Prince Daffy entered his room and saw a shadow behind the curtains, thinking it was the woman, Melissa. He cleared his throat and moved the curtains. It was actually Egghead.
"Where isth she?" Daffy gasped.
Egghead muffled something to Daffy while pointing to the windows. Daffy noticed a rope made out of his blankets that dangled out the window. He ran and looked outside. Melissa was by the wall with a camel by her side. She was keeping a sharp eye out for guards.
Not wanting to lose her, or for a different reason, Daffy climbed down the cloths and noticed that Melissa was heading for the archway that would lead outside the temple. There were two guards, Casper Caveman and Cottontail Smith, talking to each other.
There were guards reaching up to her without noticing. Daffy didn't want to lose his prize so he called out to the guards, "Hey guardsth!"
Casper and Smith gasped, noticing they had the prince looking back to them. There was a brief moment of silence that Daffy hesitated.
What are these feelings? Why is he hiding Melissa from the guards? He has to get to her since she belongs to him but deep inside he wants to let her go.
The guards held their breath such as Melissa, hoping she wouldn't be caught.
Daffy stammered at first and replied to the guards, "M-my butler isth tied up. Go ahead and let him loosthe!"
"Yes sir!" said Casper and Smith as they started to run. Daffy watched the guards leave and looked back to the archway. Melissa left.
"Now where'd she go?" he thought.
He ran to the archway and noticed Melissa entering the slaves' town, Goshen. Daffy ran to catch up to her. Into Goshen, Daffy walked through the streets and alleyways when he found her at a well with some animal people; a rabbit and pig; where he heard Melissa say,
"I need water. Where I live is far from here; a long journey."
The pig poured water into a jug and the rabbit gave it to Melissa.
"Here you go," said the rabbit in a nasal voice.
"Thank you very much." No one saw Daffy grin.
It was a mystery to Daffy on why he was smiling. Either he was getting close to getting her or it was the opposite. What was it?
Daffy was about to reach up to her but Melissa ascended onto the camel after obtaining the jug and ventured out of Goshen. It was too late to stop her. He stopped by the well keeping his eye out on Melissa, letting her go. For some reason a warm feeling overcame Daffy.
All of a sudden, there was the crunching sound of a bite on a carrot and someone say, "Eh, what's up doc? You want some water?"
Daffy looked to the rabbit who talked to him. He was a gray rabbit, leaned against the well, and held a carrot. Next to him was a pig who held the rope from the well.
"Why would I want water from you, long earsth?" said Daffy rudely.
"Well, I just wanted to give you an offer but if you're going to refuse it, what else is new, Prince Daffy?"
"Yeah, what elsthe is new?" Daffy retorted.
At first, Bugs was talking casually but he was happy when he looked closer to Daffy. "I knew it. Hey, Porky, he's come back!" Bugs now spoke excitedly. "It's him!"
"W-w-w-what are you talking about B-Bugs?" the pig asked.
Bugs spoke to Daffy, "You're back! Did you miss us?"
"Sthpeak sthensthe rabbit," Daffy commanded.
"It's a small world after all, huh Daffy? You came back to us."
"What on Earth are you talking about?! I don't know you!"
"You don't know?" Now Bugs was perplexed. "Didn't they tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"Well, you're our brother."
"I already have a brother, thank you very much."
"Well, since you're here, you have to know the truth, Daffy."
"Like what?"
"Y-y-y-your highness," Porky stuttered. "M-m-my brother is tired from the day's work. He's j-just confused."
"Nah," Bugs reassured. "Don't you remember him Porky?"
"Who?"
Bugs pointed to Daffy.
"What are you talking about?" Daffy demanded while Porky shook his head.
"You're not a prince Daffy," Bugs told him.
That angered Daffy. "What?!"
"Your mom was Mother Duck. She had an orphanage where me and Porky lived and adopted us. You are our brother."
Daffy was getting angry that he yelled while pointing his finger to him, "You're going to get a good whipping, rabbit!"
"No!" Porky yelled without stuttering. He stood between Bugs and Daffy with a worried look, afraid of Daffy's rage. Daffy only backed away in disgust. "P-p-p-p-please! D-d-d-don't hurt him! P-p-please! L-Let's go Bugs."
Bugs merely told him, "Not now." He stood his ground while Porky tried to pull his brother away from the prince.
"Daffy, listen: your mom put you in a basket, on the river, to save your life!"
"To sthave me?" Now Daffy was confused. "Who tried to kill me?"
"Go ask Pharaoh!"
Daffy gasped, "You sthtupid bunny!"
Bugs refused to be stopped while Porky pulled him further. "God saved you Daff!"
"Enough!"
Daffy walked up to them that Porky let go of Bugs and cowered at a wall.
"And you've been chosen by Him," Bugs said defiantly. "It's true! You're the deliverer!"
"AH, SHADDUP!" Daffy walked closer to Bugs and pulled his ears, forcing Bugs onto the ground. The rabbit moaned in pain. "I'll be calling my father!"
Daffy started to walk away when he heard Bugs say,
"But do you remember this?" He started to sing. "Hush now my baby, be still love don't cry."
Daffy stopped walking when he heard the first verse of the song. He looked back to Bugs. "Sleep as you're rocked by the stream."
"You know that sthong?" Daffy queried the rabbit in shock.
Where has Daffy heard that before? It's always been in his head ever since he can remember. He thought at first it came from his mom, Granny, but hearing it now from the rabbit was different. It was very familiar. How would the rabbit know the song?
"Sleep and remember my last lullaby so I'll be with you when you dream."
Bugs and Daffy locked eyes while the rabbit was in tears.
