Quick Feed Him an Egg

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   Night has fallen, with it follows washed blue-green hues and pale silver rays of moonlight as the moon peers through parting clouds.  Lurking around in the gnarled thick-wooded forest frolicked a trio of strange clowns with unsettling face paint and abnormally wide grins smeared across their faces. One clown was tall, ginger haired and bearing a collar like mane. This was the leader of the trio, he was loud, giggling and grinning madly as he juggled several red rubber balls, never dropping one nor missing a catch as he marched through the forest growth in search of something. Another was a shorter clown, though not necessarily considered 'short', this one had hair as white as snow and the moonlight streaking through the canopy seemed to give a glow effect to those white strands. His face was painted orange with black stitches decorating his wide toothy smile and he had a slight look of annoyance present on his face as he followed the ginger clown. Lastly was a vibrant haired clown, bubblegum pink hair pushed to the side and soft colourful clowny clothing, he held a gentle smile most of the time though his eyes gave one the feeling of being prey, hunted by an unexpected predator... This bubblegum clown followed behind the other two slowly with a colourful gift box clasped between his clawed gloved paws.

   "Bravo, where are we going even, we've been walking for hours", complained the frosty haired clown, only to get a half-lidded glare shot back at him from the ginger clown. "I already told you Bo, we are seeking the strange purple lizard who keeps eating all the eggs from our fridge, now keep moving, I'm on his trail", he spoke louder than necessary as he crouched down to pick up a dried violet reptile scale. "He's been here....SEE I told you! I am always right", the clown spoke to no one in particular as he mumbled inaudible nonsense to himself. "He wants to believe he is always right but brother has led us in a circle three times before landing on the correct path..." spoke the bubblegum haired clown off to the left of Bo. Bo nodded in response, agreeing with his wiser older brother "yeah but let him have his dumb victory Ridley", his voice trailed away as he began moving away from the others. Now with Bo ahead of the trio, he scanned a clearing they had stumbled into for any familiar purple scales glittering on the forest floor.

   Unfortunately Bo found no scales on the ground and no tracks of the strange purple 'lizard' who Bravo claims to be stealing their eggs from the fridge. "Ghh I'm bored... can we just buy new eggs and go home? By now, he's probably miles and miles away from our house", Bo sighed as he sat down on a tree stump nearby. Crossing his arms, the orange-faced clown pulled random balloon animals out of his sleeves and began drawing frowny faces on them with a sharpie pen he had also pulled from his sleeves at some point. Ridley took a seat beside him on the ground and opened his gift box he had been carrying the whole time. Out of the gift box crawled a horrid looking creature made of tar, dried bones and crow feathers, it cawed unnaturally then straightened itself up, looking almost like a normal crow with it's posture, despite being made mostly of tar.
"Why do you carry around that ugly thing, it stinks", complained Bo as he pointed at Ridley's abomination 'pet' with a clawed finger.

   Ridley passed him an annoyed glance then turned back to his 'pet', cooing at it while gently tapping it's head, which oddly did not stick to the clown's gloved hand. "Stop being a jerk brother, Crackers is a normal bird like any other bird, he's just able to live forever like us, unlike earth-born birds". "Crackers?? You seriously named him Crackers?? How unfitting! I would have named him Stinky or Muddy", Bo laughed in a mocking manner before getting distracted by a firefly buzzing by. Any normal person would have probably stared at it in awe or perhaps just ignore it, but not Bo, nope, he inhaled it like a vacuum then crunched down on it like a crispy potato chip. Bravo slightly tilted his head and blinked offended at what he just witnessed from his younger brother but said nothing of it as he joined them by the tree stump as well.

   Just as the three were about to give up their search on the purple lizard, a weird baby alligator-like noise sounded from the lake just beside the forest, drawing the attention of all three horror clowns. Each of them jerked their head in the direction of the lake as silver light reflected off their light orbs for eyes, giving them a feral animalistic look to their shadowed faces. "He's here", they all spoke eerily in unison as they began to rise to their feet. Heading in the direction of the lake, the three clowns met the familiar face of the purple 'lizard' who was actually not a lizard at all, but a dragon in his 'lesser' form.
The dragon had just took a dip in the lake and was now basking on the shore staring at the three clowns with a mischievous look in his eyes. "YOU, EGG THIEF, stop sneaking into our kitchen in the early mornings and stealing our eggs!" Bravo was pointing at the dragon now, accusing him of being an egg thief, his voice grew in volume and echoed among the trees, making the clown brothers presence very known to any passerby.

   Ridley placed a hand gently on Bravo's shoulder which silenced him immediately "stop yelling please or I will eat your face off", he spoke calm and casually with a gentle smile still fixed onto his face before leaving his side to observe the dragon on the shoreline. Bravo was speechless for a moment but scoffed then crossed his arms like a pouting child as he followed his eldest brother. All three clowns now looked down at the dragon who continuously barked baby alligator noises at them in irritation. "What does he want? Why is he making those dreadful noises Ridley? I don't like it! Do something about it this instant", the stream of complaints continued till the elder brother pulled a random chicken egg from his patchy pockets and dropped it into the gaping maw of the complaining dragon. Instantly the dragon hushed himself, pleased with this offering, he swallowed the egg whole then joined Ridley's side like a dog waiting to have a leash put on for walking time.  Confused the clown looked to the other brothers then back to the dragon, "eggs seem to silence him, perhaps he can be of use to us? What do you think? A dragon added to our performances?"

   Bo shrugged, "well... he probably can do tricks, that would also be a nice attraction to our business, a pet dragon who can be tamed with eggs, sounds kinda funny". Bravo nodded, "very well.... we will bring this egg-thief lizard back to our cottage, though I'm quite sure he already knows the way considering how often he has stolen from us", he grumbled. He then began to climb onto the back of this scaly magical reptile who was about the size of a small alligator. Seeming to not be bothered by the weight on his back, the dragon walked onward casually with the ginger haired clown brother standing tall, perched on his back, heading in the direction of their home. "Would you look at that, he even makes good transportation, quick, feed him another egg, walk faster my scaly annoying friend!" Ridley pulled another chicken egg from his uniform pockets and fed the glittering violet dragon who gulped it in one go before picking up the pace in his crawl. With that, the clowns had made a new friend and team member to their unusual and probably unsettling clown party band.

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