Author's Notes: Hi!!! I wrote this story over the summer break. I was bored out of my mind, eating ice cream and watching my two siblings and younger cousin goof around. That's when all of a sudden the idea hit me!!! Okay, who here has ever read, seen, or owns the infamous "For Dummies" books? Well, I'm planning on making a series out of this, a bunch of humor stories. I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review!
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, the digitestined, Oreo cookies, or the "For Dummies" books.
Hypnotism for Dummies
Matt sat on the couch in his apartment watching the television.
"There's nothing on," he complained to no one in particular. He felt his eye lids begin to droop as a yawn over came him. *Sure, a nap would be nice right about now. He was just dozing off when the doorbell alerted him awake.
He walked over to the door and opened it. His mother stood there, with his little eight year old brother, TK.
"Hello, Matt," his mother greeted. "Is your father home?"
"No," was the answer. "He's working again today. Why?"
"Well I have some important things to do today. Since you're here would you mind looking after TK for me? Thanks."
Before Matt could reply, she ushered TK inside and left. Matt looked down at his little brother. "So what do you want to do? We could go to the movies, the arcade-"
The doorbell had rung again. This time it was Tai and Kari.
"Uh, Matt?" Tai asked. "You wouldn't happen to have anything planned for this afternoon, would you?"
"Not at the moment," Matt replied. "Lemme guess. You have stuff to do and you want me to look after Kari, right?"
"Yeah. Could you?"
"No problem, man. TK's over, the two of them can play together."
"Thanks, dude. You're a life saver!" Tai turned to Kari. "Be good for Matt, okay? I'll be back at four o'clock."
"Bye, big brother," Kari waved. Matt closed the door.
"You guys can amuse yourselves," Matt said. "If you need anything, I'll be in my room." With that, he left the two children to their own devices.
"I'm hungry," TK said. "You want somethin', Kari?"
"Sure," she replied. "I'll go get Matt-"
"You don't need to," TK interrupted. "I've been over here plenty of times. I know my way around the kitchen. Come on."
TK and Kari entered the kitchen and began rummaging through cupboards, in hopes of finding cookies or some sort of sweets. Kari was just about to give up and fetch Matt when TK shouted suddenly with joy.
"What is it?" Kari asked. "Did you find any cookies?"
"No," answered TK. "Even better. I found this right behind this mouldy stuff in a container." He tossed some smelly tupperware down on the counter and held out a tub of quadrupal double nut fudge chocolate ice cream with Oreo cookie bits. Kari and TK stared at it hungrily.
"I found some chocolate sauce and whipped cream!" Kari said excitedly. "Let's have a giant sundae!"
The two kids squealed in delight and began their little feast. As we all know, little children can get a bit hyper from sweets, especially when consuming large portions. Thus, such a thing happened to little Takeru and Hikari.
"Hey, TK," Kari said suddenly. "What's in that container you took out? Is it eatable?"
"I don't know," he shrugged. Suddenly, he had an idea. "But I know how to find out!"
"How?"
"My brother, silly! We'll tie him up and force him to taste it. Then we'll know if it's okay to eat." The two friends giggled mischeviously. "I'll go find my dad's fishing net. You lure Matt out of his room."
"Okay, will do." Kari left and knocked on Matt's door.
Inside, Matt was relaxing on his bed reading a book entitled, "Hypnotism For Dummies." He held up a pendulum, snickering slightly. "Once I learn how to hypnotize, Tai will wish he hadn't put itching powder in my gym shorts last April Fools. Heheheh!"
"Oh Ma-att," Kari called sweetly through the door. "I need your help with something!"
Matt walked over and opened the door. "What is it- ahhhhhhhhh!!!"
TK had dropped the fishing net on Matt, who, all tangled up, fell flat on his face. Kari and TK jumped on Matt and tied him up with rope. Kari grabbed some of Matt's old socks and stuffed them into his mouth. TK dragged Matt into the kitchen.
Kari entered the kitchen a few minutes later, carrying Matt's book and pendulum. When Matt saw what kari he began to wriggle and yell but no one understood him. TK was preparing the food.
"Hey TK," Kari said as she entered. "Look what I found in your brother's room."
