Chapter 3
All of the cartoons gazed up at Cartoonwarts, which was a big huge castle.
"Oh my gosh!" SpongeBob gaped, shocked at the sight. "This place is amazing, breathless! Isn't it Cosmo?"
"Yeah!" Cosmo agreed. "I can't believe that White Castle is going to be our new school."
"Ah, actually Cosmo…" SpongeBob began. Cosmo flew to a low window that had a table inside and gasped.
"Oh my gosh!" He replied. "The exact window seat where Ganon and Vatti sat and discussed their diabolical plan to get the Tri Force and rule the world in that one comic!"
"Uh, Cosmo." SpongeBob said. "That was in a real White Castle and this is just Cartoonwarts. It's not White Castle."
"You're right!" Cosmo observed. "This castle is clearly not white." SpongeBob was about to add something when Toadette opened the doors.
"Welcome new students of Cartoonwarts!" She greeted. "I am Toadette, the headmaster's lovely assistant. "Now fallow me everyone." The cartoons fallowed her into the castle like school. The cartoons marveled at their new surroundings as they walked. They all stopped at a corridor with two double doors in front. Toadette turned to face them.
"Now children." She said. "If you would all be so kind and wait here while I go check on everything to see if we're ready, thanks!" She turned around and went through the door which locked behind her.
"This is a setup isn't it?!" Cosmo complained. "I bet we're all now prisoners in here and pretended this was a magic school. I want my money back!" Lanolin looked at him.
"This isn't a setup." She told him. "Besides you didn't spend money."
"You're right. I want my parents' money then!" He looked at them all and laughed nervously.
"For my parent of course, not me, just my sweet loving Mama." Then a kid with a black shirt with a skull on it and with a buzz cut turned towards SpongeBob and spoke.
"So the train rumors are true then. SpongeBob Squarepants has come to Cartoonwarts, eh?" Every cartoon looked shocked and whispered to one another. Buford held out his hand to the sponge.
"I'm Buford." He glanced at Cosmo. "Ooh you don't want to make friends with idiot Cosmo there. I can help you choose better friends then him. What do you say?" SpongeBob looked at his starched out hand and shook his head.
"Sorry." He told him. "I don't judge cartoon differences when I'm looking for friends." Buford scowled at him until Toadette returned. Buford went back to his spot.
"We're ready for you now." She said. "Now please fallow me and…"
"Agent F!" The fairy Binky cried and grabbed the frog before it could hop away again. He looked at Toadette's expression.
"Oh sorry." He apologized, and flew back to his spot.
"Now." Toadette continued. "Follow me." They all went through the double doors and sat at the tables. Toadette went by Toadsworth. Toadsworth stood up and spoke. Everyone quieted down.
"Welcome newcomers." He began. First off, Booris had told me to tell you all that the third corridor on the third floor is off limits to cartoons who wish not to dir a painful death." Cosmo laughed quietly at his table.
"We fairies are lucky." He told his friends. "We'll immortal so we can't die anyway." Lanolin and SpongeBob shushed him as they paid attention. Toadettte stood up as a Spin the Wheel was brought out.
"The Wheel of Future will decide what house you're in." Toadette said. "When I call your name, walk forward and spin the wheel. Whatever it stops on, that'll be your house permently. No complaints or whines whatsoever." She read from a list. Buford Von Stormm." Buford walked up and spun the wheel. The arrow pointed to "The Thunder Storms" when it stopped. Buford walked to his assigned table and sat with the other thunder Storms.
"Wow." Cosmo said to his friends. "No wonder his last name is Stormm. His future suits him well." They shushed him again as Lanolin was called.
After they were sorted into their houses, they all had a great feast on their tables.\
"Ow!" SpongeBob suddenly said, covering his scar. Cosmo looked at him with food in his mouth.
"What is it sponge?" He asked with his mouth full.
"Nothing." SpongeBob told him. "Nothing at all; I'm fine." Cosmo shrugged as they all continued eating.
"Cartoon Heroes." Luigi told them "Come on, fallow me." The "Cartoon Heroes" followed up some steps. "Careful of the staircases, they like to move." There were paintings on the wall. Then they heard a loud scream. The cartoons plugged their ears.
"Ah my ears!" Binky Screeched. "Where the heck is that painful loud screaming coming from?"
"The scream." Luigi answered. The cartoons looked at the painting on the wall. "The scream likes to scream allot, epspacially when it has visitors. I guess that's where it got it name from."
"I guess that makes sense." SpongeBob said. The screaming stopped, and they continued up the steps.
Binky then saw a copy of the Mona Lisa. He stopped to look at it.
"Hey look!" He cried. "It's Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa!" Then Mona Lisa's eyes went to the side and back. Binky screamed in fright, and then flew after the others.
"Hay what happened Binky?" Cosmo asked.
"Her eyes moved!" He answered. "I'm telling the truth, her eyes moved; I'm not bluffing!"
"Sure you're not!" Cosmo said with sarcasm.
"I'm not a liar!" Binky yelled. "I don't lie; I'm like Abraham Lincoln. I can never tell a lie."
"And I saw a sign that said school will be cancelled tomorrow."
"Really?"
"No but that'll be awesome! The point is… well… you're bluffing." Before they could argue, Lanolin went between them.
"Binky's right." She told him. Cosmo scowled as Binky stuck his tongue out at him and danced in the background. "This school's magical don't forget. So anything might happen." There was no more talk until they reached their destination.
"Hey Cos." SpongeBob said as soon as they were alone in their rooms that night. Want to see Gary, the snail we brought from the pet store before we came on the train?"
"Sure!" Cosmo said. SpongeBob then opened Gary's cage.
