Hello! Happy Easter 2009!

Chapter 35: The Easter Disaster

We began work on the destroyed, collapsed stone building. I was sent to get more wood. I sighed. This was exhausting. We should be celebrating our grand victory, not working! Wiping my sweaty brow, I took out my brand new iron axe, and began chipping at an oak tree. My woodcutting had risen while I was working the last week, and, to make it easier to cut oak (Creator had been doing the work before me) Aubury bought me a new iron axe.

The axe was made of well-crafted shiny iron. It was very solid, and extremely reliable. Even so, it was a very hard task using it to cut oak, and I had only chipped a quarter of it after at least ten minutes of tiring work.

I don't know how long I spent cutting only one wheelbarrow full of measly logs. Before I knew it, we were sitting on the grass, eating food. Slinky had been to the Blue Moon Inn to buy us a bunch of sandwiches (some filled with boneless chicken, others filled with juicy meat, and a few expensive ones filled with a sizzling new meat called steak), some drinks (from mild orange juice to bubbling Dragon Bitter) and even a lump of lettuce for almost-bulimic Amy11.

When I finished my sandwich filled with a steak called gammon, which was thick, juicy, chewy and rather salty, Haru came with surprises for all of us; snack-sized Easter eggs filled with cream!

They were lovely. They were covered with colourful wrappings with the words 'Crème Egg' stamped on them. Haru explained that it was a rare egg that had been delivered by Ilookgood99 to every pub and restaurant. Knowing Ilookgood99, it was likely to be something else from some other mysterious world (I still hadn't forgotten last Halloween, and the minty sweet that was called chewing gum). When I bit into it, soft, delicious cream filled my mouth. It was luxurious, and the chocolate was very tasty too. I closed my eyes, and savoured the taste and smell of the delicious treat. Haru told us it would be served, for free, in the party tonight.

I remembered then. I moaned, as my head filled with flashes. It was that boy again…..he looked like me, except a bit more tubby….he was wearing a strange hat shaped like a rabbit….he was holding a basket, and looking wildly around a garden for little egg-shaped pieces of plastic….he was giving the plastic over to a woman, who gave him boxes with giant, hollow chocolate eggs in them….I faintly heard the words 'Easter egg hunt'….. I groaned, and sat up, sweating.

Was this supposed to be another illusion of the mind?! All these flashbacks were very confusing! What did they mean?! What did they represent?! Why were they happening?! I decided to forget about it for now, and continue work.

Just as I sat up, I saw a hole in the ground near us, with purple light coming from it. I looked inside the purple hole curiously, and a pair of fluffy, long white ears popped out.

A white, fluffy, plump little rabbit hopped out of the hole, looking rather worried. He looked relieved when he saw us.

"Hello there," he said. "I am the Easter Bunny." Amy11 jumped for joy.

"Easter Bunny! Could we have some eggs please?" she cried, jumping on the screaming bunny. There was a loud thumping sound, and Any11 was sent flying into a tree, while the Easter Bunny triumphantly held up a large clay carrot that had obviously been used for self-defence.

"Being the Easter Bunny, I'd be more then happy to give you eggs, especially since it is Easter today, but, unfortunately, I can't. I've invented this carrot-hammer to stop mad fans getting over their head," he explained. "I heard about some very skilled heroes that saved Varrock from some mysterious tragedy. I don't know much about it, but I can find things out that normal people can't. I need the help of great heroes."

"You see, I went on vacation, since I'm getting on in ears-years, sorry for the pun-to a little desert island called Karamja, nice place that is-and I left my son in charge of the factory. He is, shall I say, not suited for work, and the egg factory was in ruins when I came back. I asked him about it, and he mentioned something about explosions and it being my job to deal with it, being the lazy bunny he is."

The little bunny looked rather miserable. I petted him on the head.

"What can we do about it? We need to be bunny-sized to help you, and even then we don't know what happened ourselves," Haru said kindly. The bunny smiled at that.

"I have Easter magic up my fingertips," he said. "I may be getting on in ears-years, sorry- but that doesn't mean I'm not able to do my job. It's just it's getting harder. You don't mind helping me, do you?" he said, looking up at us anxiously. I nodded eagerly, hoping I could get a reward, like I did when I helped Maggie the witch and the snow queen.

The little bunny clicked his fingers, muttered some words, and I felt very peculiar. It felt like my body was melting into itself. I began to shrink, and hair sprouted all over my body. I grew two large ears, and my clothes seemed to be dissolving into me. When the process was complete, I was a small bunny.

The Easter bunny gestured for us to follow him. We all nodded, and we hopped after him into the hole. I felt myself blushing at Amy11's cute pink fur.

We all fell into a muddy path. Brown, sticky mud surrounded the whole area. This path was rather small, about the same size as a sewerage pipe, too small for my human body to go through. It smelled curiously like melting chocolate. I sniffed eagerly, my little pink nose high in the air. I heard Aubury laugh at me from the front.

