Building a Bed for Olivia (version 2)

Early the next morning, while it was still dark, the Seven Thugs, now dressed in their regular clothes, held a meeting about what they should do for Olivia since she made them their guests. Bill, Old Blind Joe, Fidget, Max, and Bartholomew were gathering around a large tree stump, thinking about a gift to give the Scottish-British girl mouse, Peewee Pete was sleeping in a mine cart, and John was standing by a taller tree, whittling an ocarina out of wood. Even Dumbo, Timothy, Jim and his brothers, Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Discord, Spike, and the Pokémon were watching and keeping the Thugs company.

Bill was drumming his fingers on the stump in deep thought. Fidget was rubbing his eyebrow. Max was rubbing his chin. Old Blind Joe was switching sides by placing one hand on his cheek and drumming the other's fingers on the stump, and John, still frowning, was whittling away at the ocarina. But then he stopped, looked at the lizard, bat, and other four mice in disgust, and huffed in annoyance.

"Ha!" John scoffed. And he went back to whittling the ocarina.

The fly landed on Peewee Pete's nose, waking him up as he saw it. But then he saw the fly, swatted it, and went back to sleep, smacking his lips. Bartholomew was even sitting on a big log, still thinking.

Then all of a sudden, Old Blind Joe thought about a gift for Olivia. "A crown! With precious jewels!" he suggested.

"No!" said the other Thugs. That made Old Blind Joe disappointed, and he sat back down and continued pondering.

"A golden harp! With angels on it!" Fidget smiled dreamily while pretending to flutter his wings as if he were an angel.

"A royal coach with six white hearses, er, horses!" Bill brainstormed.

"No!" said the other Thugs, as Bill slumped back down with his elbows down and frowned in disappointment.

"Where'd we get the horses?" asked Old Blind Joe.

"She might go away." said a worried Fidget.

"Yeah." said Max.

"Ah, give her something useful! Like a mop!" John said sharply.

"No!" said the other Thugs.

"She's a princess." said Bill.

"Royal blood." added Old Blind Joe.

"She's too nice." Bartholomew agreed.

"She's an angel!" sighed a lovestruck Fidget.

Max had an idea. "How about a-?"

But before he could finish, he felt a sneeze coming on.

"Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-AAAAH-CHOO!" the mouse in the striped shirt, jacket, and gray cap sneezed. The he sighed, rubbed his nose, and sat back down as he and the other Thugs continued to think. It was then that Peewee Pete came up with a magnificent brainstorm while waking up.

"Why don't we make her a bed?" he yawned.

"That's it," Bill cried. "A bed!"

"A bed!" Old Blind Joe, Fidget, Max, and Bartholomew echoed.

"With a million jewels to make it rare." said Max.

"A lot of angels everywhere." Fidget agreed.

"Covered with fancy filigree." said Bill.

"The prettiest bed you ever did see!" Old Blind Joe agreed.

By now, John had finished whittling the ocarina as Pikachu watched on in curiosity.

"Ha! All right. If you wanna spoil her, go ahead," scoffed John, spitting in the other direction. "Make her a bed."

"I'll cut the posts." said Old Blind Joe.

"I'll fix her name." said Bill.

"I'll carve the angels on the frame." said Fidget, twisting his cap in his wings.

"I'll fix the spring. And the mattress, too!" said Max.

Peewee Pete stretched his arms and yawned as he finally woke up. "And I'll try it out when you're through."

And work they all did! Bill looked at the plan of what Olivia's bed would look like when they were finished. It would be a large canopy bed made out of blue mahogany with four posts and a headboard. He knew that the bed would be 11 inches tall and 6 inches wide. When he finished observing the plan, he closed it up and said, "All right, boys! Let's get to work!"

Old Blind Joe, Peewee Pete, Max, and Bartholomew were chopping wood on all four mahogany trees that would be used for the posts. Fidget was hammering nails into another wide piece of mahogany wood to be used as the foot of the bed. And John was dragging a plank of wood with the help of Rhyhorn. Even two Bidoofs were gnawing at the bottoms of the trees, and Azurill and Azumarill were resting another plank of wood beside the two trees for support.

Old Blind Joe was chopping some branches off of the trees with an axe when he saw Stantler come up to him with some tools. Old Blind Joe took a saw from one of Stantler's antlers and sawed some roughness off the wood. Meanwhile, Bartholomew was chopping another branch he was standing on with his axe. Fidget was carving spirals around the smooth part of the tree. And Peewee Pete was carving filigree on another tree when he saw the fly buzz around him. It landed on the tree, and Peewee Pete kept carving to hill it. He carved harder and harder to get rid of the fly! But to his surprise, he had carved a baby Kangaskhan!

John, Jim and his brothers, and five Bibarels worked on the headboard. The Bibarels were gnawing at the edges of a large piece of shaven wood with more filigree on it to make the headboard. Jim and Reverend Zachariah were shaving remains of unnecessary wood, and Lil' Urle was pulling at them and tossing them aside. Lil' Urle pulled the last one out so hard that he fell off the board, tangled up in one of the shavings. Timothy, Jim, Big Daddy Lou, Reverend Zachariah, Tyrone, Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Spike, and Discord laughed at this funny entertainment.

John carefully studied the plan as he was drawing on the shaven board. Then he drew a curved line, but he stopped and thought something was wrong with it. But it was really the lead that had broken off of his pencil. He helped it out and let another Bidoof sharpen it with its teeth. Fidget carved several angels on another board as if it were a frame as Plusle watched in astonishment while eating Oran Berries. Peewee Pete noticed a Chatot sitting on his pencil and singing to him. It stopped when he shook it off the pencil, sending it flying away. Max was still carving one of the posts when…

"Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-AAAAAH-CHOO-OOOO!"

He let out a great sneeze, which sent him sliding down the post.

Old Blind Joe was sewing some squares of cloth in various shade of blue together while whistling as Fluttershy and Rarity looked on. While Kangaskhan and her children were napping, Rookidee took a piece of white string from a nest while humming and held it up to a pair of scissors while letting Swablu pull the scissors down to let the string be cut.