Aria took a book off the shelf. “Here,” she said, handing it to Bunbun. “You can learn more about Fantasia in this book.”
Bunbun had to write a whole report on fantasy. “Well,” said Bunbun, except now his voice was muffled.
“Okay, silly goose,” said Aria, taking the book off of the small bunny. “You can read it with me.”
“Okay, time to open the book!” said Bunbun.
Aria opened the shiny cover of the book and started reading. Later, she finally closed the book and said, “Okay, time to go to bed.”
Okay, now I can explain what they’re talking about. Except really quietly. They are talking about the world of no magic. The one you’re probably in right now, because this was the opposite. The world of fantasy thought of the world of humans as the world of fantasy. Oh, okay, now they’re waking up and I can stop talking.
Aria yawned. “I thought I heard voices.”
“This sure is a strange dream you had there, miss.”
“Okay, I know what you want,” said Aria, laughing. “To go outside and play ball. Be careful because the ball is twice your size, Bunbun.”
“Okay,” said Bunbun.
They went outside. Aria took the ball and threw it. But before the ball reached Bunbun it disappeared.
“Huh, that’s strange,” said Aria. “Our balls never disappear.”
“I know!” said Bunbun.
“Here, come on, Bunbun.” Bunbun ran to her but also faded.
“Yeesh!” cried Aria, running back. Then she noticed her hand. It was slowly disappearing! “Oh no,” she groaned.
“Mommy!” Aria heard a voice say.
“Bunbun!” said Aria. A tiny little Bunny hopped in her hands. “Though it’s kind of blank here.
Aria slowly stood up with the small bunny in her hands. But she fell through the floor.
“Huh. Is this a weird day?” grumbled Bunbun.
“I have to say, I agree,” said Aria, lifting her eyebrow at the weird things all around.
Bunbun sat down, thinking. “My book!” he cried. “I was writing about the world of fantasy, right?”
“Right…” said Aria.
“I was just thinking how–”
“BUNBUN! Watch out!” cried Aria. She snatched the tiny bunny from the ground and ran to the side.
“What?”
“Look! Your book!” she said, panting. They both looked as the book fell and its pages became stranger. They looked like they were flipping from both sides and the words started spilling out of the book. “Oh, I hope not,” moaned Aria.
The words started spinning and spinning and spinning around them.
“Yup! I knew it,” squealed Bunbun in a horrified voice.
“We’re going inside the book!”cried Aria.
“Help,” grumbled Bunbun. “You’re kidding me. Is this really the place we’re supposed to be going to?” said Bunbun in an annoyed voice.
“Where?” asked Aria. “We’re not even there yet!”
“Well, now that you mention it, I don’t see the ground because of all these words.” It was kind of true. “Is this because I’m hearing that voice again?”
“No! What voice?” squeaked Bunbun.
“And in you go!” said Aria, looking at the hole that was opening up between the words.
“Don’t!” squealed Bunbun, but he was already flip-flopping through the air, and letting his stomach also do flip-flops. Now the bunny was looking up, hoping he wouldn’t get squished by a very big human called Aria. “Now I’m hearing what Aria was hearing.”
“Yeah, I told you that voice was somewhere out there!” said someone behind him.
“Yow!” cried Bunbun, looking for something to hide behind, or someone.
“It’s just me, silly bunny,” said Aria.
“Well, if you’re going to call me silly bunny, you better watch out. This isn’t the place we’re supposed to be.”
“It is if we’re already there,” warned Aria. All Bunbun did was hop on her shoulder.
“Well, if you want to,” said Aria.
“Don’t ask me,” said Bunbun, already hiding his face behind her head.
“Hmmm,” said Aria.
“Are you sure I should peek out?” said Bunbun.
“You should if you wanna squeal again!”
But Bunbun didn’t care. That was all he needed to hear to give a tiny peek.
