Sparkville

**Sparkville** is a location in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, being a rugged village located on an island far off from where the main trio lives. Though the village is very isolated due to the rest of the island being overgrown to the brim, it is where Officer M. resided for a while during the Yoshi Resort war and also where his Grandpa Shed had lived alone for many years.

## Description

Sparkville is located on a moderately sized island that is far away from seemingly any other areas of land, so as a result the only real ways to get there are through sky and sea transport. Even still, there are very few boats and planes that actually have a route to the island; this is likely because many people don’t even know about its existence at all and there is only two small dock and airport points on it. The island itself has very craggy and uneven terrain: there are many hills, overhangs, caves and even a huge, inactive volcano northwest of the village. The rest of the island that isn’t hills is extremely overgrown, being covered in many patches of grass, flowers and trees, with several forest areas being made all across it. There are also some patches of dried grass and dirt in certain areas, particularly within the village and the many forests on the island which harbour many wild animals.

The Sparkville village is home to only a few dozen people, with many of them having to share the poorly made and collapsing homes. Many of the buildings are made of sticks, wood, mud and stone, with the only services on it being a small meeting area and also a blacksmith for forging equipment if ever needed. There also are some farms that are growing crops like carrots, wheat and tomatoes with scarecrows protecting them from the many birds that live across the island. Ever since the death of Grandpa Shed, a stone statue has also been built by the townsfolk in order to honour his memory and the many great deeds he did for the village community. Sparkville's village does also have a few hidden transport and protection features that were set up by Officer M. and Grandpa Shed, such as a bunker for secured protection and also a very fast jet which he used to get to and from the island during the war. However, this plane is in ruins now and no longer works.

## Background

Though Sparkville may be a rundown and sparsely populated village now, it wasn’t always that way. A while ago it was a much larger and more popular area that was also on a bigger, more well-known island, with the place getting frequent visitors and new people looking to stay. There were plenty of stable houses and buildings made frequent across Sparkville and it had hundreds of citizens, one of which being Officer M's own Grandpa Shed. He was one of the most well-known people living in Sparkville due to his many good deeds and the fact that he had lived there helping the others for a long time. During the Yoshi Resort Cake War that had been started by Victor, Grandpa Shed had offered his grandson the opportunity to come to Sparkville every so often during the war for a chance to heal and break from the constant battles which Officer M. had gladly agreed to. After building a few safety features, Officer M. had gone to and from the island several times and was even allowed to bring his cousin Doctor M. there, who had also been serving in the war. Following the end of the Cake War, Officer and Doctor M. both visited Sparkville less and less until they eventually stopped coming at all, leaving Grandpa Shed on his own doing his usual good deeds. Over the years many people moved away from the village and to elsewhere as the island was slowly but surely shrinking in size due to the rising sea levels, and many parts of the village were beginning to collapse and become overgrown by the plant life. This would continue until the village became what it is mostly known as today: a small, rundown place that is known by few and has a little amount of inhabitants.

Many years later, Officer M. remembered Sparkville and his Grandpa Shed, taking his two best friends Turtle Man and DaPhantom there for a visit. After a while of looking around with DaPhantom having possessed Grandpa Shed’s body, he left it and caused him to have a panic attack. Officer M. tried to revive his grandpa but did it too hard and ended up accidentally killing him, to everyone’s dismay before they left. A statue of Grandpa Shed was made in his honour by the remaining townsfolk, and they were extremely mad at Officer M. after he returned with his friends, Doctor M. and his girlfriend Katie. After escaping from an angry mob they stumbled across the shrine where Grandpa Shed was buried, but it was destroyed during a fight they had with a giant goat before they had to swim back home.

## Appearances

* S7E5 - Sparkville
* S7E10 - Return to Sparkville

## Gallery

The Sparkville villageGrandpa Shed’s Shed

Mystical Acres