It was evening at the farmhouse, Courage was taking a bubble bath, Eustace was downstairs watching TV, and Muriel, Shaggy and Scooby were in the kitchen. Courage's tub was fill with bubbles, Courage played with them, having a good time, as he laughed joyfully. Muriel buys really nice bubble bath soap, so it smells good too, and the bath warmed through Courage's veins.
A toy frog broke through the surface, he giggled as he play with his toy by pushing it down in the water.
A frog appeared back up, although it did appeared different, Courage didn't mind as he picked it up and began playing with it. He squeeze the toy, this turns out to be a mistake, as the frog turned out to be REAL, and stick it's tongue out on Courage's eye causing him to scream in pain.
"It's a real frog! It's a real frog!" Courage shouted.
In the kitchen, Shaggy was washing the dishes, while Scooby was drying them.
"You are quite the dishwasher Shaggy, and your quite the dryer Scooby," Muriel complimented, as she was making tea.
"What can I say, you've done so much for us since we got here Scoob and I wanted to do the dishes as a way to say thank you for all you've done," Shaggy said, with a smile.
"Reah, thanks Ruriel," Scooby added, grinning.
"Your welcome. I am truly grateful to have such a loving nephew like you Shaggy. How about I pour you, boys, a cup of tea?" Muriel offered.
"Sure, like, thanks Aunt Muriel," Shaggy replied.
Muriel pour a cup of tea, and was about to get some for Shaggy, when she heard croaking she turned to the first cup and it turns out it was a FROG. And while Shaggy was still cleaning the dishes, a FROG suddenly appeared in the sink. Scooby let out a surprised yelp.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy gasped.
Shaggy, Scooby and Muriel walked out of the kitchen and into the living room.
"Eustace, the STRANGEST thing. There's a frog in my tea," Muriel said as she showed her husband her teacup with a frogs in it.
The frog croaked, before hopping out of the teacup and landing on the floor, it then hopped out of the living room and out of sight.
"Yeah? Well, there is a frog in me FOOT WATER," Eustace said while raising his left leg with the frog lying on his foot.
The frog croaked before hopping off his leg and onto the floor.
"You think that's worse? Like, there's a frog IN THE SINK," Shaggy spoke up with his thoughts in the matter.
"Reah, frog," Scooby added nodding, feeling the same way.
The family then heard Courage scream from upstairs, Shaggy and Scooby were about to get up and check on him but stopped when they both saw him running down the stairs. Courage screamed as he came to a stop in front of his family, dripping all over the floor.
"Ret me guess, frog in the bathroom," Scooby theorized.
"No, it was a butterfly," Courage informed his family sarcastically.
"Oh, thank goodness," Shaggy breathed out, not having no idea that the pink beagle was being sarcastic.
"Of course, it was a frog! He punched me in the eye with his tongue!" Courage said, his tone rather hostile while trying to convey the message with his hands.
Unfortunately, neither Eustace nor Muriel understood what he was trying to say.
"That's gotta hurt," Shaggy winced.
"You can say that again," Courage retorted dryly.
Hearing some hopping sounds, the family looked back to the stairs and saw a frog hopping down the steps.
"You got that shiner from a frog? You girlie dog," Eustace mocked.
That shows how much Uncle Eustace knows about being a man. Shaggy thought.
Eustace picked up the phone and dialed a number, "Hello, Nowhere Pest Control? Me house is getting overrun with-OOH!"
A frog jumped on Eustace's head, ending his call, hundreds of frogs rained down from the ceiling, the frogs appeared everywhere in the living room.
Courage cowered, "Their everywhere! Everywhere!"
Scooby let out a little yelp.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy screamed.
Yet, again, before anyone could say anything, the family heard something break through the front door, quickly turning, the family noticed that a buff-looking frog had kicked a hole into the door. And after a moment, a frog wearing a crown, the buff frog, and a frog wearing glasses entered through the hole.
"Much water here, dig pond NOW," the king frog spoke, surprising the family.
"What?" Muriel asked, confused.
Shaggy wrinkled his forehead with a confused frown, "Excuse me?"
