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to do bad things." Sean explained.

  We caught up with the creature it was on a landing below us but I tripped and slid into it because of the mud. I heard Sean and Nicole screaming after me, I tried not to panic but I couldn't help it. I was sinking into the slug. Its skin wrapped around me and pulled me in.

  "Help me!" I shouted and struggled. I reached my hand out to Nicole who only looked at me in horror. Suddenly I woke up in a room. I was in a sunlit classroom. The smell of chalk and floor cleaner filled the room. I was wearing my favorite dress. A dress, I ruined not long after I got it but now it was perfect, like magic. I touched my hair and I could feel that it was in ribbons. I felt a calm summer breeze and I could hear the sound of birds chirping and playing.

  A little boy sat across from me, when he smiled, I smiled back. He reached across and offered me some candy.

  "Why were you chasing me?" He asked as he chewed his candy.

  "Uh, you were hurting people that I know; people in my town." I blinked. I expected a dangerous, brainless monster, not this.

  "How?" He asked another question. I wasn't expecting the mentality of an innocent child.

  "We'll isn't that why you came here, to spread toxic through my town?" I asked him a question; I didn't know what else to do.

  "No. I came here for this." As soon as he said that a glass of water appeared from nowhere on the table. "It's yummy." He grinned at me.

  "Oh my God. Where are you from?" I couldn't believe that I never thought to ask that question up until now.

  "I'm from far away from here. The toxic I make is hurting people?" He started to drink the water.

  "It's been making people like me violent. They're doing things they wouldn't normally do." The room started to get dark as the sun faded away.

  "No they're not. They're doing things they were going to do anyway. A voice rang out and an older boy appeared in the corner of the classroom with his arms folded as he stood in the shadow.

  "So, what if a couple of people get killed here. You get chased home from school because of the way you look. It's no different than what's going on in the rest of the world. This thing you call water. It's magnificent. We've never had anything else like it. The chemicals we produce from it is nothing compared to what these people do to each other on their own. Right bro?" The teenage looking boy said to the little boy who did not answer. He only looked down at his feet.

  "You can't stay here, you're hurting us." I pleaded.

  I screamed as loudly as I've ever screamed. The creature had stopped absorbing me, when I turned to see the source of my pain I saw Nicole pulling a needle from my arm. I heard her whisper an apology. I felt the warm creature begin to reject my body as it pushed me out of itself. I turned and I saw Sean on the other side of me helping Nicole pull.

  I looked in front of me and I could see the little boy and the older boy standing with more children. "They don't mean to hurt us." I managed to say.

  "What?" Nicole asked shocked. "What's its name?"

  I forced myself to return to the room. I was standing and I looked the older boy in the eye. "What are you?"

  I woke back up in the present and I looked at Nicole, "The Slimax." My mouth was dry and my voice was hoarse. "What did you do to me?"

  "What does that mean?" Sean asked Nicole. "It means exactly what you think it does."

  Nicole and Sean helped get me to safety

  Sean frowned, "Great." He pulled out a gun and shot the Slimax.

  The creature vanished and Sean checked the bullets in his gun. "Yeah it's there." We need to get moving.

  I woke up in a hospital bed. The nurse came in and checked on me, she told me that I had been in for dehydration and I remembered the needle and the slug rejecting me, because I had no water inside of me.

  Nicole and Sean came to visit me. "Did you kill it?"

  "You look sad, it was a monster." Nicole looked at me seriously.

  "It was alive, it wasn't an "us or them" situation, we could've talked to it." I was upset, I didn't mean for it to die, not when I found out what it really wanted.

  "Well, it's not dead. But I will be if I don't get it back to where it belongs." Sean told me. He started to explain to me that he actually trapped the creature and that if he didn't get it back soon, that it would start to draw on his life force causing him to die sooner than what he should.

  "Right now it's trapped in the gun. But I can't keep it there." I was happy and shocked at the same time. I leaned in towards the two of them.

  "What are you two? I mean you two needed me because I was the only human. I was the only one who can talk with the creature with my mind." I whispered.

  "We'll be back." Nicole looked up at Sean and winked.

  I thought about Sean and Nicole a lot after that day. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and months turned into years. It was a week and a day after my twenty-sixth birthday and I'd given up any kind of hope of ever seeing either one of them again. It was time for me to go to home after work. Everyone was talking about how and why Malcolm X was just murdered; the mood of everyone around me was different. Just the day before everyone was talking about a war in Vietnam and now this.

  I started to cross the street when two people walked up on either side of me, frightened I looked up real quick to see their faces. It was Sean and Nicole.

  "You grew up fast." Nicole giggled winking at me.

  "We told you we'd be back." Sean smiled.

  "Let's get you out of here." Nicole said as we walked down the sidewalk.

  I could tell we were on the same sidewalk, but it looked older, I looked around and the town looked different. I asked them where they took me.

  Nicole smiled as she put on a pair of sunglasses, "It's not where did we take you, it's when did we take you. Come along, Mary Ann, there's much to see."

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