Homecoming
December 6, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Scourge and Fiona decided to do one last thing in town before heading back to the mountain. Scourge went to the landfill and decided to look among the garbage for a couple of bags of hazardous waste. Fiona decided to misbehave on the phone. She went into a phone booth and put a coin in the coin slot, then dialed Mayor Knuckles' phone number. First the beeps sounded, and then the mayor picked up the phone:
β Hello, mayor, in the yard of your house, by any chance, isnβt your black car with the license plate βIβll disturb everyone!β?
β Yes. My, and what? β the mayor did not understand.
β Then try to catch up with him, because I stolen him right now. β the fox lied.
β WHAT??? β the mayor shouted, and Fiona quickly hung up and laughed.
β Not a bad idea! β she said to herself and inserted another coin, deciding to call somewhere else. She dialed the dairy company's phone number and waited for an answer:
β The cream company is listening to you.
β Hello, are you a cream company? So you are drain information?
At first there was silence, and then they shouted over the phone:
β WE MANUFACTURE DAIRY PRODUCTS, YOU INTERNET-STUPID!!! DON'T CALL HERE AGAIN!!!
Then the company hung up first, and Fiona laughed and hung up and said:
β What a bastard! Do you want to be rude to me? Can't you even ask?
Then she took a wrench and used it to cut through the phone, breaking its cover and stealing several other people's coins. She also returned two of her coins. Then she left the booth and met the nag. He brought four red trash bags filled with hazardous waste. They crossed paths, the fox sat on the snakeβs back and the snake and fox began to climb up.
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At this time, the poor rabbit family was eating carrot soup for dinner before going to bed. Vanilla did not cook it for long, and the father and wife were still eating it alone and waiting for Cream to join them. However, for some reason Cream did not come. Vanilla was the first to worry about her daughter and decided to go to the second floor to her daughterβs bedroom. Cream at this time was sitting in the dark at the table with a blank sheet of paper and a pen. β Hello, Cream. What? Still can't figure out what letter to write to Father Frost? β Yes, mom. Nothing can come to my mind. I don't know what to ask Father Frost. It seems that we already have everything we have. But I still want to not stand on the sidelines and ask Frost for something. Maybe I can do without a letter and not write anything to him? Maybe he himself, without a letter, will understand mentally what exactly we want? Vanilla hugs Cream's shoulders from behind and says: β Iβm sure youβll still figure out what to write in a letter to Father Frost. The New Year is still far away. He will have time to receive the letter and send us a gift. β Do you think so? β Cream turned to her mother. β Certainly. β the mother confirmed and kissed her daughter on the forehead. β Don `t doubt! You still have time. You need to take a break! Let's go downstairs and eat your favorite carrot soup. β Of course, mom. I'll be right there. I'll just stay here for a couple more minutes. β Fine. β the mother did not argue with her daughter and left the room. Cream remained in her room for now and was still thinking about Scourge himself, who saved her, as well as about the real New Year, which all families and neighbors celebrate at home. For example, looking through the window, how a family of a she-wolf and a lemur, judging by their silhouettes behind the curtain of the window, hugged, decorated the Christmas tree and gave gifts to each other in advance before the New Year. Then a boy or girl comes running to them, who jumps into the arms of one of them and she rocks him in her arms, leans her head on his, and the other one also gives him or her a gift in advance. Cream looked at this beautiful picture in the window and envied them. How she would like them not only to celebrate the New Year together with the whole family, just like they did, but also to have everything the same, beautiful and decorated. But alas, her family cannot have all this, since it is all expensive. Envying all this and yearning for such naive dreams, Cream opens the windows, sadly looks out the window and hums to herself: βͺ Where are you Ne-ew Year? βͺ βͺ Why did you disappe-ear... βͺ βͺ ...and find you... Isn't it possible-e? βͺ The silhouettes of a lemur and a she-wolf turned their heads outside the window, surprised that they heard someone's sad song. At this time, Cream moved away from the window and slowly approached the mirror, looking at her reflection and continuing to sing: βͺ The world around