Yet, instead of answering, the king frog snapped his fingers with the frog wearing glasses hopping forward a second later.
"His majesty Buffo has declared, proclaimed, and officially stated with great succintitude, trasymmetry, and lack of redundantation, that you dig a pond... now," the frog 'translated,' although, it left the family more confused than anything.
Courage shook his head, "You want us to do what?"
"You can't dig a pond here," Muriel told Buffo.
"Not us, you! Now!" Buffo responded.
"DIG POND! DIG POND! DIG POND!" the rest of the frogs began to chant, making the family winced and covered their ears, luckily, they stopped when Buffo raised his arm.
"Slimy, stinking frogs, I'M GETTING ME MALLET!" Eustace declared, before moving towards the stairs.
Scooby couldn't help but feeling relieved at the thought Eustace getting the mallet to get rid of the frogs, "Ror once, I'm glad Rustace is gonna get his mallet."
"Me too," Shaggy agreed.
However, as Eustace began to climb the steps, Buffo snapped his fingers which caused the buff frog to LEAP onto Eustace, and due to the sudden weight, they began to fall back down the stairs. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage stare at the old man, while Eustace turned to the trio.
"What are you all looking at?" Eustace snarled.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's hearts skipped a beat and their faces slightly drained of color, "Nothing/Rothing."
"That's not very polite, you'll have to go, now," Muriel said, upset.
Buffo snapped his fingers, which caused all the frogs to JUMP ONTO Muriel, much to the cowardly trio's horror.
"Muriel!/Aunt Muriel!/Ruriel!" Shaggy, Scooby and Courage cried out in unison.
"Dogs, boy dig pond, now," Buffo ordered the trio.
"You dig, dogs and boy?" the frog wearing glasses asked, after shoving Courage.
"Rell, dogs are very good at digging," Scooby answered at once.
"Scoob!" Shaggy exclaimed in anger, not wanting to do this.
"We're not gonna dig a pond!" Courage cried.
"Oh yes you, do it or the frogs will keep pouring onto your friend here," the frog with the glasses threatened, as he pointed to the frog pile onto Muriel, making Shaggy, Scooby and Courage horrified, "Now start digging, now!"
"Muriel!" Courage cried, "Guys, do what he says!"
Then he Shaggy and Scooby beginning to dig through the floor.
After a brutal night, the trio finished digging through the floor to create a twenty-foot-deep hole, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage collapsed out from exhaustion in the center of the hole.
"Oh, my," Muriel gasped in shock, "You poor dears. I hope you are happy with yourselves you overworked my dog, my nephew, and his dog. What do you have to say for yourselves?" she scolded the frogs.
"Pond!" Buffo exclaimed.
"POND! POND! POND!" the rest of the frogs began to chant.
"Pond dry, you get water," Buffo told Eustace.
"Make me," Eustace challenged.
Annoyed, Buffo used his tongue to smack Eustace around a bit, causing him to fall to the floor, making Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's hearts thumped.
"You, get lily pads," Buffo told Muriel and Shaggy.
"Whatever you say, king frog dude," Shaggy responded, his voice was breaking, he was trembling so badly.
Shaggy, Scooby, Courage and Muriel then walked towards the kitchen, looking through the cabinets.
"Found anything?" Courage asked his best friends.
"Rot yet. Raggy?" Scooby asked his owner, he wasn't sure what he was hoping they'd find, but he hoped it'd be something that would help.
"Like, not a thing," Shaggy replied, he took a glance at the tough bullfrog. The buff frog then sees a fly, and uses his tongue to catch the fly.
Shaggy cringed, even though he was not a fly, he and his best friends had been turned into flies by Di Lung a month ago. So every time when he sees a fly getting killed or eaten he could not help but shudder, sympathizing the flies. He couldn't imagine how flies survive everyday, when he, Scooby and Courage barely survived when they're turn into flies. He thought the flies going through imaginable pain when they get eaten.
Scooby then noticed that the buff frog was having trouble removing some fly trap paper from his face, it seems like he tried to catch a fly that landed on it, only to grab the fly trap paper instead. And because his tongue was covered in mucus, it made it harder to remove, this made Scooby chuckle with delight.
