Hi Guys! Welcome to My POV story about Ramona the duck. If you don't know who Ramona is, check out the Hi guys! Welcome episode Siege The Day, though she makes cameos in other episodes as well. Let's start of with the first episode with her in: Paternal Egg-Stinct.
(Ramona's POV If you forgot)
I woke up by someone taking water and splashing it on my head. I wonder who that could be. "Samuel!" I shouted, knowing it would be the prankster of the family.
"Geeez girl, take a deep breath," he said. I knew what he was thinking 'I hope our baby brother isn't going to be such a loser'. I thought the same thing but instead of 'loser' I'd replace it with 'Idiot'.
Me, Samuel, Bradley and mom were going to have to have an addition to a family. "Mum what will the baby's name be?" I asked. "I don't know, honey," she replied.
"I bet you it will be Samuel jr," Samuel betted. "How much do you bet on that?" I asked with a smirk on my face. "No one is betting on anything," Mom said concluding our bet.
That was a shame. I could have earned a few bucks from Samuel I thought. I didn't bother saying that 'cause I knew that would lead to more trouble. I smelt a beautiful smell in the air.
I couldn't help it so I followed it. "Ramona! Wait up!" Samuel said. Or I think that's what Samuel said. I was too busy following the roasting, delicious smell. "Ahh," I inhaled the air.
I got there to see Bradley was eating the last piece of a mollusc I had been saving! "Bradley!" I screamed. "All my life's food is in your mouth! Do you know how hard it is to find that type of rare mollusc," I ranted.
Then I ranted some more. And more. Okay so I ranted a lot. Seeing him do this snapped me out of my food craze. Then something ticked in my head. "The smell came from the mollusc!" I exclaimed.
"Obviously. Where do you think it came from, Einstein," he was clearly being sarcastic though I took it as a mix of a sarcastic comment and an insult. I glared at him.
"Okay. You kids stay here I'm going hunting," Mom said to us. It wasn't really hunting since the only thing we've ever managed to hunt is a fish. A dead one.
"Whatever you want," she said. Yes, I thought. "As long as It doesn't involve you eventually getting caught by animal control," she reminded us. Okay, still have some options left.
"Or the FBI," she finished, eying me carefully as If to check that she had covered everything. Dang it! That crossed everything of my list. As soon as she left, I pulled out a sheet that said plan B.
I had made it yesterday in case we had to use it later on. I was right. Except I didn't think it would be this early. "Ok mum said not to get caught by the FBI or animal control. That still leaves the NCIS," I said.
My brothers were just staring at me. "There is no way we are going to get caught by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service/ NCIS," Bradley said. "Wow. You have a wide vocabulary," I said obviously sarcastic.
"Thank you," he said through a gritted beak. "Okay. Let's vote. Who wants to get arrested?" he asked. Ramona put her flipper up. "Who wants to live a peaceful life?" he and Samuel raised their flippers.
"I think I have an idea, "Samuel said, a smile growing on his face. "Who's up for sliding on a waterfall!" he exclaimed. Me and Bradley looked at each other. It couldn't get us arrested and it's awesome so my flipper shot up, quickly followed another flipper.
I realised there was one flaw to this plan. "Where the heck are we going to get a waterfall from?" I asked. "Let's just say I know someone who knows someone. That person knows someone. His friends know someone who knows someone. That guy or woman I'm not sure knows someone. Another someone. Let's just say the family chain knows someone," he concluded his never ending 'knows someone'.
I raised a brow but decided not to question him."Does that mean you yourself know where it is?" Bradley asked, speaking my mind. Samuel sighed. "Yes," he said.
I noticed another flaw. "Who's going to take care of the egg?" I questioned again. I could see that he was seething on the inside. "We'll take it with us. Mum didn't say we couldn't do that," he answered.
He had a point. "Okay. I'm in," I said placing my flipper on to of Samuel's. A split second later another flipper joined us. "Go!" We exclaimed. 'Go!' was our catchphrase, I came up with it.
Samuel turned around and headed towards a shed. What is he doing? "Knockity knock knock knock," he said while knocking on the door. I was suspicious for two reasons.
