Chapter 11 - The Monster Goes Mad
Frankenstein's monster let out a terrifying groan as it began to turn on its own master! "Please!" cried Dr. Frankenstein, "I am your master! Do as I say!" The creature stopped for a moment, wonder whether or not he should harm his master or not. Instead of getting angry again, he calmed down quite a bit and smiled. "Friend," it said, lending his hand out to the doctor.
"That's right," said Dr. Frankenstein, "No harm."
Meanwhile, outside the laboratory, Malaria's ghost minions were laughing as they toyed around with the door key; they were the ones who locked Becca and her friends in the lab! "Now let's have some more fun!" said one of the ghosts. It got out a box of matches and said to his comrades, "Outside! Up to the roof!" The other ghosts laughed with content and they made their way to a wall, went through it, and flew up to the top of the house's rooftop. One of the ghosts lit a match, and set it down on the roof, where it began to burn!
Back in the lab, Frankenstein's monster was just getting ready to help his master, when suddenly, he smelled smoke! The monster let out a big roar and yelled, "FIRE! NO FIRE!" Becca and her friends just stood there, terrified. But then, Mystery noticed a trapdoor underneath the experimenting table. "Quick," he said, "Into that trapdoor!" Becca got down on her knees and crawled toward the trapdoor. It was quite a struggle to open the door, but she managed; however, the force of pulling the door open caused to fall back and land on her backside! The monster noticed and charged toward the girl! Horror tried to stop him by climbing onto the top of a medicine cabinet, but the cabinet was so wobbly that it toppled over! Luckily, Horror was unhurt; Becca picked him up as the group all scrambled into the trapdoor.
As everyone travelled under the laboratory, Becca could hear the monster stomping around and growling above her. "I think he's gonna follow us!" she said, "We have to keep going!" Everywhere the friends went, the walls were decorated with cobwebs, spiders, and rats. "I hate this place!" cried Becca. Eventually, they came to another staircase that was going up. "We have to go up!" cried Horror, "Oh, sanctuary! Sanctuary!" Everyone went up the stairs. It was a long, dark and scary journey up those steps, but at last, they made it to the roof of the house! However, just when they thought they were safe, a fire was building up!
"We have to jump off!" said Sci Fi.
"But where will we land?" asked Becca.
"Down there!" said Adventure, pointing towards the ground. Where he was pointing, there was a pile of snow.
"How did THAT get there?" asked Becca.
"Maybe it snowed while we were in the house," suggested Mystery, "Anyway, we should get moving!" The fisher jumped into the pile of snow. Then, one by one, all the animals jumped into the snow pile (except Sheila, who was too little to jump). "Well!" shouted Sci Fi from down below, "Come on, Becca! You can do this!" Becca hesitated for a moment, but then she noticed the burning flames and heard the monster's voice from inside the house. "I'll do it!" she said. Clutching Sheila close to her chest, Becca jumped from the roof of the house and into the snow! When she got up, neither the girl nor her cat felt any pain. All the other animals cheered!
Meanwhile, Malaria's ghost minions were furious that they were defeated. Quickly, they flew away to the restricted section to spread the news to their mistress. When Malaria heard the news, she became red with fury. "This can't be!" cried the sorceress, "Why did the little brat and those animals have to escape?"
"I don't know, your Excellency," said Eddie, "But maybe you shouldn't be so vengeful and violent. You know, you should try poisoning her or drowning her."
"Eddie," said Malaria, "This girl is a feisty one. Just as feisty as Bethylasia. She needs something else, something that she fears the most!" And so, the wicked sorceress went back to her big book of spells to research another way to kill Becca.
