Eric, Bugs and the Servants went to the servants' quarters. They got scrolls and books and everything about magic.
"Hey, Eric?" cried Bugs. "Why not sneak into one of your brothers' room and see if he's got a computer? It must 'ave more information."
"A lot more information about people's own life and about beautiful people with no clothes on," Eric told him. "But you have given me an idea, Bugs. Jack is immune to my magic, because he must have learnt it. But from what? He must have some ancient scrolls in his study. Come on! Let's go!"
Eric clicked his fingers and everyone went invisible. The door opened but there was a lot of clanging and bashing around the room.
"Guys, what's going on?" shouted Eric's voice.
"This muscle-bound fool of a troll just fell on me and now I'm squashed!" moaned Daniel with a muffled voice.
"Be careful where you trod, horn head!" snapped Choc.
"I poked you with my horn, because your long beard got in the way of my hooves!" snapped Sweet Corn.
"Guys, come on!" snapped Eric. But there was a lot of arguing and fighting going on in the room. The young sorcerer sighed. Then he heard someone behind his back, saying, "Right behind ya, doc!"
"Let's go, Bugs," said Eric.
The grand corridors of the bedroom were silent with the exception of unmarked, let alone seen, footsteps.
"This is very grand, Eric," said Bugs. "Would you run away from a place from this if it weren't for your nasty step-family?"
"I would rather live on the streets with no home and no money, but with a bunch of friends," Eric replied. "I only had two friends – a human and a mermaid, who were both orphans like me – and we would sit on the rocks near the beach and watch your cartoons and your friends' cartoons."
"What friends?" muttered an uninterested Bugs.
"What's happened?" asked Eric. "Did Daffy finally become the new star of Looney Tunes? Did you lose your friends? Has Lola run off with another rabbit?"
"More like a bunch of rabbits," Bugs told him. "She left me to pursuit her basketball career."
"You know, you don't have to help me with this just to take your mind off things," Eric said. "There is a lot more to life."
"That's what you want rather than be trapped all your life," said Bugs. "So let's do this together and start a new life."
"Yeah, okay," said Eric. "Let's start with this door."
When they went through the door like ghosts, they saw Jack sleeping in his grand and warm bed. But he wasn't quiet.
"Boy, he snores louder than a klaxon," whispered Bugs.
"Then he can't hear us while we do our research," Eric pointed out happily.
Above Jack's large grand wooden desk, the drawers opened and the scrolls came flying out in mid-air and unrolling themselves out. Then some more scrolls appear out of thin air the same size of the scrolls.
"How often do ya do this, doc?" asked Bugs.
"This copying spell is the first time I've done this in my whole life," replied Eric. Then the copied scrolls vanished and he put the original back on the desk.
"Right, let's beat it!" shouted Eric.
Then the room went quiet once more and nothing was moving except the blinking eye of Jack!
At the servant quarters, Eric and Bugs were no longer invisible and neither were the servants. And neither was the mess they created in the room. Broken beds, ripped wallpapers, food and water on the floor, what a nightmare!
"I would explain, Eric," said Choc, "but it would be pathetic."
"No need," smiled Eric as he clapped his hands. The room was clean as someone who just stepped out of the shower, but drier.
"Now make yourselves usual by reading these scrolls and find out what you can," Eric told them, giving them each one scroll.
"I can't read this, Eric," said Bugs. "This writing ain't English."
"It is English," said Eric. "These scrolls appear to be written by the earliest and most forgotten English language well before the Neolithic Age and all the Ages before that. And this one says here that ' the species of wizards and witches were created when the Gods of magic came down to enslave the world, but a few mortals defeated and stole their powers becoming sorcerers and sorceresses. They knew the mere mortals would attack them as if they were the Gods, so they lived their lives in lies. And – ' that's it? There must be more."
"Well, I've found something," pointed out Daniel. "It's one of the Orbs. It's in a little village in Japan; it's quiet, forgotten village in Mount Nantai."
"Fantastic!" smiled Eric. "Come on, let's go. Well, come on, guys, you know the drill."
"What drill?" asked Bugs, holding a drill tool.