Reason number 1, 'Knockity knock knock knock' is the lamest way into say 'knock knock' in the whole galaxy. Reason number 2 hadn't mum taught us about stranger danger?
Why would Samuel be directly disobeying his own mother's rules? "Hey Sam," a raccoon that popped out of the shed said. "You know this scoundrel?" I asked.
"Of Course. Guys meet Archie. The robin hood of central park," he introduced us to him. I felt that there was something shady about the raccoon's smile. "That's right. So Sam, what's up," he asked my brother.
"Can we get a ride to the waterfall?" Samuel, not Sam (Just wanted to make that clear) asked. "Of course buddy," Archie said. His head swivelled 'round and he looked at our egg.
"Delicious looking egg you've got there hmm," he said, licking his lips. Say what! "I mean what a good looking egg you got there," he corrected himself while chuckling nervously.
I was pretty sure he wanted to eat the egg but I needed more evidence. "I'll get my carriage ," he said and rushed into the shed. "Nice guy, eh," Samuel asked though it was more of a statement.
"Yeah nice guy," I said. I would have honestly gone with 'freakish guy you've got to keep away from' but I knew that would hurt Samuel's feelings. Two seconds later, the raccoon came out of the shed with an enormous carriage.
"How did he get that in there?" I thought out loud. He ignored me. "Somebody get the egg. It's going right next to me," he stared at the egg affectionately. "Aren't you my little coo-coo bear?" Archie cooed.
I stared at him in disgust. Never have I ever met someone who was so physically attracted to an egg. "So where do we sit?" I asked. "Oh. You guys will sit there." He pointed to a some rusty, old seats at the back of the carriage.
"Oh great," I muttered. Nevertheless, me and my brothers nimbly climbed on the carriage, gave him the egg, and sat down. "Ok! Hang on! This is going to be the ride of your lives!" Archie shouted.
"Yeah, righ-!" I didn't even get to finish my sentence before the carriage went top speed. Me and my brothers screamed as we went down a hill. "Stop it you maniac!" I shouted/screamed as he tried his best to steer the carriage.
We went straight into a tree and just as I thought we were done for... we ran right up it! "Worst! Road! Trip! Ever!" I screamed. I turned around to look at my brothers who were apparently frozen in fear.
We ran right through a pond. Our duck ancestors probably didn't survive that. We went past a few people who thankfully thought that people were driving the carriage.
We stopped at a humongous bush. Archie got out of the carriage and disappeared inside the bush. "Woah..." Samuel said. I could tell he was speechless. Archie's head popped out. "You coming or what?" He mused.
We all looked at each other and without a second thought, we jumped inside. When we got out the other side we saw a glamorous waterfall. "Welcome to the falls," Archie welcomed but when he turned around he saw that we had already started to climb the waterfall.
"Kids." he shook his head. Meanwhile, me, Bradley and Samuel were racing to the top of the waterfall to determine who would try it first. "Told ya this is the best place ever." Samuel boasted.
I rolled my eyes. Those same eyes I had rolled had caught sight of a vine. I smirked. I jumped on the vine and used it to propel myself to the top. "Hasta la vista!" I exclaimed as I shot up all the way to the top.
I heard someone call me. "Ramona!" I recognised the voice at once. "Bradley. You aren't going to trick me into letting you go first." I said,oblivious to what was happening around me.
"No! Not that! Look at what 'Archie' is doing!" I turned around to see the archer escaping in the carriage, licking our egg! "Oh! Dang it!" I exclaimed. I was finally starting to trust that guy.
Next, a bird flew out of nowhere, snatched the egg out off Archie's palm and flew off. "Oh crud," I muttered. "Archie! You lied to us!" Samuel shouted, heartbroken.
"We have bigger concerns. What are we going to tell mom?" I asked. We settled on telling her the truth and oh boy she wasn't happy. "I leave you for 15 decent minutes and you do this!" she scolded.
We spent the rest of the day trying to look for our snatched baby sister/brother. "This is all your fault Samuel," I said. "How was I supposed to know the one raccoon I trusted was going to turn on us?" he asked.
He had a point, not that I was going to admit that in front of him. "You two stop arguing, you both got us into this mess," Bradley said, making my blood boil.
