Amy meets Jeremy

They continued swimming until they got to some boulders that are close to the surface. They reached an island, and spotted a large crow with black feathers, purple bags under his eyes, and a yellow beak, legs, and feet, wearing a red string tied around his neck playing with the telescope in a silly manner. His name was Jeremy, Amy, Sally, and Cosmo's friend. He was humming to himself when he heard Amy, Sally, and Cosmo's voices calling for him. "Jeremy!"

He grabbed the telescope and looked through it, not realizing that it was in the opposite direction. "Whoa! Mer-animals off the port bow!" he hollered, "Amy, Sally, Cosmo, how you doin' kids?"

The crow put the telescope down. Amy, Sally, and Cosmo shook their heads. Jeremy couldn't believe his eyes. "Whoa, what a swim!"

"Jeremy, look what we found." Amy said, as she, Sally, and Cosmo showed him their bags.

"Treasure we don't know what it is yet." added Sally.

"I wonder what they are." Cosmo wondered.

"Yeah," said Silver. "We were in this sunken ship."

Charmy added, "And it was really creepy."

"Normal stuff, huh?" Jeremy wondered, "Hey, lemme see."

He pulled an anchor out of the crow's nest and dropped it not realizing it was tied to his ankle dropped it down pulling him with. Shaking himself off he stepped on Charmy's head and reached into Sally's bag and lifted up the silver forked object.

"Look at this." said Jeremy. "Wow, this is special! This is very, very unusual."

"What?" Sally asked, "What is it?"

"Tell us!" Cosmo asked excitedly.

"Please?" asked Amy.

"It's a dinglehopper!" answered Jeremy, "Normal animals use these little babies..."

He bent the fork, almost dropping it, but managing to awkwardly catch it.

"...to straighten their hair out." Jeremy finished. Then he stuck the fork on his head a twirled it around. "See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and, *voiolay*!" With that, he pulled the fork and he donned himself a "flattery" hairdo. "You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!"

Jeremy handed the dinglehopper back to an amazed Sally. "A dinglehopper!"

"So that explains it." said Cosmo.

"They're even the trophy colors." said Amy.

"What about that one?" asked Charmy, pointing to one of the brown horns. Jeremy took it from him. "Ah, this I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful!" he said. He examined the pipe before holding it up for the others to see. "A banded, bulbous - snarfblat."

"Oohhh." Amy, Sally, Cosmo, Silver, and Charmy said in awe and in unison.

They looked at each other in amazement. Even though the crow seemed crazy, he really knew a lot about normal things. "Now, the snarfblat dates back to prehistorical times, when normal animals used to sit around, and stare at each other all day." he said, pressing his face up against Cosmo's to emphasize his point. "Got very boring. So, they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Allow me."

Jeremy took a deep breath and blew hard into the pipe, causing some bubbles and seaweed to come out the end.

"Music?" Amy gasped.

"It's stuck!" Jeremy coughed.

"Oh, the concert?!" Sally exclaimed, as she and her little sisters picked up their things and put them back in their bags.

"Oh my gosh!" Cosmo echoed, "Our uncle's gonna kill us!"

"The concert was today?" Silver gasped.

Jeremy shook the pipe and said, "Maybe you could make a little planter out of it or somethin'."

"Uh, we're sorry," said Amy, as she grabbed the pipe and shoved it back in her bag, "We've gotta go."

"Thank you, Jeremy." Amy, Sally, and Cosmo called in unison.

They waved one last time before diving below the surface to face their uncle's wrath.

"Anytime, sweeties!" Jeremy called, "Anytime."