"We're going to evacuate the whole building for a fire that isn't there," said Eric. Then he laughed. "Sorry, I couldn't resist."
"Ha, ha, very funny!" snapped Bugs. Then he turned to the audience. "Just my luck, I get kidnapped, I work in a strange environment and everyone is talking to me like I know what is going on!"
The servants went to the cupboards and got out a bunch of wooden craved models of themselves. They also got out a wax figure of Eric. Then the sorcerer clapped his hands twice and the lifeless figures started to move.
"What about me?" asked Bugs.
"Taken care of," smiled Eric. Choc gave him a paper. "Thanks, Choc." He waved his hand and out of the paper appeared a copy of Bugs Bunny. Then the real Eric turned to the real Bugs. "You see, Bugs, the Epics always disturb me in the night, telling me to do something. That's why these brilliant guys here will cover for us."
"You must be a really clever wizard," thought Bugs.
"Well, I learnt it – all this sticking up to my step-family and cunning tricks to fool them – from the best," smiled Eric. "And not from creatures who control magic, but from one of my cartoon heroes who has managed to avoid and defeat every villain in his path."
Bugs felt happy for that compliment.
"And I'm very happy you agreed to go to help me through this because I can still learn more from you," Eric went on. "So, come on, let's get this orb before sunrise, because they want breakfast on the table by five o'clock in the morning."
Eric, Bugs and the servants gathered around in a ring. "Hold hands!" ordered Eric. They all did. "Now, while I chant, we all walk around and, when I finish, we all jump." Then Eric chanted in the ancient magic language and they all walked in the ring. Then when Eric stopped, they all jumped up and then landed.
"If I didn't know any better, which I don't," said Bugs, "dat ain't de oldest version of Ring a Ring o' Roses, ain't it?"
"Nah, I don't think so," smiled Eric.
"I'm certain dit dis!" Bugs said to the audience.
Everyone looked around to see that they were in a village that looked like the image on the scroll, but the environment wasn't live action. It was looked like some sort of cartoon.
"どういったご用件ですか?" asked a voice. (Can I help you?) Everyone turned to see a little Japanese girl with short black hair in a pink shirt, blue shorts and brown sandals in a wheelchair. She looked like she was drawn in anime.
"I forgot to point out," whispered Daniel, "that the village would be in Anime."
Eric slowly and friendly walked over to the girl. "こんにちは!" he smiled. "あなたは誰ですか、我々はどこですか?" (Hello! Who are you and where are we?)
"私の名前は千賀子だと私はあなたの助けが必要です。私の村が攻撃されている!" the girl answered sadly. (My name is Chikako and I need your help. My village is under attack!)
"誰によって?" asked Eric. (By who?)
"悪魔!" sobbed Chikako. (By demons!)
"Well, you heard the young lady," Eric called to the servants in English. "Come on!"
"How can you speak Japanese?" asked Trolley.
"If I can read and speak the oldest language on the planet, surely a modern language these days are easy to learn," Eric replied.
"Unlike most people these days who just can't be bothered to learn today just because English is the most spoken language these days," moaned Daniel.
"うわー！バッグス·バニー!" exclaimed Chikako, looking at Bugs. (Wow! Bugs Bunny!) But Bugs just sit there, not knowing what to do.
"I ain't got my Japanese counterpart to dub me," Bugs told me.
Then a Japanese version of Bugs came to him. He was wearing a crown and carrying a sword. He whacked Bugs on the head, making him fall down. Then he put the sword on each soldier. "I don't want to be a knight!" snapped Bugs. "I don't want that kind of dub!"
Eric and the servants couldn't help laughing. "That wasn't one of my spells, Bugs," laughed Eric, winking to Choc. "Chikako wants to meet you."
Bugs walked to Chikako and offered her his hand, but she grabbed him and squeezed her like a cuddly toy. "This had better be worth twenty four… million carrots I'm getting paid for this story!" the squashed rabbit sighed.
