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Blood—remember?”
    “It can’t be,” Andy argued. “Monster Blood is green. This cute thing is
something else.”
    “It might be a different kind of Monster Blood,” Kermit suggested. “You know.
A different flavor.”
    “Whoa!” Andy cried out as the creature bounced out of her hands. Throbbing
wetly, it began bouncing and rolling toward the garage.
    “Catch it!” Evan cried.
    All three of them chased after the creature. It moved surprisingly fast.
    Kermit made a grab for it—and it slid through his hands.
    Evan ran in front of it and tried to block its path. But it rolled around him
and kept bouncing.
    “Don’t let it get away!” Andy cried.
    Evan made another frantic grab—and lifted the wet blob off the ground. “Got
it!” Evan cried.
    But the creature changed shape. Squeaking loudly, it pulled itself in until
it resembled a giant worm. And then it slid easily from Evan’s hands.
    “Whoa—it’s cold !” Evan exclaimed. He examined his hands. The
creature had left a coating of wet blue slime on Evan’s palms.
    Evan glanced up in time to see the creature roll to the back of the yard.
“Stop it!” he cried. “Don’t let it go over to Conan’s yard!”
    He ran to catch up to it. Kermit reached it first. “Hey—what’s it doing?”
Kermit demanded. “It’s turning on the garden hose.”
    The hose was coiled against the back of the garage. A long end of it
stretched along the ground.
    Evan stopped and stared as the creature perched on top of the nozzle. Its
body began to bounce up and down in a steady rhythm. It stopped squeaking and
began to make loud gulping sounds.
    “Is it drinking?” Andy asked.
    “Huh? I think it is!” Evan cried, staring in amazement.
    The creature bobbed on top of the hose nozzle. Drinking. And as it drank, it
grew.
    “It’s inflating—like a water balloon!” Kermit declared.
    “We’d better stop it before it gets too big,” Evan warned.
    Evan tried to turn the water off, but the spigot wouldn’t budge. “It’s
stuck!” he cried. “I can’t turn it! It’s stuck!”
    The creature gulped more water. It was as big as a basketball now, and still
growing.
    Evan grabbed it with both hands and tugged. His hands slid off the slippery,
wet body.
    The creature was as big as a beach ball.
    “Help me!” Evan cried, grabbing the creature again. “We’ve got to pull it off
the hose.”
    He gave a hard tug. But the gulping creature held on to the hose.
    Andy stepped up beside Evan. They both wrapped their arms around the
inflating creature and struggled to pull it loose.
    “It—it’s attached itself!” Evan gasped.
    The creature bulged, bigger, bigger, until Evan and Andy couldn’t get their
arms around it.
    “Now what?” Evan groaned.
    And the creature exploded.
    Evan heard a deafening POP. A wave of cold water and slime hurtled
over him, knocking him over.
    Evan landed in a sitting position.
    “Ohhhhh.” He let out a groan as he wiped the thick blanket of slime off his
eyes and face.
    “Sick,” he heard Andy mutter.
    He turned and saw that Kermit and Andy were also drenched. Thick gobs of
slime clung to Kermit’s glasses. Andy’s hair was soaked, matted flat on her
head.
    “Sick,” Andy repeated, staring down at her slime-covered hands. “Oh, yuck.
This is sick .”
    Evan wiped more goo from his eyes. Then he turned to where the creature had
stood—and gasped in shock. “Oh, noooo!” he cried. “Am I seeing things?”

 
 
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    Two blue creatures bobbed beside the garage.
    Two creatures about the size of chipmunks.
    Squeaking softly, they grinned at Evan, Kermit, and Andy. Their big black
eyes rolled in their heads.
    “It multiplied !” Kermit exclaimed.
    Evan swallowed hard. He scooped a gob of slime off his shoulder. “I don’t
like this,” he murmured. “I don’t like this one bit.”
    “But they’re so cute!” Andy protested.
    Evan shivered. The night air suddenly felt much colder. He turned to the