Following Sander's accurate directions, Cris found himself in the middle of the Student Gardens. Sander had drawn him a map of where Spike was and Cris was on the look out of the topiary dog, Sander had grown here last term.

Okay Spike...where are you? Hmm...elephant...mermaid...oh that's one cute mermaid....frog. Ahhh...there he was. Cris walked up to the dog and barked at it.

"Woof....woof! Can you bark back, Spike?" Cris leaned down and carefully examined the dog. Scrunched nose to leafy one, Cris sniffed at the topiary and then began laughing to himself. The way Sander had told it to him, this topiary could actually run and even chase him around the place. Cris raised an eyebrow. Spike wasn't moving right now, which could only mean one thing. Sander had been playing a joke on him.

Shaking his head in disbelief, Cris quickly straightened up and turned to walk away....and it was then he heard a rustling sound. Wait!...what? Cris quickly turned around and the next thing he knew he saw something leafy and green coming at him. Instinct told him to run, but Cris was not always one to listen to his instinct, so he stood where he was.

....and then next thing he knew he was down on the ground with a topiary dog on top of him!!

"Get off me...get off me....before...before I trim off your legs," Cris threatened the topiary. The topiary didn't need to know that it was a false threat.

"Help!! I'm being to licked to death by a plant," Cris called out even as he started to laugh hysterically.