The Adventures of Anna and Sunshine: a play about an unknown unicorn and a stubborn bunny that go on adventures to discover the secret between humans and animals.
Interviewer to the camera:
“Have you ever:
• Wished to see a Pegasus?
• Wondered why a Unicorn has a horn but not a Pegasus, or why Pegasus has wings, while the unicorn doesn’t?
• Why the legendary Pegasus became so famous?
“Well, Anna, a bunny, recently spotted one off of the coast of Hawaii. She has also been wishing, wondering, and whying about Pegasus, and with her luck, she saw one,” announced the news reporter on national television. “Can you tell us more about it?”
“I’ll be hoppy to,” answered Anna. “I was at my Hawaiian Islands a few months ago, on a mission to find out who on earth was RUINING my precious home. I had a perfect plan, but God decided to do his laundry (it is said that it rains when God is doing his laundry). So right in the middle of my mission the sky turned dense. I was so optimistic about finishing that I didn’t plan ahead, I mean, I knew that usually when the clouds turn dense, it will rain. Anyway, the sky was turning darker by the second, and I was getting worried. I also didn’t think about the predators: coconuts squashing you, foxes, falcons, etc. I can give you a long list of things I didn’t plan for but, those were the most important ones. Anyways, like I said, I didn’t plan about my predators, I didn’t even think about a predator being about 5-6 feet away from me. A fox was sneaking up from behind, and since I saw the shadow, I was hopping around the forest screaming “Somebody help me!”
“Suddenly, a Pegasus with a long frosted mane came running, his head swaying back and forth to a bird’s song. I was so scared I almost fainted. I heard a running sound attacking my ears, and something grabbed my back and threw me onto his back! “Save me!” I cried, but luckily I landed right on target, in a big pile of cow manure.
“Sorry ‘bout that!” the Pegasus cried. He turned back and started to get me, as the fox was getting closer and closer, and the Pegasus grabbed me again and started running as fast as his legs could run; this time I landed on an even better spot: goat manure. I was covered in cow manure and goat manure, and I looked behind me. The fox was like, five feet away, and I was about to have a heart attack.
This time, unfortunately, the fox got me – he slung me over his shoulder and started running, but I had a spasm attack, and this loosened me from the fox, and again I fell. Luckily, I somehow landed on the sitting Pegasus, who took off like rocket blasting into outer space. This time, instead of having a spasm attack, I held onto Pegasus’ mane. The breeze and rain plastered onto my twitching face, and the sky was turning orange as the almost impossible-to-see sun began to fall. I was beginning to close my eyelids when I realized was at the end of Hawaii.
SCENE 2
“Hold on tight,” the Pegasus called out. “We’re going for a ride!”
“Where are we going?” I questioned nervously. I, personally, am afraid of heights.
“China, here we come!” the Pegasus cried again.
“China! Isn’t that like, like, 3,000 miles away?” I screeched.
“Actually, its 5093.3 kilometers (3164.84 miles),” the Pegasus replied.
“Can’t we just somehow sneak onto an airplane?” I moaned. “Save me!”
“Do you have any issues?” the Pegasus wondered. “Because we can turn back if you have any issues.”
“No, will you go back if I’m afraid of heights?” I questioned.
“NO!” the Pegasus bellowed.
“Actually, I do have an issue,” I said, as a light bulb formed in my head.
“What issue do you have?” asked the Pegasus doubtfully.
“Um, I have Ulupalakuaities,” I answered.
“What is Ulupalaities or whatever it’s called?” asked the Pegasus.
“It’s a disease!” I cried, “Sheesh, Almost every bunny has it.”
“Really, because my friend is a bunny and she doesn’t have it,” the Pegasus yelled as he was flapping his wings.
“We’re near Africa,” the Pegasus yelled. The blazing hot weather of Africa flew into my skin. I cringed and twisted a wet nose. I shut my eyes… could this be just a dream? After I opened my eyes I saw all these circles and triangles gliding in the air.
“Africa already!” I exclaimed.
“See, time flies by when you’re complaining!” the Pegasus joked.
“Yeah, Yeah, How many more minutes until we get there and WHY ARE WE GOING THERE!?!?!” I shrieked.
“Well, I’m going on a mission – ” “And I was too!” I interrupted.
“Anyways,” the Pegasus continued. “I am on a mission to… Well, it’s hard to explain.”
“Well, whatever the mission was, it wasn’t as important as mine was!” I screamed.
