Back at Camp Teamwork, the sun was going down and all the campers were out attending the big bonfire. But a certain counselor decided to stay behind at East Cabin.
"Okay, Sulley. Get in." Lily said.
Sulley looked at the shower stall that was clearly not big enough for him. "I really don't need to take a shower, Lily."
"Come on, Sulley. That smell has got to go! You're already attracting those annoying flies!" she pointed out.
The big monster noticed the flies that were buzzing around him. He squatted them all away, but they were still flying around and getting on him. He sighed. "Alright." Sulley managed to squeeze himself in the stall. He could barely move inside. Lily turned on the warm water and it came down on Sulley.
Lily went to her bag and rummaged through her toiletries. "Now, do you like Strawberry Mango or White Jasmine body wash?"
"Uh..." Sulley didn't want to try either one.
"That's okay. You can use this stuff!" Lily decided for him. She dumped a bucket of warm water all over Sulley then took out a scrub brush and squirted the body wash onto the brush. She began scrubbing Sulley's neck, shoulders, and under his chin, causing him to giggle uncontrollably.
"Hehehehehehehe! Stop that!" he giggled.
"Not yet, you're still smelly." Lily retorted. After ten minutes of scrubbing his torso, she smiled as she began to drift the brush down Sulley's belly, turning his giggles into laughter.
"Ahahahahahahahaha! Cut it out! That tickles! Heeheehahahahahaha!" Sulley shouted. He squirmed around trying to get away but he was trapped in the shower.
Lily giggled. "Who would've thought the big scary monster was ticklish?" She continued scrubbing her giggly friend all over his belly and sides. Poor Sulley couldn't stop laughing.
"Okay, now let's get under your arms!" Lily sang.
Sulley whimpered with wide eyes. "Not under my arms! That's worse! Can't I just be stinky?!"
"No way! That stink was burning my nostrils!" Lily laughed. "Don't worry, Sulley. I'll be careful. I promise."
The monster observed her carefully, she sounded trustworthy enough. Sulley had to adjust himself pretty good until he finally managed to raise both arms up, exposing his underarms. Much to his dismay, however, he can't put them down.
Lily moved the brush to the first armpit and began stroking it up and down nice and gently, but it was actually an extremely tickly effect on Sulley. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STAHAHAHAHAHAHAP!" he squealed. "OH, STAHAHAHAHAP!"
But Lily was having too much fun. "Oh, does that tickle?" she mused. Sulley thrashed and laughed hard while Lily was enjoying every minute of it. "STAHAHAHAHAP! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Cootchie cootchie coo!" Lily teased, scrubbing his sensitive underarms. Each armpit got five torturous minutes of ticklish cleaning. At last, Lily stopped.
"Are...are you done yet?" Sulley panted, tired from laughing.
"Almost." Lily said, turning off the shower. She took out a towel then rubbed it on his fur, drying him but also tickling him at the same time.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NO! PLEASE! NO MORE TICKLING!" Sulley roared with laughter with buds of tears coming from his eyes. "PLEASE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
After another agonizing five minutes, Lily finally dried off the ticklish monster. She got him out of the shower and helped him out of the bathroom and patted his big hairy back. "You okay?"
"Yeah..." he breathed. Sulley turned to Lily and gave her a look.
The human looked a little nervous. "Sorry, I just couldn't help myself, I mean, you being so ticklish and laughing like that, you were so cute and-"
Sulley cocked his head back "What?!" he sputtered.
"Uh, I mean, not cute as in attractive! I mean, cute as in adorable!" Lily weakly managed to save, chuckling.
"Uh, yeah sure." Sulley chuckled, feeling quite awkward right now. He smelled his freshly clean fur. "Hey! This stuff smells pretty good. What did you use?"
Lily smiled. "Ocean Breeze with Pearl essence. It's my favorite." She noticed that Sulley was staring at her. "What?"
"Oh! Well, it's just, I've never actually been this close to a human adult. Not this long." he admitted.
The first adults Sulley ever faced was when he scared those rangers when he was a teenager. But never did he think he would actually meet and befriend such a wonderful human. It was like meeting Boo all over again.
"Yeah, must be pretty weird for you." Lily dryly added.
Sulley raised his fuzzy brow. "You makin' fun of me?"
Lily's eyes bugged out when Sulley advanced toward her, grinning evilly and wiggling his fingers.
"Oh, no! No! No! No! No! Sulley, stay over there! Sulley! AAAH!"
Lily squealed when Sulley grabbed her by the ankles and removed her socks. The monster chuckled darkly as he rubbed Lily's feet with the softest sides of his furry fingers.
"Eheeheeheehee! No! Sulleheeheeheey! Stohohop!" Lily tittered. She covered her mouth to hold in her laughter.
To take up the challenge, Sulley poked his claws between her toes and dragged them down her soles and she went crazy with laughter.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NO! SULLEY! STAHAHAHAP! UNCLE!" she begged in helpless mercy.
But Sulley kept tickling a little longer. "Alright." He stopped and let go. "Not so tough now, are ya?" he mocked.
