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Chapter 2: Why Bouncing is Forbidden
Tigretta
I used to like bouncing. That's what tiggers were born to do. We love bouncing on our tails. It is far superior to walking or any other means of travel. However, long ago, back home... bouncing became perverted, vile, nothing good in my mind. I won't go into the details. I just wish I didn't have to be in a place with another tigger that enjoyed bouncing so much.
Tigger is... well, I don't know what other tiggers are like since I was the only one for the longest time. All I knew was that I was a tigger, nothing else. I didn't think there could possibly be another like me. I thought I was the only one. Seeing Tigger really made me think though. He's so full of energy, life, light; things I lost long ago. Things I think I will never get back.
Narrator
Tigretta sighed heavily as she paused her writing, pen hovering above the paper. She had long ago learned to be literate, as well as the rest of her friends. This was Tigretta's escape, her way of getting out of her head by letting her head out. She closed the journal she had been writing in and looked out the window at the beautiful summer day. She could actually hear the birds singing and see peace permeating the atmosphere.
"Well... I might as well try to enjoy it," said Tigretta, getting up. She and her friends had found a tree that looked like a furnished home. This was where it was unanimously decided they would live. Tigretta stepped outdoors and took a deep breath of the sweet, fresh air. The air was certainly never this clean back home, Tigretta thought. She walked on the grass, feeling it between her toes. She loved this feeling. It felt like peace and freedom from the oppression she had been enduring for so many years back home.
"Why, hello, Tigretta, fancy seeing you here," said Pooh, walking up and chuckling to himself.
"Hello, Pooh. How are you?" Tigretta asked.
"Well, you see, I'm out of honey and I was wondering if you would by chance have any that I could borrow?"
"I don't see how a pooh bear can borrow something that they eat and expect to give it back in the same condition. You should be asking me if I have any honey which you could have."
"Well... do you?"
Tigretta sighed. "Talk to Winnie about honey, she keeps track of that better than I do."
"Oh, thank you, Tigretta, I shall do just that."
"Pooh, I would express caution around my friends and keep a good distance. If you get too close to them, I will make sure you never have the chance to get that close again. Am I understood?"
"Yes, Miss Tigretta."
"You may go."
Tigretta had learned to be harsh, critical, and stiff. She knew that if she let down her guard one moment, bad things would happen. She had made a promise to herself long ago to keep her and her friends safe.
"Good morning, Tigretta," said Tigger, bouncing up.
"Hello, Tigger," Tigretta said simply.
"I was wondering since you and I were both Tiggers that maybe you'd like to go bouncing with me. I figured two tiggers are better than one for bouncing." Tigger laughed with a 'hoo hoo hoo' after this statement.
"Bouncing? Bouncing?! Let's get one thing straight, Tigger, I don't bounce. Bouncing is forbidden," said Tigretta, turning away.
"Forbidden? But why?" asked Tigger sadly.
"Let me tell you..." Tigretta turned in a circle and soon everything became black except her and Tigger. They were neon orange with invisible stripes, since the black blended in with the background. Tigretta's eyes were glowing a bright yellow where her pupils weren't and she began singing. "Bouncing used to be fun. Bouncing used to be joy. I'd bounce high and low, from here to there, and pretty much everywhere, but one fateful day it came to be bouncing was forbidden."
The entire background went dark for a moment before Tigger's neon silhouette re-appeared and Tigretta's voice continued in the background. "You don't know a thing about the horrors we have come from. There's heffalumps and woozles and most of all jagulars!" As Tigretta named off the animals, their neon silhouettes appeared. The heffalump was pink with orange eyes and huge teeth. The woozle was red and had red eyes with black pupils. The jagular was bigger than the woozle and the heffalump. It was surrounded by a dark blue line, marking its figure in a silhouette. It showed yellow eyes with black pupils and had blinding white teeth.
After Tigretta had sung this part, the jagular gave a horrible roar. It disappeared, along with the light.
When the light came on again, Tigretta's friends had joined her. Rhoda, the rabbit, sang, "The jagular is famous not just for his sharp teeth and soul-destroying eyes. The jagular is famous for perverting what tiggers are most famous for."
"The jagular bounces helpless creatures in the dark of night," sang Olive, the owl.
"The jagular causes everyone quite a fright," sang Peony, the piglet.
"The jagular causes nothing but sorrow and pain," sang Elinor, the donkey.
"You can say that again," sang Gina, the gopher.
"And so you see... because of what the jagular has done to me... I have taken it upon myself to write the law..." As Tigretta sang this, she rose higher and higher on a great pillar. When she said law, she held a document in her hand that she unrolled. When she did, it went past Tigger's feet and around him. "Bouncing is forbidden."
"No bouncing! No bouncing!" sang all of Tigretta's friends.
"That is why bouncing is forbidden," sang Tigretta.
"No bouncing! No bouncing!" Tigretta's friends sang.
"That is why it's plain to see, bouncing is forbidden!" Tigretta dragged out 'forbidden' and when she finished, she gave a small, defensive growl that sounded almost like purring. The neon lights of everyone faded out, Tigretta's cat eyes being the last to fade completely.
The summer day came back after the song ended. Tigger was on the ground, his tail in the air and his hands covering his eyes. "So, now you understand why I can't bounce with you?" asked Tigretta.
"Uh... no, not really. You just said that bouncing was forbidden. You never said why," said Tigger. Tigretta growled and went inside, slamming the door harshly behind her.
Winnie, the pooh bear, came up to Tigger with Pooh and said, "There, there, Tigger, Tigretta just needs time to adjust to this new home. It was really hard for all of us back where we came from, but I think... between you and me..." she pulled Tigger close so she could whisper. "Tigretta has had it the hardest of all." Winnie went inside, along with the rest of Tigretta's friends, leaving Tigger alone with Pooh, who had managed to get some honey from Winnie.
"I just don't understand. How could a tigger not like bouncing?" asked Tigger sadly. He went over to a stump and assumed "The Thinker" pose.
"Perhaps we could throw Tigretta and her friends a party to welcome them to the neighborhood. Then, maybe she won't feel so out of place," said Pooh, while snacking on his honey.
"That's it, buddy boy! We'll throw a party! We'll have balloons, and cake, and all sorts of things! Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo! I have to talk to Rabbit. We only have so much time! Thanks for the idea, buddy boy! TTFN, Ta, Ta, for now! Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!" Tigger bounced away happily toward Rabbit's house.
"You're welcome, Tigger!" Pooh said to his friend, waving. "Now if I only knew what the idea was..." Pooh walked away, trying to remember what he had forgot.
Now this is Winnie the Pooh! :) I hope you guys like it and keep reading and reviewing, thanks :D
P.S. I wrote the song, did you guys like it? It seemed Winnie the Pooh-ish to me :D
