Episode Ten
The Forgotten Key
Papa Smurf
Papa Smurf woke up to realize he was in a cage. "Hello! Is anyone here?
I'm really hungry and I could use a drink of water”
No one answered so he tried to figure out where he was.
There were rocks, dirt, and books scattered all over, and no recognizable features on any wall that could identify where he was.
He tried screaming again "Hello! Seriously stop playing games with me.
I demand you reveal yourselves to me cowards" Again no one answered.
He noticed a twinkle on the ground not too far away, it was a key.
Papa Smurf wondered if that was the key to his cell.
No matter how hard he tried he couldn't stretch his arm out far enough to grab it so he sat down feeling hopeless. He heard footsteps coming.
He started looking around trying to discover where they were coming from.
Three squirrels came into view near the cell and stopped.
"Hey squirrel please can you help a smurf out and grab that?"
he pointed to the key and the squirrel looked at it but didn't move.
"Please" pleaded Papa Smurf but again the squirrels didn't budge.
He remembered he had some crackers and offered it to them and they ate them. When they finished they came towards Papa Smurf and he threw the last cracker right at the key and it landed beside it.
When the squirrel finished eating the cracker it picked up the key and brought it to Papa Smurf. Just as he grabbed the key the sound of footsteps could be heard approaching so the squirrels fled and Papa Smurf readied himself.
Rudolph
“We don't even know what the shiny is” whispered Bert. "Lying to him is the last chance we'll ever have to getting out of here alive, don't blow this Bert”
When the creature got close enough, it said.
"If we helps you... you'll gives us the shiny?"
Bert from accounting replied "We will gladly give you the shiny...
and... Anything else you want. As soon as we get to the top,"
"yous have to pinky promises, do you swears to me the truths you speak"
the creature held out his pinky finger and waited for the two of them.
They looked at each other and swore they'd give him the shiny when they got out. The creature danced around happily and said “let's go” The creature showed them exactly where to stand and what to grab next and the three of them were now making their way up the giant hole with surprising speed.
It was about five hours into their climb when they needed to take their first break. They found a nice ledge they sat and relaxed, Bert from Accounting sparked up a conversation with the creature.
"Where are you from? You don't look like anyone in Library Land
that I've ever saw before”
"I am nots froms this world, well one of my parents is but my other parents isn't. so that's why I am heres still, I can'ts finds my other parent.
I can't return home, well I don't know hows to.”
The creature was coughing but took a deep breath and continued.
“We didn't always looks like this, we was a mighty mans once, stood tall, yes tall as a tree. Almost as tall as the Wizard himself, yes we was, but we was twice as powerful. I once owned the shiniest piece of life anyone could ever asks for. It gave me power and let me stands taller than anyone elses”
The creature then drifted off into thought.
The creature was thinking about it's past, but both Bert from Accounting and Rudolph really wanted to hear the rest of the story so they 'woke it up' by asking "If you stood tall once, why do you crawl on the floor now like an animal? No offence Rudolph" he nodded acknowledging that there's no harm done and the creature answered.
"Have you ever owned somethings that is the most importants things in the worlds to you and then have it taken... By the bad ma... Oh the bad man and how he hurted us” The creature started looking around frantically and continued “The thief hads to come, dirty, rotten theifs. Smelly he was.
It tooks the shiny and sent us here to fights the monster”.
The creature began daydreaming when Bert interrupted again saying
"The shiny right, that's what you mean?"
"Yes the shiny was our master and it has called to us ever since to finds it.
It never sleeps and will not allow us to sleeps either. It misses us and I misses it. Without it we becomes this, we became weak. We grow weaker every days we don't find the shiny and I'll never get home without its."
The creature again dozed off when Rudolph poked it's shoulder.
The creature jumped on top of Rudolph and said. "leaves the shiny alone it's mines" before snapping back to reality, quickly saying "We is very sorry, the shiny makes us. . . Go crazy sometimes. Please for- gives us"
Rudolph let it slide and they agreed to continue.
A Young Street-rat
A young man and his monkey silently crept through the hallway of a large mansion. He was listening to the doors until he heard a sound in one.
“I can hear him snoring, go in and get his keys”
the man opened the door and the tiny monkey entered.
The monkey crept up to the nightstand, jumped up silently, and spotted the keys. ”Good Job Abu! You've made me proud. Like always you never let me down. I'll head up to the study then meet you at the vault, how's that sound?”
The animal shook his head in acknowledgment, and the two split up.
The young boy tried to open the study door, but it was locked.
The key-ring had dozens of keys around it,
so he started checking them one by one.
“Scrooge loves locks and keys... Just as much as his fortune”
he chuckled to himself “He will regret the day he met the great Ali Baba.
I will end his monopoly and choke-hold on our region”
A big silver key worked and he entered the study.
Inside there were dozens of pictures, certificates, and awards coating the walls and a big black desk in the middle, that's what he was searching for.
He picked up a file from the desk and took off out the window.
Where is Papa Smurf locked up?
Where is he for that matter?
Why's he locked up?
What's the key he found, open?
What's the creature going to do when he finds out Rudolph is lying?
Where is the creature from?
Who is he for that matter?
What was in the file that Ali Baba took?
What will Scrooge do?
