Hey everyone! Randall here. Sorry I haven't been around lately, had some things to get done. And I'm a little down about writing that thing involving my caretaker.....

Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 5 Flinging the Slug

I waited a second, trying to remember where the lunch room actually was. I decided to go with a saying. As some human once said....

"Follow the crowd...." I turn tail and headed for the stairs. Halfway down I could hear the early chit chat of the students. Typical....well at least I'm on the right floor. I go to the doorway to see monsters heading down the right of the hall. I grinned in thinking that I was on the right track. I took to the ceiling and trailed down the hall. A right into a hall, then later on a left. Bingo.

A long line was already forming to the side line of where the serving was happening. I gritted my teeth. I didn't want to get caught in a line. I decided on getting a table first. "Claim" one if you will. I went into the huge room and took a look around. Simple white colored, pillars holding its ceiling up. To the left was a door that led to the back of the school.....or is it the front? I kept a look around and settled for a table that was in front of a two pillar wall. What the hey. At least I don't have to look behind me. I crawled over and got onto the floor and took a seat, slipping my tail through the hole and placing my bag beside me. I quickly placed a bored expression on my face. I think I've used it before.

Seeing as no one was around, I settled to search my book bag for something to do. I had to wait until that line went down. Lunch was mostly the only thing that kept me alive these years. I felt like I should first claim my seat, table, first. Seeing as how no one likes me in this school, they wouldn't think of sitting near me.

Anyway, I settled for looking at the forms that told what I would be doing this semester. I placed them on the table and looked over them. "Blah blah blah....the same old thing.....can't they just tell us about it...." I mumbled. Its getting old about having some teachers hand you something and don't explain it. I go bored out of life looking over them and placed the papers back in my bag and took out my tracker. I flipped through a couple pages and stopped, seeing the map of our world.

I was good in Mon. History. Seeing as how I was paired with morons. Offense to Sullivan. I was at first, before knowing of scareing, thinking of traveling our world. No sooner had I wanted to be a scarer did that idea disappear. I haven't been anywhere else except the area my "home" is and the city. Who knows what else is out there....

What? What our world looks like? Well actually you can pretty much see a map of it above Celia in Monsters Inc.'s lobby.

Shoot!. I was just reminded. Dead smack in front of me was her and a couple of her friends. Whatever Percy was planning, I had to do it in the middle of the cafeteria. Where was she anyway?

I got my answer from a "Psst" sound behind me. I looked to my side. The long table, half hidden from the wall, was where she was. She smiled evilly at me. I knew she had something up her sleeve. She rummaged through her backpack as I tried to think.

What is she going to do?! What am I going to do!? Who will this hurt more? Me or Celia?

I turned back around and looked. In her had was a plastic bag filled with something. You probably could tell nothing was solid in there. It was actually a gas. I could tell from the air swirling around in it. It then caught me. I it was a perfume....a human one.

Now don't ask me. I don't usually use any...."scent" enhancers. Sure I spray my fronds here and there, but not at this current time. Anyhow. Let me think. Try thinking that a human perfume is the exact opposite of what it is.

Confused? Well lets just say it smells bad to us monsters. It wasn't the same as touching a human, its rather like a "rare sickness". Monsters would go on and on that they would die or something, when all they had to do was wash off twice a day.

Really. That stuff couldn't come off for weeks. I now know what she was planning. Her father's a researcher in the field of humans. From what I know now, it would be pretty stupid to try taking a human info class.

Anyway. She signaled me the go ahead to distract Celia. I was nervous at first, gulping down those first questions I made. But I lifted myself up from my chairs and started toward Celia. At first, I wanted to go through with it. Just a little talk, a slight turn of the head, and a free life of Percy. Believe me, she keeps to her work. Just tell her victims. Now the old me, the one who was stressed out and blinded by rage, would've let her get this.

"What do you want?".

I broke out of thought and saw that I was right near Celia, all of them including her staring at me. "Uh.....uh....hi Celia" I started, not sure really what to do. Well, I knew how much this would do. Celia would be so embarrassed. I tried to come to a conclusion. Jeez, I couldn't be responsible for this.

"Jeez I'm an idiot" I whispered. "What?". I had to. "Celia....Percy's gonna" I began, pointing my top left hand back of me, then turning my head.

Percy had placed the bag in her pack, seeming to only use it on Celia, and had her tray in her hand. Ehh....