"So?" TK shrugged. He seemed intent on feeding Matt the mold. "Find me a funnel, will you?"
"Listen, TK," Kari continued. "What if instead of feeding Matt that stuff, we hypnotize him!"
Matt spit out the socks and laughed nervously. "You're kidding! You couldn't hypnotize andyone if your life depended on it! *I* can't even work that thing yet!"
"Only one way to find out!" Kari exclaimed, holding up the pendulum. She began to swing it back and forth in front of Matt. Back and forth, back and forth. "Watch the pendulum, don't take your eyes off it. No not you, TK, just Matt. You are getting sleepy... very sleepy." Matt's eyes eventually began to close and his head flopped over, his chin resting on his chest.
"You think it's working?" TK whispered. "Is he faking it?"
Kari shrugged and turned back to Matt. "When I clap my hands, you will become a... dog!"
"Become a dog," Matt repeated, dazed.
Kari clapped her hands. and Matt's eyes snapped open. He looked up at TK and Kari, a dopey grin on his face.
"Now we found out if it worked," Kari stated as she untied Matt.
He sat there for a while, then sniffed the air. Sniffig, he crawled over to the table and gazed up at it. Matt looked at the other two and barked. When they didn't move, he began to make a sort of whining noise. Finally, TK went over to the table and picked up the container of rotton smelling food. Matt immediately got into a sort of begging position, squatting with his hands held out in front of him like paws. He began to pant and drool, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.
"It worked!" Kari cried. "He thinks he's a dog! Here, boy! Come here!"
Matt crawled over to Kari who patted him on the head.
TK was skeptical. "I'm not sure, Kari. He could be faking it still. I've got an idea."
"What is it?" Kari asked.
"We'll see if he'll do something Matt would never do," TK explained. "If he'll drink from the toilet, he's a dog. If not... then it's all a trick."
"It's disgusting but it'll work," Kari nodded.
They brought Matt into the bathroom and lifted the lid of the toilet. Matt looked into the bowl and stared thirstily at the water. Without hesitation he began to lap up the water, sticking his head in the bowl.
"Does that prove it?" asked Kari.
"Definately," confirmed TK, pulling Matt back by his shirt collar. "And I've got another idea. Let's play fetch in the living room!"
* * *
At four o'clock, Tai knocked on the door. TK opened it. Tai could hear barking and Kari's voice saying, "It's okay, boy! He's only my brother! A friend! No!"
"since when does Matt have a dog?" asked Tai. TK said nothing, avoiding Tai's eyes. "Speaking of which, where is he?"
Tai's question was quickly answered. Matt came bounding to the door and tackled Tai, knocking him over onto his back. Tai looked up at a panting Matt who leaned forward to lick his face.
"Matt, no!" cried TK, grabbing Matt by his shirt collar. "Don't! Get off him, boy!"
Tai was horrified. "What the hell do you think you're doing, Matt?! Get off me!"
TK managed to pull the barking Matt off Tai and calm him down by scratching him behind his ears. Kari entered and saw Tai.
"Four o'clock already? My how time flies."
"What did you do to Matt?!" gasped Tai, getting to his feet. He looked around the Ishida apartment. It was a complete mess! Chairs and tables had been overturned and the entire apartment was practically in ruins. Tai got down on his knees and gawked at Matt. "What happened here?! Matt? Are you okay?" Matt barked in response. Tai snapped his fingers in front of Matt's face a couple of times. "What did you do to him?!"
"We're sorry, Tai," apologized Kari. "We were fooling around and found a swingy thingy. I hypnotized Matt and now he thinks he's a dog."
"We played fetch and kinda made a little mess," TK finished.
"We gotta fix all of this before your mom gets back," Tai said. "TK, tie Matt up to keep him out of the way. We've got some cleanig to do."
TK ran into Mr. Ishida's bedroom and went looking through his chest of drawers. He pulled out a belt and handed it to Tai. Tai dragged Matt into his room and using the belt as a leash, tied him to the bed post. Matt struggled against his restraints but to no avail. He began to whimper and whine.
Tai sadly shook his head. "Sorry, boy, you have to stay here." He paused for a moment. "I can't believe I just said that!"
