"The third pirate?!" Pablo asked, bewildered.
"Yep, and boy these look tough." Austin replied, mentally reading over the riddles he had just uncovered. Uniqua walked over, a somewhat nervous expression on her face. "Um guys...we gotta find this treasure...today! We're leaving tomorrow!"
"Oh no!" they gasped.
"We better start! Its almost nine!" Tyrone spoke, pointing franticly at his wristwatch that wasn't there before.
"Guys." Austin said, "The way I see it, the only way we'll be able to find it in time is if we split up."
"Split up?" Pablo said
"He's right." Tasha said, "Its the only way we can do it."
"Well ok." Tyrone said, "How will we split up?"
"We'll need to devide the riddles." Uniqua said, budding in. "Lets see...there's twenty riddles in total..." she pondered, trying to devide it evenly.
"So we each get 4 riddles if we split on our own." Austin stated. He was always the "geeky" one of his friends. Uniqua smiled and nodded her head "okay".
She looked towards her friends. "OK guys, lets split the riddles!" And literally did she mean, Uniqua split up the paper into five pieces, each holding four riddles. She handed the papers randomly to her friends. Once they all had a paper, they agreed to meet back by the inn.
And quickly they split off.
Pablo looked at his first riddle.
"a piece of map I now do see! Its in the sprinkles jar waiting for me!" Pablo said
Pablo grinned as he realized what that meant.
"More ice cream!" Pablo said
He ran into the ice cream store and ordered the biggest ice cream sundaae they had
Uniqua glanced at her piece of the riddles, "Inside a wagon map piece to see. A pirate was the one who hid it from thee." she read aloud. Thinking the sentece over, she happily snapped her pink fingers to a conclusion. Where else would a wagon be found? "The shed!" she smiled, answering her own question. Quickly, the young girl hurried off towards the shed.
Austin checked his riddles.
"pirates were in town. A map piece is proof behind a stamp on a roof." Austin said
Austin ran to the fort.
He was about to go to the top and look out at the town when he heard someone in the dungeon.
He peeked inside and quickly hid.
he saw Ken and Zorori talking.
Austin kept an eye on the town and an ear on the conversation.
"I can see everything from up here." Austin said to himself, "Theres Pablo at the ice cream store. again"
Tasha wandered aimlessly, trying to think about her riddle. "Sneak in like a clever theif and steal the map piece under the giant leaf." Is what her riddle said. She was repeating it silently throughout her mind...until the idea flicked on like Tyrone's nightlight.
"Hey, the picnic table! Its surrounded by trees and leaves and stuff!"
Tyrone wandered around looking at his riddle.
"I see a map piece to grab clenched tightly in the claw of a crab." Tyrone said, "The only place there could be crabs is at the beach."
Tyrone ran off to shipwreck shore to look for some kind of crab.
Meanwhile, Pablo was inside the ice cream shop. His face was closely against the glass. He would've been pressed against it if only it wasn't for his beak which prevented him to do so. This was the closest he'd get. Anyway, he was trying to decide if he should order an ice cream while looking for the map piece. But it was too hard to pick!
Uniqua was going through the shed checking out the wagon.
She heard a noise and looked outside.
"Tyrone did you find any yet?" Uniqua asked
"No not yet but I'm looking for one here at the beach." Tyrone said, "and you?"
"No but I'm looking." Uniqua said
She went back to the wagon and thought.
Tasha arrived at the picnic table and began to scan the green scene. There were various trees and bushes - all containing their own wall of a million leaves. Which leaf was the one she was supposed to find? The riddle told her it was large, but...she just didn't seem to understand. There was no place greener then here, so she knew this was the place.
But then...where was she supposed to be looking?
Tyrone was looking all over shipwreck shore for a crab.
"It has to be here." Tyrone said
Tyrone checked the ship and finally he saw a crab.
Tyrone started to follow it.
Tyrone wasn't sure exactly why he was following this certain crab. Maybe because it was the first crab he spotted when after five minutes of aimless search. So he didn't want to loose it.
The crab scurried around, walking sideways. Tyrone walks a ways away because the crab snapped its clippers when he got too close, so he stayed further off, but watched where he was going.
Austin had figured out where the map peice was but he wanted to stay a minute and listen to the conversation.
"Shes comin back today." Ken said
"Wait till she hears who is going to " zorori said
"Shh." Ken said, "lets save it until she arrives at 3:25."
Austin hid as they headed back out.
Once they were gone Austin went down, said hi to Tasha and headed towards the meuseum roof.
it took 10 ice cream sundaes but Pablo finally emptied the sprinkles jar.
at the very bottom was a coaster.
Pablo took it out, popped it open and got the map peice.
