Animal Amulets (9)
Molly watched him potter around the laboratory, checking things. She couldn´t make out what was going on until she saw him take out from a cage two white mice. One had a ear on her back. The other had two tails. Molly put two and two together and shouted, “Hey that´s my ear and you there, that´s my tail.”
The two laboratory mice looked over at her.
“Hello Molly,” said one, “this is Lucy, I´m Spike. These extra limbs are not yours, the Pied Piper grows them on us. We always thought it was the humans who worked for the cats and not the other way around, things are clearer now that we´ve been shoved into this torture camp. They do experiments on us constantly. I can´t tell you how sorry I am to see you here. The wasps by the window told us what Tiger had planned for you. I suppose he has the amulet.” sighed Spike.
“Yes he does but I´m not sure what it does or why it´s so important,” said Molly.
“Tiger is a smart cat, the amulet gives a shape changing power to the wearer. Tiger knows it´s the humans, not the cats that call the shots. He´s going to turn himself into a human. At the moment we´re safe enough. Humans need us lab mice but Tiger wants to rid the world of all vermin. He´s very manipulative so he thinks he can get the Pied Piper, who is capable of anything if you pay him well, to wipe out all types of rats and mice.” said Spike and his whole body slumped over as he finished his sentence.
“He´ll be asleep now for about ten minutes, he does that a lot lately.” whispered Lucy.
“We´ve got to get the amulet back off Tiger, where´s the crow, he was only half on Tiger´s side, maybe he can help us?” squeaked Molly in a blind panic. She felt extremely responsible for the survival or extinction of her kind right now.
“I´m here too,” said a voice from above her cage. Molly´s heart sank into her belly.
Meanwhile Tiger was busy. He put the amber amulet around his neck, made his wish and in a puff of smoke there stood a fairly hairy human. He rushed out of the shed and put on some of the Pied Piper´s clothes that were hanging on the clothes´ line. A little bit of trivia for you now, if you know any extremely hairy humans that wear a lot of jewellery, there´s a fair chance that they are really animals wearing shape changing amulets.
He dashed back into the shed and grabbed the banjo thinking to himself, the Pied Piper is a sucker for musical instruments. It would make a nice motivational present for the person who was going to create the poison that would eradicate all mice and rats from the planet. Maybe a nice disease would do the trick.