The Bat In The Mat
It was a very wet and very yucky Halloween night, Cameron watches through the window watching the rain pour and though he finds this Halloween night grown to be a bore. Hinata offered a board game for Cameron to play to which he wished he played had all day and as minutes go by, Hinata won the game and Cameron was lame.
"Hey! Do you have to pile on at me?" Cameron protested,
Sorry kid, it's a rhyming thing. And you find out soon enough why when time goes by.
"Alright kids, I'm going to a Halloween party at Stacey's. Now you kids be good and watch over the house while I'm out. The babysitter's on her way. Kisses." said the mom wearing a sexy mummy outfit and left,
"Babysitter? Isn't Terri supposed to be here like she always does?" Cameron asked,
"Well I heard that she called sick over the phone with mom. So I guess we're having a new babysitter today." Hinata said,
"I hope the babysitter isn't like a Drill Sargent. I couldn't stand 50 push ups and 100 sit ups, though they do have amazing toning results of my body, but still." Cameron said, then suddenly went bump on the door,
BUMP BUMP
"Who could that be?" Cameron asked,
"Mailman or the babysitter." Hinata said, they opened the door, there was no one around until they heard a small squeaky groaning, it came from the porch, just below their very feet, there was a rolled up yet soggy mat and in it was a bat,
"'GASP' It's a bat. Oh you poor baby, let's get you inside and warm you up." Hinata said as she picks up a bat inside a mat, then Cameron closed the door,
"Let's get you out of this wet mat and…" Hinata said about the remove the mat of the bat, but,
"Don't…do not remove me from my…'hack'…" the bad squeaked but started hacking up,
"What?" Cameron asked perplexed,
"I…I…hold on I…'cough' 'cough' 'hack'…" the bat kept on hack up, until he hacked up a bumblebee and the bumblebee flew away to flee,
"'ahem' Ah, there we go. Do not remove me from the mat if you please? So I shall remain at ease." the bat said in a normal sophisticated voice,
"Aww. I like that squeaky voice, but it's because of the bee." Hinata said,
"And how can a bat talk? And do I have in my hand is a chalk?" Cameron asked,
"Why, I am the bat in the mat. I am here to give the fun time of you life and to free you from your worries and your strife." the bat said,
"You mean to tell us that…you the bat…our babysitter?" Hinata asked,
"Indeed I am and at your service." the bat said as he bows, then he flew towards the window to have a look,
"Hmm…I know that it's wet and the sun is not sunny on Halloween. So about some Halloween games?"
"I do! I do! I do!" Hinata and Cameron exclaimed,
"Alrighty. What shall we start first?" the bat asked, so they played bobbing for apples, Hinata bobbed an apple and out of the apple was a worm,
"EW! EW! EW!" Hinata cried out and dropped the apple back in the bucket, Cameron was laughing as he bobbed an apple in his mouth and a worm comes out, noticing a worm he spits the apple to his hand and…
"ACK! YEUGH!" he cried out as he threw the apple to the wall and the apple smashed into a mess and they had a good laugh about it, then they played William Tell Halloween Edition, inside of of shooting arrows to the apples, you spit pumpkin seeds to the apples,
"Ready bro?"Hinata asked,
"Ready." Cameron said with an apple on placed on his head, then Hinata takes aim, then spits the seed and…PERFECT SHOT. Then Cameron takes his turn spits a seed and hit the apple from Hinata's head, then they played Scary Pictionary for an hour, then find a fungus in the leaf pile, then Guess a body part which is fun like a brain, spleen, heart and that sort of game. Thy've been playing games for hours and as the night creeps in, the kids grew exhausted when Cameron kicks away a tin,
"Ooh night has upon us kids, so what shall we do? Pin the tail on a hellhound or slime in ooze goo?" the bat asked,
"No more games bat. He did have fun, but enough is enough." Hinata said,
"Besides, we're too tired to play more and it's already getting more tough." Cameron said,
"So…are you gonna play…" the bat was about to ask,
"It's not a game bat! We just wanna go to sleep until our mother comes home. So thank you for the fun and time for you to go as we dream about when in Rome." Hinata said,
"Good night bat." Cameron said and they went downstairs, as they headed downstairs and before heading to their rooms,
"I can't take it anymore Hinata! I love these fun games, but it's been driving me crazy and I just missed the hockey game for this." Cameron whispered,
"I know and that last game was a bit more dangerous than these other games. That nearly burn one spot of my head." Hinata whispered showing her burned spot,
"Yeesh. So what are we gonna do?" Cameron asked,
"We're gonna sneak out of the house and get ourselves sick and we're gonna get him sick so he'll have to leave." Hinata said,
"So!" the bat exclaimed,
'GAH!" the kids screamed,
"You're gonna sabotage everything by getting me sick? Well it won't work it on me." the bat said with a mean look,
"How did you know all that?" Cameron asked,
"Did you forget? My ears are large enough to hear everything you know." the bat explained,
"Oh yeah." Hinata said,
"Now then…" the bat flew in circles revealing his true form, a mat bodied monster with a vampire bat face,
"Time to suck on your blood and you'll be part of my kin forever." the bat said,