Then Pablo walked out with a brain freeze
Uniqua unscrewed all the wheels and inside was a roled up peice of the map.
She grabbed it and put the wagon back together.
Then Uniqua walked out to try nd find the next map peice.
Tyrone had followed the crab to a small cave.
Tyrone checked inside and making sure there were no crabs in there he reached in and felt around.
He felt some paper.
Tyrone pulled it out to see it was attched to a crab.
Tyrone dropped it and screamed.
But then he noticed it was just a dead crabs arm.
He pried the map peice from it and looked at his paper
Austin climbed onto the meuseum roof to look for it.
He saw some crazy paving tiles that where shaped like a stamp.
Austin had to look under each and every one of them.
Finlly 2 minutes later he found it.
Austin jumped down.
Tasha sat on a rock thinking how she would find a giant leaf.
"Maybe if I stand up on the rock I can see it." Tasha said
She stood up and llooked around.
She still couldn't find it.
Tasha lowered her head in defeat and saw the rock she was standing was shaped like a ;eaf.
"It was under me the whole time!" Tasha said as she jumped off and grabbed the map peice from under it.
Once she had the next piece, Tasha moved on to the next riddle she had in her possesion. "To find this piece you need pure luck. Its hidden behind a duck."
She smiled, "Easy one!" she boasted, tucking away the riddles and map piece. There's only one place she knew that had ducks in all of Smugglers Cove. Obviously the Duck Pond Inn, right before the grand Duck Pond itself. There were many ducks there.
Tyrone read his next riddle.
"a piece of map in a shiny house is found in the place of a mouse." Tyrone said, "That must mean the lighthouse!"
Tyrone ran to the lighthouse to look.
Austin pulled out the next riddle he had with him, "Behind some apples that fell and crash, take the map piece and dash." Thinking over the riddle, Austin quickly linked it with the general store, as where else were there apples at Smugglers Cove? Certainly there were no farms nor trees. Trusting his suspison, he hopped over towards the said store.
Pablo looked at his next riddle.
"youll find a map piece for thee in the hole of a tree." Pablo said, "Does that mean I have to go to the island again?"
Meanwhile, Tasha had arrived at the Inn and was looking about. The pond wasn't too far off and she could see some ducks waddling along the shore or swimming in its waters. But something told her the ducks at the pond would know nothing of the map piece. Instead, she decided to look inside the inn for any answers - there were defiantly some ducks in there.
Uniqua looked at the next riddle.
"there was a star behind a frame now it's a map piece to claim." Uniqua said, "could that be the meuseum? no. they don't have famous paintings there. but i did see one at the lighthouse."
Uniqua ran off to the lighthouse.
Arriving at the lighthouse, Uniqua instantly found some paintings hanging off the walls like they had been all those other visits. No she just had to make the correct guess to which frame was the one discribed in her riddle.
Austin walked into the general store.
"Hi there Zorori." Austin said
"Hey there Austin." Zorori said, "What can I do for you?"
"What can you tell me about the souvineers here?" Austin said
Zorori turned around to look and Austin leaned over to see a note pad with two phone numbers scribbled on it.
ustin memorized them just as Zorori came back.
Meanwhile, Pablo had gotton on one of those Farry Boats that ride from one shore to the next. He got one that was leaving to visit the island. As long as you were staying at Smugglers Cove, you were allowed to get on.
The boat parted from the shore and sailed out for a few minutes before arriving to the island. Pablo tried his best to weasel out of the crowd.
Tyrone ran into the lighthouse and met with Uniqua.
"Hey which of these paintings would have a star?" Uniqua asjed
"One at night?" Tyrone said
Tyrone ran upstairs.
Uniqua shouted a "thank you" and went to go look for a picture with a star as Tyrone continued to run up the stairs.
Meanwhile, Zoroir returned to the counter, facing Austin.
"What would you be looking for?"
"Anything really," Austin said.
"Well," Zoroir began, "We do have some statues, snowglobs, postcards..."
Tasha had wandered into the inn looking for a duck.
"There are several here." Tasha said
Tasha started looking behind each of them
It took her awhile, having to search each duck, until she came across something
Tasha found an old wall decoration shaped like a duck and inside it was the map peice.
She grabbed it and put the decoration back.
Then Tasha ran outside for her next riddle.
Uniqua was still walking about the lighthouse, hearing thumps from upstairs everytime Tyrone's heels made contact with the floor.
What he was looking for, she didn't know.
Finally, Uniqua spotted an old painting, Abd visible in its features was a star
Pablo finally got onto the island.
"The most likely place for trees would be the forest." Pablo said
He ran off into the forest.
