"Are you sure this is the right way, Suzy?"

"Of course, Lindsey, it's right around the corner."

"You've been saying that for the last three corners." Lindsey replied, exasperatedly. The two middle-school-aged girls had been wandering around town for hours, or at least it seemed that was to Lindsey. "I told my mom I'd be home by suppertime. It's nearly four o'clock now! I'm not even supposed to go downtown alone!"

Earlier that day, Suzy had stopped by her best friend's house and told her all about a new shop that had just opened in town She'd seen it while going to a movie with her mom, but her mother hadn't let her go in. Thus, the reason the two girls were now back looking for the shop Suzy had seen. Assuming it was really there.

"It was between the old second hand shop and Mrs. Wilson's bakery." Suzy said. She scrunched up her face, thinking hard. "I think that's where I saw it…  

"There's no's shop between them." Lindsey said. "Let's just head home…" she stopped as they crossed the street in front of Mrs. Wilson's bakery, the sweet smell of fresh baked bread and cookies assailing their nostrils. Sure enough, there was a shop between it and the old pawn shop. Lindsey frowned.

Oddly enough, she couldn't remember there ever being a shop there. It was a small, cramped looking emporium, crammed between the two larger buildings. The other people on the street walked past it without paying the shop the slightest attention. Only the two girls even seemed to notice it.

"Well come on!" Suzy said, reaching for the door. "Let's go inside!" She opened the door and the two girls stepped inside. Both girls' eyes widened with curios surprise as they surveyed the shelves that filled the cramped store, overflowing with wares.

On one shelf, there was a shining gold oil lamp that doubtless contained a powerful genie waiting to serve the first person to rub his lamp. Next to it was a sparking diamond on a chain that might have been stolen from the wall of a temple hidden in the jungles of India. In any other store, Lindsey might have thought all of it rather silly, but here, she could believe anything.

"Ooh, customers!" A woman said, stepping around one of the shelves. The two girls stared. The owner of the store was as odd as her merchandise. She wasn't much taller than the two girls and probably not much older than them either.

The older girl was dressed in a bright red devils costume, complete with red horns and tiny red wings that flapped slowly as she moved around. As she walked over to the two dumbstruck girls, Lindsey noticed she had a forked tail and pointed shoes.  

"And what can I do for you two, today?" She said, smiling. Lindsey swallowed. The girl had yellow eyes!

"Oh, we're just looking around…" Lindsey said hesitantly. "Miss…

"Lilim. You can call me Lilim." The shopkeeper said, smiling.

Lindsey frowned. She was sure she'd heard that name before, but she couldn't recall where.  

"So, just looking?" Lilim said. "In that can, you might be interested in these…" she gestured back deeper into the shop. She turned, the two girls following her. Lindsey frowned as they squeezed past more shelves overflowing with fantastic items. The shop didn't look nearly this big from the outside…
"Here we are…" Lilim said, gesturing to a shelf. Lindsey stared. The shelf was full of tiny dolls. Each doll was of a different girl, though all of them wore their hair in pigtails. All of them had been made with stunning realism that took Lindsey's breath away.

While Lindsey was examining the figures, Lilim leaned over to Suzy. "I see these don't interest you."

"Lindsey's the one who collects dolls." Suzy replied.

"Well, if you must know, I keep all the really good stuff in the back. Would you like to see?" Lilim said, mischievously.

"Sure!" Suzy said, excitedly. If this stuff was considered average, she couldn't wait to see what the shopkeeper considered upper shelf. She followed Lilim further into the shop, through a curtain. In a corner, between a large suit of armor that might have been worn by King Arthur and a giant, speckled green egg, was a large, wooden treasure chest with brass hinges and a large brass lock.

"Go ahead," Lilim said. "Try and open it. If you can, you can have whatever is inside. "

Eagerly, Suzy rushed forward and tore open the lid of the chest. To her surprise, the chest was filled, not with treasure, but with rope! Before she could say anything, the rope shot out of the chest. In seconds, Suzy found herself tightly bound. Rope wrapped around her chest, pinning the girl's arms to her sides. As more rope coiled itself around her legs, Suzy lost her balance and fell to the ground. When she tried to open her mouth to scream, another coil of rope slipped between her teeth before wrapping itself around her head, gagging the poor girl.

With their prey secured, the magical rope began dragging the squirming, struggling girl towards the open chest, which had suddenly grown enormous teeth. Suzy screamed into her gag as the chest's mouth opened wide to eat her whole.

Before it could, Lilim walked over and casually kicked the chest. The lid slammed shut, cutting the ropes. Before it could open again, Lilim produced a large brass padlock and slipped it on the chest, locking it closed. Meanwhile, Suzy squirmed around on the floor, trying to get free. To her disappointment, she found her bonds were no looser than before. Her eyes widened with fear as Lilim pulled out a very large bag and walked towards her, a huge grin on her face…

***

Back in the front of the shop, Lindsey glanced over her shoulder. She thought she'd heard a loud thump coming from the back of the store. She sighed. It sounded like Suzy had dropped something. Her friend was such a klutz sometimes. Hopefully, whatever she'd broken wasn't expensive…

Lindsey stepped away from the shelf of figures, looking around for the shopkeeper, Lilim. She'd found two dolls that were just perfect. They were of a pair of girls, whom she swore looked just like her and Suzy. The two girls were dressed as maids. She couldn't wait to show them to Suzy! Lindsey hoped she had enough money; she'd brought all her pocket money.