"Goodness! We don't have any lily pads," Muriel said, as she give up.
This made the buff frog NOT HAPPY, as he GROWLED at the family, this made Shaggy, Scooby and Courage whimpered, making pools of anxiety swell up in their guts, as they all looked after and harder to find the lily pads.
"We're looking! We're looking!" Courage stammered, he threw out a sponge, unknowingly hitting the buff frog's head and landing in the water and floating.
This got the buff frog curious, as he landed on the sponge, causing to splash onto Shaggy, Scooby and Courage. The buff frog finally seemed satisfied, as he lay on the sponge.
"Rell, at least it floats," Scooby shrugged blithely.
"Quick get as many sponges as possible," Shaggy said.
"You got it dude," Courage responded, as he gathered much sponges as possible and realizing he just spoke just like Shaggy. Gee, I've been hanging out with Shaggy for a long time and he's starting to rubbing off on me.
Muriel, Shaggy, Scooby and Courage came back with dozens of sponges in their arms. One frog tripped Muriel, causing her to dropped the sponges.
"OOH! Lily pads," all the frogs said, excited.
"You live like frogs, hop like frogs," Buffo told Eustace and Muriel while pointing at them.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage felt their skins rippled with unease.
Rhat does Ruffo mean? Scooby thought.
"I'm sorry, but hopping just isn't my thing," Muriel said while shaking her head.
"I don't do no hopping," Eustace added, annoyed.
Let out a quiet growl, the buff frog grabbed Eustace and Muriel and lifted them into the air.
"Zoinks!" Shaggy squeaked in horror.
"Rikes!" Scooby yelped.
"Yikes!" Courage screamed in terror.
"YOU! HOP!" the buff frog demanded before dropping them, where they bounced a bit before stopping.
"Slimy, stinking frogs," Eustace complained while shaking his fist at Buffo.
"You croak like frogs," Buffo demanded.
"I don't do no talking like slimy, stink-OOH!" Eustace began but stopped when the buff frog grabbed his cheek and pinched it.
And to Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's surprise, Eustace began to CROAK precisely like a frog. They all shook, ears ringing and minds spinning, they didn't know how to speak up, they're at a loss of words.
"Time to eat like frogs," Buffo said, getting our attention.
The buff frog then grabbed Muriel's head and did something that caused her tongue to shoot out of her mouth, her tongue flew out and snatched a fly near the ceiling lamp before returning to her mouth.
"I find this all very demeaning," Muriel said, upset as she ate the fly.
And then, to the cowardly trio's absolute horror, Muriel croaked like a FROG with her lower mouth expanding like a balloon.
Courage let out a sharp gasp, he couldn't think anymore, his eyes rolled up into his head and he fainted. Luckily, Scooby managed to catch Courage before he dropped to the floor. Shaggy and Scooby then heard the royalty entrance fanfare again.
"Buffo now declare pond, open," Buffo said, getting Shaggy and Scooby's attention.
Turning back to him, Shaggy and Scooby saw that he held some scissors and was about to cut a red ribbon, and as soon as he did so, all the frogs began dancing, with some even shaking maracas.
"This can't be happening!" Shaggy spoke in denial.
"Rhat do we do!? Rhat do we do!?" Scooby asked in panic, and trying to wake Courage up.
Courage opened his eyes, Shaggy and Scooby were kneeling next to him, "Oh, what happened?" then he inhaled a sharp scream when he saw Eustace and Muriel's jaws inflated like balloons.
"A celebration feast, your majesty?" the frog with glasses asked.
"Yes, Bluff," Buffo said with the buff frog hopping towards him, "Get many flies. Use dogs and boy."
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's hearts sank.
Courage's eyes widened, "Oh-no."
"Oh come on! Even while we're on vacation, we're still the bait!" Shaggy groaned, completely distraught.
Bluff grabbed the trio, and went into the kitchen, but stopped when Bluff spotted the honey and flypaper traps on the table. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage became confused about what he was planning on doing when he opened the jar of honey and poured its contents onto the trio. But it became apparent when he exited the kitchen and looked towards the trash can that had lots of flies above it.