While in the forest, Pablo thought he knew exactly which tree to go. He wandered a little while furthur until he came to a familiar tree with a gaping hole in it.
"This is the tree where Austin's parents were hiding in earlier!" Pablo smiled, looking into the hole, hoping his guess was correct.
Pablo looked through it hard until he found a map peice,
Then Pablo climbed out and read his next riddle.
"Theres no tresaure here oh well. but a map peice is behind a shell." Pablo said, "Thats an easy one!"
Pablo turned on the heels of his feet and scampered off. "I know where there's a shell on this island! Its so obviouse!"
Pablo got to the well and thought.
"This is just like from "Thomas and the magic railroad!" Oh well! and a shell means water!" Pablo said
Pablo cranked the handed untilt he bucket was up and reached underneath it.
Then he felt a shell along the smooth surface.
He pulled it out and inside was the map peice.
"On a purple flower what do I spy? A map piece from a butterfly." Pablo read. He titlted his head somewhat in confusion. "Huh," he wondered, "do I need to catch a butterfly? I'm not too good at that..."
Uniqua was checking the painting that Tyrone had said.
She looked behind it, and found nothing.
Then Uniqu removed the frame and a map peice fell out.
The next riddle read, "I see a piece of a treasure note! Its held by the man in the yellow raincoat." Uniqua smiled, remembering one of her friends pointing out a yellow raincoat by the toy store awhile back.
"Hey, Tyrone!" she called.
"Yeah?" he called back.
"Where was that raincoat you guys saw before?"
"iTs in the toy store near the front window!" Tyrone called
He heard Uniqua leaving as he reached into the mouse hole.
He pulled out another map peice.
"ok next riddle." Tyrone said
"Thanks!" he heard Uniqua call before she left.
"Spider legs hold a piece of map. Grab and don't get caught in its trap." Tyrone groaned after reading the riddle. "This is obviouse...only the fort dungeon would have spiders...great, of course I get the spooky riddle."
Austin had secretly found the map peice hidden behind the wall behint the apples.
Austin walked out with his new map peice and a couple postcards of smugglers cove.
"Turning the pages of a book will give you a map peice so take a look/" Austin read., "Thats goona be tricky."
Meanwhile, Tasha had figured out what her new riddle meant. "What falls onto the floor behind a flag? A map piece to snag." She smiled to herself, that was an easy one! Where else would there be a flag to begin with in a small town? Obviously at a place that held history, the meuseum pirtaes exhibit! It was so obviouse.
Quickly, she made her way, expecting to find a flag.
Pablo went to the house since it was the only area on the island he hadn't checked.
The looked around for anything that looked like a purple flower.
"Aha!" Pablo said
Pablo found an old purple colored rock shaped like a flower with a butterfly on it.
Pablo pulled it loose and inside was a map peice.
Pablo grabbed it and then got on the boat back to smugglers cove.
"This ride could take a while." Pablpo said
Pablo waited awhile and decided that he somehow needed to let his friends know he'd found all his map pieces. Kindly, he waddled over to a bear woman. She had a scarf wrapped around her head and wearing a sweater over a long skirt. Next to her were three little bears with the same cream-coloured coat.
"Excuse me, ma'am." Pablo said. The bear woman looked over and smiled, her three cubs suddenly becoming silent and shy.
"Hello little boy, are you lost?" she asked.
Pablo shook his head, "No, miss, but I was wondering. Would you happen to have a phone?"
She blinked. "Um, yes I do."
"Could I borrow it? I need to call someone."
The bear hesitated, but soon pulled out a small flip-up cellphone from her purse that sat beside her. She handed it over to Pablo, watching him as he dialed.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Austin." Pablo greeted.
"Hey, Pablo. What's up?"
"Just wanted to let you know I found all four of mine."
"Really? That's great!"
"Yeah, so, I'm on the farry coming to shore."
"You were at the island?"
"Yeah."
"OK, well, we're still looking. I don't think anyone else is done. When you shore, just keep an eye out for one of us."
"OK."
"OK, see you."
"Bye," Pablo hung up the cellphone, looking back over to the woman and her cubs. "Thank you very much, ma'am." he thanked, handing her back her phone. She nodded, tucking the phone away.
Uniqua went into the toy store.
She looked around for the toy the riddle said,
eveentually she found it and started looking.
Underneath its hat was the map peice.
The next riddle read: "In the cork is a map to see. A pirate left it for thee."
Uniqua eyed the riddle questionably. This was confusing. If the riddle was speaking of a cork from a bottle, she wasn't sure if she would ever find the actual bottle it was specifically reffering to.
"Hm, there's no icky bars or any place like that. So where would I find a single cork?"
