Monstroso (Pocket Money Puffin) by Charlie Higson

Author:Charlie Higson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141944074
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published: 2010-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

6

Ten minutes later Oscar was creeping down the landing towards where Grandad’s rasping snores were coming out of his bedroom. He was carrying a thin glass bottle of blue liquid. When he got to the bedroom door, he pushed it open a crack. Grandad’s snoring was almost deafening.

Then the snoring stopped and Oscar heard Grandad stirring in his bed. He sat up and blinked at the light that was coming in at the door. He reached for his glasses and Oscar quickly threw the bottle into the room. There was a smash and a tinkle and Oscar slammed the door. He counted to ten like he’d been told and then tried to open the door again.

It wouldn’t budge. There was something blocking it from the other side.

He shoved and grunted and grunted and shoved but couldn’t get the door to shift even half an inch. The problem was solved by Monstroso who came up behind him, grabbed the door and ripped it off its hinges.

Oscar was going to say something when his attention was caught by the doorway. Although it should have now been empty, it was still blocked. By a solid wall of blue jelly. Jelly filled his room. And there, encased in the middle of it all, was Grandad, frozen at the moment of sitting up in bed and reaching for his glasses with a startled look on his face.

Oscar turned to Monstroso.

‘Will he be all right?’

‘Him OK,’ said Monstroso. ‘Him not remember a thing.’

‘Good,’ said Oscar. ‘Now we’ve got to fix this door, then we’ve got to fix the desk, then we’ve got to fix the computer and then we’ve got to send you back to where you came from.’

‘Monstroso not go back. Monstroso like it here. Monstroso having fun. Maybe just smash a few more things and do some nice killing.’

‘No killing.’

‘Not even just a little bit?’

‘No. We don’t need to smash things – we need to fix things.’

‘Monstroso have idea.’

‘Is it a good idea?’

‘It best I can manage. Monstroso not good with ideas. Monstroso mainly just like to kill and smash and feast on bloob.’

‘Blood! Feast on blood !’

‘Monstroso like to feast on blood too. But bloob better. More vitamins.’

‘All right, all right. So what’s your big idea?’

‘Monstroso have magic that might fix computer.’

‘What is it?’

‘Super goo.’

‘Super goo?

‘Aye. Super goo fix anything. Broken leg, broken sword …’

‘Broken computer?’

‘Super goo fix anything! Just be careful not to get it on hands or it stick fingers together.’

‘Brilliant! Let’s try it.’

The super goo was in another glass bottle. It was a thick, clear liquid that smelled of hamsters. Monstroso explained that Oscar would only need to use one drop, and Oscar figured it would be safest to try it on the desk first.

They shoved the two halves of the desk roughly next to each other and Oscar dripped two drops of super goo on to the join. Then, before his eyes, the liquid started to boil and bubble and expand. Lumps seemed to be forming in it, no, not lumps, tiny people.

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