An Extraordinary Pumpkin

By  Lily M

The Mad Scientist took out his gleaming knife and raised it above his head. “It’s a perfect night to test my skills” he cackled. He stabbed the unfortunate victim. “He’ll make a perfect ingredient to my soup!” he said, as he cut out parts of his victim’s body. “Perfect!” Tonight, his victim happened to be… a pumpkin!

“Quite a masterpiece” said the scientist, studying his carved pumpkin. It had fierce, narrowed eyes and a grin about as welcoming as the devil’s house. “Hmmmm” mumbled the scientist. “It’d look much better in red”… he trailed off. “Uggh” his foot was stuck. Urrgghh! he was  struggling to remove his feet from the old, creaking floorboards. While he was pulling his foot, he accidentally bumped the table, and flasks and test tubes of all sorts came tumbling down. All of them burst on the floorboards in a big mess. It sparkled for a moment, then BAM! The floorboards exploded, and his foot was free. That gave the mad scientist an idea! He was going to create a potion to turn pumpkins red!

At first he tried Plutonium with a teaspoon of Araclepa. He tested it on his pet cat, Slaughter. Long story short: He now calls him Tiny. After exactly 2,642 potions, he had an idea! Lemonadium and a handful of powdered Marzbarite. He was about to pour in the Marzbarite, when “ Massive” the caterpillar ( Result of potion #873 ) knocked the flask of I’msoboredite and it spilled into the Lemonadium, surprising the scientist, making him spill the potion. It exploded onto the pumpkin. “Uh Oh”  said the scientist in fear, backing away and staring wide eyed at the pumpkin. It seemed  to grin wider in response.

Poof! A cloud engulfed the pumpkin. It turned green, then blue, then yellow, then purple…  Then finally, RED! The cloud dissolved, leaving a pumpkin as breathtaking as a BIG chocolate cake presented on a plate of pure gold. “Perfect!!” cried the scientist, and placed a candle inside it. It’s cruel eyes glowed with anger ,and the mouth grinned more than ever.

“It would be better with blue spots, though…” mumbled the scientist. “Oh No,” thought Tiny. “Here we go again!”