Chapter 3: Home Sweet Home. (Yeah, right)

Zatch could hardly sleep. All that he could think about was Brago. If he was truly was evil, or hated every human in Humanville, then why did he save Zatch? Was it because Brago found out that Zatch was a Mamodo like him, or was it that, maybe Brago's not so bad after all?

Either way, Zatch couldn't get to sleep. He got out of his bed, being very quiet so he wouldn't wake up Kiyo, and walked over to the window and looked out to see Mount Crumpet. What could the Dark Mamodo be doing right now up there?

Inside Mount Crumpet.

Brago kicked the front door to his cave open and walked inside, with Gofure following him in. Gofure ran over to his dog house and began to play with his chew toys. Brago, however, wants to have a little fun in his lair.

He placed his bag of hazardous waste onto what looks like a giant shovel. He looked out and saw a giant picture of Mayor Z. Brago snickered as he pulled a lever next to the giant shovel, which was really a catapult, which sent the bag of hazardous waste flying and hitting the picture of Mayor Z right in the face.

"Ooooohhhh! Bulls eye!" Brago spoke out in weird way. The bulls eye caused a reaction which light a bunch of weird looking machines throughout than just a cave. Brago's lair in Mount Crumpet looks like a giant cavern like lair, which looked like an entire town can live in here. Brago gibbered a little tune until he looked out at his gigantic lair, with giant machines making deep noises. "There's no place like hhhhhooooooooooommmmmmmmeeeeeeeee."

Brago smirked as he walked down some rusty stairs. "You see, Gofure. I don't know why we do it. Those humans become harder and harder to scare every year, but we try our worse, and that's what matters. Well, I sure scared the crap out of that brat back at the post office. He'll be scarred for life if we're lucky." the dark Mamodo spoke and Gofure barked in response.

Changed out of his dirty cloak and into a black shirt with rib cage bones around the side. He laid his cape and boots on a table, which only left him with his shirt, pants, and black socks and walked over to a machine. He pulled a small screen over his chest and turned the machine on. The screen flashed and it showed his small heart pumping blood. Brago smirked and yelled out in triumph. "YES! All the way down the gutter! And next time, I'll keep it off." Brago called out as his smirk reduced to a frown.

The dark Mamodo ran over to his bed, which was next to his big chair and hopped onto his bed. "I wonder if I have any new messages?" Brago asked himself as he pushed a button on a rusty old cell phone he has with him.

"You have no new messages." the cell phone spoke to Brago and he frowned again.

"Weird. I better check the outgoing." then he pressed another button on his cell phone and his voice spoke up on it.

"If you so dare mutter one syllable or a single letter, I'LL HUNT YOU ALL DOWN AND KILL YOU, MURDER YOU, DESTROY YOU, SLAUGHTER YOU, AND EAT YOUR CARCASS AND LEAVE YOUR REMAINS FOR THE BUZZERS! Leave a message after the beep. If you like to fax me, press the star key. Beeeeeeeeppppp!" Brago's voice spoke, even saying the 'beep' part with his own voice.

"Well, that's a lot better than I would've expected." Brago spoke. It sounded like he was speaking sarcastic, but he was really serious.

He jumped out of his bed, grabbed an alligator he had inside his refrigerator, and sat down on his arm chair. He took a piece off of the alligator he had on his lap and ate it. Then he turns and looks at all of you readers and says "You know what? I always thought that echoes have a mind of their own." the he looks up at the ceiling of his lair and called out "Hello!"

"Hello!" an echo came up.

"How are you?"

"How are you?"

"I asked you first"

"I asked you first"

"Oh yeah, that's really mature of you, saying exactly what I say!" Brago called out, getting annoyed by the echo now.

"Oh yeah, that's really mature of you, saying exactly what I say!"

Brago came up with a way for the echo to make a fool of itself. "I'm an idiot!"

"You're an idiot!"

The echo was the one that made Brago make a fool of himself. Than Brago was now mad began to whisper harshly. "All right! Have it your way! But remember, I'm not gonna talk to you anymore! In fact, I'm gonna whisper, so that the time that my voice vibrates off the walls and gets back to me, I won't be able to hear it!" he whispered harshly and then smirks, thinking that he just outsmarted the echoes, but it's in fact the echoes who outsmarted Brago.

"You're an idiot!"

"Where the hell's that echo coming from!" he shouted out all pissed off. A few minutes later, he gave and decided to cool himself off with more alligator and some T.V.

He picked up his remote and turned on the big screen television in front of him and began to flip through the channels. Gofure showed up from nowhere and hopped onto the arm chair and laid next to Brago.

"How many times do I have to tell you, dog? Get off." the dark Mamodo spoke with some pieces of alligator in his mouth. But Gofue wouldn't listen and snuggled next to his master. "Don't make me bring hurt on you. 1... 2... 2 ½ ..." then Gofure whimpered as he hopped off the arm chair, and then let out a small bark. "No, we're not watching a movie." Brago responded to Gofure's bark and continued to flip through the channels until he came to cartoon network and it was a showing a show that was called 'Zatch Bell'

Brago thought it would be good, but instead, it only showed stupid sock puppets of the Zatch Bell cast. Heck, they even showed a stupid humiliating sock puppet version of himself along with some sock puppet version of some blond hair woman with him. Then some piece of trash hit the sock puppet version of Brago, which tore its head off.

Both Brago and Gofure were staring at the television with big eyes and opened mouths that just go all the way to the floor. "That tears it, we're seeing a movie!" Brago shouted as he ran to his DVD collection and popped in the Matrix Trilogy.