The next morning, Sierra's alarm clock goes off, playing Alejandro by Lady Gaga. Sierra sits up in bed then stretches and yawns as she turns and gets up out of bed, turning down the sound on her alarm clock and making her way to her bathroom and begins to wrestle with her hair. At the same time, Blade climbs out of his place in the case.
What in the world is with that clock of her's?
"Morning Blade," Sierra says, leaning against the bathroom doorway, her hair mostly untangled.
"What's with your clock?" Blade asks.
"It's set to my favorite track by my favorite artist-Alejandro by Lady Gaga. She's an amazing singer and I love her style. No two of her hairstyles are alike," Sierra says.
"Alejandro?" Blade asks.
"Also known as the Fame Monster," Sierra says.
"Odd, I never did get modern day music." Blade mutters as the song continues playing. "When does this song end?"
"When I press snooze, but I love this song so much, I might not." Sierra says.
"Are you trying to torture us?" Blade asks,
Just then Jester jumps out of the case.
"Wow, this music sounds pretty cool. I like it," Jester says.
"Don't entice her Jester," Blade says as Jester walks up beside her.
Jester dives out of the way, avoiding the tank top that lands on Blade. Blade struggles out from underneath the tank top and tosses it to the side and luckily steps aside to avoid a pair of shorts.
"Watch it, you already got me with your tank top." Blade says, picking up the shorts with his hook and tossing them beside the tank top.
"Sorry Blade," Sierra says, slipping on a short maroon tank top then walking over and changing the music to Broken by Seether.
"Now this is more my taste," Blade says.
"Well, I like all kinds of music. Seether is one of my favorite rock bands-besides Green Day and Three Days Grace." Sierra says, slipping on a pair of blue jumpsuit pants.
The other puppets slowly begin to wake.
"I'll be right back, I gotta get my mom up." Sierra says.
She walks out of the room and shuts the door behind her.
"What time is it?" Ms. Leech groans as she and the other puppets walk up to Blade and Jester.
"Juding by the clock a far-about 7 in the morning." Jester says.
"Hm, kinda early for a girl like Sierra," Ms. Leech says.
Jester slips away from Blade and climbs up ont othe bed and walks over to the bedside table with the alarm clock and changes the song.
"Jester," Blade growls, suddenly noticing the song change.
"What, I like this song." Jester says, walking back on the bed and falling back on the bed, his hands behind his head.
"For crying out loud-" Blade says but is suddenly cut off by the opening on the door.
"Alright guys, just hang in for a few minutes and my mom will be gone by 7:30." Sierra says.
"Thank goodness, I'm tired of being stuffed up in this room-no offense." Ms. Leech says.
"No problem, this room does get tiresome." Sierra says.
After a few minutes, Sierra hears the front door open and shut.
"Alright, it's time," Sierra says, getting up off her bed and walking over to her door, the puppets following behind her. "Time for you guys to view the rest of the house."
Sierra opens the door fully and allows the puppets to begin exploring the house.
"You can go in any room but my mom's, I don't want to have to go in there to round you guyus up from her undies drawer." Sierra says, shutting the door behind her once all the puppets have vacated her room.
The puppets walk down the hallway to Sierra's bedroom and soon step into the living room.
"Wow, you got on heck of a house." Jester says, looking room as they continued into the living room.
"I guess, but you guys just enjoy yourselves, but don't break anything. Anything breaks, I'll get the blame and I'm on a clean slate so let's leave it that way." Sierra says.
"Don't worry Sierra, we'll be fine." Ms. Leech says.
"I'm gonna be back in my room for a bit. I have summer school assignment to finish for a Biology Honors class, I'll come back out at noon." Sierra says.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine," Blade says.
"I hope so," Sierra says.
She walks back down the hallway to her room as the puppet began to explore. Shredder Khan took a spot beside the window as a lookout in case anyone came unexpectedly to the house while the others moved about as they pleased. Jester somehow managed to wander into the kitchen.
"Wow, this place is so cool. Feels like I stepped into a Back to the Future movie." Jester says as he looks around the kitchen, walking around the island that sat in the middle of the kitchen.
As he walks by a cupboard, it opens slightly, revealing a yellow eye, which was fixed on Jester. The door quietly opens and then slams closed, causing Jester to jump and turn. But looking around, he saw nothing and just continued on. On the other side of the island however, and yellow eyes being watched Jester as he walked up tothe dining room entrance. Jester was enchanted by the chandelier that hung above the dining room table, so he could not hear the figure sneak up behind him. He soon notices a strange noise coming from behind him, he froze.
"That better be one of you guys," Jester says,
He slowly turns, not seeing anyone at first, until her feels something rub against him. He looks down and takes a breath, finding it was just a kitten tri color kitten.
"Oh, you're just a kitten. I was being silly," Jester says, petting the kitten. "You're the cutest lil' thing I've seen,"
He hears the kitchen door open and looks up, seeing Blade walk in.
"Hey Blade," Jester calls out,
Blade looks over at Jester,
"There you are," Blade says, walking up to Jester. "What's with the cat?"
