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This section has a scroll-down portion; I dunno if I need to say that, but you get a warning anyway. *insert suspense here* is less suspenseful than scrolling down a bit.

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It had been two months since Horror got Nibble, and now only Dust and I were left to get our blasters; Dad told us not to be upset if we didn't get them soon, since there were no guarantees for these sorts of things, and it was really only chance that caused the others to get them within only a few months of eachother. Another thing that everyone was thinking about was Dust: in less than a month, he would turn ten; his birthday was close to Horror's, while mine was about a month after that. At the moment, it was a bright Saturday morning, and I was sitting on the porch in the backyard, enjoying the morning air; I had never had that chance in the lab..I had always been inside. Inside air was different from outside air; I preferred the latter. I drank some milk as I slowly started my day, noting when Dad joined me, sitting down on the porch table next to me.

"Lovely morning, isn't it?" He commented.

"Mhm." I agreed, sipping my milk.

"I was thinking about going on a trip today; would you be interested in that?"

"Where?"

"Well, I was thinking of going to visit that farm - the one where we get our eggs?"

"Oh." I hummed. "I guess I'd be okay with coming."

"Very well. I actually wanted to get there before the others woke up; Killer is sleeping a bit later today, and I figure that I can make a good breakfast."

"All right, I'll come." I placed my milk on the table.

Dad soon opened a portal to the farm, and I followed him through. We usually had only to look into one of the food storage rooms to find ingredients for things, but whenever possible, Dad liked to use fresh eggs; he said they were better than stored eggs, but we would use the stored if we had to. We went up to the market in the farm, meeting a nervous farmer; I wondered why he was so nervous.

"H-hello, N-Nightmare.." He stuttered. "How c-can I help you..t-today?"

"I would like to purchase one dozen eggs, please." Dad requested.

"S-sure.." The farmer placed a carton of eggs on the counter. "Th-that'll be t-two g.."

"Here you go." Dad gave the farmer the money and picked up the carton of eggs. "Good morning."

"M-morning.." The farmer shuddered.

As soon as Dad took the eggs, there was a rumble..was it an earthquake? No..it sounded more like..hooves. I froze, knowing that there was only one creature that made those types of sounds: cows. I heard cows, and there were lots of them. Dad didn't seem to notice the stampede that was obviously nearby! I grabbed his leg, whimpering; they were going to kill us all! Dad still didn't notice the stampede..how could he not have noticed?! It was so loud! In an instant, the wall of the market building was broken, and a cow faced us; Dad glared at the evil cow, who huffed demonically. Its horns even looked like demon horns..it made the sound. I whimpered, holding on to Dad's leg with all my strength. He looked down to me, gesturing for me to get behind the counter; I did so quickly before returning my attention to the face-off. Dad growled at the evil cow, who seemed to smile at the challlenge; they fought. Dad fired multiple blasters at the cow, who was unphased; Dad was a bit shocked that his attacks did absolutely nothing against the beast. The cow attacked, making the sound I feared so much. I screamed as dust flew up into the air..no..no! Dad! No..he wouldn't leave us like that..