"Okay Gary. You can come out now." He told the snail. The pet slithered out.
"Meow." Gary meowed.
"Cool!" Cosmo said. "Want to see my pet?"
"Ooh yeah. Show it to me friend!"
"Hold on!" Cosmo reached into his pocket and pulled out Pichu.
"Ums, I woulds cleams yours pamts if I weres yous." He said. "I was havimg apple sauce in thiers and stuff." He looked at SpongeBob. "Oh hello stramgers!"
"So Pichu is your pet?" SpongeBob asked.
"Yep!" Cosmo replied. "We have several things in common. We both have real low IQs, both can't stand to be alone, both mess up on everything, and we both like to put apple sauce in our ears!" He hugged his pet.
"We weres friembs at births," Pichu added. "Nots reallys, buts you mows what I meams."
"I'll only understand it," SpongeBob began. "If you can use better grammar so cartoons and people can understand your words."
So, all of them played together until it was time for bed.
The next day at lunch when Noctowls and Hoot Hoots dropped the children's mail, Binky was given a ball with smoke inside. The smoke was dark red.
"What the heck is this thing?" The fairy wanted to know.
"I read about those "Lanolin replied. "When the smoke turns dark red, you've forgotten something." Binky turned to her.
"Like what?" Then he slapped himself in the face as he remembered that he'd forgotten to lock Agent F's cage the night before. "Oh shoot; not again!"
That afternoon, the cartoons went to their next class which was outside. There were brooms on the grass in a straight line.
"Good afternoon class." Blathers greeted. "Welcome to your first flying lesson. Now the fairies can fly already so they're exempt from this exercise. However, the rest of you step up to one side of your brooms, put your hand over it, and say up. Ready, go!" At her whistle, everyone except the fairies went to their brooms and did what they were told. SpongeBob's broom went up immediately.
"Whoa!" SpongeBob breathed. "Awesome." Through it was super easy for him, the others were struggling.
"With feeling!" Blathers called over them.
"I can't wait for the game to start!" Binky blurted out. He zoomed around. "I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't…"
"Binky!" Blathers called. Too late, Binky rammed hard into the castle wall. He fell to the ground. Blathers went by the hurting fairy.
"Oh dear." Blathers observed his bloody nose. "Come with me." To the class, she ordered "Don't continue until I get back from the Nurse's, alright class?" When she was gone Buford laughed to himself.
'Lammmme! Good thing I'm smart, I would never do that: talk about pathetic!" He turned to SpongeBob and held out Poof by the heir. Poof struggled to get free but couldn't.
"Stop that!" SpongeBob shouted. "He's only a baby Buford, give him here!"
"Got to catch me first!" With that, Buford hopped on his broom and flew away. SpongeBob was about to fly too.
"No." Lanolin warned. "Remember what Blathers said. You don't even know how to fly or even have a driver's license yet. So how can you…" SpongeBob's broom lifted to the air and he began to go after Buford. Lanolin sighed. "What an ignorant fool."
"Give Poof to me Buford!" SpongeBob commanded. Buford laughed as he threw Poof across the sky. Poof sailed, until SpongeBob caught him.
"Boy that was easy." He and the grateful Poof went down on the ground as his classmates cheered. Toadette walked towards them.
"SpongeBob." Toadette said. "I saw the whole thing from my window. Follow me." Toadette walked away.
"Uh oh!" Poof said and then flew away.
"As Candace would say," Buford said. "Busted!"
"Guys I'm the new seeker!" SpongeBob told his friends at the end of the day. "Just like my father was. Mario showed me everything!"
"Cool!" Cosmo congratulated his friend. "Now I just have one question; what's a seeker?"
"You're be great." Lanolin assured him.
"But I never played Cartoondittch or even heard of it. What if I mess up and make a fool of myself?"
"You won't. It's in your blood to play the best you can."
"What's happening?" SpongeBob asked as they were on the moving stairs.
"The staircases moves remember?" Lanolin reminded them.
"Oh yeah."
"Don't you guys get the feeling like we shouldn't be here?" Cosmo wanted to know.
"We're not supposed to be here." Lanolin exclaimed. "It's the third floor, forbidden remember?" Suddenly, Goldbats attacked them. They screamed and ran for the closet door.
"It's locked." SpongeBob told them when the door didn't budge. "We're trapped."
"I'm too young to die!" Cosmo wailed.
"Oh pish posh!" Lanolin said as she took out her wand and looked directly at the lock. "Alhhomora!" With that, the door opened up.
"Yay we're saved!" Cosmo cheered as the three went inside.
Suddenly, they all screamed as they saw a huge Arcanine sleeping soundly to some music from a harp. They all scurried outside and locked the door behind them.
"What..were… they doing keeping an Arcanine locked up in White Castle for?" Cosmo panted.
"Didn't you see what it was laying on?" Lanolin asked. Her friends looked at her like she was nuts.
"Uh Lanolin." SpongeBob spoke up. "I think Cosmo and I were to busy screaming to notice the details."
"Well, I think it's guarding something." Lanolin told them. "It was sleeping on a trap door."
"What?" SpongeBob questioned.
"IDK. Now I'm leaving before we get busted, or worse…expelled." She went away.
"We won't get expelled." Cosmo giggled as he and SpongeBob went to theirs.
"Cosmo?" SpongeBob said as they prepared for bed that night.
"Yeah?" Cosmo asked.
"Suppose Lanolin's right."
"That we'll get expelled?"
"No. Suppose Arcainine is guarding something. Then I won't leave until I find out what it is." The boys just shrugged, laid on their beds, and went to sleep.
