Xodiac was ecstatic to be getting a Mad Hare Egg. He even requested a special Level four hazard that would really scare the crap out of people. I thought about it for a while looking over my inventory and picked the MHE known as "Double Header". Xodiac paid his tab and I placed the egg in a nice box for him.

"Okay, whenever you're ready just take it out of the box and-," I watched as he took the egg from the box, "Or do it right here, because why not?… everyone else has…"

"Now all I'll have to do is toss this little sucker onto the field, right?"

"Wait, you wanted it for someone else?"

"Well, yeah, these are prank eggs," Xodiac asked, "you throw them like bombs to make them hatch?"

" I slowly shook my head, "No, they're set to go off from the moment that some one touches them."

"But you touched it!"

"Well, I can do that because I'm the one that laid them," I looked to my watch, "you've got… hm… less than 5 seconds."

The egg cracked in his paws. I smiled before I zipped my entire makeshift shop a few yards back. I'm sure he was impressed by my currently enhanced Double Take ability, but that's a story for another day. Today I watched as Xodiac's purple egg released a huge purple bat wielding a plastic bat.

"A bat wielding a bat!" The Dragote screamed like a little girl before running across the gassy valley. He tried to flap his wings to fly but the only served to slow him down from the flying atrocity.

"My Irrational (and oddly specific) Phobia worse than I-" *BONK!*

"Yoooou're OUT," I announced while wearing a leftover Dracula costume.

"What are you doing?" My young Joey asked.

"Hocus pocus, I'm an umpire!"

"I may be less dan tu monfs old," Joey tapped his foot, "but evan I fink dats a dumb dad joke."

*****

It goes without saying that Xodiac had a splitting headache when he… she… they woke up.

"What hit us?"
"What hit us?"
"Oh yea… a bat with a bat."
"Oh yea… a bat with a bat."

The two heads giggled as they rose to their mismatched feet, trying their best not to rip their shirt as it shifted down their body to make a gorgeous shimmering blue dress for the two of them to wear. They tapped their shoes upon the grass. They felt so pretty despite being so mismatched with each other.

"Oh sis," the dragon head licked her sister's cheek, "you're bleeding."

"Stop it sis," the coyote head pushed her away with her paw, "you're embarrassing me."

"But you're so delicious," the dragon's fuzzy tail wagged, she loved teasing her sister, "oh darn, it's healed up already."

"Whatever," the coyote whipped her tail, her way at stomping her foot without actually being able to lift their good leg, "Where were we going again?"

"I don't remember," the dragon tapped her chin.

"Me either…," the Coyote bit her lip.

"Hi lady!"

They squealed together as they danced upon their high heels back over to our shop, "Oh look a baby!"

They pinched his cheeks for a little bit as he cried out in embarrassment. The first chance he got, Joey leaped away to hide behind my leg. The Twins stood a bit more Jessica Rabbit as when they saw me.

"Hi," I waved, "would you mind asking me before man-handling my son?"

"Sorry, he's just so cute," the dragon flapped their wings, whopping her sister in the back of the head as she did.

"Stop it sis!"

"So are you enjoying your egg, Xodiac?"

"What egg, Oh yeah…," they shouted in realization, "That's our name!"

"I'm Acey," the coyote waved.
"I'm Xodi," the dragon waved.

"I remember now!"

"Omg so do I!"

"There's a ballgame today!"

"And we're singing the National Anthem!"

"We are so late," they shouted as they ran off… and tripped several times (before settling on using their wings to get to where they're going instead) to who knows where. Probably that very game that Xodiac extended to sabotage with my egg… but that's none of my business.

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This story (700 words, btw) was NOT written by me. Like the art, it was done by  cobaltraccoon. You can see it on his page here.

This was part of his "Mad Hare Egg" sale that ran through April. I honestly had no idea what would be happening to me, here. I asked for a level 3, 4, or 5 egg, with higher numbers meaning more drastic and longer-lasting physical and mental changes from the prank, and suggested he bought it intending to use it on someone else. But otherwise I left it pretty much up to him. Apprently he took the notion of my character being a mix of two species and ran with it. Or should I say, he hit it out of the park?

I've never really considered splitting my dragon and coyote halves into separate heads. But it works pretty well, here. I also like how he named them; one is "Xodi", which is of course the first four letters of Xodiac. That just leaves the last two letters. But "Ac" makes for a poor name. Hmm... Ac... AC... Acey! Nicely done.

The whole thing is weird and offbeat and not at all the sort of thing I'd commission for myself. Which makes this perfect.