It's about time I get this finished and I hope you enjoy this take on the imaginary feind plot.
Early one cool morning ,after a rainy night at the farmhouse, we see Madeline slam open the door as she begins to happily run out dressed in a little blue hooded raincoat, yellow boots and splashing in puddles that formed as any kid would.
After jumping the puddles, she decides to play fort in the barn for a little bit. Then just as she enters ,she begins to notice something up in the hayloft ,she was so curious ,she could not help herself as she climbed the ladder up to it and see for herself what it was.
Minutes later back at the farmhouse ,in the kitchen we find Muriel making breakfast for everyone while Katy was texting on her phone , and Gavin and Eustace where talking about something ,as they read the newspaper, although Gavin was doing most of the talking.
Gina walking in before looking around the kitchen asks the family "have any one of you seen Madeline, I cant find her anywhere?"
Hearing this, Gavin abruptly sits up from his seat asking "What?" All while Eustace ignores this.
Muriel walking over to the table with a plate of bacon ,assures them "I'm sure she couldn't have gotten far ,she's probably outside playing ,I remember Gavin doing something like this when he was a wee boy."
As she serves bacon the the family ,Gavin afterwards turns to Katy and tells her to bring Madeline into the kitchen for breakfast.
"Dad do I have to?" She groans, to which Gina angrily demands her "young lady ,you get your little sister in here this instant!"
"Alright alright I'll look for her" Katy obliges in annoyance ,as she walks out the doorway passing by Courage enjoying his breakfast, before Muriel suggests to her dog "why don't ya go with her Courage ,she could use some help in finding Madeline" all Courage does is sigh in dismay ,as he leaves the kitchen to join Katy on her search.
Starting her search in the barn, Katy proceeds to call out to her little sister as she and Courage walk in.
But just as they where about to begin, they where abruptly stopped by the sound of giggling ,then Courage overheard what sounded like Madeline talking to someone up in the hayloft ,but who? He wondered
Climbing the hayloft with Courage hesitantly following behind ,it wasn't long before they reach the loft where she and Courage began to search for the young girl.
Peeking behind every pile of hay, Katy unfortunately doesn't find Madeline, but instead buckets of paint, a rainguard, and gardening tools much to her dismay and annoyance.
As Katy searches for Madeline ,Courage on the other hand starts to hear the little girls giggling and speaking again ,curiously following the sound to her ,when he finds her it is revealed to the Cowardly dog that the person she was speaking to was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh hi Courage!" Greets Madeline, after she spotted the pink dog "did you come up here to play with me?" Courage now was left completely confused, he could have sworn he heard Madeleine talking to someone.
Before Courage could try to say something ,Katy approaching from behind the pink dog, says "there you are Maddie, what are you doing up here? Mom and dad would freak if they saw you up here you know" Madeline simply inflates her cheeks out at her.
Katy as she was scolding her ,then notices the boot's Madeline had on, before asking "are those my boots? And you took them from my bag without asking!?" Now glaring at her angrily, as Madeline attempts to explain herself by saying "I did ask ...When you where asleep."
Katy simply grabs her sister by the arm, before dragging her back to the farmhouse with Courage following behind, however as they walk Courage continued to wonder who Madeline was talking to in the hayloft.
At the kitchen table ,as the whole family was seated having breakfast ,Madeline was telling her family about what she was doing in the barn ,and how she met a new friend in the hayloft.
Katy hearing this now confused replies "wait, new friend?" Then Gina asks her "well why didn't you ask us to join us ,what's his name?"
"His names Mr. Lollybuttons" answers Madeline, as she eats the bacon on her plate "he's blue, with a very big green nose ,and loves to wear a shiny purple suit ,with a yellow bow tie, stripey pants ,and long shoes like a clown."
After hearing this description ,Gina started to giggle as she says with relief "Oh she was playing with an imaginary friend ,isn't that precious?" To which Muriel says "how adorable, I would certainly like to meet this little friend of yours."
Madeline snickering as she picks up a glass of milk "Oh he's not little grandma ,he's real tall he's even taller than grandpa" before drinking her milk.
Gavin afterwards ,then says to her " well it's great you made a new friend Maddie, but please play somewhere safer besides the hayloft ,you could've gotten hurt and mommy and daddy would be worried."
