The Librarian and The Monster by Brian Yansky

Author:Brian Yansky [Yansky, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Islept for a few hours. When I woke, I went into the kitchen and saw it was about seven-thirty. I made some coffee. Then I called the ghost’s name, Captain Bennett Longstreet. He didn’t come right away, but by the time the coffee was ready, he appeared.

“Would you mind pouring me a cup of coffee?” he said.

“You can drink coffee?”

“No,” he said. “I just like having a cup in front of me. I like to see the steam rise. The smell of it.”

“You can smell it?”

“I’m not sure. I remember the smell.”

We sat at the kitchen table and I put a cup in front of him and he leaned over and smelled and it seemed to please him.

“You called?” he said.

“I had a question for you.”

“Go on.”

“Do you know about the Protector?”

“Not exactly. I do know a story about a monster hunter.”

“The witch of Bad Intensions?”

“Van Helsing. I met him at a tavern in New Orleans. He told me a story.”

“All right then,” I said. “Tell me the story he told you.”

“It happened in a small village in the countryside of Romania. The people there were good, hardworking folk, but they had been plagued by a mysterious creature for months. Young women would go missing without a trace. The villagers were living in a state of constant fear.

“One night, during a terrible thunderstorm, Van Helsing arrived at the village seeking shelter. That’s when he first heard the villagers speak of the monster they called Stoney. Apparently, this Stoney lived in the nearby woods. Some said he was a gargoyle come to life, with gray, stony skin and claws. Others claimed he was a demon that haunted the ruins of a nearby castle. Whatever he was, he had taken their daughters and they would give anything to get them back. They were sure of it.

“Van Helsing volunteered his services. But when he tracked down Stoney, he discovered that he was not the culprit. He was no ordinary monster. In fact, he was quite intelligent. After some persuasion, he agreed to help Van Helsing find the missing girls and slay the monster.

“That night, during another terrible storm, Stoney and Van Helsing discovered the lair of the creature deep in the forests; it turned out it was an ancient vampire who was preying on the village.

“A great battle ensued, but together Stoney and Van Helsing defeated the monster, rescuing the captured girls. The villagers were grateful. They paid Van Helsing gold, and they celebrated both Stoney and Van Helsing.

“But after a few days, when Van Helsing was ready to leave, the elders called him to a secret meeting. They were slow to admit the reason, but finally they did. They wanted to pay Van Helsing more gold to kill Stoney. When he refused, they told him that they would find someone else if he didn’t do it. They were determined to see the monster dead.

“But why?” Van Helsing asked them.

They told him a monster was still a monster. A monster was still a monster.

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