We hopped down several tunnels, finally arriving at a large muddy room. I felt my hair shrinking into my skin, my body changing back to normal. I heard Slinky explaining, nearly in tears with laughter, on how I was sniffing to a chuckling Osrie1. It smelt beautiful to me though.

I saw several huge machines working at making chocolate eggs. First, I saw a large cauldron with several bunnies next to it. Ingredients were being added to the mix in the cauldron, like cocoa leaves and milk and cocoa butter, then being poured into buckets. The buckets would then move up the belt being powered by bunnies.

I saw squirrels hard at work, sorting good nuts from bad ones and putting the good ones in particular buckets of chocolate mix, only the special nutty ones. They slapped stickers on the ones with nuts in them, so the workers could package them differently. The mix would go up the belt and would be poured into different egg-shaped moulds (some for the nut ones, the rest for normal ones). I was then surprised-an ice imp would breathe into a glass tube, and steam-like stuff would go down the tube and onto the mould. When the mould opened up, the cold chocolate eggs were carefully taken from them by bunnies and put onto a different conveyor belt.

When they travelled even further up the belt, several bunnies would wrap them up according to nuts or nut-free, and put them onto another belt.

Baffled, I asked the Easter Bunny what was wrong. He sighed sadly, and gestured for us to look up the last belt.

The machine there was supposed to check them for anything out of order. There were imps there who scanned the eggs, destroyed the ones which had something wrong with them. Eggs seemed to go inside, but didn't come back out. The Easter Bunny explained that he couldn't check the machine, since it was only designed for imp entrance, for security purposes.

There was a large guardian imp guarding the entrance, who-surprise, surprise-has red, glowing eyes. He was larger then the average imp, and more muscular. Every time the Easter bunny tried to go near the guardian imp, he was knocked away.

"So, you want us to take down this imp?" Capablanca asked thoughtfully. The Easter Bunny nodded. "Why don't you just shut down the factory? I'd stop the people inside the machine from getting the eggs." The Easter Bunny replied, "If I do that the factory would never restart again. The only shutdown switch that's here is the permanent shutdown."

"It isn't going to be easy," the plump bunny warned, as I approached the guardian imp. The imp turned on me. I drew Silverlight, preparing to behead this troublesome imp. The imp jumped on my face and began tearing at my eyes.

I screamed with pain, and pushed the imp off roughly. The imp stared at me with its cold, red eyes that made me think of dark tunnels. I rubbed blood out of my eyes. Aubury fired a fire wave at it. A smallish wave of sizzling-hot flames leapt at the imp, but it hit and didn't affect it. Amy11 jumped forward with her pink-tipped dagger and tried to tear at the imp's chest, but the imp sent her flying in the opposite direction with its small fist.

Haru Axe-man jumped at it with his giant, hand-crafted axe. The imp dented it with its fist. I ran forward and hit it with my scythe. The imp moaned in agony, and knocked me into the squirrel machine. Squirrels scampered, and returned, flicking bad nuts at me with fury. I dodged the nuts, and charged at the imp. I sent several arrows flying at its head. They hit, and its face was peppered with blood. It yelled out in fury, and smashed the floor. Nearby bunnies, and the people, tripped over as the small earthquake rattled the factory.

We must have spent hours trying to tackle this small, but very tough and possessed imp. It kept sending us flying, and goodness knows how many runes and arrows I wasted on this relentless monster. Haru checked his watch, and we saw it had been two hours since we had had lunch. I hoped there was a lot of food in this celebration in the Blue Moon Inn.

After we were about to give up and give in, I had a small idea. I wasn't sure if it was going to work, but it was worth a try. I summoned up the trick power, and bats flew from almost nowhere. The others where used to this so they didn't flinch, but the guardian imp screamed out in terror. While the imp was terrified, I grabbed its tiny little fist, and froze. It wasn't painful or even cold. I melted into a puddle of water, and solidified as an ice statue. The ice around me smashed, but the ice around the imp didn't. The ice was starting to melt, so I carried the ice statue of the imp the other side of the factory.

As I let go, the ice melted completely, and the wet, angry imp tried to snap my arm off. The Easter Bunny ran forward, and threw a heavy, pure chocolate egg at it. The imp was crushed in the force, and the others ran forward to distract the angry possessed imp, way too intent to do its job.

I ran through the small pathway that used to be taken up by the imp. I went inside a rather small room, and I was greeted with a disturbing sight.

The familiar figure of Greyzag the evil imp sorcerer was in the middle of the room. Possessed imps surrounded the area, but they were normal, not designed to guard. Smashed chocolate eggs were everywhere, and imps picked up chocolate eggs from the conveyor belt and threw them into a cauldron. Greyzag laughed wickedly.

"It was too easy to take over this place!" he laughed. "Having power over imps, all I needed to do was to possess the guard outside, so he'd let me in. I'd possess the imps, and they'd help me steal infinite eggs from the conveyor belt. This amount of food, when sold, would make me rich! Not only that, but when I eat them myself, it'll give me a large boost, like chocolate usually does!" I tried to stop myself from screaming, so I could sneak around here without raising the alarm. I wasn't in the mood to fight a power-mad dark wizard and a hundred possessed imps. I then had a good idea.

