Billy had had a very eventful weekend with his friends. They had all sat down to play video games! Everyone except for Charlie. But that was okay – he played referee on their tournament! Brandon kept trying to make wagers, but no one could afford to match him, so that didn’t work out, and he wasn’t allowed to bribe anyone – Charlie told him so before he could even try to ask anyone to throw a game.
Endrik played for a little while – as two different characters at once! At least until he grew bored and wanted to play with his Legos again. It had all come down to Billy and Vinny, and had lasted a really long time. Charlie said it only took so long because they were both being stubborn, and Billy guessed it was so, because Brandon and Endrik had eventually gone home. Charlie was a good sport and stuck around, though Billy suspected Charlie only called Vinny the winner because Vinny threatened to carry him off into the night and drop him in Death Valley.
While he wasn’t completely sure, Billy thought he had been awake just about the whole weekend. Now that everyone had gone home, he felt very tired, so he went to bed, and had a funny dream.
In his dream, Billy was a Prince! On his very first birthday, some weird looking fairies (at least, Billy thought they were supposed to be fairies) gave him blessings. One granted the gift of always being likable (this fairy reminded Billy of his friend Brandon). The next fairy granted him the gift of being chill (this fairy-bro reminded him of Charlie). Before the third could grant their boon, there was a poof of smoke, and a cackling black cat with shimmering whiskers and a bright green patch of fur on its forehead that kinda looked like a jester’s cap appeared, and looked all around.
The cat’s tail twitched, and then its moth opened to yowl before it spoke. It didn’t sound like Billie Eilish, like Billy had thought it might, but the cat was female. “All of you here don’t like me!” she said, stamping her foot. “Especially you!” she said, pointing to the Queen, who happened to be a fox. “You’re the meanest of all! I thought we were friends, but no!” she said, stamping her foot again. “So I’m gonna hurt you now!” she looked around the room, her tail twitching even faster.
Billy got the impression at this point that Prince Billy had been lovingly adopted by the royal couple. He couldn’t see otherwise how a Fox person and a Moth person had had a baby Dino. The cat’s eyes landed on Prince Billy, and she smiled a Cheshire grin and turned to the royals. “I declare, that on his sixteenth birthday, the Prince will get high, and stab himself with a chopstick and die!”. Grinning at the horror on the faces of those around her, she cackled again and disappeared in a puff of smoke and cat hair.
Everyone began panicking. But the third fairy-bro (who reminded him of Vinny), declared that instead of dying, Prince Billy would take a most excellent nap. Feeling proud of himself, he began moving toward the food table, until his fairy-bros poked him and whispered something. With an annoyed sigh, he rolled his eyes and moved back to the Prince. “Okay, fine…he can wake up…but I can only make it so that, like, it’s with a kiss. But the kiss has to come from a total hottie who will totally love him for who he is.” he said. Once his fairy-bros let him go, he went and got food.
From that day forward, chopsticks were banned from the kingdom. With the banning of chopsticks came the banning of all foods that were eaten with chopsticks, and Prince Billy never knew the about chopsticks or food to eat them with. In time, everyone forgot about the curse, and even the existence of chopsticks and the cuisine that went with. As the Prince grew, he became the most chill, most lovable little dino one could ever hope for.
Then, on the day of his sixteenth birthday, he was out exploring before that evening’s celebration. A small pop-up food stall had been set up in the village below as part of the festivities. There were plenty of other booths around, but this one was a little out of the way, and the smells coming from it – oh, they were divine! Billy’s mouth began watering as soon as he smelled the food cooking, and began making his way over.
Manning the booth was what appeared to be a Rooster that had partially fused with a machine. Billy was curious, but he was too hungry to ask, his mouth was watering all the more. With a smile, the Robot Chicken placed a large bowl in front of Billy. It contained broth, noodles, veggies, meat, and an egg. Billy picked the bowl up since he didn’t see a utensil, and was about to start, until he was tapped. He set the bowl down, and looked at the Robot Chicken chef, who handed him two long sticks. Billy was confused!
Smiling, the Robot Chicken pulled out another pair, and showed Billy how to eat with them. Billy tried a couple of times, and then…success! He began eating and it was soooo good! He couldn’t wait to just eat it all up, so he ate faster. In doing so though, his fingers fumbled the chopsticks, one fell. In an effort to grab it, Billy dropped the other, and tried to grab that as well, ending up most heinously uncoordinated. He thought he had things for a moment and then – pain. Owie…why did it hurt? He yawned. Why was he so sleepy? He yawned again, and fell off the stool and onto the ground, and was soon snoring away.
Billy thought his dream was really weird. He also through it was making him hungry. He was still dreaming though, so maybe he could eat when he woke up. While he was thinking these thoughts, he kind of missed what was going on in the dream, and just saw that Prince Billy was in a room and sleeping, occasionally snoring. He was wondering what Prince Billy was dreaming about, when suddenly the perspective changed. He couldn’t see anything! After a moment, there was a nice, warm feeling, and then slowly, he could see things!
He was confused a moment, and then realized, he was Prince Billy! Not an observer! Floating in front of him was a super cute dragon, who blushed when she saw him noticing her. She waved shyly and pointed to a handmade card. Prince Billy looked over and picked up the card. It had very pretty drawings, and a very nice message about how awesome she thought he was. He looked up to say thank you, but she was gone! He was determined to find out who she was.
It was just as Prince Billy hopped out of bed, that Billy himself woke up – because he’d fallen onto the floor. “Rawr.” he grumbled. That dragon had been really cute! He wanted to know more. He tried to go back to sleep, but couldn’t. Sighing, he got up and went to his computer, hoping that he could have the dream again soon.