Tyrone had wanded up to the fort.
"This is the most likely place where I'll meet spiders." Tyrone said
Tyrone walked into the dungeon and started looking.
There were many spiders crawling about as disturbing as that was. Tyrone didn't want to walk to deep in due to this, even though he knew he had to find the next riddle.
"Man, why do I always end up here?" he mutters.
Tyrone stood on a stool to get a higher view.
Then he saw several cracks in the wall.
Tyrone took a closer look and saw it was kinda shaped like a spiders web.
Tyrone broke it open and grabbed the map peice.
"I am so glad it wasn't real spider." Tyrone said in relief.
Tyrone opened the riddle, "Theres a piece of map no doubt, under the thumb its sticking out."
Austin had thought of where to find a book but there were too many places.
"I know!" Austin said
Austin pulled out his cell phone and called Tasha Tyrone and Uniqua
"Hey guys!" Ausitn said, "I need help. tell me all the places you guys found map pieces."
"Toy store, shipwreck shore, shed, lighthouse, Duck pond inn, general store, meuseum, picnic table, fort, island and ice cream store." Uniqua informed. "But we're still looking for some."
"Ok thanks guys!" Austin said before he hung up
"Lets see." Ausitn said, "That leaves the train station, the boat building store, and the fishing store"
Austin headed to the train station since it was the most likely place of the three to find a book.
Austin thought over, a train station was a pretty odd place to look for a book, but considering his other options was a boating store and a fishing store, he really thought he'd have better luck at the station.
"Hmm...but where would this book be?"
Austins ears perked as he heard someone talking.
The voices sounded familier.
Austin turned and saw that it was coming from the other room.
Austin didn't want to be seen so he put his ear to the wll and listened. Austin couldn't identify the voices because of the wall but they sounded familier.
"you said they did what?"
"you heard us correctly"
"And their going after yours too."
"Do you really think that they can?"
"Well they got 2 so they might be able to get it."
pause
"when they do stould we tell them?"
"No. they can find it but lets not tell them"
Austin heard someone coming so he ducked behind the bench.
Meanwhile, Tyrone hadn't known what his riddle meant by a thumb. He wasn't sure where to look first
"Well if Austin went to the train station then I should go to the fishing store." Tyrone said, "Its more likely to have some kind of glove."
Tyrone walked over to the fishing store and started looking
He walked over to where some gloves hung, trying to figure out if they could mean anything. "Maybe I'll find a map piece inside the gloves...?" Tyrone wondered somewhat aloud.
After Tyrone checked all the gloves he found nothing.
"Come on." Tyrone said to himself, "I need to think outside the box."
Tyrone closed his eyes and thought,
"Out side the box." Tyrone said
Sudenlly Tyrone had an idea.
"Its a long shot but it might work." Tyrone said
Tyrone snuck into an old storage room.
He looked thourhg several posters until he found the one.
"Battle for bikini bottom." Tyrone said
the poster showed spongebob being attacked by several robots. one of them was called G-love.
"I do question why there's posters in a fishing store...especially one of a cartoon like this on an old island...but I guess how we've got the ability to pull random objects out from nowhere I shouldn't question." shrugging, Tyrone began to get an idea to what the poster could mean.
Tasha had arrived at the mueseum after hwe wlk and looked around for a flag.
She walked back into the pirates exhibit where there were a couple flags
"But how do I figure out which one?" Tasha said
She began to walk around, "The riddle said there was something behind the flag...but I can't possibly look behind them all...or can I? Hm, wish these riddles weren't such mind-bending!"
Tasha had decided to just check behind them all.
She strted looking when.
"Hi"
Tasha whirled around to see Uniqua surprised
"Oh its just you/" Tasha said relieved
"Yeah I need to look for some kind of cork here." Uniqua said
"Try the pirates objects." Tasha said shrugging, "and once you do can you help me find a map peice behind a flag?"
Uniqua agreed and hurried off to the pirate objects, promising to be back as soon as she found her map piece. She arrived towards the objects and began to hastely look round, reminding herself Tasha was waiting and she was rather impatient at times.
"Ok think." Uniqua said "Cork. bottles,"
Uniqua looked for a bottle and saw one with a cork in it.
She cautiously opened it and the map peice ws inside
Quickly she grabbed it and rushed over to Tasha who was tapping her foot to pass time, still eyeing the various vivid flags.
"I'm back," Uniqua informed.
Tasha looked over her shoulder, "Okay, good, I really need your help. This is my last riddle, I wana hurry up."
The flags each had a picture of a skull and crossbones with some minor additions to each
"This one has an eyepatch so it must be one eye petes." Tasha said
"This other one has a sword in its mouth." Uniqua said, "That must be mary peirce."
