Chapter 3: Doro Monsuta (Mud Monster)
The Little Boy:
"This is so awesome," I say, looking at the monster mask in my hands. "It's mine. Mine!"
"Hey kid," the teenager from before says as he walks past me. "Come on. I just want my mask back. I need it for something. Please, can I have it back?"
"No," I yell, holding the mask close to my chest. "It's mine! Mine! Mine!"
I keep my mouth shut as the stupid teenager looks in the wrong bush for me. As I keep my mouth shut, I feel something over me. I turn around to see a large shadow. Even before I can scream, the shadow drops onto me, and the next moment, I see myself floating in some sort of empty black space.
"Hello, young man," a voice calls out to me. "My name is Don'Yokuna Yokubo."
"Don--," I try to say, "Don yok--Don yoku--"
The voice laughs and stops me.
"No need to say my name," the voice says. "Oh, that is quite a scary mask you have."
"It's mine," I yell, hiding the mask behind me. "Mine!"
"Of course," the voice says. "Why, I don't want the mask. I want to give it to you."
"You do?"
"Yes. In fact, I can give you more than just a mask. I can turn you into an actual monster. A scary, scary monster! And all I ask for in return are two little things. What do you say? Do you agree, young man?"
As I listen to the voice, I pull out the monster mask and look at it.
"Yes," I shout. "Yes! I want to be a scary monster! One that roars and scares people away! Even that means teenager!"
"Very well. Then with my magic, I grant you life! Be born! Doro Monsuta (mud monster)!"
As the voice screams, I see large shadows shoot out from the empty black space, first grabbing onto the monster mask before grabbing onto me. As the shadows grab onto me, I feel myself start to change.
I feel a cold slime run all over me over and over again. As it runs over and over again, I feel myself growing bigger and bigger.
Oscar Almo:
"Hello," I say, looking over a bush, hoping to find the boy with my monster mask but instead, seeing nothing. "Hello! Come on, where are you? Kid? Kid! Ahh, where could he have gone?"
I shake my head as I walk over to another bush. About to search this bush, some sort of black slime erupts from it. The eruption knocks me to my feet. As I try to get up, an earth-shaking roar pushes me back down.
"What in the world," I shout. Turning around, I see some sort of volcano with black slime running down from it. It grows bigger and bigger out from the bush before looming over me. Finally pushing myself onto my feet, I look up at the now mountain of black slime. I watch as the slime starts to move. The slime moves, splitting apart in only certain sections. From down below where I'm standing, it looks like the mountain made itself eyes and a mouth. I'm proven right when the mountain opens its mouth and roars, once again shaking the Earth.
"I couldn't be wrong," I say, stepping back. "This is probably the one time I wanted to be wrong!"
"Doro Monsuta," the black slime mountain roars as it looks down at me. The second it sees me, two massive arms explode from its side. It then slowly reaches down and tries to grab me.
I scream as I start to run.
Nemo Farid:
"Oscar," I say, looking around. Claire, who is standing right next to me since Oscar only gave us one script, gets up and looks around too.
"What was that," Claire asks. "Was that Oscar? Why did he scream?"
"I don't know," I say, putting Oscar's notebook down. As I look around, I see Oscar running toward us. I open my mouth to say something but stop when I hear Oscar's first word.
"Run," Oscar shouts, "Nemo! Claire! Run!"
Claire and I don't even have to ask why. Directly behind Oscar, crawling along the ground is some sort of giant, black, slimy monster. As Oscar runs, the monster grabs the ground and pulls itself closer to him.
"Oscar," I shout, watching as Oscar barely outruns the slime monster.
"Oscar," Claire shouts, stepping forward. As she steps forward, I step back. Taking a few steps back, I turn and look at Akio. He looks at me with cold eyes.
"A dakura tchingu," Akio says.
"Yeah," I say, nodding my head. "It must be that little kid who stole my slime monster mask. Don Yokuna Yokubo must have sent one of his dakura tchingus. It latches onto my mask and then onto him. The boy is the dakura tchingus's hosuto."
"We have to destroy your mask," Akio says, raising his fist.
"Oh man," I say, feeling my shoulders drop. "I spend all night working on that mask. Ahh. I guess we have no choice."
As I talk with Akio, we both turn our heads when we hear both Claire and Oscar screaming.
"Oscar, watch out," Claire says after Oscar reaches her. The massive slime monster raises one of its giant arms before throwing it back down. As it does this, Claire pushes Oscar out of the way. She screams as she drops to her knees and covers her head.
"Claire," I scream, running and jumping. Tackling Claire out of the way and onto the ground, we roll around for a bit before stopping. Laying side-by-side, we look back at the slime monster as it pulls its arm back up. As the slime monster pulls its arm up, we see all sorts of things stuck in the black slime: whole trees, entire benches, even part of the walkway.
"Are you okay," I say, helping Claire up while getting up myself.
"For now," Claire answers. She looks up and sees the slime monster as it raises its arm again. "But ask me again in five minutes."
"Go, go, go," I yell, grabbing Claire's hand and pulling her away from the slime monster as it slams its arm again and picks up more things. By now, everyone else in the park has seen the slime monster and they're running. Seeing Oscar wave his arms in the air, Claire and I run to him and regroup.
