*Chapter 8* Eating the Slug

“That wasn’t a sea slug at all! That was a bomb!” exclaimed Daisy.

“Don’t be ridiculous, Daisy,” said Tom. “Get up. Look in the pan. There’s still a piece left. I bet that’s the part that you have to eat anyways!” They all looked inside the pan. This time more cautious not knowing what the sea slug would do to them again. In the middle was a long brown, meat-like piece leftover from the screaming slug.

“This is nasty, Max,” said Leo. “That lousy slug spewed its pieces all over me. Look I even have little burn marks where it landed on me!”

“Go wash it off then,” said Max. “There’s still a piece left and I really want know what it tastes like.” One by one they went to the bathroom and used a rag to wipe of the spewed pieces of slug. Max picked up the chunks left on the floor and Daisy wiped up the rest with a towel. Finally, when it was all cleaned up, they sat back at the table and stared at the remains of the slug. Daisy sliced it and put a small chunk onto a piece of bread.

“You’re first, Beaver” said Max. Leo looked at it, took a big breath, and then a bite.

“How is it?” asked Daisy.

Leo made a face and then said, “Disgusting!”

“I want to try it,” said Max. Leo handed over the piece of bread with brown sea slug smeared on it. Max smelled it and then took a bite. “EWWWWW! That is awful!” Max threw it in the garbage and Daisy tied the bag worried that they might make her try it too.

“We should take it outside before mom or dad sees this,” said Daisy. “They’re going to be so mad!” But at that point the rain ominously started.

“Let’s just wait until the rain stops,” said Leo.

“Alright, let’s not forget. Mom and dad will be back by 4 pm,” said Max. “You know what that means right? NINTENDO!” Leo and Max ran off to the TV leaving Daisy alone to play on the computer.

But when she got to the computer, she found that Leo had left up some interesting sites. There was one on Krakatoa explaining what their dad had talked about earlier in the day. Krakatoa was a volcano that erupted a long time ago and killed over 35,000 people. For many years after it erupted, no one or thing lived on the island, but today it is full of villages, people and a wide variety of creatures.
“Wow, that’s really interesting,” thought Daisy. She looked at the next page. Her brother had searched for “Indonesian Flood Stories”. She read slowly and carefully over this page. Her eyes got wider and wider and mouth started to drop. She turned and looked outside and then to the garbage bag containing the lifeless dead slug, but could not believe what was happening. “I’ve started another flood,” thought Daisy. Her mind raced faster and faster. “Boys, get over here. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!”