“EEEE!” he said, almost flying up to the clouds. “I wish my friend Aria wasn’t so serious,” he said, hanging up in the air for at least three seconds before crashing back down to the grass. “Hey, this isn’t grass,” thought Bunbun. “This is slime!” He noticed that the ground was a giant puddle of very gooey slime that was actually mud. “Mama!” he cried. “This is so gooey!” he thought when he finally scrambled out.
“Whatever,” said Aria, running back to the book. She grabbed the book and started flipping through the pages. “I don’t get it. This book is empty!”
“Not so empty,” said Bunbun, flipping to the last page. “Look!” There was one word that had the spelling A-R-I-A A-N-D B-U-N-B-U-N. “Hey! That spells Bunbun and Aria!”
Aria looked at Bunbun. Bunbun looked at Aria. “Well, since we got in the book, we must have gotten the book to get the words to have us in the book!” said Aria and Bunbun.
“Well, I’m glad I didn’t leave it in my room. Otherwise I would have thought that there was a girl named Aria and a bunny named Bunbun in the fantasy world too.”
“Woah! What is that?” said Bunbun pointing to something with a long tail, long whiskers, and long ears. “Well, whatever it is, I learned to sound it out: ck-ah-t.”
“I think that spell cat?” said Aria. “But we don’t know what a cat is, or what a cat does!”
“Well just in case,” said Bunbun, “let’s run.”
Bunbun hopped off of Aria’s shoulder and started running as fast as he could with his tiny legs.
“Ahh,” Bunbun thought. But soon he got a little more filled up with energy. Because he saw that the cat was running after him. “EEE! MAMA MIA!” he cried. He jumped as high as he could so the cat wouldn’t reach him, but he ended up in Aria’s face instead.
“What are you doing?” cried Aria. “You know you shouldn’t have jumped in my face.”
“Sorry! That cat’s about to pounce in my face!” said Bunbun.
“Well, in that case, let’s use the last of our words, even if there aren’t any words,” said Bunbun, staring into the book.
“Wait, what?” said Aria. She flipped to the first page. There was a whole page written. Bunbun flattened himself out like a balloon. “Bunbun, you aren’t supposed to be a bookmark!” said Aria.
But Bunbun still was flat as a deflated balloon.
“I know what you want!” said Aria. She blew on the words which blew Bunbun all over the place. “Now you can blow yourself up!” said Aria.
“Okay,” said Bunbun, and he blew himself up like a balloon.
“Okay, now that you’re not as flat as a deflated balloon, we can–”
“Fly?” interrupted Bunbun.
“No,” said Aria. But she still checked where her feet were dangling. In midair.
“I hate flying.”
“Why?”
“Gives me the creeps,” ended the conversation Bunbun. “All I know is that I’m glad we escaped for the ck-ah-t.”
“It’s a cat, Bunbun, it’s a cat!” said Aria.
Bunbun was doing something Aria didn’t expect, banging his head against a rock with his head bouncing off like a ball. “Hey, this rock is even bouncier than the rocks we have.”
“Okay, Bunbun, did we land in the land of balloons?”
“Pretty much,” he said.
“Whatever. I just want to know, what is that?” Aria said slowly. She pointed towards a blue streak in the sky.
“Hi!” came a voice.
“Who is that? Who is that?” cried Bunbun, jumping up and down.
Finally, Aria noticed that it was another girl. “I thought we were the only ones that came to the fantasy world,” she said, cocking her head.
“Yeah, I didn’t know Zelda also came here!”
“Well, I came here having the feeling you would also come here. Sooo, I picked a book off the shelf and started reading to my pet.”
“You mean your pet dragon Urly?”
“Yeah!” she said. “There’s my dragon!” she said, pointing to a very specific wind dragon.
“Well, now we have a dragon, we can move around more efficiently.”
“Not me! Not me!” said Bunbun, jumping into Aria’s shirt.
“Hey! Get out of there!” laughed Aria. “You tickle!”
