Manny tried to keep up with Andrea's scent best he could. They searched for another whole day but still they couldn't find Andrea. By nightfall it was raining cats and dogs in the woods. Wind was blowing, rain was pouring down, and lightning struck.
"This sucks." T.J said. "We need to find a place to stay for the night."
"Where exactly?" Manny asked. "We're in the middle of the woods ten miles from civilization!"
"Anybody know how to build a makeshift shelter?" Frida asked.
"I got a better idea." T.J said. "Look!"
He pointed toward a light in the distance. They followed it, it was a lantern attached to a local inn.
"What luck." T.J said.
He knocked on the door. It was answered by a woman.
"Goodness me!" She gasped. "Come in out of this wretched rain."
"Thanks." Manny said.
She led them into a room.
"Wait here while I get my husband and my son."
The three teenagers sat in the room, they noticed there were a lot of potted plants in the room. They avocado trees. An hour later a man and a kid returned.
"Hello I am Dr. Chipotle and this is my son Dr. Chipotle Jr."
"Can we get you anything?" His son asked. "Food? Drink?."
"I'm good." Manny said.
"No thanks." Frida said.
"I could eat." T.J said.
"I'll get you something." The father said.
"We also have plenty of hot water for a bath." The mother said.
"I could use a bath." Frida said.
"What about you gentlemen?"
"No thanks." Manny said.
"That depends, will she and I be bathing the same room?"
SMACK!
"Ow!"
"Absolutely not!" Frida declared.
"I'll keep an eye on him." Manny said.
"Follow me young lady."
Frida followed the woman upstairs to the bathroom where a hot bath was started. Dr. Chipotle brought the boys some guacamole."
"Uh thank." T.J said. "But I don't like avocados, do you have anything else."
"Not at the moment. Excuse me but I must now tend to our plants." He then left.
"Call me crazy but something about these people seems off." Manny said.
"Are they demons?"
"No they're human but something doesn't smell right. Hey where are you going?"
"To see if there's anything non avocado to eat in this joint. Wanna help?"
"Sure I guess could eat."
"Okay you go left and I'll go right."
Manny did has T.J suggested. He found the kitchen and began checking the cuboards for food all he found were avocados and jars of guacamole.
"All this guacamole and no chips, what a let down."
He found some chili peppers hanging around and decided to take those.
"Hey T.J I found some peppers. You got any allergies to those?"
He spotted T.J trying to sneak his way up stairs, Manny grabbed him by his shirt collar.
"And just where do you think you're going?"
"I...I...I I was just going to ask Frida if she wanted a little snack."
"Yeah sure you were, brought you some peppers now turn around and keep walking."
"Hmm...Red chili. I'm gonna need some water. Hope they have a fridge."
T.J went to look in the kitchen. While he was gone Manny sat down and began reading some magazines but they were all recipe magazines on how to make dip. After awhile he got bored and began to look around.
"Help!" He heard someone shout. It was faint but Manny's animal hearing allowed him to hear it. It was coming from a door which was locked. He picked it with his claws and opened the door to find a stairway leading down. He went down stairs into a lab. There were vials and testubes filled with a bubbling green liquid. On a desk with newspaper articles.
"Famous Chipotle scientists arrested for illegal experimenting on plants." He read. Manny found another article. "Dr. Chipotle found guilty of illegal experimentation on plants sentenced to three years in prison. Ten year old Dr. Chipotle Jr. found guilty of illegal experimentation on plants and murder sentenced to juvenile prison until age twenty-one. Psychologist suggest psychopathic behavior after learning of his countless murders by feeding humans to his mutated plants. What the hell?"
He found one more article.
"Dr. Chipotle freed from jail after serving three year sentence two days later Dr. Chipolte Jr. escapes juvenile prison at age thirteen. Both disappear from town, Police suspect his father helped him escape. Oh my God! T.J! Frida! We gotta get out of here!"
"Hello? Is someone there?" A voice called. "Help me! Don't leave me here!"
Manny followed the voice to a locked steel door. Manny picked the lock and found a man chained up to a wall.
"Oh thank God! Praise heaven!" He shouted. "Help me! Please help me!"
"Who are you?"
"I'm Mr. Monadavaries. This was my inn, my wife and I worked here but then about a month ago those two maniacs came here with their evil plants and experiments. They planted these mutated avocado trees and made guacamole that makes anyone who consumes it their slaves! They forced my wife to eat it but I had an extreme allergy to avocados so they keep me chained up and force me to tend to those damn trees! If I refuse they'll feed me and my wife to their monster!"
"What monster?"
"They're building a monster out of that mutated guacamole but it needs human flesh and blood to thrive. So they lure travelers here and feed them to it. For weeks I've watched innocent people be eaten alive by that monster of theirs and it's the most horrific thing I've ever seen! They're insane! They're inhuman! You gotta help us! Please!"
"Okay I'm gonna get you out of here. Hold on." He freed him with his claws. "Okay now find your wife and get out of here."
"God bless you!"
He raced upstairs and was gone. Suddenly Manny felt something hit hard him in the back of the head which knocked him out.
...
"Ah, nothing like a hot bath to make you feel like a new woman." Frida said. She stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and went into the guest room where she was staying. "Hey where are my clothes? And my bag? I left them right here."
She looked around the room but they were gone.
"T.J!" She groaned. "If this is an attempt to see me naked you've got another thing coming! Give me back my clothes!"
No response.