The Pegasus thought for a minute. “Okay, I have a deal for you, ready?”
“Ready,” I replied.
“Okay, so, if you help me with my mission, I’ll help you with yours,” the Pegasus stated.
“Fine, I’ll do it.” I muttered.
“Okay, for my mission, just follow my lead, all right?” the Pegasus instructed.
“All right,” I sighed. “Follow my lead on my mission, all right?”
“Sure!” the Pegasus cheerfully replied.
SCENE 3
“So, as you can see, there is a long story behind this. We are going to have a short break. Don’t change the channel!” said the news reporter.
“And… we are back live with Anna the bunny with her story of when she saw a Pegasus.”
“So, where were we again?” the bunny questioned.
“Um, we were at um, when, uh, I forgot…” the reporter blurted.
“Ah, yes, now I remember, we were at the part when you were telling the Pegasus what to do when you guys are on your mission,” the reporter shouted thoughtfully.
“Ah, yes, yes, yes, so:
“Okay, for my mission, just follow my lead, all right?” the Pegasus instructed.
“All right,” I sighed. “Follow my lead for my mission all right?”
“Sure!” the Pegasus cheerfully replied.
As the wind plastered my twitching nose, I looked around at the beautiful sunset, clouds, etc; trying not to fall asleep. Now, there could be a million ways to hold onto the Pegasus, but I did the most painful way from the Pegasus’s point of view: gripping onto the mane ATAP (As Tightly As Possible).
“So, since we have some time before we arrive, I’m going to start explaining the basics. AKA Ground Rules,” the Pegasus barked.
“#1: No running around like a wild dog, we are going into one of the biggest cities in China.”
“Which is…” I interrupted.
“Hong Kong,” the Pegasus answered.
“Can I quickly interrupt?” wondered the news reporter.
“Sure,” Anna replied.
“What is the Pegasus’s name, exactly?”
“Oh! Did I forget to tell you?” Anna cried. “The Pegasus’s name was Sunshine.”
“Okay, got it! Sunshine!” the news reporter cried. “Okay, go on.”
“#2. Do not get any food without my permission. It is dangerous out there and I need your help.”
#3. Stick with me no matter what happens.”
“Anything else?” I questioned.
“No,” Sunshine replied.
“Okay, so, when are we going to be there?” I asked.
“8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…, we are in China!” counted the Pegasus.
“I mean, when are we going to be in Hong Kong?” I restated.
“5…4…3…2…1…, we are in Hong Kong!” counted the Pegasus again.
SCENE 4
As we started to land, I saw tall buildings standing very close together, a crystal ocean, and then I realized it was an island. I thought that Hong Kong was beauteous but, of course, dumb ol’ Pegasus thought it was normal! I mean compare a beautiful city to a typical house or apartment… I mean, yes, your house or apartment is large and pretty, but, seriously, you would rather see a typical house or apartment than a beautiful city? Sheesh, the Pegasus is crazy.
Anyway, the landscape was obnoxiously beauteous. We started to land in a crisp green forest when we came upon a strange man who looked like Confucius. I know that Confucius died a long time ago so I knew it couldn’t be him, but I thought about Confucius’ story. According to the story, Confucius knew he was going to die soon when he saw a unicorn. But, wait, Pegasus wasn’t a unicorn; he was a horse with wings! Could a Pegasus bring luck to a wise, old, person? I figured that Pegasus’s mission was to show someone that he/she had good luck.
“Hey, Sunshine?” I started. “Is your mission to give a wise, old person luck?”
Sunshine snorted in surprise. “Yeah! Why?”
“Because I have a question.”
“What?”
“How is that hard to explain?”
“Well, if you didn’t know that Pegasus brings luck then it’s hard to explain,” Sunshine replied.
“It is Not Hard To Explain!” I screamed.
“Is Too!”
“Is Not!”
“Is Too!”
We were fighting for a while.
SCENE 5
“Stop!” shouted the Confucius twin. “You’re all being such babies, ridiculous babies; it doesn’t matter how easy or hard it is, it’s about working together.”
“Annnnnnnnnnnd?” Sunshine asked.
“And, you are suppose to be working together to help each other out,” Confucius tried to explain. “You’re supposed to be helping her and she is supposed to be helping you.”
“So?”
“So, you’re supposed to be helping her.”
“Well, she’s supposed to be helping me; not the other way around!”
