Monsters Everywhere: Blue Moon Investigations Book 22 by steve higgs

Author:steve higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

Choose and Die. Saturday, October 21st 1623hrs

Just as I looked back at the water, a bulbous lump rose from it. What looked to be a giant, black water tentacle reached up from the surface. It was aiming right at my father, and it had a giant fish inside it.

The alligator gar, or whatever the heck it is, had the barb of dad’s hook poking from one corner of his mouth. When the professor named the fish, I looked it up and had an image in my head of what I was going to see. That image failed to do the beast justice and was out on its size by an order of magnitude.

The thing had to be fifteen feet long and its mouth, with two rows of needle-like teeth, was as long as my leg.

All that flashed through my brain in a fraction of a second. It was coming right for my father and me both, such was the size of it.

I said something like, “Waaaaaaahhhh!!” which did little to articulate my thoughts, and shoved hard against my father’s back.

He fell forward and away just as I threw myself back. The fish smacked into the concrete between us, missing its targets by inches.

I was on my backside, the wave of cold water the fish brought with it cascading over me. Seeing anything was nigh impossible, but I didn’t need vision to know it was time to be elsewhere. Scrambling backwards I put distance between us. Not much though, for no sooner had I started moving than I hit the wall of the tunnel with my back.

There was nowhere to go, and the sewer monster thrashed mere inches from my feet.

Dad shouted, “Tempest!”

If he could talk, he was all right. All right enough anyway.

“Tempest!”

“Dad!”

I sucked in a breath just as the water cleared from my protective goggles. The fish’s eye was looking right at me and to my mind the pupil was filled with burning hatred. People say fish have expressionless eyes; they are wrong.

With a twist, it swivelled its head, snapping at me with teeth I already knew could bite right through bone. Its snout smacked into the wall though – it couldn’t turn its body enough to get to me.

Frozen to the spot in that moment when I thought I was about to become a fish snack, adrenalin drove me from the puddle in which I sat before my heart could take its next beat.

Surging upward, I spotted my father on the other side of the monster fish. He was crouching, poised to go somewhere, yet trapped between the thrashing fish and the water.

Victor yelled, “Come on!” at both of us.

Escape lay in the tunnel – we needed to get past the fish’s head, but were we to try to do so, one of us was going to get bitten.

Five seconds had passed, no more, since the monstrous fish erupted from the water. My heart beat triple time and I was breathing hard even though I hadn’t done anything. It was a standoff: we couldn’t get past the fish and the fish couldn’t get to us.

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