As the sun sunk down into the sea, Chloe waited with Ramone for an uninvited guest at the Dainty Danish bakery. They had cleaned it up and left Strudel Svend and his wife to batten down the hatches before Vinnie the Eel arrived. Most of the passersby had returned to their houses, not wanting to designate themselves for the next attack.

Chloe tapped her foot anxiously. "Where is this eely creep anyway?"

"Well," Rosemary scoffed. "A demon like myself is always fashionably late. But then again, I've always been very fashionable in general!"

Ramone shivered, clutching the baker's sharpest cooking knife. It trembled in his hands, and Chloe prayed he wouldn't drop it on his hooves. "I...gotta...be brave..." He muttered. "This is my post fashion show snack shop after all!"

"Don't worry!" Chloe smiled. "When he sees how tough I am, he'll probably save you for last!"

"That doesn't make me feel any better!" Ramone yelled.

Suddenly, the satyr stopped. He turned whiter than a freshly fallen sheet of snow. "M-m-my queen!"

He raised a hoof and Chloe turned around. An extra tall figure slipped out of the darkness. He was wearing a hooded robe and emerged from the shadows as soon as the sun went down, robbing everyone of plain sight.

"Hey!" Chloe shouted. "Are you that eely guy?"

The man in the hood chuckled. "Eh, whatsit to ya, toots?" he said in a deep voice. "Got a bone to pick with me?"

"Actually," Chloe shouted. "We have a scone to pick with you. Hands off this bakery and its owners! They didn't do anything to you."

"Of course, love," Vinnie said, rubbing his hands together. "They did nothing to me. But I'll still have to visit them and claim them souls!"

"Don't kill them, you uncouth hoodlum!" Ramone managed to force out of his trembling mouth.

"Kill dem?" Vinne asked, "Why I won't do any such ting. You got the wrong idea, satyr snot! I'm not gonna kill dem I'm gonna make dem better so I can be in good graces of my master!"

He reached in his pocket and raised a oil-black demollusk shell. "Dey will simply become one of ussss!"

"The demollusks are spreading like a plague!" Rosemary said. "I never would have expected Fiemond to mobilize so quickly!"

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Chloe nodded and she made a fist. "Too bad, eely mouth. You'll have to go through us first."

"Wit pleasure!" he said. "I know it's ungentlemanly to hurt a lady, but you are a little girl right now!"

Chloe merely laughed. "Imagine when this little girl whips your eely tail."

Rosemary's energy surged in her legs and she lunged forward. Vinnie stood still like his feet were encased in blocks of steel, but he rose his hands. They were suprisingly human like. Chloe dashed as fast as she could, getting ready to punch him in the kisser. But right before her eyes, his hands transformed. They morphed into the yellow and green beaks of electric eels. Together, his eel hands spat forth cracks of bright green electricity, surging forward at Chloe. She leapt aside, rolling out of the way, but just barely.

"Ya better watch out, sister!" he bragged, "these are 1000 Killa-Watt-Eels and they will toast you quicker than a tuna surprise!"

Chloe painted hard, sweat trickling off her brow and she stared her foe down.

"And don't even think about touching me either!" the Gangster of the Sea guffawed. "When I'm all charged up, I'll fry you like a flounder!"

This is gonna be tough, Chloe thought to herself. There's no way I can even lay a hit on him…"

"Ooh!" Vinnie giggled. "You feel that? I feel another charge coming on. Hopefully, this one will toast ya good!"

"Get out of the way," Rosemary cried. "Unless you want us both to go up in smoke!"

Chloe looked around and panicked. Ramone cried out, "Help mee, Annabell! Oh dear, I don't want him to toast my tootsies too."

Chloe charged up her arms and legs with veiny, purple demonic strength and grabbed Ramone. "Ooh hoo hoo!" he whimpered like a frightened sheep. She leapt onto the bakery with her dear friend in tow. The electricity narrowly missed hitting them as Vinnie charged up again.

Up on top of the roof, a weather vane spun in the shape of a rooster. A narrow pole stuck out the top of it.

"Wait a second," Ramone said, catching his breath and pointing at the vane. "My queen, do you know what this is?"

"Tacky?" Chloe answered, deadpan.

"No...a lightning rod! My dearest queen, while he's charging, pick it up and throw it as hard as you can at him!"

Chloe thought for a second and grinned mischievously. "You may suck at fighting, Rammy. But you sure are smart!"

"That's what Goatre Dame college did for me!" Ramone said pointing to his head

Chloe ripped the vane off the house and watched carefully as Vinnie's 1000 Killa-Watt-Eels charged up. She threw it as hard as she could. It spun so hard through the air that it pinned his hood right back. Chloe and Ramone gasped over his visage. It was a handsome man with spikey yellow hair and green highlights, much like his eels. He was hardly the mutated Demollusk that Chloe expected.

He let out a roar as the lightning rod redirected the electricity right back at him, causing his hair to stand straight up.

With a smoking, sizzling sound, he lay slumped with his head down. Chloe left Ramone on the roof and leapt down, walking towards him.

"Hey…" Chloe said, a confident smirk on her face. "I've got something I need to ask ya, eely mouth! I like your methods, but you work for a really terrible guy. How about a change in employer…?"

Vinnie the Eel merely grunted. He lifted his head for a second, and faster than a bolt of lightning dashed he seized Chloe by the throat. "No can do, babycheeks," he said. "I don't get to keep my pretty face and my soul otherwise! I hate to do this to a girl who may grow up to be fine, young lady, but you're gonna perish right now!"

Chloe gagged as his gloved fingers tightened around her neck. There was nothing she could do.