"The lil' fella snuck up on me," Jester says. "Sierra didn't mention having a pet,"
"Yeah, but let's just get back into the living room, Ms. Leech is freaking out over you going missing like that." Blade says.
"Sorry," Jester chuckles nervously,
"And by the way," Blade says then thumps the side of Jester's head with his hook, "Never wander off like that again,"
"Ow, okay," Jester says, rubbing the side of his head.
Jester follows Blade out of the kitchen, the kitten behind him.
"There you are Jester, curious lil' bugger aren't you?" Six-Shooter says.
"You scared me half to death disappearing like that," Ms. Leech says.
"Sorry," Jester says,
The kitten purrs as he rubs Jester's side,
"And who's this?" Six-Shooter asks.
"He's Sierra's pet kitten, not sure what his name is though." Jester says.
"He's so cute," Ms. Leech says.
The kitten meows lightly then walks over and rubs up on Six-Shooter.
"He is cute, but this is really weird." Six-Shooter says.
"Cats always do that when they like someone," Ms. Leech says.
"And how do you know?" Blade asks.
"I used to have a pet cat before I was a puppet." Ms. Leech says.
Back in Sierra's room, she finishing the last page of her Biology Honors summer assignment and saves it. She gets up and opens the bedroom window to let some fresh air into the room and then steps into her bathroom real quick to splash some water on her face to perk herself up. While doing this, a shadowy creature climbs in through the window and crawls under her bed. Sierra walks back into her room but stops, having that I'm-not-alone feeling in her gut.
"Guys, are you in here?" Sierra calls out. "Blade? Jester?"
With no response, Sierra shrugs it off and turns to walk back into the bathroom but suddenly stops when she hears a hissing snicker. She smirks as she turns around.
"Blade, I know you're in here, I know that snicker all too well." Sierra says, walking over to the bed and getting down on her hands and knees. "You're under here and I know it,"
Sierra reaches under there and pulls her hand back out with a yelp, finding a scratch on the back of her hand.
"Blade, that hurt, you know not to play rough." Sierra says.
When she looks under the bed to grab him, she finds the shadowy yellow eyed creature that had slipped in earlier. She jumps to her feet as the thing charges out from under the bed. the thing turns and dives at her, Sierra dodges it and it flies into the wall behind Sierra. Sierra breaks for the door but the creature quickly tackles her to the ground she struggles with the creature but it was suprisingly stronger than her. She tries to scream but the creature puts it's razor sharp claws to her throat.
"You scream and you throat becomes minced meat." The creature hisses.
"W-who are you?" Sierra says,
"My name does not concern you now human," The creature says, "I've come to take what should be mine."
"What?" Sierra asks.
"The collection," The creature says.
"You're not taking the puppets, they belonged to my ancestor-they're mine now." Sierra says.
The creature chuckled evily as it slowly made a scratch on Sierra's throat. Sierra whimpers,
"You don't know what power those puppets hold." The creature hisses, "Just be smart and surrender them to me,"
"Never," Sierra whispers, "They're my family now,"
"I'm sorry, but that wasn't the answer I wanted." The creature hissed,
Moments earlier in the living room, Jester freezes for a second, as if sensing something.
"Jester, you alright?" Blade asks.
"Something's wrong, I can feel it." Jester says.
'What are you? Some kind of Jedi?" Pinhead says.
"No, it's Sierra. She's in danger," Jester says.
That's when the puppets heard the commotion in Sierra's bedroom.
"That doesn't sound good," Six-Shooter says.
Jester takes off down the hall to Sierra's room, Blade and Six-Shooter following behind.
"Jester, we can't even get in the door. What can we do?" Blade says.
Jester thought about it for a moment.
"Pinhead!" Jester calls out.
Pinhead comes running down the hall and stops behind the three smaller puppets.
"Get me and Blade up to the knob. Six-Shooter, get your guns ready." Jester says.
Pinhead lifts Blade and Jester up to the doorknob, Jester climbs on Blade's shoulders and turns the knob. He pushes the door and the next few second flash by. Six-Shooter lands two shots onthe creature before it came charging at the puppets, Blade and Jester hop down and Pinhead uppercuts the creature. It hisses then take off out the same window it came into and vanishes. Jester and Blade rush over to Sierra.
"Sierra, are you alright?" Jester says, stopping beside Sierra's head.
"Y-yeah, thanks to you guys." Sierra says.
"What the heck was that thing?" Blade asks.
"I-I don't know," Sierra says as she sits up. "It tried to attack me-it wanted me to give you guys to it. I refused and...I would've been dead if you didn't barge in when you did."
"At least you're safe now, that's all that matters." Jester says.
"Yeah," Sierra says.
As she's cleaning herself up and bandaging her wounds, Sierra starts thinking. Maybe all her ancestors had to go through this when they owned the collection. And that's why they passed it onto the next generation so easily. But she wouldn't do that-not to the bit of her father and the Toulon family history she had. If this creature wanted to take the puppets-it would have to fight her for them first.