(2016)

In the world of fey all was quiet. This meant dull and boring to the Summer Court jester, Puck. Puck loved to make trouble for anyone, for any reason, if it meant a bit of fun. So it was no surprise that what happens next, does. You see Queen Titiana was quite upset. Within the last week she had been humiliated with the whole "Nick the donkey man" ordeal and to make things worse, she had lost her favorite servant boy. All because her husband, the grate king Oberon. Deep down she loved him, but at the moment she was vary irritated with him.

"I don't care what he's king of, he doesn't have any right to do anything like that to me. I am the Queen, after all." This is what she was saying to herself when she happened to pass under the tree Puck was relaxing in. He had been trying to think of the next brilliant way to cause trouble, and this was just too good a chance to miss.

"And I suppose you do?" He called down to the irritated fairy. The queen knew of Pucks ways and that any dealings with him tended to end badly. Frankly she wanted some revenge bad enough to overlook that fact just this once.

"What are you suggesting?" she asked the mischievous hobgoblin.

"Only that I happen to have some of the flower left. If you like, I could let you use it to make him fall in love with a donkey, just like he did to you." Titiana liked this idea very much, but she wouldn't sink as low as her underserving husband and any way it was Goodfellow's idea. Yes, that would due she would just have Puck do the job, but she just had to add her own touch to it.

"Just one thing: have him fall for something else, a donkey is too obvious."

And so he did. That night he snuck quietly in to the king's chamber and using the flower cast the spell on the sleeping king, and then carefully carried him outside to the pig sty. Laying him down gently, he went behind a bush. When kink Oberon woke up., he saw the most beautiful face ever seen. "Oink" said the face. O what a precious sound.

Meanwhile, Puck was having a good laugh before he went to report to the Queen. But as he tiptoed pass the king; he noticed the king's scepter and crown on the ground, where Oberon had dropped it to go roll in the mud with his new found sweetheart. Puck smiled as a new idea formed in his mind. Quickly he snatched the crown and scepter, and then hurried to see Titiana.

Titiana was quite surprised when Puck marched in to the room with the king's crown on his head with the king's best robe wrapped around him like a blanket, waving the king's scepter, and boomed "bow before your new king" in his best imitation of a king's voice.

"What?!" the Queen said in bewilderment "I shall do no such thing."

"Then I shall have you beheaded for disobeying your king."

"You may be the jester, but this joke of yours has gone too far. You are no king."

"Yes I am. I looked it up in the Book of laws, so you have to do what I say, now bow to me."

"Just because you have a crown on your head, it doesn't make you a king."

"No, but I have the scepter to so that makes me king, I looked it up."

And that's how the "joyful" rain of Puck started. He mad laws that everyone had to go to a party once a day and go to the ongoing royal ball once a week, you could only eat candy, and you had to laugh at ALL his jokes no matter how bad they got. To make matters worse they couldn't just go get Oberon because: one King puck had ordered them not too, and two he had wondered of in to the deep forest and had likely been eaten by something or another. So they were stuck with the parties and desserts. That was unless Oberon somehow got rid of the spell.

Fortunately being king has some advantages. One is that everyone knows who you are, including the wizard who happened to trip on him as he was sleeping under a tree. This wizard was smart enough to know that under normal circumstances kings didn't doze under trees and especially not while hugging a rather large pigs, so he knew something must be up. And there was no harm in asking what.

"What, may I ask, are you doing here?" he asked the drowsy king. Oberon looked up at him and smiled before he reapplied.

"I'm spending a wonderful afternoon with my Pigleta."

"But, aren't you supposed to be ruling a kingdom?"

"I suppose." After a moment's thought he asked "where is this kingdom again? I seem to have forgotten."

At this point in the conversation the wizard was getting vary annoyed. The whole thing was going no ware and he felt very much like bopping the silly king upside the head with his cane. The "silly" king gave a resigned sigh and tried to stand up. He failed horribly because he was still holding on to the pig that he had previously been using as a pillow. Looking up at the wizard he asked "could you possibly give me a hand or two up" and that was the last string. The wizard gave the king a good thump on the head. After a surprised look the king's face became angry.

"What was that for?"

"Well you didn't seem to have sense in that head of yours, so it wouldn't matter if I walloped you." The wizard said, slightly taken aback by the king's change in manner.

"What do you mean 'no sense'?"

"Well you seem to be quite taken by that pig of yours..."

"Pig, what pig?" The king was now thoroughly confused.

The wizard, a bit confused himself, pointed to the pig that was still sleeping. At first the king simply looked at the pig with a disgusted face, and then with the realization came anger and one word.

"Puck"

At court, King Puck was having a food fight with the counselors when king Oberon appeared, and to say the least he was not happy. Everyone else however was very happy to see the old King more or less back to his old self. That was everyone but Puck. Probably because he had been ready to launch a raspberry pie at a counselor, only Oberon had arrived just in time to get the surprise in his face. After trying to wipe some of the sticky mess of his face, Oberon turned his angry glare on the rest of the court and, with as much dignity as one can have with a pie in ones face, seethed an angry "you are dismissed".

Anyone who had survived the summer court this long knew not to question an angry king, former or not, so everyone was quick to try and get out. During all the bustle, Puck tried to creep out. But he wasn't going to get off that easily. Marching over to puck, king Oberon snatched his scepter and crown, which by this point had been covered in glitter during one of pucks numerous slumber parties.

The king gave the crown a baffled look. "You bedazzled my crown? I should have you..."

But we will never know what exactly the king would have done to Puck, though many things were suggested. Fr at that moment Puck began to laugh hysterically. He bent over, clutching his sides as a mist started to drift up from his feet. Than with one last giggle, he disappeared.