Wednesday 16 April 2014

a request for assistance

Nissy raced into the kitchen.  The toaster transporter was dinging incessantly and he knew there must be an urgent message awaiting him. Skidding to a halt and hopping up onto the counter, he peered into the toaster.

"Yeah, would you mind answering that toaster?" Seville asked.  "The dinging is annoying.  It's disturbing my nap."

Nissy glanced over his shoulder to see his marmalade brother curled up on a kitchen chair.  Obviously, Seville had not considered to get up himself to see what message was coming through. Nissy watched as his brother let out a giant yawn, closed his eyes once more and fell back asleep.

Scattered around the toaster were several hard-boiled eggs, each painted with the letters S, O and S.  Another ding coughed up a couple more.  Clearly, someone was in trouble and needing his help.

A loud explosion in the back yard startled Seville, awakening him from his nap so violently that it caused him to jump straight up into the air and hit his head on the ceiling.  "For crying out loud!" he cried.

Nissy looked out the kitchen window.  The sky had darkened and the air had become hazy.  A pinprick of light appeared out of nowhere and from it, time waves began to emanate.  This anomaly was going to require immediate investigation.

Venturing outside, Nissy cautiously approached the disturbance in the space-time continuum. "What the mouses is that?" he asked Seville who had followed him outside and was now sitting beside him.  "MOUSES!  I've never seen anything like it.  Have you?"

The two cats watched as hundreds of butterflies began to fly out of the vortex.  Never before had a vortex created a butterfly effect.  Whoever had opened it was certainly not using egg beater-whisk time travelling-teleportation technology.  Some other kind of technology was at work here.

Mesmerised, the cats sat there, watching the butterflies flit this way and that.  Seville swatted a couple with a paw but they escaped, unscathed.  Moments later, there was a loud thud and out of the vortex rolled a giant painted egg.  The egg righted itself and out popped two arms.  As it came to life, a face appeared.

"MOUSES!" cried the cats in unison.

"Hello there.  Egg Sackly is the name," and the giant egg reached toward Nissy to shake his paw.  "You must be Nerissa the Cat.  Very pleased to meet you."  Turning to Seville he said, "and I assume you are the brother, Seville?"

The cats stared at Mr. Sackly in disbelief.

"You're probably wondering about my unexpected visit.  We've been sending messages to you all morning but your toaster transporter appears to be malfunctioning."

"Those eggs were from you?" Nissy asked.

"Ah, so you did get my messages.  Never thought to reply?" and the egg sighed loudly.

"Sorry 'bout that," explained Nissy.  "Only got the messages a few minutes ago and I didn't know from whom they were coming.  Please tell me what's going on and how I can help."

"We're facing a major catastrophe over at Easter Bunny Headquarters.  If the matter isn't resolved within the next few days, Easter morning egg deliveries will be in jeopardy.  In fact, they already are. This matter needs to be attended to urgently and the top bun felt you were the only cats for the job."

"You mean that the Easter Bunny himself has requested our assistance?" Seville asked, incredulously.

"He most certainly has although," and the egg cleared his throat, "he really requested the assistance of Nerissa the Cat but is aware that the marmalade side kick is part of the bargain."

"SIDE KICK!  Of all the nerve," sputtered Seville.  "I'll show you a kick," and he raised a hind leg. Thinking this might be going a little far, Seville lowered his leg before peering under Egg Sackly. "Ummm...  by the way, how come you don't have any legs?" he asked the egg.

"I'm an egg.  Eggs don't have legs," he answered.  Turning back to Nerissa the egg instructed, "You'll need to follow me back through the vortex.  Prepare to duck and roll."

Nissy peered into the vortex, narrowing his eyes.  "Yeah, I don't think we're gonna do the ol' ducking and rolling bit.  We have our own mode of transport.  SIVVERS," and he turned to his brother, "PREPARE THE TELEPORTATION DEVICE."