Running right into a crowd of people, I let go of Claire's hand and stop running.
"Nemo," Claire yells. She tries to stop running and comes back for me but the crowd of people pushes both her and Oscar away. Once they're gone, I pull out the emerald dragon from my pocket.
"Akio," I say, looking at my ghostly friend. "Are you ready?"
Akio nods his head. Taking a quick look around, I run and hide behind a tree. Once hidden, I raise the emerald dragon into the air.
"The noble dragon awakens," I chant. As I chant the magical words, the emerald dragon glows a bright green color. When the green glow reaches me, my jacket and pants vanish into thin air, replaced with a bright green ninja jumpsuit. Waving my hands, a mask appears that covers all of my head except for my eyes along with a belt and many pouches. Once the mask and pouches are done, next is a pair of bamboo wooden swords. They appear on my back, with straps going across my chest. Finally, I feel myself being pulled out of my own body. I watch as I fly out and Akio flies in. Screaming as soon as he's in control, Akio shoots out my hands and stomps on my foot.
Akio looks at my hands after the transformation. He then looks at me and smiles.
"Are you okay," he asks.
This time, I nod my invisible, see-through head.
With this, Akio reaches behind him and grabs one of his wooden swords. Now armed, the mighty Green Emerald Ninja walks out from behind the tree. Facing the large slime monster as he keeps on eating more trees, the Emerald Ninja pushes off against the ground and charges toward him.
Noon Encarnacion:
"Hey Noon," Emica says. I look up from my textbook and at Emica.
"Yeah. What's up?"
"I have a quick question."
"Sure. What's up?"
"Just to be sure," Emica starts, looking out the window. "In the modern world, it's not normal for the sky to turn black and for it to rain mud. Right?"
"No," I say. "What would you ask something like that?"
"I only ask because the sky is now black and it is raining mud."
"Wait, what!"
I crawl the window and look out myself. Emica is right. The once blue, cloudless sky is now pitch-black, and worst, it is raining giant mudballs. As one of the mudballs lands on the hood of the limo, it startles my driver. He swerves uncontrollably for a bit but thankfully, comes to a complete stop without hitting anything.
"What's going on," I yell. I move from the side toward the front of the limo to examine the mudball. It's massive and slimy but it can't be mud. It's black, not brown.
About to get out, my driver stops me by locking the door.
"Oh come on," I say, shaking the door as I try to open it. I look at my driver but he grunts at me. "Yeah, yeah, I know. Mother wouldn't want me to."
My driver nods his head before getting out himself. However, the second he gets out, he's hit with one of the mudballs. It hits and glues him to the side of the limo. Watching as my driver tries to pull himself free, an idea sparks in my head.
Reaching through the window and onto the driver's seat, I push the unlock button and unlock the door. Getting out, I look at my driver.
"I'll go and get help," I say, looking at my driver as he shakes left and right. My driver looks at me but I put my right hand and my left hand over my heart. "Don't worry. I promise I'll be careful. Just, stay here."
My driver sees no other choices and nods his head. I nod back and run away. As soon as I'm far enough away and hidden, I reach into my pocket and pull out the ruby rose.
"I did say I would go and get help," I say, looking at Emica. "And what better help than from the Red Rose Ninja. A beautiful red rose blooms!"
As I chant the words, I hold up the ruby rose and almost immediately, it glows brightly. The red glow encases me, covering me in magic before switching out my jacket, shirt, and pants with a bright red jumpsuit. Waving my hands around my waist and then up my back, a chain with a weight and a wooden bo staff appears. Now as I wave my hand over my mouth, a mask magically appears over it. Shortly after, my long brown hair turned black and tied into a ponytail. Finally, I feel myself begin to switch out of my body. Now the ghost, I turn around and see Emica take control of my body. Emica shoots out her hands once she's in control.
"I get the feeling a dakura tchingu is behind all of this," the Red Rose Ninja says.
"I get the same feeling," I say, slamming my invisible fist onto my invisible palm. "Or I would if I had any feeling in my hands.
Emica looks up before running. She runs and jumps onto a nearby building before quickly climbing up it. Once on the roof, she looks around.
"Do you see the hosuto anywhere," Emica asks.
"I can't be sure," I say, bumping Emica with my arm but of course, my arm just goes through her. "But I think the giant mud man dragging himself around over there may be the hosuto."
Emica turns and looks where I'm pointing.
"Yes, Noon," Emica says. "I think that may be the hosuto."
Emica gives herself a running start before jumping onto the next building over.
Akio Hisashi:
"Doro Monsuta," the slime monster moans as he slams his giant arm down. Backflipping out of the way, I run forward and hit his arm with my bokken. However, it appears to do nothing.
As Doro Monsuta pulls back his arm, he almost takes my bokken with him but I manage to pull it out in time.
"A plan," I say, looking at the floating Nemo beside me. "I could really use a plan. Do you have a plan?"
"Give me a few minutes," Nemo yells.
"We may not have these few minutes," I yell back as Doro Monsuta swings his arm and shoots out hundreds of black blobs. The blobs turn the blue sky black and start to rain down.
Looking up as I try to dodge the falling blobs, one still falls onto me. It pinned me to the ground and no matter how much Nemo screams, I can't get free.
"Doro Monsuta," Doro Monsuta says picking me up.
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