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  “No! I ran away before, and Marco and Loogie were taken. I am not going to run away again. . . Gulp. . .Clown or no clown!”

  “Did you say Marco and Loogie? You are right! We must help them escape before the monster devours their souls!”

  All of sudden, the little troll was really eager to help us.

  “Why are you so eager to help Marco and Loogie all of a sudden?” Steve asked him.

  “Marco and Loogie are my friends. . . And, since my toilet is backed up, I am tired of smelling my own. . .”

  “Whoa, T.M.I. Dude!” Steve and I said. “T.M.I.!”

  Then, the little guy pulled out a muzzle out of his diaper and put it on Sushi. Then, he tied a stick with an apple at the end to Sushi’s big nose.

  All of sudden, Sushi started running really fast and we were on our way.

  Wow, I guess we might save our friends after all.

  That is, if we’re not too late. . .

  Tuesday

  After traveling for another day, we finally made it to the castle.

  It was a big white castle that look like it belonged on a cake.

  It was kinda strange that a monster clown would live in that place.

  “This is the monster’s castle?” I asked Frogsworth.

  “Oh no. This castle does not belong to Periwinkle. He took it from the princess who lived here,” he said.

  “You don’t mean the Sewer Fairy Princess, do you?”

  “Yes! Yes! When Periwinkle invaded her castle, she disappeared. No one has seen her since.”

  Me and Steve just looked at each other.

  “Whoa.”

  Suddenly, we heard some loud noises.

  BLAM!

  BLAM!

  BLAM!

  We walked to the side of the castle and there was a giant baboon in a dress throwing barrels at the castle and yelling at the top of its lungs.

  “Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo—Ha Ha Ha Ha!”

  Then when it saw us, it started throwing barrels at us!

  “Run for it!”

  Kresh! Kresh! Kresh!

  “Madam, can you please control yourself!” Frogsworth said in a loud voice.

  Then the baboon straightened up and adjusted her dress.

  “What the what?”

  Then Frogsworth introduced his gangly friend to me and Steve.

  “Gentleman, I would like to proudly introduce you to Miss Badongadonk.”

  “Seriously?” me and Steve said, trying not to burst out laughing.

  Didn’t work.

  “PFFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!”

  “Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo—Ha Ha Ha Ha!”

  Then the baboon lady started throwing barrels at us again.

  “Run for it!”

  Kresh! Kresh! Kresh!

  “Madam, please!” Frogsworth said, talking some sense into her.

  After she finally calmed down, we started talking to her.

  “Madam, what are you doing?” Frogsworth asked.

  “I am not going to stop until I break down these walls!”

  “But, madam, these walls are impenetrable. You will be here forever if you try to break them down with barrels.”

  “What did Periwinkle do to you, Miss Badonga. . .PFFFT. . .I mean Miss B?” Steve asked.

  “Well, that clown took my favorite hat, and now I can’t look my Sunday best without it.”

  We all looked at each other confused.

  I think it was because her dress only covered her front, which left her huge, red, scaly backside blowing in the wind.

  Nasty.

  “Ooookay. Well, why don’t we all work together?” I said. “We’re here because Periwinkle took our friends.”

  Miss B. agreed, and so then we added one more soldier to our little army.

  “So how are we going to get into the castle?” I asked. “But even more important, how are we going to defeat a killer clown that eats souls?”

  “I’m not afraid of him because I know his secret,” Ms. B. said with a big creepy grin on her face.

  “Really? Tell us! What is it?” We all asked her.

  “Well, Periwinkle’s power comes from fear. So, if you have absolutely no fear, then he can’t even touch you.”

  I looked around at Steve, Frogsworth, Sushi, and Ms. B. They all seemed to be really relieved by the last thing she said.

  But not me. . .

  The one thing I know is that I’m so full of fear that Periwinkle is going to turn me into an all-you-can-eat Zombuffet.

  Oh, man, I’m so doomed.

  Wednesday

  So, today’s the day we storm the castle.

  We really didn’t know how to get into that place because it was shut up really tight.

  But Steve had an idea that everybody thought could really work.

  It’s kind of embarrassing, though.

  It involves a catapult and a crash test dummy. . .I mean zombie.

  “Ready, Zombie? Okay, pull!”

  “Urrrrggggghhhhh!”

  I don’t think Zombies were designed for flying through the air.

  We’re not aerodynamically designed.

  I think it has to do with all of our limbs flapping all over the place.

  Or the juice trail we make through the air.

  SPLATTT!!!

  Hey, it had to come down sometime.

  Anyway, I made it in and I opened the big front gate.

  All the guys stormed in, but the funny thing was there were no guards in front of the castle.

  We just walked right in.

  “Hey, my ears are tingling,” Steve said.

  Whoa. . .Steve has ears?!!

  “Something tells me it’s a trap,” Steve said.

  “Really? What gave it away?” I heard a growly voice say.