"Oh shoot" I said. She threw it at me. I had enough time to duck. I dove down and hit my stomach on my floor.

(SPLAT!)

I rolled around to see what I feared. Sullivan and Wazowski had been coming out of the line. That's when I saw Percy's plate slide off Wazowski's face. I didn't want to know what was in their minds. The first time Wazowski got hit with something other than piles of paper work, he would cause a......

"FOOD FIGHT!"

You guess it. Everyone picked up what they could find and threw it to the nearest monster possible. I dove under my table, while grabbing my pack, to avoid any impaction. No I'm not a coward. Why would I miss out on this? Well, recently I had to go through skin shedding. Yes....it was hard and painful at times, but I had new shinning scales for the year. And I couldn't ruin them........at least until after Picture day.

I just watched. Seeing the cafeteria ladies taking cover behind their "kitchen". What the heck were these guys thinking!?

I looked to my left to see Strife under the table far from mine. He seemed to growl as he did, he must have gone through skin shedding recently too. I don't know if this has ever happened in the human world before, but let , me tell ya...when you have Wazowski in your school, you wouldn't go through a year without him doing this.....if he got hit that is.
I stayed where I was, hoping an attendant or someone would come in and end this. I looked across me to see Celia under the table, laughing. Wazowski and her were too busy to notice each other. I turned around and looked back at Percy, who was taping her fingers on the table. She didn't like anything that was just for fun, but no one even dared to hit her.

"(Three guess's I'm going to get blamed for this)" I thought. I was soon torn from my thoughts when I was yanked out under the table by my tail. My eyes soon found the floor, but shifted to who was holding me. Sullivan of course. He smiled, on that I would give four hooks to.

"Take aim Mikey" he said. I gulped upward, being upside down and all, and looked upward to see Wazowski ahead. He had a container of "Snail Slime". The little olive stole it when nobody was looking! Sullivan wanted to make sure I couldn't get away. He held my tail with his one hand and held the area between my legs with his other. "What are you doing!? You know how hard that is....!" I began.

Too bad for me. I got the full splat of that slime. It hit onto my back and down onto my face. I was covered in the goo! I spat out some of the slime from my mouth, hated the stuff, as Wazowski went for round two. He picked up Celia's tray and aimed. That was all I could take. I swung myself left and, like a jungle vine, and then to the right. The projectile missed me as I hit into Sullivan, knocking him onto his back. He let go of my tail as I found myself right onto of the big galoot. Sullivan slowly lifted his head with a growl, as all I could down was smile nervously.

"Uh oh". For once Wazowski was right. My head shot up, along with my fronds, looking at where Wazowski was, Sullivan as well. I spotted the principal (he had a tag on his suit, which was for new students) with a pizza on his mouth.

He was huge! Take the body of Ranft, plus twelve tentacles for feet, four buffed hands with claws, broad shoulders, large mouth like Ricky's with pointed teeth, and eyes like Sullivan's. He starred daggers at everyone as his bottom arms took the pizza off as he took a hold of his whistle around his low neck and blew loudly. Everyone stopped immediately. After a moment of looking around in silence, me hesitating, he spoke.

"Alright....who is responsible for this!?" he yelled. Phew. He almost blew Wazowski over if he didn't stand his ground, I could tell because my fronds moved like crazy from his wind full mouth.

"Alright then.......does everyone want to clean the cafeteria?" he said. That settled it. After a moment, Sullivan and Wazowski pointed at me. Their friends soon followed in the pointing. "Wha!? I didn't!" I started. "Come to my office....." he said, turning. I was about to say something else, but Sullivan noticed his back was turned. He grabbed my neck and threw me on the floor beside him. I didn't want to move as he got up. I could see Sullivan was about to plant his foot on my back. But I was thankful when he stopped, seeing the principal turn. I slowly got up and limped my way toward him, a small limp, I would be better in a minute or two. "As for you...." the principal began, looking at the ones who pointed. "I want you to spend thirty minutes after school cleaning this up!" he yelled. He walked off as I saw Sullivan punch his fist into his palm. That gave me the cue to leave.

*

"Do you know how long it takes to clean all that up!?".

"But I didn't....!".

"Quiet Boggs! A selection of your piers told me you started it!".

Me and the principal, who's name was...heh heh....Fargus, were having an all out war here in his office. "But Mr. Fargus! I was under the table at the beginning!" I said. "Yes, trying to hide from being caught!". "But look! See!" I said, rubbing my gooey scales. "If I started it, I wouldn't have let me scales get slimed!" I said. "Big deal....you reptiles are slimy creatures anyway" he said.

