“One day I would like go somewhere… special.”
Vincent, being the kind the monster who would rather dream up and a place than visit it, replied.
“Well, if you like, you may come to the store with me for more crayons.”
Daisy blinked her two large eyes at him, twisting them into one large pretzel like shape.
“No Vincent.” She sighed in frustration. “I mean somewhere REALLY special.”
Vincent did not really seem to care much about the somewhere special that Daisy had in mind so she went off to talk to Stinky.
“One Day…” Daisy announced, sliding under the bed where Stinky was eating dust balls, “One day I would like to go somewhere special.”
Stinky, with his mouth full of dust and dirt, smiled at Daisy.
“Me too! Let’s go under the couch together… Oh Boy! I can’t wait to see what kind of dust grows there.”
One of Daisy’s eyes drooped a little and she didn’t bother explaining to Stinky, who had already toddled off to the sitting room for an afternoon snack, that dust was not special to her.
Fluffy was sitting on the couch, one ear drooping then the other as she almost nodded off the sleep.
“Fluffy!” Daisy shouted with excitement as she slithered up the side of the couch.
Fluffy jerked up in alarm, rubbed her tired eyes and Daisy went on.
“I have decided that very soon, I am going to do something REALLY SPECIAL!”
Fluffy raised her eyebrows, “Oh good, will you get me a pillow and blanket too when you get yourself one?”
At just that moment Daisy heard loud grinding coming from the kitchen so she left Fluffy to her nap and went to find Nipper, crunching away at the table legs.
“Daisy!” He cried out.
Daisy smiled, maybe Nipper heard the news about her plans, and was calling to congratulate her.
“Oh Nipper! Have you heard? I’m about to do something incredibly SPECIAL… today!”
Nipper took one last nip at the table leg,
“I want to come with you!”
Daisy clapped her hands,
“You do?”
Nipper nodded, his eyes lighting up,
“Yes, take me with you outside where the table legs grow out of the ground and are as big as garbage cans!”
Daisy only starred at poor confused Nipper as it dawned on her that something special was different for everyone.
She would just need to do her something special on her own.
So she did.
She searched everywhere until she found a very special pink balloon, “Oh how exciting!” She thought.
“It matches the pink parts in my pajamas.”
Being the very small monster that she is, Daisy was able to fit right through the puppy door, though the balloon got stuck for a moment or two.
Out in the backyard, a gust of wind came by and Up up into the sky she went, clutching the balloon.
“I cannot wait until I get there. I cannot wait until I get to see the moon.”
Dear little Daisy floated up and off for quite some time before she began to even get close, but finally she reached it.
The moon, all made of Munster just as she had supposed.
After a bit of snacking, and a bit of sliding around, Daisy began to miss all her monster friends and she decided to take her balloon, and go home.
She pulled a tiny pin from her pajama pocket and poked a tiny hole into the pink balloon.
Slow, very slowly, she floated back down until at last she was home, in her very own back yard and who do you think was there to greet her but Vincent, Stinky, Fluffy and Nipper.
“Hello Daisy!” They cried, rushing up to greet her.
“Why did you go? What did you do? Tell us about your adventure!”
Daisy was so pleased that her friends wanted to know about her trip.
Even though flying to the moon was not their own something special, Daisy was something special and they all loved their friend.
So Daisy told them about birds and wind and the moon made of Munster.
“But..” Daisy finished, “While I am very happy that I have gone to see the moon, I am very happy to come home to all of you. My dear Friends.”
The End.
Art by Hank Champion
Story by Megan Champion
