Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories for kids where it's always the spooky season,
full of chills, thrills and spine tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family
friendly frights for those ages eight and up, and while our stories are for
younger years, we are still talking about things that go bump in the night,
and some children may not be able to handle what others can. Parental
consent is recommended now for tonights micro terror. It was The Slime by Scott
Donnelly. It was game day for the dads and the kids, but into
very different ways. While their dads hunkered down in the basement or the man
cave, as it was so aggressively referred to. During baseball season, Felix,
Lucas and Lucas's twin sister Erica set up their own shop in the living
room while their dads were in the basement cheering on the opening day of baseball.
They were setting up an extravagant network of gaming screens on the Big TV.
Felix set up with his wired controller and headset across the room. Lucas
cozied up at a desk using the computer as his home base, and on
the couch comfortable under a fuzzy blanket. Erica used her handheld gaming console.
Everyone logged in. Felix asked once he felt like everyone was ready, and
they were. Both Lucas and Erica gave thumbs up. Felix continued, Okay,
then let's drop into the map. I'll mark an area near the mountains.
Everyone on me will loot the cabins first and then push down the slopes.
The game began. There are three colorful, quirky characters dropped out of
a flying bus in the sky and soared down toward the large open world map
with ninety seven other worldwide players, all looking to eliminate each other for the
victory. Suddenly, something smacked the outside of the sliding glass window to Felix's
left. He looked over and saw green ooze dripping slowly down the outside of
the glass door. Oh, he cried in disgust. Some bird must have
eaten the wrong berries or something. Neither Lucas nor Erica heard him, both
of them wearing headsets and focusing on landing their characters in a safe place away
from other players. Felix, however, couldn't remove his eyes from the dripping
green ooze. On the back door. Then another green splash smacked the deck,
followed by a third and a fourth. Felix stood up and went to
the door to get a closer look. He studied the slimy substances splatting all
over the back deck. Confused and curious, Hey on a second, guys,
he said to his friends, but they still didn't hear him or pay
him any attention. Felix opened the door and stepped out onto the back deck,
slowly weaving his way through the disgusting green splats. He stopped at one
of them, knelt down and looked at it. It jiggled back and forth.
Another one then hit the deck in front of him. Felix jumped in
surprise and looked up at the sky to see where they were coming from,
and to his surprise, he saw a flying saucer hovering over the house in
the sky. Well this can't be good, Felix said. Suddenly, one
of the closest green splats moved on its own and attached itself to Felix's shoe.
He looked down and screamed, trying to shake get off. He kicked,
but it was stuck. Then it shot up in his face, Erica
threw her arms in the air. Ugh, I'm down, Lucas, come
revive me. She looked over to her brother, who was sitting back and
eating a bag of chips. I was eliminated five minutes ago, he said,
with a crunchy mouthful. Erica turned and noticed that Felix was gone.
Where's Felix, she asked. Lucas turned around, also clueless. That's when
they both noticed the back door was open. The twins stood up and walked
out onto the deck. Felix Lucas called out, are you out here?
You're the only one alive in the game. Erica said, you need to
come revive Lucas and I. There was no answer. Everything was eerily silent.
Then, out of nowhere, Felix popped up from behind them. Only
he didn't look like his normal self any He was a hideously deformed mutant creature.
Felix growled and now wheelded a sharp weapon. Lucas and Erica screamed.
They turned to run back into the house, but Felix was quick to grab
Lucas around the back of the neck. Erica didn't even hesitate. She ran
back into the house and down the hallway as fast as she could. Monster
Felix and Lucas struggled in a fight with each other. Lucas tried to get
away if I couldn't escape the monster tight grip, but he was able to
wrestle the weapon away. He grabbed it and then used it to butt Monster
Felix in the stomach. Felix grunted, growled, and backed up. Lucas
turned and ran off the deck and into the yard, but Monster Felix was
too quick. He chased him down, tackled him, and sent the weapon
flying. Monster Felix straddled his former friend and then barfed up green slime onto
his face. Lucas screamed through the splattering. Inside, Erica took cover in
Felix's bedroom. She closed the door and scrambled for a weapon to protect herself.
Under the bed, she pulled out a large nerf gun. She made
sure it was loaded, and then hid behind a chair. She waited silently,
hoping that the monster from outside wouldn't find her, and that the dads
from the basement would maybe be up for a snack refill soon and save the
day. But until then, Erica had no choice but to stay hidden and
out of bang, bang, Someone was on the other side of the bedroom
door. Erica trembled in fear. She gripped the NERF gun as tightly as
she could. The door began to jiggle loudly, like someone was trying to
get in. For one vulnerable second, Erica thought maybe it was Lucas Lucases,
that you, she whimpered from behind the chair, But quickly she realized
that it wasn't. The door blasted open with a snart growl. Monster Felix
burst in with rage. Erica stood up and aimed the NERF gun. She
fired off as many rounds as she could, all of which were direct hits.
Monster Felix crumbled to the ground, exhaling a final gurgling breath. Then
he blew up. Erica ducked for cover, protecting herself from the flying debris.
Once the explosive end of Monster Felix had settled, Erica ran out of
the bedroom, down the hall and back outside. Lucas Lucas, where are
you? Are you okay? She shouted for her brother. There was no
answer. She looked left and right, but there was no sign of him.
Then, out of nowhere, and just as Felix had before, Lucas
popped up behind Erica, but no longer in his normal form. He was
now Monster Lucas, hideous and mutated. He grabbed Erica around the neck,
making her drop the nerf gun. He kicked it away out of her reach
and then focused his slime covered hand over her face. The basement door opened
and Buck, Felix's dad came up from its depths, wearing his baseball shirt
and matching hat. He held an empty glass bowl that once held a spicy
cheese dip. Buck looked around as he entered the kitchen and opened the fridge.
Kids, You doing okay up here? He called out, to no
response. Looking in the fridge, he noticed the spicy cheese dip was gone.
He tried to think quickly about a replacement ranch buffalo sauce. Looking down
at the ground, Buck noticed a glob of green slime on the floor and
smiled, Hey, Charlie, He called out loudly to the other dad in
the basement. Round it out your cheese, how about guak? Buck grabbed
a spoon from the counter and scooped the slime into the spicy cheese dip bowl.
Ahead, he saw another glob. He moved in and scooped it up
to around the breakfast nook, he saw another glob. This is my lucky
day, Buck smiled as he advanced on the third glob of green slime.
What Buck didn't see, however, where Monster Lucas and Monster Erica standing at
the end of the hallway, where a trail of slime globs were leading him
to Thank you for listening to micro Terrors. Join us each Saturday for another
scary story. For more fun, visit our website at microterrors dot com,
where we will also have spooky games you can print out and play like Wicked
word searches, mysterious mazes, and more. Microterrors dot com is also where
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scary story for us to tell. Plus, you'll learn more about our author,
Scott Donnelly, who has other horrors for both young and old. I
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