"T.J? Manny? Guys?" Still no answer. "Something's wrong. I better find them but I can't go out like this."
She searched the guest room for any type of clothing but all she found were shears, pins, thread, needles, rope, some old bills, and a used tooth brush.
"Well if I can't find clothes I guess I'll have to make some." Her grandmother had taught her how to sew a little bit so she could pull it off. The sheets on the guest bed were white but not see through so they would do. She pulled the sheets off the bed cut and snipped some parts off with the shears. Stitched up a few ends with the needle and thread, and tied and pinned two ends over her shoulder to hold it up. It sort of looked like a dress.
"Not designer but it will do." She said.
She left the room and began searching for T.J and Manny. She noticed that it was very quiet, too quiet and if she remembered every horror movie she had seen correctly whenever it was too quiet it meant something bad was about to happen. She heard footsteps and hid in a closet.
"Where is she?" It sounded like Dr. Chipolte.
"I don't know. She wasn't in the bathroom or the guest room." It sounded like his son.
"My monster will be very displeased."
"Wait! I got her bag!"
"Yeah but all she had is her clothes, some snacks, and a bow and arrows nothing useful for the monster. Find her!"
When they were gone Frida tiptoed back to the guest room and grabbed the shears. She then carefully and quietly began searching for her friends. When Manny woke up he was chained to the wall in his human form with no shirt or shoes just his jeans which were slightly tattered.
"Oh my head." He groaned. "Wha...What happened?"
"So you're awake."
He looked to see Dr. Chipotle Jr. standing in front of him.
"What did he tell you?"
"Who?"
"Mr. Manadavaries, how much did he tell you?"
"Enough to know that you're a deranged psychopath."
"I am not a psychopath! I'm a genius!"
"You feed humans to a monster! It's disgusting, inhuman, and evil!"
"So are clowns but for some reason they're still popular."
"Well I'm gonna mess you up big time." He tried to transform but nothing. "Huh? What's going on? What did you do to me?"
"I figured you were a halfbreed so while you were unconscious I injected you with a very special drug that keeps you human for at least eight hours."
"Oh shit."
"I see you went through my newspapers. You may think that I'm a monster but you're wrong mankind are the monsters. You see I was born an extraordinary intelligent and cultured child which impressed adults but not so much children. No one wanted to be my friend, they all just made fun of me so I decided to make my own friends. My father was a scientist working on an experiment to make vegetables last longer but it got mixed with some human blood samples giving them human personality. That's when he and I began our experiments to make humans out of guacamole unfortunately they never lasted more then a day until one day I had dropped a beaker and cut my finger on the broken glass. My monster craved my blood and that's when I learned it need human blood and flesh to survive. So I began my feeding it people who wronged me, my first victim was my principle who expelled me for trying to blow up Jose Martinez."
"Dude you are totally psychotic!"
"I am not! Anyway eventually the law caught up with father and me so we-"
"I know the rest man I read the paper."
"Then I guess you know what happens next."
"What?"
"Well while you were out I examined you to see if you were in good health. I can't feed sick people to my monster and I found you were more than just healthy, you're strong and powerful perfect for my monster."
"Oh great! I'm gonna be food."
Dr. Chipolte Jr. threw a bag and a book on the floor. Manny recognized them as Frida's bag and T.J's book.
"T.J! Frida! Where are they? Where are my friends?"
"The other boy we'll serve as a slave for my trees that is if I get him to eat my guacamole, as for the girl well she's such a young and pretty thing. It's been so long since my monster has had a sweet dessert with his meal."
Anger seethed through Manny's veins. He began trying to lunged for him but the chains held him back.
"Where's Frida?! What did you do to her?!"
"My aren't we angry, why the concern over one girl?"
"Where's Frida?! If you've harmed so much as one hair on her head I'll kill you! Do you hear me?! I'll kill you!"
"Oh now I see. The look in your in eyes says it all, you're in love with that girl. How touching, maybe I let you see her body one last time before I feed it to my monster."
"You filithy son of bitch!" Manny punched him right across his face making his nose bleed. The pyschotic boy almost looked afraid when he saw Manny jerking and trying charge toward him like some wild animal. Then the chains broke and part of it hit Dr. Chipotle Jr. in the face knocking him out. Manny panted hard for a couple if seconds before going back upstairs.
"What on earth was that?" Frida thought when she heard a loud boom from the basement. She heard the sound of someone running upstairs. She gripped the shears nervously but to her relief it was Manny.
"Frida!"
"Manny?"
"You're alive." He breathed. "Are you alright? Did he touch you? Did he hurt you? If he did he's a dead man!"
"No I'm fine and who are you talking about?"
"Not important I'm just glad you're okay and why are you wearing a bedsheet?"
"Why are you just wearing pants?"
"Touché. Look we gotta get out of here. Where's T.J?
"I don't know."
"I'm over here!"
They went to kitchen and found T.J tied to a chair.
"What happened to you?" Manny asked.
"That doctor and his creepy son jumped me and tied me to this chair where they tried to force feed me guacamole."
"Did you eat any?" Manny asked.
"No I just spit it in their faces."
They untied him.
"Let's get out of here!"
"Wait my book!"
"I got it and Frida's bag now let's go!"
They ran out of the inn and didn't stop til they were far from it.
"Phew! And I thought the bates motel was a scary place to stay." Manny panted. "Here are your clothes Frida."
"Thanks, I'm gonna go change."
"Let me help you." T.J said.
"Oh no you don't." Manny said.