Monster Blood IV by R. L. Stine Read Free Book Online

his hands, bounced over the grass, and landed in a
large puddle near the driveway.
    “Ohhhhhh, sick!” Andy moaned. She wiped thick slime off her face. Still on
her knees, her whole body trembled.
    Evan raised his eyes to the blob. Facedown, it gulped the puddle noisily. Its shimmery blue body bulged bigger, bigger…
    Until it exploded—sending a wave of water and slime over Evan and Andy.
Evan staggered back as the cold gunk washed over him.
    Wiping it off his eyes, he helped Andy to her feet.
    “The flowers!” Kermit cried. “They’ve ruined them all!”
    Evan turned to the garden. In time to see two more inflated blue blobs
explode into four.
    The four new blobs bounced up and down furiously, gnashing their pointed
teeth.
    “The new ones have teeth!” Andy declared. “Each time they explode, they get
meaner!”
    “I’ve had enough of this!” Evan exclaimed. He grabbed a shovel on the ground
beside the flower garden. “Kermit, Andy—hurry! Get big trash bags!”
    Kermit darted into the garage. A few seconds later, he came out carrying two
plastic trash bags. He handed one to Andy. They swung them open and ran to catch
up with Evan.
    “Let’s get these guys!” Evan declared.
    He lowered the shovel blade to the ground and scooped up a blue blob.
    Andy held out her trash bag. Evan dropped the creature into the bag. It
plopped in heavily. Andy gripped the top of the bag and held on.
    Working feverishly, Evan scooped up another one and dropped it into Andy’s
bag.
    Another explosion sent a wave of slime flying. Evan ducked under it—and
caught two blue blobs on his shovel blade. With a groan, he swung the
blade hard into Kermit’s trash bag.
    In minutes, the two trash bags bulged.
    “Only a few left,” Evan said, catching his breath. Despite the cool night
air, sweat poured down his forehead.
    Beside the garage, two creatures gulped water hungrily from a puddle on the
grass. Another creature bounced over the wilted flower garden, uttering low,
angry growls.
    “These guys are trying to get out,” Kermit complained. He had hoisted his bag
over his slender shoulder.
    The bag throbbed. Inside it, the creatures grunted and growled.
    “What are we going to do with these bags?” Andy demanded. “These blue things
are alive! We can’t just throw them in trash cans.”
    “They wouldn’t fit, anyway,” Kermit said.
    Evan wiped sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand. “Let’s get them
all collected first,” he sighed. “Then we can decide what to do.”
    It took several minutes to round up the final three. They kept bouncing away
and sliding off the shovel.
    Finally, all of the grunting, growling creatures were caught. Evan helped Kermit and Andy tie up the bulging trash bags.
    “Now what?” Andy demanded.
    Evan blinked as a bright yellow light flashed on.
    Another light.
    The lawn shimmered green, nearly as bright as day. The colors all came into
focus.
    Evan spun toward the house. The porch light had been turned on. And all the
lights around the yard.
    “It’s Mom!” Kermit gasped. “We’re caught!”

 
 
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    Evan could see Aunt Dee in the kitchen, moving to the back door. “Quick—don’t let her see! Hide the trash bags!” he cried.
    “But where?” Kermit demanded.
    “Just hide them!” Evan ordered.
    Kermit and Andy grabbed up their bulging trash bags. Kermit led the way
around the side of the house. “We’ll drag them to the basement,” he said. “I’ll
lock them in a storage closet or something. We can figure out what to do with
them in the morning.”
    The back door swung open, and Aunt Dee stepped out onto the back stoop. She
tightened her bathrobe belt and squinted around the yard.
    “My garden!” she shrieked in horror, raising her hands to her face.
    And then her eyes stopped on Evan.
    “Huh?” she gasped. “Evan—what on earth are you doing out at this time of
night?”
    “Well…”
    Evan’s mind raced. He knew there was no way