diello | Don't read this if you like bunnies :)

My lovely lovely Brian sent this to me :)

Once upon a time... in a land far, far away... there lived five fuzzy fucia ferrets. These ferrets lived in the depths of the worst forest on Rainbow island. The crippled ferret, with only three legs and one ear, crowded past his brothers to see outside. But the others would have nothing to do with his insubordination. So, they ate him. Such was life in this dark forest.

These ferrets, now four in count, decided this dastardly day was to be decreed Easter, after their poor slain brother. On this day forevermore all fucia ferrets must kill a cripple. After years of bloody slayings, they were running short on crippled ferrets. So the elders got together and started holding a lottery every year. Those drawn for the lottery would have a leg or ear (or both) chewed off. The lucky winners would be allowed to live for a few months, just for sport, then the celebration would begin.

The cripples would be lined up and presented to the others. They would then be given one chance to win their freedom. They must find one of each: a blood colored egg (because that's what color eggs fucia ferrets lay), a chocolate baby chicken (because fucia ferrets LOVE both chocolate and chickens), and a piece of themselves that was chewed off...

Very few survived, so the adults always had enough to eat; crippled ferrets and chickens being their favorites. One cripple managed to win his freedom year after year, which caused some of the ferrets to get angery. This led to some of the elders to plot his untimely demise. You see, this cripple lost a leg and two ears. Since he had found those pieces over the last years, he had no more parts to find. The elders would have quite a feast...

Yet, this ferret was no dumb cripple (after all, he had lived three years now) and he found out who was plotting against him. While they were sleeping he crept up on them, and chewed off (and ate) both ears from each ferret. When the next day came, the elders were instantly chosen for the lottery (now THEY would make great meals), and since they had no body parts to find (they were eaten, remember?) the crowd eagerly devoured them...

Now that the elders were gone, the crowd of ferrets didn't know what to do. So the surviving cripple came up with the idea to end the lottery. From that day on, every Easter they would hunt down rabbits and dip them alive in boiling chocolate (to hear their screams of course) and have a great feast...