"This is actually very tasty," Courage quipped hearty, as he licked himself.
"Like, nothing like good old honey," Shaggy mumbled, as he licked himself.
"Rou could say that again," Scooby agreed, who was enjoying licking off the honey.
Bluff then whistled, which attracted the fly's attention. They seemed to quickly take notice of the honey covering Shaggy, Scooby and Courage as they immediately flew over to them and covered the trio from head to toe.
Bluff went back inside with Shaggy, Scooby and Courage, yet, as soon as they entered the kitchen, the cowardly trio saw a horrifying sight.
Zoinks! Shaggy thought his pupils dilated, when he, and the dogs saw the frog with glasses cooking MURIEL and EUSTACE'S mud-covered feet.
"Go tell his majesty, Buffo, that the fly marinade is exquisite, and soon, he shall enjoy a royal feast of human legs," the frog with glasses ordered, as he effortlessly scooped all the flies off of the three best friends before pouring them onto Muriel and Eustace's feet.
"Snap out of it you two, before the frogs try and eat your feet!" Courage shouted out, before transforming into a frog like Courage, while holding an apron and knife.
Unfortunately, all Courage got in return was them croaking again like frogs.
Courage frowned, "They think they're actual frogs, we have to get rid of the frogs," he whined to Shaggy and Scooby.
"But like, how are we gonna do that?" Shaggy asked, anxiously.
Then Scooby cocked his head, he noticed the honey jar and fly paper on the table, "RI got it!" An idea exploded into his head, "Ruick, pour yourselves with honey!"
"This is crazy! What do we-" Courage tried to protest.
"Rust trust me!" Scooby interrupted, putting both paws on Courage's shoulders.
Shaggy and Courage exchanged uncertain glances, before turning their gazes to Scooby and nodded. Trusting Scooby's plan.
"The things I do for love," Courage muttered, knowing they have to do this.
Courage hopped onto the table and grabbed the honey jar and more flypaper traps.
"Like Scoob, you sure about this?" Shaggy asked.
"RI know this would work," Scooby responded faking a look of certainty before, he, Shaggy and Courage headed outside.
Grabbing the honey jar, Scooby opened and poured its contents all over himself, Shaggy and Courage, while Shaggy took roughly fifty sheets of flypaper from the package. Once they're was covered, Courage turned around and whistled as loud as possible, and in less than a second, a swarm of flies appeared and immediately headed towards Shaggy, Scooby and Courage.
Once they covered the trio from head to toe again, Shaggy began using the flypaper to 'clean' himself and the dogs, and trap the flies. With that done, the trio hurried inside, only to panic when we didn't see Eustace or Muriel. Terror-stricken, they dashed into the living room, fearing the worst. There the trio saw saw a horrifying sight.
Muriel and Eustace on a bed of RED-HOT COALS. Courage let out an ear-piercing scream, causing his eye sockets to popped out and hanging onto his eye holes.
"Oh-no," Courage reeled in horror.
"We're too late!" Shaggy looked horrified.
"Rot on my watch!" Scooby said, but doubt pooled in his heart.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage flapped the flypapers as fast as they could, which lifted them to the ceiling, once they reached the ceiling, they grabbed onto the lamp's wire. Courage then took out the stapler and used it to staple the flypaper to the ceiling.
Shaggy, Scooby and Courage's eyes. widened with fear when they saw the feet of Muriel and Eustace were almost done, they speed up knowing their family's lives were on the line. Courage whistled as loud as he could.
"Hey frog dudes, we like, got something for you!" Shaggy yelled out.
This caught every frog's attention.
"Appetizers," all the frogs said in unison, while licking their lips.
They then shot their tongues at the flypaper, achieving the desired result, and that was all the frogs hanging in their air as their tongues were stuck to the flypaper.
"Rits working," Scooby marveled.
"What the?" Buffo asked, shocked.
Throwing the stapler to the side, Courage used the lamp's wire to tie up all the frog's tongues together.