  Suddenly, six giant orange turtles rushed at us.

  “AAAAAAHHH!!!!”

  They captured everybody. Except me and Sushi got away.

  Being covered in Zombie juice made me really slippery and hard to catch, especially after Sushi licked most of it off of me.

  But all the other guys were captured.

  “Oh no. . .” Sushi said. “They are going to the dungeon. . .oh no. Oh no.”

  “Sushi, do you know where the dungeon is?”

  “Yes, I know where the dungeon is. . .oh no. The dungeon is where the monster keeps his dinner. . .oh no.”

  I would be lying if I told you that I wasn’t scared. And I seriously wanted to go home.

  “Take me there, buddy,” I said, jumping on Sushi’s back.

  Then me and Sushi snuck down into the dungeon to see if we could get our friends back.

  Hopefully.

  Wednesday,

  Later that Night. . .

  I was kind of wondering how Sushi knew his way so well around the castle.

  And how he was able to get away from the turtles so easily.

  But then, I found out.

  “RAWRRRRR, Sushi, good job. Bring the other one here and throw him in the cage, RAWRRRR,” the giant turtle said.

  Next thing I knew, I found myself in a cell with all the other guys.

  Then the giant turtle jumped on Sushi, and they rode away.

  Figures.

  “What gives? Sushi is with those guys?” Steve asked.

  “Well, they are bred to serve their masters,” Frogsworth said. “And baby dinosaurs are simple creatures that have served the giant turtles for ages.”

  “Great, I wish you had told us that earlier,” I said.

  “Whose-a there?” a voice said, coming from another cell.

  “Wait? Marco, is that you?”
/>   “Mamma mia, its-a Zombie! Loogie, Zombie is-a here to-a rescue us.”

  “Oh yea!” I heard Loogie say.

  “Well, Marco, I think we all need rescuing.”

  “Hey, whose there?” another voice from another cell said.

  “I’m Zombie,” I said. “Who are you?”

  “I’m Thomas, the Enderman,” the voice said. “And there’s Conner, Tanner, Wyatt, and Priscilla with me too.”

  “You guys must be the missing kids, right?” I asked them.

  “Yeah, we all got taken while we were all daring each other to go into the sewer.”

  So we found everybody. The only one still missing was the Sewer Fairy Princess.

  “So how are we going to get out of here?” Thomas asked. “They put some magic spells on these cells, so I can’t teleport out.”

  “I don’t know, man,” I said, “but hold tight. We’ll think of something.”

  Who was I kidding, I had nothing.

  And looking at the rest of my little team, I could tell they didn’t have anything either.

  Something tells me were going to be here for a long time.

  At least it’s better than being in the other place, getting my soul sucked out. . .Yikes!

  Thursday

  We were woken up by the giant turtle guards opening the doors and taking one of the prisoners.

  “No, don’t take her! Take me instead!” I heard Thomas say.

  From where I was standing, I saw them take the girl Priscilla away to who knows where.

  “Where are they taking her?” I asked Frogsworth.

  “They are taking her to see Periwinkle,” he said with a terrified look on his face.

  “Man, I wish I could do something!” Steve yelled as he pounded the wall with his fist.

  Then, suddenly, we heard some shuffling coming our way.

  “Oh no, they’re coming back for another one!” Frogsworth yelled.

  So, we all got in our battle-ready positions.

  But instead of a guard. . .It was Sushi!

  “Sushi, buddy, you came back!” I said.

  “Do you want to hop on my back?” Sushi said with an innocent look on his face.

  “Boy do I! Hey, help us get out of here, and I’ll hop on your back forever.”

  Then Sushi turned around and gave the cell a really hard kick with his back legs.

  Kresh!

  The cage door flew open, and we all got free. Then we went and freed all the other guys.

  “Hey, Thomas, do you think you can teleport everybody out of here?” I asked.

  “Not all at once, but I can take you guys one at a time,” he said. “But who’s going to save Priscilla? I know we just met her, but she’s one of us now.”

  “We’ll take care of her,” Steve said. “You just get everybody out of here.”

  Then Thomas started teleporting all the kids out one at a time.

  BAMF!

  Me and Steve looked at each other, and we both knew what we needed to do.

  Then Frogsworth and Miss B. jumped in.

  “Hey, you’re not going anywhere without us,” Miss B. said.

  Wow. . .she must really want that hat back, real bad. I guess it makes sense. She is kind of mugly.

  “Right-o lads! It’s time we showed this clown we are not going to put up with anymore tomfoolery,” Frogsworth said.

  “Huh?”

  Then Marco and Loogie jumped in.

  “We are here to fight-a with you, Zombie!” Marco said.

  “Oh, yeah! It’s Loogie time! HAAACCKK—PTTTOOOOO!”

  Then we all jumped on Sushi’s back and we rode off to meet. . .

  Gulp. . .

  The Killer clown.

