Mahabalipuram is a port city of South India, dating back to the 7th century, around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Fate lent a hand when the massive tsunami that caused so much devastation in Asia also uncovered a complex network of 20 ancient temples. In front stood three statues depicting an elephant, a lion, and a flying horse. The ancient city captivated all who saw it. Both people and animals.

One small, turquoise mongoose, barely 4 years old, had wandered away from his parents. He had crawled through the ruins, his wide eyes taking everything in. He had seen the statues and stone blocks many times before, but now he wanted to see the inside. So, he entered a hole in one of the walls. Past through the barnacles, down a hole too small for man to take any notice off.

Underground, under the temple, something sparkled. The young mongoose's hands grasped around the pointy object. His paws felt a metallic cord attached to it. His heart pounded as he jumped to the obvious conclusion, but he held back his excitement as he held the object close while backtracking through the tunnels. Before long, he was back out in the light. As the sun shone on the object, the mongoose panicked as he stood in the ruins of the Indian temple. He held in his paw what could only be the center fragment of The Star of Dharma! He had heard the legend so many times! It just had to be! But then, he could hear his name being shouted out at him. His parents were approaching.

The mongoose hugged the jagged blue jewel close to his chest. They would take it away from him! They would say he was too young to possess such a thing! They would chastise and punish him from even touching such a rare and dangerous artifact! Therefore, the little blue mongoose did the only thing he could think of. He threw his head back, opened his mouth, tossed the crystalline object up high, and caught it in his mouth. He forced the object, silver cord and all, down his esophagus with all his might. Soon, the deed was done. The object rested safe within the mongoose's stomach.

And then. . .light!

Light so bright that it threw him back miles and miles and miles and miles and-

"AH!" Sunil gasped as he sat up on the cushion he was napping on.

"Ha-ha! Gotcha! Rise and shine!"

Pepper Clark stood in front of him holding a camera. The flash bulb was still hot. The skunk grabbed the photo and laughed at Sunil's drooling face.

Sunil growled, "Give me that picture!"

Pepper winked and ran off, with Sunil in hot pursuit.

(Cue Littlest Pet Shop song "Perfect For You")

Ya like to have fun in the sun
You and L-P-S
You're just like one

Vinnie was practicing some break dance moves in the corner. He did the worm and started to spin on the ground in a ball. Penny Ling was dancing with him, twirling around while holding her ribbons. Pepper knocked into Penny Ling, causing her to spin around like a tornado. Sunil past Vinnie, causing him to spin on his head like a top.

You wanna dress up or go ou-ou-out
For that there's a pet
There's no doubt!

Zoe Trent was trying on a pink hat with a bunch of white flowers and cherries on it. She was admiring herself in a mirror, when Pepper ran behind her, the breeze causing the hat to come down and cover her eyes. She gasped and reached up to fix it, but then Sunil pretty much bowled her over, scattering cherries all over the place.

Get your pink shades (Pink shades!)
And move on (Move on!)
Get the pets you love and you're gone!

Minka Mark suddenly jumped down wearing pink sunglasses. She lifted them up and gasped when she saw the cherries. She quickly gobbled them up as Zoe growled as she threw down her hat in frustration and glared after Sunil.

Who are you?
Watcha' wanna do?
There's a Littlest Pet Shop perfect for you!

Russel looked through the glass window and into the store. He could see Mrs. Twombly reading a newspaper behind a cash register.

Who are you?
Watcha' wanna do?
There's a Littlest Pet Shop perfect for you-ou!

Ya feel like stayin' in and relaxing (and relaxing)
All your favorite pets, it's a wi-i-in!

Russel turned to see Madison sitting in a chair next to the small pet door. She was leaning back and snoozing. Russel then got out his clip board and turned to the crates of quiet toys and squeaky toys.

Jump around (Jump around)!
Rock out (Rock out!)!
With Littlest Pet Shop
Scream and shout!

Pepper suddenly dived into the crate of soft, silent toys. Sunil, however, dived into the crate of squeaky toys. The crate tipped over and spilled squeaky toys all over the place. Russel threw down his clip board and shouted out loud in anguish.

So get up (and run!)
Have a ball (a ball!)!
Who ya wanna' be? IT'S YOUR CALL!

Pepper popped out of the other crate and laughed at the expression on Russel's face. She laughed so hard that she fell backwards and out of the crate.

Who are you?
Watcha' wanna do?
There's a Littlest Pet Shop perfect for you!

Sunil stood up and shook the dizziness out of his head. He then marched over to Pepper.

Who are you?
Watcha' wanna do?
There's a Littlest Pet Shop perfect for you-ou!

(End of song)

Pepper stopped laughing when she saw that Sunil was standing over him, looking at her like she was a cobra. Pepper chuckled and held out the photograph. Sunil snatched it and quickly tore it to tiny pieces with his dexterous paws.