Madeline simply replies "Oh ok daddy" ,as she and the family have a nice quiet breakfast.
By the next day while Gina was helping Muriel make lunch , she continues to wonder about Madeline's new friend, as Muriel breaks her out of her thoughts saying "oh I wouldn't worry about it much Gina, I'm sure she'll grow out of her wee friend eventually like most children do."
"Guess your right" says Gina, as Muriel taking a whiff at her cuisine cooking in the pot ,declares "well it would seem like my special vinegar flavored chili is just about done, Gina would you be a dear and call the children for lunch?" In which Gina says "sure thing mom" walking out of the kitchen.
In the living room, Gina comes across Courage minding his own business chewing on a bone, before Gina approaches him as she pets him saying "hey boy ,you wanna help me find the girls?"
Courage obliges ,as Gina begins to pick him up before the two start by searching for Madeline.
Unfortunately no matter where they looked, Madeline was nowhere to be found inside the house "now where could she be?" Wondered Gina ,before she and Courage heard giggling from the front porch Gina being curious investigates it.
Opening the front door she figures out its Madeline ,before approaching her saying "Okay kiddo playtime's over, time to- Madeline what are you eating?" Madeline ,chewing on something turns to her mother then takes out what looks like neon colored taffy, this made Gina concerned.
"Madeline where did you get that candy?" Asks Gina nervously, to which Madeline simply answers "Mr. Lollybuttons gave it to me" Gina's heart sunk, as she kneeled down to the little girl ,"Madeline I'm not playing with you young lady its not funny! Now this is a very serious situation and I need to know who gave you that candy!" Madeline was now in fright, "But mommy, Mr. Lollybuttons DID give me the candy."
Gina was now beginning to get worried for Madeline ,what she is telling her is impossible there's no way an imaginary being such as Lollybuttons can give an actual kid like Madeline candy, so she simply makes her get rid of the candy and escorts Madeline inside saying "we'll talk about this later."
Courage on the other hand after they leave, takes this time to observe the said candy and to his surprise ,notices on the wrapper whats looks to be a button with a swirl pattern within it.
Running back inside in fright, Courage tugs on Muriel's skirt as he babbles on about what he had seen, trying to show her the candy Madeline was given ,only for Gina to take it from him however ,and throws it away instead saying "Courage ,you know better then to bring in stuff from outside."
Muriel simply says to Courage "I'm sure whatever it is ya want to tell me can wait Courage" ,before she resumes to serving everyone at the table.
It wasn't wasn't until one night when Courage was sleeping with the girl's, that he soon starts to feel Madeline struggle in her sleep ,Courage wakes up before he suddenly hears her worriedly groan in desperation "Lollybuttons...Please ...No ..Stop..NO!"
Suddenly out of nowhere, just as Courage tries to get Madeline's parents so that they could check on her, he was knocked unconscious from behind where the foot of Madeline's bed was.
When he wakes up ,Courage soon finds himself in a completely different setting, instead of a bedroom ,he finds himself in a pastel colored field surrounded in woodland critters, and at the center was a pedestal and on top of it ,Courage finds as he approaches it what looks to be a doll that looks exactly like Madeline .
Taking it into his hands ,he sees that the doll resembling Madeline was filled with candy she was seen eating earlier, as supposed to how dolls are usually made.
It wasn't long before he heard something it said that startled the poor dog ,almost making him drop it.
But picking it back up to listen to it again, he hears the doll begin to speak out to him" Courage ... Help...He's got me!" To his shock, it was Madeline but what did she mean by HE'S got me?
Before he knew it, a tall being begins to cast a large shadow over the pink dog, turns around and to his surprise the being behind him is none other than Mr. Lollybuttons himself.
Aside from the details Madeline had said about him ,there was more to him by what Courage saw like the fact that he had purple eyebrows that made him look angered ,an ovaled head as well as white messy hair under his ears, a permanent frown on his face, on his head he wore a graduation cap ,but the most frightening fact about him was the fact that he was a ginourmus puppet.
The frightened dog seeing this ,began to scream as the giant puppet takes the doll from him with one hand, before he began to take a deep breath as he began to sing to Courage in a British accent.
What do we have here in the land of Jelly Pastures?
A tiny pink animal trying to steal my little doll?
