Chapter 7: The Wonderful Wizard of Cartoons

"We have done what you ordered us to." SpongeBob said when they were back. "We got Grunty's broom and accidentally killed her just like you commended." SpongeBob put the broom down so the wizard could see.

"I DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE YOU ALL ALIVE!" said the wizard. "BUT VERY NICE, A JOB WELL DONE!"

"Thank you kind sir!" SpongeBob responded. "But aren't you forgetting something?"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are, you promised to grant our wishes."

"I CERTIANLY DID NOT! BESIDES, THAT COSMO'S JOB, HE'S A FAIRY AFTER ALL!"

"I'm not the granting type." Cosmo told him. "Not without my wings and my wand. I'm powerless without my wand, you know that or don't you?"

"ENOUGH!"

"Please sir," SpongeBob begged. You promised!"

"VERY WELL, YOU MAY ALL COME BACK TOMARROW WHEN I'M READY FOR YOU!"

"Tomorrow? But Gary and I need to get home today!"

"And I need a brain, my wand, and my wings to unite with my family back in Dimmsdale."

"Ohana needs Stitch!"

"I need to get back home on my farm with Orson and my other friends."

"Oh can you please grant our wishes, and take Gary and I back to Bikini Bottom?"

"SILENCE! COME BACK ANOTHER TIME AND THAT IS FINAL!" Suddenly, Gary saw some movement behind certain. He got loose from SpongeBob, and went to the certain. He pulled back the certain when he herd a voice from behind. When he was finished, he couldn't believe his eyes at what he saw. He saw an old toad that seemed to be controlling the Bowser like voice. When Cosmo saw this, he tapped SpongeBob, and the others saw the old toad. They went towards him. The old toad saw them, and immediately talked into his microphone.

"PAY NO ATTENSION TO THE OLD TOAD BEHIND THE CERTAIN!" he boomed into the mike. SpongeBob tapped him on the shoulder.

"Excuse me sir," he began. "But who are you?"

"And why are you talking into a mike?" Cosmo added. "We can probably hear you in your normal voice."

"I'M THE GREAT wizard of cartoons." He gave up when it was no use anymore, and looked at SpongeBob and friends. "Hi my name is Toadsworth."

"You are a very bad toad!" SpongeBob said, beginning to get angry.

"I know." Toadsworth agreed. "I'm not even magical."

"I would have done a better job as a wizard." Cosmo said.

"But Cosmo, you're a fairy, not a wizard." Wade reminded him.

"Ok, if I were one!" Cosmo said. "I would have done a better job, after all I am magical!"

"Not without your wand you're not!"

"Why did you do what you did Toadsworth?" SpongeBob asked the old toad.

"I did it for fun!" the old toad laughed. "I mean did you see the look on your faces? You were all terribly frightened, epically the duck!"

"Well that because I'm always afraid!" Wade told him.

"Of course you are!" He laughed some more. "You're probably afraid of your own shadow!"

"You got that right!"

"I guess that's it huh?" SpongeBob said with tears in his eyes. Toadsworth stopped laughing and looked at SpongeBob.

"What's it SpongeBob? Cosmo asked. SpongeBob sniffed.

"We traveled all this far to see the great and powerful wizard, and all we get is a phony. This toad is nothing but a joke, a lying joke and now all of our dreams will never come true." SpongeBob started crying.

"You know I may not be a wizard," Toadsworth began, grabbing his cane. "But I can still help!" SpongeBob and his friends looked up.

"You can?" The sponge asked the wizard cheering up. "How?"

"Simple!" Toadsworth explained. "Now Cosmo, you want a brain correct?"

"Oh more then anything!" Cosmo replied. "But a little less then my family!"

"Cosmo you are so silly sometimes, you already have a brain!"

"Yeah, but it's made of Boron. I want a brain like a super computer!" Toadsworth just laughed again.

"Oh ho Cosmo you crack me up, you don't need a super computer brain."

"I don't?"

"All you have to do is learn how to use the brain you already have and your family will love you for just being you!"

"You mean I can just be myself and my family will always love me?"

"Execto mondo my friend!"

"Well I'll give it a try!" He took a deep breath and let it out. "BLUE IS A COLOR!" He then felt surprised at what he herd himself say.

"Look guys, I have a real brain!" He told his friends. His friends applauded for him.

"Great job pal!" SpongeBob applauded.

"Yeah, nicely done!" Wade added.

"Yeah, yeah!"

"Now that you finally figured out that you had a brain." Toadsworth said. "I have some presents for you."

"Oh boy presents!" Cosmo said while Toadsworth reached inside his bag. "I didn't know it was Chistmas, my birthday, Valentine's Day, or even Mother's Day, I'm just a lucky boy!" The old toad then pulled out a wand, a stapler, two pairs of fairy wings, and a medal that said "I have a brain!"

"My wand!" Cosmo said, grabbing and hugging his wand. "At last we are together again!" I missed you so much Wandie!"

"And now for your wings." Toadsworth said.

"Ready when you are!" Cosmo said his back towards Toadsworth. "Let me be wingless no more!"