Lily collected her breath and turned to the big monster. "Oh yeah? Let's see how long you last, Mr. Tough guy. Give me your foot."
"My foot?" asked Sulley, lifting up his huge foot and Lily immediately grabbed it and looked mischievously at the surprised monster.
"Uh, oh..."
Lily began to run her fingers down the padded foot of the monster. Sulley wiggled his paw toes and started to crack a smile with a giggle and a snort.
"Tickle, tickle, tickle." said Lily in a small voice with a big smile, speeding up her tickling fingers up and down his foot.
Sulley couldn't take his poor foot being tortured in such a playful way as he burst loudly with laughter. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay! Okay! I give! Stop! I give!"
But when Lily didn't stop, Sulley reached out and tickled Lily all over her stomach. She squealed laughed hard and tickled Sulley's toes. The two tickled each other back and forth all over the ground, laughing until they Lily ran out of breath and fell down, Sulley caught her in his arms and rested her head on his chest.
The two just lay there for a bit as Sulley stroked her head. "All tuckered out, huh?" he said, making her smile a bit.
"Yeah," She snuggled closer into his cozy fur. She looked up and the two shared a warm look. Sulley had to admit, he saw a lot of Boo in Lily.
Just then, voices came from outside, Lily gasped as she got up and looked out the window. "The campers are coming! We've got to get out of here!"
By the time she looked back, Sulley already had his foot out the window and left. Lily ran off after him. The two made themselves scarce and ran off into the woods and didn't even think about looking back.
Once they thought they were far away enough, Sulley looked around and no one was in sight. "What do we do now?!"
"We have to find a way to leave camp and get you home! We need a plan!" Lily thought and thought, but she can't think well under pressure, especially under these kind of circumstances.
Sulley pointed at something. "Look!"
Lily looked behind her and saw a large silhouette loping towards them.
Sulley thought it was another monster, it seemed as big as he was, but Lily backed away because she knew what that really was. The creature came closer in the moonlight and Sulley realized this wasn't a monster at all.
"IT'S A BEAR!" Lily screamed and ran the other way. "RUN!" Lily began to run back to the cabin as fast as she could. She couldn't believe her luck, first a monster who turns out be friendly and now a giant Grizzly bear was after her?! This was an animal that can actually kill a human!
Lily managed to crawl through the window and found the cabin dark and empty.
Suddenly, the door was smashed off the hinges by the mad bear and began rampaging through the house. Lily screamed again as she tried to find cover, but the bear had her cornered. Lily backed away as far as she could until she was pushed into the corner of the room.
The man-eating bear stood on it's hind legs, all the way up to it's full height. Lily could only gape in horror as the bear's stained-pink fangs were aimed at her.
"HEY!" someone shouted.
The bear was suddenly pulled back and thrown against the wall. It was Sulley, he stood there in anger, glaring down at the killer animal that tried to maul the helpless human. The woodland beast shook itself off and stood up again. It came at Sulley roaring and drooling at him.
But James P. Sullivan, the former greatest Scarer in Monstropolis, stood his ground. Not even remotely scared.
Opening his mouth, Sulley's eyes became fierce and squinted, he flexed his claws out. His giant, sharp, teeth parted to release a ferocious and mighty "ROOOOOOAAAAAARRR!"
The roar hit the bear like a lightening bolt as Sulley's roar rattled the whole house. The terrified bear stumbled back and scurried away from Sulley, it's eyes rolled back in terror and roared in fear. Sulley continued to roar as the bear runs out the house.
"Lily, are you ok-" Sulley spotted Lily sitting against the wall. She had a look on her face that Sulley recognized. It was the same look of fear Boo made when Sulley accidentally scared her. Sulley remembered seeing Boo's torment, her fear, and most of all, her helplessness.
And now the very same thing was happening to Lily.
Lily's mouth moved, but no words came out until, "Sulley..." her voice was trembling.
Sulley braced himself for the worst.
"That was amazing!" Lily said smiling. She was actually smiling!
The monster got the shock of his life seeing Lily's fear just melt away and looked at him in awe rather than fear. She raced up to him and hugged him. "You saved my life...again." She held him tighter. "Thank you..."
Sulley looked down at her and saw tears coming from her eyes. She sniffled.
"What's wrong?" Sulley asked wiping a teardrop from her cheek.
Lily raised her head up and smiled at him. "I thought I was done for. And you saved me. That was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me."
The brave monster returned the hug. "It was nothing." he humbly said.
Lily let go of him. "Are you kidding?! That was incredible!" she exclaimed in excitement. "All day long with the nice guy act and all of a sudden that comes out of you?! That bear will be running 'til he hits Mexico!" she laughed.
Sulley couldn't help but laugh too. Lily wasn't afraid of at all, much to his relief.
"Counselor Lily...?" a little voice squeaked.
The two stopped laughing, they froze like statues.
The lights turned on and Lily and Sulley saw Megan and the East Cabin campers staring at the giant blue monster with all of their eyes wide and their mouths open.
