The Storm by Dayna Lorentz

Author:Dayna Lorentz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Shep’s heart began to race. He did not like this small room; he did not like the metal doors that closed of their own volition. Every few heartbeats, winds roared around the little box, like the storm was licking the very walls. Callie trembled violently and crouched low to the floor. Frizzle began to bark hysterically, which made every thing that much worse.

“Hey! Dog! Bo-jellies! Let us out!” Frizzle yelped.

They could hear Boji whimpering on the other side of the door. “Oh, dear. Oh, dear.”

Shep scanned the walls of the room. Next to the metal doors were a bunch of small buttons like the one Boji had pushed to open the doors. Maybe one of them would open the doors back up? Shep figured it was better than standing there, heart racing, yapper yapping.

Shep reared and slammed his paws against the buttons. A number of them lit up, and the small room jolted to life. Shep fell back on all fours; his stomach felt like it was sinking into the floor.

“What’s happening?” he cried, cringing against the wall.

“I don’t know!” squealed Callie. “Make it stop!”

“I know what this is,” barked Frizzle. “We have one in my building. It’s El Vator.”

“El what?!” Shep whimpered.

“El Vator,” Frizzle yapped calmly. “It’s a room that moves from one place to another place.”

“It feels like we’re going up,” Callie said. She stopped trembling and began sniffing at the metal doors. “The air is moving outside El Vator. And I smell different things with each one of those bings.”

Shep was trying to keep his kibble in his stomach. These yappers seemed much more at home with this human stuff than he.

And then the lights went out. El Vator shuddered to a halt.

Shep dug his claws into the floor. He was too afraid to breathe.

Two heartbeats. Howling wind.

The lights returned. El Vator rumbled to life and shot upward again, leaving Shep’s stomach on the floor below.

“What was that?” he yowled.

“That’s never happened to me before in El Vator,” Frizzle moaned.

El Vator slowed, and with a final bing, stopped completely. The metal doors slid open. Frizzle and Callie raced out, but it took Shep a heartbeat to catch his breath. Just as he was about to follow them, the doors began to slide closed. Shep leapt off his hind legs and bounded out of El Vator. The doors slipped shut, catching a few hairs off his tail.

Shep stared at the closed metal doors, sucking air like a thing half-drowned. “We are finding another way back down,” he growled. “I am not stepping paw in El Vator again.”

Frizzle and Callie flicked their tails in agreement.

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