The nearby village was anime. It was a nice area with lovely old fashioned houses with old-style thatched roofs, green grasses and trees and a beautiful stream running by. But it was not peaceful due to the fight that was happening. The houses were burning and the villagers were fighting with swords and pitchforks and other strong, steel tools against ugly, vicious demons of all creatures.
Then everything stopped when everyone heard fireworks and saw them go off in the sky. They looked down to see the entrance of the village. There Eric was throwing tiny fireworks in the sky. Then he clicked his fingers and those tiny fireworks exploded into a large and colourful bang!
"Better grabbing their attention this way than joining their war and taking sides, wouldn't you say?" said Eric.
"My way of thinkin', too, doc," agreed Bugs.
"見よ、強力な魔術師、エリック·エピック!" announced Choc. "と特にごみディズニーチャンネルの番組で彼のライバルミッキーマウスよりも良いですすべての時間の最も偉大な漫画のキャラクター、バッグスバニー!" (Behold, the powerful sorcerer, Eric Epic! And the greatest cartoon character of all time, who's even better than his rival Mickey Mouse especially on those rubbish Disney Channel programmes, Bugs Bunny!)
"Choc, what are you doing?" asked Bugs. "My fame is over and my friends and fans are gone."
"Well, you are famous, so if you're around, people will listen to you and you will help Eric and us, your friends and your fans, easily that way," smiled Choc.
Then Eric and his friends walked to them. Chikako was pushed by Daniel. Eric approached the village leader, an old man with a white beard, and the demon commander, a jaguar's body with a giraffe's neck but black with a sheep's head.
"だから、誰が誰に何をしましたか?" Eric demanded. (So who has done what to whom?)
"これは、多くの数千年前に私たちの村であるために使用され、それが我々鬼が隠れているを停止し、我々はこの世界の場所を持って示すための時間です!" shouted the demon commander. (This used to be our village many millenniums ago and it is time for us demons to stop hiding and show we have a place in this world!)
"私たちの祖先は彼らの家を構築するためにどこかに必要な、彼らはこれらのモンスターとの合意に達することができなかったので、我々は彼らを追い出すことではなく、選択の余地はなかった！私たちは、どこかで平和に生きたかった、彼らは私たちを受け入れる場合にのみ、私たちは友達にしてきただろう!" protested the village leader. (Our ancestors needed somewhere to build their houses and because they couldn't come to an agreement with these monsters, we had no choice but to drive them out! We only wanted somewhere to live peacefully; we would've been friends if only they would accept us!)
"我々はこれらの話サルと友達になりたいなかった場合でも、鬼の王はそれを実現することができません。彼は同様に彼らと私たちを殺すだろう," said the demon commander. (Even if we did want to be friends with these talking monkeys, the King of the Demons would not allow it to happen. He would kill us as well as them.)
"待って!" cried Eric. "あなたの王はどこですか?" (Wait! Where is your king?)
"山の上に," answered the commander. "しかし、なぜ私たちはあなたを信頼するべきか？王は魔法とその神々について話してくれたとしました – " (On the top of the mountain. But why should we trust you? The King has told me about magic and their gods and - )
"まあ、私はそれらの物語の何も知らない," interrupted Eric. 私もずっと自分の魔法のを知りません。私が最初にウィザードまたは神のように悪くされていないことを意味しますように。だから私はリーダーに取る!" (Well, I know nothing of those stories. I don't know even much of my own magic. So that means I can't have been as bad as the First Wizards or the Gods. So take me to your leader!)
"はい...先生," sighed the commander. (Yes, sir.)
Eric turned around to see the village leader. "そして、先生、あなたの戦士を切り上げ!" (And you, sir, round up your warriors!)
The leader couldn't believe what he just heard. "なぜですか？なぜ我々はこれらの邪悪な生き物で動作しなければなりませんか?" (Why? Why must we work with these evil creatures?)
Eric calmly walked to him. "三つの理由：One：あなたはこれらの生き物は悪ではありません、彼らはそれらの良い持っていることを確認しなければならない。2：あなたがお互いに、三と停戦協定を構築する必要があります：すべての人の代わりに魔法に応じての事自体をすることを学ぶ必要があります！そうを動かしてみませんか？" (Three reasons: One: You must see that these creatures are not evil and they have good in them; Two: You must build a truce with each other and Three: Everyone must learn to do things themselves instead of depending on magic! So get a move on!)
