The Wizard of Cartoons

Chapter 1: The storm

"Gosh Sandy!" SpongeBob said. "The land sounds exciting!" he and his friend, Sandy were sitting on SpongeBob's property.

"It is SpongeBob!" Sandy replied. Then SpongeBob stood up.

"Boy!" he said. "Just imagine if I went on land, that would be so cool! I could go to museums, ice cream parlors, take tour buses, and best of all eat their "humbuggers."

"But SpongeBob, you can visit those buildings down here!"

"Yeah, but I've never visited them on land before!"

"True, but you know that you're shrivel up and die on land!"

"Not without a water helmet Sandy." Then he looked up at the flower clouds above. "Oh Sandy, how I wish to be on land like you can and see what's up there, how I wish to go above the pacific and beyond the shore!"

"I doubt it since you are a sea critter and not a land critter, but keep dreaming SpongeBob, keep dreaming!" then the two herd an angry voice.

"And stay out you useless snail!" shouted an angry Squidward. The snail quickly slithered away and hid behind SpongeBob. Squidward was about to throw a stone at the "naughty" snail when SpongeBob asked,

"What did Gary do this time Squidward?"

"He got in my garden and trailed all of his gross slime everywhere in my garden!" The angry Squidward was about to throw his stone at the panicking snail, when SpongeBob protected his beloved pet.

"Wait!" He shouted. "Please, don't hurt Gary! It isn't his fault that nature made his slimy trails go through neighbors gardens, isn't that right Gar Bair?" he petted his snail on the head.

"Fine!" Squidward gave up. He pointed a promanceing tentacle at the snail. "But if I see that no good snail on my property again, I'll turn him in to the snail control!"

"Don't worry, he won't!" Squidward madly marched into his house, shaming his door behind him.

"There's just no way that I'll let the snail control take your in buddy!" SpongeBob just petted his snail. "Don't worry, you're safe with me!"

"Meow!" Gary liked being petted by his owner.

Later, SpongeBob was telling Patrick about the land that Sandy told him. They were at Patrick's house. Patrick was sunbathing as SpongeBob told the story.

"Wow SpongeBob, land sure sounds interesting!" Patrick told his friend when he was done.

"It sure is buddy!" he told Patrick. "It sure is! Than they herd Squidward scream.

"THAT'S THE FINAL STRAW!" they herd Squidward yell. Gary jumped out of Squidward's open window, and hid behind his owner. Squidward marched outside and looked angrily at Gary. SpongeBob and Patrick looked up at the angry neighbor.

"SpongeBob!" Squidward said. "Your untamed snail just broke my expensive vase, you leave me with no other choice!" he marched back into his house and slammed his door again to make a phone call.

"What's he's so mad about?" Patrick asked.

"Gary." SpongeBob replied.

"What he's going to do with him?"

I don't know." SpongeBob shrugged his shoulders.

"I bet he's going to give Gary a slice of pizza! After all breaking a expensive vase is very hard work!"

"You're right Patrick!" SpongeBob petted his snail. "Doesn't pizza sound great Gary?"

"Meow!" Gary replied weakly. For he knew what was about to happen.

Later that evening SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy were at SpongeBob's house playing "Go Dish" (An underwater version of "Go Fish") when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" SpongeBob said. He jumped up, laid his cards down flipped over, and went to his door.

"Tarter sauce!" Patrick said when he saw his card that he picked up and compared it with the cards already in his hands. "I still don't have a match!" Sandy looked at the card's in Patrick's hands (she was Patrick's helper for this game) and chuckled.

"What's so funny?" Patrick asked.

"This!" She pointed to two of Patrick's cards. Patrick looked at the cards she was pointing to,

"So?" he asked.

"These two are a match!"

"No they're not!"

"Patrick, one of them is upside down!" She turned one of the cards right side up, revealing a match. "See?" Patrick was amazed, than he looked at the little orange pop stain on one of the cards.

