“Shinzie!  Don’t leave me!” Sapphire runs up to her cat friend Shinzie.  “I’m not strong you know.  You can’t just leave me in a bad guy lair!”

        Sapphire is a girl who is supposed to fight villains, but she’s not very strong.  The Grebbles were the bad guys.   Shinzie looks at Sapphire and says, “Don’t worry Sapphy.  I won’t leave you, and you are pretty str…Hey!  Cool!  A box!” he leaves Sapphire and picks up the box.  “I’m going to keep it!”

        Sapphire takes the box from Shinzie and puts it back.  “You can’t just take it Shinzie!  That’s stealing!  Besides we’re in an evil place, so that box might be evil.”

Shinzie takes the box back, “It’s just a box, Sapphy.  And it’s okay to steal from bad guys because they probably stole it from some one else.”

        Sapphire twists her face up, but doesn’t say anything.  After defeating some rat-tailed, little devil grebbles, they left the lair and went back home.

The next day, Sapphire makes some chocolate-chip cookies and brings them next door to Shinzie’s house.

        “Shinzie!  I made some…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

She drops the cookies and points at a gigantic, purple blob with one thousand eyes, ten mouths, and squiggly tentacles. 

“M-m-m-m-monster!” she screams.  Shinzie looks up from the soup he is eating,

        “Oh him?  That’s Mr. Spock.  He’s my new special friend.”

        Mr. Spock picks up his bowl and slurps up the soup.

        “Why are you eating lunch with a monster?  And where did it come from?” Sapphire says, hiding behind a chair.

        “I made him!  And he’s eating lunch with me because he’s hungry, duh.”

Sapphire stares and Shinzie, “You made him?  How?” she asks.

Shinzie pulls the box he got yesterday out of his pocket.

        “With this!  There’s a bunch of cool monster parts in here.  I’ll make you a little special friend right now.”  Shinzie opens the box and goes halfway into it.  While Sapphire is waiting, she wonders how that big cat can fit into such a small box. 

Shinzie pulls out a handful of pink clay, two little black eyes, a mouth, a cat nose, and other parts.  Then he molds the clay into a shape that sort of looks like a cat.  He puts the parts together with the clay and drops the figure in the box.  The cat figure jumps out of the box.

        “Mewk,” it says.  Shinzie picks it up and gives it to Sapphire.  It’s kind of cute, but something about it creeps Sapphire out.  She names the creature Alice and takes it home.  She plays with the little monster until it is time for bed.

The next morning she wakes up to find that all the furniture in the kitchen is gone.  In the middle of the floor was Alice.  It burps and goes into the living room.  Sapphire stares as she watches the 3-inch tall monster eat her couch.  Sapphire grabs Alice and runs over to Shinzie’s house.  She opens the door to find his house a wreck and at least twenty new monsters playing football with a ball of stinky socks.  Shinzie is hanging upside-down from the ceiling fan, with a bushel of bananas on his head.

“Shinzie!  Why did you make so many monsters?!  This one ate my kitchen!”

        “Maybe you should feed it better then,” says Shinzie, swinging from the fan.

        “Do you have any idea what these things could do to town?” she asks.

“Want a banana?” Shinzie asks.

        “I know thinking is hard for you to do, but please make the hamster in your head run in that thinking wheel!” says Sapphire.

“Relax, Sapphy.  They’ll just stay here and tear up my house.  It’s not like my house was clean before,” says Shinzie.  Then the monsters crash through Shinzie’s wall and head into town.  “Oops,” says Shinzie.

        Sapphire and him run into town to try and stop the monsters.  When they get there, they find that not only are the monsters tearing up the town, but they’re attacking the people trying to stop them.  One farmer is fighting off Mr. Spock with a rake.

        “No!  Don’t hurt Mr. Spock!” screams Shinzie.  If the whole town could not fight the monsters off, there was no way Sapphire and Shinzie could.

        “We have to find another way to get rid off them,” says Sapphire, “What should we do?”

Shinzie runs!  Sapphire chases after the scaredy cat and catches him.

        “We can’t run!” she says.

        “Can we hide?” he asks.  Shinzie pulls the box out of his pocket and jumps inside.

        “Wait…I got it!” Sapphire says.  She flips the box over and dumps Shinzie out.  Then she reaches into the box and grabs a bushel of bananas.  “Hey monsters!” she yells.  All the monsters stop and look at her.  “Look what I got!” she says.

  All of the town people cheers for Sapphire!

“You saved everybody, Sapphy!  Can I have my box back now?” Shinzie asks.

        “No!” says Sapphire, “We’re putting it back where you found it,” answers Sapphire.  Shinzie whines, but they go back to the bad guy lair and put it back where they found it.

        And everybody lived happily ever after.