Short Ten: Mur Mur's Prank Palooza
Aru knew that shit was going down when he woke up on the floor, his bed glued to the ceiling supernaturally. His butt ached, a testament that Mur Mur hadn't taken him out of his bed before she stuck it on the ceiling and the boy grumbled as he sat up and stared at his displaced bed, pushing his sheets off of his legs. Somehow, his pillow was still up there, sitting at his headboard and the boy detective was trying to figure that out when the pillow disconnected fell, whamping him in the face. He let it slide off his face, frowning as it flopped onto his lap. Aru narrowed his eyes, glaring up at his bed and grinned mischievously.
"You're on, Mur Mur."
Mur Mur giggled as she thought about her genius prank on the Observer as she ransacked his cupboards an hour later. She'd watched his reaction and challenge from outside his window, but since then, Aru had been surprisingly absent from the house and Mur Mur wondered why. However, she was more hungry than she was curious.
"I know he's got some goodies in here…" Mur Mur's hand snaked into the cupboard as she stood on tip toes on the counter, her tail whipping back and forth slowly. She found what she was looking for: Oreos. Mur Mur purred in delight, plopping down on the counter and peeling open the package for her pilfered snack. She pulled out one chocolate cookie and popped it in her mouth, gobbling it down before realizing that it wasn't a normal Oreo.
"Blech!" Mur Mur sputtered, spitting out the chocolate-y, minty cookie (but not the good kind of minty). "Toothpaste!" The midget growled, staring down at the pack of cookies that had had their cream removed and had been replaced with toothpaste. Aru giggled, peeking in from the window. He knew that Mur Mur pilfered his snacks all the time so…he'd replaced several of her favorites with prank treats. "Aru!" The girl yelled.
"That's for my bed!" He gloated, dashing around the side of the house as Mur Mur flew out the window after him. The day continued much like that with pranks played on both sides. Mur Mur switched all the door knobs in the house so Aru had to fumble on the wrong side of the doors to open them, Aru strategically placed air horns and Whoopie Cushions to scare and annoy Mur Mur every time she opened the wonky doors or sat down on her favorite spots and Aru ended up hogtied in his closet by the end up it. But…on the upside, Aru burned off one Mur Mur's pigtails and she had to recreate that with her powers…after crying and raging about it for thirty minutes.
And Deus just watched their antics from the Cathedral like a reality show on TV, sipping a cup of tea quietly.