Muffin's Adventure in the Space Jungle (Chapter 6)

The slime monster growled with each breath as he continued to look at the petrified orange space cat. Then he started to speak once more, ‘You… You… YOOOUUU…’

‘Oh no! This is it. This is how my life comes to an end!’ thought Muffin as she closed her eyes and braced herself for the worst.

The monster continued to move closer to Muffin as he continued to roar, ‘You… YOU… YOOOUUU… want a cup of tea?’

Muffin’s eyes were still closed in the silence that followed. She thought to herself, ‘Is this it? Am I dead? At least there is tea in cat heaven!’ Then very slowly she opened one eye to see right there before her was the monster.

‘Y, y, you…? D, d, did you ask me if I wanted… a cup of tea?’ Muffin was very confused.

‘Well of course it was me!’ the monster retorted. ‘Do you see any other slime monsters round here?’

‘Well, no, but…’

‘But what?’ asked the monster.

‘But, I thought you were going to… eat me?’

The slime monster paused momentarily then responded, ‘You thought I was going to eat you?’

The monster and the cat stared at each other for a moment before the slime monster burst out laughing, ‘HAAA HAAA HAAAA!! No, no, no, I don’t want to eat you! Why would I want to eat you – you’re orange and furry and would surely taste foul!’

Muffin could not believe what she was hearing. ‘Well what do you want then?’

‘Like I just said, a cup of tea! Do you want to have one with me?’ he asked once more to the now extremely confused cat.

‘W, well that would be nice… but why?’ Muffin was now searching for answers in this unusual situation she found herself in.

‘Because you are the first creature I have seen for a long, long time’ the monster answered. ‘You see, I have been in that glade for many, many space years all on my own.

‘But why have you been on your own for such a long time?’ asked Muffin, who was now beginning to feel a lot more relaxed in the presence of this huge green creature.

‘Because no one has been in, everyone stays away from my glade. And I have been trapped in there. The only way I could be set free was to come into contact with another space creature from planet Um. But no other space creature has set foot in my glade until…’

‘Today!’ Muffin responded, finishing off the slime monster’s sentence.

‘Exactly! Your claws on my skin woke me up and did just that – you set me free!’ Muffin noticed the slime monster smile for the first time.

‘Well that is good news! I’m glad to be of service!’ chuckled Muffin with a proud grin on her face. ‘So how about that cup of tea then?’

‘Oh yes, that would be ever so nice!’ said the now much happier monster.

‘You can come back to my place if you like, I have a huge selection of very nice space teas for you to choose from.’ said Muffin with pride.

‘Oh that does sound nice!’ said the slime monster.

So the two creatures set off towards Muffin’s place where they sat and enjoyed drinking many cups of tea late into the evening. They had fun sharing space stories and laughing lots. From that day on the two creatures were best friends and had many, many, many more cups of tea!