We were in a lush forest, and bright green trees swayed to the gentle beat of a bird’s song. Now, you might be wondering how on earth Confucius was here after he died…oh, you’ll figure out later. Anyway, Confucius-ish acted exactly like Confucius, I mean, he acted so teacher-y, commanding, and like he’s the boss; he also looked exactly like him. I was starting to wonder if we were back in time. As I said before, his acts so teacher-y, commanding, and like as if he’s the boss. Confucius-ish started to blab about something like… chemistry. He started to then blab about the linear equation. He said something like… – x + 5 y = -4 – 5 y = 0. Anyway, the problem was sooooooooo confusing. I mean who knows that? He was talking for a very, when I mean very, I seriously mean VERY, long time. I thought his mouth didn’t know how to close. Sunshine told me at least FIVE times to listen to Confucius. Wait a minute, could this be the real Confucius?
“20 minute break; be back by 8,” Confucius commanded. I dashed over to Sunshine. “What year are we in?!” I shouted.
“Um let’s see here; 479 B.C.”
“479 B.C!”
“Yep.”
“You never told me that!”
“Well you wouldn’t come if I did tell you!”
“Well, YEAH! That’s the point!”
“So, you’re following me! If you didn’t come, then I wouldn’t have a helper! Are you still following me?”
“Yeah.”
“Without the help, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish my mission.”
“What about my mission?”
“What mission, Anna?”
“My mission was to see who was ruining my home; I was trying to gather up some conclusions. Well, guess what? I’m leaving!”
“You wouldn’t dare!”
“Try me!”
“Sure, first of all you need to cross the ocean, which leads us to number 2; you have to travel back to 2013!”
“Oh yeah, I could still do my mission here.”
“It’s not the same as Hawaii!”
“But it’s similar.”
“True that, true that.”
“Hey, look, it’s 7: 58, we should get ready for Confucius’ lesson about linear equations.”
“Sure, let’s go.”
SCENE 6
Back with the reporter
“Anna, I’m confused, didn’t Confucius die in 479 B.C.?”
“Yeah -”
“So, Pegasus is a time traveler?”
“Yes.”
“Ohhhhhhhh, now I get it, go on.”
Confucius must have talked about four different subjects per hour, covering ten total, because he didn’t let us go to sleep until midnight! When we were preparing for bed I asked Sunshine,
“How much longer do we have to stay here?”
“About one more day. Can you manage?”
“Yeah… I guess.”
“Good bunny.”
“Hey!”
“Sorry.”
The moment I fell onto the squishy, soft, comfortable bed I immediately fell asleep.
***
Confucius dragged me out of bed at 6 am. I mean, has he ever heard of beauty sleep? No, he hasn’t. All he thinks about is learning; learning, learning, learning; is the only thing in his noggin’?
I looked at Confucius carefully. After all, today we got to play educational games. I noticed that the morning sunshine reflected on his pink-white beard.
“The first game we will play is Mindblaster. Someone thinks of ten colors and the players have to guess it. ”
I couldn’t exactly hear what he was saying because of the wind heavily blowing.
All of a sudden, Confucius had trouble thinking; I thought it was just because of old age. He was sputtering and gasping in between words. I thought and thought about why he was doing this. Perhaps, I thought, Confucius is going to die… today!
“Hey, hey Pegasus!” I whispered.
“Yeah, what’s up?”
“I need to talk to you!”
“I can’t! I’m trying to hold someone from falling onto the ground,” he whispered as he pointed to Confucius.
“Here, I’ll grab him. You drag a big rock over and rest Confucius on it.”
“Okay, what did you need?” Sunshine questioned. “Someone’s dying here!”
“Look, we can’t get suspected for assassinating Confucius which only leads us to going back to…”
“2013!” we chorused.
SCENE 7
Sunshine boosted me onto his back. He started to run and we lifted off the ground.
As we flew back to Hawaii the fresh air plastered onto my face like rubber glue. I looked around; everything was moving so quickly, and I could only see patterny shaped things, like circles swirling in triangles… all I could hear with my tiny little ears was a buzzing sound. So Sunshine was right! We were traveling back into the future! Within a few minutes Sunshine came to a sudden halt. I looked around… We were in HAWAII! I leapt off Sunshine’s back with joy swiftly flowing through my fur to the prestigious air. I ran around the area I was in… okay, fine, I hopped around the area, inquisitively. I then started to hear drilling. I hopped through the area with my nose stuck up high, and listened for the RUINERS. I hopped around for a few hours on Maui Island and finally came upon a construction site… at least I think it was. I saw humans. So that was it! Humans are destroying my precious home – the place I grew up, the place I was born, the place Mother bunny and Father bunny met, the place where Father bunny gathered food. Now, my home was being ruined.