You must learn to think twice what you steal from others my friend.
It will surely lead to your unexpected end!
In an attempt to escape ,Courage takes back the doll as he runs from the giant being, only to be abruptly stopped by a giant gate made of black licorice and thorns, in which Mr. Lollybuttons sings his next verse.
You must consider the dismay of those you steal from.
Do you not think of those whom's feelings that you hurt?
Its always best to ask before you take things my friend.
Otherwise you'll meet a tragic unexpected end!
All the while, Lollybuttons picks Courage up by his neck, lifting him toward his eye level, taking the Madeline doll back into his care, then placing a dunce cap onto Courage's head afterwards ,dropping him into a hole that opened underneath where Courage was.
In the hole was a swirling vortex of multicolored hard candies falling into what appears to be a giant gummy fish that's swallowing them up.
Seeing this, Courage screams as he began to use the hard candies that fall as a ladder to try and climb back up to the top of the hole, all the while Lollybuttons who was now floating beside Courage with no rhyme or reason, begins to sing his next verse all while Courage makes an attempt to climb his way back to the top.
Consequences for stealing you see are listed as followed.
Guilt, Depression , Sadness and Grudges held on you.
Pleased consider safer habits to try instead.
Your better off of doing something else I can guarantee.
All the while Courage in the end ends up falling into the mouth of the fish, before he finds himself back into the fields where he's being forced into various activity's, all of which are being judged by Lollybuttons.
However with every activity Courage tries from baking a cake, to yoga ,to painting a picture, to even giving makeovers to wolves dressed like elderly women , Lollybuttons always pointed out details on each one that Courage had done was wrong.
The sound of sirens began to blare from out of nowhere, as Lollybuttons now has Courage chained ,before shouting to the poor frightened dog "BAD THIEF! BAD THIEF!"
The setting suddenly began to change to a very dark room, where the only parts seen where a podium where Courage stood ,the very same pedestal holding the doll this time in a glass case that had a label that read EVIDENCE, and a judge table where sitting in it was Lollybuttons who continues to sing.
Stealing is wrong on so many different levels.
Its even worse when you inspire others to do it also.
For this you must be punished for your crimes I intend.
A punishment that will meet your unexpected end.
Then just as a giant stamp comes down out of nowhere ,Courage jumps out of its way as it stamps his table with the word GUILTY in bright red letters.
At this moment, Lollybuttons grabbing Courage by his neck once more, drags him to where a giant pit begins to open up ,and below it lies what looks like a small pool of boiling lava as he sings his final verse.
The time has come for you the time to meet your end.
It is time for you to meet your very tragic...Unexpected ...END!
Courage was now released to fall right in ,but then Courage was suddenly saved by a glass floor on top of the lava, it was't long before Courage remembered it was a dream ,more specifically his dream.
Acting fast, Courage materializes a plunger gun aiming it at where the glass case is, before pulling it straight toward himself much to the anger of the giant puppet.
Courage however with an innocent chuckle, just stands before him. When Lollybuttons was about to once again attack the pink dog ,something begins to happen to him, he was begining to shrink which frightens the Puppet Man.
At the moment where the imaginary being was now the size of a soda can, Courage knew Lollybuttons was vulnerable now, with a smirk on his face the cowardly dog materializes a boot that was just big enough to crush him like a bug, defeating the imaginary creature once and for all.
Once Lollydoodles was defeated ,the entire area becomes a brightly colorful Kingdom ,before we see the glass case the doll was in vanish ,then he sees the doll now in mid-air turn back into a normal little girl who Courage has known.
"Courage, you saved my life!" Squeaks the little girl who began to hug the little pink dog ,but this time it didn't feel forced now, instead it felt more relaxing to the pink dog.
By the next Morning Madeline was able to sleep peacefully with Courage in her arms, before we see Gina and Muriel walk in before catching a glimpse of this.
"Well I'll be, it looks like Madeline found herself another freind suited to her, hopefully better for her too" Gina says, to which Muriel sweetly replies "my Courage is more than just any old freind, he's one to depend on with anythin'."
Courage while Madeline was still holding him ,looks back at the readers as he places Lollybuttons hat on his head, and says "now this is a true dream come true."
And another chapter is done thank you all for your support and if you enjoy this chapter please review and once again no flaming or trolling