"はい...先生," sighed the village leader. (Yes, sir.) Then he left to get his warriors ready.
Eric turned to his friends. "You see, I did it without magic."
"Well, ya did by using your brain," said Bugs. "And next thing ya'll be sayin' that's the true magic."
"Just like you'll be saying that's the true trick of all the tricks you used to avoid Elmer, Sam and all your rivals," said Eric. "You see, I always thought I related to you."
"よくやった!" cried Chikako. "あなたは、世界が彼の周りに回転しないことを私のお父さんを示した." (Well done! You showed my dad that the world doesn't revolve around him.)
"あなたが意味する、偉そう、つまり考える-HE-は-常に右、コントロールフリークのリーダーはあなたのお父さんですか？" cried Choc. (You mean, that bossy, think-he-is-always-right, control-freak leader is your dad?)
"Choc!" Eric warned with a look. "That's her father. The one who helped her mother give birth in the first place and raised her to become what she is."
"真実ではない!" Chikako pointed out. "まあ、私は7であった だけになるまで、彼はその後、村のリーダーになると約10年のためにそれらに焦点を当てているの職務をかかりました。彼も、誰も私を信じないないので、たぶんそれはない。私は私の人生にあった唯一の事はあなたの素晴らしい漫画です, バグ."
(Not true! Well, only until I was seven did he then take the duties of being the village leader and has been focusing on them for about ten years. Maybe it's because he doesn't believe in anyone, not even me. The only thing I had in my life is your wonderful cartoons, Bugs.)
She reached for the bunny and squeezed him dead tight.
"I know how you feel, kid," said Bugs. "I lost all my friends and fans. You've brought me happiness, too." Then he realized. "Hey, Eric, how can I understand Japanese?"
"Well, I don't like boasting about my magic," said Eric. "So, come on, let's go and grab that orb before more trouble comes."
The Demons took Eric, Bugs, the servants, Chikako, her father and the villagers to the very top of the mountain. There stood a giant door of an old stone giant temple. On the top of the door, there stood two demons of duck bodies with bat wings and hyena heads.
"Why does no one know this?" asked Sweet Corn. "Wouldn't the first people who climbed this mountain have seen this? What the TV documentary crews? What about the air tours?"
"My guess, Sweet Corn, is that there must be some power source in there that is making us, including me, not seeing it," replied Eric.
The Demons and the Villagers began to walk in, but the Villager Leader was blocked off by his daughter.
"あなたは何をやっていると思いますか?" he asked. 私が実行する仕事を得たので、私が通過ましょう！しました!" (What do you think you're going? I've got a job to do, so let me pass!)
"私が手助けをしたい!" begged Chikako. (I want to help!)
"ここに滞在して助けることができます," her father told her. "私が戻らない場合は、村のリーダーとしての役割を引き継ぐことになります." (You can help by staying here. If I don't return, you will take over as village leader.) Then he moved on.
A smiling Eric walked to Chikako. "、千賀子を心配しないで," he assured her. "それは私の計画のすべての部分です." (Don't worry, Chikako. It's all part of my plan.) Then he walked into the temple with the rest of his team.
Everyone walked through the dark, damp, dangerous-looking temple. The rocks inside looked like they could fall down at any minute!
"If people live here, they should find better builders," Bugs said.
It wasn't long until they finally reached some light. They were in a room with nothing but burning torches on the wall, a grand stone chair and smooth floor surface in the middle.
"何がここでありますか?" asked a nasty voice. (What have we here?) On the chair, a black snake-like tail approached appeared out of the shadows.
"彼の前にひれ伏す!" whispered the demon commander. (Bow down before him). The demons did, but no one else did. " 魔法や戦闘は何も解決しません!"
(Magic or fighting will not solve anything!)
Then everyone did bow down.
On the chair, the tail appeared to be actually one of the eight tentacles on the body of a black octopus with the head of sloth with a wolf's teeth.
