Poultrygeist the Eggacy
Nick strutted around the hen house. Derek had gone to a Head Rooster
Conference upstate, and left him in charge. He heard scratching upstairs, and
hopped upstairs. He found Alex and Rachel flapping their wings and pecking at
each other.
"Brwak! What is going on here?" he asked.
"She took all my eggs!" Alex squawked.
"No I didn't. You lost them," Rachel said calmly, smoothing her feathers.
"Besides, why would I want them?"
"Cause you couldn't lay a grade A egg if your life depended on it." Alex
retorted.
"Hey, if you two don't stop squawking like a pair of hatchlings, I'm going to
take you to the Butterball factory!" Nick shouted, and the hens went to their
nests to sulk.
He shrugged, went to the kitchen, and made a giant omelet.
*
A little while later---
Alex preened her feathers, trying to calm her anger. "I know she has my eggs
hidden somewhere.
I just have to find them." She clucked and went over to the door. She pecked it
open, and hopped down the stairs.
The air smelled like something was cooking, so Alex went to the kitchen. Nick
was slipping an omelet onto his plate.
"NICK!" She screeched. "What the Brwak are you eating?"
Nick looked up surprised, then sarcastically said, "Breakfast. What's it look
like?"
"But? But it's eggs!" she said outraged.
"So what! Beats corn flakes." he shrugged, and cut into the food.
"That's absolutely disgusting! That's practically cannibalism!"
"Get over it! Want a bite?" he asked, spearing a piece of the egg.
"UGH!" she shuddered in disgust and left.
"I guess she doesn't want to go on a picnic with me this afternoon. And I was
going to pick up some KFC too," he smiled, and finished his breakfast.
*
Alex went up to Rachel's coup, and pecked open the door. Rachel quickly preened
herself, pretending not to notice Alex's rude entrance. "Where are they
Rachel?"
"Where are what?" Rachel asked innocently, then said, "Oh yeah, your
eggs."
"Do you have them?" Alex clucked impatiently.
"Well.... I'd had them, but it was only as a joke. They're in the kitchen by the
stove." Rachel admitted.
Alex looked at her coup mate horrified, then turned and fluttered down the hall
to the kitchen. "NICK!" She screeched at him, "Those are MY eggs you're
eating!!"
Nick looked abashed at her, "oooopppppsss" he said, "I didn't know,
honest."
Rachel laughed behind Alex. "Oh, that's too funny. Those weren't your
eggs. They were old shells I'd filled with egg substitute!"
Alex's face grew red beneath her feathers. "You manipulative Brwak! I
can't believe you would do something like that!!! Why I oughta pluck your
feathers off and use them in my nest!"
"Alex, chill out." Nick crowed, "It's a joke! I know where your eggs
are."
"Where?" she demanded.
"Look in the top drawer of the incubator in the nursery" he told her, and they
strutted over there. "See," he clucked as she opened the drawer, "Now,
Rachel, apologise to Alex for playing such a mean trick on her."
"I'm sorry," she said, and added under her breath, "that you're such a
looser."
"I heard that!" Alex said, "stupid bird brain."
"These two never stop their bickering!" Nick commented to himself. "Now I see
why Derek was in such a hurry to leave this morning...
=)LOL!
