I opened my eyes. I was standing in the foyer. I took in a deep breath, and slowly let it out. I was home.
I heard a soft growling sound and turned around to see the Lipstick Face demon. A growl came from deep in his throat, and he slowly walked toward me. I took a step back. "What do you want?" I asked. The growl turned into a soft purr. Suddenly silver chains and cuffs bound my wrists. "You." he said in a low gruff voice. "Oh, shit."
~*~
Sarah put on some elastic gloves and looked down at the thing on her operating table. It looked human, but she knew it was far from that.
"Wolf, hand me the scalpel." Sarah said. "Yes sir." Wolf handed her the sharp object. "Don't call me sir!" Sarah snapped. "Ye gad." Wolf muttered, turning back to the dozens of other operating tools. "Alright." Sarah said, and she began to cut into the corps. "Shouldn't there be some blood?" Wolf asked. "Yeah, at least a little." Sarah said, then she gasped. "What? What is it?" Wolf ran over. "This...this body is stuffed! Like an animal! No blood, no organs!" Sarah gently pulled out a small handful of the white stuffing. It was soft as silk and almost glittered. "Cut the rest of it open!" Wolf said. Sarah gulped. "Hand me the saw." she said. "Ooh! I love this part!" Wolf said, getting the small hand saw. "You shouldn't." Sarah said. "Too bad!" Wolf said, handing the saw over to her.
Sarah began to saw into the skull of the thing. "Heehee!" Wolf laughed, acting giddy. "You. Are. Sick." Sarah said. "I know." Sarah gently lifted the top of the skull off. "Oh, my God." she muttered. Instead of a brain, the thing had machinery in it's skull. "This is...so advanced..." Sarah said softly. "Get Alicia, now!"
~*~
The next thing I knew I was chained up in some kind of dungeon. The lighting was a dark red. I could hear music playing. "Tiptoe, through the garden, by the window." I recognized the song clearly. Tiptoe by Tiny Tim. Alicia listened to it from time to time. I looked around for the demon. "Hey!" I called out weakly. The music stopped and it got darker. "Where are you? Show yourself!" I yelled. Suddenly the Lipstick Face demon appeared in front of me. He licked his lips and grabbed me by the throat. "Gak!" he lifted me off the ground. He began to purr deeply in his throat again, and he licked my cheek.'Oh, God. Someone help me.'
~*~
"And don't come back!" Gwen yelled as she managed to beat the rest of the demons off with a large stick. "Shit." she muttered. She had seen that the Lipstick Face demon had come back to the mortal world with me, and she knew exactly what he was going to do to me.
Gwen ran to a huge grouping of rocks, and pressed on a small rock near the bottom, and a small panel opened up. "What's the password?" A male voice asked. "Let me in or I'll kick your ass." Gwen growled. "Good enough." the panel folded back into the rocks and a larger rock moved to the side to reveal a long steep stairway. Gwen quickly ran down the stairs as the door closed behind her. "Benny! Benny!" she called. "Eep. Yes?" Benny turned around in his wheel desk chair and looked at her, knowing by her tone there was bad news. "Is Tom here?" Gwen asked, hushing her voice. "Yeah, he's in his bunker." Benny said. "What is it?" "A girl got sent back with that Lipstick Face freak." Gwen growled under her breath. "Oh, crap. And you want sent back to help her?" Benny almost yelled. "Quiet! Yes, I can't let that creep keep her, you know what he'll do." Gwen said. "B-but, you can't come back if you do." Benny said. "I know..." Gwen said. "Why would she want to come back here to the Shadow World?" a voice said. A dark skinned girl leaned down from her bunk. "Anda, would you come with me?" Gwen asked. "Hell yes." Anda said, jumping down. There was the sound of ringing bells as Yelly ran over. Yelly couldn't talk or make any noise for that matter, so she wore bells on her yellow dress. She always kept her long black hair in a bun. Yelly pointed to herself and nodded. "Yes Yelly, you can come too." Gwen said, smiling. "So what do you want me to do?" Benny asked. "Operate the portal." Gwen said, grabbing her pack. "But what about Tom? You know he'll never let you leave." Benny said. "That's why you're going to tell him when you get back." Anda said. "But then my ass is on a platter." Benny said, fallowing Gwen around as she gathered other things. "Then tell him I held a ghost knife to your throat." Gwen said. "Since when do ghost knives exist?" Benny asked. "Since I found this out in the desert." Gwen said, holding up a large hunting knife. "Eep." Benny said, grasping at his throat. "Don't worry, I won't use it on you. Yet." Gwen said, heading for the stairs. "Hey! Wait up!" Benny said fallowing, along with Anda and Yelly.
'Don't worry Mistwolf, we're coming for you.'
