As soon as Sally had gone Connie began chewing through the string tied to her and Dili.
"Come on. We're leaving." she said.
Dili just trotted about in the mud looking around, "but... I'm not sure we should. Its nice and simple in
here. Lots of yummy food for free and jumping about in the squishy mud is pretty fun. Sally and Bo Peep
promised to play with us and stuff too so we won't get bored."
"What? How can you consider staying here in a pig pen for the rest of your days? Your a brave paladin aren't
you? A gear-knight?" squealed Connie in shock.
"Yeah but I'm also a gnome and gnomes love fun. I can't think of anything more fun than playing in the mud all
day and playing fetch with Sally. Being turned into a pig is pretty funny too. As a knight I had to do loads
of scary quests just to earn enough for food. Here my meals are free! If we try to escape we might end up on a
plate!"
"Well, I'm not staying in this stinkhole another second longer than I have to and I'd like you to come with
me. I don't think I can find help on my own. If you want to come back here after and wallow in filth then be
my guest. But for now, please won't you help me?" Connie begged and snorted.
"Okay. As a paladin it's my job to help the needy and I don't want you to get hurt because I wasn't there."
Dili agreed.
Soon they had dug under the fence again and Dili began shoving the chubbier Connie bottom, through the hole,
with her nose before squeezing through herself.
Dili sniffed at the air "I can smell the fishmongers! The town must be this way!" she squealed and led Connie
away towards town.
Soon after Sally and Bo Peep discovered them missing and fearing Morgana's wrath decided to go to town and get
some friends to help look for the wayward piglets.
It took Connie and Dili a while to trot their way to town on their stumpy little legs but they arrived
eventually yet somehow Sally and Bo Peep had arrived first. The couple of pigs spied their jailers talking to
another couple of equally giant ladies. At ones feet sat 4 poodles of varying colors. She wore nothing but
black leather lingerie. The other, a red haired beauty, stood nearly naked save for a long scarf around her
neck that stratgically covered her bosoms and privates. At her side she carried a silver flute. They were
doubtless more of Morgana's transformees. No self respecting townwomen would go out dressed like these two
harlots.
"Looks like they're after us." Connie whispered as best as her piggy voice could manage. "We'll have to be
extra careful. We'll go to fathers place and see if Princess Sara can help us. If not we'll have to find one
of fathers associates, Madame Majique, and ask her to change us back."
"This feels like a proper adventure now we're being chased!" Dili giggled amused.
They snuck through alleyways, stopping to poop often. Their baby piglet bellies were clearly all that big and
when they got hungry they had to rummage through trash outside the market stores and nibble on discarded fruit
that also didn't sit well and so they had to let out the little squirts often. It wasn't long until nightfall
and they were forced to snuggle together in an overturned trashcan. Dili found it all exciting but it Connie
felt it was far from the epic adventure Dili was making it out to be. No, they were more like scurrying vermin
than the heroes of some legend or folktale.
They carried on their journey the next day. It seemed that the short journey from the farm to the disused bank
the King had used as a palace was much longer when you were a tiny piglet. As they were nearing the bank they
ran into trouble. As they were stopping to drink water from the gutter a pink poodle came up the alley behind
them sniffing at the mess they'd made earlier.
"Oh no!" cried Dili, "One of that ladies poodles has been following our... droppings... like a trail. We've
led them right too us!"
"I told you not to keep stopping to poop!" Connie scolded
"You were pooping more than me! You shouldn't have ate so much fatty."
"I'm only a bit bigger than you!"
The poodle came closer while sniffing the air and realizing that the smell it had been tracking was emanating
from the piggy bottoms ahead of it. The little dog started yapping and running in a circle. Soon the other
poodles and their owner would be here.
"We have to run to the bank now!" Connie half screamed, half squealed and the piglets began running. The
poodle took a few seconds to realize the piglets she'd been looking for had escaped into the high street as
she'd been yapping to call the others but gave chase a moment later. By then the piglets had disappeared into
the crowd who were setting up a number of market stalls and other things. The piglets didn't notice how
unusually busy it was today as they dodged between the towering peoples legs. An apple dropped to the floor
ahead of Connie and the constantly hungry little piggy picked it up in her and carried on. "Score!" she
thought as the child that dropped it started shouting at the little piggy thief that had stolen his apple and
gave chase as well.
"Oi that's mine you little runt!" the boy shouted.