Ooh...that hit me. Not just me, but anyone like me. I was shocked then, but I would have thrashed him now.

"Besides, after starting this fight, you pounce on James P. Sullivan!" he added. Pounce Sullivan? Me? "But I....eh" I said . "Enough Boggs! You listen to me! I give you three strikes! One down, leaving you two more...after last one, if you don't shape up, I'll have you expelled!".

Sheeesh.....I've had a good record since the beginning of middle school (no detentions and such). Liars Ehh...at least I have two chances...

"Now get to class!" he yelled at me. "And Boggs.....I'll see you after school...." he added. I slowly got up, still shocked. After school? Oh no. And just before I left....

"Those reptiles are all alike, slimy, foul, lying members of society....just like that one of Scare Academy....".

*

I dragged myself down the emptied halls, lunch wasn't out over, looking for my class on this floor. My neck hurts, my tail hurts, my whole body does. My scales were sticky. And above that, being called a "slimy" reptiles! Ergh! I would kill him!

"That principal thinks....he's so mighty....calling me slimy....he'll get it one day..." I mumbled. Didn't want to tell it to him.

"Stupid Sullivan....I'm surprised I don't slip".

I was right then. Snail Slime was like a sticky coating, but on my scales it was the same. I swear, if anything got onto me, I wouldn't get it off for hours.

This was NOT a good day! But at least the next thing would cheer me up, and I didn't expect it.

I stopped and looked ahead. The hall that went left to the lunch room was just ahead, as did the hall ahead led to a stairwell, near my next class. Right at the turn, wearing quite a rather comical sash.....was Fungus Simperton.

I chuckled as I spoke. "Oh boy". Let me tell ya, Fungus was alright in my book. He was sorta my only friend for years. He wasn't that shaky self around me he was like in the "movie". That was because of the yelling I did because of my constant stress.

Anyhow. He was the only one that I....controlled. In a word he's the only one who listened to what I told him to do? Get it? No? Just watch.

I still had to laugh as I got onto the ceiling, slinking myself over to him. "Fungus" I said in a ghostly voice. now, by how long I've known him, Fungus is a coward.

He simply spun around as I spoke again. He backed up a bit as he thought that the sound was coming from inside the locker wall. I dropped down behind him as he back up. He backed up to the point where he hit my chest.

"Hey Fungus". He jumped, well actually spun, around to see me. I laughed at how good that was. "Randall!?" he yelled, surprised. I slowly stopped laughing. "Yeah its me..." I said.

I knew Fungus for years. We were surprised to see each other, since we didn't last year. I was a little bit concerned through. I never really did reveal my whole life to him. "What are you going here?" I asked. I crossed my arms, all of them mind you. "Well...uh...." he began. "Your a hall monitor aren't you?" I said. It took me a second or two to take my arms away from my sticky scales.

Yeah, we had monitors even in middle school, seeing as how there are so many different kinds of monsters, we needed them.

"Y...yes...." he said. "Well why?" I asked, circling him. "Your not the type" I said, stopping, knowing he was NOT the type at all.

"Well...uh..." he began, rubbing his neck. "Come on Fungus.....we're friends right? You can trust me...."I said, of course I could be trusted. "Well....my mom is teaching in C-6 and I have that class next period. Always the science wiz.

"Hey wait! I got that class too!" I said. This was great! Someone I can actually work with. "Oh...well...uh...that sounds good" he said. "Your afraid she'll embarrass you don't you?" I said, smugly, finally I can smug around someone.

"Yeah". "Fungus....you...eh...come on...." I said, stopping at his side. "But....Randall!" he began. Excuses, I was getting tired of his talking. I grabbed his sash and dragged him toward the door near the stairwell. "Sometimes Fungus....you don't know how lucky you are to have a mom" I said, the last part as a whisper. I kept dragging him. He kicked my tail and between my right legs, but I didn't mind, he was weak.

"Besides Fungus, you can't avoid it forever....." I said. He really couldn't. "Randall please don't!". Sure, I didn't want to push a chance of embarrassment for him, but he had to go in sooner or later. Tell me, who's the smart one now?

I kept my right hands dragged him over as I opened the door.

Try getting snail slime out of your scales. Heck, things weren't good that day, at least seeing Fungus brightened me up, but things aren't over yet! Next chapter will be up soon.