They looked behind it and they saw the map peice.
Austin was still hiding under the bench. He wasn't sure what to do to avoid those people
Eventually they left.
Austin crawled out releived.
He walked into another room and saw several books.
Eventually he found the map peice.
As he left he passed a clock that said 3:45
Tasha and Uniqua had both found the last of theirs.
"Lets call Austin." Uniqua said
Tasha pulled out a cell phone
"Whats up guys?" Austin asked
"We both found all of ours!" Tasha said
"Great." Austin said, "Go to the docks and wait for Pablo."
"You got it." Uniqua agreed. Without another question, she wished the purple kangaroo goodluck before putting her phone away, pulling Tasha along towards the docks.
Austin hung up his cellphone and quickly hurried to complete his last two riddles. They needed to finish, they were leaving tomorrow morning!
"a piece of map is what you earned. It came to you as the globe turned." Austin said
He thought for a minute.
"Well i might as well check the boat shed." Austin said
Austin wandered off towards where the boat shed was located. Once arriving, he pushed open the old door to let himself in. Looking around, the shed was filled with all kinda of ship materials like before, so finding a globe would most likely be found here. He begun searching.
...
Pablo was waiting at the docks when he heard someone calling his name.
"Pablo! Pablo!"
The said penguine looked over to see two of his friends hurrying over. He smiled at them, "Well it took you guys long enough!"
"Sorry," Uniqua appologized. "We past a store and-"
"I saw these adorable red ruby earings! And you won't believe this! They come with a matching bracelet and headband!" Tasha exclaimed with excitement. Uniqua just facepalmed herself as her hippo friend continued to explain how beautiful the accessories were. Pablo raised up his fins to silence Tasha, getting dizzy and very confused when she somehow changed the topic to makeup.
"Whoa! Whoa! OK, I get it. You like the colour red. Can we go now?"
Tyrone got the poster map peice and checked his last riddle.
"That's a piece of map I hope. Take it from the snake on the rope." Tyrone said, "You hvae got to be kidding me! a crab, a spider, and now a snake!?"
Tyrone went over to the boat shed seeing how it was the only placew left.
Tyrone walked into the boat shed after he finally arrived, and was surprised to see Austin already there, rumaging through some old map pieces.
"Austin?" Tyrone wondered aloud.
Austin looked up, an old map sitting carelessly on his head, "Ty? What're you doing here?"
"Apperently there's a snake I need to find."
"What?! There's a snake in here?!" Austin jumped up out of the pile of papers and leaped over to his moose friend. "There should really be a warning or something."
"Hey, I'm the one who somehow got all the riddles that include animals that snap." Tyrone muttered.
"Good luck with that, I need a globe I think." Austin replied.
The two of them looked around for a globe or a snake.
"It seems so weird there would be a snake in here/" Tyrone sid
"too weird." Austin said, "Read me your riddle."
"That's a piece of map I hope. Take it from the snake on the rope." Tyrone said
"Well maybe you should just look for a rope insted of a snake." Austin said
"I hope your right." Tyrone said
"There's lots've rope in here...like this practically looks like everything you'd find in the base of a ship." Austin said.
"In that case, I really hope the rope just looks like a snake."
With that, the two boys begun searching for their own riddles, and even for the other, helping each other out figruing they might just get this done quicker. They were the only two left with riddles and it was almost time for them to head back to the inn for dinner.
...
"So where's Tyrone and Austin? I was just talking to him on the phone." Pablo asked.
"You have a phone?" Tasha asked, surprised.
"No, I borrowed some lady's phone."
"Um, ok."
"Well, we just stopped talking to Austin, I don't know where he was going. We can always call again, maybe we can help him with his last riddle." Uniqua suggested.
"Yeah, and Ty is taking long too. Maybe Austin knows where he is and I can go give him a hand." Tasha smiled.
"Alright, give me a sec." Uniqua said, taking out her own phone her mother hand lend her in emergency and dialed Austin's borrowed phone's number. It rung a few times before the said kangroo actually picked up.
...
"Hello?"
"Hey, Austin. Its Uniqua."
"Oh hey." Austin smiled, reading an old compass he just stepped on.
"Who is it?" Tyrone questioned from his spot on the other side of the room. He was currently busy with an old piece of rope that had been chewed by something. He hoped that same something hadn't messed with the map piece.
"Its Uni," Austin told him.
"Oh, alright." he nodded, quickly returning back to his observation.
"What is it, Uni?" Austin wondered, dropping the old compass.
"Tasha and Pablo are here with me, its getting close to dinner. Where are you and are you with Tyrone? I heard a voice."
