Wooly's Crush

5: Butcher Shop Scramble

No POV

Riley walked over to the VCR player in utter shock and recognition. She couldn't believe this cartoony lamb was aware of her presence in that very attic.

"Wooly? I- I'm surprised you recognized me."

The young sheep rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"I'm surprised you still know I can actually talk!" He clapped back, "Anyway, is Willow here?"

Riley shook her head, signifying that she wasn't here, with her.

"I thought she was with you today before she got here..." Wooly replied, while his ears drooped.

The pupils of Riley's eyes shrunk in horror.

"Willow entered this cartoon?!" Riley bellowed, "How?"

Wooly explained that Willow would get in and out of that in a particular realm, as she pleased; by simply touching the T.V. Riley didn't have time to decide if Wooly was telling the truth, or simply fumbling. With a touch of her hand, she was on her way, to Amanda's dimension, in a blink of an eye, eventually waking up at Wooly's side in the kitchen.

"Wakey, wakey; Riley, you've made it!" Wooly informed playfully, "Is it like you remember-- Baaa"

Riley looked around, there were buildings, trees, and many others with moving eyes everywhere, yes, it was exactly like Riley remembered it. However, there was no time for nostalgic sightseeing when there was work to be done, they had to locate Willow and rescue her before her life comes to a gruesome sticky end.

Wooly and Riley soon began their quest, aware that danger can pop up at every corner of that fictional realm. To ease Riley of her tension, the sensible lamb told Riley all about Willow, and how time and time again, she showed her compassion and bravery throughout her time spent with him.

"All and all," Wooly added, "She has given me, what I needed the most..."

"What is it, Wooly?" Riley asked.

The smitten lamb turned his head, and responded with glowing eyes:

"A true friend."

 Suddenly, panicked baaing can be heard through the walls of a building, it left Riley Park confused, but Wooly panicked.

"Oh, no this can't be good they got Willow!" Wooly brayed in fear, "C'mon!"

"I knew for a fact that Willow is good at imitating animals, but why is she braying like a real sheep?"

"Because," Wooly said, as they raced to the butcher shop, "in this realm, she is a sheep, similar to yours truly, but she has the cutest, and softest black fleece, I have ever seen."

Much to their misfortune, they arrive at the butcher shop, with a sign indicating the shop's closure.

"We're too late! Willow's going to be reduced into mutton!" Riley exclaimed, prone to accepting her niece Willow's dire fate, but Wooly, well, the thought of losing the only true friend he'd ever had caused a sharp pain on the two sides of his head, his eyes stream tears, while angered smoke exhaled from his nostrils. Riley tried to calm him down, but before she could do it...

BAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Upon contact with the sharp pointy objects from Wooly's head, the dreaded shop's door was smashed to smithereens. The infuriated lamb was as menacing as he could get, but strangely enough, the butcher didn't react he was just minding his business chopping meat, with a grimy cleaver.

"Guys, up here!" Willow asked, making the poor lamb, float down with his hooves on his hands. Riley was capable enough to cut her niece loose from the ropes.

"I'm sorry you have to see me like this Aunt Riley."

Riley placed her hands on her niece's cheeks, feeling the fuzzy texture of her niece's new hyde.

"I already love you kiddo," she said," even if you're a fluffy sheep."

Suddenly a familiar groan, made Willow's ears perk up to listen, and with a gasp, Willow knelt in front of her beloved lamb and gently helped him up.

"Wooly!" Willow bleated.

"I don't know what came over me," Wooly panted, "I can't bare the thought of losing you..."

"Wooly, you have to listen to me," Willow  worryingly stated, "I figured out what happened to Amanda..."

Wooly and Riley Park gasped.

"I've managed to set myself as bait and stay not slaughtered enough, to figure out the truth, about her erratic and demonic fits...

Riley drastically lost color.

"Demonic fits? What's going on, Willow?!" Wooly questioned, determined.