Scurry, scurry, scurry. The Red Eye looked up and saw hordes of people running on the street towards the local shelter. Hmm. Let's see who could I kill? There's a mother who's pregnant…an elderly woman…a man on a wheelchair…wait. Isn't that the king's girlfriend?

A security officer was yelling through a speaker, "Everyone, please proceed to the city bunker! Remain calm and organized! Do not panic! Do not panic! Stay away from windows and outside walls. Proceed to…ahh!" Red Eye sneaked form behind and sank his claws into his neck, tearing it in two.

The crowd began to scream and panic. People began to trip over each other and push and shove each other. The Red Eye ran into the crowd and started punching and hitting random people as much as he could.

Then, his eyes turned on Lilia. She began running in the opposite direction. He then got really evil. His teeth and claws sharpened and the adrenaline started pumping through his system. He pounced right on her.

"Get off of me!" she yelled, her back pinned to the street. He snarled at her, and foam and saliva dripped off his fangs. His tongue split in two, with pointy ends. Then, he started scratching her face, and blood started pouring out.

Then, he opened his massive jaw, revealing thousands of blade-like teeth, and he began to close his jaws around her throat as she screamed and whimpered. Suddenly, they both heard someone yell, "Geronimo!"

None of them had time to be surprised when Spiny came jumping from nowhere and pounced on the Red Eye in his dinosaur form. Spiny and the Red Eye rolled for several yards on the street, until Spiny kicked him off, sending him flying right into a metal pole.

Spiny stood in front of Lilia, defensively and yelled, "Hands off of my citizens!"

The Red Eye was now furious and injured, but still evil. He slowly and menacingly began to come closer and closer. "Uh…Larry!"

Spiny was about to slash at him with his claws, when four more Red Eyes appeared behind him. They were all growling and blood dripped off their teeth. From all their other victims. Then, the first one shot lasers from his eyes at the shelter, which was filled with people.

"No, stop!" Spiny yelled in vain.

Out of nowhere, a massive shield appeared and the lasers reflected back at the Red Eye's eye. He screamed in pain and turned with an enraged glare at Spiny. "You can have me, but you can't have my country or my citizens or my family! If you want to kill, kill me but leave everyone else alone! Choose me, not millions of innocent people!"

Then, in voice that sent shivers down Spiny's back, he said, "Oh, Spiny…if only you knew!"

Spiny was now standing over Lilia completely to protect her. "I don't care what personal grudges you have against me or Larry. He never did anything to you or your people! But don't take it out on us, by killing innocent people!"

The Red Eyes all snarled at him and started growing spikes all over and began to slowly grow more claws and teeth. Spiny gulped. "I don't think that convinced them."

Underneath him, Lilia said in pain, "I don't think so."

"It's not just Larry," the Red Eye said in a slow, blood-curling voice. Then, he pinned Spiny on his side, and his hot breath came on his face. "You're stepping on my knee!" Spiny complained. I have to distract him somehow, he thought.

"Why don't you just kill me now and stop mentally torturing me? You're freaking me out!" The Red Eye ignored him, and gripped his throat with his hand. He began to squeeze slowly. Spiny choked out, "Larry!"

He looked down and saw the three others pounce on Lilia. "No, stop! Please! NOOO!" Spiny tried to push the Red Eye off from him, but he was now too weak. He laughed evilly and started squeezing his neck harder. His vision began to blur, and then…

"Spiny."

"What?"

"Spiny?"

"What?"

"Spiny, Spiny, Spiny! Wake up!"

Spiny's eyes opened and he looked around him. He didn't have any injuries and Larry was standing right in front of him. "Huh? What?" He blinked his eyes. No, it couldn't be. Or could it? Am I dreaming? Did I just wake up? Or am I dead?

"Spiny, the Red Eyes are getting closer."

"What?"

"They're in the city limits now."

"Then, you mean to tell me that…did you see the dream that I just had?"

"Yes."

He groaned from disappointment. He had hoped that this was a dream and that he was about wake up again. "Um, Spiny? Lilia's still out there."

His eyes popped open. "What?!"