Finally two small ears poked out of the bottom of Aria’s shirt, then some eyes, then a nose, then Bunbun poked out. Suddenly, wind came
“It’s just a dragon!” Aria hollered over the wind.
“Stop the wind, Urly,” Zelda said. Then the wind died down.
“Come on Bunbun, get out of my shirt,” Aria said. Unfortunately, while the wind was going on, Bunbun got really scared and went under Aria’s shirt. It really tickled, so Aria said, “Get out!”
“Come on, everybody,” said Zelda. “Let’s get on to my dragon.”
Zelda felt like she shouldn’t do this, but in her head, she heard her dragon’s voice saying don’t worry. It will be fine.
Okay, Zelda replied in her mind. She slid onto her dragon and helped Bunbun and Aria on.
Aria said, “You know, I was thinking that maybe we shouldn’t be going on Bunbun too hard. He is the smallest bunny I found in the petstore.”
The dragon was flapping its wings, and it begun to roar. Zelda, Aria and Bunbun could see mountains and streams and hills. Bunbun said he felt like too much of a bird to be a bunny, and Aria giggled.
“Don’t worry, Bunbun. We aren’t going to turn into cake,” Zelda said. Even though that’s what Bunbun thought Zelda said, when really she had said, “Bunbun are you sure we’re all going to turn into a piece of cake? Because when you think about it…that’s not really true.”
“Where should I ask my dragon to go?” Zelda asked.
“Well we don’t know, but our book might know,” said Aria.
“What do you mean, your book would know?” Zelda was really confused.
“Oh, we’ll show you.” Bunbun tugged the book out of Aria’s knapsack.
“It says the fffff….” Bunbun tried to read, but he was not a good reader.
“Three paces left,” Aria said for him.
“Change the direction to three paces left and let’s fly there,” Zelda instructed her dragon.
The dragon nodded. He swooped left.
“What next?” Zelda asked.
“Go down,” Aria read. They zoomed down. They slid off.
“Look,” Bunbun said. “I see a letter.” They looked up and saw a letter.
“How do we get to it?” Bunbun asked.
“I have an idea,” Zelda said. “Come on everyone, stand next to me.”
Everyone raced to her sides.
“Now!” she instructed her dragon. “Get us into the air, please.”
And then a huge gust of wind came under their feet and they started floating up towards the letter. “Can you reach it?” Aria asked.
“No,” Zelda said. “But I think Bunbun can. He’s jumping!”
With one last jump, Bunbun grabbed the letter and they slowly started going down. “Now, let’s place it in the first page of the book, right here,” said Bunbun.
“How?” said Aria.
“Just try,” said Bunbun
Zelda snatched up the first letter and placed it. They watched as the letter slowly slid into place and looked like a printed letter again.
“Okay, first letter. Now let’s keep going,” Zelda said. They slid back onto the wind dragon, and Zelda said, “Fly, dragon, fly! We’ve got letters to find!”
After a while of grunting and looking at the book for directions, Aria finally looked up into the sky.
“Hey guys look! I see a big cluster of letters!” Aria said. The dragon flew up close and Aria snatched it up from the air. “Hey, let’s put them in alphabetical order,” Aria said.
They placed each letter carefully and they all looked like printed letters. But they did not go in alphabetical order. They kept rearranging themselves.
Now the letters spelled: find three things. And then it paused.
“Okay, now I know that,” Aria said, “but I don’t know what the three items are. Now we have to find letters and items!” They kept flying. Then, they landed.
“Guys,” Zelda said. “Let’s eat.”
Aria took out chocolate. Bunbun took out carrots. And Zelda took out mango strips. They started to eat.
Bunbun chomped down on his perfect carrots he gathered. He said they were the most delicious he had ever tasted. And Aria just laughed. She said, “Of course you like carrots!”
Then Bunbun raced down the hill to the closest river, which was not very far. He was thinking about washing his legs, but he found something. “Hey, guys, I found this cool jewel shaped rock!” he called.