I snuck to the conveyor belt, and pulled some runes out of my pocket. Aubury had taught me a lot about magic, and I learned that spells work on food and would activate when someone ate that particular piece of food. I cast several fire strikes, a confuse spell, and a bind spell, on an Easter egg. Greyzag was eating eggs fresh from the belt with ease, and I put my tampered egg back on the belt. He wouldn't bother using the sensor to look for spells. When he bit into my egg, I laughed at what happened next.

He choked as fire filled his mouth. Screaming with pain, he began spinning around, and tripped over as he was trapped in green glowing ropes. All of the imp's glowing red eyes went back to their cheeky black. When they saw their possessor on the floor, dizzy, trapped in ropes, with a burnt mouth, they all jumped on him and began scratching him and stabbing him with their little swords.

The gang ran in, led by an unpossessed guardian imp and the Easter Bunny. I explained what happened to them, and Aubury commented on my clever plan.

An hour later, we were in Draynor village, after the Easter bunny teleported us there. The guards there frogmarched the furious Greyzag off to the Draynor jail. He was cursing and struggling with all his might, but it was no use. I was roaring with laughter at his futile attempts to escape. The Easter Bunny hopped up to me.

"I am especially grateful to you, Mainiac97," he cried joyfully. "You saved my factory from despair, and stopped an evil magician at the same time. Here are your rewards." He handed me a large, clay carrot. It was very bulky, and had a large metal spike on the end. "That carrot is a very good weapon," the bunny explained. "I use it on thieves and robbers who come to steal my chocolate. Of course, it wouldn't have worked on the imp, since I already tried it. It is too big, bulky and useless for me, so I'm giving it to you." Smiling gratefully, I put it on my belt. There was no slot for it, for I put it by my chest, my belt supporting it. I went up to a nearby goblin counting coins, and hit him over the head with it. He fell to the ground, unconscious. I happily added it to my count of useful weapons. On the list now were my scythe, Silverlight, and now the giant clay carrot.

The Easter Bunny smiled at me. He gave everyone carrots (his spare ones) and reminded them to get a new one from Diango if they ever lose them. He had a lot of problems, and was giving out his spares to adventurers who help him.

"Now, I want to teach all of you two dances I learned when I was smaller-the bunny hop!" He bounced around like the rabbit he is, and I got the urge to bounce too. I bounced around stupidly like a rabbit, and so did everyone else. Osrie1 looked comical with his bounce. "The second one is called 'Around the World in Egg Days!'" The plump, fluffy rabbit seemed to literally run around the world, and reappear. I suddenly felt my legs speed. I knew for a fact I wasn't running around the world, just running on the spot looking as if I was running around the world. It felt like I had been running around the world with how much I was gasping. And I could smell chocolate in the air! I sniffed eagerly, and Slinky burst out laughing again. "That emote is used when you feel like exercise. It also counts as a dance, makes the place smell like chocolate, and can baffle enemies into thinking you've ran away. It is rather useful, I must say."

"Your third reward, obviously, is Easter Eggs!" the Easter bunny cried happily. He handed us all some colourfully wrapped eggs in baskets. I ran to the bank and put mine away, wanting to save them for later.

"Now, thank you again, children, and don't forget to jump into a rabbit hole if you want to buy some more Easter eggs, or want to talk. Diango also will give you two other items that I gave away in past Easters," the bunny said, before leaping away into the ground.

I ran to Diango, who chuckled at how eager I was. "What do you want? Also, you didn't talk to me on April Fools Day, so you missed out on the bouncing cabbages over there, but you can still buy some more here. And, obviously, since it is Easter, you get two more Easter event items!" he showed me the options. Should I choose the fake plastic eggs that would look good as ornaments? Should I choose the Bunny Ears? I decided upon buying an Egg ring and a cape called the Choclatrice cape. I took off my red cape and out on the orange cape. I put the Egg ring on my middle finger.

I pressed the egg on my ring, and, to my shock and surprise, I turned to a miniature egg. I looked around. I was an Easter egg! How could I reverse this evil magic? Help! Help! I tried to wobble, but, being an egg, I couldn't move AT ALL! I realised that if I thought myself back into human form, I would turn myself back into human form. I decided this could be useful for escaping from enemies.

The cape trapped me in a giant hollow Easter egg, according to Creator. It turns out that I could smash out from the inside, but nobody could hurt me from the outside. I tested it out. I spun around, and suddenly I was stuck in an actual giant egg. I heard Creator trying to break through from the outside, and failing miserably. I pushed the two sides of the egg, and it collapsed around me. I jumped for joy. I put my red cape in the bank.

Aubury handed us all clay tabs with the Varrock coat of arms on it. He told us to snap it. I did so, and I was forced through suffocating darkness. When I popped back out, I was in good old Varrock. I heard loud music coming from the Blue Moon Inn. I looked up at the sunset, and thought about how much I enjoyed this event, almost as much as I enjoyed the other events. I stepped towards the Blue Moon Inn, hoping I could get to dance with Slinky and Amy11.