Moments later, the two cats and Mr. Egg Sackly were hurtling through space and time, heading towards Easter Bunny Headquarters.

"Can't this flying frying pan contraption go any faster," cried the egg?  "Time is of the essence.  Easter is at stake!"

"Faster?  You want to go faster?" asked Seville.  "I have the whisks whisking full blast.  We're travelling forward in space but backwards in time.  We'll arrive before you even left.  Gosh," he turned to Nerissa and hissed, "Eggs sure are impatient."

"And I think this one is a little soft in the centre," Nissy muttered under his breath.  "He seems to have forgotten just who is doin' whom the favours around here.  On the other paw, he might be feelin' a little nervous about bein' in...  well...  you know...  'Bout bein' in a fryin' pan, if you know what I mean.  I'm hopin' we'll get some better Intel once we can speak to an actual bunny."

Landing gently in a grassy field, the cats and egg climbed out of the frying pan teleportation device. Nissy had to admit that Egg Sackly was looking mightily relieved to be on solid ground, once more.

Nerissa looked around.  There were painted eggs scattered everywhere.  Scattered around like wild flowers growing amidst the grass.  Multitudes of butterflies danced in the air and Seville took another swipe at one.  It flew off, only to replaced by several others.   Off in the distance, loomed an ancient castle.  Nissy wondered if that castle was the Easter Bunny's Headquarters.

A small white rabbit approached them, hopping through the painted eggs.  "Nerissa?  Nerissa the Cat?  Thank goodness you are here!" the bunny exclaimed.

"Ummm...  are you the Easter Bunny?" Nissy asked.

"Goodness no!  But I do work here at Bunny Headquarters.  We have a real problem on our paws," stated the rabbit.  "Our only key to the chocolate vault has been either lost or stolen and without it, we can't access the goodies needed for Easter morning deliveries.  Millions of children around the world are eagerly awaiting Easter morning and without that key, we'll let them all down."

"But there are eggs all over the place," interrupted Seville, batting at one between his two front paws. "They're everywhere.  Just look at them all."

"That's just a drop in the bucket," explained the rabbit.  "We need far more than that.  We anticipate requiring approximately four billion, nine hundred and sixty-three million, two hundred and fourteen thousand, eight hundred and eleven chocolate eggs for Easter morning.  Also, seven million, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand, five hundred and forty..."

"Did you say, billion?" sputtered Seville.

"Did you say, approximately?" asked Nerissa.

"The point is," continued the rabbit, "we need access to that vault.  Nerissa, your reputation precedes you.  Only you and your brother are capable of returning that key to us.  Are you willing to accept this assignment?

Smiling broadly, Nerissa was just about to answer with a resounding yes when he was distracted by the sound of eggs cracking as Seville managed to smash two of them together.

"What?" asked Seville looking up, innocently.  "And by the way, have you ever thought of filling these things with nip?"


Be sure to return on Sunday April 20th for part two of the cats' Easter adventure.

35 comments:

  1. Eggs with no leggs indeed so glad dat egg survived da frying pan. You haz a bewe impawtent mishun Nissy. *paws crossed* you get dat key to da chawklet vault. We can't be wifout chawklet. *anxious ears* We be back Eastah mornin. Gud luck on ur mishun. ~Willy

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  2. Oh this is very exciting. Sure hope you find that key. We cannot go without chocolate on Easter. Too bad the eggs got cracked.
    Have a great day.

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  3. Thank you for coming on over on our Monday's post to say happy blog anniversary. It really met a lot:-)

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  4. Oh my cod Nissy you are going to save the EAster Bunny!

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  5. That is quite the ordeal! The Easter Bunny, who spent a few days here, has already departed. Hope all goes well there.

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  6. Nissy hope you can help find the keys to that chocolate vault Easter is not far away!!