Zelda and Aria came running over with the dragon. “What did you find?” Zelda asked.
“I found this rock,” Bunbun answered.
“Oh!” Aria said. “Let’s see if Zelda’s dragon came to help us out.”
“Hey, Urly, can you help us out?” Zelda said in her mind.
“I am ready!” her dragon answered.
“All you have to do is ask the stone to help,” Zelda said, opening her eyes.
“Okay.”
Bunbun said, “Can you help us, stone?” The stone started to glow and it shot blue beams everywhere. “Yeee!” Bunbun cried.
“Bunbun!” Zelda cried, jumping to the little bunny. She screamed as the beam shot towards her and moved away.
“These beams are crazy,” Aria said.
“Watch out!” Bunbun squeaked.
“Huh?” Aria said.
“Uh oh,” Zelda said.
“Ouch!” Aria cried. “These beams hurt.”
“Hey, where’s Aria?” Bunbun said.
“I’m here, I’m here,” Aria said.
“Where?” Zelda asked.
“Zelda! If you want to find out, you should probably get in the way of those beams,” Bunbun said.
“Okay,” Zelda said, her voice shaking, but anyway, she jumped in the bath of one of the beams. “Ahh!” she cried as she turned invisible.
The bunny fell onto the ground and squealed, as he was also in the way of one of those beams.
Just then, Zelda felt the stone. She grabbed the stone and said, “Where are we going?” The stone shot out more beams, which just made the friends go down and down and down.
Finally, when Aria hit the floor, she heard another voice.
“Aria!! Bunbun! Where are you?”
Zelda! Aria thought. She’s here! Finally, she heard a thump and a small thump and she saw her friends again.
Zelda was checking around for her dragon, and then she heard a giant cry.
“Ayeeeee!”
“What was that?”
“Ayeeeeeee!”
“What. Was. That?” Aria said.
“Ohhh, I think that’s my dragon,” Zelda said. “Are you hearing me?” she said in her mind.
“Yes,” Urly replied. “I am here. Right beside you. So don’t forget.”
“Okay,” Bunbun breathed. “That is scary.” Urly, wind tornado! Zelda yelled.
“Something about that phrase reminds me of something scary,” Aria mumbled. Before she could say, “Zelda, this is not a good idea,” the wind started blowing in a circle around them.
Yikes! Bunbun thought as he went spinning in the air. Or, at least he thought he was spinning. His mind was spinning.
“Quiet down!” Zelda said. “There’s so much noise that I cannot concentrate on telling my dragon what to do!”
“Sorry,” Bunbun squealed.
“Down!” Zelda yelled and the tornado slowly went down.
As soon as Aria came to the ground, she put Bunbun down. But that was a tiny mistake because the wind hadn’t died down yet, so Bunbun flew onto Aria’s shoulder. But Zelda hadn’t landed quite yet. She was still going down.
“Ow!” Bunbun yelled, putting his hands on his ears. “I forgot to tell you, I keep hearing that weird voice in my head.
Zelda said, “Are we still invisible?”
“Excuse me,” Bunbun interrupted. “That is not an answer.”
“Yeah, that’s not an answer, but that’s another question.” Aria mixed her own voice into the conversation.
Then Zelda shook her head. “Let me see…”
“Let you see what?” Bunbun said.
“I see letters!” Zelda said. She snatched the letters from the air.
Aria quickly took out the book. She put the letters into alphabetical order, but she knew that they wouldn’t turn out that way. Instead, they saw a character’s name.
“I know that book!” Bunbun said. “Now, let me see, where did I last remember that?” Then his eyes got big.
“Greek mythology!” they all said together.
Aria looked at Zelda. Then she looked at Bunbun. Then she looked at Zelda again. “This is very interesting. We fill up half the book. And now we make different thoughts.”
