Quintet: Part Ten
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. J.E. Smith had the idea of Cassie being caught in a trap of some kind and needing to be helped, although I'd rather not use the transformation idea because I have something else in mind. AKJ had the idea about the polar bear, JesusFreak9 had the avalanche idea, and Addi had the idea about the hypothermia. Now, let's get it on!
***
Our heroes finally made it to the Ice section...and discovered why it was called the Ice section.
The area was filled with many mountains, and snow was absolutely everywhere.
There was ice all over the place as well.
Also, and most important of all, it was cold!
Our heroes were shivering like they'd never shivered before.
Clifford and Sagwa had it a little better than the others, because they, at least, were protected by fur.
Cassie had it worst of all, however, because, being a dragon, she was cold-blooded, and was much more vulnerable to the cold than the others....
***
Meanwhile, Sister Bear had made it to the Ice section as well.
"Hey Ashura!" she screamed to the sky. "It's cold here! How about a coat?"
Immediately Ashura dropped a heavy coat to Sister Bear, who gladly put it on.
Sister Bear had some salt in her pocket, and she quickly took another route, going ahead of our heroes.
She started to put salt on some ice that she found...
***
Our heroes eventually made it to that same ice, but Cassie was walking very weakly, being more vulnerable to the cold than the others.
Suddenly, the ice collapsed, taking our heroes with it.
Our heroes soon found themselves in an icy-cold lake, and they were screaming, splashing about in panic to get out.
It was Clifford who eventually calmed down and lifted our heroes out of the water one by one before climbing out himself.
As our heroes sighed with relief, they looked over at Cassie...and gasped in shock.
Cassie's scales had all turned entirely blue, and Cassie had passed out.
Matt checked to make sure Cassie was still breathing. She was, fortunately.
"She has hypothermia," Matt told our heroes. "We need to keep her warm until we can get help."
"Is she gonna be all right?" Sagwa asked worriedly.
"She is if we can keep her warm," Matt replied.
"Put her on my back," Clifford instructed. "My fur should have enough body heat to keep her warm."
With Cassie on Clifford's back, Arthur looked depressed.
"How are we gonna get past this section if we run risks like getting hypothermia?" Arthur asked, a resigned tone in his voice. "I think maybe we should turn back."
"Absolutely not! You heard what Dave said!" Sagwa snapped at him. "Ashura will blow up some version of Earth if we don't complete this game!"
With that, our heroes trudged reluctantly on.
As they were walking, Clifford got dust in his nose.
And of course, you know what that means...
Clifford sneezed, and it came out a very loud "ACHOOOOOOOOO!"
"You dunce! Don't you know that in snowy mountains loud noises cause---" Arthur began, but it was too late.
The force of the sneeze had shaken loose a pile of snow at the top of one of the mountains.
"Avalanche!!!" Matt screamed.
Everyone tried to run for cover.
Clifford, due to his size, was able to make it beside a mountain and hide there, but the rest of our heroes were completely covered in the avalanche.
"Oh no!" Clifford cried out in despair. "What have I done?!"
"Trapped your friends in an avalance," came a female voice from behind Clifford.
Clifford spun around in surprise to find an Eskimo woman standing there.
"But you can make up for your mistake, if you answer a riddle," the Eskimo woman continued.
The woman cleared her throat.
"What is always running, but never leaves?" the Eskimo woman asked.
Clifford thought for a minute.
"A clock!" he answered smugly.
The Eskimo woman started throwing a tantrum.
"Nobody ever gets that one!" the woman screamed. "Nobody! Nobody! Nobody!"
In her anger, the Eskimo woman gave out a loud whistle.
An abnormally huge polar bear that was only a little smaller than Clifford suddenly appeared, roaring at Clifford.
"Go get that stupid know-it-all!" the Eskimo woman screamed.
"Now wait a minute, I answered your riddle! You should be helping me!" Clifford protested.
Clifford's protests were in vain, and the polar bear lunged at him, swiping at him repeatedly with its claws.
Clifford jumped back, and he covered a long distance thanks to his size.
That gave him time to think.
As he was thinking, he spotted a bracelet on the polar bear's ankle.
Experimenting, Clifford jumped forward, grabbed the bracelet with his teeth, and pulled it off.
This turned out to be the source of the polar bear's power, and the polar bear shrank back to normal polar bear size.
The polar bear, now that Clifford towered over him, gave in to fright and ran away into the distance.
"Now help my friends!" Clifford demanded of the Eskimo woman.
The Eskimo woman grumbled, but she uttered an incantation, and the snow covering our heroes disappeared.
"Bye, scumbag," the Eskimo woman taunted, disappearing.
"Are you guys all right?" Clifford asked the rest of our heroes.
The rest of our heroes nodded.
Then, our heroes soon realized that they had passed the Ice section.
How did they realize this, you might ask?
Well, the clue might've been the air shimmering around them, changing the environment into a desert...
***
To be continued...
