Revenge of the Tiki Men! by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480486584
Publisher: Open Road Media

7

Trapped, Captured, Caught!

“The things I do for my town!” Liz shouted up to Mike. Finally, she reached the bottom of the pit and started to scrape around in the dirt.

Tap-tap! “Hey, there is something here. Something flat and smooth.” Liz scraped some more.

“The Tiki Key?” asked Mike. “Does it tell us what to do?”

“I don’t know yet,” Liz yelled back. “Wait, yes. It’s got markings all over it. I’ve got it! Hoist me up!”

“We’re saved!” cried Mike, as he quickly pulled Liz back to the surface. “Yahoo!”

At the top of the pit, Liz dusted herself and Mike dusted the strange flat stone.

“Wait a minute, you can’t read any of this stuff,” Mike complained. “It’s just a bunch of wavy lines.”

Liz examined the stone then flipped it over. “Maybe this picture will give us a clue. A big triangle shape with a spiral over it. What could it mean?”

“Hey, your dad’s the archaeologist,” Mike said, crouching next to her.

Liz traced the lines on the stone. “It looks like a map. This line goes from the ball field to the top of Main Street. And then it goes to my house. Exactly where the Tiki men have been popping up. They’re making a triangle around the town.”

“But what do they want?” Mike asked.

Liz was quiet for a moment. “They want Grover’s Mill! They want it like it used to be. The past, the jungle, everything. They want it back!”

Mike thought about it. “So it’s true. When the Mango Maniacs pound the ground with their sticks and do their crazy dance, the Tiki men pop up.”

Liz nodded. “Remember how I pounded home plate this morning? That’s what started all this. It’s like some kind of ancient knock-knock.”

“Only not so funny,” Mike said.

“Right,” Liz said, looking at the stone again. “And the Tiki men have weird ancient powers in their eyes that can turn things back into a jungle. Back to the way they were centuries ago.”

“That’s the past,” Mike said with a smile.

Liz nodded. “They made the jungle come back. Why? Because they want to live here again.”

Mike was silent as he took in what Liz said.

She, too, wondered what it meant to go back to the beginning of time. A total jungle world. Green everywhere. Her least favorite color. She turned the stone over. “We need to find out what these words mean. Maybe we can bring our town back to normal, I mean … well, you know what I mean.”

“The way it was yesterday. Yeah, I like that idea,” Mike admitted. Then he frowned. “But one thing I don’t get. Where does Buddy Kool—”

“Shh!” Liz hissed. “I think I hear something.”

Twigs snapped behind them. Leaves crackled and whooshed. Sticks thumped and clacked. The sounds were getting closer.

“Mango Men!” Mike gasped. “They found us!” The two kids began to run as quickly as they could, scrambling away from third base. Mike held the Tiki Key under his arm. Liz hurried after him.

Boom-ba-boom! But the Mango Men weren’t far behind.

“Keep going!” Liz yelled, jumping ahead of Mike.

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