Felix

Nickelodeon couldn't be too much worse than Disney.

Gods, was he wrong.

While he was sure that the cartoon-themed amusement park was filled during the day, at night it was like a ghost town. Moonlight streaking through the skylights, giving the metal a sickening blue-green hue. Looking around, the empty rides based on shows both past and present loomed over them. No wonder this places wasn't open late.

"I hate what they did to the place..." Aria frowned as the walked in.

Felix looked at her, "You've been here before?"

Aria shrugged, "I was eight, my dad had a concert in town and took me here as a treat. It was Camp Snoopy back then. I didn't go into the mall, instead my dad and I spent the days on the rides." She nodded at the large roller coaster, "Back then, that was the Pepsi Ripshaw. There was also much less branding..." Felix could see what she meant, practically each ride was based on some cartoon.

AJ caught up, his sica giving off a faint iridescent glow, "I hate to cut the fond memories short, but how do we plan on killing a monster that can't be caught?"

Felix looked to him, "Well, there in lies the answer, we don't catch it. We let the fox kill itself."

Both Aria and AJ gave him flat look, as if he just said that the sky was made of poker chips.

"Trust me...I have a plan."

"You realize that you have to be a trained operator to use the roller coaster?" Aria called up from the bumper cars to the demigod of luck who was fiddling with the controls to the Pepsi Orange Streak.

Felix shrugged as managed to get the controls to come to life, "I'm not operating it per se...think of it more like I'm putting it in neutral." He pressed a button causing the coaster train to lurch alive. He then turned to the other corner of the park and called out, "We're all ready down here!"

AJ

The words echoed through the park and reached the Log Chute where AJ was waiting. While Felix had been setting up AJ had used his enhanced speed to scout the park and found the fox sleeping in the place closest resembling a fox's natural habitat, the log flume ride.

Hearing the call, AJ stood up and chucked his Sica at the sleeping vulpine's maroon fur.

Almost as if he was expecting the flying blade, the Teumessian Fox's eye shot open and the fox bolted off, narrowly missing the sica as it richoqueted off the faux rocks and flew back to his hand. Grasping his hand around it, AJ was already giving chase, sliding down the long downwards ramp that was drained of water for the night. Behind him was a trail of a fading rainbow as AJ leaped of the ramp and hit the ground running after the fox. On his way, AJ focused on green paths that ran through the park. His mother had told him that he'd know the right color when the time came, and now he understood what she meant. The paths began to change colors, steering the fox in the right direction. When ever the fox attempted to stray from the path, a bronze playing card would strike the ground next to the Teumessian Fox, making it return to the original path. AJ didn't have to look to know that Felix had taken some high ground and helping him.

Before his scouting, Felix had told him to force the fox towards the lowest part of the roller coaster. If anyone else had said that, AJ would've questioned why, but Felix's cocky half smile had convinced him to trust him.

Then again, that was the same smile that convinced me to join the Stolls on their pranks...sure, they went according to plan, but we didn't get away scot-free. AJ hung a sharp left with the Fox slowly getting away FOCUS AJ! Quit thinking about Felix's smile!

High stepping it, AJ whizzed past the closed grates that Aria had been put in charge of closing. The last thing they needed was to chase a a wild fox through the rest of the mall.

AJ could see the low part of the coaster track nearing. Pressing on, he begged that Felix's plan worked.

As they neared the roller coaster, AJ watched as the Fox took off aiming to go over the rails. AJ could swear that the fox turned and gave him a sly, devilish smile. Of course, he didn't time to take a second look, as the roller coaster train plowed into the fox, causing a massive explosion of glittering gold sand. Skittering to a stop, AJ put up an arm to keep from getting fox in his face.

Looking up, he saw what looked like a boa floating down from the explosion. It took him a moment to realize that it wasn't a feather boa, but the fox's tail.

"I don't believe it..." AJ said in shock, "Felix out-foxed the craftiest fox that ever lived."

Aria ran to join him, "Please stop saying 'fox'. From a distance, it sounds like you have the mouth of a sailor."

Well, this took far longer than I wanted to write. I was overthinking the slaying of the Teumessian Fox, with plans of BBQ sauce, bumper cars, and souviners, but Prof. Draco pointed out that the simplest option was the best option.