Serpent Stories / Dragon Tales

Hello. I’m Audrey. As you may not guess, I am a real sucker for children’s shows. My favorite by far was Dragon Tales. The series focused on the exploits of two siblings, Emmy and Max, in possession of an enchanted dragon scale capable of transporting them to a whimsical fantasy land inhabited by colorful anthropomorphic dragons upon their recitation of a rhyme. 
Since Dragon Tales doesn’t air anymore, I went to my local thrift store. In the middle of the store was a large bucket of old VHS tapes, donated by the people. I was good friends with the cashier there. I slowly walked up to him, he seemed happy about something… “ Oh Audrey, my dearest friend…” he spoke softly. He told me that someone donated a new tape, the tape read ‘ Serpent Stories ‘. I rushed over to the bucket, my brown hair flowing. I got my hands on the tape, however it seemed counterfeit… But the picture showed the two siblings [ Emmy and Max ]. I was fairly confused, but I endeavor up taking it anyways. 
A couple hours passed… I finally arrived at my apartment building. Excitingly, I put the VHS tape in the player… waiting for the show to start. The show started normally, the two kids summoning their dragon friends, Ord and Cassie. The theme was playing normally… until Zak and Wheezie’s part. The theme normally sung ‘ There’s Zak and Wheezie and his tales of fun ‘Cause you know that two heads are better than one! ‘ . Instead, the tape’s version sung ‘ There’s Zak and Wheezie and his tales of fun ‘Cause you know that two hearts are better than one ! ‘ It didn’t bother me that much, after all it might be a episode about love. 
Oddly enough, it didn’t show the normal title card. This somewhat bothered me, as a kid I loved seeing the title card of my favorite show… The episode went on as normal. Emmy and Max were in front of their garage, ready to go to the dragon world. As soon as they recited the poem, it cut to the two in the dragon world. It very much looked like something was cut out. The two dragons didn’t show up as they do in every episode. Instead, our two protagonists walked through the forest. They found Ord and Cassie. They seemed sad. It looked like the eldest dragon [ Quetzal ] was lying down on a makeshift hospital bed. As our protagonists were about to speak, the screen cut to black for at least 10 seconds. Afterwards, the screen showed Quetzal and Wheezie laying in a hospital bed, both connected to IV drips. I was confused because I’ve never seen a hospital in the show before, I settled on the fact that someone must’ve edited the episode. 
Then, a blue dragon [ wearing a traditional doctor uniform ] came in the room. Though the dragon was moving her mouth, no sound was produced. By the visuals, she showed our 4 friends a paper. The paper read ‘ Heart Surgery ‘. Dragon Tales has never produced this kind of content. The screen cut to Zak and Wheezie’s two hearts with the text ‘ Two hearts are better than one .’ The screen cut back to the episode, this time everyone was standing in front a gravestone that read ‘ RIP Zak and Wheezie. You will be missed. ‘ It took me awhile to comprehend what I just saw… It was poorly made, almost like a clip show. It looked like a young child had drawn the backgrounds, as well as the additional character. It really didn’t make sense… I just left my TV on, the tape still active…
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