  Thursday,

  Later that Night. . .

  We climbed the stairs until we made it to a huge door.

  “Oh no. . .this is the room with the monster. . .oh no,” Sushi said.

  “Guys, remember what Miss B. said. He can’t hurt us if we’re not afraid,” Steve whispered.

  I put on the bravest face I could put on.

  But who was I kidding. . .I was toast.

  Then we all opened the giant door.

  Inside, there was the girl Priscilla, strapped to a huge altar at the end of the room.

  And in front of her was the creepiest, ugliest, scariest clown you ever saw, with a flowery hat on.

  He had sharp teeth and claws and everything.

  Why did it have to be a clown? Why?

  “Mamma mia! It is the Sewer Fairy Princess!” Marco yelled.

  “Seriously?!!!” everybody said, surprised that Priscilla was the missing princess.

  “Yes, but we are-a too late. . .The monster is going to eat her-a soul!”

  “Not if I have something to do with it,” Miss B. said.

  “Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo—Ha Ha Ha Ha!”

  Miss B. ran toward the clown with her red hiney flashing us from out of her dress.

  “Ooooooh, that’s going to leave a scar on my brain,” Steve said.

  “Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo—Ha Ha Ha Ha!”

  Miss B. cried as she was about to reach the killer clown.

  Suddenly, the clown turned around and looked at her.

  Next thing we know, he pulled out a bunch of bananas from out of his clown suit.

  “Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo—Ha Ha Ha Ha!”

  Then Miss B. just followed the bananas into a cage and got locked in by the giant turtles.

  “Well, so much for trying to take the gorilla out of the girl. . .” Frogsworth said.

  “So, I guess it’s going to be up to us then,” Steve said as he looked at me and then looked at all the other guys.

  Then everybody nodded.

  “Let’s do this!”

  “Heeeeeyyyaaaahhhh!!!!”

  Then, everybody rushed the killer clown.

  Well. . .

  Almost everybody.

  What in the world am I doing? I thought to myself as I stayed behind and hid in a corner with Sushi.

  Well, you can’t go up against a clown! They are like the creepiest, scariest, ugliest, monsters ever! I said to myself.

  But my friends need me! I can’t chicken out now!

  Well, it doesn’t matter, the other guys will take care of him. I’ll just stay right here for backup.

  Then I looked over at Sushi, and I saw a small tear fall from his eye.

  “What’s the matter Sushi?” I asked him.

  “Oh no. . .The monster is going to eat your friends. . .Oh no. . .”

  “AAAAHHHH!!!!!” I heard the guys start yelling in pain.

  I poked my head out of the corner, and I saw that the guys finally made it to Periwinkle. But he had his claw hand out, and it looked like some magic was pouring out of his claw so that they were stopped in their tracks.

  “Oh no. . .the monster is going to eat your friend’s souls. . .Oh no. . .” Sushi said.

  “AAAAHHHH!!!!!” The guys started yelling in pain again.

  Oh, man, what was I going to do?

  Maybe I should go home and get help, I thought.

  Urgh! But Mom and Dad won’t believe me.

  Maybe Steve can break free, I thought.

  But then I heard Steve yell out in pain, “ZOMBIE! HELP US!”

  All a sudden, something came over me.

  I don’t know what it was.

  It felt like I got struck with a bolt of lightning.

  But suddenly, my pea brain started formulating a plan.

  I wasn’t sure if it was going to work, especially against a killer clown that could control people’s souls.

  But I
didn’t care. I was going to help my friends, even if I was going to get eaten trying.

  Whoa, this is what courage must feel like, I thought.

  Then, I looked over at Sushi and he looked back.

  And we both nodded in agreement.

  Then I jumped on Sushi’s back and we charged full force toward the ugly, killer clown that had my friends.

  Well, here goes nothing!

  “Heeeeeyyyaaaahhhh!!!!”

  Thursday,

  Even Later that night. . .

  It’s like everything was in slow motion.

  I felt myself feeling more and more powerful as I galloped closer and closer to my destiny on my faithful steed Sushi.

  But his spell is going to stop you! I heard a voice inside my head say.

  You can’t stop his magic, it’s too powerful! I heard another voice say.

  He’s going to eat your soul! another voice said

  He’s a clown, you dummy! I heard a really loud voice in my head say.

  But, I didn’t care.

  Was I going to die? Probably.

  But it didn’t matter because my friends needed me.

  So, as I got closer and closer. . .and the gigantic, ugly, fang-faced killer clown pulled out his claw hand. . .

  I heard a tiny voice in my head that sounded like Steve. And it said. . .

  “IT’S TIME TO FACE YOUR FEAR AND KICK ITS BUTT!”

  “Heeeeeyyyaaaahhhh!!!!”

  I jumped off Sushi and flew through the air at the killer clown.

  Periwinkle lifted his claw hand and blasted me full force with his magic powers.

  This is it!