I'M DONE WITH SAD ONESHOTS (for now)! Here's the new one, which is much more joyful than the previous two.
9. Present (set long after the end of the war with the Scarlet Hand; the barrier doesn't exist anymore)
It was Puck's 4021st birthday. Actually, nobody knew on what day Puck was born. Veronica phoned Titania, who told her it was February 31st. After some thoughts and discussions, the Grimm family decided to celebrate Puck's birthday on February 28th or 29th.
Now it was February 28th, so Puck was receiving presents and gift cards. The presents were very peculiar indeed! Can you give a normal present to a mischievous Trickster King?
Titania and Mustardseed sent Puck a package of glop grenades (for playing pranks) and a box of bananas (to feed the chimpanzees). Puck asked for these gifts specifically on his last visit to New York, it was exactly what he needed.
Granny cooked lots, lots, lots of bizarre food. The biggest and oddest of it was an enormous blue cake with green cream, white walnuts and yellow chocolate sauce that formed a note "Happy 4021st birthday". Puck wholeheartedly thanked the old lady and had already taken bites from everything she cookedl
Henry gave Puck some dust from the Hall of Wonders that could change things' color.
"You can use it on your pixies," Henry said. "They are all green, and you can make them rainbow-colored. This dust doesn't hurt at all."
"I'll better paint Sabrina's hair rainbow," Puck thought to himself. Henry was sure everyone would grow up; he didn't think what his present to Puck could do to his own daughter.
Veronica's gift was a long rubber snake which looked like a real one. Veronica warned Sabrina, Daphne and Basil about it.
"In the evening, you'll run into this thing in a dark corner," she guessed. "I'm certain."
Uncle Jake used his magical stuff and his sense of humor to make a large golden medal with words carved into it: "THE WORST TRICKSTER EVER". Puck had been wearing the medal every day since that birthday.
Mr. Canis carved a new wooden sword for Puck, and Red painted it. (Puck's old sword was burnt down by a dragon during the war with the Scarlet Hand).
Little Basil, who thought of Puck as of a role model, gave him a book about how to deal with stubborn chimpanzees.
Daphne bought a box of chocolates, in addition to Granny's present. Puck was always ready to eat something nice!
Sabrina had been forced to write a gift card for Puck, but she had no idea what else she could give him. The day before Puck's birthday, she thought and thought and thought, but she didn't know. After an hour, she was going to give up and buy a box of candy like Daphne did. When Daphne heard about this, she laughed:
"No, no. Puck won't be so happy with it. You better promise him that you won't complain about his pranks."
Sabrina groaned, but wrote it on the gift card nevertheless.
It was Puck's happiest birthday ever. He painted Sabrina's hair rainbow (luckily, Uncle Jake knew how to wash the color away), scared her with a rubber snake and put banana pills on the floor - Sabrina slipped on them.
Sabrina didn't seem angry at all - just as she promised. She laughed as much as everyone else. Daphne didn't know her sister could be such a good actress. She was sure that Sabrina's soul was boiling mad.
But when Sabrina, Daphne, Basil and Puck went upstairs to go to their bedrooms, Sabrina stopped Puck and said:
"Oh, you know, everything was really funny today."
Before anyone could answer, she said a series of "goodnight"s and hurried to her room.