The Adventures of Elf and Leprechaun: Stowaways! – Part 4

Elf and Leprechaun had one job and one job only: SPYING ON N! If that spying came with some mischief and general naughtiness, they could hardly be blamed for that.

It had been a few weeks of merry-making and Elf and Leprechaun had fallen into somewhat of a rhythm.

They were having a wonderful time getting up to all kinds of silly mischief while also keeping N in their sights at all times and reporting back to HQ on his general goodness and badness.

But one particularly hot afternoon, when Elf was feeling particularly sweaty in his North Pole woollies, a whisper on the wind put their entire mission in jeopardy.

N was going to Nanna’s for a few days!!

But, but, but he can’t leave! He was the whole reason they were there!

Something had to be done! They tried hiding more of N’s undies as surely, he couldn’t go on holidays without undies, but HA! Tricked! N didn’t even notice as he rarely wore undies and even when his mum thought he was
wearing undies, often he wasn’t. (That brought into question the Infamous Yellow Pokemon Undies Tantrum and had the Moody Mum wondering if she was in fact losing her mind. Yes. The answer is yes.)

They tried hiding his suitcase, but alas! It was too heavy. But wait, ha ha, ho ho! What if, just what if Elf and Leprechaun hid inside N’s suitcase and went on a little holiday to Nanna’s too? Yes! It was brilliant, it was fool proof, it was something Nanna was going to be THRILLED about! (The Moody Mum was thrilled too!)

So, in excitement at their own daring escapades, Elf and Leprechaun crept inside N’s trunki, those little scamps. They spent the entire trip to Brisbane giggling and whispering about what this next adventure would bring.

No sooner had they arrived at Nanna’s and crept stealthily out of N’s suitcase that they spotted Nanna’s tin of chocolates that were clearly a present for someone else and clearly not lunch for a certain Elf and Leprechaun. And it was definitely absolutely Elf and Leprechaun who ate those chocolates, and it definitely absolutely was NOT the Moody Mum. And anyway, even if it WAS the Moody Mum (which it wasn’t), don’t leave tins of chocolates lying around, Nanna.

Suddenly Leprechaun spotted something across the room. He gave Elf a little nudge and pointed toward… the world’s CUTEST Christmas tree with the most PERFECT star sitting right at the tippy top. Well, their mission was obvious.

Steal the star!

Why steal the star, you may ask (apart from the fact that the Moody Mum is always jealous of Nanna’s pretty Christmas decorations, you mean?)?

Everyone knows stars are magical (we just saw Wish. So cute!). Stars can grant your deepest wishes, stars are very twinkly, and people sing songs about stars! (And on that note, let’s go on a really quick segue: The Moody Mum might have been listening to this song on repeat).

As for Elf and Leprechaun, well they NEEDED that star for secret mischievous business.

Elf and Leprechaun carefully crept up, up, up the tree and carefully carried the star down, down…

OH NO! BUSTED!!

It was the Moody Mum’s Mum.

You do NOT want to mess with the Moody Mum’s Mum!

Nanna gave Elf and Leprechaun the BIGGEST dose of Nanna love, hugs and spoiling Elf and Leprechaun had ever known, and wouldn’t you know she won that troublesome duo right over and had them eating out of her hand. Literally! She fed them bikkies. Bluey’s to be exact.

And so instead of mischief, Leprechaun, Elf and the Moody Mum’s Mum came up with a fun puzzle for N to solve when he woke up the next day. N loved it, and Elf and Leprechaun loved that N loved it.