Gremlin Mall: Boston's DNO

A Story by Abishai100

A vignette about holiday-season dreams/nightmares, and a mystical creature which states a cautionary-command 'DNO' ('do-not-occupy').

A vignette inspired by Gremlins (Joe Dante); I loved the way the other turned out on WritersCafe and wanted an extra 'faerie-tale' about New England dreams. Hope you like,

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Boston (New England) is nice and snowy one Christmas-season, and there's a strange 'faerie-tale' afoot, and that's why we're inviting you good folks to consider the 'general wisdom' of caution in this post-9/11 era in Western civilization (United States).

A group of MIT students are composing a special holiday-season spirit 'faerie-mosaic' for cyber-mosaics about mysticism/metaphysics/theosophy to bring the Xmas-shoppers a 'greater' sense of human flair and imaginations.

The group, very hip and smart, are faerie-inquirers who've read the work(s) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) who's been a great 'marketing-IQ' specialist in faerie-mysticism and intellectualism in Europe in the last millennium. The group of smart/young students believe that faerie-IQ is just what Boston shoppers need for a dose of magic-detention.

The students take subway-trains across/around the city with their faerie-dolls and stickers and meet up with an old friend, Amlan Satan, a single-father with an adopted child (a darling girl named Ezzy), who's himself studying mysticism in the Boston area.

AMLAN SATAN: I dunno much about 'faerie-IQ' in New England, but I find your inquiries are 'quite' the Xmas-flavor/colors.

Satan is quite the natural skeptic but is impressed with the students' foray into faerie-mosaics for Xmas-Boston, and his recent divorce has left him much more 'pensive' about the sanctity of consumerism magic and community values consciousness. He and his adopted-daughter (Ezzy) have recently purchased a strange magical (unknown) creature-pet from a Boston Chinatown restaurant (from a sage-merchant) named Magi.

EZZY: Magi the creature is our special pet-darling and we've 'adopted' it and daddy thinks he'll make us a great family!

Magi doesn't talk much, but he's sure impressed the 'hell' out of the MIT students who've suddenly found a 'great' way to add some 'spice' to their faerie-blogs and want to include Magi in their storyboards about discovered shopping-mall creatures/specters but make the error of feeding Magi after midnight while taking care of him, out of the guardianship of Satan/Ezzy.

AMLAN SATAN: Dear God, you fed Magi after 12, and I warned you; Ezzy and I will have to find the way(s) to stop the mutant.

You see, the Chinese sage-merchant who sold/gifted the Magi-creature to Amlan/Ezzy in Boston told them the mystical unknown creature must never ever be fed after 12, and when Satan/Ezzy agreed to 'lend-out' the creature to Amlan's MIT student-pals during their mall-storyboarding, they'd no idea the hapless youth would make the blunder. Amlan procures (swiftly) a strange laser-gun from a tech-store and uses it to find the 'mutant' Magi has transformed into, a troll-like hellraiser named Spike, and hypnotizes the 'dragon' with the laser-line light and draws it to a mall-fountain of water (carefully), while Ezzy dances for him/it.

MALL EXECUTIVE: We'd planned a major movie-media figure visit at our 'iconic' mall and (honestly) didn't want this trauma!

NEW ENGLAND FANZINE: Satan/Ezzy rescue the smalltown and lure 'Spike' into a mall-fountain where it instantly melts.

MIT STUDENTS: Fortunately, the valiant father-daughter [Amlan/Ezzy] managed to end the anarchy of Spike; we'll dance!

Amlan remarried, and now he had a godly mother-figure in his charmed New England household for darling-Ezzy. This was finally a story of 'positive' faerie-tale proportion, and perhaps a major movie-studio would want to adapt this into an important holiday-season story/film idea!