***
Well, the next chapter, the Desert Section, will be the very last chapter. Also, if you're wondering why I changed the way I space things, it's because this stupid Fanfiction.net system will no longer read four BR tags in a row properly! Now it reads four BR tags in a row as single-space for some reason instead. E-mail all other questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net
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. J.E. Smith had the idea of Cassie being caught in a trap of some kind and needing to be helped, although I'd rather not use the transformation idea because I have something else in mind. AKJ had the idea about the polar bear, JesusFreak9 had the avalanche idea, and Addi had the idea about the hypothermia. Now, let's get it on!
***
Our heroes finally made it to the Ice section...and discovered why it was called the Ice section.
The area was filled with many mountains, and snow was absolutely everywhere.
There was ice all over the place as well.
Also, and most important of all, it was cold!
Our heroes were shivering like they'd never shivered before.
Clifford and Sagwa had it a little better than the others, because they, at least, were protected by fur.
Cassie had it worst of all, however, because, being a dragon, she was cold-blooded, and was much more vulnerable to the cold than the others....
***
Meanwhile, Sister Bear had made it to the Ice section as well.
"Hey Ashura!" she screamed to the sky. "It's cold here! How about a coat?"
Immediately Ashura dropped a heavy coat to Sister Bear, who gladly put it on.
Sister Bear had some salt in her pocket, and she quickly took another route, going ahead of our heroes.
She started to put salt on some ice that she found...
***
Our heroes eventually made it to that same ice, but Cassie was walking very weakly, being more vulnerable to the cold than the others.
Suddenly, the ice collapsed, taking our heroes with it.
Our heroes soon found themselves in an icy-cold lake, and they were screaming, splashing about in panic to get out.
It was Clifford who eventually calmed down and lifted our heroes out of the water one by one before climbing out himself.
As our heroes sighed with relief, they looked over at Cassie...and gasped in shock.
Cassie's scales had all turned entirely blue, and Cassie had passed out.
Matt checked to make sure Cassie was still breathing. She was, fortunately.
"She has hypothermia," Matt told our heroes. "We need to keep her warm until we can get help."
"Is she gonna be all right?" Sagwa asked worriedly.
"She is if we can keep her warm," Matt replied.
"Put her on my back," Clifford instructed. "My fur should have enough body heat to keep her warm."
With Cassie on Clifford's back, Arthur looked depressed.
"How are we gonna get past this section if we run risks like getting hypothermia?" Arthur asked, a resigned tone in his voice. "I think maybe we should turn back."
"Absolutely not! You heard what Dave said!" Sagwa snapped at him. "Ashura will blow up some version of Earth if we don't complete this game!"
With that, our heroes trudged reluctantly on.
As they were walking, Clifford got dust in his nose.
And of course, you know what that means...
Clifford sneezed, and it came out a very loud "ACHOOOOOOOOO!"
"You dunce! Don't you know that in snowy mountains loud noises cause---" Arthur began, but it was too late.
The force of the sneeze had shaken loose a pile of snow at the top of one of the mountains.
"Avalanche!!!" Matt screamed.
Everyone tried to run for cover.
Clifford, due to his size, was able to make it beside a mountain and hide there, but the rest of our heroes were completely covered in the avalanche.
"Oh no!" Clifford cried out in despair. "What have I done?!"
"Trapped your friends in an avalance," came a female voice from behind Clifford.
Clifford spun around in surprise to find an Eskimo woman standing there.
"But you can make up for your mistake, if you answer a riddle," the Eskimo woman continued.
The woman cleared her throat.
"What is always running, but never leaves?" the Eskimo woman asked.
Clifford thought for a minute.
"A clock!" he answered smugly.
The Eskimo woman started throwing a tantrum.
"Nobody ever gets that one!" the woman screamed. "Nobody! Nobody! Nobody!"
In her anger, the Eskimo woman gave out a loud whistle.
An abnormally huge polar bear that was only a little smaller than Clifford suddenly appeared, roaring at Clifford.
"Go get that stupid know-it-all!" the Eskimo woman screamed.
"Now wait a minute, I answered your riddle! You should be helping me!" Clifford protested.
Clifford's protests were in vain, and the polar bear lunged at him, swiping at him repeatedly with its claws.
Clifford jumped back, and he covered a long distance thanks to his size.
That gave him time to think.
As he was thinking, he spotted a bracelet on the polar bear's ankle.
Experimenting, Clifford jumped forward, grabbed the bracelet with his teeth, and pulled it off.
This turned out to be the source of the polar bear's power, and the polar bear shrank back to normal polar bear size.
The polar bear, now that Clifford towered over him, gave in to fright and ran away into the distance.
"Now help my friends!" Clifford demanded of the Eskimo woman.
The Eskimo woman grumbled, but she uttered an incantation, and the snow covering our heroes disappeared.
"Bye, scumbag," the Eskimo woman taunted, disappearing.
"Are you guys all right?" Clifford asked the rest of our heroes.
The rest of our heroes nodded.
Then, our heroes soon realized that they had passed the Ice section.
How did they realize this, you might ask?
Well, the clue might've been the air shimmering around them, changing the environment into a desert...
***
To be continued...
***
Well, the next chapter, the Desert Section, will be the very last chapter. Also, if you're wondering why I changed the way I space things, it's because this stupid Fanfiction.net system will no longer read four BR tags in a row properly! Now it reads four BR tags in a row as single-space for some reason instead. E-mail all other questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net
