Chapter 4: 'Enter Sethra'
All the Fraggles turned to look where the voice came from. Out from a tunnel stepped a female Fraggle by the name of Sethra. Sethra was a sinister Fraggle, unsociable, without compassion and greedy, the only Fraggle in the Rock to go by these traits. She was the Fraggle witch, the one which all the Fraggles seek magical advice or to get potions and magic spells, this is the only reason the Fraggles tolerate her. In exchange for food or Gorg treasure she would sell her wisdom or magic potions to Fraggles in need of her services. Her magic is genuine and Fraggles have used her magic for good reasons in the past (for the right price anyway).
Sethra looked as attractive (to a Fraggle) as she did sinister. She had dark purple fur with long black hair and wore a dark purple cloak and gown with yellow colored ancient Fraggle patterns on the cloak and gown, her clothes had a hood too, she always wore it to make her look more intimidating. Her eyes constantly had a 'cross' look on them. The Fraggles were scared of her she has used magic to punish those who dared cross her before. She walked across the hall as the silent Fraggles looked at her with terror and moved out of her way.
"I suggest we capture the silly creature, they are very magical beings as you all may know (note: in Fraggle Rock the Fraggles view humans as 'Magical' beings, to a Fraggle simple science can seem like incredible Magic to a Fraggle (example, an Ice cube which melts into water, the Fraggle believe it is a magical crystal that transforms itself into water to quench the thirsty) this Silly Creature could create unknown forces of destruction on Fraggle Rock so he must be found and contained!"
The WOF looked at Sethra in puzzlement.
"What do you mean Sethra?" the WOG actually knew what she mean but not even the wise Fraggle would dare question her.
"I mean we capture the Silly Creature and then imprison him forever from doing any damage to Fraggle Rock!"
The Fraggles gasped in disbelief. Mokey being as sweet natured as she is summoned the courage to question Sethra.
"Imprison him? You should know better that the Fraggle race would and never should capture and imprison an innocent person Fraggle, Doozer or Silly Creatures against their will this silly creature has done no wrong!" She shouted.
Sethra looked at her and smiled;
"Not yet he hasn't little Fraggle!" Red joined in with Mokey to back her best friend up.
"Mokey is right Sethra we're caring creatures we don't kidnap and lock away innocents, only Gorgs would stoop that low!" Gobo Fraggle for the first time in this story finally shows up, he had been listening from the back about the silly creature incident but he finally pushed his way to the front of the gathered crowd and climbed onto the stage area the WOF, Mokey and Red were standing on. He gave out his opinions.
"I agree with Mokey and Red, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. The Silly Creatures may be magic but we don't have proof that this one is intent on doing harm to Fraggle Rock, heck we don't even know if he's magic at all. I got this recent postcard from my Uncle Traveling Matt (the one Nick threw in the bin at the start of this adventure) and he says he met a friendly Silly Creature. I now believe the silly Creatures are alright guys and one day I too will go into Outer Space and see them for myself"
There were a lot of agreements coming from the crowd about Gobo, Mokey and Red's statements. Sethra grew angry; she was losing the crowd to favor her decision on catching the Silly Creature. She thought fast (she was highly intelligent).
"Ah but he must be magic!" Gobo Mokey and Red looked at Sethra.
"Prove it" the three Fraggle friends said. Sethra smiled again.
"Mokey Fraggle, when you saw this Silly Creature how big was he?" everyone turned to Mokey to wait her response.
"Err he was the same size as a Fraggle, actually no he was smaller than me, about the same size as Gobo" Sethra's grin widened she knew she had won this argument.
"And everyone knows that Silly Creatures are giants compared to Fraggles, and yet this one managed to shrink himself to the size of a Fraggle to come from Outer Space to discover Fraggle Rock, therefore my fellow Fraggles this is inconclusive proof that this Silly Creature is magic, and anyone who has the power of Magic, also has the power to destroy and create sorrow!" (In some ways that ending statement could be considered as Sethra describing herself) that was enough to convince the rest of the Fraggles they all started panicking again. Gobo, Mokey and Red didn't have a response to Sethra's theory, they couldn't think of any other reasons how a silly Creature could shrink himself.
Gobo, Mokey and Red's two other friends Wembley and Boober came from the crowd onto the stage. Boober wasn't very fond of adventure and any hint of danger was enough to make him cringe and tie knots in his tail for good luck. He was good friends with Gobo, Red, Wembley and Mokey but he didn't like silly creatures or Outer Space, it scared him and with a Silly Creature in Fraggle Rock he would do anything to get rid of him. He (Boober) looked to his friends
"I know I'm your friend guys but I agree with Sethra, we don't know what this Silly Creature is capable of and we have to find him ASAP and quarantine him, he could be carrying germs, he could get them all over my clean clothes, oh no!" Wembley then told his friends his opinion on the matter, if he could that is;
"Boober's right this Silly Creature is dangerous, but then again Gobo is right he might be innocent……but then the danger of magic……then again he might no be magic….then….but……AARRGH I'm Wembling again!" (the term 'Wembling' was invented by Fraggles which means a Fraggle who can't make up his mind, the term was based on Wembley as he could never make up his mind) arguing broke out between all the Fraggles when the WOF again slammed his staff on the floor to get everyone's attention.
"Quiet! Alright everyone I have made up a plan. In the long run Sethra is right there is no other way a giant Silly Creature could've shrunk himself by other means than Magic. So I think we go with her plan of capturing the silly creature….."
Sethra smiled so much that her teeth showed, Gobo and the gang (apart from Boober who agreed with the decision and Wembley who still couldn't make up his mind) gasped in disbelief. Gobo, Mokey and Red tried reasoning with the WOF begging him to think again. The WOF winked at the three and continued.
"….however I'm not finished. I also agree with Gobo and his friends that we give the Silly Creature a fair chance as that is the right thing to do. So what we will do is we find the Silly creature, catch him, and then give him a fair chance to explain what his intentions are and why he is here in Fraggle Rock and how he got here." Gobo, Mokey and Red cheered and so did half the other Fraggles in the hall glad the Silly Creature is getting a fair chance to explain himself. Boober and the other half of Fraggles groaned they thought the Silly Creature was dangerous and should be contained. As for Sethra she frowned, this dented her evil plan to capture the silly creature she really did believe (like the other Fraggles) that Nick was actually Magic and that she could use his incredible powers to combine with hers to make Sethra an even more powerful Fraggle, powerful enough to defeat her rival the Oracle of Fraggle Rock (which will be explained in due time) but she was confident there was still a chance this Silly Creature could be used to her advantage.
The WOF gave out his orders.
"OK Fraggles I want you all to split up into teams and search for the Silly Creature and scapture him anyway you can but he is not to be harmed understood?" the Fraggles nodded their heads and they all split up into teams, as usual Gobo, Red, Mokey, Boober and Wembley being friends went off to search for the Silly creature themselves. Sethra went to search by herself with her powers finding the Silly Creature will be easy…..