A chilling sensation coursed through Mina's whole body seeing the street punk who had put her first boyfriend, Chad to death. So much trauma and sadness came flooding back into her mind. But not only that, fear and terror. What was this monster doing here so many years later and in the catacombs of Raven's basement no less?

Mina shuddered, paling in the darkness. "This is something out of a super mega ultra nightmare. How are you here?!"

Hot Dog Johnny lifted his switchblade and spun it in his hand with enough skill to avoid severing his fingers.

"I work for da boss! And I don't think I got dis job through nepotism…because I did!"

He thrusted the razor in her face, stopping a few small inches away from her nose. Mina was still surprised that he had no reaction to her identity. Didn't he know?

"D…don't you know who I am?!" she squeaked like a mouse not ready to be stamped out of existence.

Hot Dog Johnny put his finger to his pointy chin. "A broad? Maybs a good lookin' one, but you basic broads are a penny a million!"

He scoffed. "Think I'm gonna remember you. Ya must be jokin'"

Mina was silent. For once, her lackadaisical demeanor changed to something stormy. "You killed my boyfriend…"

Johnny gave a cold chuckle. "So whats. I kill a lotta people. I'm the Aura's certified razor boy. My dad calls me a problem child, but he's got no problem wit me carrying out his dirty deeds!"

Mina balled up her fists, not even caring that he was one stab away from her face. There was a hurricane brewing in her eyes from his disgusting words. "Whoever raised you must be a heap of manure for raising such a dirt bag like you!

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"Aw geez," Hot Dog Johnny said, his face turning pink in the dim lamplight. "I'm blushing but don't think that's gonna stop me from putting you broads eight feet under. I'll even go the extra foot and make it nine feet!"

He drew his razor back, ready to thrust it into her face for real.

Between the sharp knife and his needle toothed grin, he resembled an angel of death. Or perhaps a devil of death. Tears dripped from Mina's eyes, but at least she knew she'd be reunited with Chad and Blind. She'd have two very handsome boys to keep her company in the afterlife.

"Prepare to…" Johnny screamed. "Kumquat?"

Mina felt a liquid spray into her face.

Was it her own blood? She didn't feel anything, but when she opened her eyes she realized why the killer randomly said a fruit.

Trudy held a kumquat in between Mina's face and the blade. She puffed out her cheeks and scolded Hot Dog Johnny. "Knives are for cutting fruit. Not people!"

"Trudy!" Mina and Winona exclaimed in joy. "Where'd you get that?"

Trudy gave a wide dimply smile. "I told my mummy I was going on a top secret mission and she packed me a kumquat for extra vitamin C!"

Then Winona stood up and towered over Johnny. Her lanky frame was quite skeletal like a reaper. She picked him up by the scruff of his leather jacket. "Say hi to Satan for me!" she said sweetly as she chucked him into the watery sewage in the ravine. He screamed loudly without even getting a word in edgewise.

Catching their breath, Mina smiled through her tears. "I can't believe I'm gonna say this. But thank Kumquats…and Satan."

Her friends hugged her as she began to sob. "I can't believe that monster still exists."

"Well…not anymore…probably," Winona said wryly.

Mina finally had time to process the truth. "But his daddy runs the Aura?"

"Sounds like it," Trudy answered.

Mina grimaced, her body shook with fury. "That's it," she said. "I'm not just gonna save Raven. I am going to put the Aura out of commission once and for all. For Chad. For Chad and me and anyone else they have ever wronged."

She raised her fist in the air and invisible flames in her brown eyes. "Their reign ends with me!"