"Uh Sandy." He showed Sandy the card, "There's a little orange dot on this card, and there's no orange dot on this card."

"That's because you spilled orange pop on this card. It's still a match."

"Oh yeah!" Then he showed SpongeBob his two matching cards. "Hey SpongeBob look! I made a match!" SpongeBob looked at the chards in the chubby starfish's hand, and smiled at him.

"That's great buddy!" He congratulated his friend, and then opened his door.

"Just wait until the next time I make a math!" Patrick said, putting his cards on the floor. He looked who was at the door; it was a fish with a "Snail Control" uniform on. A motorcycle with a basket on it was behind him.

"Can I help you sir?" SpongeBob asked.

"Are you SpongeBob Squarepants?" The officer asked.

"Yes, yes I am!" SpongeBob replied.

"Your neighbor says that there's an untamed snail in this house."

"I have no idea what you're talking about, so goodbye!" As SpongeBob was about to shut the door, the officer saw Gary and barged right on in. Gary slithered as fast as he could up the stairs.

"I got you!" the officer said when he had Gary. Gary squirmed, but the officer's grasp was stronger. He went back outside; he placed Gary in the basket of the motorcycle. SpongeBob looked at the officer.

"What are you doing with Gary?" SpongeBob asked, as the officer got on his motorcycle.

"I'm taking him to the snail pound downtown.' The officer answered.

"Why? He hasn't done anything wrong!"

"He has upset your neighbor so much that I got to take him in." SpongeBob ran to the motorcycle.

"You don't understand. Gary is a very nice snail, I', sure he didn't mean those things that he did, besides it's in his nature to have fun, plus nobody's perfect, I'll repay the damage he's done! Please sir, Gary means the whole world to me, don't take him away from me; he's family to me!" SpongeBob began to have tears in his eyes.

"I got to take him sir!" he was about to leave.

"WAIT!" SpongeBob shouted, shopping him.

"I'll make him the best darn snail you've ever seen! What do you say?"

"I'm taking him kid, and that's final!" he shoved off.

"NOOOO GARRRYYYY!" SpongeBob tried to stop him, but Sandy stopped him.

"SpongeBob, don't be redicious, he's just a snail!" she let go of him. "It's too late to save him now!" SpongeBob looked at her.

"Just a snail? Just a snail? He was more then just a snail to me. Gary meant the whole world to me! He was my family, he was my friend!"

"I thought we were you friends." Patrick said. "Are you saying a snail is more important then your best friend?"

"No Patrick, he was my friend at home, I just got to get him back. Sandy stopped him again from leaving.

"SpongeBob, you got to let things go sometimes even through you really don't want to."

"Not Gary!"

"Yes Gary!"

"Why didn't you and Patrick stop that awful man? Why did you let him take Gary away from me?"

"SpongeBob, we wanted to stop that man from taking you snail, we really and truly did. But we felt that he was right, we felt that it was time for you to grow up and be more mature."

"SOME FRIENDS YOU GUYS TURNED OUT TO BE!" SpongeBob stormed inside his house, crying hard. Sandy sighed, Patrick just stood there drooling.

SpongeBob went to his room and fell onto his bed crying.

"Stupid Patrick and Sandy!" SpongeBob cried. "Not respecting my feelings towards my snail, only thinking of themselves! Some friends they turned out to be! SpongeBob kept on crying and crying.

Meanwhile on the back of the motorcycle, Gary decide that he needed SpongeBob too, so he leaped off of the motorcycle, and headed towards SpongeBob's house. When he got there, he went up the left side of the house, jumped into the open window, and landed on the floor.

"Meow!" He meowed. SpongeBob opened his eyes.

"Gary?" He asked. He looked up; there he saw his beloved snail on the floor.

"GARY!" He jumped out of bed to hug Gary. Gary purred happily.

"Oh Gary!" he said. "I was so worried that I was never going to see you again, I'm just glad that you're safe! Then SpongeBob let go, and looked right into Gary's eyes.

