A Thanksgiving Adventure

Here's a rabbit story that has been in progress since last Thanksgiving. I finally pulled it out a couple days ago and polished it up. I hope you enjoy this hilarious Thanksgiving adventure!

“SILLY! Wherever DID you put the basil?” Aravis shouted across the crowded kitchen.

“A fairy came and took it.”

“WHAT?!?!?!”

“I was kidding. Izzy’s using it.”

“IZZY!!! I need the basil!!”

Izzy tossed it to Aravis, who put a generous helping into her bowl. Thanksgiving was the next day, and all the does were racing around trying to cook the food for the community Thanksgiving dinner. Sebastian and his gang were supposed to be setting up tables and such, but they were most likely getting into trouble.

“Aravis, where are the bucks? I need them to go berry picking!” Bertha was making a berry pie, but seemed to have run out of berries.

“Ha, good luck with that!” Silly giggled. “They’re probably playing video games at Sebastian’s house.”

Aravis was indignant. “I told Sebastian that video games were not allowed today, and that I did NOT want his gang in the house.”

“Okay, so they’re at Digory’s house.”

“I still need them to pick berries for me.” Bertha was quite insistent.

“Great,” Aravis said, “You can call and ask them yourself.” Bertha wisely decided against it, and went to hunt down some canned berries.

“Uh, Aravis, I’m kinda out of nutmeg, and you need nutmeg in pumpkin spice, and HOW CAN YOU HAVE PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES WITHOUT PUMPKIN SPICE?!?!?!?!!?!!” Lottie was panicking.

“Lottie, I’m sure there’s some nutmeg somewhere. Let’s just calm down and look for it. Your lattes will be just fine.” Aravis soothed.

“BUT…”

“Here’s the nutmeg!” Jade hurled it at Lottie, who effortlessly snatched it midair, dried her tears, and added it to the bowl.

Silly’s jaw dropped. “How did you catch that?”

“Oh, that was easy.” Lottie looked up briefly, then went back to her work, “It took a while to teach Remington and Char how to throw things nicely.”

“If you think Remi and Char were violent, you should have seen Glory.” Dreamy commented. “She was very…fierce. She used to chase Emeth around with sticks…and her airsoft gun on occasion.” A ripple of laughter went through the room.

Just then, the door flew open, and Sebastian burst into the room shouting, “CHARGE!!!!” That was exactly what he did, followed by his gang and Jade’s six baby bunnies.

“SEBASTIAN!! What on earth are you doing?!?!?” Aravis roared.

“DIGORY!!!! You’re supposed to be watching our kits!!!” Jade shrieked.

“CHESTER! What are you THINKING?!?!” Lottie screeched.

“LET’S PARTY!!!!!!” Silly threw a handful of sprinkles in the air.

The entire gang slid to a stop. Sebastian looked around blankly. “Oh, is this the kitchen? I didn’t realize. We’ll just leave now…”

Unfortunately, their escape route was cut off by Aravis, who was brandishing a large wooden spoon.

“Sebastian, what have you been doing this whole time?” She asked.

“Uh, we set up tables, and then we were at Digory’s house.”

“You actually set up the tables.”

“Yeah. Was I not supposed to?”

Aravis looked to Lottie for support. “You were definitely supposed to. But you did make a mess in here. I don’t think we’ll have everything ready in time for tomorrow. We’ll just have to cancel the big Thanksgiving dinner. What a shame.”

“You don’t have to cancel it!” Sebastian put in hurriedly, “We’ll help clean up, and cook the dinner. Everything will be just fine!”

“Great! The bucks will cook, and we’ll PARTY!!!!!” Silly danced around the kitchen.

“Uh, Silly, just think about how disgusting all the food would be. We definitely don’t want them cooking our Thanksgiving dinner.” Ember remarked.

“Hey, I happen to be a VERY good cook.” Digory informed everyone. “I can make some killer toast.”

After a couple more minutes, it was decided that half the bucks would go berry picking, while the other half would be cleaning up the mess and doing other miscellaneous chores. This worked pretty well, and everything seemed to be running smoothly again.

“Now Glory, you have to mix it just like this.” Izzy was teaching Glory how to make the pumpkin pie. It was a high honor, only bestowed on Izzy’s special favorites.

“MOMMY! LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!!” Three of Jade’s kits came parading into the kitchen, waving a very large dead bug.