"Ah right, now this may hurt a lot!" Cosmo screamed while Toadsworth stapled Cosmo's wings back on the fairy's back.

"There you go, good as new!" Toadsworth said when he was done. "Now you're a fairy again!" Cosmo flew around the room.

"Look at me guys!" he told his friends while flying. "I can fly, I can fly, I can fly!!" His friends oohed and awed at the sight of the happy fairy.

"Just like I dreamed of a few years ago!" SpongeBob said.

"Now it's time for you medal!" Toadsworth picked up the medal.

"Yay!" Cosmo cheered. He floated over, and Toadsworth put it around his neck. Cosmo and friends admired the medal of knowledge.

"Way to go Cosmo!" SpongeBob cheered. "That's so awesome!"

""Yeah, congratulations!" Wade added. "You sure are smart now!"

"Might be smarter then Jumba!" Stitch agreed.

"Thanks guys!" Cosmo said. "Now I can impress my godson, my son, and my wife with my brain power!" The friends cheered for Cosmo.

"Now Stitch." Toadsworth began. Stitch turned around.

"Yeah?"

"You want to impress your family with a heart correct?" Stitch nodded his head.

"Yeah, ohana needs Stitch's heart!"

"Well hate to disappoint you Stitch, but you already have a heart." Stitch looked puzzled.

"Huh?"

"You love your ohana right?"

"Oh yeah, love ohana! Love Lilo better!"

"Stitch your love is your heart! If you love your ohana like you say you do, and then by golly you have a heart" Stitch smiled.

"Now I have something for you!" he reached into his bag, and pulled out a plastic heart on a chain. Stitch bounced with excitement as Toadsworth handed it to him.

"This is a token to prove your ohana that you have a strong everlasting heart!" Stitch hugged the plastic heart.

"My precious, my precious!" Then Stitch herd a ticking sound. "Ohhh, it ticks!"

"Just like Mr. Neigh- Neigh did!" Cosmo blurted out.

"And last but not least Wade!"

"Me sir?" Wade stepped up when the old toad nodded.

"Wade, because of your bravery and courage, I want you to have this!" He placed a sticker on Wade's chest. Wade and friends looked at it in amazement, the sticker said "I helped defeat Gruntilda the wicked witch!"

"Wow, I'm going to be the bravest duck on the farm now! Orson is going to be very surprised! Thank's Toadsworth!"

"Don't mention it! I'm always happy to help those in need, even if I'm sick and about to die!"

"SpongeBob next?" Stitch asked Toadsworth.

"Yeah, what about SpongeBob?" Cosmo remembered. "Believe it or not but he and Gary needs help too, that's why he came here too!"

"Oh, I don't know if there's something in there for Gary and me." SpongeBob said. "Is there Toadsworth?" Toadsworth shook his head.

"No, unless you want a piece of gum."

"No!" SpongeBob sighed. "Now how are Gary and I suppose to go back to bikini Bottom?"

"You know I can take you in my submarine." Toadsworth suggested. SpongeBob looked hopeful.

"You can?"

"Wait, you have a submarine?" Cosmo asked. "Is it red from that one song?"

"No, it's blue." Toadsworth told him. "And all great wizards have one for emergencies."

"No they don't!" Wade reminded him.

"Well I do! And I'm willing to risk my life by taking SpongeBob and his pet home."

"You can do that?" SpongeBob asked.

"Oh sure! I can do anything when I'm a wizard!"

"Oh thank you, thank you!"

"Don't mention it, I'm serious!"

Later, SpongeBob, Gary, and Toadsworth were in a submarine in Toad Town Docks. All of the toads and Toadettes were there waving goodbye along with SpongeBob's friends. SpongeBob waved back to them.

"As you all know." Toadsworth told everybody. "This is my first time using my submarine, so I may never come back!"

"Bye everyone!" SpongeBob called down. "I'll miss you all, bye!" Gary saw some icky fungus on the ground and decided to eat it; he went out of the submarine and towards the fungus.

"Gary no, come back here!" SpongeBob climbed the ladder of the sub, and went after the fungus loving snail.

"Wait young sponge, come back!" Toadsworth shouted. It was no use; the sponge was determined not to leave without his beloved pet.

"Don't leave without me!" he called. 'I'll be back!" When a Toadette gave Gary to him, SpongeBob looked back and saw the sub taking off without him!"

"NOOO! WAIT!" SpongeBob ran towards the dock. He stopped when the ship was already out at sea.

"Sorry sponge, but I don't know how to stop!" Toadsworth called back. "Goodbye everyone, I may be back someday!" Everyone except SpongeBob and friends waved goodbye until the ship was out of sight.

"Boy, some wizard he turned out to be!" Cosmo said.

"Yeah, no kidding!" Wade added. "Just goes to show, he should've have his submarine linence first!"

"SpongeBob ok?" Stitch asked him. SpongeBob was too sad to hear.

"Now how am I going to get home?" he sniffed.

"I could poof you home now if I could." Cosmo told the sad sponge. "But the rules say that I'm only supposed to grunt wishes to my assigned god child."