Zelda grinned. “I have an idea,” she said. She walked up to it and started thinking, how do we get home? Answer. And then suddenly new words filled the book. Find all the letters. “Woah! How did you do that?” Bunbun squealed.
“I thought of a question, and it formed that word and wrote an answer.”
And then Bunbun came up and thought, How do we get those letters? And then new words filled the book. They will come to you once you ask.
It was true. Aria looked above her head and saw a big bundle of letters. She grabbed it. “So we have m, n, o, p, and y.”
“Yeah, we don’t really need the y right now,” Zelda said.
“Oh, right. We’re only up to p right now,” Bunbun said.
Then Zelda came up and thought, are we still invisible? Then new sets of letters filled the book. But then all the other letters, and the ones they had already found came into alphabetical order. The book closed.
Zelda heard her dragon’s reply in her head. The book told me you have to put it all together so you are visible again.
“Oh!” Zelda said. She grabbed the book, opened to the right page, and started putting the letters closer to each other so they wouldn’t be so far apart. Bunbun came up and clapped.
Then there was a silence and Aria disappeared. “Yikes!” Bunbun cried. He jumped into the air and then disappeared in midair.
“Bunbun!” Zelda cried. “Well, you might as well think about it.” Then she looked at her hand. It was slowly fading. “Ahhhhh!” she screamed. Then her whole leg disappeared, and she blinked and saw her friends again. “Oh, there you are, people!”
Aria said, “Well, you might as well still be questioning. You’re not invisible anymore.”
“Yes,” Bunbun breathed. “Were you scared when you saw me jump in the air?”
“What do you mean I saw you? I saw you disappear in midair!”
“Oh, sorry!” Bunbun said.
Aria said, “S, c, l, z, y. I’m waiting, people!”
Bunbun opened his mouth to say something, but then quickly shut it because he knew Aria was pretty annoyed. Bunbun shuddered. “It’s cold in here!”
“Oh, right, I forgot to give you your sweater,” Aria said. She handed him his sweater.
“Thanks, Mom!” Bunbun said.
Aria shot him a quick look. Then she looked at Zelda and said, “Can you tell this dragon to fly us up again?”
“Wind tornado, please!” said Zelda, facing Urly.
Suddenly, the wind started to blow, and it circled around them and lifted them up.
I’m crazy, Bunbun thought.
“Bunbun, Zelda, look,” she cried. They all looked. It looked like a smear in the sky. “There’s the rest of the letters! And there is the portal shaped stone!”
“Oh, I know what you’re thinking!” Zelda said. She grabbed the book, Bunbun grabbed the letters, and Aria grabbed the stone.
Bunbun quickly put the letters into place and Aria shouted, “Let’s go wherever this stone takes us to!”
The wind started blowing even harder. It spun and spun and spun until everything went black for Zelda, Bunbun, and Aria.
A few minutes later, Zelda made everything turn back to normal. “Aria, Aria, look! There’s Bunbun’s house! And there’s yours! And there’s mine.”
“Aria! Wake up!” Zelda said.
“Huh?”Aria said.
“Stop dreaming that we are at home,” Bunbun said.
“Okay, okay,” Aria stammered. “Where are we anyway?”
“We’re not anywhere yet,” Bunbun said. “We’re still in the magical wind that this stone is taking us into.”
“Oh, really? How confusing,” Aria said.
Zelda was still listening to what Zelda and Bunbun were saying, but her hearing kind of trailed off because she was looking at something else.
Aria whirled around to start talking to Zelda, but then her mouth just hung open. “Zelda! Why are you upside down?”
“I don’t know myself,” Zelda said, her hands hanging in the air.
Suddenly, Bunbun was also up in the air.
Yikes, Aria thought. I think I’ll go somewhere else so I don’t end up upside down like that. But before she could start running away, her foot was slowly going up into the air. Then her other foot, and then her hands were hanging upside down.
So, she thought to herself, if this stone is going to go crazy on us, I’m going to go crazy on it. But how?