"Oh yeah!" I shouted at him. "Yeah!" he shouted back. "Break it up kiddos, we just need to focus on finding that egg," Mum said, breaking us up.
Mum was right, if we needed to find that egg we needed to work to- my though process was interrupted by the sight of the magnificent central park zoo, a mighty place where animals can live together in harmony.
Basically, it was the opposite of the park. "Umm Ramona are you okay?" I was snapped out of my thought process by Bradley's annoying voice.
"Leave poor Ramona alone, she's too fascinated by the overly complex structure of a brick wall to listen to anything we have to say," Samuel slyly commented.
He wasn't wrong though we were standing next to the brick wall surrounding the otter enclosure in the zoo.
Ok fine, so if I have the whole zoo mapped out in my head. It just makes me an excellent tourist."We've searched the entire park now it's time we search the zoo," Mum said and just as we were about to cross a little moat-like river surrounding the zoo, we saw an otter standing on one of the rocks on top of the moat.
"A mother duck," the otter who by the sound of her voice, I'm guessing is a female, said. I was a little taken aback by the way she said it since it makes it seem like she's never seen a group of ducks before.
"Oh, keep looking kids," mum said. I think she was ignoring the otter and that might be a little rude but we had more important matters to deal with.
"Uh, hey, excuse me are you missing your-" the otter was cut off by my mother. "My egg! Do you have my egg?" Mum asked and I could see she was starting to get desperate.
"Um, kind of but no, no. But I sent it to the best Eggy-sitters. Come on!" the otter said. Me, mum Bradley and Samuel reluctantly followed the otter into the zoo.
We followed the otter through many twists turns and loopholes to the so called 'egg- sitters'. Finally the otter broke the silence " Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot to tell you, my name's Marlene," Marlene said.
"And don't you worry, ducks are naturally born hatchers." She added. Wow, I hate to be ungrateful but is Marlene really lecturing us about us being natural born hatchers.
Being the oldest I discovered this first hand with Bradley then Samuel hatching. Then we arrived at the penguin habitat.
"Well, that's strange, nobody's here," Marlene said. "Don't worry though I know just where they are," she said.
Well we soon discovered that was a lie, we visited habitat after habitat and never found the penguins.
"Mum, I think Marlene, if that's her real name, is leading us on a wild goose chase," I whispered to mum.
"Me too sweetie, but she's our only hope of getting out of this terrible mess that you and your brothers made," Mum whispered back.
"Hey guys! Look there's our egg!" Bradley exclaimed. We all turned around, and just at the right time too since our egg began hatching.
There were four penguins (One was holding our new baby brother) and three weird squirrel looking things. The penguin holding our brother said "Ah, he thinks I'm his-," he was interrupted by my mother.
"Momma's here!" Mum shouted frantically and our baby brother bounded of the penguin and into mum's open wing.
I have to admit, it was an adorable sight. "See, told you they are natural born hatchers," said Marlene, absolutely ruining the precious moment.
"Were you good for the sitters?" Mum asked our tiny new brother. "The baby didn't give you boys trouble did he?" Mum asked the penguins.
"Well now that you mention it- oof!" the flat headed penguin who was talking just got elbowed by a shorter, chubbier one.
"Happy to serve ma'am," he says. Our baby brother walks over to the four penguins who all salute him, the chubby one looking like he was about to burst into tears, and our brother salutes back.
Now this was a beautiful moment. Our baby brother (I'm starting to get tired of saying that, we need to get him a proper name like male Ramona) went up and hugged the chubby penguin making the already heart warming moment one for the record books.
"Aww, that's precious but time to get in line kiddo," Mum said, wrapping up the moment. We then all dramatically walked into the sunset.
Back home, Eggy ( We soon discovered that's what the penguin's named him and we couldn't come up with anything better) rallied us all.
We dramatically stood on a rock, in a spy format with Eggy leading us all (Don't see how that's fair since I 'm the oldest).
Then it was time for the ultimate phrase. "Cute and cuddly boys, (I'm a girl but it would ruin the phrase to say that) cute and cuddly,"
The End
The end of the first chapter, second one will be Snakehead! See ya next time!