"WHAT!?" Hinata exclaimed,
"You're crazy man! YOU'RE CRAZY! RUN!" Cameron exclaimed and they ran around the house as the bat chases them and while the chase goes on Cameron grabs his hockey stick and pulls his breaks,
"Stay back bat! I got a hockey stick and don't think I'll use to bash you with!" Cameron exclaimed, the bat stopped,
"'Ahem' Young man. You wouldn't hit a bat with glasses on, would you?" the bat asked,
"Nope. But this does." Cameron said as he ducks and Hinata threw a baseball at the bat and it hit him in the face,
"AAAOW!" the bat howls in pain,
"STRIKE!" Hinata exclaimed,
"And YOOOOU'RE OUTTA HERE!" Cameron exclaimed and laughed as the headed back upstairs to their mom's room,
"Now what are we gonna do?" Hinata asked,
"I'll call the police." Cameron said as he heads for the phone,
"The police!? Are you crazy!? They're never gonna believe us and on top of that, do you want mom to have a panic attack over the cops being around the house?" Hinata asked frantically,
"But if we don't call the cops, the bat will make us his kin. Do you want that!?" Cameron asked in a panicked tone, then the door knocks,
"Is it mom?" Cameron asked,
"No, that can't be mom. She never knocks on our door." Hinata said and answered the door, it was Lucy Loud and Fangs as superheroes,
"We just heard you two have some rogue bat trouble." Lucy said,
"Rogue? That bat in the mat rogue?" Cameron asked,
"We've been looking for him, he's been causing trouble among several children for weeks." Lucy explained,
"He's downstairs and…" Hinata just told them where the bat is until he finally headed upstairs to where they are,
"You think you can hit my face with a baseball again. Ah…you're sorely mis…taken. Oh well if it isn't Lucy and Fangs." the bat winced until he noticed Lucy and Fangs were here,
"Bat In The Mat. You're under arrest for kidnapping, emotional distress among children and murder." Lucy said,
"Wait what are you talking about now? Well I admit the kidnapping and the emotional distress thing, but I do so such thing as murder please. Like I said, I admit the first two, but you'll never take me alive!" the bat explained and exclaimed,
"Get em' Fangs." Lucy said and Fangs charges in at the bat and they fight, the fight goes on for a few minutes until Fangs punched he bat in the face,
"Ah! Ow! Why would you hit me? I had glasses on. Jeez!" the bat whined,
"That not hitting the bat with glasses doesn't apply to us." Lucy answered,
"Okay okay. You win. Take me in. But, just give me a sec please?" the bat requested,
"Children, I'm sorry causing you so much trouble, I abducted children and bite their necks to become my own kin is because…I'm just so lonely." the bat explained teary,
"Well you could've just said so that you're lonely and we could've been friends already." Cameron said,
"Yeah, I mean kidnapping kids and all that plus scaring us isn't cool at all. But we can pass that and forgive you this time." Hinata said,
"Thank you kids. It's been fun. After I paid my debt to society, we'll have to plan a play date schedule." the bat said,
"That depends how long and we may grew up then, but we can sort the plans out soon." Hinata said,
"Sure." the bat said,
"Alright bat. Let's go." Lucy said as Fangs cuffs him,
"I'm ready to go now." the bat said and they left,
"Thank you guys." Hinata called out and closed the door,
"Gah! We better clean up the house now sis!" Cameron exclaimed,
"Ah! You're right it's almost 9:00pm, mom's gonna come home in 5 minutes!" Hinata exclaimed, they clean up the house as swift as can be, wiping the windows, moping the floors, vacuum the furniture, dusting and washing everything up. Even tossing a discarded apple in the compost and toss worms outside and finally mom arrives home.
"I'm home kids. Where's the babysitter?" the mom asked,
"The babysitter just left, but we did have some fun." Hinata answered,
"Have you kids been good while I was out?"
"Yeah, you could say that. Yeah." Cameron answered,
"Oh good you kids seemed to be having fun with the babysitter, because he's the bat in the mat I just hired to look after you and guess what? We're gonna get married." the mom said and shown the bite marks on her neck,
"Eee! You're gonna have a new dad." she squealed,
"Oh yeeeeeesh…" Hinata sucks air thru her teeth in embarrassment,
"Should we tell mom about the incident?" Cameron asked,
"More like should we call Lucy that the bat is marrying out mom." Hinata answered,
"We're dead…" they said.
"The End"
"Well that was a very awkward ending." Michael said,
"Why would our mom marry a bat in the mat?" Hinata asked,
"Yeah, that doesn't make any sense at all. I mean there's very little Dr. Seuss rhymes in that story." Cameron said,
"It's just a story kids. They don't mean anything, it's just for fun." Auburn said,
"Well I know it's fun, but there are things that never makes any sense. There a some stories we've done in the past that made no sense and we've been through worse." Michael said,
"Well how about the next story that makes more sense?" Sofia asked,
"Well about time. Lay it on." Hinata said,
"Hope it's a good one." Andréa said,
"Anything based?" Auburn asked,
"It is based on a popular game. A story where it lays in the middle of space, where you have multiple jobs and where murder strikes as you least expected among us. Where, when and how you are absolute…"
End of Chapter