Ch. 6: The Chaotic Caterpillar

The tiny Sweetie Belle crashed into a mushroom. She managed to push herself off before falling on the floor, having a flat face before it turns back to normal and shakes off her dizziness.

"Quite a fall you took," said a flamboyant voice, causing Sweetie Belle to look up on top of the mushroom and see a strange looking, multi-colored caterpillar smoking a hookah.

"Hi," said Sweetie Belle.

"Hello," said the caterpillar, "who are you?"

"Sweetie Belle,"

"Well," sadi the caterpillar, "you sure are a 'sweet shot'."

Sweetie Belle laughed sarcastically.

The caterpillar looped itself around Sweetie Belle's body and said, "So, what's a sweet little thign like you doing here?"

Sweetie Belle then said, getting stressed by the minute, and as the caterpillar uncoiled himself "I'm trying to find a rabbit belonging to my friend, but I keep losing him and running into these silly scenarios and I keep eatnig and drinking things that make me big and small, and..."

Before she could continue her rant, the caterpillar stuffed his hookah breathing part into her mouth.

"Ok," said the annoyed caterpillar, "Take it easy girl."

Sweetie Belle pulled the hookah breathing part from her mouth and started coughing up a storm with smoke coming out. Just then, she sat up straight with her eyes rolling and smoke coming out of both her ears with a train whistle sounding, making her cringe, before hunching down with a green/sick look on her face as she weakly breathed out a tiny, faltering smoke ring.

"What's wrong with you?" she said weakly yet angrily to the caterpillar, "Don't you know smoking is bad? Especially for me?"

"Apologies," the caterpillar said mischievously, "But you were getting worked up.

"Well how about a warning next time?"

"Fine," said the caterpillar, "So, to sum it up, you're chasing after a rabbit, who you keep losing, and you keep bumping into crazy situations."

"Bingo," said a weak Sweetie Belle as she laid down on the ground, still sick from the smoking she indirectly done.

"What's the matter, kid?" the Caterpillar asked mischievously, "Feeling sick?" He decided to taunt her by holding up 4 arms.

"How many arms am I holding up?"

Sweetie Belle looked but her vision was unfocused and distorted, making her completely dazed beyond all recognition.

"Uh," said Sweetie dizzily, "7?"

"Close enough," the caterpillar shrugged before bringing a garden hose out of nowhere and spraying Sweetie Belle with it, making her all wet, and filled with water. When the spraying was finished, Sweetie Belle is shown to be standing up, no longer green in the face, but was all wet and her mouth was filled with water before she spat it out.

"Feeling better?" asked the caterpillar.

"Sweetie Belle coughed out the water before saying, "I do, actually. Thank you."

"No problem," said the caterpillar, bringing out a towel for Sweetie to dry herself off, "Now, how do you think you'll capture this rabbit when you're 3 inches tall?"

After drying herself completely off, Sweetie Belle said, "I dunno. It's impossible."

"Not when it comes to this mushroom," said the caterpillar happily while patting the mushroom.

"What makes you say that?" asked Sweetie Belle curiously.

"One side enlarges the eater, the other side shrinks the eater," the caterpillar said.

"Really?"

"Mm-Hmm."

In an instant, Sweetie Belle hugged the caterpillar and said, "Thank you, Mr. Caterpillar."

The caterpillar, pushing Sweetie Belle away, said, "Yeah, yeah, don't push it."

Suddenly, he gained butterfly wings,

"Wow!" said an amazed Sweetie Belle.

"See you later." said the butterfly as he went away.

TO BE CONTINUED...