Quintet: Part Six
by Martial Arts Master
All PBS Kids characters copyright of PBS, PBS Kids, and the shows' respective creators. This fanfiction idea came to me in a dream. In my dream, five PBS Kids characters were on a quest of some sort, though I don't know exactly what, so I made up the story from there in this fic. In my dream, they were known as the Heavenly Quintet. (This was a weird dream. So weird, in fact, that the word the dream actually used was "quantet", which isn't even a word.) However, I had to make a couple of changes. First of all, the Dragon Tales character that appeared in my dream was Ord, but I put Cassie in this fic instead because otherwise, Sagwa, the main character from Sagwa: The Chinese-Siamese Cat, would've been the only female in the entire quintet, which might cause female readers to accuse me of being a sexist pig, and they would have a right to do so. Therefore, Cassie will appear in this fic instead. Second of all, I changed the name of the quintet to the PBS Kids Quintet, because using the word "heavenly" would've been a blatant religious reference, and with the exception of The Adventures from the Book of Virtues, which had an episode centered around "Faith", and the Cyberchase episode that involved the Greek deity Zeus, PBS Kids is completely non-religious. I can't always say the same for the regular PBS, but PBS Kids is for the most part immune to religion. Therefore, to keep the spirit of PBS Kids, the name change stands. By the way, in the previous chapter I forgot to give PBSKidVid credit for the "breaking the Skwak" idea. I'm giving him credit now. Also, a reviewer named "Evil Clowm Lady" who probably meant to put "Evil Clown Lady" gave me the idea for Jaws. Now, on with the fanfic!
***
Our heroes had made it past the Carnival section.
"So, what did Dave say came after Carnival?" Cassie asked.
"Underwater section," Arthur replied.
That made our heroes stop walking.
"Wait a second...how are we supposed to make it past an entire section that's underwater?!" Clifford asked. "We can't breathe underwater!"
Our heroes were in deep thought.
"Hmm...well...maybe we could find breathing apparatus somewhere," Matt suggested. "In the meantime, let's just keep walking."
And that's exactly what our heroes did.
Eventually, they came to a beach.
"Hooraaaaaaaaaaaay!" our heroes shouted.
Their feet were very tired, so immediately they cooled their feet in the shallow water.
Then, they suddenly heard noises, and cocked their ears to listen.
The nature of the noises became clear.
They were screams for help.
"Someone's in trouble!" Clifford shouted.
Our heroes looked around, and then spotted a little human boy trapped in a whirlpool to their right.
"Help! Help! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!" the kid was screaming.
"Stay right there!" Cassie shouted.
Cassie flew into the air, and then dived down to where the kid was, pulling him out of the whirlpool.
Then, Cassie set the kid back down on the beach.
"Are you all right?" she asked worriedly.
The kid nodded.
An adult woman and an adult man rushed over to where the kid was.
Obviously, these were his parents.
"Oh thank you so much!" the kid's mom said to all of our heroes. "We thought we'd lost him!"
"Actually, Cassie did all the work," Sagwa replied modestly.
"Be that as it may, if it hadn't been for all of you, we would've lost our son," the kid's father declared. "If you want a reward, just name it."
"The only thing we want is to know how to be able to breathe underwater," Matt said to the adults.
In answer, the adults took scuba gear and placed it on the ground.
"There's enough for all of you," the kid's mom said. "And they all fit."
Then, before our heroes could reply, the humans (except for Matt, of course) left.
"That's weird...some of this scuba gear is too small or too big for humans," Arthur said, inspecting the gear. "It's like it was meant to fit us."
"In this world, it probably was," Sagwa mused.
Our heroes quickly put the scuba gear on and dived underwater.
They discovered, to their pleasant surprise, that they could talk to each other through communicators.
"Hey, this is neat! We can talk to each other!" Sagwa declared happily.
Our heroes' jubilation was short-lived, however.
As they were swimming, they came to a coral wall that blocked all further progress.
They tried punching through the coral wall, but to no success.
Then, they tried to go around the coral wall. They had no success there either, because the wall was everywhere.
BR> Cassie tried to fly out of the water and go over the wall, but the wall extended up so impossibly high that eventually Cassie got tired and had to come back down underwater.
"Well this is getting us nowhere..." Arthur said. "What now?"
Clifford sighed and leaned against the wall...and was shocked to discover that his paw went through the wall.