"Remember?"
An image came into Daffy's head that a black woman duck was looking back to him with loving eyes. Daffy gasped in horror when Bugs smiled back to him.
The rabbit and the pig are his brothers? They know the song? He's one of them? Is Bugs Bunny right? He's not a prince? He's one of the slaves' people? He was adopted?
"No," Daffy murmured. "No. No, no, no, no, no. No!" He took off on a run.
He kept running, running without looking that Daffy accidentally tripped on Speedy Gonzalez and fell onto Wile E. Coyote.
Wile E. was gasping hoping that Daffy wouldn't trouble him. From behind Daffy saw Speedy begging, "Leave me, leave me!"
"It's Prince Daffy." said some other slaves. "It's Daffy. It's Daffy."
Daffy got up and he saw Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety Bird staring at him. In the meantime, Wile E. crawled away from him. Daffy ignored everybody and continued running.
While panting, Daffy saw the palace up ahead and ran to it; noticing how far away he was from home. A song came into mind that Daffy started to sing.
Gleaming in the moonlight
Cool and clean and all I'll ever known
All I ever wanted
Sthweet perfumesth of insthensthe
Grastheful roomsth of alabasthter sthtone
He kept running that Daffy stopped once he came to a column and rested for a minute, just to catch his breath.
All I ever wanted
In front of him were statues, statues of him and his family: Sam, Granny, Elmer and Daffy. They were his family.
Thisth isth my home
With my father, mother, brother
Oh stho noble, oh stho sthtrong
He came back to his bed chambers and took a glance at the stuff inside, including the amount of gold he had in one corner.
Now I am home
Here among my trappingsth and belongingsth
I belong
Egghead was released and thanked Daffy for saving him. Daffy ignored him and let the butler go.
And if anybody doubtsth it
They couldn't be more wrong
Then he went to the mountain of treasures Daffy had in a corner. Prince Daffy had all the treasures he could have: thousands of gold pieces, bright silver diamonds, necklaces with bronze diamonds, red rubies, blue sapphires, and golden relics.
Being the greedy slob, Daffy rest himself on the gold and caressed the golden coins and necklaces such as putting on a crown of jewels and putting on a diamond necklace.
I am a sthovereign prinsthe of Egypt
A sthon of the proud histhtory that'sth shown
Etched on ev'ry wall
On a wall nearby were hieroglyphics. They were written about Daffy's past with him as a child growing up with his parents and Elmer Fudd and first getting his riches.
Surely thisth isth all I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
While he laid on the gold, with Bugs' words plaguing his mind, Daffy fell asleep.
But he opened his eyes and behind him, on the hieroglyphics Daffy was upon, was Pharaoh Sam. He ordered his men to go into the slaves' town. Daffy saw them go there so he followed the soldiers.
In Goshen, Daffy watched with an open mouth and saw mothers being forcibly separated from their baby sons and the soldiers taking the defenseless babies. There was the Crusher pushing away Penelope Pussycat to take Sylvester Jr. out of his crib and Mama Buzzard being pulled away from her baby boy while her older son Beaky could only watch.
There was one mother who Daffy found who almost looked like him. With her were a young rabbit and pig. It seemed that the duck mother was holding a baby. The three started to run after watching the soldiers take the poor kitten. Daffy followed them in desperation.
The mother and kids ran through town avoiding the soldiers and came to the Nile river. Daffy watched young Bugs put the basket down and Mother Duck putting baby Daffy in a basket, sending him adrift. He almost cried but held his tears when Daffy heard the soldiers coming from behind.
Daffy ran away from them but he fell into the river while he heard the sound of babies' crying. Everything was becoming dark when a large jaw closed in on Daffy and he saw the terrifying yellow eyes of a crocodile.
He woke up in a start. Daffy panted hard and wiped his sweaty face. Something about the nightmare could be a sign; something he had to know. If he is the brother of a rabbit and pig, Daffy has to know.
Daffy went to grab a torch and ran into the hieroglyphic room. He searched the walls, read what was written such as stories about the gods, previous Pharaohs before Sam, and the town's history.
Through an opening, Daffy followed the wall and there was the answer to his question, which is the reason why he gasped loudly, it was almost a scream.
There was a picture of Pharaoh Sam pointing his finger out, soldiers holding animal baby boys, dropping the babies into the Nile River, and hungry crocodiles ready to eat the babies.
It was all too real. Everything that Bugs Bunny told Daffy was true. His father's history, he's not Egyptian, he was adopted, and he could've been killed himself. Daffy dropped the torch and fell on his knees crying while he had his hands on his face, trying to keep the tears behind.
"No," he muttered while gasping. "Why me? Why? No! No!"
"Watcha doin' down here, sonny?" It was Pharaoh Sam.
"Did you really do thisth, Dad?" Daffy asked him snappishly. Tears were already coming from his eyes that Daffy felt one slip through his fingers.
"All those critters coulda taken us over."
"But, but…" Daffy put his hands down, sniffled, and looked up to a picture of Sylvester Jr. After sniffling again, he looked to his dad. "Those are babiesth! Babiesth!"
"It doesn't matter."
"'It doesthn't matter?' 'It doesthn't matter?!' Having babies killed? Probably hundredsth? Those are babiesth for crying out loud!" He pointed to the picture. "They could've grown up living happy livesth! Don't you have a heart?"
"Slaves is stupid. They hadta go."
Daffy glared at Sam and gasped slightly, "You…you…I can't believe you! Don't talk to me again! I don't want to sthee you anymore!" Daffy walked away from Sam. He couldn't sleep that night.