    Mindy
    Moe
    Cookie
    Mike

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  7. Holey Moley! This is eggsciting! We'll be back to see what happens!
    The REAL Maple Syrup Mob xxxxx

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  8. Thank goodness you are going to be able to help out the Easter Bunny, Nissy and Seville! How cool for you to have seen that butterfly effect and all those eggs!

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  9. Thank goodness you are going to be able to help out the Easter Bunny, Nissy and Seville! How cool it is to have seen those butterflies and all those eggs!

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  10. doodz !!! grate storee.....we be on de edge ofa seet N we iz knot even on chairz !!! we canna wait to reed de rest oh thiz tale but faaaaaaaaaaaaaa if de food serviss purrson willna make uz wait til monday .....ewe shuld make thiz inta a kids book !! ♥

    heerz hopin everee one haza burd free happee easturr !!!

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  11. You always have such adventures, Nissy! We can't wait to read part two.

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  12. You have the best and most exciting adventures Nissy.

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  13. Mommy! I can't wait to see how Nissy and his brother will fair this time around on their new adventure!

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  14. Oh Nissy what an Easter tale this is! You know, I'd never thought of just how many eggs are required for the old Bunny to deliver on Easter 'morn but it's SIGNIFICANT isn't it! Can't wait for PART TWO!

    Hugs, Sammy

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  15. What a pawsome Easter tail...ummm...meant 'tale'...sorry 'bout that

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  16. Another fantastic adventure for you two cats. I sure do hope this gets straightened out as we are expecting some eggs at our house fur our Dad.
    Will be back fur sure Nissy
    Timmy

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  17. A-paws! A-paws! Very eggciting adventure, Niss! I can't wait for Sunday!

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  18. Wow, we sure do hope you can find that key, Nissy and Seville! It sounds like Easter depends on it!

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  19. Very interesting story. Can't wait to see how it turns out. We suspect that Nissy and Seville will save Easter. XO, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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  20. Woohoo! Great new adventure! Hope you guys find the key Nissy and Seville!
    Marty

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  21. Oh we can't wait to see what happens next! And Seville...don't break all the eggs!

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  22. Haha! Nice! Can't wait for part two!! So cool, that one photo where Nissy is looking right at the bunny! Great job!!
    ღ husky hugz áƒ¦ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!

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  23. Great adventure! We had an Easter egg adventure today on Playful Kitty too :) Great minds think alike. I hope you are able to get into the vault and save Easter!

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  24. Hehehe I hope you get to meet the Easter Bunny him self Nissy,xx Speedy

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  25. I will be here..all whiskers twitching and black velvet nose leather wet with anticipation.

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  26. What an exciting adventure ! Can't wait to read part two ! Purrs

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  27. Looking forward to Part 2! We wonder if Mr Egg Sackly feels a little scrambled after that teleporting. ;)

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  28. Eggs filled with nip - we think Seville is on to something there!

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  29. Wishing you and the peeps a very Happy Easter.hope your weather is improving,it's a glorious day here in the UK get the whisks and frying pan out and pop over!! really looking forward to an EGGciting blog this sunday.Lots of love and purrsXXXX

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  30. OMC! This is the most eggs-citing adventure EVER! But really, and egg with ARMS but no LEGS?? I wouldn't trust him at all. We'll be back Sunday for Pawt II! Can't wait ;-) Hoppy Weekend till then!

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  31. Wow - what a tale er TAIL!! You are pawsome Nissy!

    Silver

    Nissy, I have an idea.....

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  32. What a wonderful break for us! We loved your story and hope you all have a great Easter! Purrs from the Zee and Zoey Gang!

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  33. Pawkisses for a Happy Easter :)

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  34. Hi Nerissa, what a delightful story, just perfect for this time of year. I'm just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day and Happy Easter. Hugs, Chris
    http://chelencarter-retiredandlovingit.blogspot.ca/

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  35. The boys can't wait, they love when I read your stories to them!!
    ~Vicat

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