"Yeah, we're at the boat shed looking for the last map pieces."
"Ask them to come and help!" Tyrone said.
"Can we come help?" Tasha spoke, taking Uniqua's phone who eagerly pulled it away.
"Yes, that'd be helpful. This place is messed and apperently we don't want to dig to deep. Possibility of a snake."
"Ugh," Tasha muttered, "sorry I offered to help..."
Uniqua and Pablo shot her looks clearly saying 'that's rude'. "Snakes are icky and slimy, I don't like them!" she defended, stubbornly crossing her arms.
Uniqua rolled her deep shaded pink eyes and responded into the phone, "We'll be there." Then hung up before either boy could respond.
soon they arrived at the building.
"We're here." Pablo said
"So what do we need to look for?" Uniqua asked
"A globe." Austin said
"A rope that looks like a snake." Tyrone said
"Oh its a rope." Tasha said relieved.
"Come on guys we don't have time!" Austin said
they all started looking through the place frantically.
"I don't see anything that looks like a globe." Tasha reported.
"Does it look like a snake?" Pablo asked.
Tasha raised a brow, "Um...no, it looks like a rope."
"That looks like a snake?"
"No! You know what, think I'll go look on the other side of the shed." Tasha stated, getting up and walking away from her propellor-hat wearing friend. She walked over to where Uniqua was who was - with determintation - looking for a globe or snake/rope.
"Find anything?" Tasha wondered.
"If I had, I'd yell 'Eurika'." Uniqua sighed.
"but you would only yell eureka if you discovered gold or dinosaur bones." Tyrone said
"Well what else would i say?" Uniqua said
"Good point." Tyrone said
"Just keep looking." Uniqua said
"Hey i think i got something." Austin said
"You found something?!" Pablo asked excitedly.
"Eureka!" the girls grinned, hurrying over.
Austin turned around to his friends to expose what he discovered which he believed was the answer to the riddle.
Austin turned over the globe he had found.
"Hey Pablo can you hold this?" Austin said
Pablo took it and then started ranting on about it.
"5...4...3...2..1..0" austin thought.
Pablo dropped the globe and it broke open.
"Oops." Pablo said
"Pablo!" Tasha hissed.
"Oh no! Oh no I broke the globe!" Pablo panicked, beginning to flap his flippers.
"Pablo." Tyrone said.
"Oh gosh! Now what? Now we're done!"
"Pablo." Uniqua said.
"Oh man! Oh man-!"
"Pablo!" Austin said.
"Yeah?"
"Stop panicking, you helped."
"I did? I did! Yes! I helped!...How'd I help?"
"Yeah," Tasha budded, "how'd he help? He broke the clue."
Austin reached in and pulled out the map peice.
"oh." Tasha said
"Well now we just need one more!" Tyrone said
"So get looking!" Uniqua said
"OK...a rope that looks like a snake..."
"Or it could be a snake on a rope, Tasha. Or a snake that looks like a rope!"
"All snakes look like a rope, Pablo. Just with icky spots and they're slimy."
"Guys! Less chit-chatting and more searching!" Uniqua ordered, looking over under a table to see if she could spot a rope. She didn't, just more dust and papers so she abandoned that spot and walked off.
They kept searching.
"Uh guys." Pablo said
"What?" Uniqu asked
"Somethings got my foot." Pablo said
"Snake!" Tasha screamed.
"I don't think so, Tasha." Austin said, him and Tyrone walking over.
"I bet its the rope the riddles talking about." Uniqua smiled.
"I hope so, I don't like this boat shed. Its got spiders." Tyrone said, wiping off a stray web from his sweater.
"Eek! Spiders!" Tasha freaked.
Uniqua sighed and walked over to Pablo to try and help get him untangled from whatever it was.
After some time they unwound a rope from Pablo.
"This is it." Tyrone said
They unwound the rope itself and found the last map peice.
"We found them all." Austin said
"Now lets put the map tohether." Uniqua said
They put it together and they looked at it.
It showed a background of a beach with a sentence written on it. but some places had outlines of objects insted of words.. it read
"My...is on the...in a secret...to find it pull the...tht points to..."
Uniqua read another message on it.
"On shipwreck shore find a bottle of clues that will lead you to things with this map you can use." Uniqua read.
They all stared
"So we have to find a bottle in shipwreck shore." Tasha said
"I think i saw one." Tyrone said
They all rn to the shore.
They found the bottle on shipwreck shore and opened it.
Austin found a paper inside and looked over it.
"What is it?" Uniqu asked
"Its clues to find 5 objects to use with the map." Austin said, "And it looks like we might have to split up again."
They agreed to go after one each and keep in touch with their cell phones.
