Ch. 7: Eating the Mushroom

Sweetie Belle got up on the mushroom and tried to take the caterpillar's words to heart.

"Hmm," she mused, "One side will make me grow while the other will make me small."

She took 2 slices from each respective side and she was at an impasse on what to do.

"Which one will make me bigger?"

After a moment of intense decision, Sweetie groaned in frustration.

"Forget it! I'm choosing the right piece!"

With that she ate the piece in her right hand.

However, the moment she ate it, she grew to humongous height, bigger than what happened the previous times.

"WOAH!" Sweetie Belle shouted as she rocket up in the air in the process of the transformation.

Sweetie crashed through the trees before her head went through the other side with branches and leaves in her mouth. After spitting them out, she surveyed her surroundings.

"Not again!" she Sweetie shouted.

"Oh my!" gasped a tiny voice. Sweetie Belle looked above her and noticed a yellow bird shivering fearfully in her nest on top of Sweetie Belle's head.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Sweetie Belle said to the bird, "I didn't mean any harm. I just ate a big bite of a magic mushroom."

The yellow bird shyly poked her head out of her nest.

"Um, please don't hurt me."

"I won't," Sweetie declared, "I'm just a harmless little girl,"

"Little?" said the bird, "I have a hard time believing that."

"I am," said Sweetie before composing herself, "or I was at least."

"How do I know you're not a monster?" asked the bird fearfully.

"Would you fly in my hands so I can show you?" asked Sweetie Belle kindly while holding her hands out.

The bird hesitated before deciding to do it. She flew into Sweetie Belle's hand and Sweetie Belle petted her with her giant right index figner.

"Gee," said the bird comfortably, "that feels nice."

"Do you trust me now?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"I do," said the bird.

"You remind of a friend back home." said Sweetie Belle.

"I do?"

"Yeah, really shy and nervous. She can hardly stand her ground when being confronted."

"I hope she can," hoped the bird.

"Oh, she has, more than once," said Sweetie Belle, "and speaking of which, I'm looking for her pet bunny who came down here."

"A bunny?" asked the bird, "I just saw one dressed in a tuxedo scurry past here not too long ago."

"Really?!" said an excited Sweetie Belle.

"He went that way," she pointed to the north.

"Thank You!" exclaimed Sweetie Belle, "Now to catch that bunny. But first..."

She put the bird back in her nest before eating the other side of the mushroom, making her shrink back down.

The yellow bird screamed as she and her nest were back on a tree branch. Sweetie Belle, meanwhile, was back to her regular height.

"Oh, thank golly. Now, to find Angel."

So, yet again, Sweetie Belle continued her quest.

TO BE CONTINUED...