“Now, you really should put that down.” Jade said, barely blinking an eye.

“But…”

“Go show it to Daddy. I’m sure he’ll just adore it.” Jade told them. The bunnies ran off the find Digory. All the does listened, and then started laughing when they heard a loud yelp from Digory, followed by hysterical giggling from the kits.

Sebastian poked his head around the door. “Aravis, darling, would you be so good as to provide us starving bucks with a little tiny snack. We’re absolutely famished.”

“There’s carrots in a bowl over there.” Aravis nodded absent-mindedly in the general direction.

“Lovely. And what else do you have?”

“Broccoli. Grab some and get back to work.” At that, Sebastian gave her an aggrieved look, and walked away, without the snack. Aravis rolled her eyes.

“Hey, is there any whipped cream in the fridge? I can’t find it!” Ember decorated everything she made with whipped cream. Including stuffing.

“Ember, you used the last of it HOURS ago,” Taffy informed her. Ember immediately began to panic, sending everyone into a mad rush to find the whipped cream. After Silly ripped the fridge apart and found no whipped cream, Taffy was sent to the store to buy some.

The does worked all day, and most of the next, too. They baked, decorated, scolded, and panicked. In the end, however, they produced a delicious Thanksgiving meal.

“Alright, is everyone seated?” Aravis asked. They were getting ready to eat. Finally.

“Yep!” Sebastian was very eager.

“Then, who would like to pray?” Aravis stared at Sebastian. He began to raise his paw.

“MEEEEEEEEEEE! I’ll do it!!!!!!!!!” Jupiter shot up out of his chair.

“Oh noooooooooooo.” Sebastian moaned under his breath. Aravis discreetly kicked him under the table.

“But he’s so…long-winded.” Aravis kicked him again. Jupiter did have a rather interesting habit of rushing through several paragraphs worth of words at the beginning, and then saying “Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,” for the next several minutes.

Fifteen minutes later…

“…Amen.” As Jupiter sat down, Aravis reached for the first dish to start serving, which happened to be a gigantic pie.

“STOPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!” Sebastian yelled, right as she was about to cut into it. Startled, Aravis jumped back a step. Sebastian flipped a switch he was holding and…

“YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” One of Jade’s baby bunnies came exploding out of the pie and up into the air. It landed smack in the middle of a bowl of mashed potatoes, spattering potatoes everywhere. The bucks collapsed in hysterical giggles. The does stood shocked for a minute. And then the yelling began.

“HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!?!?!?!?” Jade shrieked at Digory.

“SEBASTIAN!!!!!!!” Aravis looked livid. Sebastian didn’t even cease his giggles.

“FOOD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Silly hurled a handful of mashed potatoes at Taffy. Meanwhile, Lottie marched over to Remi and Char, grabbed their ears, and started hauling them off, while muttering something about spankings and children never growing up. Chester meekly followed.

“My pooooooooooooooooor baby!!!!” Jade wailed, as she picked up her mashed potato covered kit and hustled him off to the bathroom.

“You bucks are all getting your hides tanned!!!!!” Izzy headed to the kitchen in search of her trusty rolling pin. Sebastian and Digory turned tail and fled, only to be herded back to their seats by a furious Aravis.

“HERE SHE COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!” Jasper howled, at the sight of Izzy appearing back out of the kitchen with the rolling pin.

“NOW. You will behave, or EVERY SINGLE one of you will get a beating you will NEVER forget!!!!” Izzy threatened. That did the trick. The bucks hightailed it to their seats, achieving a level of silence that was definitely not normal.

“Now Silly, can you sit down and be quiet too?” Izzy gently tapped her on the shoulder. Silly was still chucking mashed potatoes at any rabbit that would hold still.

“Sure!” Silly flung one more handful, before sitting down and daintily dabbing at her mouth with a napkin.

“Thank you, Izzy,” Aravis had calmed down slightly, “Now, Sebastian and Digory will clean up these mashed potatoes, and we will continue on with our meal.”

“Remi and Char will help too!” Lottie declared. Remi and Char jumped up like their tails were on fire and ran to get a mop and bucket.

Once everything was cleaned up, the rabbit finally got to have a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner. No more incidents occurred, and the food was delicious. And, much to Silly’s delight, they got to have a food fight at the end.

~Just a Girl on the Homestead