"王を見よ!" said the commander. (Behold the King!)
"だから、私の友人は," chuckled the King evilly.
"あなたが私に降伏するようになったことがありますか?" (So, my friends. Have you come to surrender to me?)
"違う!" Then the village leader realised his mistake.
"私は、ええと、私は単にあなたとあなたの人々との休戦をしたいを意味します。だから我々は平和的に一緒に住むことができます." (No! I, uh, meant I merely wish to make a truce with you and your people. So we can live peacefully together.)
"そして、なぜ私はそれに同意しますか?" asked the King. (And why should I agree to that?)
"そうでない場合," said the village leader, "私はあなたに、このウィザードを設定しますので!"
(Because if you don't, I will set this wizard on you!) He grabbed Eric and threw him before the King.
"でしょうか?" exclaimed Eric. (WHAT?)
"ウィザード!" exclaimed the King.
"私はあなたのような種類の人々を知っています。自分のために世界を支配する最初の場所であなたの神から魔法を盗んだような。まあ、それはここで！この場所は魔法に免疫がある!" (A wizard! I know people of your kind. The kind who stole the magic from your gods in the first place to rule the world for themselves. Well, not here! This place is immune to magic!)
"Probably because this place is magic!" muttered Eric.
"だから私はあなたの場所にあなたを置くつもりだ!" announced the King. (So I'm going to put you in your place!)
Then Eric's arms and legs were wrapped around in chains. And then he was pulled onto the cell.
"Did Chikako ask you for help, too?" asked a voice nearby.
Eric turned to see another real-life man chained to the wall. "Jackie Chan!" he exclaimed. "How did you get here?"
"I was on my way home for Hong Kong on my private plane," Jackie said, "then I was hit by a storm and I landed outside the village, where Chikako found me. The village was attacked, so I used my martial arts just to scare them away. It seemed to work, so Chikako's dad sent me to the top of the mountain to sort them out. When I got there, I told the King that I wasn't planning to fight, but he wouldn't believe so he challenged me to the duelling monsters which I failed so I was chained up here and have been for about a week."
"Duelling monsters?" exclaimed Eric. "Are my friends going to…"
"Yep," replied Jackie.
The King turned to the village leader.
"あなたのためとして、あなただけの私に戦争を宣言しています。あなたは戦争とあなたが得ようとしている戦争をしたい. (As for you, you have just declared war on me. You want a war and a war you are going to get.)
"幸運を祈ります," whispered the demon commander, as he and his soldiers walked away. (Good luck.)
"Well, this looks fun and exictin'," said Bugs, "but I'm out of 'condision' and it will be an unfair fight, so I must back out." He tried to walk away, but one of the demon guards pushed him back with the servants.
The King clicked his tentacles and out of the darkness appeared a giant rock version of an ox with tusks, a giant slimy worm with spider legs and a Japanese Dragon, who was not Anime, but a giant puppet.
The King cried his battle-cry. The three demons charged for their foes.
The rock ox knocked the village warriors down easily like a bowling strike. The long-legged worm charged for the village leader and the magical servants. And poor Bugs was stuck up at a wall facing the dragon with its mouth opened. He got out a bucket of water and threw it in the dragon's mouth
"Thanks, Bugs!" the dragon said in English. "It's great when your hero gives you a gift when you first meet him."
Now Bugs was puzzled. "Boy, either I'm carrots or he's up his own smoke."
"I don't want to fight you, Bugs," said the dragon. "So what's your plan for getting us out of here?"
Meanwhile, Eric and Jackie were still chained to the wall. They have been trying to get out, but they have had no success at all. They were standing on the wall, trying to pull the chain off.
"We have tried everything we can to get out of these and the only thing we've done is revealed our butts!" moaned Eric. Then he turned to the audience. "Hey, guys, which one of us have the nicer butt?"
"Oh, shut up and come back down!" snapped Jackie.
Eric sighed and jumped down. "Have you got anything in your pocket?"
"Only a few cookies," replied Jackie.
"Delicious!" muttered the sorcerer sarcastically.