"We got to run away!" He told Gary. He got up and started packing. Gary came closer to his busy owner.

"Meow?" Gary asked.

"We got to run away to a place where other people will understand our feelings as well as theirs!

"Meow." It took SpongeBob 10 minutes to get ready.

"I'm ready Gary!" He said when he was done. He picked Gary up, than went downstairs. Patrick was watching TV.

"Ha Ha! That guy got hit in the head by a coconut!" Patrick laughed at his favorite show. While he laughed, SpongeBob quickly ran out his door. He sneaked past Sandy who was sunbathing under the underwater sun.

"Phew! I made it!" SpongeBob sighed in relief. "I thought for sure that I was going to get caught right away!" He laughed to himself; suddenly he bumped into a Slowking. SpongeBob fell on the ground, dropping Gary. Slow king looked at SpongeBob, than back at the sun.

"Running away, are we now SpongeBob?" Slowking asked.

"Yes I am!" SpongeBob told him. He got up and dusted his pants. "But how did you know?" Slowking chucked a little.

"I'm a psychic Pokemon." He exclaimed. "I know everything that's going to happen."

"Well, do you know why I'm running away?" Slowking looked at the sponge.

"You're running away because you think that your friends don't respect yours and Gary's feelings."

"Wow, you are good!"

"Of course I am! That's why I'm half psychic, and half water!" He looked towards the sun again. "You better find shelter fast then."

"Why?"

"I predict a strong underwater tornado coming!"

"OK sir, I'll be careful! Come on Gary!" SpongeBob said farewell to Slowking, then he and Gary went on their way. SpongeBob looked up at the flower clouds.

"Gosh Gary!" He told his pet. "Just think how fun it'll be if we could go on land!"

"Meow."

"Yes I know that I'll parish up there but still just imagine!" With that he began to sing:

"Somewhere over Bikini Bottom

Way up high

There's a wondrous land that I herd of once from my friend Sandy.

Somewhere over Bikini Bottom

Skies are blue

And the dreams that you've been dreaming of

Really can come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star besides a starfish

And go behind the puffy white clouds

That's where you can find me!

Somewhere over the Pacific

Swablus fly

If Swablus fly over the Pacific

Why or why can't I?"

SpongeBob and Gary went a little farter, and then SpongeBob saw an approaching twister, Slowking was right!

"Hurry Gary!" SpongeBob shouted over the increasing wind. "Let's go back home with Sandy and Patrick!" With that SpongeBob quickly picked up Gary, and raced back to his house. They passed by Slowking who already found shelter.

The storm was getting worse every second! It blew over coral trees, blew away roofs of houses, fish ran towards safety while watching their houses getting picked up and being twirled in the twister, it broke stoplights and signs, there was nothing stopping this twister!

"Where's SpongeBob?" Patrick asked when his show ended immediately because of the violent storm. "He's missing the action!"

"I don't know!" Sandy said as a window smashed. "But we better get into the shelter before we all parish!"

"I'm not leaving without SpongeBob!" he crossed his arms.

"Patrick! We don't have any choice! Now come on before we die!"

"If I die, let me do it with my best friend!" Suddenly another window smashed, forcing Patrick to scream in terror.

"Ok, LET'S GO!" with that he and Sandy ran out of the house. Sandy opened the bomb shelter doors, he and Sandy got inside, and then Sandy locked it behind them.

"Sandy, Patrick, I'm back!" SpongeBob said when he and Gary got to the house. He ran inside, calling their names all over the house, but no one answered. He finally gave up in his bedroom.

"Well Gary, look's like they already fond shelter, so let's go and…" Suddenly there was a violent shake, causing SpongeBob to fall on his bed unconscious. Gary licked his owner, but it was no use, he didn't get up.

Then the whole house was lifted by the twister and twirled around and around! Gary tightly closed his eyes, waiting for them to parish!

It spun faster and faster. Than everything was still. Absolutely still.