Something’s Under The Bed... Again

"LU? LU!" Regan's voice cried out from the darkness.

Her stepfather Lu, the devil himself, burst open the door and approached her bedside and calmly asked. "Yes Regan. What is it?" 

"Lu, I think there's another monster under the bed." the frightened five-year old peeped as she shuttered under her covers. "Can you go check it, please?"

"Another monster, you say?" Lu amusedly said. "I guess it's true what they say. Some lolligaggers are always trying to ice skate uphill. Don't worry pumpkin. I can take a look. There shall be no monsters living under this bed."

Lu knelt down and lift up the covers to peak under the bed. His scarlet red eyes could not find any scale, hair, or any evident presence of his stepdaughter's so called monster. He then stretched his arm underneath, toying with Regan's expectations. It was the same scheme that he'd always pull just to appease the little one.

"Careful Lu," Little Regan warned. "I heard some rustling under there."

"Rustling?" the devil whispered, addled by what the little mortal child meant. He hadn't started the stunt yet where he would sink under the bed and open up a portal to roughhouse with his assistant Scrugs. However he continued to feel around the spacing. Suddenly he touched something long and mushy. Lu smirked, figuring that it was one of Regan's toys that he could use in his act.

"Oh, wait!" Lu conned. "I think I might have nabbed some-D'OW!" 

Regan ducked under her blankets when she heard him yelped. Lu grasped his mouth with his right hand and uttered a loud, painful moan. He felt rows of needles puncture into his hand. The embers of hellfire couldn't match up this amount of pain. This was something different. Something was actually under the bed and attacked him. 

Lu thought about all sorts of new tortures to endure onto his assailant once he wrapped his hands around its neck. He then furiously pulled up the bed sheets and poked his head under the covers. His scarlet eyes blazed hatefully when he discovered the attacker.

"I think I found your monster!" he grumbled. 

Lu pulled his left hand up and showed Regan the monster under the bed. The large seven-foot, cream-colored Slinky had his oval-shaped mouth clammed around the devil's pale hand. Slinky's blinked his emotionless pink eyes, not caring about the situation that he has put himself in. He also refused to not let go Lu's hand, which he mistook for a juicy meal.

"Bad Slinky!" Regan said and wagged her little finger at the great snake. "Very, very bad. You know you're not supposed to be out of your fish tank."

"Carmen, get the crowbar!"