NOTE: And so this is the epic showdown of Sunil Nevla vs Irene Whitman. Enjoy!

Sunil's heart raced deep inside his chest as he felt the demonic hand grab him by his throat and hoist him up in the air. A creepy female voice spoke to him inside his head, "I can taste the fear in your bones, Nevla. You set her free, didn't you?"

Sunil whimpered as he strugged against her grip, "Why did you hurt her?"

Irene smirked as she gently ran her claws along the terrified mongoose's neck, "Fetuses are strange and beautiful things. So helpless and fragile yet they are the building blocks of life. Baby mongooses are born blind, but you were born with a special sight, Nevla. A mind's eye. You could see things before you were even born. You could see spirits."

"H-h-how do you know m-m-my name a-and how are you t-t-talking to m-me?" Sunil shivered, the fur on the back of his neck standing up.

Irene grinned, "Open your eyes and look at me."

Sunil opened his eyes and before him was a woman in a hospital gown with long, dark hair wearing a mask on her face. The mask was white and had a look of despair on it's face. She spoke to him in a breathy voice, "You see this mask? This mask is my armor, my shell which protects my madness. You have no idea what I am capable of, Nevla. Even with your psychic abilities, you have only begun to scratch the surface of my madness, my insanity. My daughter needs her sister but the experiments were a failure. Kim was no use to me. Tell me, Nevla, what do you see when you look at me?"

Sunil whimpered as a tear trailed down his nose, "Someone who has caused a lot of pain..."

"You are a fool." Irene hissed, a shadowy tentacle creeping out of her dress and wrapping around the mongoose like a vine.

Electricity surged through Sunil as he let out a shriek of distress. It felt as if he were being electrocuted but instead of being burned by heat, it felt like an icy cold burn. Irene let out a growl as she began to poke Sunil repeatedly with her sharp nails, not quite stabbing him but gently scratching him. The mongoose's little heart raced and he began to feel dizzy and sick. It almost felt like his brain was being violated in a ghostly way. Irene's voice echoed in his head, "How does that feel? That's what I felt when my daughter consumed her twin. Do you like this feeling?"

"Please...stop..." Sunil whimpered softly but Irene refused, shadowy tentacles poking repeatedly at his turquoise-furred chest, causing him to vomit.

Irene grinned from behind the mask, "Just like a newborn, crying for it's mother..."

"Why are you hurting me?" Sunil choked out, feeling spiritually drained and weakened from the onslaught of tentacles.

"Because...you poke your psychic nose where it doesn't belong! Remember me? I visited you years ago. The first time you moved to the city. Remember, Nevla?" Irene hissed.

Sunil closed his eyes and remembered back to the day where he and his owners moved to the city and got an apartment. Suddenly, he got a bit of a deja vu feeling and a sickness in his stomach, "No..."

"I wanted to scare you to death back then. That way, you wouldn't be able to help Kim out. You would be dead and out of the picture. I knew you'd meddle in my affairs. Did you really think I'd let you send me to hell?" Irene asked.

Sunil gazed at her with a look of blank shock on his face, "So, you were going to assassinate me?"

Irene chuckled from behind her mask, "You're a smart one, Nevla. I bet your smart enough to know you won't be so lucky this time."

Sunil felt a feeling of dread wash over him, causing his heart to start racing again, "P-p-please don't k-k-kill me..."

Irene laughed from behind her mask, "Scared and vulnerable. Just like a newborn child. That's what makes you so beautiful, Nevla. You're so sensitive, so fragile. I can break your little spirit like a twig."

Sunil whimpered softly as Irene removed her mask. Behind her mask wasn't a face but a head with a wriggling mass of bloody hamster fetuses where the face should have been. All the blood drained from Sunil's face as chills ran through him. It felt as if his entire spirit was being raped and he was literally paralyzed and catatonic from fear.

Irene grabbed the shivering mongoose and started squeezing him. She then pinned the helpless creature to a wall and started punching him repeatedly. Sunil was literally too frozen in fear to fight back. She was about to land a 5th punch when she found herself punching a magic barrier. She turned her deformed face and noticed Kim standing before her, "You leave Sunil alone!"

"Hmph. You always were a useless subject..." Irene growled telepathically in a demonic voice to the hamster.

Kim glared at Irene, "You can mess with me all you want, just don't hurt Sunil."

A shadow tentacle lashed out from Irene's gown and Kim dodged. She then charged at the ghost and tackled her, clawing and biting her but it wasn't long before Kim was overpowered as she was grabbed in Irene's other claw, "Looks like I've got the two of you right where I want you. Before you die, Sunil, I want to ask you something. What was the very first thing you saw in your mind's eye when you were born..."

Sunil's fear had thawed a little by Kim's presence and he squeezed his eyes shut, trying to concentrate on his first psychic vision, "I saw..."

Irene laughed in anticipation, "Yes! Tell me what you saw!"

"I saw...I saw...a cobra." Sunil's eyes snapped open to reveal they were glowing white. The fear in his gut was now replaced by a bloodthirsty rage. Hissing, Sunil leapt at Irene and started clawing and biting at her. He saw her as a cobra now and there was no stopping the bloodlust.

Irene laughed, completely unfazed by Sunil's sudden change, "Just like a toddler, throwing a tantrum. Looks like you'll need a time out, little one."

Sunil snarled as he ripped at her with his claws, "I am not afraid of you, you filthy cobra woman!"

