-Egg" so they just buy the plastic ones you can get at a grocery store. The plastic eggs are a little more fun though."
"Why's that?" Finn asked in a bored tone.
The new slide had a picture of opened eggs with candy in them. "Because you can fill them with all sorts of little goodies. You can put in candy or money or even jewelry if ya wanna." Alice smiled big. "I remember when I was little how my mom told me that my dad proposed to her in this way."
"He proposed to her by putting the ring in an egg for Easter?" Piper asked, to which Alice nodded. "That's so cute!"
"I know." The next slide showed a picture of a bunny with a basket full of eggs. "This guy is the Easter Bunny. When you're little, (In my world) you're told that the Easter Bunny hides the eggs. Now, why a bunny has eggs is still beyond me."
The slide show ended.
"And that, my Storm Hawks, is Easter!"
Aerrow smiled. "Why don't we have our own Easter?"
Everyone began to cheer.
And so the day was spent making little hard-boiled eggs and painting them in all sorts of ways. Alice showed them great way to paint them. She showed Finn and Junko a cool trick with egg shells too...
"What are you guys doing?" Aerrow asked suspicously.
Finn, Junko, and Alice jumped. "NOTHING! GO AWAY!" They said a little too quickly. Aerrow shrugged and walked off.
"So, like this?" Finn asked, presenting the egg with a little tissue paper hat where the hole was.
"Yup." Alice said, nodding in approval. "Just like that."
"So, what are these things called?" Junko asked.
"In English: Confettii Eggs. In their native country: Cascarones (Pronounced: CAS-KAH-RON-EZ)." Alice said proudly. "My Spanish teacher taught me this freshman year."
"Confettii Eggs?" Stork asked. He approached carefully, eyeing the colorful bombs. "What do they do? Better yet, teach me how to make one."
Alice nodded. "First, you need to get the yolk out of the egg itself. When you do get it out, just crack the top of it. You don't want over half the egg gone or it'll just be a waste. Don't waste the yolk though though! May as well make some fried eggs or something with it. Next, you have to clean the shell carefully. You don't want a sticky egg at all or the confettii won't go everywhere like you want it too. Now this part you can choose to do, you can paint the eggs. Like i said, you don't have to if you don't want to. Next, take the confettii and stuff as much confettii as you can into the shell. Once you've done that, get some tissue that's around the same color as the egg itself. You need to glue it to the top. Push the little hat gently on the edges. Don't break the shell."
Stork held up a white egg with white tissue paper at the top.
"And now: You have a Cascarones." Alice said happily.
"What do you do with them?" Stork asked.
"You crack them on someone's head for good luck. But Finn, Junko, and I are pranking Aerrow." She whispered the last part evilly.
"Why?"
"Just because."
"Uh...huh..."
That night, the team went on a search for the eggs around the Condor. It was fun and exciting for everyone. Especially for a certain wallop and sharp shooter who learned about confettii eggs.
By the end of the night, Aerrow was covered in confettii leaving entire team laughing like hyenas. Alice was proud to say that she had officially organized the First Annual Storm Hawk Egg Hunt.
"That certainly was interesting." Aerrow said, sitting in Alice's room.
"Yeah. Can't believe the boys kept hitting you." Alice chuckled evilly.
Aerrow pouted a little with a slight glare. "That reminds me..." Aerrow hugged Alice. "Alice."
"Y-Yeah?" She asked, gulping nervously.
"I just wanted to say..." CRACK! Confettii and little egg bits fell from Alice's head after it was smashed on her head. "Gotcha!"
"Asshole!" She shouted.
Aerrow just laughed as she shook her head free of the foreign objects. She blushed a little and pouted.
"You really are like an annoying elder brother. Ya know that right?" alice asked.
Aerrow wiped a tear from his eye. "I'll hold that title proudly."
He began to walk out. "Hey, Asshole!" She shouted.
Aerrow turned and was met with an egg shattering against his forehead as it flew through the air. "Hey!"
"Happy Easter, Big Brother!" She said in a childish voice.
Please keep note that none of this was made up. I actually spent Easter with the Storm Hawks!
Nah. I'm kidding. That woulda been awesome though.
However, everything about the story of Easter, the Easter Bunny, and Cascarones are one hundred percent true. I really do make the Confettii Eggs at least once a year. This actually turned out to be a really fun story. I made it up on the spot.
Well, from Lupin and the Storm Hawks...
"Happy Easter, everyone!"
Lupin