Austin went to the duck pond in the center of town.
Uniqua went to the north side of town near the lighthouse.
Tyrone went to the east side of town near the boat dock.
Tasha went to the south side of town near the meuseum.
Pablo went to the west side of town near the train station.
"Ok I'm gonna read them off and each of you go to the place closest to you." Austin said
"Up at the well where my treasure is not, I left you a card. go see what its got." Austin said
Tyrone went onto the boat and went to the island.
when he arrived he went straight to the well.
Tyrone searched thorugh carefully and found a card wedged between two stones.
He pulled it out and looked at it.
It had a picture of a cave.
"I hid my favorite seashell from peeping eyes. In the general store where we purchased supplies." Austin read
Pablo listened then walked into the general store. Zorori wasn't there luckily.
Pablo looked around and eventually saw a seashell on the wall.
Pablo grabbed it and looked at it.
It had a picture of a treasure chest.
"At the duck pond inn I stayed with the crew. My tea cup is waiting for you." Austin said
Uniqua went into the Duck pond inn.
She looked around the main lobby and eventually saw a teacup resting on a shelf.
Uniqua picked it up and looked at it.
Inside was a picture of a sword.
"T prove that my treasure isn't a myth look in my coat pocket for my old handkercheif." Austin said
Tasha walked into the meuseum and went to the coats.
Eventually after looking in the pockets she found a handkercheif.
On it were the initials M.P.
"My gun powder horn is the last thing you'll need. if you search the fort you'll find it indeed." Austin said, "Guess this ones mine."
Austin went up to the fort.
He went to the top where he saw the whole town.
Then Austin noticed a gunpowder horn in a hole.
Austin took it out and looked at it.
It had a picture of an island on it.
"Now look at my map. what do you see? if you find my treasure remember think of me." Austin said
"We have to meet beck in the middle of town." Uniqua said
They all started to head back.
Austin passed the meuseum and heard a faint voice.
"They almost found yours Mari."
Austin thought that name sounded familier.
Strange things had been happening and Austin had peiced it all together. at least he thought he did.
They all met back in the center of town at the duck pond.
They took their objects and put them on the map in the right place.
Then Austin read the results.
"My (treasure) is on the (island) in a secret (cave) to find it pull the (sword) that points to (M.P.)" Austin said
They all stared.
"Its on the island." Tyrone said
"Lets go there." Uniqua said
"I have something i need to do first." Austin said
"Ok we'll wait here." Tyrone said
Austin went over to shipwreck shore where no one was around.
Then he took out his cell phone and dialed.
He remembered the two phone numbers he saw in the general store.
Austin listened for an answer.
"Hello?"
Austin quickly hung up.
"I figured it out." Austin said
He quickly ran back to the others.
They all got together and got on a boat to the island.
Austin wandered around the boat as if he was looking for something.
Then Austin stopped. He stared at a group of people. Then left.
They all arrived on the island.
The backies went into the forest.
They found a bunch of rocks.
They looekd until they found one shaped like a sword.
It was pointed at an MP carved in a tree.
"This is it." Austin said
They each grabbed a part of the rock and pulled.
Eventually it came apart. There was a small cave.
They all looked it and saw it.
There was treasure everywhere.
most of it was gold coins and gold pots but there were other things too. There was a big gold chest filled with pearls. Several gold jeweled cups. A small box filled with diamonds. A golden mirror. A golden scale. A golden crown. a golden ship model. two big golden candelsticks. A chest filled with jewels. and lastly two silver swords with golden handles.
"We did it!" Uniqua said,
"We found all three pirates treasures!" Tyrone said
Austin noticed something in a pot.
"Guys wait quiet!" Austin said
Austin pulled out a scroll tied up. He unwound it and read the note.
"No one knows i'm a woman. on deck I'm called peirce. with my mustache and sword, i'm disquised and i'm feirce. theres nothing grander then a life on the sea. so as long as i'm living a pirate i'll be. Mary peirce." Austin read.
They all stared silently.
They stayed like that for a long time.
"Well." Uniqua finally said, "We will think of her."
"Now we need to get this treasure back to the inn." Austin said
"And were leaving tommorow." Tyrone said
They were able to get all the treasure back to the duck pond inn without anyone noticing?
"But I have one question now guys." Pablo asked, "What are we going to do with this treasure?"
"Hmmm..."
The Backyardigans thought. As they had slowly took armfuls of all the treassure and snuck it upstairs, they really had no idea why they were doing it if they didn't know what to do with it. Would their parents allow them to keep it? But...it didn't seem right to keep the treassure, despite the fact that they had found it themselves fairly, it wasn't exactly their treassure.