"That's ok Cosmo." SpongeBob told him.

"You could always live with me on the farm" Wade suggested. 'I'm sure my friends on the farm wouldn't mind."

"That's ok Wade."

"Wanda may need another smart person in the family."

"SpongeBob joins Stitch's ohana?" SpongeBob smiled and looked at his friends.

"Thanks for trying to help guys." He told them. "But I much rather go back to my real home in Bikini Bottom with Sandy, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs."

"But how can you go back home now?" Cosmo asked.

"I don't know Cosmo, I just don't know." Suddenly in the sky was a pink bubble. It was coming closer and getting bigger.

"Look SpongeBob!" he pointed to the growing bubble. "That glowing pink bubble might help you!" The bubble disappeared, revealing Brentila.

"Why are you here?" SpongeBob asked her. Brentilda smiled.

"Helping you of course!"

"You mean, you're taking me home?"

"No, but you simply had the power to go home all along!"

"I did?" Brentilda pointed to the sapphire slippers with her wand. "Your sapphire slippers could've brought you home anytime you wanted!"

"You mean all this time my slippers were the ticket out of here?" Brentilda nodded.

"Hey, why didn't I think of that?" Cosmo asked himself. "Wait, why didn't you tell us this before we went on a perilous journey? Wow I didn't know I knew the meaning to perilous!"

"SpongeBob simply had to learn it himself.:" Brentilda answered.

"And besides." SpongeBob added. "If I had known that in the first place, I would've never met you guys!"

"That's true." Wade confessed.

"Well SpongeBob, whenever you're ready I can teach you how to work those slippers."

"Let me say goodbye to my friends first." SpongeBob told her. His friends were all teary eyed now. SpongeBob looked at Wade.

"Well Wade, I hope when ever you feel scared, you'll always think of me."

"I will!" Wade promiced.he hugged Wade. Next was Stitch.

"Stitch will always think of you in his heart."

"That's the spirit Stitch!" He hugged him and gave him the oil can. Last but not least was Cosmo.

"I think I'll miss you most of all!"

"You will? Why?"

"Because you're the first friend I met on this life threatening journey. Do me a favor and don't call Stitch a heartless monster ok?"

"I won't, I'll poof up an apology cookie for him right after this. Now whenever I try to think, I'll think of you and you wonderful brain!"

"Me too Cosmo, me too." He hugged Cosmo goodbye.

"Well goodbye guys, Gary and I shell never forget you!" He said when done hugging.

"Bye SpongeBob and Gary!" They all said together.

"Ok Brentilda, I'm ready to go home!" he told her.

"Great!" She said. "Now stand there." SpongeBob picked up Gary.

"Close your eyes." SpongeBob close his eyes.

"Tap your slippers three times". SpongeBob did what he was told.

"And say over and over there's no place like home."

"There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home." SpongeBob opened his eyes and looked around. He saw that he was in his bad in his pineapple house. Sandy and Patrick were standing beside his bed.

"There's, no, place, like, home."

"Howdy SpongeBob!" Sandy said when he was fully awake.

"Sandy, Patrick!" SpongeBob was so glad to see them again. Squidward poked his head in SpongeBob's window. "Squidward, you guys will never believe it.! I went on a magical journey with…"

"Slow down SpongeBob!" Sandy interrupted. "That bump on you head must have jogged your memory of what really happened!"

"You mean I didn't go to a magical land far away from you guys?"

"Sadly no." Squidward sighed.

"You went on a magical land without you bestest friend?" Patrick asked. "I thought we do everything together! I guess I was wrong!"

"SpongeBob didn't go on an adventure!" Sandy convinced the angry starfish. "The bump must've affected SpongeBob's mind!"

"But it was all too real to be a dream!" SpongeBob said. "There was a friend like Sandy in it. She never afraid of a risk and is always kind hearted." Sandy smiled. Next, Spongebob pointed to Squidward. "And there was a guy like you Squidward, whenever he was scared, he found his true courage inside him." Squidward took this as an insult.

"Are you calling me a coward SpongeBob?" he asked. "I have you know that whenever someone's scared of something doesn't nessecarly mean he or she is a coward!" SpongeBob laughed.

"No Sqiddy, you're much brevier then he was!" Then he looked at Patrick.

"And my first friend on my journey was like you Patrick."

"You mean he was a chubby pink starfish with green shorts with purple flowers on it, and drools all the time?"

"No Patrick, I mean you're not the only idiot in the world." Patrick gasped.

"Really?'

"Have I ever lied to you before?"

"Ugh, I forget! But woo hoo!" Patrick went outside to shout to the world.

"Hear that world? I'M NOT THE ONLY IDIOT IN THE WORLD!!"

"Oh boy!" Sighed Squidward.

"So Sandy, you do believe me, don't you?"

"Oh sure SpongeBob. I believe you tons!"

"Well I don't." Squidward said.

"It doesn't matter of you guys truly believe me, but I tell you…" SpongeBob and Gary looked out the window. "Gary and I truly did have an adventure in cartoon land, and we really did meet the wonderful wizard of cartoons!"