Chapter 6 (Tatum's POV) 

"Mom, I'm sure she is ok." I said. 

"Mews!" My mother called out. 

"Mom, I'm sure they are gonna find her." I reassured. 

My mom's cat, Mews, disappeared yesterday and I think she ran away. I headed back inside the house because I was in the front yard. My mother and I found Dustin on the phone. He had just hung up the phone with some one.

"Alright, great news. They saw her wandering around Loch Nora." Dustin says. Loch Nora is a wealthy neighborhood around town. 

My mother chuckles through her tears, "How did the poor baby get out there?"

"Lost I think. So, me and Tatum will stay here in case any one calls again, you go help look." 

Mother nods and pulls Dustin and I into a tight hug.

"You can find her!" I encourage.

My mother pulls away and grab her sunglasses then drives off to go find her cat.  We smile and wave as she walks out the door.

As soon as she drives off I turn to Dustin, "Ok, will you please explain to me what happened to our cat?"

Dustin's sighs, "Ok, it's a long story.." 

Dustin begins to explain to me about the weird slug he found on Halloween and how it kept growing, and how it's probably one of those weird creatures Nancy told me about. And apparently he named it.

"Ok, so, Dart is in my room and all we need to do it trap him inside the storm cellar and figure out what to do with him." Dustin says.

I nod, "Ok, I'll grab some lunch meat and we can make a trail to lead him in the cellar."

Dustin agrees and we get to work. I grab the lunch meat out of the fridge and come back in the living room to find Dustin in various types of padding. 

"What the hell are you doing, boy?" I shouted.

"Protection, duh."

Dustin began to lay put the meat, and I went outside and opened up the cellar. He set up a train of bologna from his bedroom and the way through the house and outside to the cellar. 

"Ok I'll open the door and we both run outside and into the shed." I say. 

"No, I wanna open the door!" 

"Ok, jeeze. You do it then." I say with a grin.

Dustin opens his bedroom door and we dash out of the house. I run outside and opened the shed door for me and Dustin watch Dart through. The shed was made out of wood and there small gaps that me and Dustin could peak through.

We watched as the small creature walked out of the house and followed the trail of meat leading to the storm cellar. I panted as he got closer to the cellar that wasn't far from the shed. Dart hesitated as he heard the sounds coming from the shed. Dustin and I tried to stay calm but Dart kept inching towards us. Dustin sighsd and opened the shed door screaming at Dart and waving a hockey stick at him. Dart was caught off gaurd and ran in the cellar with fright. I quickly ran out and closed the two doors of the cellar before Dart ran back out. 

"Ok, go get me a lock for this thing." I said. 

Dustin gave me a chain with a lock around it I put it between the two handles so Dart couldn't get out. 

"Alright. Let's work out a plan to get rid of this son of a bitch." Dustin says.

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I dropped my bike on the concrete as me and Dustin ran to the Wheeler's house. 

Dustin and I decided to bike to the Wheeler's house to find Nancy and Mike to help us with this mess. I mean Nancy, Mike and Dustin have already experienced something like this. 

I ran up to their door and Dustin banged on the door. After a minute Mr. Wheeler or Ted, opened the door.

"Your line had been busy for over 2 hours, Mr. Wheeler. Do you realize that?" Dustin complains.

"I do." Mr. Wheeler says in a dull voice. 

Mr. Wheeler has always been.. I don't know how to describe him, I guess.. not lazy, but annoyingly calm but not I have no idea but he is always been kind weird, maybe pathetic?

"Where is Mike?" Dustin asks.

Mr. Wheeler shakes his head, "No clue."

"Well where the hell is he?" 

"Karen! Where is out son?" Mr. Wheeler yells to Mrs. Wheeler who was inside the house. He waits for her response and turns back to Dustin and I,                                                                                           "Will's house." Mr. Wheeler replies. 

"Ugh, no one is picking up there. Where is Nancy?" I say.

Mr. Wheeler again turns back to the inside of the house, "Karen! Where is Nancy?"                                 He waits for her response and turns back to us. 

"She is at Ally's. You realize that our children do not live her anymore, right?" He says. 

"Son of a bitch, you really are no help at all, you know that?" Dustin talks back.

I sling my arm around him and we start walking away from the door.

"Hey! Language!" Mr. Wheeler yells. 

We walk back up to our bikes and just as I pick up a bike I see a familiar car. The car parks in front of the house and I smile brightly.

"Steve!" I shout.

He smiles back at me. He had a small bouquet of flowers . 

"Steve, are those for Mr. And Mrs. Wheeler?" Dustin says walking up to Steve .

"No.."

"Good." I say, I grab the flowers from his hand and begin to walk up to his car. 

"Hey! What the hell!" 

"Nancy isn't home.." I say.

"Well where is she? And what are tou guys doing here?" Steve asks.

"Doesn't matter. We got bigger problems than your love life." Dustin pauses and opens the door to the backseat of Steve's car, "Do you still have that bat? The one with the nails?" Dustin's says.

"Yeah.. why?"

I open the passenger door, "Well explain it on the way." 

Stevs runs up to the car and starts driving. 

"Ok, pit stop at Steve's house to grab a few things then back to ours." I say.

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"Alright, so how big is this thing?" Steve questions.

"First it was like that, now it's like this." Dustin says, demonstrating with his hand and fingers.

"How do know that it inst just some lizard?"

"Because it's face opened up and ate our cat."  I said blankly. 

Steve shrugs and starts to turn into our driveway.  He got out of the car and opened the trunk, Steve tossed Dudtin his keys and grabbed the bst with nails he had and a flashlight. He flicked on the flashlight and made his way over to the storm cellar. 

"I don't hear shit." Steve says. He takes the bat and bangs on the cellar doors. 

"I swear if this is some sort of Halloween prank.. You're dead." 

"Steve, it's not a prank." I say.

Steve sighs, "You got a key for this thing?" 

I dig in my pocket for the key, and once I found it I passed it to Steve. We open the doors to the cellar and Steve flashes the light into the small room below ground. 

"He must be further down there? I'll stay up here incase he escapes." Dustin says.

I glared at Dustin and started slowly walked down the stairs case leading to cellar, clinging to Steve. Once we got down the steps I pull the metal string hanging from above and the light flicked on. 

My mouth dropped at the disgusting sight. Steve picked up with huge booger looking thingy with his bat. I looked around the room and saw another thing. 

"Tatum? Steve? What is going on down there?" Dustin called from above.

I flashed the light up at him and he jumped a little, "Get down here." 

Steve held the weird slimey thing up with his bat to show Dustin. 

"Oh shit!" Dustin said. 

I flashed the light small hole that was made in the wall by Dart.

"Oh shit!' Dustin repeated, slightly louder this time. 

We walked over to the hols and it has to be hundreds of feet long. 

"Well, shit." I say.

We all make our way out of the storm cellar and into the house. I sit down on the couch.

"Well we can't do much now. We gotta wait until tomorrow morning, because it is to late to set up the trail of meat to at the junk yard now." I say.

"Well, what do we do? Because I personally don't wanna sleep here tonight when we could he eaten alive." Dustin says.

"You guys could come over to my house and sleep on the couch. My parents won't be home." Steve points out. 

"I guess." 

We all got into Steve's car and he drove us to his house. Once we got to the house he parked in the drive away and we all flooded inside. Steve ran up the stairs to grab blankets and pillows for us. After we all got set up we went to bed and hoped for the best tomorrow.