Gremlins: The Buffalo Team

A Story by Abishai100

A mystical creature gift to a handsome New York couple brings adventure-danger and draws considerations of humbled divinity.

One more short-story alternative to the Super Bowl/NFL fanfiction series, inspired by Gremlins. Thanks for reading,

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Buffalo (New York) is a terrific place to visit for Christmastime, since it offers a very idyllic form of smalltown values driven traffic spirit and a general culture of human colors and magic, and it's all true!

The heart of Buffalo is in its fanfare of the iconic Bills (American football) team, whose successes have brought the continental area great traffic spirits and dreams. In fact, the good folks of Buffalo consider their team to be stellar, and even though there've been old stories of the 'failures' of the Bills or other sports-icons like Fran Tarkenton (Vikings) who never managed to capture a Bowl-title, the team creates local vitality.

Two Algerian-Americans, Amlan and Esmerelda, are Buffalo (NY) movie-theater ushers who're also dating since high-school. They consider their life in Buffalo great and wish to get married and spend their entire life there. Amlan/Esmerelda decide to go to Chinatown (New York) and visit a strange sage-merchant store who 'gifts' them a special 'magic-pet' box which contains a 'mystical creature' of omens called a Gremlin which he says will bring them life-wisdom if they treat the animal-like magical creature rightly. Amlan decides he 'has what it takes' to become the cute Gremlin's caretaker. In fact, Amlan's always been a 'nerdy' animal-lover.

His girlfriend Esmerelda's been a fashion-model working through cyber-photo portals for a New York net-agency called Amerie. Esmerelda's been fascinated with journalism and magazine-culture in modern America since high-school and is therefore, in fact, very happy with the work she's achieved while living in Buffalo (NY) and is truly in love with her boyfriend Amlan, whom she considers a terrific gallant man. She's decided that his decision to bring home the Gremlin is the right one. However, she's wondering if this new 'creature' addition to their Buffalo-life will complicate her contemplation of marriage and normal family life!

AMLAN: Let's take the Gremlin to Whole Foods Market and see if it likes grocery-shopping!
ESMERELDA: That's a cool idea, babe; but let's keep the 'creature' hidden, so no one knows it's our friend only.

Amlan's parents have recently purchased an incredible Buffalo mansion with a glass-piano which Esmerelda likes to play when she visits them ritually. Recently, she's been indulging in playing for their newfound creature-friend, the cute Gremlin. However, Esmerelda has to explain to Amlan that she fears if she plays too much on this 'glass piano' in his parents' new mansion, the Gremlin will somehow oddly/inexplicably become 'haunted' or 'hypnotized' by the vanity-allure of the piano's sounds and somehow 'transform' into a 'creature' of more 'dark' proportions!

AMLAN: Why're you so frightened about the metaphysical rearing of our creature-friend, the Gremlin, babe?
ESMERELDA: I know it's adorable, but I get an odd feeling it's also a 'spirit-messenger' of shrewd guardianship, Amlan.

While walking around the jewelry safe-box corner of his mother's lavish dance-floor area of his parents' new mansion second-floor, Amlan shows his creature-friend, the cute Gremlin, the views outside the window and quickly realizes his girlfriend Esmerelda was perhaps 'right' about the spirit-omen concerning the righteous/ethical guardianship of the Gremlin and to be sure it's not 'tempted' or 'swayed' by the human civilization vanities of luxuries/fineries.

However, such contemplation comes too late, and the Gremlin creature is hypnotized by the window-lights and transforms quickly into a 'dark' form of itself, a hideous and gnarly cannibal midget called a Spike, and Amlan/Esmerelda quickly run to Chinatown (NY) to find the sage-merchant who 'gifted' the original cute Gremlin to them and explains what transformed the creature into the evil midget-troll called Spike. The wise sage-merchant explains they must now burn the evil troll Spike or drown it in a pool/fountain.

AMLAN: We'll hypnotize the evil troll Spike with little toys and draw it towards a fountain and drown it.

ESMERELDA: The toys we use to hypnotize/distract/lure this 'Spike' will have to resemble 'things' of great value!

The plan works beautifully, and Spike is drowned in a Buffalo water-fountain, and Amlan/Esmerelda humbly explain to the Chinatown sage-merchant they've no desire to add 'extra magic' or mystique in their lives with new 'creatures' of 'incantations' and continue to plan their lives of values/marriage in Buffalo and plan a fan-visit to a Bills game during the fun playoffs season in America.