As Mellisa waits, Sonia scuttles around, teleporting out of the mall, and hiding through the gardens. Peering through one of the large bushes, Sonia trails her eyes from side to side.

“Strange…” Sonia commented, “The amulet took me out here… but why?” Sonia shifts out of the bush and starts walking around the garden. With every step, Sonia holds her sword tightly in hand, keeping a watchful eye as she walks deeper into the garden. The ginger places her hand onto an oak tree with fuchsia colored leaves and waited.

Shuffle shuffle shuffle! A noise was heard from the bushes. Sonia snaps her head towards the sight of the bushes and gets into a fighting position. She silently waits as the sounds of the bushes get louder and louder. Sonia grips her sword tighter and extends one of her legs, leaning it further than usual due to the stretchiness of the leggings. Just then… WHOOSH! The unidentified object flies out of the bushes. Sonia yells loudly as she starts to swing her sword, causing a familiar voice to cry out, “NYEEEE-EEEH-EEE-EEE-EEEHH!!!!” Sonia recognizes the scream and pulls back on her sword slash, just narrowly avoiding hacking the familiar being to pieces.

“Scruffles!” Sonia exclaims as she hugs her pet cat tightly, “Oh, thank goodness it's you!”

“Great…! Because you nearly turned me into Fickle Feline Tater Tots!!” Scruffles complained, slapping Sonia’s cheeks with her soft paws. Another beast emerged from the bushes, but this time it was a little yellow dog. The dog pants and stretches his backside from running and says, “Oh bloomin ‘eck… I’m knackered…” Sonia calls out to the dog, “Matthew!” as she puts down the cat and pets and gives the dog some good scratches. Sonia tends and cares for the dog, saying stuff like, “Who’s a good doggy? Who’s a good-good doggy~?” Matthew pats his foot in enjoyment from Sonia’s care. Scruffles clears her throat loudly to interrupt the moment.

“Not wanting to be rude here but Sonniyer… what are you wearing?” Scruffles commented on Sonia’s new outfit, “You ‘n’ Mellisa goin’ dancin’?”

“It’s a long story with a mix-up of clothes and-,” Sonia stopped herself, shaking her head and getting back into the situation, “Why’d you guys call? What’s this talk about these spiky gremlins?” Scruffles then begins to explain everything. For some reason, during an ordinary day in the backyard, Feliferi appeared to warn them of a beast that ripped through space and time to come to Earth. The two pets diligently began to investigate the neighborhood for clues. However, during a walk through the beginning area of the countryside, a dissenting roar was heard in the distance. Scruffles and Matthew ran over to inspect the sound until these tiny gremlin beasts popped out of the ground, surrounding the cat-and-dog duo.

“These things were CREEPY-lookin’!” Scruffles described.

“They had no sort of arms except for two tiny little pitchforks, while their legs were as long as a grasshopper!” Matthew added, “And teeth sharper than a sabertooth!”

“They chased us out of the countryside and back to the suburbs, trapping us into a payphone which is how we were able to call you in the first place!”

“But…” Sonia asked with confusion, “How’d you get the money to use a payphone…?”

“That’s not the point. The point is, as we were running, they just chased us in droves! Outsmartin’ them didn’t work either ‘cause they just kept comin’ back!”

“They multiply like rabbits, and can pop out of the ground at any-”

KA-POW!!!! Suddenly, an army of gremlin monsters penetrate through the grounds of the garden, surrounding Sonia, Matthew, and Scruffles.

“-moment…” Matthew finished, drooping his ears in fright. The pets huddle behind Sonia’s legs as these creatures hopped closer and closer to her. A little creeped out, Sonia asks the animal duo if THESE were the gremlin creatures that they spoke of earlier, and they confirmed that these were so the creatures that chased them here. One of the little freaks hops in front of the ginger with a face that even a psycho would be afraid of, and began to speak backwards before speaking in English.

“We are the SCROWLERS, Stalkers of Day and Night! CHIK CHIK CHIK! And we have come to- chikchikchikchik- destroy you! AHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” The little beast called out, laughing insanely in the process. With no hesitation, Sonia chops the scrowler in half with her magic sword. The little creature drops both halves of its body onto the grass with a splat as Sonia pulls back her sword. Sonia comments, “How’s that for being destroyed?” and smugly smiles. However, the scrowler’s halved body shakes some before popping, creating two scrowlers right in front of her. Sonia takes a headtake in surprise then swings her sword again, cutting up the two beasts in fourths. Just like before, the cut down scrowlers multiplied into more scrowlers, extending the army even more. The beasts then chortled its calling card, “Chik chik chik! Chikchik-chikchik Chik!” while stomping on the ground in vicious harmony. Sonia was getting steamed! If this was the danger, then it was surely an annoying one. The ginger girl let out a battle cry/scream of rage as she waves her fists in the air. Sonia then lunges into the air as she screams even longer, preparing to swing at the invasive army.

Meanwhile, Mellisa sat at the bathroom hallway, diligently waiting for Sonia. The day was ending however as the sun began to set, resting between the hills of the Twin Trees. The dozens of patrons that packed the mall earlier were slowly dwindling in numbers, either going home or just plain leaving. There were still enough people that stayed, but since closing time was nearing its way, there wasn’t much of a reason to stay at the mall until then.

“I won’t move until Sonia gets back,” Mellisa commanded to herself as she adjusted her seat on the hard, wooden bench. Mellisa stayed there in the lone bathroom hallway like an obedient friend and waited…. And waited… and waited… and waited… and waited…