"What do you mean someone's choking your monkey?," the mustached man asked in an exasperated tone.
"Phrasing,"Sarah added unhelpfully.
"Like I said boss, Umbo's getting choked out up there. I think by the baby," Jacobs confirmed in a worrying tone. Due to his contract with the Triclops Macaque, Jacobs could feel the monkey's rising fear, anxiety and general discomfort at being choked out. It's one thing to be stressed in battle, it's another when you're being stressed out because you're being choked out by a baby.
"Well don't just stand there numb nuts, recall him," the mustached man commanded.
"I can't boss, I don't got a clear line of sight!"
"Alright," Sarah interjected, "let's see if I can do something about it."
The woman reached into her robes and produced a habitat disk decorated with a variety of bones. Anyone looking at it would get the same feeling of natural dread they would get if they spent time in a mausoleum.
Sarah began to channel mana into the habitat disk, causing it to glow with a dim, sickly green color.
"Come on out, Slick."
*Squelch*
Drops of goo began to materialize from the habitat disk and drip out of it like a disgusting faucet. The droplets fell to the ground only for a moment before floating upwards and condensing into a shape akin to a Halloween ghost decoration made of slime.
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Classification: Undead
Species: Poltergeist
Subspecies: Slime Phantom
Level: 6
Grade: E
Attribute: Dark
Description: Not to be confused with Phantom Slimes,which are Slime monsters with undead attributes mixed in, Slime Phantoms are a type of purely undead monster. Slime Phantoms are able to do all the things other ghost-type monsters are able to do: flight, invisibility, transparency, etc., but they always leave a trail of ectoplasm due to their unstable nature of being made of the stuff. On the plus side, they're able to manipulate their slimy excretions to be as sticky as glue or as slick as lubricant.
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"Blorb," Slick the Slime Phantom bubbled as they turned towards his master.
"Alright Slick, go get the monkey and the baby."
"Bloop."
The Slime Phantom began to float up towards the open window, leaving a sticky trail of ectoplasm in its wake.
"Gross."
"Good thing this stuff disappears quickly," Sarah added as she scooped up some of the ectoplasm between her fingers,"otherwise we'd be in a lot more trouble."
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Slick quietly entered the window that their compatriot had opened earlier, it's gooey eyes scanning the room in search of it's targets.
"Ook!"
"Bleck?"
The gooey apparition made his way over to the crib at Umbo the Triclops Macaque's calling. Greeted by the sight of the aforementioned monkey locked in the grips of the little baby minotaur Minos, Slick couldn't help but quietly laugh a little.
"Gehehe!"
"Eep!"
Umbo looked displeased at Slick's laughter and began to desperately gesture at his situation with his head.
The Slime Phantom laughed a little bit longer until finally deciding to help the monkey out.
Slick reached a pair of slimy hands towards the monkey and minotaur, ready to lift the two of them out of the crib and deal with this problem with the others.
Just as the phantom's hands got within a few inches of the baby minotaur, a sudden flash of light emitted from the baby's horn burned it's hands and repelled it.
"Gee-"
"Eep-"
Both Slick and Umbo let out quiet cries of pain as the light affected them differently.
Slick began to flail it's ghostly appendages around in an attempt to put out the flames that has spontaneously appeared upon them, while Umbo kept rapidly blinking in an attempt to regain his eyesight, having been blinded by the sudden light show.
It took a few minutes, but they eventually recovered.
Umbo shot Slick a dirty glare and let out a small noise as if to say, "see the issue?"
"Ook eep?"
"Blorb."
The Slime Phantom scratched it's non-existent face, trying to figure out exactly how they were to get Umbo out of his predicament if the baby minotaur could somehow repel it.
Out of curiosity, Slick experimentally reached out a single hand towards the baby minotaur. As it's hands got closer and closer, the baby's horns were beginning to glow again.
"Blorb?"
Seeing this reaction take place, Slick retracted his hand to see if the horns would stop glowing, which they did.
"Blorb."
For it's next experiment, Slick began to conjure a small ball of slime. Once it was fully condensed, he flicked it towards the crib.
As the slime ball flew towards the crib, a small barrier made of mana suddenly appeared around Minos. This lead to the slime not being able to touch the baby minotaur, but thoroughly coating the Triclops Macaque.
*Splat!*
"Ook-ee?!"
"Blorb!"
It appeared even it's own slime would be repelled by the baby minotaur's horns, but the monkey was fair game.
In a moment of inspirational triumph, Slick conjured yet another ball of slime, only this time it looked significantly shinier than the one it had conjured previously.
Before Umbo could comprehend what had just happened, he was hit with yet another ball of slime. Only this time it was much slicker.
"Eep?!"
"Blorb," Slick gurgled as they made a shimmying motion.
It took Umbo a few seconds to comprehend it, but when he tried to mimick the motion, he noticed that he was now slipping out of Minos' death hug.
A feeling of elation came over Umbo as he wiggled out of Minos' arms and was once again free.
"Ook!"
"Blorble!"
Both monkey and phantom began to celebrate this small victory, only to be interrupted by the sound of a crying infant.
"Ook?"
"Blorb?"
"Mooowaaah!"
Evidently, this caused the human to stir from his slumber and the two intruding monsters to go on high alert.
"Mmm?"
"Blorb-oh."
Thinking quickly, Umbo and Slick bolted out of the window before the human could fully stir to consciousness.
As they left, Umbo made sure to close the window as to limit the amount of evidence of their intrusion.
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Jordie groggily got out of bed as the sound of Minos' crying stirred him awake.
He made his way over to the crib and lifted the crying minotaur babe out of it in order to comfort him.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's o...why...is there slime in your crib?"
Jordie looked at Minos for an answer, but he had already fallen back asleep at Jordie's coaxing.
"...we're just gonna share a bed tonight."