"What are you two doing!?" Russel shouted in distress.

"You ruined my hat, Sunil!" Zoe barked angrily as she ran over to them.

Minka followed after Zoe, still munching away on cherries. "Mmm! Your hats are delicious, Zoe!" she chuckled, spraying Zoe with cherry juice.

"Eww! Minka!" Zoe said.

Vinnie stumbled over to the group, being led on by Penny Ling.

"Woah. . .round and round and round. . ." Vinnie slurred as his eyes swirled.

"Oh dear," Penny Ling said as she held Vinnie up with her arm.

Russel raised an eyebrow at Sunil, "What's going on around her anyway?" Russel then saw the pieces of torn up photograph and gasped, "AH! What a mess! Quit littering!"

Sunil's eyes widened, "But I - but she- and I- then we- I just. . ." Sunil spluttered, then he turned to see Pepper fiddling nervously with her tail, as if to keep any foul smells of guilt from squeezing out. Sunil sighed, "Fine, fine, I'm sorry."

Sunil bent down and gathered the scraps of photograph together into a ball. "In fact," Sunil said, then he threw the ball of paper down hard, which caused a huge cloud of smoke. When it cleared, Sunil was wearing his magician's hat and cloak, and he was wielding his magic wand mysteriously.

"I shall put on a 'I'm sorry I sent Penny Ling and Vinnie spinning like crazy and ruined Zoe's hat and knocked over the crate of squeaky toys' magic show!"

Russel sighed as he tossed the last of the squeaky toys into the crate.

"We shoulda taken the train, man," 3DGB muttered.

Krishna led L-zard's crew through the sewers of Downtown City. He turned and hissed at 3D. "I hate complainersssssss."

"Give him a break, K-man!" Skink said, motioning with his lollipop, "Seriously, that turbulence stuff. . .man!"

Lemonface held her stomach as she slowly began to turn into Limeface again, "Oooooh! Don't remind me!"

Krishna hissed, "The cargo hold of that plane wasssss the only way to get here quickly. The next fragment issssss sssssomewhere in thissssss ccccccity."

"So we had to get here ASAP, crew!" L-zard said as he walked backwards behind Krishna, "What a little rocky-road compared to the sweet right in store for us, ya know what I'm saying, yo?!"

The rest of the crew nodded and muttered their acceptance.

Suddenly, Krishna stopped dead in his track. L-zard bumped into him and stumbled. His yellow sun glasses fell off, and he scrambled to pick them up and clean them off.

"What's the hold up, Kris my man?" he asked.

Krishna looked up through a storm drain and tasted the air. Then his tongue stroked the shards around his neck. "We're here," he said, "Up there, nearby, isssss the next sssssshar-" Krishna's eyes widened as the shards around his neck shone with a greater intensity. "No. . .it'ssss the cccccenter pieccccce! Onccccce we have it, it'll be ssssso eassssy to claim the resssst."

Krishna jumped up to the storm drain and hissed back, "Ssssstay down there. I mussst plan thissss out. We mussssst ssssecure the ccccenter piece of the Sssssstar of Dharma!"

"And now!" Sunil declared as he waved his wand. He taped a bowl of water three times and looked into it. "Hmmm. . ." he said, then he smiled and said, "I would like a volunteer from the audience!" Sunil pointed to Pepper, "How about you, miss?"

Pepper looked around nervously, and walked up to the raised stage platform in front of the window where Sunil had his stuff set up.

"Look into the bowl of visions," Sunil said mysteriously, "Tell me. . .what do you see?"

Pepper looked into the bowl and shrugged, "Huh? Nothing really, just my reflect-"

WOOSH!

Pepper was hit in the face by a huge cloud of steam. Everyone else laughed as Pepper stood in shock, moisture dripping down from her soggy facial fur.

"This is-!" Pepper began, but then she stopped and chuckled, "Kinda funny, actually," Then she became angry and shouted, "But this is supposed to be a magic show! It's not supposed to be funny! I'm the comedian, remember!"

Sunil smirked, "Whoa, Pepper, feeling threatened?"

Pepper shot a glare at Sunil and said, "No way! Huh! You're not that good of a magician? Who do you think you are? Harry Houdini?"

Sunil shook his head, "No. . ." then he smiled, "Better!"

Pepper smirked back and said, "Oh yeah? Well Houdini could take a hit to the stomach like nothing. Can you do that?"

Sunil thought for a moment. Then he noticed that all of the other pets were watching. Sweat dripped down his forehead as he chuckled nervously and said, "Oh sure. No problem."

Pepper nodded, "Alright, let me get my rubber chicken."

As Pepper left to get her toy, Vinnie leaned over to Russel, "Psst! Is that true about Houdini?"

Russel nodded, "Yeah. There's a famous story about how Houdini took a punch in the stomach."

"Really? What happened?"

"He died."

"Oh, well that's too bad- WHAT!?"

