Episode 21: El Chupacabra part 1

Manny and Frida were walking when they saw something moving around in a trash can.

"What is that?" Frida asked.

"I don't know." Manny said. He had one hand over his belt and the other protectively holding Frida.

Then out popped a little Chupacabra.

"Chui? Chui! Oh Chui! I've missed you!" He picked him up and hugged him.

"Hey cutie! Nice to see you again." Frida said.

But the reunion was cut short when they remembered what happened last time.

"Wait! We can't keep him. He's a goat eater." Manny sighed.

Chui gave him a sad look, then pulled out a carrot and started eating it.

"Um Manny, I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure what he just ate wasn't a goat." Frida said. "I think he's a vegetarian."

"Which means I can keep him!"

At the Rivera house...

"You can't keep him!" Rodolfo said.

"But Dad, he's gone total vegan." Manny said. "See!"

He handed Chui a carrot and the creature devoured it.

"And look at this."

He brought Chui over to a goat pen. Chui sniffed the goats and stuck out his tongue.

"Eww!"

"See?"

"Well, considering he no longer craves goat meat I suppose we can keep him."

"Thank you!"

"But if he so much as nibbles on a goat, we're getting rid of him!"

"Okay Dad."

Later that night Manny, Frida, and Django went to pull some pranks.

"Oh, dudes! Chakal is going to have glue in his hair for weeks." Django laughed.

"I know! Oh hey have you met Chui?" Manny said.

"What's a Chui?" Django asked.

Manny held him up.

"Isn't he adorable?" Frida asked.

"Uh he's a little freaky looking."

Chui jumped on Django's face.

"Ahhh! Get him off! Get him off!" Django said running around. "Get this thing off me!"

"Chui! Bad boy!" Manny said pulling him off.

"Thanks man." Django said. "Stupid little twerp."

Then Chui bit Django on the hand.

"Yee-och!"

"Sorry Django."

"Learn to control that thing. Wow! He got me good!"

"Again sorry."

"So how are things with Zoe?" Frida asked.

"Not good. She and I have been bickering lately."

"Careful dude. Zoe's one tough bird." Manny warned.

"I know. Well I better get home before Nana kills me...again!"

"Good night, Django." Manny and Frida said.

"Good night, Love birds."

That night something rambaged through town and ate up tons of goats. The next morning it was all over the news.

"500 goats were eaten in the middle of the night." The reporter said. "It can only mean one thing. El Chupacabra is back!"

"Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equia Rivera!" Rodolfo said. "Where are you?"

He searched for Manny but couldn't find him.

"Papi, have you seen Manny?"

"He's in the car."

"What's he doing in there?" Rodolfo went outside to the car and opened it. "Manny I need to- ayeeee!"

He caught him kissing and making out with Frida. They both looked up and blushed.

"Dad! Do you mind?" Manny said. "A little privacy, por favor."

"Your amor can wait, Romeo." Rodolfo said. "You have some explaining to do."

"What did I do?"

5 seconds later...

"Dad! Chui didn't do it."

"He ate 500 goats in one night! Unclean!"

"No because Chui would've gotten bigger and he's still the same size."

"Maybe there's another Chupacabra running around." Frida suggested.

"If that's true then where did it come from?" Rodolfo asked.

...

"Zoe. I'm sorry." Django said.

"That's the 6th date you've forgotten this month!" She said.

"Something came up."

"So you no longer care about me!"

"Oh Zoe! Don't be dramatic!"

"Django you've never done anything romantic with me."

"I gotta go!"

He went outside and saw Manny and Frida waiting for him.

"Hey guys what's going on?"

"There's a Chupacabra on the loose and we're gonna catch it to prove Chui is innocent. You in?" Manny said.

"Lucky for you guys I happen to be an expert on Chupacabras." Django said. "And I have just the bait."

Chupacabras attack mostly at night so the three of them decided to spring their trap at night. Django had a net in the car and they were using a goat puppet as bait. Django tied the strings to Manny's wrists and ankles so he could control it.

"Why am I the bait?" Manny asked.

"Because I'm the only one with a driver's license and you're too scared of your girlfriend to make her do it." Django said.

"I'm not scared! I can make her do whatever I want."

"What was that, Manny?" Frida said.

"Nothing dear!"

They drove around in the car with Manny working the puppet.

"Come on, a bit more realistic." Django said.

"Hey give me a break! My wrists and ankles are sore."

Then the puppet got snagged on a sign outside and the strings pulled Manny up to the car ceiling.

"Owww!"

"Manny? You alright?" Frida asked.

"No! This has gotta be the most humiliating moment of my life."

"Okay I'm going to get some tools. You guys stay here." Django said leaving.

"Wait! Come back! Get me down from here!" Manny said.

"Calm down, Manny I got ya." Frida said untying him.

"Thanks."

They sat in the front seat and waited for Django. 3 hours passed and it was getting late.

"Where is that bonehead?" Manny groaned.

"I don't know. It's almost 10:00." Frida said.

Suddenly they heard large footsteps and the ground started shaking.

"Manny, what was that?"

Then the biggest Chupacabra both of them had ever seen walked up to the car.

"Aye caramba!" Manny shouted.

"He's huge!" Frida gasped.

"And ugly too!"

The Chupacabra let out a loud roar that made the car shake.

"Step on it! Manny!" Frida screamed.

Manny slammed on the pedal and the car took off. They drove all around town with the Chupacabra chasing them while eating up every goat it saw. People ran away in a terror.

"Look out! Out of the way! Excuse me!" Manny said as he drove past people.

"Dude! Who taught you how to drive?!" Frida cried.

After a few twists and turns they lost the chubacabra.

"That was the most terrifying creature I had ever seen." Frida said.

"Well, at least we lost it. Man! Just wait til I get my hands on Django! We could have been killed!" Manny said.

"Let's go home."

They were just about to leave when they were stopped by Dr. Chipolte Jr.

"Hola Manny and Frida."

"What do you want Dr. Chimpanzee?" Manny said.

"Chipolte! Chipolte! What is wrong with you? Seriously! Anyway, I came to inform you that what you're hunting is no ordinary El Chupacabra."

"What do you mean?" Frida asked.

"I mean someone in Miracle City is turning into an El Chupacabra every night. It's kind of like a were wolf thing."

"Really?" Manny said.

"Yes and I say we should team up and kill it!"

"No way! That last time I did that you double crossed me...twice! So no deal!"

With that Manny drove away.

"Swine! Well, who needs him! When I find the monster I'll shoot it with an underworld bullet! Cable of killing any human, skeleton, zombie, and especially chupacabras. And once the monster's dead I'll extract it's blood and use it to make one that will serve me unlike that reject one I made!"

He pulled out a box of the bullets and a gun. He loaded the gun and made sure everything was set up perfectly.

"Now the tricky part, who is El chubacabra?"

To be continued...