My ears burned with fury. Why would anyone do this to me? I didn’t harm them or anything. I really wanted them to stop, to stop ruining my precious memories, to stop ruining my home, to stop cutting down trees, to stop pouring concrete foundations, to stop framing it up with wooden beams, to stop hammering their nails, and to stop everything! They didn’t know how it was harming animals. After all, humans are also animals. The horrible sound of the drilling flowed through my eardrums. The noise was more and more painful by the second. I could tell my eardrums were going to explode any moment now. I was so anxious to get revenge. After all, the workers do deserve a something something. I was thinking over a plan when Sunshine appeared, singing! As I listened, I thought, wait a minute, I can put on a show! I can visually represent how we are being damaged and Sunshine can sing a song about the habitat destruction. I’ll call it the DESTRUCTION SHOW! I can make tickets, customize flyers, have VIP seats, (for the construction workers) and hand out programs.
“Do you have a copy of the program,” the reporter questioned.
“Yeah, wait, let me find it… Ah ha! Here it is!”
This is what it looked like:
The Destruction Show!
Starring: Anna Bunny and Sunshine Pegasus
Fee: $10
Date: 1.20.13
“Wow impressive! Go on.”
“Anyways, we started to put up all the posters, near where there was a lot of recreation.” Anna hesitated. “Ok, mostly at the construction sites and parks but we still but some up at other places! Oh yeah, and I composed my first piece of music for Sunshine! It went like this:
“Hey People! In case you haven’t known!
Hey Humans! The earth isn’t on a loan!
Start listening! Animals are talking to you!”
Luckily we tracked down all the posters we put up and added ‘Place: The Maui Island Palace Theater, 521, Kings Street, Ulupalakua, Maui Island, Hawaii.” On the 7th we traveled to the theater. The place was gigantic. Sunshine leapt onto the stage screeching the song I wrote for him. I folded my ears the best I could. He sounded horrible! I walked up to him.
“Hey Sunshine! Let me teach you how to sing!” I hopped onto the piano, starting to play the introduction. Halfway through the song the door creaked open. A faint, far-off voice yelled “Security! Call the Animal Control! Bunny and Unicorn spotted… Exit 4 right wing!”
I glanced at Sunshine. “Run!” he shouted.
“I can’t,” I cried. “I hop! Not run!” Sunshine sighed and told me to hop on his back. I was next to Sunshine until he kicked me with his leg; the next thing I knew, I was flying through the air onto his back.
“Ready?” he asked.
“No need for ready-or-nots. Just go!!” I yelled.
“Okay, okay, but you don’t need to shout,” he replied.
“Just go!” I shouted once again.
We realized as we flew away that we’d neglected to get permission to use the theater.
End of Act 7
Act 8
“What are we going to do?” I cried.
“The only thing we can do is travel back in time!” Sunshine answered.
“But we can’t! What about Confucius!”
“Right, What if we traveled to 179 B.C.? That way we can’t get accused of murdering Confucius?”
“What if we just go back 5 days or something?” I asked.
“We can’t!” he snorted.
“Why?!” I wondered.
“It’s either we stay where we are or go back to 179 B.C.”
“Well, I choose or.”
“Or isn’t a choice.”
“Fine, I choose choice.”
“Okay, stop messing with me and we can go back five days.”
“So, you were lying?”
“No, I was just saying that you had to choose one or the other.”
“So, you were lying!”
“How?!”
“You said we couldn’t go back five days.”
“No I said it was hard to – finding the right second to move out of the time warp is really tricky!”
“But you said we couldn’t!”
“It’s just hard since every day goes by extremely quickly. If miss it by one moment you can be really off.
“Just try… please?!”
“Fine, I’ll try but don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
“Okay.”
Sunshine started running really fast. As soon as I could see faint shape of triangles and circles, Sunshine started diving down. Sunshine quickly looked at the date.
“Yes, exactly 5 days!” he yelled.
“Yes!” I screamed. We landed exactly where we were last time, Maui Island. I knew exactly how to get to the theater. First you turn left, then right, then left, then left again.
“Aha,” I shouted, and then read the sign: The Maui Island Palace Theater, 521, Kings Street, Ulupalakua, Maui Island, Hawaii.