The three remaining digidestined began to clean, scrubbing walls, righting chairs, tables, etc... In no time at all they had completed their task. Tai grabbed the forgotten pendulum and lead Kari and TK over to where Matt was.
"Fix him," Tai instructed, thrusting the pendulum into Kari's hands. Kari nodded and faced Matt.
"Watch the pendulum, don't look away," Kari said. "When I clap my hands you will return to normal, remembering nothing." She clapped her hands.
Matt blinked a couple of times and looked around. "Tai? Four o'clock already?" He went to stand up but the belt pulled him back. "What the-? Hey! What am I doing with a belt around my neck?"
Tai elbowed Kari forwards. "I'm sorry, Matt," she apologized. "We hypnotized you into thinking you were a dog. We got a bit hyper from that ice cream."
Before Matt could reply, there was a knock at the door. Unhooking himself from the belt, Matt answered the door. It was Mrs. Takaishi, she had arrived to pick up TK. After TK left, Matt turned to Tai.
"What did the two of them do to me while I was a dog?" he asked. "Besides Tai me up."
Tai grinned broadly as he left. "You played fetch, tried to lick me, and... drank from the toilet. See ya later!"
Tai and Kari left, leaving Matt staring in shock at the door. *I drank from the toilet? I drank from the toilet!* Matt rushed into the bathroom and bent over the toilet. He began to spew out everything he had eaten within the past few days. He didn't notice his father come home and look in on him.
"Matt, are you alright?" asked Mr. Ishida with concern.
"Just... fine..." Matt managed to gasp.
"Okay," Mr. Ishida said, walking away into the kitchen. There was a pause then an angry shout. "YAMATO ISHIDA!" Matt paused from his wretching. His dad NEVER called him by his full name. But what had he done? "All the quadruple double nut fudge chocolate ice cream with Oreo cookie bits is gone! You know I was saving that for dessert! Why couldn't you have waited?"
Matt let out a soft groan. "TK..."
So what do ya think? Review to let me know. Oh and I'm doing this ask the digidestined fic so if ya got any questions about digimon and/or it's characters give them to me in the reviews or email me at crest_friendship7@hotmail.com
I'm making a series out of this fic. Stay tuned for "Computers For Dummies" arriving at a fanfiction.net near you! ^_^
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, the digitestined, Oreo cookies, or the "For Dummies" books.
Hypnotism for Dummies
Matt sat on the couch in his apartment watching the television.
"There's nothing on," he complained to no one in particular. He felt his eye lids begin to droop as a yawn over came him. *Sure, a nap would be nice right about now. He was just dozing off when the doorbell alerted him awake.
He walked over to the door and opened it. His mother stood there, with his little eight year old brother, TK.
"Hello, Matt," his mother greeted. "Is your father home?"
"No," was the answer. "He's working again today. Why?"
"Well I have some important things to do today. Since you're here would you mind looking after TK for me? Thanks."
Before Matt could reply, she ushered TK inside and left. Matt looked down at his little brother. "So what do you want to do? We could go to the movies, the arcade-"
The doorbell had rung again. This time it was Tai and Kari.
"Uh, Matt?" Tai asked. "You wouldn't happen to have anything planned for this afternoon, would you?"
"Not at the moment," Matt replied. "Lemme guess. You have stuff to do and you want me to look after Kari, right?"
"Yeah. Could you?"
"No problem, man. TK's over, the two of them can play together."
"Thanks, dude. You're a life saver!" Tai turned to Kari. "Be good for Matt, okay? I'll be back at four o'clock."
"Bye, big brother," Kari waved. Matt closed the door.
"You guys can amuse yourselves," Matt said. "If you need anything, I'll be in my room." With that, he left the two children to their own devices.
"I'm hungry," TK said. "You want somethin', Kari?"
"Sure," she replied. "I'll go get Matt-"
"You don't need to," TK interrupted. "I've been over here plenty of times. I know my way around the kitchen. Come on."
TK and Kari entered the kitchen and began rummaging through cupboards, in hopes of finding cookies or some sort of sweets. Kari was just about to give up and fetch Matt when TK shouted suddenly with joy.
"What is it?" Kari asked. "Did you find any cookies?"