me is cha-angi-ing, and I am changing wi-ith it. βͺ βͺ What if you cha-ange too-o-o... With us too? βͺ The lemur and the she-wolf, together with their son, who was half lemur and half wolf, opened the curtain, leaned lightly out of the window and continued listening to the song. They were very curious. At that time, a fat janitor, the cat Big, was walking on the street with a shovel, removing excess snow that had fallen from the sky. Then he stopped working when he heard Cream singing and also listened in surprise. βͺ Where are you Ne-ew Year? βͺ βͺ Remind me of yo-ourse-elf. βͺ βͺ Why are you not like everyone e-else? βͺ At the White House, the mayor sat at home with the window open in the Jacuzzi bathtub and enjoyed life, holding a rubber ducky above his head. He also heard Cream singing from a distance, his eyes widened and he got up from the bath wearing only long and black swim shorts and went to the window. Even Scourge and Fiona themselves, who were climbing the mountain, by some miracle also heard the rabbit singing and stopped. They also became interested. They turned and listened. βͺ Oh how I wish I co-ould βͺ βͺ Have a holiday like everyone else. βͺ βͺ So that we are no-ot poor... So-o-o that everyone is equal! βͺ Lemur fought back her tears as she listened. Even the she-wolf almost cried, hugging her son and trying to calm him down, because he felt sorry for the one who was singing this. Even Big started crying. Mayor Knuckles didn't care at all. He clenched his teeth, made a stern look and closed the window tightly so as not to listen to this nonsense any longer, as he believed. In addition, he covered the window with curtains. Only Fiona almost cried and pressed herself against the nagaβs back, and he could hardly hold back his tears. He wanted to grit his teeth and turn away to show that even he didn't care. However, sadness enveloped him too. He himself had difficulty holding back his tears, and when he noticed that the fox was crying, he patted her on the head in order to somehow calm her down. At this time, Cream herself was already standing near the smallest Christmas tree, decorated with ordinary cones on paper clips. βͺ Where are you Ne-ew Year? βͺ βͺ Why did you le-eave me? βͺ βͺ Tell me... Well, what are we to blame for? βͺ Cream was approaching the letter she had never begun to write. She sat down at the table and, looking at a blank sheet of paper, finished singing: βͺ I wa-ant tomorro-ow βͺ βͺ It's to-oday! βͺ βͺ So that everything is fa-air... So that it is for me-e-e... βͺ After a pause, the rabbit raises her head and looks through the window at the mountain where Scourge himself lived and finishes the song: βͺ Wa-a-arm! βͺ Scourge and Fiona returned home to their cave and wiped the tears from their eyes. They put three bags of waste next to the shoes, and the fourth naga took one of them with him and put it on the catapult. He then launched a catapult and shot a bag of waste at a large portrait of Mayor Knuckles. Scourge was glad that he had hit his target. β Direct hit! Fiona at this time went to a kind of bathroom and began to preen herself in front of the mirror, powdering her cheeks with ashes from a corpse vase instead of powder and painting her eyelashes with black paint, and also licking her right palm and running it through her hair on her head, she said to herself: β Away is terrible as always, but at home itβs still worse! As one wise man said. β Itβs not so easy to wear out the Mobians, but we played pranks and thatβs the main thing! β assured the naga. β Yes. Then you scared that little rabbit there at the post office so that her eyes popped out of her head. β the fox answers, painting his lips black with charcoal instead of lipstick. β Right! If she is lucky, she will remember me, such a haunting and enormous horror, for the rest of her life. Scourge confirmed. Scourge also changed his clothes and took off all his masquerade as a disguise. He crawled to the carpet and lay there, looping his tails. He himself lay down with his hands and head on a broken and soft sofa without a back. Fiona then walked up to him when she finished preening. Scourge opened his tail rings, allowing the fox to crawl through them and inside, and then lightly squeezed his ring-shaped tail, wrapping it around the fox almost to his shoulders. At the same time, sometimes she could stick her hands out and also put them back. It felt like Scourge had grabbed her and was holding her like prey. However, he just circled her with his tail, as if covering her with a blanket. Fiona yawned, sighed and closed her eyes, getting ready to sleep. β Good night, my little sausage! β And you, daddy. Scourge almost cried with joy and thought: β βYouβve grown up quickly, baby!β