Irene's demonic voice burst into laughter, "Your anger is ridiculous! Do you really think a pipsqueak like you can stop me!?"

"SHUT UP! YOU'RE THE REASON I'M A COWARD IN THE FIRST PLACE! EVERY NIGHT, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, I THINK OF WHAT YOU DID TO ME, YOU MONSTER!" Sunil screamed with scalding hot tears of rage streaming like rivers down his face.

Irene sneered, "Now you know what it feels like to lose something precious, just like me. I lost my daughter, you lost your innocence and peace of mind. Looks like we're about even, huh Nevla?"

Sunil wept angrily, slashing his razor sharp claws at her, "JUST BECAUSE YOU LOST SOMEONE GIVES YOU NO RIGHT TO HURT OTHERS, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

"Crying while attacking me. What an emotional weakling you are. You're just as weak as Ling, such a fragile soul. I must admit, Nevla. You have the most interesting group of friends I've seen, maybe I could go after one of them. Ferguson, so neat, orderly and obsessive-compulsive. Maybe I could drive him insane? Then we have fun little talented artist Mark, maybe I could trap her in a small space for a long period of time just to see what kind of picture she paints afterward."

"Shut up." Sunil snarled, fur standing on end.

"Then there's Terrio, your best buddy who can't dance for his life. Maybe if I break his legs, he'll never dance again! Oh, and let's not forget pop diva Trent who is now on a plane home. There aren't enough plane crashes if you ask me! Maybe I could damage her voice somehow." Irene continued, ignoring Sunil.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Sunil shouted, the hot tears dripping from his muzzle.

Irene couldn't help but laugh a little, "Finally, we have Clark. She thinks she's so funny, cracking jokes and making people laugh Just wait until I-"

Sunil had enough of Irene's ranting, he raised his claws and began slashing at her throat, "YOU TOUCH A SINGLE ONE OF MY FRIENDS AND I WILL COMPLETELY END YOU, IS THAT CLEAR!?" The mongoose sank his fangs into Irene's neck and he tried to rip her throat out, adrenaline rushing through his small, turquoise body.

Irene grabbed Sunil off of her and threw him but he landed on his feet and started rushing at her, claws and fangs retracted as he hissed with pure rage. Irene dodged out of the way and grabbed Sunil with a shadow tentacle that creeped out from under her gown, "Any last words before you're six feet under, you psychic pest?" Irene hissed.

Sunil turned and looked at Kim, "Kim, may I borrow the magic dust please?"

"Of course!" Kim shouted as she tossed the bag to him. Sunil caught it in his paw and turned to face Irene.

"Aren't you going to beg for mercy?" Irene asked in a sinister tone of voice.

Sunil quickly opened the bag and tossed some of the magic dust in the air, "A-Magicka Bee, A-Magicka Boo, a locust JUST FOR YOU!"

Suddenly, the dust turned into a swarm of killer locusts and they were quickly covering Irene, biting her and devouring her flesh. Sunil watched as her ghost now became the form of a skeleton with a fetus floating inside the ribcage. But something was strange, the fetus appeared to be wearing some sort of helmet and controlling the skeleton as if it were a robot. The skeleton took one step and crumbled into dust with the fetus that was Irene's new form levitated in mid air.

Sunil blinked a few times and raised an eyebrow, "That was rather anticlimactic. You sure do not know when to give up, do you, Irene?"

The fetus began to cackle in a squeaky voice, "You have no idea, Nevla."

Sunil couldn't help but chuckle, "Now how am I supposed to take you seriously with that teeny tiny voice?"

"Silence, you psychic crybaby! I will break your will to live, I will-" Irene's sentence was cut off by Sunil putting his magic hat over her and tapping his wand on the hat 3 times.

"Look whose the pipsqueak now, Irene Witless!" Sunil snickered to himself, "Hey, I just made a funny! Kim, would you mind handing me the dust again, I need to seal Irene's soul in the hat. That way, she can never hurt anyone ever again."

Kim nodded and handed Sunil the dust and he threw a handful in the hat as he mumbled some magic words. He continued to mumble magic words as he applied the dust to his body like ointment. His wounds from the battle soon closed up. The hamster smiled at the mongoose, "Are you keeping that hat?"

Sunil shook his head, "I've got many more like it at home. The best thing to do would be throw this one in a bonfire and burn it. That way, Irene is vanquished once and for all."

"Thank you for your help, Sunil." Kim said, wrapping her arms around the blue mongoose as she pulled him into a hug.

Sunil blinked back the sting of tears, "No, thank you. If it wasn't for you, Irene would have killed me."

Kim looked up at Sunil as tears ran down her cheeks from her soft blue eyes, "I'll miss you."

Sunil sniffled, rubbing his eyes with the backs of his paws, "I'll miss you too, Kim."

And with that, Kim gave Sunil a quick kiss on the cheek and slowly faded away. The mongoose watched her fade away as a single tear rolled down his face. Sunil looked at the room around him. The atmosphere was all back to normal and his owners were surprisingly heavy sleepers so they weren't woken up by the epic battle. He glared at his magician hat with a distasteful sneer on his muzzle, "Next thing tomorrow morning, you'll be cooked extra crispy, Irene. I will be making sure of it."

NOTE: This is not the end! Coming up: Hat burning , Zoe comes back from vacation, some talking and a karaoke dance party ending!