"No," answered TK. "Even better. I found this right behind this mouldy stuff in a container." He tossed some smelly tupperware down on the counter and held out a tub of quadrupal double nut fudge chocolate ice cream with Oreo cookie bits. Kari and TK stared at it hungrily.
"I found some chocolate sauce and whipped cream!" Kari said excitedly. "Let's have a giant sundae!"
The two kids squealed in delight and began their little feast. As we all know, little children can get a bit hyper from sweets, especially when consuming large portions. Thus, such a thing happened to little Takeru and Hikari.
"Hey, TK," Kari said suddenly. "What's in that container you took out? Is it eatable?"
"I don't know," he shrugged. Suddenly, he had an idea. "But I know how to find out!"
"How?"
"My brother, silly! We'll tie him up and force him to taste it. Then we'll know if it's okay to eat." The two friends giggled mischeviously. "I'll go find my dad's fishing net. You lure Matt out of his room."
"Okay, will do." Kari left and knocked on Matt's door.
Inside, Matt was relaxing on his bed reading a book entitled, "Hypnotism For Dummies." He held up a pendulum, snickering slightly. "Once I learn how to hypnotize, Tai will wish he hadn't put itching powder in my gym shorts last April Fools. Heheheh!"
"Oh Ma-att," Kari called sweetly through the door. "I need your help with something!"
Matt walked over and opened the door. "What is it- ahhhhhhhhh!!!"
TK had dropped the fishing net on Matt, who, all tangled up, fell flat on his face. Kari and TK jumped on Matt and tied him up with rope. Kari grabbed some of Matt's old socks and stuffed them into his mouth. TK dragged Matt into the kitchen.
Kari entered the kitchen a few minutes later, carrying Matt's book and pendulum. When Matt saw what kari he began to wriggle and yell but no one understood him. TK was preparing the food.
"Hey TK," Kari said as she entered. "Look what I found in your brother's room."
"So?" TK shrugged. He seemed intent on feeding Matt the mold. "Find me a funnel, will you?"
"Listen, TK," Kari continued. "What if instead of feeding Matt that stuff, we hypnotize him!"
Matt spit out the socks and laughed nervously. "You're kidding! You couldn't hypnotize andyone if your life depended on it! *I* can't even work that thing yet!"
"Only one way to find out!" Kari exclaimed, holding up the pendulum. She began to swing it back and forth in front of Matt. Back and forth, back and forth. "Watch the pendulum, don't take your eyes off it. No not you, TK, just Matt. You are getting sleepy... very sleepy." Matt's eyes eventually began to close and his head flopped over, his chin resting on his chest.
"You think it's working?" TK whispered. "Is he faking it?"
Kari shrugged and turned back to Matt. "When I clap my hands, you will become a... dog!"
"Become a dog," Matt repeated, dazed.
Kari clapped her hands. and Matt's eyes snapped open. He looked up at TK and Kari, a dopey grin on his face.
"Now we found out if it worked," Kari stated as she untied Matt.
He sat there for a while, then sniffed the air. Sniffig, he crawled over to the table and gazed up at it. Matt looked at the other two and barked. When they didn't move, he began to make a sort of whining noise. Finally, TK went over to the table and picked up the container of rotton smelling food. Matt immediately got into a sort of begging position, squatting with his hands held out in front of him like paws. He began to pant and drool, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.
"It worked!" Kari cried. "He thinks he's a dog! Here, boy! Come here!"
Matt crawled over to Kari who patted him on the head.
TK was skeptical. "I'm not sure, Kari. He could be faking it still. I've got an idea."
"What is it?" Kari asked.
"We'll see if he'll do something Matt would never do," TK explained. "If he'll drink from the toilet, he's a dog. If not... then it's all a trick."
"It's disgusting but it'll work," Kari nodded.
They brought Matt into the bathroom and lifted the lid of the toilet. Matt looked into the bowl and stared thirstily at the water. Without hesitation he began to lap up the water, sticking his head in the bowl.
"Does that prove it?" asked Kari.
"Definately," confirmed TK, pulling Matt back by his shirt collar. "And I've got another idea. Let's play fetch in the living room!"
