Chimera Book One by Phil Gomm

Author:Phil Gomm
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784628116
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Chapter Fourteen

They landed on an enormous rubbish heap, their fall broken by large chunks of yellow foam and slashed sofa cushions. The rubbish heap was contained inside a cavernous chamber, its buttressed walls running wet with rainbow-slicks of oil. The chamber was illuminated by the flicker of fluorescent tubes that dangled from the walls on lengths of electrical wire. To his disgust, Kyp saw the walls were crawling with ankle-snatchers. More of them scuttled amongst the rubbish heap, their fingers worming through the refuse.

A terrible noise came echoing out of large tunnels in the base of the chamber wall, a cacophony of whining metal, breaking glass and splintering wood. The noise was followed by eruptions of sparks. The sparks were followed by screams, and then everything was silent.

‘This terrible place!’ cried Jamie. ‘I wish we’d never run away! It was Joe’s idea. I don’t know why I listen to him. He thinks he’s so great because he’s seven minutes older. Seven minutes, like, big deal. He’s always getting me into trouble, getting me to do stupid things, like when he told me cat food was delicious in a sandwich.’

Kyp looked at Jamie. He touched him on the shoulder. ‘You will see him again, I promise.’

‘Not now,’ despaired Jamie. ‘Look at us! We’re –.’ He stared at the walls. ‘Who knows where we are!’

‘We’ll figure something out.’

Jamie glared at him. ‘This isn’t how it was supposed to turn out. None of this.’

A new noise assailed their ears, the piercing wail of sirens. The chamber lit up with an array of revolving lights, as out of the tunnels appeared dinosaur-like creatures with yellow skin, and massive jaws supported on long necks. Their eyes were as large and bright as headlamps and instead of legs, they propelled themselves forwards on one black, rubbery-foot. The yellow monsters began to scale the rubbish heap, taking great scoops of debris into their mouths. The heap quaked violently.

‘We have to get out of here,’ said Kyp. ‘Through the tunnels – quickly.’

‘Don’t!’ said a voice. ‘You mustn’t.’

The two boys turned to see a figure drag itself out of the rubbish heap, a hooded apparition of oily rags. ‘If you enter the tunnels you’ll be killed,’ it said.

One of the dinosaur creatures had already made it as far as the summit of the rubbish heap. Its eyes burned brightly, an avalanche of junk falling from its jaws.

‘Too late,’ the figure said. ‘It’s seen you.’

With a roar, the monster dragged itself towards them.

The figure stepped to one side to reveal the shaft from which it had emerged.

‘Down there?’ said Kyp. He gave a sigh. ‘Why is it always down?’

The yellow monster was nearly upon them.

The hooded figure disappeared back into the hole. The monster roared again. The two boys looked at each other and then down they went too, half-falling, half-sliding into the rubbish heap. They slithered between slabs of age-old junk and spiralled down drainpipes until, with a rather soggy plopping sound, they slid headfirst into a large cave.

Kyp

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