Lindsey glanced around but didn't see Lilim or Suzy. She shrugged. They must have been in another part of the store. Lindsey looked back to the shelf and frowned. There was another doll on the shelf, between two other dolls. It was red, dressed exactly like the shopkeeper, Lilim.

As the girl watched, dumbstruck, the Lilim doll began moving. The doll's tiny arms gestured toward Lindsey. All of a sudden, the other dolls came to life and jumped at Lindsey. A tidal wave of dolls poured onto the girl, who tripped and fell, bowled over beneath the sudden attack.

Lindsey kicked and struggled as she was submerged beneath the tiny assailants. A dozen dolls grabbed her right arm, another dozen her left. Lindsey squirmed, but was helpless in their grasp as she was rolled over. Her arms were forced behind her back by the dolls. More dolls appeared carrying rope, which they used to quickly bind Lindsey's hands.

Quickly, Lindsey was bound hand and foot. A cloth was tied between her teeth, gagging the young girl. She rolled over just in time to see a grinning Lilim pull the opening of a sack over the struggling girl's head…   

***

Smiling, Lilim tipped her sack over and watched the two bound and gagged girls tumble out. Her grin widened as the two girls, eyes wide with fear, looked around in frightful curiosity at Lilim's dungeon. Soft mmmppphhh's of fright escaped the two girls' gags.

Lindsey looked around in horror. They appeared to be in a dungeon of some sort. In one corner, she saw a girl who had been plastered over until she was a statue, save her eyes and pigtails. Opposite the statue, a pair of teenage girls watched the new arrivals. One, a redhead, was locked in a small cage hanging from the ceiling. Her friend, a brunette, had been locked in metal stocks around her neck.

A loud "mmmppphhhhing!" drew Lindsey's attention. She glanced over. A young woman hung suspended over a pit by rope tied around her chest and legs. She squirmed wildly as a large lizard reared it, its forked tongue flicking out to taste the woman's backside, hanging temptingly over the lizards. The woman screamed into her gag and squirmed, swinging back and forth wildly in her bonds as the tongue tickled her.

In the shadows of the dungeon, soft, gag-muffled moans told Lindsey there were plenty of other captives unseen, suffering their own torments. Lindsey gulped fearfully as she suddenly realized where she'd heard the name of their captor before: this could only by Lilim, the girl snatcher! Lindsey had heard about her from a girl at a sleepover. She stuffed girls into her sack and brought them here and…

Lindsey shook as Lilim roughly hauled the shaking girl to her feet. "I can't wait to show you what I've got planned for you two!" Lilim said, excitedly. "But first, I've got to get you ready." She bent down and casually ripped off Lindsey's clothes with one hand. To the girl's surprise, beneath her now ruined clothes, she was now wearing a maid's outfit, complete with a large leather collar around her neck.

Moving with blinding speed, Lilim untied the girl, and quickly retied her with shackles on her hands, elbows and feet. Her gag was removed and replaced with a large ball gag. Lindsey felt the demon-girl reach up and pull her hair into a pair of pigtails, letting them hang down her back. Lastly, Lilim clipped a leash on Lindsey's collar, claiming the girl. She could only watch as Suzy got the same treatment.

"Well come on, then, lazy butts!" Lilim said, tugging on the girls' leashes. "I've got something for you two to do…" As she led the girls away, Lindsey moaned in terror, as images danced across her mind, each one more horrible then the last…

"COOKIES!!! OMM NOM NOM!!"

Lilim laughed as she watched the cookie monster devour another batch of cookies. She reached down to the bowl resting in her lap and grabbed a handful of chips which she crunched, no less messy then the monster on the television.

The devil girl raised her cup up and swigged back the last of her coke, draining the cup. She raised it up, expectantly.

Lindsey sighed and stepped forward to refill the cup from the bottle she held in her shackled hands. Across the couch from her, Suzy stood ready with a bag of chips for Lilim's bowl when she ran out. Despite having filled the demon-girl's cup at least a dozen times, Lindsey's bottle was no less full then it had been when they'd begun.

Their captor and mistress lay back in the couch, watching her seventh episode of Sesame Street. The stack of DVD's on the end table told the two captives they could be there a long, long time. When she'd found she'd been kidnapped by the Girl Snatcher, Lindsey had feared the worst. Lindsey had to admit this wasn't as bad as it could have been… not that that made anything better.

A soft moan escaped the young girl's gagged lips. At least she'd have plenty of time to think up how she'd explain this to her parents…