Hot-pen - Mouse and Bear story

Abracadabra! shouted the mouse. You once were a bear and now your a...

“CAT!” ........  “Oooooops!” The mouse gulped, his ears twitching madly. The question was – would the bear remember what a NICE mouse he was, how he had shown him the best places to find honey. Would he remember their games together and how Mouse ALWAYS let him win at chess? Or would his new ‘cat’ senses take over, would he suddenly find his old friend looked as tasty as a pot of honey always used to?

Mouse’s mind raced wildly. Mouse magic only lasted for half an hour – that was something, but half an hour was more than enough time to eat him. What could he do? There was only one thing for it. He looked up at his Bear-Cat friend and shouted loudly: “HELP! Next-doors dog is after us – RUN FOR THE MOUSEHOLE!” Bear-Cat’s eyes widened and he looked around him for the dog.

“No time to waste LOOKING!” shouted Mouse, as loudly as he could – “RUN!”

 Mouse and Bear-Cat ran for the mousehole. Bear, in the good old days was just of a size to fit in the door, now however he was a cat and cats do not fit in mouseholes. But he was running far too fast to stop.

SMACK! He hit his head on the wall above the mousehole and sunk to the floor.  Mouse cringed. He looked over at his friend who, it was plain would be ‘sleeping’ for  awhile.

“Sorry old chap,” he whispered  – “I couldn’t take the risk – you’d have felt terrible if you’d turned back into yourself and remembered that you’d had me for dinner.”

Then he went off and burnt his wand and all his magic books – there were some things that a mouse should leave well alone!