Upon further inspection, he discovered that small parts of the wall were made of sand.
"Sagwa, do you think you can dig through one of these sand parts and come out the other side?" Clifford asked Sagwa.
"Sure!" Sagwa declared, digging through the sand.
When she came out the other side, she noticed a button on the other side of the coral wall labelled "PRESS ME".
Well she wasn't going to argue with that. She pressed the button...and to her amazement, the entire coral wall collapsed!
Now our heroes could pass.
"Hooray for Sagwa!" Matt cheered. "Great job!
Sagwa blushed modestly.
As our heroes continued through the water, they noticed that their tanks were now only three-fourths full.
They would have to hurry to pass the Underwater section.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be that easy.
The next thing they came across...was a gigantic shark!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!" everyone screamed.
"Wait, wait, I'm not dangerous!" the shark protested.
Our heroes stopped screaming, confused.
"My name is Jaws," the shark explained.
"Like the one in the movie?" Matt asked fearfully.
"No, no, I'm harmless. I'm just depressed," Jaws continued. "I have a horrible toothache, and it's killing me! Oh, I just want relief."
Our heroes, being as kind as they, decided to help the poor shark.
And Matt had an idea.
"Okay, Jaws, open your mouth and hold still," Matt said to Jaws. "This'll only hurt for a minute."
Jaws fearfully kept his mouth open.
Matt immediately spotted the aching tooth, and no wonder it was aching! It had a bacterial infection. It would have to be removed.
Matt brought his Skwak down as hard as he could on the tooth, knocking it out of Jaws's mouth.
Jaws screamed in pain...and then sighed in relief.
"Hey, I don't have a toothache anymore!" Jaws exclaimed, and said a little poem.
"Oh happy day!
I'm free of the pain!
It's no longer here to stay
and I'm right as rain!"
Our heroes clapped.
"Great poem, sir," Cassie said politely.
"Now how do we leave this section?" Sagwa demanded.
"Another beach is right above you," Jaws declared. "Swim up and onto the beach and keep walking. You'll come to the Sky section."
Our heroes thanked Jaws profusely, swam up to the beach, and were soon on their way to the Sky section...
To be continued...
E-mail all other questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net
All PBS Kids characters copyright of PBS, PBS Kids, and the shows' respective creators. This fanfiction idea came to me in a dream. In my dream, five PBS Kids characters were on a quest of some sort, though I don't know exactly what, so I made up the story from there in this fic. In my dream, they were known as the Heavenly Quintet. (This was a weird dream. So weird, in fact, that the word the dream actually used was "quantet", which isn't even a word.) However, I had to make a couple of changes. First of all, the Dragon Tales character that appeared in my dream was Ord, but I put Cassie in this fic instead because otherwise, Sagwa, the main character from Sagwa: The Chinese-Siamese Cat, would've been the only female in the entire quintet, which might cause female readers to accuse me of being a sexist pig, and they would have a right to do so. Therefore, Cassie will appear in this fic instead. Second of all, I changed the name of the quintet to the PBS Kids Quintet, because using the word "heavenly" would've been a blatant religious reference, and with the exception of The Adventures from the Book of Virtues, which had an episode centered around "Faith", and the Cyberchase episode that involved the Greek deity Zeus, PBS Kids is completely non-religious. I can't always say the same for the regular PBS, but PBS Kids is for the most part immune to religion. Therefore, to keep the spirit of PBS Kids, the name change stands. By the way, in the previous chapter I forgot to give PBSKidVid credit for the "breaking the Skwak" idea. I'm giving him credit now. Also, a reviewer named "Evil Clowm Lady" who probably meant to put "Evil Clown Lady" gave me the idea for Jaws. Now, on with the fanfic!
***
Our heroes had made it past the Carnival section.
"So, what did Dave say came after Carnival?" Cassie asked.
"Underwater section," Arthur replied.
That made our heroes stop walking.
"Wait a second...how are we supposed to make it past an entire section that's underwater?!" Clifford asked. "We can't breathe underwater!"
Our heroes were in deep thought.
"Hmm...well...maybe we could find breathing apparatus somewhere," Matt suggested. "In the meantime, let's just keep walking."
And that's exactly what our heroes did.
Eventually, they came to a beach.
"Hooraaaaaaaaaaaay!" our heroes shouted.
