Chapter Two
"So...we'll convince Red Fraggle to let everyone use the pool?" John asked the girls as he slipped on his jacket, he was holding his sash in his hand, and he frowned a bit looking at it. "Too hot for that thing."
He flung the sash back on his sleeping area, and started to walk back out to where the girls were, and he smiled. He was pratically soaked in sweat, but he looked presentable.
"No, John, we'll convince her she dosn't need to work!" Carla stated, as she got her headpiece on.
"But...dosn't she have to work?" Convincing John countered, as he stood by the caverns entrence.
"Yes, of course she does! But, we'll show everybody that they can all do her work for her! Help her out, because she'll need it, won't she? In this heat, it can be quite hard on a Fraggle!" Darla said quickly, smiling to them all.
"Don't I know it." John mumbled as they started to go down from their caverns, to the main hall.
***
"It's Convincing John!"
"Wonder why he's here?"
"Did that Mokey Fraggle call on him...again??"
Many of the Fraggles were in awe of Convincing John and his power of pursasion, a few feared him, but many just generally worried when they saw him. They were talking amongst themselves, watching as he walked over to the main podium. The word traveled faster then the Fraggle Horn, because almost as soon as the Fragglettes cleared their throats, ready to sing alongside of him, most every Fraggle was in the main room already.
He cleared his throat, and coughed slightly. He slicked his hair back once more, as he was dripping with sweat. Darla leaned over, and smiled at him.
"You okay, John?"
"Yes, Darla, I'm fine."
"The heat's getting to you isn't it?"
He merely nodded, and closed his eyes for a moment, before popping up behind the podium, taking a deep breath, with that firey gleam in his eyes as is well known by most fraggles.
"Now, now listen to me Fraggles, with your fraggle selves a sweating, do you know what would be best right now?" John sang, as the sweat dripped down his own forehead. He put his all into it.
"Right now?" The Fragglettes echoed, as in usual sweet harmony.
"A nice dip in the pool, cold water a splashing, but that can't be done right now! For you see there is a fraggle who even now is a working, doing the best she can!"
"Best she can!"
"She's a-cleaning up the pool, a-sparkling and a-shining, but that won't help us do! We need to help her now, so leap in and cool off too!"
"Cool off too!!"
"If you don't go in the pool, you'll keep on sweating, till there's nothing left to be found! And when you sweat away, you'll melt all day; and then your life's aground!"
"Life's aground!"
All the fraggles started to agree, and even halfway through the song, some of them started to go towards the pool, to leap into it, and cool off. The rest of them.
"So now tell me what you'll do, will ya sit and mull and stew? Till there's nothing left to give? Or will you do the smart thing, and hop in the pool, and then you'd live!!"
A round of clapping and cheering ensued, and the other half of the fraggles started to run off towards the pool, convinced by John that they were going to melt away in the intense heat.
***
Red was almost done cleaning the pool out, and she hauled herself out of it, and smiled.
"My jobs almost done for this week. Heh, I picked such a fun job!" She smiled down at the clean, sparkling pool, and picked up her towel, wrapping it around herself.
The fraggles nearly stampeded over her to get into the pool. It was large enough for all the fraggles to get inside of it, but as they cooled off, what no one realized was that the pool was heating up, because of their body heat.
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