"And, uh, by coincidence, she's running to the city hall shelter with all those other people."

Huh? He looked at Larry. "Hey, that means…I have another chance! I can do something! Thank goodness for time travel and weird dreams!"

"Divine messages," Larry muttered.

"Yeah, right." And he turned and ran outside and to the same spot on the same street.

Up ahead, the Red Eye was in the air about the pounce Lilia. Spiny jumped as hard as he could and knocked him over in mid-air to the ground all the way to the other side.

"Keep your blood-guilty hands off of her!" He stood in front of her, defensively. "You want to get her? You gotta get rid of me first! And that goes if you want to kill anyone else. You have to get through me first!"

The Red Eye smiled defiantly. He took out his gun and shot a random person dead.

Spiny could feel his anger boiling and his teeth glaring in the sunlight. "All right, you asked for it! Why don't we try something old-fashioned? Let's try hand-to-hand combat. Like the days before our era ended because of the meteorite?"

The Red Eye grinned. "Those days were the best?"

"Yes, that's why we should try it."

"I always loved ripping other creatures' hearts out."

Ignoring that chilling comment, Spiny said, "Why don't we try it? No modern gadgets or weapons. Just teeth and claws."

"I love teeth and claws," the Red Eye growled.

"Yeah, well, you're not going to like this one, baby."

(FROM SPINY'S POINT OF VIEW.)

We both snarled and lunged at each other. It was terrible. The air was filled with snarling, growling, snapping, biting, kicking, scratching. He tore at my back and I bit his hind leg. It was really quite nasty, to be honest.

Then, he did a judo move on me, throwing me back. His mouth opened and…you're not going to believe this, but his teeth—which were already nasty and dangerous—began to spin like little drills. Yep, told you you wouldn't believe it. Or do you?

Never mind.

"Hey, that doesn't count!" I said.

"Who said it counts?" he answered. "I'm a Red Eye!"

I kicked him off. "Well, I'm an Amarkian, and that makes everything count in my favor!" Then he came at with those drill-teeth of his. Now I was fighting a defensive battle. I pushed as hard as I could so that he wouldn't sink those death machines in me.

Then I grabbed his neck in my jaws and started biting down hard. I just had to snap it and it would all be over. It was too bad that he grew an extra arm on his back. When I saw that, I was shocked. I let go of him and he was about to slice my head.

I raised my arm and with my super-sharp claws…I decapitated him. That's right. Chopped his head, right off!

But you know what happened? No, he didn't die. He didn't even collapse. He grew a new head in two seconds! And there he was again, snarling and making threatening noises. Hmm. What would happen if…

Just to see what happened, I sliced his head off again. And yep. He grew another head. "Geez! How many heads have you got in there?!"

"They're not my heads. It's other people's flesh I've eaten being recycled."

"Well, that gives a whole new meaning to word recycle."

Well, I was dead. He had backed into a corner and I couldn't kill him. He raised his hand, with his razor sharp talons and swung at about 200 miles per hour in the direction of my neck.

At the last second, Larry came and knocked him away. Then he looked at me. "Okay, don't ask how I did that."

"How did you do that?"

"With my Spit-Reactor power. I spit and to him it's like a hard punch."

"Well, at least you came on time."

Behind him, the Red Eye slowly got up and started coming up. Boy, was he not giving up! There's no stopping some people. I mean, I've known that Red Eyes are persistent but this was ridiculous!

"I'm not finished with you!" he said.

"Neither am I! That was just a warm-up. Let's dance for real now!" Before I could stop him. He took his razor-sharp claw and slapped Lilia twice, and blood started pouring down from her cheek. She was crying in pain.

Well, that did it! Now I was REALLY mad. "Leave her alone and hurt me instead!"

He came closer until he was inches away. "Don't you get it, Spiny?"

Got what? What the heck was he talking about? But I didn't say anything to reveal my fear. It would've have been the death of me. So I just said, "I don't think you get it! Why do you live this way? We have never done any harm to you, Red Eyes! We never did anything to give you a reason to attack us mercilessly! We never did anything wrong!"

He grinned. "Then that's it then."

You definitely will not believe what happened next.