The rock ox had covered the defenceless villagers cornered up by the wall. Their weapons were out of their hands. The rock monster's hands turned into the shape of an axe and lifted it high up. Then he was about halfway of lifting it down, but he stopped and screamed. He was burning like oil. He ran to the nearest water, which was water drops from the roof.
Everyone turned to see the dragon panting with smoke coming out of his breath. "Don't thank me," he panted. "Bugs is the hero here."
"Always happy to help a fan, I am," smiled Bugs, coming from behind the dragon.
"Well, how about a little help here?" cried Daniel, as he, the servants and the village leader were walking backwards slowly as they were facing the long-legged worm that was chasing them.
"ましょう、これはより興味深いものに、我々はしなければならない?" smiled the Demon King in Japanese. He pulled down a lever near his chair. (Let's make this more interesting, shall we?)
Trolley was behind the group. Then he nearly fell down backwards, but he pulled himself up and stopped everyone in front of him. They all turned to see there was a giant brick on the floor missing. They saw more bricks in the middle of the floor were dropping like flies. Where the bricks fell, it looked like lava underneath.
Everyone had to get on either the left or the ride side of the room. But the worm could jump from side to side and could still chase them. It passes Bugs and the dragon.
"Can you breathe anything else besides fire, drag?" asked Bugs.
"Well, I can breathe grass if you give me grass seeds," replied the dragon. "If you give me batteries, I can breathe electricity."
"What if I give you some ice?" asked Bugs.
"I would get a cold," replied the dragon. Then he got a bunch of ice from an ice cube tray forcing their way down his throat. He sneezed and he breathed ice. The lava was now an ice skating rink. The worm slipped on the ice and he skidded out of the temple.
"十分に!" shouted the Demon King. 私はあなたから始まる、あなたのすべてを殺すものは、裏切りの竜！
(Enough! I shall kill all of you, starting with you, you traitorous dragon!)
He got off his chair. His tentacles grew double size and he drew out two swords. He clicked his fingers and the ice melted with fire shooting out! It was like the core of the Earth was beneath them.
The King was chasing them around the room. His victims had to run around the room to avoid him; there was nowhere else to run and there was definitely nowhere to hide. And there was nowhere for them to avoid the mean king's attack.
Soon his victims were so out of breath that they just had to stop. They were in a group catching their breath, when the King appeared in front of them. He lifted his swords high and move forward, but as he lowered his swords, so too did his body. He fell on the rocky path nearly hitting the lava. Then he was lifted up in the air and he was pulled up into the air and was spinning around much faster than the tasmanian devil. Then he was thrown in the cell where Eric and Jackie were in. The King crashed into the wall where it fell on top of him. The broken wall now freed Jackie and Eric, who ran out as fast as they can. Then Eric closed the door behind him and Jackie locked it. Then he threw the key in the lava just before the floor was repairing itself with stone bricks.
"Well done, everyone!" cheered Eric, clapping his hands. "You did it without magic."
"But who grabbed the King and threw him to the prison?" asked Choc.
"Look below the chair," said Eric.
Everyone looked at the chair and looked down below where Chikako was lying on the floor out of her wheelchair.
"ちかこ!" exclaimed the village leader, running to her and putting her back in her wheelchair. "あなたは何をしていました?" (Chikako! What were you doing?)
Chikako tried to speak, but she was too afraid to speak.
Then Eric appeared in front of him and spoke. "私は彼女が何をしていたかを教えてあげましょう。彼女は村のリーダーとしての職務に比べてどれだけ重要でないあなたに証明しようとしていた." (I'll tell you what she was doing. She was trying to prove to you just how unimportant she is compared to your duties as village leader.)
"黙れ!" shouted the villager leader. "何も彼女より私にとってより重要ません!" (Shut up! Nothing's more important to me than her!) Then he turned to his daughter. "そして、あなたがやったことは、私は誰もが私の人生で何見ている勇敢なものでした。私はあなたを本当に誇りに思っています." (And what you did was the bravest thing I have seen anyone do in my whole life. I'm really proud of you.)
