Once upon a time there was a man who lived near a beautiful lake. He loved his lakehouse, far away from the craziness of the world. He enjoyed the solitude immensely, everything was perfect. Well almost perfect!
One crisp Autumn day he was sitting on his deck looking at the lake. He had taken his morning swim and was enjoying sitting in the sun, alone with his thoughts. Would the day ever come where he would finally spend more time in his home, than he did on the lake?
His story was a little tragic, for long ago he had been captured by an evil fairy, who had placed a spell on him. She had turned him into a Duck!
Fortunately his friends had rescued him from the forest but they hadn’t been able to break the spell! He still looked like a duck, waddled like a duck and quacked like a duck, so he was a duck, though not really! He was able to talk, but after every few words he would let out a QUACK! It drove the poor guy crazy! Not to mention, his friends as well, when listening to him.
They promised that they wouldn’t give up trying to find out the cure and today was the day that they planned to try the latest cure.
His one friend told him to cross his fingers and toes in hopes that it would work. He then laughed as he remembered that he couldn’t very well do that, for he was a duck!
The poor man couldn’t wait to have his hands and feet back again! Oh to look like a human again! No more duck face! If his friends told him to make a duckface one more time for the camera he was sure to lose it! They thought they were hilarious!
Hearing a car pull up, his thoughts were interrupted. They were here, the time had come. Would this cure work?? He waddled towards the car with his webbed feet and a pensive duckface.
After greeting the 3 guys and chatting and quacking a little, they got down to business.
“Here is the magic potion for you to drink. Its coffee made with extra special beans. A raspberry, caramel,banana, marshmallow flavor.”
The poor guy grimaced and had a very pouty duckface, he hated coffee! But he hated being a duck even more!
He went to start slurping it, for its not like he had hands to hold the cup. His friends said, “Wait! Has to be rigbt at Noon! You have 2 minutes to wait.”
He gave his friends a look, but they had straight faces as they told him he had to follow the rules exactly.
“Go!” They shouted! “Keep slurping until its all done!”
Mr.Duckface slurped and slurped, and a few times he felt like puking! At last he finished, but he was still a duck!
Now we need to say a chant over you and you need to stick your head under the water while we say it. He gave them a questioning look again but waddled down to the lake. Stuck his head in the water and his bottom in the air.
His friends started chanting and suddenly he was sputtering! He lifted his head up spitting out water. He was human again!!
“It worked, it worked!!” He shouted with utter joy, dancing a jig. His friends were ectastic. Everyone was in high spirits when Kendra pulled into the driveway.
She was grinning from ear to ear. “I see that this is a day of celebration!”
Mr. No longer Duckface had a broad smile! “Yes, that magic potion coffee was the worse and being upside down in the water wasn’t fun but it was all worth it!”
Kendra had a confused look, “a magic potion….upside down in the water?? But all you had to do was…”
His friends quickly interrupted Kendra. ” Hey buddy, lets all pose for a pic and how about going for a ride on your boat?”
“Wait! I want to know what Kendra was going to say.”
All eyes were on Kendra and she noticed the pleading look in his friends eyes. It took her a moment but she figured it out, and had to restrain her laughter.
“So no more duck lips, eh? Too bad, I thought they looked good on you.” He made a face at her and she laugbed, telling them to all go out on the boat and she would whip togethet a celebratory meal.
Watching them go she shook her head laughing. Oh, if he only knew that all that was required to break the spell was the chant. Something his friends were fully aware of! She walked back to the lakehouse. Fun was always around when one had crazy friends!
Mr. Duckface? Gad, and now you’ve poisoned me with coffee. But at least I’m a human again, and am no longer quacking with every other sentence.
Thank you for breaking the spell, as I was feeling down, being a duck. I made a splash for awhile, but my meals always tasted fishy. And life will be less expensive now, because I’m not always stuck with a big bill. But I will have to fight with the airlines now, as I’ll want a refund when I cancel my plane ticket to South America.
