The Fourth Friend (An Amphibia Story)

Part 19: Wax Museum

Skylar's P.O.V

'New town! New town! New town!' The Plantars all cheered as we walked through the front gates.

'Food! Shops!' Polly said as she looked around the town.

'This place is so cool! What should we do first?' Sprig asks.

'Lets see' Hop Pop says as he pulled out his wallet only to find it completely empty. 'Nothing. All we can afford is window shopping kids'

'Aww' we all sighed at the disappointing news.

'Man it's hot' Anne said, clearly sweating under her hood.

'You said it, screw these hoods' I say before lowering said hood, Anne doing the same.

'Better' Anne happily sighs.

Seemingly the entire town gasped in unison at the sight of the two of us.

'Right, sometimes I forget about the whole we're freaks in this world thing' I say.

A small tadpole in the crowd started crying, proving my statement even more.

'Whoa whoa, don't cry. We're not monsters, we're just weird. See?' Anne explains as she wiggled her nose and ears.

The town awed at her small performance and the tadpole from before spoke up.

'Mommy, mommy. Give the freaks money'

'It was a lovely performance' the tadpole's mother said, passing Anne a few coppers.

'Do it again! Do it again!' The tadpole cheered.

'Milk it!' Polly tells us, adding a tip sign to her bucket and putting it in front of us.

I then do the simple trick of pretending that your thumb fell off which resulted in applause from the town.

'This is so much better than that creepy old oddities museum' a frog in the crowd said.

'Oddities museum? What the heck an oddity in Amphibia? Am I right?' Anne joked but her attempt was met by nothing but silence.

'Stick to physical comedy Anne' I tell her.

'Got it' she smiles before pretending to punch herself in the face.

By the time the evening had come around Anne and I had made quite a bit of cash from our little show.

'Wow girls! You made a bucket of money, literally!' Sprig smiles.

'Woo! Now, how are we gonna spend all of this cash?' Anne asks, looking around.

'That oddities place looks like it's still open. How about that?' I ask, pointing to the Curiosity Hut.

'Well, you made the money. But only if you two keep your hoods up. I don't like you two drawing so much attention to yourselves'

'Deal'

'You got it Hop Pop'

We entered the hut and were met with a hall filled with all sorts of different wax statues.

'Well, I think this place is closed so let's leave and never come back' Polly quickly says, clearly spooked by the creepy museum.

'Yeah this isn't what I was expecting. Maybe we should head back to the Fwagon' I suggest, backing away from the giant spider statue.

'Are you kidding? C'mon!' Anne says as she walks further into the museum. 'Guys it's all fake. They're trying to scare you' she laughs, taking note of our scared expressions. 'Whoa, look at this hot mess'