Ravenspell Book 3: Freaky Fly Day by David Farland

Author:David Farland [Farland, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, lds, mormon
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2012-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

THE GORGEOUS GRUB CLUB

The bad habits and rotten attitudes that we learn from our parents usually stay with us for life.

That is why we must work so hard to instill them in our young.

—BELLE Z. BUG

At noon that day, all seemed right with the world to Belle Z. Bug. Her minions were scattered across the dump before her; flies covered the land as far as the eye could see, a black mass of seething bodies.

Belle reached up and stroked her magic charm bracelet, making sure that it still touched her skin. Youth gave her beauty, and beauty made her persuasive. So long as the charm bracelet remained touching her skin, she felt secure.

“I’d like to introduce a new program,” Belle shouted to the flies, “a special new plan designed just for our darling little maggots. It’s called the Gorgeous Grub Club, and it’s open to every maggot more than an hour old . . .”

A strange droning filled the air, a sound louder than the buzz of flies. Belle stopped her speech and watched over a line of trees to the north, seeing something large buzzing toward them.

At first she thought it was a giant fly like her, and Belle’s hearts skipped a beat.

She had not realized how lonely she felt, being a monster and the only one of her kind. Sure, she had fly-shadow and mask-era to make her beautiful, the most gorgeous fly on earth. She had her lipstick on, and she had set the hair on her back with a stylish new perm.

But who was it all for? Without a male fly to impress, all of her beauty was wasted. Its only purpose was to rouse the envy of other flies.

But in the next instant, she saw that it wasn’t a fly. It was a small, yellow airplane. It came buzzing toward the dump, and Belle Z. Bug got a sick feeling in the bottom of her abdomen.

Belle had been expecting a plane. Her vast magical powers had let her see that Amber was flying on a silver jet. But this wasn’t the plane that she had been waiting for.

“Uh-oh,” a nearby green bottle fly said, “this can’t be good!”

With ten thousand eyes, it isn’t hard to look about. Belle could see every direction at once, except for a little blind spot in her rear. In a glance, Belle realized that a strange silence had fallen over the landfill. The huge dump trucks that had been lining up all morning had stopped coming.

“It’s an attack!” Belle screamed in warning. “Everyone, take to the skies. Pull that plane’s wings off!”

The plane roared toward them. Just as the enormous mass of flies leapt into the air, a cloud of noxious gray gas suddenly poured from the back of the plane.

Two miles away, at the edge of L.A.’s enormous landfill, flies that had taken to the air met the cloud and immediately began to plummet, dropping like flies.

Death is coming, Belle realized. Death is coming for us all.

Her flies were helpless against a well-armed crop duster.

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