"Why don't we leave it here?" Austin suggested.
"What? And re-burry it or something?" Pablo guessed.
"Why don't we exchange it for money at a Gold Dealers?" Tasha wondered, knowing how her mother delt with her gold.
"It doesn't sound right," Tyrone sighed truthfully.
"I know," Uniqua smiled, "why don't we give it to the museum? This place had been looking for the treassure for years! I'm sure they'd appriciate it if we gave it to them, then all tourists can see it."
Austin smiled, "I like that idea."
Uniqua, Tasha, Tyrone, and Pablo all used their hammerspace to carry the treasure.
Austin went off to make a few phone calls.
"Who could he be calling?" Uniqua asked
"I have no idea." Tyrone said
They shrugged.
After they got all the treasure Austin came.
"Ok lets go to the meuseum." Austin said
They traveled there and when they arrived they got a big surprise.
Inside was Ken, Zorori, and Marikina. They appeared to be confused why they were there. it appears they each got a call saying the others wated to meet them there.
Austin and the others walked up to them.
"Hey guys." Austin said
They all turned to look at him.
Austin then did something amazing.
He used his hammerspace to pull out a treasure chest full of all the treasure they got.
"We found it." Austin said
They all stared in shock.
"And by the way I don't think you properly introduced yourselves so I'll do it" Austin said
Austin turned to the other backies.
"This is one eye pete, A newmn, and Mary peirce." Austin said
"WHAT?!" The four remaining Backies gasped.
Marikina smiled sheepishly, "We won't lie, you five are clearly too smart of our tall tales. You've figured it out, uncovered our mystery."
Zorori nodded, clapping, "Great job, kids. Nobody has been able to do what you've accomplish. They had no idea where to start. We've mentioned the treassure to almost every single tourist, but all they've done is wonder. You did much, much more."
"We are clearly amazed, incredible." Ken spoke.
"Thank you," Tasha bowed.
"Yeah, it was fun finding your treassure!" Pablo chirped.
"It was certainly an adventure." Tyrone grinned.
"But if you don't mind," Uniqua said, stepping forth to stand beside Austin.
"We'd like to give this treassure to the museum." Austin finished, looking up at the adults.
"Of course you can." Ken said
"But we want each of you to take one thing so that you will never forget this." Zorori said
They all looked through and each chose a treasure they liked.
Tasha chose a jeweled brooch to go with her dress.
Uniqua chose a ruby eyepatch.
Tyrone chose a large golden ring.
Pablo chose a silver plate.
Austin looked and then made his desision. Austin chose a big gem that when light shone through projected rainbows everywhere. It spread colors of silver, yellow, cyan, red, purple, green. and blue.
The three pirates stared at him.
"That gem." Marikina started, "It was the very first treasure we ever found together."
"We first met when we each found a peice of a map and it lead each of us to an island." Ken said
"We decided to work together and split up the treasure but that was the only thing there." Zorori said, "so we decided to become friends."
"Oh." Austin said
Austin started to put it back when they stopped him.
"Keep it." Ken said
"But its your favorite treasure." Austin said
"Trust us." Zorori said
"Ever since that moment when you discovered the first list of riddles I had hope in you." Marikina said
"Thanks." Austin said
Amazingly, Austin's folks had no knowledge of what had occured. Well, they recieved details but not to lengths that gave away anything. All they had been told was that their son and his friends had uncovered a chest of lost treassure at the beach. They had even gone to the museam to watch as the employees placed the beautiful and dazzyling jewels and riches on display for all tourists to see for years to come. They even added a picture of the 5 backies together to be on permanent display with it.
"What sheer luck you kids found the treassure!" Austin's father grinned the next morning at the train station.
"What can we say? These kids are lucky, hon!" Austin's mother beamed, ruffling her son's head. "We're so proud of you five,"
The Backyardigans smiled happily up towards the two adults as they carried over their bags to the train. "Stay here kids," his mother warned, "we'll be right back." Austin watched as his parents walked over to a booth, recieving their tickets and an employee to help them load their bags into their room on the train for them.
Unexpectantly, there was a tap on Uniqua's shoulder.
She turned around and gasped slightly in surprise.
There stood Marikina. She closed one eye in a winking fashion, placing a single finger in a hush-motion over her smiling lips. "I knew you kids were special," she smiled. "Goodbye," And just like that, she walked away out of their sights.
They stood there, looking after her even though the panda was long-gone. They blinked away their shock when the Kangaroos arrived, annoucing they were ready to go. They each boarded the train, Austin looking back one last time, smiling. "We knew this place was special too," and the doors sealed shut behind him.
And the train started after a squealing whistle rung out.