Sebastian walked around the site for a bit, when some burnt gurgling noises came from behind a pile. He turned the corner and saw a gaping hole in the ground, surrounded by a strange-looking goop. As he went to inspect, the globs of goop showed up and moved closer to the hole in the ground.

The hole filled up as it rose and grew, overflowing like a hotcake cooking. Sebastian looked up as it took the form of a giant blob monster that turned into a sickly beige color as black holes appeared for eyes and a mouth showed up. The beast from the junkyard roared as Sebastian stepped back and gripped his sheath.

Oh man, it’s a good thing I brought my weapon with me in case of emergencies. Sebastian thought as he pulled out his magic sword.

As the monster leered closer, he closed his eyes as the weapon glowed brightly. The light orange sword slowly lost its colors until it turned to white, while Sebastian’s hair turned bright orange.

“All right, whatever you are, do your worst!” Sebastian, now with flowing light orange hair, pointed his sword up at the creature.

Sebastian shot out an aqua light from his sword and hit the blob, but it grew arms and blocked the attack. Sebastian leaped into the air and tried to slice the monster in half, only for it to split in two and then re-form into a bigger blob.

He then went to strike the monster through its heart, but ended up going through the blob’s gooey skin. In disgust, Sebastian rushed over to make a sneak attack from behind and cut off the creature’s arms without it noticing. The body parts fell off but formed into smaller versions of the blob.

Sebastian had backed himself up against a pile of junk, as the slime monsters came closer to him. A large TV on top of the pile shook and tumbled down the mountain of trash, crushing one of the mini blobs. Sebastian backed away just in time to avoid being crushed himself.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he spotted another smaller TV and tossed it at the remaining blob. He sighed in relief until he heard screaming in the distance. A blob didn’t escape from his sights, did it?

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Alex made it back in the trailer, right when Laura still slept through the noises, until the loudest sound shook the grounds and startled them both.

“W-what is that?” Laura jolted out of her sleeping bag and checked out of her window to see a giant blob coming straight for the trailer.

“I don’t know, but we need to get out of here!” Alex shouted as he pulled her arm and dragged to the exit.

“But where to?” Laura asked, standing her ground and dragging her feet across the floor, demanding an answer before leaving her home.

“It doesn’t matter where, as long as we go away from that thing!”

“But what about our home? And all of our stuff?”

“Forget about that; we need to hurry before it — get down!”

The trailer continued to shake violently as the two siblings grabbed furniture to keep it from falling. Alex turned and noticed the door continuing to open and close. He slowly took Laura’s hand and headed to the door; they were so close. The ground became further away, as Alex couldn’t see the fields anymore, replaced with high piles and skies. It didn’t take him long to figure out that the trailer held up in the air, and he and his sister had to leave fast.

“Come on, Laura, you go first,” Alex ordered.

Laura looked down and noticed how high they got and panicked. “No way! I can’t do it!”

“It’s not as high as it looks, just trust me.”

“What will happen to you, though?”

“Ok, look. We’ll go together...”

“I said no, I don’t want to! Go on without me!”

“I’m sorry, but we don’t have any time left!”

Without thinking, Alex pushed Laura out of the trailer as it got closer to the monster’s mouth. They didn’t have much time left to argue the point. She jumped and landed safely.

Alex fell back as the front door shut in front of his face. The creature lifted the trailer high into the air again and shook it. Laura could hear Alex screaming as she ended up trapped inside the mobile home.

“Alex!” Laura cried.

Sebastian turned to the source of the scream and ran back as fast as he could.

“Laura, are you all right?”

“Yeah, but...!”

“Where’s Alex?”

“Up there...” She cried, pointing up at the trailer.

The blob lowered the trailer and used one of its arms to reach in the door to try to grab Alex. Alex backed away from the hand and faced the back of the wall. His heart pounded all over his ribcage as he clutched his chest and tried to control his breathing.

“Hang in there!” Laura shouted from below.

“You don’t have to tell me twice!” Alex exclaimed.

“How do we get her down?” Laura asked Sebastian.

“I’m not sure...” Sebastian replied.

“That thing looks like it might throw the trailer along with—”

“Not on my watch! You need to lie low, now!”

“Okay!” Laura ran behind a rock and watched as Sebastian charged at the creature.