Vinnie shot up and zoomed straight to Sunil to hug him tight.

"No! Don't do it, Sunil! You're too young to die!" Vinnie shouted while crying slightly.

"Vinnie! Get off me! I'm not gonna die! Cut it out!" Sunil shouted as he tried to push Vinnie off of him.

Pepper walked over and whacked Vinnie in the head with her rubber chicken.

"Ow!" Vinnie shouted as he let Sunil go and rubbed his head, "What was that for?"

"I'm not gonna hurt him, Einstein!" Pepper said, "It's a rubber chicken, not a brass knuckle!"

Vinnie sat down grumpily, "Well, I guess that's alright. Just go easy on him."

Sunil took a deep breath as he stood up straight, his arms at his sides. He made his stomach as tense as possible as Pepper approached him with the rubber chicken.

"On my three!" Sunil said quickly as Pepper drew back the toy. Pepper rolled her eyes and nodded.

Suddenly, there was the sound of bongos. Everyone turned to see Minka in the corner playing the bongos dramatically. She smiled and said, "Oh, don't mind me! I'm just setting the ambiance!"

Sunil closed his eyes and counted as the bongo beat made his heart race, "One. . .two. . .three-."

WHACK!

Mrs. Twombly flipped through the newspaper until she got to an interesting story.

"Hmmm. . .customs officer for a flight from Hollywood to Downtown City found hypnotized in cargo hold. . .when the man was awakened, he had no memory of the last 10 hours. . ." Mrs. Twombly read, "Hmmm. . .I wonder if Mr. Baxter was the pilot during that flight?"

Mrs. Twombly put down her newspaper, and looked at the olive green cobra dangling upside-down in front of her. The cobra's hypnotic eyes bored into her own. He mouth fell open as her glasses fell of her face. Not even her farsightedness could counteract the evil spell. Mrs. Twombly fell back into the chair and stared into space, her eyes glazed over and cloudy.

Krishna hissed with pride as he unwrapped his tail from light above him. He landed with a plop on the counter and slithered over to the pet door. Pushing it open, he hissed long and quiet. That was the signal L-zard's crew was waiting for. Krishan drew his head back in a watched as the lizards quickly scurried in and gathered around Krishna.

"Alright, Kris my man," L-zard said in a whisper, "Where's the piece of ice at?"

Krishna hissed excitedly an pointed towards the Day Camp area. "There. . ." he said.

"Uh. . .Sunil? Hellooooooo!" Pepper said while waving a paw in the mongoose's face.

"Oh dear! What did you do?!" Penny Ling gasped, beginning to panic.

Sunil was standing still, his face turning a little pale with a pained expression on it.

"Maybe we should wake up Madison?" Vinnie suggested, his face turning pale as well as he watched his friend stand in apparent agony.

"NO!" Zoe gasped, "Whatever's wrong with Sunil, that girl would probably make it worse!"

"Ooh! Ooh! Look! He's moving!" Minka shouted while jumping up and down and pointing.

Indeed, Sunil was moving. He was moving his paws to his stomach, although his facial expression didn't change.

"Uh, Sunil? You gonna be alright?" Pepper asked gingerly.

Now Sunil was gently pushing his stomach with his paws. His eyes began to widen a bit as his mouth opened slowly.

"Uh-oh," Russel said.

Vinnie grabbed Russel and shook him, "What? What is it? What's wrong with him? Is it bad? Is it terrible?"

Russel pushed the gecko back and said, "No, no. It's. . .well. . .gross. . ."

And then, as if on cue, Sunil threw up.

Zoe screamed and fainted while everyone else gave a cry of "ewwww!"

But then. . .light!

Everyone stepped back when the object gained a glow that rivaled the stars. Even Zoe overcame her fainting spell to see the magnificent blueish light that had somehow come out of Sunil's stomach.

Sunil fell to his knees, his eyes locked onto the jagged crystal. He had long forgotten about it, and Pepper's prank had caused him to forget about the dream he had received. But now, it was there, right there in front of him. There was no ignoring it any longer.

The other six pets all looked in shock and surprise at the glittering object that stood out against the bile and vomit it rested in.

"Ooooh! Shiny!" Minka said, but then she pulled a wry face and said, "Ew! But still gross!"

Sunil stared in terror at the shinning blue crystal on the ground in front of him. He couldn't bleieve this. One minute he was performing a magic show, the next minute he had been thrown a challenge he was too proud to turn down, and then. . .

Sunil closed his eyes and let out a trembling sigh. This was it. He should've know this day would come. Sunil opened his eyes and picked up the object by the silver chain. The artifact was glowing, apparently burning off the germs and grossness that was forced up along with it. Sunil placed the object around his neck, and then looked at all his friends with a serious expression.

"I. . .have a bit of a story to tell you. . .about this. . ." Sunil held the crystal in his paws and looked at it, "The Star of Dharma. . ."