* * *
At four o'clock, Tai knocked on the door. TK opened it. Tai could hear barking and Kari's voice saying, "It's okay, boy! He's only my brother! A friend! No!"
"since when does Matt have a dog?" asked Tai. TK said nothing, avoiding Tai's eyes. "Speaking of which, where is he?"
Tai's question was quickly answered. Matt came bounding to the door and tackled Tai, knocking him over onto his back. Tai looked up at a panting Matt who leaned forward to lick his face.
"Matt, no!" cried TK, grabbing Matt by his shirt collar. "Don't! Get off him, boy!"
Tai was horrified. "What the hell do you think you're doing, Matt?! Get off me!"
TK managed to pull the barking Matt off Tai and calm him down by scratching him behind his ears. Kari entered and saw Tai.
"Four o'clock already? My how time flies."
"What did you do to Matt?!" gasped Tai, getting to his feet. He looked around the Ishida apartment. It was a complete mess! Chairs and tables had been overturned and the entire apartment was practically in ruins. Tai got down on his knees and gawked at Matt. "What happened here?! Matt? Are you okay?" Matt barked in response. Tai snapped his fingers in front of Matt's face a couple of times. "What did you do to him?!"
"We're sorry, Tai," apologized Kari. "We were fooling around and found a swingy thingy. I hypnotized Matt and now he thinks he's a dog."
"We played fetch and kinda made a little mess," TK finished.
"We gotta fix all of this before your mom gets back," Tai said. "TK, tie Matt up to keep him out of the way. We've got some cleanig to do."
TK ran into Mr. Ishida's bedroom and went looking through his chest of drawers. He pulled out a belt and handed it to Tai. Tai dragged Matt into his room and using the belt as a leash, tied him to the bed post. Matt struggled against his restraints but to no avail. He began to whimper and whine.
Tai sadly shook his head. "Sorry, boy, you have to stay here." He paused for a moment. "I can't believe I just said that!"
The three remaining digidestined began to clean, scrubbing walls, righting chairs, tables, etc... In no time at all they had completed their task. Tai grabbed the forgotten pendulum and lead Kari and TK over to where Matt was.
"Fix him," Tai instructed, thrusting the pendulum into Kari's hands. Kari nodded and faced Matt.
"Watch the pendulum, don't look away," Kari said. "When I clap my hands you will return to normal, remembering nothing." She clapped her hands.
Matt blinked a couple of times and looked around. "Tai? Four o'clock already?" He went to stand up but the belt pulled him back. "What the-? Hey! What am I doing with a belt around my neck?"
Tai elbowed Kari forwards. "I'm sorry, Matt," she apologized. "We hypnotized you into thinking you were a dog. We got a bit hyper from that ice cream."
Before Matt could reply, there was a knock at the door. Unhooking himself from the belt, Matt answered the door. It was Mrs. Takaishi, she had arrived to pick up TK. After TK left, Matt turned to Tai.
"What did the two of them do to me while I was a dog?" he asked. "Besides Tai me up."
Tai grinned broadly as he left. "You played fetch, tried to lick me, and... drank from the toilet. See ya later!"
Tai and Kari left, leaving Matt staring in shock at the door. *I drank from the toilet? I drank from the toilet!* Matt rushed into the bathroom and bent over the toilet. He began to spew out everything he had eaten within the past few days. He didn't notice his father come home and look in on him.
"Matt, are you alright?" asked Mr. Ishida with concern.
"Just... fine..." Matt managed to gasp.
"Okay," Mr. Ishida said, walking away into the kitchen. There was a pause then an angry shout. "YAMATO ISHIDA!" Matt paused from his wretching. His dad NEVER called him by his full name. But what had he done? "All the quadruple double nut fudge chocolate ice cream with Oreo cookie bits is gone! You know I was saving that for dessert! Why couldn't you have waited?"
Matt let out a soft groan. "TK..."
So what do ya think? Review to let me know. Oh and I'm doing this ask the digidestined fic so if ya got any questions about digimon and/or it's characters give them to me in the reviews or email me at crest_friendship7@hotmail.com
I'm making a series out of this fic. Stay tuned for "Computers For Dummies" arriving at a fanfiction.net near you! ^_^
