It is my pleasure to announce that this is my 200th story! An accomplishment I am truly proud of.

This was also done for my good friend GoldGuardian2418, who also did wonderful Monster in my Pocket stories. Enjoy, Amiga!

It was an eerie night in Los Angeles, California. But it was even more eerie on the corner of a certain neighborhood street where a macabre looking house stood. It was painted grey and the roof was black. An iron gate secured the yard, as if keeping people from the outside world to stay away.

It was the home of Edgar Raven, the world famous horror writer. Everything about Mr. Raven was a mystery, all except that he was truly dedicated to horror, his home was the perfect example. Even the trees on his property were gnarly and dead despite the warm weather.

No one would ever think about entering that morbid home.

And thank goodness for that.

Because deep within the house, it held a terrifying secret.

It had real monsters!

Well, real monsters that were only one inch high.

In the basement, Dr. Henry Davenport, the Invisible Man, was checking the ingredients for perfecting a formula. "Is everyone ready?"

"Ready when you are, Doc!" said Big Ed, a Frankenstein-like monster.

"I was born ready, man!" reggae Wolf-Mon said.

"Ready, Mummy?" asked Dr. Davenport.

"Ready, Doc!" said Mummy. He was always eager to please.

"Alright. First the baking powder, then the hot sauce, and finally the ketchup!"

"Alright, Doc!" said Carrie Raven, a normal ten year old girl.

Carrie Raven is the daughter of Edgar Raven. Her father was always away on business, so Carrie had plenty of time to help her monster friends return to their normal size.

Thanks to the evil Vampire trying to escape Monster Mountain Prison by using a shrinking spell, it backfired. As a result, Monster Mountain was shrunk and blown all the way from Transylvania to Los Angeles.

Vampire and his accomplices Medusa and Swamp Beast escaped, but they were shrunk along with Dr. Davenport, the prison jailer, along with his friends Big Ed, Wolf-Mon and Mummy.

So the good monsters took refuge with Carrie Raven in order to find the formula to turn them back to normal and stop Vampire and his evil monsters once and for all.

Carrie added all the ingredients into her beaker. It's a good thing she had her own chemistry set.

"And now, for the final ingredient!" announced the doctor.

At that moment, the little monsters jumped onto Carrie and started tickling her neck.

"Ahahahahahahahaha! Heeheeahahahahahaha!" Carrie laughed. As she did, the formula started to bubble and the monsters began to grow!

Not too long ago, the good monsters discovered that laughter causes them to grow! But only temporarily, so hopefully the formula was perfected for them to be big permanently.

"Here it comes, guys!" Carrie said.

The monsters stopped tickling as they grew to normal size. Carrie added the ketchup to the formula. It bubbled wildly and then,

KABOOM!

The formula exploded. It completely covered the monsters in warm, sticky green slime.

A few moments or so, nothing happened. The monsters were still big.

"Did it work this time, Doc?" asked Mummy.

"I...believe so." the doctor answered.

Unfortunately, the monsters shrank back to their small sizes.

"Oh, never mind." the doctor sighed.

"Sorry, guys." Carrie said. "Better luck next time."

"Just when I thought we had it!" Wolf-Mon groaned.

"Hmm, we just need that...something." the doctor deduced. "Something that will make sure we are big and stay that way. But what could it be?"

"Vhat is going on down there?!" The German voice of a woman came from upstairs.

"Uh-oh! It's Helga!" Carrie quickly grabbed the monsters and placed them in her shirt pocket.

Helga, the housekeeper, came down the stairs. "Oh, for goodness sake, Carrie! Vhy must you be such a messy child?! Vith all the explosions and the messy chemicals everywhere! Vhy can't you paint your fingernails or play on your phone like normal girls do?"

"I'm sorry, Helga! I'm just...having some fun, that's all." Carrie said.

"There are better vays to have fun, Carrie!" said Helga. "There's an entire vorld outside this basement! You should go to that vorld and make some friends! That vay, there vouldn't be a disaster zone every time I valk in here!"

Carrie couldn't help but sigh. It's not as easy as Helga made it sound.

"Now, that's enough mess-making for tonight. You go up the stairs and right into bed. It's a school night!"

"Oh, yeah. School..." Carrie groaned. School wasn't her favorite place to go.

Carrie headed to her bedroom. She took her friends out her pocket and placed them in her old dollhouse. It was the perfect place for them to sleep.

"That Helga...what a piece of work." said Mummy.

"Indeed." Dr. Davenport said, adjusting his monocle.

"She's just doing her job, guys." Carrie told them. "You can't blame her. But I can blame school for going to bed early." She rolled her eyes.

"You mustn't blame academic enrichment!" Dr. Davenport said. "School is a place of education and wisdom, a place where young minds can learn and grow to be successful in the future."

Carrie looked at the doc in the most doubtful way. "Obviously, you've never seen a human school."

"It can't be as bad as Monster Mountain." Big Ed told her.

"You'd be surprised." said Carrie. "Anyway, I better get ready."

The monsters watched Carrie enter the bathroom. So they decided to turn in as well. Carrie's old dollhouse just so happened to have the four doll beds for the tiny monsters to sleep in.

"Guess Carrie doesn't have a lot of friends, man." said Wolf-Mon.

"But why? She's so nice I thought she'd have a whole flock of friends!" said Mummy, laying down with his arms folded across his chest.

"Perhaps it's because not all humans are like Carrie." Dr. Davenport said as he hung up his derby hat.

"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Big Ed.

"That most humans are not as humble and accepting as Carrie. It's a good thing we ran into her. Otherwise, who knows what another human would do to us?"

Wolf-Mon turned to his invisible friend. "Oh, come on! I'm sure not all humans are that bad, Doc!"

But the doctor was skeptical. "That depends, Wolf-Mon."

Carrie entered her bedroom with her nightgown on. "Good night, guys." She turned off her light and fell fast asleep in her own bed.

The monsters were fast asleep, all except Dr. Davenport. It was hard for him to sleep with so much on his mind. Finding the missing ingredient to the growth formula and stopping Vampire, Medusa and Swamp Beast from taking over the world. It all seemed a lot to swallow.

And in the back of his head, he couldn't help but think about other humans. Sure, Carrie was very accepting towards them, but were there more humans like Carrie who felt the same?

'Perhaps,' the doctor thought. 'Perhaps not.'

He closed his eyes and eventually went to sleep.

Tomorrow was a new day, and hopefully a more successful one than today.