"Chris! It's almost time to go to bed," Mom called to me. "Don't forget to feed TigerLily"

"Okay," I said.

TigerLily, my pet cat rubbed her head on my leg, begging for food. When I got out the bag of cat food and looked inside to see there was no food at all. I went up stairs to tell mom.

"Are you sure you can go to the pet store by yourself?"

"Yeah it'll be easy and I'll come straight back home" I reassured her.

So, I put my coat and boots on and brought TigerLily with me.

It was a dark and stormy night.

"You just had to finish the last of your cat food on the rainiest day of the year"

"Mew" was TigerLily's answer. When I arrived at the pet store it was still open.

"Okay, stay here TigerLily, don't move,"

"Mew"

I went inside the pet store.

"Let's see… Happy Pet, Super Chow, Jumbo Pet…. Here it is Tasti-Pet!"

After I paid the clerk I went out to see that TigerLily was…. Gone.

"TigerLily! I must've let the collar too !"

"REOW!"

TigerLily! She's been taken. I followed her cries that lead me to a huge dark figure holding my cat. Then it started running away.

"Stop! Thief! TigerLily!WHOOOOOA!"

I tripped over a hill into some boxes in a junkyard.

"Stupid hill. Where are you now?"

In front of me was a pipe full of purple goo.

"Whoa!"

I looked down and saw….animal footprints!

Whatever took TigerLily went inside the pipe. Should l go? I told mom I'll come straight back home, but I can't go home without TigerLily. I had her ever since she was a kitten and her brother, Minnaloshe , Martin's cat, would be very sad that his sister was taken away. I had to go into that pipe….for TigerLily.