It's raining cats, dogs and fairies

It’s raining cats, dogs and fairies

‘’Puck! Puck! Where are you?’’ called Oberon.

‘Here, my Master,’’ replied Puck, randomly popping up out of nowhere. Oberon was ordering fairies to pick grapes from bushes. Once he saw Puck was there, he turned to him and beckoned him to walk over to a private spot to talk.

‘’Titania and I are planning a feast for the Athenians. It is nearly midsummer, so we need to celebrate, and we need to remind the Athenians of our alliance. I am supposed to be providing the meat but I am busy sorting out the fruits for the salad. I have heard of a place which is crawling with animals, just waiting to be hunted. Just fly above the Oil Spots a like and dive down onto the golden owl.’’

‘’Yes your majesty.’’

‘’And Puck.’’

‘’Yes?’’

‘’Try not to cause any mischief,’’ and with that, Puck disappeared into the forest fog.

***

I ran my fingers along the rough pages of my book, placed it on my electric wheelchair and climbed in. It was an early Monday morning at school and I was waiting for my friends to arrive. Today I had brought the book ‘Missing Me’ by Sophie McKenzie to school to read.

I raked my fingers through my messily plaited hair, trying to twirl my plaits, but only succeeding in making one gigantic knot on top of my head. I sighed and started to read to pass the time away, but I couldn’t help glancing up at the clock every five minutes. The taxi driver had dropped me off at school early again so I had to wait ages for my friends to come.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang right next to me. I looked at the floor surprised, but nothing out of the ordinary had happened. I shook my head and started to read again. I looked at my book in disbelief.

‘’Alas! Oil Spots a Like,’’ exclaimed Puck. Puck? Didn’t Sophie McKenzie mean Maddison, the main character?

‘’Since I’m here I might as well have some fun,'’ the whole book carried on like that. There was this mysterious ‘Puck’ character ruining the whole story. He messed up the romantic scenes by farting, put hair removal in Maddison’s shampoo causing her to go bald and the most irritating of all, appeared to nibble the pages of the book! I blinked in amazement, but quickly put the book down when my friends arrived.

The whole day was tragic. Mysterious things were happening everywhere. At first, we all thought it was really funny. In Humanities, the teacher was being wrestled by an invisible figure and he couldn’t write on the board, or speak. We all thought this was typical Mr. Lima , but some children thought it a little peculiar that we didn’t do anything for the whole lesson. I thought it was the crazy ‘Puck’ character from my story, but it couldn’t be. There’s no such thing as magic.

Performing Arts was miserable for everyone. Something was happening to all of our performances that really was peculiar. Individual groups were acting out the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. All the Romeos had lipstick on their lips and the Juliet’s were smothered in chocolate that didn’t seem to be there before. They all suddenly dived forwards and gave each other a great big kiss! Everyone was shocked and embarrassed. The teacher thought we were pranking each other and was really mad. Luckily my group just missed our turn as the bell rang to mark the end of the unusual lesson.

Finally it was lunch, everybody rushed out of the class, eager to get away from the embarrassment of kissing their classmates.

“What do we have after lunch, Caitlin?’’ I asked.

‘’Science in the Stag build……….‘’ As soon as Caitlin said Stag, my book suddenly started shaking like an earth-quake. I stared at it in horror. What was this ‘Puck’, going to do now? Cause a volcano? All of a sudden, a figure started to rise out of my book. I dropped it in amazement as a brunette head started to rise out of my book. Two pairs of blue eyes started to emerge out of the thin pages. His legs were covered in blue scales, but apart from that, he was completely human.

“Puck?’’ I breathed. Caitlin was stunned into silence.

“Where is the beast? I, Puck Piggle Wiggle, claim the great Stag of Oil Spots a Like!’’

‘’Um… Puck, this is Oir-Oirschotsed… dijk, and there isn’t any sst… stag,’’ I stammered.

“What?! Noooo!!! Why didn’t you say so in the FIRST PLACE!!!’’ screamed Puck. His pale skin turned neon pink, his brown hair neon yellow and his blue eyes pitch black. He raised his arms to the skies and a dark cloud formed above him. A dalmatian dropped out of the sky and landed on Puck’s head. He blinked in surprise. Three followed and then six cats flew down, their paws frantically pawing the air.

“Caitlin, it’s raining cats and dogs, literally!’’ I shouted, above the noise of purring and yelping.

‘’Puck stop it! You’re going to flood the school in fur and paws!’’ screamed Caitlin who was allergic to animal fur.

Puck, completely ignored Caitlin and , cried, ‘’Why? All I needed was just one piece of meat so I can cast my multiplication spell and there’ll be food for everyone! The Master will be so vexed!’’

“ I have an idea!” I exclaimed. My sister and all the MP4s are cutting open pig hearts today, you could take one. I heard they’re very crunchy! Just stop the storm before my friend gets an allergic reaction!’’

“Fine. But it better be tender!’’ And with that, Puck disappeared among the barking bull dogs, along with the whole pack of barking, clawing and meowing animals, just as quickly as he had come.