Dominic opened her eyes feeling something fuzzy at her side. She jumped in surprise startling the werewolf lying next to her. Dominic recognized him as the werewolf of Fever Swamp. "What are doing here?" she questioned. "I just wanted to thank you for freeing us." The wolf stammered. He was obviously very fearful of her. "Oh. Uh your welcome little wolf." She said feeling a bit bad for scaring him. "So are you Grady or are you Will?" "Grady." The werewolf answered. "Then come Grady. Best not to be caught in a dragon's cave unless you are a dragon." She half joked. The young werewolf followed closely behind her. Morningstar landed at the entrance as they walked out. She growled at the site of the werewolf. "Was this cub bothering you?" she asked. "No, its alright." Dominic assured. The sun began to peak over the horizon. Grady groaned as he changed back to the twelve-year-old boy he was. Looking down at his tattered clothes she realized she had forgotten something. "Oh no." Dominic shook her head. "What is it?" Morningstar asked. "I forgot to do something and I have to go back." Dominic stated. Morningstar sensed her hesitation. "Are you worried Slappy might harm you?" she asked. "Slappy couldn't hurt me if he tried. I'm more concerned with everyone else." Dominic admitted. "If he got everyone to rally together that could be trouble." "I wouldn't worry about that. None of us owe him anything and we owe you everything." Morningstar stated. "You mean because I freed you from the manuscript?" Dominic questioned. Morningstar nodded. "Fair enough." Dominic stated picking Grady up and setting him on her back. "Come on Grady, I'll take you back to town."
It didn't take long to get back to town. Dominic was a bit surprised to see that there were still residents out and about. She bowed allowing Grady to slide off before changing back to human form. "Of all the stupid things to forget." Dominic cursed herself. She had forgotten to provide extra close to the humanoid monsters. She quickly fixed that. "Whoa thanks." Grady smiled. "Don't mention it kid." Dominic responded. Having forgotten something so simple made her wonder if she had forgotten anything else so she decided to wonder around Horrorland. As it turns out she had forgotten a few other things and she also got a couple requests mostly witches asking for seeds for special herbs.
"Well, well, well looks who's back." Slappy gave an evil smirk. "Hey Slappy." She greeted nonchalantly. "Why do you have to ruin that for me?" the dummy asked. "Hey it's not my fault your adorable when you try to be evil." Dominic laughed. "I am not adorable." Slappy pouted. "Keep telling yourself that." She laughed spying The Goblet of Fire in his wooden hand. "Wow you're already on year four." "Yeah and I've got to say it's getting surprisingly dark." Slappy commented. Much to his surprise she burst out laughing. "Oh you don't know." She continued to laugh. "Yeah." Slappy looked away awkwardly "I read some of your for dummies book and I've got to say Horrorland?" the dummy questioned as they both began to walk. "Well that's what it was called in the books and what else was I going to call it, Slappy World?" she questioned. "Yes." Slappy replied. The funny thing was he was being completely serious. "Wow I'm not even going to comment on how similar you and Stine are." She laughed. "What's that supposed to mean?" Slappy questioned. "Slappy World is the name of the next Goosebumps series." Dominic informed him. "What are you kidding me? He's still writing?" Slappy demanded. "Well to be fair that is what he does and from what I can tell the new series are mostly about you but that's probably because you are the favorite Goosebumps character." She stated. "The irony of that being I'm one of the more hated among the other monsters." Slappy commented. "I don't know about that." Dominic shrugged as a black cat jumped onto a wall and meowed at her. "Hi Bella." The cat purred as Dominic stroked her. Several other cats appeared one of them a long haired grey cat with a white mark on his ear crept up behind her. "Don't even think about it Rip." Dominic warned flashing her purple eyes at the cat. Rip's hair puffed up and he bolted. The other cats however continued to rub against her. "Well they seem to like you." Slappy commented. "They probably wouldn't be so friendly if they realized that I'm studying to be their worst nightmare." She commented. "I didn't know you could study to be a dog." Slappy chuckled at his own bad joke. "You're hilarious." She rolled her eyes "But I'm talking about a vet." At the word vet every cat bolted. Slappy laughed.
"So, you thinking about sticking around tonight. Maybe we can get dinner." He suggested. Dominic was taken aback by the question. Was he asking her on a date. Stine had mentioned something about Slappy possibly liking her. "Look Slappy as nice as that offer sounds, I do not have a death wish." Dominic stated. "Death wish?" Slappy raised an eyebrow. "You seriously don't know?" she questioned. Man, guys were clueless. "I can think of at least three girls here that would kill me if they even thought I caught your eye." Dominic stated. "I don't know what you're…" "Slappy!" Mary Ellen called cutting him off. "Speak of the devil and she shall appear." Dominic muttered changing positioned to put Slappy between herself and the demented doll. Slappy remembered what she had said when they first met. She was afraid of dolls. "Why you wasting your time with this useless reptile when you could be spending your time with a real woman." Mary Ellen asked giving the girl a hateful look. "He is all yours." Dominic said moving further away but Slappy grabbed her wrist and gave her a look that said 'don't leave me here with her.' He was really going to put her in this situation. "What do you want?" Slappy growled at the doll. "Why Slappy I just wanted to take you out on the town since you are my king." Mary Ellen commented. Even Dominic couldn't help but roll her eyes. "I'm not your anything, you worthless piece of garbage." Slappy spat. "You're going to regret saying that." Mary Ellen said her tone becoming more threatening. "Alright break it up children." Dominic ordered getting a hold on her fear and using her power to force the two apart. "Why you little! Try that again and I'll tear that pretty little face of yours off and feed it to the dogs around this place." Mary Ellen threatened. "You'd be wise to remember that this pretty face is just a disguise dearie." Dominic growled once again revealing her dragon eyes. Mary Ellen took a step back. "That's what I thought." Dominic said walking away with Slappy following behind her. Her heart was beating so hard she wasn't sure how they didn't hear it. "I should probably go." Dominic said as her wings appeared. "Just to be clear I am in charge while you're gone?" Slappy asked. "I'm going to let you and the others work that out but enjoy your book in the meantime." She smiled before taking off. "Well this was going to be interesting." Slappy sighed.