cornflakes are good

Part Sixteen

Warning: This part mentions violence and definite death

[Two hours later]

The party commenced. Everyone was there at Najimi Park. The children, Spookman, Karen and Rat (of course, because they were the hosts), and a few manager bots to keep the party under control. There was even Emily and Sophia, who were still upset from their fight not too long ago.

Emily had managed to get to the party just on time. She had locked the fish in the closet of her little hidey hole and found some very expensive and nice-looking clothes at the nearby mall. She chose to wear a black sweatshirt, slim jeans, and heels. (She couldn't wear heels at all, let alone stand in them for who-knows-how-long. For now she just leaned against a wall hoping that nobody would notice that she was trying her best to keep herself upright.)

Sophia on the other hand was less ready than Emily, so all she could do after finally freeing herself from the depths of the pond were shower and throw on whatever didn't smell totally awful. She was wearing a blank t-shirt, denim jeans, and bright pink crocs with a Minnie Mouse charm on one of them. It was not the best look compared to the other outfits other people were wearing at the party.

"Alright! Let's dance everybody!" Karen shouted. Everyone in the park cheered. She strolled over to a boombox sitting at the stage. She pressed a button and it immediately started playing some funky music (most likely from the twentieth century). Then she and Rat plunged into their #couplegoals dance routine. Everyone else sang and danced to the music.

On the other side of the park, Emily was leaning against a short brick wall, trying not to collapse and embarrass herself in front of everyone. She stared at the army of ants that was running across the wall. It was very disturbing, and a few of the dumb ants climbed onto her arm and up her neck. Thankfully only one made it underneath her ear, but it was still frightening. Eventually she got so annoyed that she took off one of her heels and mashed a whole bunch of ants with it. Once the other ants got scared of her and avoided her, she put the heel back on and let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh, hello there Emily," a familiar high-pitched voice said.

Emily's eyes widened with horror. She didn't dare to look back. She knew exactly who was speaking to her. She reached into the pocket of her jeans and slowly took out the gun inside it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you."

She let go of the gun on instinct. Why'd she do that? Suddenly she heard the click of a pocket knife being opened. Emily gulped.

"What are you going to do to me?" she asked.

"You're a bully," the bunny replied. "I'm going to stand up for myself. Now don't make any sudden movements or I'll—"

Emily suddenly leapt up into the air. The bunny tossed the knife in Emily's direction, but this was almost too expected of them. Emily flipped through the air and caught the knife and gracefully landed on the grass.

"Thanks," Emily said with a sly grin drawn onto her face. "Would you mind if I kept this?"

The bunny screamed and let out that same disturbing war cry. It came running at Emily. But this, too, was expected. Emily dodged the bunny and grabbed it by the ears. She swung it around and around and then tossed it into the same murky pond she threw Sophia into. The bunny coughed and gagged and spat out some duck crud and looked at Emily. Like Sophia, it tried to get out of the pond and get Emily, but its paw was stuck to the bottom of the pond. Emily walked over to the bunny and pulled out her gun.

"NOOOO—" BANG! The bunny sank into the dark deep depths of the pond. Emily put her gun back into her pocket and wandered away from the pond.

She casually whistled as if she didn't just brutally and cruelly kill somebody. She said hello to Karen and Rat, who only responded with a grim stare. Then she made her way over to Sophia and the three children.

"Hey Emily," Child said to her. "Do you know where DUCK and Senpie and Spookman are?"

"Err. . .," Emily uttered. She tried her best not to think of yeeting DUCK and not knowing where he could possibly be. She could only assume he was dead if he didn't come to this party.

"Oh," Child said. ". . .So what about Senpie and Spookman?"

"I am right here," Spookman said.

The children and Sophia and Emily shrieked. "When did you get here?"

"Just now. I flew," Spookman said. "Lit party, amiright."

"Nobody says that anymore, you boomer," Another Child told him.

"Oh," Spookman said sadly.

"So do you know where Senpie is?" Child asked Spookman.

Spookman stared into space. He killed Senpie. Senpie was dead. He wondered if DUCK ever did something with the body. Maybe he shouldn't have killed Senpie. But Senpie did try to kill him. If anything, maybe Senpie deserved it. How did DUCK feel? What did DUCK think of him now? He never saw Senpie shoot Spookman. Spookman felt for the bullet hole in the back of his skull. But he could explain, he guessed. But. . .

"Woah, what?" Child interrupted.

"What?" Spookman asked.

"I can read minds," Child said. "INCLUDING YOURS."

"Ah crap," Spookman said.

Before Child could ask him what that was all about, there was a shrill, annoying voice. An awfully familiar one. Child gulped.

"OH CHILDREN!"

Crap.