The Three Foxes and The Three Owls

The three red foxes were staring at three brown owls up in an ancient tree. It had just turned dark and it was quite a sight with the three red foxes noticing the three owls.

The foxes talked among themselves. They were fascinated by the owls as they sat perched in the tree. The owls were well aware they were being watched and they were looking at the foxes carefully.The wind was picking up and the branches swayed that the owls were sitting on but they did not move. They did not even flutter their wings.
The owls thought back to the moment they came to be here. It was a crazy turn of events and they were not in a place they thought they would be.
It seemed to the foxes that these were the stiffest, most stoic owls that they had ever seen.
The foxes got closer to the owls and noticed the feathers on them didn't move much and their eyes were strange. “The owls are not what they seem, " said one of the foxes.

The truth was, they were indeed not what they seemed.
Earlier that day, they had run across a Warlock, who was disguised as a homeless man. He wanted to test some mortals to see how he would be treated.
He asked 3 men who were hanging out together in the park for some money. They ridiculed him and told him to get a job. Dismayed, the Warlock shrank the three men into tiny versions of themselves. They felt too vulnerable so the Warlock changed them into owls, and he placed them on a big branch of the tree.
But they found that they could not fly, so here they were on the branch, scared and confused.
The foxes, however, were not what they seemed either.
They suddenly changed into Forest Fairies.
They went up to the owls and said they would help them but they had to promise to try to be more compassionate and not to judge people the way they had been.
Even though the Warlock was not really a homeless man, he taught them an important lesson.
The Forest Fairies performed a magic spell that transformed the owls back into their regular-sized human selves..
Grateful, they promised to not judge as much and lead more from kindness. They had often treated more unfortunate people the same way as they treated the Warlock.
The Fairies told them that they would be watched to make sure they kept their promise. They had turned themselves into foxes to watch the Warlock that day as they thought he would perform some mischief but had been taking a nap when the Warlock changed the men into owls. The Fairies knew he had done something and when they observed the owls they knew they had crossed paths with the Warlock.

The men never forgot the second chance they had been given, and from then on thought twice about how they treated people they used to judge.