In the Kitchen everyone was at the table and Muriel sneezed the eggs she was cooking on Lana.
Lana: Bless you.
She got the eggs off and ate them.
Lana: Good thing I don't get sick anymore.
Francesca: Grandma Muriel you don't look so good.
Bai Tza: Yeah you look horrible.
Muriel: (Groggy and nasally) I'm sorry guys. This is the worst cold I've ever.. (Courage grabs a chair) Ah, ah, AHCHOO!
The sneeze blows her back and she lands in the chair and it broke and landed on Courage.
Muriel: Thank you Courage.
Courage whined.
Lincoln: That cold is really bad.
Laney: It sure is.
Earth: I don't think I've ever seen a cold like that.
Bai Tza: Me neither. I don't get sick anyway.
Earth: Me neither.
Francesca: I've never been sick a day in my life.
Muriel: Lucky you. A whee spot of tea will fix me right up.
She sneezed and then Courage made a baseball mitt out of tissues and then Muriel sneezed and a green cloud came out and an image of a slug appeared in it.
Slug: Well hey.
Courage: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Lana: Whoa!
Lincoln: I've never seen a cold do that.
Earth: That is not an ordinary cold!
Francesca: What kind of cold is this?
Bai Tza: Wait a second. I know this kind of magic. This is the work of Louisiana Bayou Magic.
Courage: How do you know this kind of magic?
Bai Tza: When you've lived for as long as I have you know lots of things no human can understand.
Laney: Interesting.
Muriel: I knew this wasn't an ordinary cold.
She sneezed again and the slug appeared again.
Slug: This here urgent message has been prerecorded right into the cold and sent by magic.
Courage screamed and his eyes unscrewed out of his head like lightbulbs.
Lana: I wonder why he sent that cold.
Muriel sneezed and the slug appeared a third time.
Slug: We apologize for your discomfort having to send you this cold and all. But we sure need your help. We all are prisoners, Slaves in a sweatshop.
They gasped.
Slug: We'd be obliged if y'all would come and set us all free. And that cold ain't going away till you get your sneezing self down here for the cure. Here's how to get to where we are.
He held up a map and it led to the Louisiana Bayou.
Bai Tza: Looks like we're heading off to the Louisiana Bayou guys.
In the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, 950 miles away from Nowhere, they were on a raft and Bai Tza was steering it. Blues music and singing were heard in the background.
Laney: This place gives me the creeps.
Lana: It's the Louisiana Bayou. It always does. Penny told me a lot about this place and how scary it can get.
Lincoln: It can get really creepy at night.
Laney: This looks like the spot.
They parked the raft on the shore of the river and it had stuffed snake statues.
Lana: These snake statues are weird.
Lana felt them and she was repulsed by the feel.
Lana: They're made with snakeskin!
Everyone: EW!
Francesca: That is so gross!
Slug: Well hey.
They saw the slug and he was shackled to a chain.
Bai Tza: Are you the slug that sent us the cold that infected Muriel?
Slug: Yes. Glad y'all could come to free us.
Bai Tza: Same here.
Laney: Me too.
Slug: Why don't y'all come on inside and we'll explain the whole mess to ya?
Francesca: Okay. Come on grandma.
They went into the slugs cave and they were shackled up and stuffing snakeskins with leaves.
Young slug: They've come to save us.
Slug: Take it easy slugs. We owe our guests some explaining.
Francesca: We got your message. But what's all this about?
Slug: These snakeskins belong to a snake called Big Bayou.
He shows them a picture of a red snake with orange slit eyes and wearing a bowtie and a nice hat with a voodoo skull on it.
Laney: He sure looks like a nice snake.
Slug: I'm afraid it's like this. Big Bayou's a very powerful snake and very vain. Loves hisself. Kept us prisoner here for years. Us making the stuffed statues of him out of the skins he sheds. It's torture.
Young slug: Yeah. (Shows he only had one tooth) And the dental coverage stinks.
Bai Tza: This is disgusting!
Lincoln: This is completely wrong on so many levels!
Laney: This snake needs to be made into a snakeskin wallet! And I thought Orochimaru was terrible.
Lincoln: Tell me about it.
Earth: Who's Orochimaru?
Lincoln: I'll explain later Earth.
Slug: Big Bayou's magic put us here, and only Big Bayou's magic can break our shackles.
Muriel was coughing badly.
Courage: Is there a spell you can use to cure her?
Slug: Uh well we'd love to cure her, but, uh...
Young Slug: We don't know how.
Slug: We were able to steal just a smidge of magic from Big Bayou-
The young slug held up half of a page that said Catch the Uncommon Cold.
Slug: Just enough to get our message out in a microbe.
Bai Tza: May I see that?
Young Slug: Sure.
Bai Tza read the page.
Bai Tza: Fascinating spell. Big Bayou knows how to use Bayou Magic with ease.
Lincoln: I'm sure we can find the cure and free you guys from this prison.
Slug: Well all you got to is to get your hands on Big Bayou's Book of Big Bayou Magic. He's got all his secrets in there. Then you can get cured-
Young Slug: Yeah and free us.