Connie and Dili snuck around the back of the bank and dove into Connies pet cats cat-flap and the boy ran
straight into the backdoor quickly followed by a confused poodle.
"Wow! That was close." Dili squealed excitedly, "Yum! Where'd you get that apple."
Connie dropped the apple between them saying "Quiet! You don't want Morgana finding us now do you?"
"Sorry! ...Can I have some of that apple?"
"Go on then."
The piglets quickly chomped their way through the apple not realizing they were being watched. Their stalker
licked her lips in anticipation, biding her time for the best moment to grab the piggies. When their bellies
were full, they'd be tired and too heavy to run! Yes. Soon. The apple soon devoured and the stalker struck,
leaping out from the shadows to land on Dili and pin her!
"No! Bad Mittens!" squealed Connie to her pet cat which wouldn't have listened if she did recognize her
master. "Stop it you bad cat!"
Dili was squealing loudly in fear and made a mess on the floor. Not wanting Dili to get hurt anymore, Connie
had to attack the bigger cat and quickly leapt forward to bite its tail.
"MEOW!" Mittens shrieked and clawed at Connie's face before running out the cat flap only to be chased by the
waiting poodle outside who confused it for her prey. That particular poodle had been quite dumb even before
Morgana had transformed it from a man along with the others several days before and seemed to have gotten even
dumber.
Connie and Dili got away with just a few scratches and counted themselves very lucky that the noise hadn't
attracted Morgana or her followers.
"Sorry. Its all my fault! I forgot about Mittens," said Connie as she licked the scratches on Dili's back.
"It's okay. It was scary but adventures usually are! I never thought I'd be attacked by a house cat though!"
Dili laughed,
"The other paladins used to joke that a house cat could kill a commoner or peasant and now I believe them!"
Dili laughed again and licked the scratch on Connie's piggy snout.
"Haha yeah I believe it now too... Lets go look in the throne room for Sara and Maedel. I really want to get
changed back now. Everything is so big and scary..."
The piglets continued sneaking through the kitchen and soon found their way into the throne room but what they
saw surprised them. There were now three Jesters rather than the one they had seen earlier and they sat around
a table playing with their food...
"Where's Sara and Maedel?" Connie asked.
"I think that might be them." whispered Dili "Yes, that one looks kind of like Sara."
Connie looked and sniffed at the blue and yellow jester who sat shovelling beans in her mouth until her cheeks
puffed out cartoonishly like a frog. She gulped them down and let out a tremendous fart.
"Pee-yew! She smells as bad as you do!" Connie squeaked, "Its hard to believe that's the Princess but I guess
if she's under a similar spell as Queen Rachel it probably is!"
"If your father and the Queen got married, doesn't that make you step-sisters now?" Dili mused absent
mindedly.
The piglets trotted over to the jesters and squealed to get their attention.
"Oh what a surprise. A couple of piglets have escaped from the stys!" said the Jester Sara
"It's me, Princess Connie! and Dili too. You've gotta help us change back, Sara! Please?"
"I'm not Sara any more. Call me Stinky the Jester, only Morgana can change you back but I wouldn't pest her!"
Another voice joined Stinky's, this one much higher, "Let me see you buffoon!"
Stinky moved her hand to reveal a hand puppet likeness of Princess Sara, complete with her iconic blue dress
and tiara. "Oh Connie, it really is you! I pleaded with Morgana but she wouldn't change you back! And just
look at what she's done to me and Maedel!"
Connie listened and watched the puppet Sara motion to where Queen Rachel, now Queeny the clown, sat unable to
tell if the puppet really spoke or it was just that the jester Sara was a skilled ventriloquist. On Queeny's
lap sat a wooden marionette that had a faint resemblance to Maedel.
"I wouldn't let Morgana catch you, Connie. She's been even crazier since she became Queen or Empress or
whatever she's declaring herself today." said Maedel the Marionette.
"Well I'm not going to spend the rest of my days as a stinking hog!" Connie declared.
"Being smelly isn't so bad..." Stinky began before Sara told her "Shut it!"
"Sara, since father and your mother married it's both our Kingdoms at stake here. In fact, they are the same
Kingdom now! You've got to keep fighting her so you or your brother can take over as heir... you're both older
than me after-all and wiser... usually." Connie snorted as she stared at the jester. "I won't stand in your
way."
"I'll try but it's difficult when my body is, you know." the hand puppet Princess said disheartened.
"Okay. Well me and Dili will try to find another way to change back in the mean time but I promise I'll come
back for you!"