Their feet were very tired, so immediately they cooled their feet in the shallow water.
Then, they suddenly heard noises, and cocked their ears to listen.
The nature of the noises became clear.
They were screams for help.
"Someone's in trouble!" Clifford shouted.
Our heroes looked around, and then spotted a little human boy trapped in a whirlpool to their right.
"Help! Help! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!" the kid was screaming.
"Stay right there!" Cassie shouted.
Cassie flew into the air, and then dived down to where the kid was, pulling him out of the whirlpool.
Then, Cassie set the kid back down on the beach.
"Are you all right?" she asked worriedly.
The kid nodded.
An adult woman and an adult man rushed over to where the kid was.
Obviously, these were his parents.
"Oh thank you so much!" the kid's mom said to all of our heroes. "We thought we'd lost him!"
"Actually, Cassie did all the work," Sagwa replied modestly.
"Be that as it may, if it hadn't been for all of you, we would've lost our son," the kid's father declared. "If you want a reward, just name it."
"The only thing we want is to know how to be able to breathe underwater," Matt said to the adults.
In answer, the adults took scuba gear and placed it on the ground.
"There's enough for all of you," the kid's mom said. "And they all fit."
Then, before our heroes could reply, the humans (except for Matt, of course) left.
"That's weird...some of this scuba gear is too small or too big for humans," Arthur said, inspecting the gear. "It's like it was meant to fit us."
"In this world, it probably was," Sagwa mused.
Our heroes quickly put the scuba gear on and dived underwater.
They discovered, to their pleasant surprise, that they could talk to each other through communicators.
"Hey, this is neat! We can talk to each other!" Sagwa declared happily.
Our heroes' jubilation was short-lived, however.
As they were swimming, they came to a coral wall that blocked all further progress.
They tried punching through the coral wall, but to no success.
Then, they tried to go around the coral wall. They had no success there either, because the wall was everywhere.
BR> Cassie tried to fly out of the water and go over the wall, but the wall extended up so impossibly high that eventually Cassie got tired and had to come back down underwater.
"Well this is getting us nowhere..." Arthur said. "What now?"
Clifford sighed and leaned against the wall...and was shocked to discover that his paw went through the wall.
Upon further inspection, he discovered that small parts of the wall were made of sand.
"Sagwa, do you think you can dig through one of these sand parts and come out the other side?" Clifford asked Sagwa.
"Sure!" Sagwa declared, digging through the sand.
When she came out the other side, she noticed a button on the other side of the coral wall labelled "PRESS ME".
Well she wasn't going to argue with that. She pressed the button...and to her amazement, the entire coral wall collapsed!
Now our heroes could pass.
"Hooray for Sagwa!" Matt cheered. "Great job!
Sagwa blushed modestly.
As our heroes continued through the water, they noticed that their tanks were now only three-fourths full.
They would have to hurry to pass the Underwater section.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be that easy.
The next thing they came across...was a gigantic shark!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!" everyone screamed.
"Wait, wait, I'm not dangerous!" the shark protested.
Our heroes stopped screaming, confused.
"My name is Jaws," the shark explained.
"Like the one in the movie?" Matt asked fearfully.
"No, no, I'm harmless. I'm just depressed," Jaws continued. "I have a horrible toothache, and it's killing me! Oh, I just want relief."
Our heroes, being as kind as they, decided to help the poor shark.
And Matt had an idea.
"Okay, Jaws, open your mouth and hold still," Matt said to Jaws. "This'll only hurt for a minute."
Jaws fearfully kept his mouth open.
Matt immediately spotted the aching tooth, and no wonder it was aching! It had a bacterial infection. It would have to be removed.
Matt brought his Skwak down as hard as he could on the tooth, knocking it out of Jaws's mouth.
Jaws screamed in pain...and then sighed in relief.
"Hey, I don't have a toothache anymore!" Jaws exclaimed, and said a little poem.
"Oh happy day!
I'm free of the pain!
It's no longer here to stay
and I'm right as rain!"
Our heroes clapped.
"Great poem, sir," Cassie said politely.
"Now how do we leave this section?" Sagwa demanded.
"Another beach is right above you," Jaws declared. "Swim up and onto the beach and keep walking. You'll come to the Sky section."
Our heroes thanked Jaws profusely, swam up to the beach, and were soon on their way to the Sky section...
To be continued...
E-mail all other questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net