Aria remembered that she had always wished to do magic. She said, “Zelda, you know a lot about this place don’t you?”
“Well, sort of,” Zelda said.
Then Aria said, “Can people do magic around here if they weren’t able to do it in the true world?”
“Yes, I think,” she said.
“Ohhh-kay,” Aria said. “Let me try.” She tried her best to point at the cloud they were hanging in. Finally, she was able to do it and she started chanting to herself, “Make this cloud go away if you can.” Then suddenly, Aria and the others were flipped right side up and upside down again, and they kept flipping like that until they finally hit the ground.
Ouch! Bunbun thought. “Mama!” he called.
Aria landed right next to Bunbun, where Zelda landed right next Aria.
“Why did you do that? And how?” Bunbun asked.
“First,” Zelda said, “I have to–”
“SCREEEEE OCK NEE OCK!”
“Oh, bother,” Zelda said. “Stop making those ridiculous sounds, Urly.”
“Spreeeeee,” her dragon cried.
“Oh, really?” Zelda said. “Why don’t you just lay down and rest so you don’t have to make those sounds anymore. Ahhh, okay that solved it,” Zelda said.
“Wait!” Bunbun cried. “I wanna try too.” He pointed his tiny paws at one leaf. “Make this leaf flow up!” he said. It floated up and flew on his ear. Bunbun brushed the leaf off his ear.
“Me too!” Zelda said. She pointed her finger at Aria, which scowled.
“Don’t, Zelda!” she said.
Zelda lifted an eyebrow and started singing. “Make her float on a tree!”
Yikes, Bunbun thought to himself again.
But then Aria started lifting on the tree. “Ohh, Zelda, get me down!” She said between bumps. Then she floated back down on the ground.
“Ohhh,” Bunbun said. Then Bunbun smiled big and said, “Make that cloud turn into cotton candy. Yum!” Bunbun squealed at the cotton candy cloud, which slowly went to the ground.
Aria laughed. “Okay little bunny. You can have some cotton candy while we talk.”
Bunbun jumped onto the small little cotton candy cloud and ate it. Sadly, he said, “does this still make people turn black and white?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, yeah, I’m still black and white.”
Then, Bunbun had the greatest idea anyone has ever had. He shouted, “Make it rain rainbow drops!” The ground started to shake and then rainbow drops started splattered everywhere, and wherever they landed, color returned. “That’s way better!” Bunbun said, zooming down the hill.
“Oh, bother, little Bunbun,” Aria said.
“Oh, right,” Zelda said. “He might have just run down the hill.” She stepped on the hill and slid down.
Aria hesitated for a moment, but then slid down and saw Bunbun.
“Bunbun, what did I tell you about–”
“Is my mouth black and white?” Bunbun said.
“Yes,” Aria said.
Bunbun opened his mouth and a few rainbow drops flew in.
“I wonder when we’re going to have time to stop talking about this nonsense.”
“I wonder that too,” Aria said.
“Well, I think it’s going to be now,” Zelda said. “I see the letter z.”
“Z?”
“And it’s golden.”
“Oh, really? Let’s pick it up then.”
Zelda snatched the letter z and placed it in the book and said, “I hope this forms something useful.”
And the book did form something useful. The words came: home.
“Yay!” Bunbun squeaked. “Home!” He took a step, dove straight into the words, and vanished.
“Bunbun!” Zelda cried. She jumped into the book and vanished too.
“I’m so glad we can go home,” Aria said, and she dove into the words too.
“Yay! Home! Home!” she heard a tiny voice squeal.
“Oh, my dragon flew into the book too!” she heard another voice say.
“Ock nee spreee!”
Aria found herself lying in the autumn leaves as everything was turning more autumn, sort of.
Then a gentle pitter-patter hit her on the face.
“Are you going home?” Bunbun said.
“No,” Aria said. “I think I’ll stay with Zelda.
the end
