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Spongebob Squarepants and the Treasure Hunt

It was a bright and beautiful day in Bikini Bottom when Spongebob Squarepants awoke to his foghorn alarm. He hopped out of his bed and said good morning to Gary. He got dressed and ate some Mermaid Man Cereal. He looked at his weekly calendar. Today, April 2, 2005, was according to his calendar, a "Go Hang Out with Patrick Day." So he flung open the door and breathed in the fresh water. "Ahh…another beautiful morning."

"I'm ready, I'm ready," Spongebob sang.

He walked to Patrick's house/rock, shouting good morning to Squidward. Squidward merely stuck his head out his window and said, "Shut up, I'm practicing my clarinet," and went back to playing horribly off-key. Spongebob banged three times on Patrick's rock. The cover swung open to reveal Patrick stuck to the bottom of the cover. He hopped off next to Spongebob. " Hi Spongebob, what do you wanna do?"

They both thought for awhile. Finally, Spongebob lit up. "I know let's go on a treasure hunt!"

"OK!" Patrick replied. "But what are we gonna hunt?"

"Uh oh, that presents a problem…" Suddenly, Spongebob spotted something white under a rock. "Hey, look! Maybe that's a map!" Patrick reached down and grabbed it. They read it together slowly. "My Treasure Map," written in a childish manner. Spongebob snatched it out of Patrick's hands and waved it around.

"Patrick do you realize what this is?" his eyes widening.

"No…what is it?" Patrick started drooling a bit.

"It's a treasure map. Look it has a route drawn out and everything even a big X to mark the spot! Let's go find it!"

"OK!" Patrick happily agreed.

"According to this map, we start in the middle of Bikini Bottom." With that statement, the two strolled off toward the city.

"Ok, now what?" asked Patrick. Spongebob glanced at the map. "Now we go to the Krusty Krab."

"Now?" asked Patrick as soon as they got to the front of the Krusty Krab.

"Back to Squidward's house."

The friends finally got there, breathing hard. They rested for a moment. After a short period of time, Patrick spoke. "Well, that was pointless. Whoever wrote this must have been pretty dumb. Where's the X?"

"Lemme see…it should be right under that rock." Spongebob pointed to the rock where they had found the map. Patrick heaved it up. There was a big red X. Patrick started digging with his hands and dug and dug. Finally he shouted, "Ow!"

Spongebob shouted excitedly down the hole. "What did you find something?"

The reply was a chest heaved up and that landed next to the hole. Patrick climbed out and sat down. Spongebob reached over and slowly opened the rotting chest. They both gasped. Patrick grasped the object inside and held it up reverently. It was an empty cardboard box. They both stared at it with rapt wonder. It was Spongebob who broke the silence. "Come on, let's go pretend to drive race cars," and they rushed off to Spongebob's front yard. In their hurry, Spongebob had dropped the map. The wind blew it upside down. There was some writing on the back. What was the text? It read "Property of Patrick Star."