Monster Club by Gavin Brown

Author:Gavin Brown [Brown, Gavin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Video game night! It was the best night of the week. Tommy just hoped there wouldn’t be too much time spent talking. Those robots weren’t going to plasma blast themselves, after all.

Tommy hopped off his bike and walked it up the driveway, with Spike just behind him.

“I wish we could tell Mr. Khalil about our adventures,” he said. Even though he’d seen Mr. Khalil a bunch of times, the guy was still a living legend.

“No flippin’ way,” Spike answered. “Karim would probably snap and dye his hair blue and start listening to emo music. Which would be kind of a fun experiment to run. On second thought, maybe go ahead and—”

“Okay, okay, I won’t do it,” Tommy said as he rang the doorbell.

A few minutes later they were in Karim’s living room, sitting in front of the Khalils’ big living room TV. The video game controllers that they usually would fight over (the new one was way better, and it was definitely Tommy’s turn) were sitting ignored on the coffee table.

“Sure you don’t want to play some FIFA?” Karim asked nervously.

“No, we need to talk about this,” Spike said. “We have to go on more adventures. We’ve got to get more evidence.” She grabbed the keyboard and pulled up a series of videos. “People are finding more and more monsters that look similar. There’s a one-eared harpy that’s been caught three different times—in three different time zones!”

Tommy watched, impressed, as Spike scrolled through the videos. This had started as Spike’s crazy theory when she was angry, but he had to admit there was something to it.

“It looks like other people are all over it,” Karim said. “What’s there for us to do? Besides, you’re the one who wanted to stop just a few days ago!”

Spike shook her head. “The next step is to start tagging them, like they do in those shark documentaries. We need to tag monsters and turn them in to AppVenture to get re-released, in order to get solid evidence. Once we have real proof, we can blow the whole thing wide open.”

“Are we really going to let Mike Tuckerville win?” Tommy asked. “Are we going to let him intimidate us like this?”

He and Spike had talked about going it on their own, but they had barely finished their captures so far with three of them. They needed Karim’s clever ideas. And his dad’s magical sword. And, of course, his knowledge of monster lore—the kid was like a walking Mortimer’s Monsterpedia, only maybe a little more whiny and scared.

Karim sighed. “Look, I hate that guy too.”

“And you’re going to let him tell you that you can’t be an adventurer?” Spike asked.

Tommy nodded, impressed. He knew Karim, and that was just about the best pitch you could make to him.

Though Karim’s dad had been telling him his whole life not to adventure, it was still the only thing Karim ever talked about wanting to do. Other kids dreamed of being a basketball star or a musician. Tommy liked adventuring, but Karim lived and breathed it—even if he was less likely to put himself in danger.

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