Strange Forces by Johnny Ray Barnes

Author:Johnny Ray Barnes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Young Readers, Juvenile Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Horror, Strange Forces, Ghosts, Monsters, Strange Matter
Published: 2011-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

22. Convergence

Darren parked the car across from the railroad tracks with great difficulty and killed the lights.

Stepping from the car, Morgan felt uneasy. He had rarely been to this part of town, and it made him nervous even in the daylight, without the threat of supernatural creatures around.

“Stay close,” Rilo snarled, his eyes glowing faintly.

They snuck past the abandoned storefronts and warehouses toward the corner. No sign of anyone.

A fierce wind blew down the tracks that led off into the wooded distance.

The Langdon Fairchild Historical Site was quiet. Dark. Abandoned.

Not many people came here. Most people forgot all about it, except around Founder’s Day when bored classes would trudge through, glance at the relics from the 1800s, and then shuffle back to the bus.

“Something is around. Something’s wrong. Be aware,” Rilo croaked, keeping the children behind him as he approached the door. He slammed against it, caving it in. They carefully crept inside.

• • •

Flashlight beams greeted them, hitting them in the face, Rilo’s in particular, darting around his scaly nose and into his ears.

“Rilo Buru, I presume,” a dry, nasally voice droned from the dark.

“Frank? Frank is that you?” Morgan asked, noticing the floor was covered with water and peppered with a million ants.

From different corners of the room, from around the glass cases and bizarre equipment, the exhausted faces of Frank, Hank, Skinny Joe, and Shelly appeared.

“GUYS!” Darren yelled.

Morgan, Rilo, Darren, Michelle, and Kyle ran into the room, happy to see human faces.

As Darren, Shelly, and the others excitedly swapped stories of their encounters, Rilo and Morgan took Frank aside, next to the steam engine that sat on its track in the middle of the room.

“What do you have? What’s the scoop?” Morgan asked.

“I hate to admit it … but the references to the guide, the Ceques—they’re all Greek to me. I simply don’t get it,” Frank whispered, showing the ancient papers he had found in the iron box hidden in the water heater.

Rilo’s eyes grew wide and his ears stood straight up as he plucked the papers from Frank’s hands.

Frank stared in awe at Rilo.

“I don’t believe it. This is it,” Rilo said in surprise. “You came through, human.”

“My—you weren’t kidding, Morgan. It really is a monster. A sentient, bipedal reptile. Amazing—seeing you, my friend, makes the settlers’ account even more credible than I thought.”

“What are you talking about?” Morgan asked. “What account?”

“It seems Fairfield has been visited by creatures from ‘elsewhere’ before. I printed this … read for yourself. In fact, the weird cylinder you scanned came from an alien visitor that was killed by the settlers. Buried somewhere, right here in Fairfield. Langdon Fairchild was the one who figured out how the guide works. The guide … and the other artifact.”

Rilo crouched where he stood, pulling the guide, the Ceques, from the bag and placing it on the wet floor. He began studying the papers at inhuman speed. A low hum stirred from the cylinder as the familiar whiff of ozone struck Morgan’s nostrils.

The drifting, converging map-lines on the cylinder began to glow.

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