Pet Shop of Horrors

~})i({~ Just letting you know I do not own any of the characters and all that jazz except Mr. Tohmson ^-^ ~})i({~


It was meerly two in the afternoon as a man with brown wavy hair and blue eyes walked into the shop in Chinatown. He went down the stairs into a room with various animals in cages in a incense scented room. Looking at the birds in the cage with his blue eyes until the voice of what sounded fairly feminine greeted him. He turned his head to see what he thought was madam butterfly, but it was merely an Asian man in a silk red, black, and gold Chinese outfit. "Why hello there sir..welcome to my pet shop. Are you looking for anything in particular?",Count D says. "The name is James Tohmson and I'm looking for a unique pet... something I can enjoy for myself and no one else." Count nods his head,"Then I have just what you're looking for Mr. Tohmson. Come this way...." Count D walks over to a a huge red door and pushes it open. The hallway was dark and the smell of incense crept out through the door. Count D reaches for a small latern and lights it, it reveals a few doors and a long stretch of hallway.

"This way Mr. Tohmson... and do watch your step....",Count says as he walks down the hallway and down a flight of stairs. James stayed close behind him, observing the many doors,"I never knew this place was so big...",he says to the owner. Count D smiles,"Looks can be decieving I'm afraid Mr. Tohmson." Count and James reach the end of the hallway, a dead end, except for the door that stood before them. "In here please......",Count says as he opens the door and motions for the man to walk right in.

The man walked into the room, it was dimly lit and it had a bed in the cener of the room and a small dresser and an incense burner ontop of him. He observed the bed with its silk crimson sheet ontop and the small black cat that layed on it. It looked at him with its emerald green eyes and then at Count D and meowed. Count D then walks over to the cat and scratches it with his long dark purple nails. The man looks at Count D in confusion,"A cat?",he questions. "As I said before...looks can be decieving Mr. Tohmson...",he sits on the bed and kisses the cat on the nose with his lipstick covered lips. The cat purs and then seems to grow in size and now looks like a new species of feline. "What you see here Mr. Tohmson is no longer a cat. It is now a black panther." He looks at Mr. Tohmson with his gold and purple eyes.

"wha- impossible....",Mr.Tohmson sputters,"there's no way an animal can do that! There's no such thing!" Count D looks at him with a straight face as the animal turns into a black lion. "I assure you that this is a rare species of feline's.. it's the only one left I'm afraid." Count D rose from the bed as the man rushes over to him grabbing him by his chinese dress. "Then I must have it....",the man says as his eyes went from Count D to the feline as it turned into a black cheetah." Count D placed his pale hands on the mans and removed them from his outfit and then headed over to the table with the incense burner on it. He pulled out of the drawer a contract and then shut the drawer and walked back over to the man.

"Before I can give the pet to you..you must know and understand these three rules. One.. you are not to show the animal to anyone. Two you are to keep incense burning at all times, which I will provide for you. The most important and final rule... be sure you do not give the animal any kind of liquid other than water. Let it drink water and feed it meat. If you fail to follow these three rules I will not be held responsible for whatever happens and I will take the animal back from you",after saying this he hands the paper to him. Mr. Tohmson signs the paper with a pen he pulled out of his pocket and hands Count D a few fifties. Count D looks at the money and then at the man, he was about to say something, but kept his mouth shut. The man looked at the feline who was now a small black cat again and picked him up. Count D escorted them back to the main enterance of the store and handed Mr. Tohmson a incense burner and a bag full of incense.

"Remember the three rules Mr. Tohmson and take good care of him.....",Count says to him as the man heads up the stairs to the streets of China Town. "I will. I'll take good care of the little...er...big....uh...the animal.",Tohmson says. Count D nods his head,".........." The man goes out the door and onto the streets of China Town. Counts D sits down in a chair in the room and pours a glass of tea for himself and grabs a sweet pastry from a platter in the middle of the table infront of him. A bat like creature named Q-chan fluttered by and landed on Count D's shoulder. "Hmm..... I guess we'll just have to hope he listens to the rules....",he says as he brings the tea cup to his lips.