Muriel: (Weakly) I'll... I'll try.
Francesca stopped her.
Francesca: No Grandma Muriel you are in no condition to do anything.
Bai Tza: She's right Muriel. We'll go get the book. You stay here and rest while we do so. Francesca you watch over her while we go.
Muriel: Okay.
Francesca: You can count on me.
Bai Tza: Where does Big Bayou live?
The slug pointed to a direction and Bai Tza, Lincoln, Earth, Laney, Lana and Courage went through tall grass and they came across a house in the shape of a snakes head.
Lincoln: So this is where Big Bayou lives.
Laney: Looks like a house Orochimaru would love.
In the Leaf Village Orochimaru was working on a new medicine when he sneezed.
Kabuto: Are you okay my Lord?
Orochimaru: I think someone is talking about me Kabuto.
Back in the Louisiana bayou they heard the door open.
Lincoln: He's coming.
Bai Tza: Quick! Hide!
They hid in the grass.
Big Bayou: (Hiss) Hello me. Oh don't I look fine? I am s-s-s-so beautiful. I think I'll see how all the other mes-s-s-s are doing, but first...
He took his hat off and shed another skin.
Big Bayou: Aah.
He got his hat and put it back on. He put the skin with a bunch of others in a pile.
Big Bayou: Oh yeah. I am pretty. I love me.
He slithers through the grass somewhere.
Bai Tza: Now's our chance. Come on.
They went to the door of his house and tried to open the door but it was locked.
Laney: It's locked. (Looks up to the windows) Hold on a sec.
Laney climbs up to the right eye window and she sees the big book of magic on his bed. She used her plant powers and had vines grow and they brought the book over to her.
She pulled it through the window and it was the right one.
Laney: Big Bayou's Big Book of Magic. This is it.
She jumped down and brought the book to Bai Tza.
Bai Tza: We got it. Great job Laney. Lets go.
They went back to the cave.
Francesca was looking after Muriel. Muriel then sneezed and the slugs backed away.
Francesca: Hang in there grandma. They'll get the book.
Muriel sneezed again and we came back.
Bai Tza: We got it guys!
Young slug: They got it! They got the book!
Slug: Feel free to cure the lady first.
Bai Tza: Okay.
Bai Tza set the book on the table and she scrolled through it and found the other half of the torn page.
Bai Tza: Here's the other half of the torn page.
Courage looked it over and it said Curing the Uncommon Cold. It was really a series of mimic dances where the caster acts like a chicken.
Courage: This looks really simple.
Bai Tza: Go for it Courage.
Courage acted, clucked, pecked and crowed like a chicken. Then they got a surprise when they saw Courage lay a huge egg.
Muriel: Oh my.
Francesca: What the?
Bai Tza: Funny.
Courage saw the egg and he laughed. He cracked the egg open and gave it to Muriel. She drank the entire yolk of the egg and she was cured in an instant.
Muriel: Oh. Oh my! I can breathe! I feel myself again.
Lincoln: That was awesome!
Earth: That was amazing!
Laney: It sure was.
Lana: That was so cool!
Francesca: It sure was.
The slugs were telling them to free them.
Courage scrolled through the book but they got an unexpected surprise.
Big Bayou: What the Bayou is going on here? (sees Courage with book) Were you messin' with my Bayou magic?
Bai Tza: What do you think?
She fires a blast of water at Big Bayou and blows him out into the swamp.
Lana: Let me see that magic.
Lana looked through the book and found an interesting spell.
Lana: Here's an interesting one. "Bayou Slave Snake Animation. To make stuffed bayou snakes your obedient slaves, use deadly venom from a real bayou snake." Cool!
Laney: I think I have some of that.
Laney pulled out a box with a skull and crossbones on it and it was full of containers that had different poisons from animals and plants all over the world.
Laney: Lets see. Rattlesnake venom. Sea snake venom. Aha! Swamp Snake venom. Same thing as Bayou snakes.
Lana: Thanks Lanes.
Lana took the bottle and went outside and threw the venom onto a bunch of stuffed snakes. The snakes came to life and they were roaring.
Lana: SLAVE SNAKES, OBEY!
They stood in attention.
Lana: (Points to Big Bayou) Get him guys!
The slave snakes went at Big Bayou and wrapped around him in a ball.
Muriel: Lana! I need a new file but I got them free!
The slugs were free and they cheered wildly.
Back in Nowhere they were having tea.
Muriel: Ahh it sure is lovely to sip tea just for the pleasure of it.
Francesca: You said it grandma.
Lincoln: Yep.
Francesca: And I decided to learn all about magic.
Francesca had the book strapped to her back.
Laney: This was so much fun though.
Lana: It sure was.
Earth: Yeah.
Courage: It was cool learning all about Bayou Magic.
Bai Tza: Yep. It was a swampy adventure.
They laughed.
THE END
Another Fanfiction Complete.
The Uncommon Cold was one of my favorite episodes of all time on Courage the Cowardly Dog. The Blues Music it had was awesome. And the plot was cool too. NicoChan11 gave me the ideas for this one too. Next for part 7 is Goat Pain. Let me Know what you all think.
See you all next time.