Find out.
The Forgotten Key
Papa Smurf
Papa Smurf woke up to realize he was in a cage. "Hello! Is anyone here?
I'm really hungry and I could use a drink of water”
No one answered so he tried to figure out where he was.
There were rocks, dirt, and books scattered all over, and no recognizable features on any wall that could identify where he was.
He tried screaming again "Hello! Seriously stop playing games with me.
I demand you reveal yourselves to me cowards" Again no one answered.
He noticed a twinkle on the ground not too far away, it was a key.
Papa Smurf wondered if that was the key to his cell.
No matter how hard he tried he couldn't stretch his arm out far enough to grab it so he sat down feeling hopeless. He heard footsteps coming.
He started looking around trying to discover where they were coming from.
Three squirrels came into view near the cell and stopped.
"Hey squirrel please can you help a smurf out and grab that?"
he pointed to the key and the squirrel looked at it but didn't move.
"Please" pleaded Papa Smurf but again the squirrels didn't budge.
He remembered he had some crackers and offered it to them and they ate them. When they finished they came towards Papa Smurf and he threw the last cracker right at the key and it landed beside it.
When the squirrel finished eating the cracker it picked up the key and brought it to Papa Smurf. Just as he grabbed the key the sound of footsteps could be heard approaching so the squirrels fled and Papa Smurf readied himself.
Rudolph
“We don't even know what the shiny is” whispered Bert. "Lying to him is the last chance we'll ever have to getting out of here alive, don't blow this Bert”
When the creature got close enough, it said.
"If we helps you... you'll gives us the shiny?"
Bert from accounting replied "We will gladly give you the shiny...
and... Anything else you want. As soon as we get to the top,"
"yous have to pinky promises, do you swears to me the truths you speak"
the creature held out his pinky finger and waited for the two of them.
They looked at each other and swore they'd give him the shiny when they got out. The creature danced around happily and said “let's go” The creature showed them exactly where to stand and what to grab next and the three of them were now making their way up the giant hole with surprising speed.
It was about five hours into their climb when they needed to take their first break. They found a nice ledge they sat and relaxed, Bert from Accounting sparked up a conversation with the creature.
"Where are you from? You don't look like anyone in Library Land
that I've ever saw before”
"I am nots froms this world, well one of my parents is but my other parents isn't. so that's why I am heres still, I can'ts finds my other parent.
I can't return home, well I don't know hows to.”
The creature was coughing but took a deep breath and continued.
“We didn't always looks like this, we was a mighty mans once, stood tall, yes tall as a tree. Almost as tall as the Wizard himself, yes we was, but we was twice as powerful. I once owned the shiniest piece of life anyone could ever asks for. It gave me power and let me stands taller than anyone elses”
The creature then drifted off into thought.
The creature was thinking about it's past, but both Bert from Accounting and Rudolph really wanted to hear the rest of the story so they 'woke it up' by asking "If you stood tall once, why do you crawl on the floor now like an animal? No offence Rudolph" he nodded acknowledging that there's no harm done and the creature answered.
"Have you ever owned somethings that is the most importants things in the worlds to you and then have it taken... By the bad ma... Oh the bad man and how he hurted us” The creature started looking around frantically and continued “The thief hads to come, dirty, rotten theifs. Smelly he was.
It tooks the shiny and sent us here to fights the monster”.
The creature began daydreaming when Bert interrupted again saying
"The shiny right, that's what you mean?"
"Yes the shiny was our master and it has called to us ever since to finds it.
It never sleeps and will not allow us to sleeps either. It misses us and I misses it. Without it we becomes this, we became weak. We grow weaker every days we don't find the shiny and I'll never get home without its."
The creature again dozed off when Rudolph poked it's shoulder.
The creature jumped on top of Rudolph and said. "leaves the shiny alone it's mines" before snapping back to reality, quickly saying "We is very sorry, the shiny makes us. . . Go crazy sometimes. Please for- gives us"
Rudolph let it slide and they agreed to continue.
A Young Street-rat
A young man and his monkey silently crept through the hallway of a large mansion. He was listening to the doors until he heard a sound in one.
“I can hear him snoring, go in and get his keys”
the man opened the door and the tiny monkey entered.
The monkey crept up to the nightstand, jumped up silently, and spotted the keys. ”Good Job Abu! You've made me proud. Like always you never let me down. I'll head up to the study then meet you at the vault, how's that sound?”
The animal shook his head in acknowledgment, and the two split up.
The young boy tried to open the study door, but it was locked.
The key-ring had dozens of keys around it,
so he started checking them one by one.
“Scrooge loves locks and keys... Just as much as his fortune”
he chuckled to himself “He will regret the day he met the great Ali Baba.
I will end his monopoly and choke-hold on our region”
A big silver key worked and he entered the study.
Inside there were dozens of pictures, certificates, and awards coating the walls and a big black desk in the middle, that's what he was searching for.
He picked up a file from the desk and took off out the window.
Where is Papa Smurf locked up?
Where is he for that matter?
Why's he locked up?
What's the key he found, open?
What's the creature going to do when he finds out Rudolph is lying?
Where is the creature from?
Who is he for that matter?
What was in the file that Ali Baba took?
What will Scrooge do?
Find out.