We lined up to speak to the front office. Once we got to the front we came across a nice women behind the desk. We discussed renting the theater. We decided to rent it every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 12-2 for two weeks. That gave us two hours to practice each day, totaling six hours each week. So it led to being charged for 12 hours of practice.
“That should be enough!” Sunshine cried.
“But a lot of money and effort,” I grumbled.
“Okay… that costs $3,000.” The lady calculated.
I pulled out of my wallet out of my fur and handed three $1000 bills to the lady. Since it was Wednesday, and was noon, we walked into the theater and started rehearsing. We started with a vocal warm-up. Then we started with the play. We found some tape and marked where we were located on the stage, adding props and making notes about costumes. That took us about an hour and we had an hour left to practice. We started with the Grand Finale because well, it’s the grand finale alright?! It has to be perfect.
SCENE 9
After a week of work and acting we decided to hire fifty of my relatives to take part in the play. Mostly as staff – lighting technicians and backstage crew. These bunnies make it possible to run the play. We also needed a stage manager. We decided it to have my mom be the stage manager since she did some acting when she was younger, and stage managers are in the same union as actors.
“Anna!” cooed the news reporter.
“Yes?”
“What was the secret ingredient to the cupcake recipe?”
“Uh…uh… It was secret alright? A secret ingredient is sec ret! Hence the word… SECRET!”
“Okay… Please finish the story.”
“Alright, after all, it made sense since that my mom would stage manage since no one else in my family did acting. Anyways, it was quite tough to find my relatives and make sure they knew how humans are harming animals. It ended up that they understood imperfectly how humans were harming animals so, we basically spent three hours lecturing them for nothing.
“That was a extreme waste of time.” Sunshine sighed, after we were finshed.
“Yeah,” I agreed.
We improved day by day. At the end we decided to not have costumes since it took too much time and money. We also decided to postpone the play since we felt we didn’t have enough time. We decided to have it on the Thursday, January 30th so humans would have time to settle down after the New Year. On the 25th we decided to have an extra three days of practice including two mandatory dress rehearsals. The problem with the mandatory dress rehearsal is that since it is a dress rehearsal we have to pay extra money since there are more people participating. At the end we had to pay an extra $2000 for the extra three days.
SCENE10
The Play
It was January 30th, the day of the play. The theater was getting extremely crowded. Just before the play I peeked out of the curtain.
“Sunshine!” I cried. “It’s a full house!”
“Yes! We did it!”
“And I couldn’t do it without your help!”
Sunshine blushed, his frosted mane turning pink.
“Alright everyone! Ten minutes!” yelled my mom. “If you didn’t get makeup yet, go to Uncle George and Aunt Isabel now!”
“Okay, 5…4…3…2…1…It’s show time!”
We started out with a couple of bunnies dressed as humans using construction tools to build something. Then we had five bunnies coughing away from the smoke and dirt. From that we had a couple bunnies pretend to die. This changed the audiences’ face. I even saw a couple of faces with tears rolling down their cheeks. After a few more scenes most of the audience had tears in their eyes. Some of the construction workers looked as if they were about to quit. After all of the skits we first took a bow than went onto the Grand Finale. By the time I started to play the intro to the final song, most of the audience was already clapping!
“Hey People! In case you haven’t known!
Hey Humans! The earth isn’t on a loan!
Start listening! Animals are talking to you!”
SCENE 11
Happily Ever After
At the end of the finale we took one last bow and walked off the stage. We gathered at the lobby of the theater for snacks and drinks.
“That was awesome!” my cousin Isabella exclaimed as she started munching on a chocolate chip cookie. Isabella loved chocolate chip cookies, especially with milk.
Someone then tapped on my back. It was Sunshine!
“Listen,” he whispered. “I really got to go. I have another mission: I’ve got to make sure Ghengis Kahn is kept away from India! I have to go back to 1215!”
“A.D. or B.C.?” I asked.
“A.D.,” he snapped. “Do your history timelines!”
My heart sunk. I really wanted him to stay.
“It was really nice meeting you,” he continued. “I wish you all the best.”
“Thanks, same to you.” I sniffed and my bunny eye blinked away a gigantic clear teardrop.
I watched him take off. Once he was in the sky he turned his head back and waved. I smiled and waved back.
SCENE 12
“Thank you Anna!” smiled the reporter. “That was a very touching story. Well that’s all for today.”
“See you tomorrow!” waved the news reporter to the camera. Anna waved and smiled, and one last drop fell from both her bunny eyes.
THE END