"And my spell worked," smiled Eric.
The Demon Commander walked to Eric. "氏賢者は、あなたの友人はこれを得るために非常に懸命に戦っています." He pulled down a lever and the chair opened up. It revealed to be a shiny green orb.
"それは勇気のオーブです." (Mr. Sorcerer, your friends are fought very hard to earn this. It's the Orb of Bravery.)
"さて、あなたに感謝します," smiled Eric. "しかし、あなたは現在、村人と友達になりますか?" (Well, thank you. But will you be friends with the villagers now?)
Much later, Eric, Bugs and the servants was greeted a big farewell from villagers and demons alike.
Eric bumped into Jackie Chan on the way. "Are you sure you don't need a lift, Jackie?" asked Eric.
"No, thank you," replied Jackie. "Once I finish my vacation here, my new friends will give me a ride back home to Hong Kong. I know your journey isn't over yet, so good luck and take care!" He held a thumb up.
"You too," said Eric, returning his thumb to Jackie.
The last three people they saw were Chikako, her dad and the demon commander. Eric shook hands with the leaders and Chikako squeezed Bugs and the servants very tightly.
"Come on, guys, let's buck," Eric said, as they held hands.
"But we don't have any buckets," pointed out Trolley.
"No need," said Eric, as they all jumped and landed back in the servants' room. It was sun rise and their doubles looked exhausted.
"The Epics been working you too hard?" asked Bugs.
"Since you left for your mission," moaned Daniel's doubles, "we've been up all night giving John his medicine – three times an hour, making Jim had all of his twenty-four blankets on him and kept getting told by Jack to keep it down."
"Keep what down?" asked Trolley's double. "We weren't holding anything up."
"And we had to make them fifteen different types of breakfast," moaned Choc's double.
"Eric! Come to the dining room! NOW!" shouted the voice of Jack.
"Well done, you guys," Eric said to his and his friends' doubles. "We'll take it here from now. Here's your reward." He waved his hand and the doubles froze. "Get your rest. You'll need it for tonight."
"ERIC!" cried Jack from the dining room.
Jim and John, sat at the table, were drinking their glasses of orange.
"YES!" a voice shouted that made the twins choke on their juice. Behind them was Eric, Bugs and the servants laughing at their prank they just pulled.
"This fifteenth breakfast you made is the worst you made yet!" snapped Jack. "Make a good breakfast this time because we cannot work on an empty stomach. And get this place warmed up! I'm chilly!"
"Us too!" shivered John. Then he and Jim stopped shivering and were sweating and panting. "That's more like it," sighed John happily.
"You're on fire, John," said Jim.
"I know," said John happily. "I'm happy now I feel warm."
"No, you're on fire because your chair is burning!" shouted Jim.
John turned to see that his chair was on fire! He got off and ran away. Jim's chair started to burn and he got off too.
Jack stared angrily at Eric. "What?" snapped Eric.
"I want to be warm, okay?" Then Jack was covered up in flames. He was then covered in soot. The Japanese Dragon Eric and his friends met in Mount Nantai was standing behind Jack.
"Are you happy now?" asked the fire-breathing reptile.
"Eric, what the hell is going on?" yelled Jack. "I don't give a fireball!"
"Well, you don't breathe fire, do you?" chuckled the dragon.
"Just get everything sorted out!" shouted Jack, storming out of the room.
Eric, Bugs, the servants and the dragon were laughing their heads off.
"So, what da ya call yaself, drag?" Bugs asked the dragon.
"Well, I was the Demon King's slave ever since I was an egg and was never named, but everyone kept telling me to 'Shoo Off'," the dragon told them.
"That reminds me of the Japanese name 'Shou' which means 'soar' and 'fly'," pointed out Trolley.
"My name: Shou Off?" pondered the dragon. "Yeah, I like it."
Everyone started to make their new friend Shou Off the dragon feel welcome and part of their team.
Bugs joined Eric. "Eh, I've had a lot of success ever since I was created, but this has been the best day of my life."
"Mine, too," smiled Eric, but secretly he was sad. "But I just wish Diamond and Zack were here today."