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Hey, it was your nameless friends who made you drink coffee and go upside down in the water, not me. 🙂 Guess a desperate duck will fall for anything ! 😂
You are welcome. I thought you deserved a chance to stop quacking. You may not be a duck anymore , but you are still quscked!
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Since I’m Mr. Duckface, perhaps my nameless friends should be named also. But that’s your department, so I’ll leave that up to you.
Now please tell me, what the heck is qusked?
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Well if I do a story about them again perhaps they will have names but remember that series is finished! Mr. Duckface is no longer a duck and all is well! 🙂 And “no comment” to your question, smart aleck!
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I really think we should have a naming ceremony for all those nameless friends who made me drink poison and dunk my head under water. It could be an epilogue to your very long series.
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LOL! Shaking my head! Epilogues don’t work! I tried that with another series and …. now due to an enchanted ring the series is stilllll going!
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But that just shows how popular your writing is. Epilogues seem to work fantastic in your stories. And the more, the merrier.
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It’s usually best that she not include names as they seem to change throughout the story.
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“Haha!” Mr.Nameless!
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Hmm, so maybe this why my “friends” are kept nameless. It’s less of a challenge for her, in keeping names straight.
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You’ll no longer have to avoid your mother so she doesn’t find out that you are a duck. All that ducking your mother must have made tired, but you’ll no longer have to be a low down mother ducker.
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Oh my gosh! Someday my phone is going to break from being dropped, due to laughing and …smacking my head!…!
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I recommend an Otterbox phone case.
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Perhaps I need to invest in that when I invest in a helmet!
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The way you comment here, I’m beginning to suspect you’re one of my nameless “friends.”
But I’m glad my mother never found out I was a duck, as that would have really ruffled her feathers.
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I was just in the desert and I did see a horse with no name.
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That’s likely one of my nameless friends. I understand they like to horse around a lot.
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I think that horses from Mexico wander across the river from time-to-time and hang out in Big Bend National Park. They don’t carry passports so it is difficult to tell.
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You should just ask them. You could have asked the horse that you saw in the desert what its name was!
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I did, winnie replied, he just said neigh.
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😶🤚
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I hear there’s some sort of catch-and-release program going on at the border. Maybe these horses are part of it.
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I should have just “😶🤚” before getting up this morning, would have saved time!
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Why don’t you just have Brad smack your head for you? Might work better than an alarm clock.
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“Funnnny!” 😛
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And now I have the song stuck in my head!
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That could be your new theme music.
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Wellll….not sure! But at least its better than a certain “crazy train” song!
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This duck has the potential to star in an Aflac commercial.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hBmveGOvGI&list=PLrtg1zZDUpZymwBhH-N8wlOg8BgD-dxJl&index=5&t=0s
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LOL! Yes, perhaps I turned him back into a human too soon! 🙂
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Somewhere else in the world there was a duck who had been transformed into a human for a quite a while that has now returned to being a duck.
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So I made 2 ducks hqppy with this tale! 🙂
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This sounds like a tale from the Quacklight Zone.
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No problem with the coffee made with extra special beans. Sounds good! But the raspberry, caramel, banana, and marshmallow flavor… eeew. I’ll take mine black, please.
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You can thank Jason for all those extra flavors in the coffee. You wouldn’t believe the flavors that he comes up with, I was trying to be easier on your stomach. I highly question his taste in coffee! 😊
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Heh, heh…with friends like that…😈
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LOL!! 😄
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This really quacked me up — both the story and the comments! 🙂 Now you’ve got me wondering how raspberry, caramel, banana, and marshmallow coffee flavors would mix. I like them all separately, but I have my doubts as to whether I would be brave enough to try that combination!
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I should add a little a notation to my stories, saying for more entertainment read the comments! LOL!
I am not sure whether I would be brave to try that combo either BUT it didn’t make me gag like some of the combos that Jason comes up with do! I have had raspberry banana together and ir was good!
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How did he ot burn himself chugging a cup of coffee?
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It was iced coffee, smartie!
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how’d he not get brain freeze then?
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😶🤚!
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Quack
Quack
Quack
I love hearing ducks laugh.
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😄
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