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red glasses, his eyes looked
tiny.
    “We have to dump those trash bags somewhere,” Evan reminded him.
    “I have an idea,” Kermit replied.
    They hurried to the kitchen. Aunt Dee had left a note on the refrigerator.
She went early to the garden store to buy new flowers for her garden. She told
the boys to make cereal for breakfast.
    But Evan didn’t feel like eating. His stomach felt as if it were filled with
lead.
    “We’ll eat after we take care of the blobs,” he told Kermit.
    Kermit nodded solemnly. He led the way to the basement stairs.
    “Where did you hide the trash bags?” Evan asked as they started down the
steps.
    “I locked them in the little bathroom,” Kermit replied.
    “Huh?” Evan let out a gasp. He grabbed Kermit and spun him around. “Isn’t
there a sink in that bathroom? And a toilet? And water pipes?”
    “Well… yeah,” Kermit replied. “But the creatures are in bags—remember?”
    “ Plastic bags!” Evan reminded him. “They probably chewed through those
bags in seconds!”
    Kermit’s mouth dropped open. “Do you think so?”
    They stopped outside the bathroom door. Evan pressed his ear to the door,
listening hard. “Uh-oh,” he murmured. “I think I hear running water.”
    “Oh, wow.” Kermit shook his head. “Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I just remembered
something else.”
    “Something else?” Evan narrowed his eyes on his cousin. “What else did you
just remember?”
    Kermit swallowed. “Uh… well… I just remembered that this bathroom is
where I hid the bottle that has my hair-growing formula.”
    “Oh, nooooo,” Evan moaned.
    “I didn’t want anyone to find it,” Kermit explained. “No one ever uses this
bathroom. So I hid it in here.”
    Evan pressed his ear to the bathroom door again. He reached for the knob.
    “No—don’t!” Kermit cried.
    “We have no choice,” Evan told him.
    He pulled open the door.

 
 
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    “Oh, nooooo!” Evan screamed.
    He tried to slam the door shut. But Monster Blood creatures bounced into the
doorway, blocking the door.
    “There are hundreds of them!” Kermit shrieked. “And—and they’re all hairy !”
    As the big blobs bounced past the two boys into the basement, Evan gaped into
the little bathroom in shock.
    Dozens and dozens of the blobs bounced and drank and growled and chomped
their pointy teeth. Their sleek blue skin was now covered in thick tufts of long
black hair.
    Water poured from the sink faucets. The hairy blue creatures bobbed over the
sink, gulping thirstily. Others hovered over the toilet, drinking their fill.
    Evan gripped the doorknob so hard, his hand ached. He stared into the room,
too horrified to move.
    “The walls…” he murmured in a trembling whisper. “Oh, no. The walls…”
    The walls and ceiling and floor were covered with a layer of oozing blue
slime. The pipe under the sink had been chewed clear through. Creatures bobbed
beneath it, sucking up water. Others drank from puddles on the slime-covered
floor.
    “What are we going to—” Kermit started.
    He didn’t finish his sentence. A deafening POP rocked the little room
as two Monster Blood creatures exploded to become four. A wave of cold, wet
slime washed over Evan and Kermit.
    Evan staggered back as several growling creatures bounced out of the
bathroom. He saw three others pushing their way out through the basement window.
Two were bouncing on the stairs.
    “We’ve got to stop them!” he cried as another explosion and another flying
wave of slime shook the room.
    “But how?” Kermit whined.
    Evan didn’t have a chance to answer. A wet blue blob leaped onto his
shoulder. With an angry snarl, it sank its teeth into Evan’s sweatshirt.
    Evan uttered a groan of pain. “It—it’s sucking…” he stammered.
    He ducked, swung around. And batted it away with a hard punch.
    The creature roared furiously—and dove for Kermit.
    Kermit dodged away—and fell over a hairy blue blob. “Help me—!” he cried