"Let me do the honors," Courage said to the hungry duo.
Shaggy obliged as he opened the door for Courage.
Once secured, Courage pulled on the frog's tongues, freeing them before dragging them outside, with Shaggy and Scooby following him.
"It's time for you frogs to go bye-bye," Courage exclaimed pointedly, before he proceeded to spin in a circle before tossing them off into the distance.
"Yay!" Courage cheered triumphantly.
"Rice swing, Rourage," Scooby said, sending a congratulatory grin to Courage.
"Thanks," Courage remarked.
The cowardly trio went back inside the farmhouse.
"Like, how do we snap them out of it?" Shaggy mused, as he looked at his older relatives.
"I got it," Courage reassured, as he got on the hot coal bed, before giving shouts of pain while cringing and lifted Muriel and Eustace, he then walked over to the pond's edge and threw them into the water.
"UH!" Eustace gasped, as he reached the surface and gasped for air.
"Oh, my," Muriel gasped, as well.
Courage sighed with relief, as he wiped his eyebrow, "Glad that's over."
"You said it little pink dude," Shaggy said, also grinning.
"Buffo, alone, Buffo, go find new worshippers," Buffo said, before hopping towards the entrance, "Stupid dog."
"Thank goodness, that's over," Shaggy said with apt relief, not wanting to deal with another frog for a long time.
Muriel and Eustace got out of the hole, as Muriel went over to the trio, "Is everyone okay?"
"We're okay Muriel," Courage reassured his owner.
"You boys really saved the day," Muriel smiled.
"Well, we couldn't have done it without Scooby. It was his idea to get the flies on the flypaper," Courage grinned, giving the Great Dane some credit.
"Scooby-Doo you are one true genius," Shaggy remarked to his dog.
"Raw it was nothing, I do anything for my friends and family," Scooby blushed.
"Your such a good boy, Scooby" Muriel said, as she pet the Great Dane and give him a hug.
"Hey, what about me?" Courage teased her.
"There's enough hugs for everyone. Come here Courage, You too Shaggy," Muriel offered.
Shaggy and Courage came over, as Muriel give a group hug to the cowardly trio.
A couple hours later, Scooby and Courage finally finished burying the hole.
"Whew! Took all day," Courage said, breathing a sigh of relief when he was finally able to pound on the dirt with his paw.
"Rou said it Rourage," Scooby replied.
"I'm off green tea for a spell, pekoe suits me just fine," Muriel said, as she returned from the kitchen with a cup of tea before sitting down in her chair.
"Quiet! I'm trying to watch the game," Eustace complained.
Hearing the sound of the bat hitting the ball, the family turned to the television to see the visiting team successfully hit the ball.
"Ah, hah! A high fly to center field. Going... going. I don't think anyone is going to catch this fly," the announcer commentated.
However, just as the ball reached the stadium's walls, a catcher's mitt suddenly appeared in the ball's trajectory, catching it. And after the camera was brought down, it was revealed that Buffo had caught the ball. "Wait! A tremendous catch by the center fielder, Buffo."
"Like, I've never seen a frog playing baseball before," Shaggy commented in disbelief, as he sat on the couch.
"Well, there's a first time for anything," Courage replied.
"Reah," Scooby chuckled, "Scooby-Ribbit-Dooby-Doo!"
Well that's all for this chapter, next will be Tuilp's Worm. I like to thank schweenieboy for the quotes and ideas. Let me guys know in the reviews/comments of what should I do for the future episodes or next chapter. And what Courage should say in future chapters. Until then this is vakarns signing out.
Tulip's worm: Two alien teddy bears blast the citizens out of sight when they are looking for a giant worm. Shaggy, Scooby and Courage discovers the worm outside of the farmhouse, and it reacts whenever Courage plays a tuba. The space bears come to the scene, and reveal that the little worm is actually a space worm owned by an intergalactic childish human girl named Tulip. As Muriel, Shaggy and the two teddy bears are swallowed but the beast, Scooby and Courage must take the worm to outer space before Muriel, Shaggy and the bears are digested.