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orange hot sauce poured out over the
grass.
    Dogface lowered his head and licked up a few tastes.
    Blue Monster Blood creatures bounced closer. A few began hungrily drinking up
the spilled hot sauce.
    Evan waited and watched, his fingers crossed so hard, they hurt.
    No. No.
    The hot sauce didn’t bother the hairy blue blobs a bit.
    But Dogface raised his head from the ground. Behind his thick fur, his black
eyes rolled crazily. The big dog opened his jaws in a long howl of pain.
    And as he howled, a growling blue blob leaped onto the dog’s back.
    Stunned and in pain, Dogface shook himself hard. But the creature clung to
the fur on his back.
    “No! Get away!” Evan shrieked as another blob leaped onto Kermit’s dog.
    With another howl, the big dog took off. His big paws pounded the grass. He
shook himself as he ran, trying to throw off the two creatures.
    Kermit stood openmouthed in shock.
    “The blobs are drinking up all the hot sauce!” Andy declared. “And now
they’re biting and snapping at each other! It’s turning them even meaner!”
    “Come on!” Evan cried, running after the dog. “We’ve got to save Dogface!
Those creatures will kill him!”
    Evan took a deep breath and started running full speed, following the howling
dog. Kermit and Andy ran right behind him.
    “Dogface—whoa!” Kermit called. “Dogface—stop! Stop!”
    But, as always, the dog ignored Kermit.
    Shaking his back, he ran in crazy zigzags.
    Through backyards. And then across a street. And onto the sidewalk.
    The dog barked and howled in protest. But the two blobs hung on, appearing to
enjoy the ride.
    “Dogface—wait!” Kermit pleaded.
    The three kids ran as fast as they could, zigzagging across streets and
yards, following the barking, frightened dog.
    As they neared the school, Evan glanced back. And saw that the Monster Blood
creatures were following them. Dozens of them, bouncing and rolling over the
front yards.
    They were growling and snapping at everything in their path. One of them
exploded, sending a spray of slime over someone’s front yard.
    “They’re all following us!” Evan cried breathlessly.
    Kermit and Andy turned back. “Oh, wow!” Kermit muttered. “It’s like a parade !”
    “Hey—what’s that ?” Evan heard a woman shout. “What are you kids
doing?”
    “Hey—get off my grass!” He heard a man’s angry cry.
    He heard startled voices. And saw people bursting out of their houses. Two
kids jumped off their bikes and stared. A man on a ladder cried out in surprise
and nearly toppled to the ground.
    “Dogface—please stop !” Kermit wailed.
    But the big dog galloped across the street, heading to the playground behind
the school. Just past the sidewalk, he stopped and began rubbing his back against a wide tree
trunk.
    The hairy blobs on the dog’s back bounced and scraped against the rough tree
bark. But they held on tight.
    With another howl, Dogface took off, running wildly across the softball
field, kicking up dust in the infield, bucking his head, shaking his whole body.
    And then the big dog slumped to the ground.
    The three kids gasped as Dogface toppled onto his side.
    The two blobs had their mouths buried in the dog’s thick fur.
    Dogface kicked out once with all four legs.
    And then didn’t move.

 
 
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    “They killed him! They killed him!” Kermit screamed.
    “No!” Evan cried. “He’s still breathing!”
    Sprawled on his side, the big dog’s chest heaved. The ugly creatures gulped
hard, bobbing on top of the dog’s thick fur.
    Evan and Andy dove for the dog. Evan grabbed one of the drinking creatures in
both hands. He twisted it hard—then tugged it off.
    The blob opened its wet mouth in an angry roar. It snapped its blue jaws at
Evan.
    Evan raised it up and heaved it into the sea of bobbing blue creatures that
swarmed over the playground.
    Then he turned to Andy. She struggled to pull off the remaining blob.
    She gave a hard pull. “Yuck! This