Daniel X: Demons and Druids by James Patterson & Adam Sadler

Author:James Patterson & Adam Sadler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Azizex666, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780316036986
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2010-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 43

YOU KNOW how crazy I am about Dana? Enough to actually charge a rod of metal with emotion. Just in case you thought inanimate objects have no emotions, think again.

I wanted to kill her and hug her at the same time. As I was still a rod, I couldn't do either one. She dashed with me in hand to the other side of a junked car--a French make called a Peugeot--and pried the door open. She slid into the backseat, where I returned to human form.

"You weren't supposed to come with me," was the first thing out of my mouth. "This is way too dangerous, Dana. And how did you -- I mean, I didn't--"

"We'll talk about it later, Daniel. Something big is about to happen." She edged up to the opposite window to get a better view of the madness, and I followed. Now we wer e l ooking out on a circle cleared in the middle of the garbage, a circle as wide as a football field.

Opposite where we were, the ground dropped away, and I was surprised to see the ocean on the other side; we were on the coast somewhere.

In the middle of this improvised stadium of trash was a gigantic misshapen metal structure that looked like the result of a fight between a giant squid and a monster truck. It was the source of the vibrations that were shaking everything for a mile around.

I recognized it instantly. I'd read its description many times in The List's file on Beta. The multitentacled monster before me was a Cyndarian spaceship.

Suddenly the vibrations became even more powerful. It looked like it was ready for takeoff.

Bits of garbage began to topple from the piles, and the Peugeot was rained on by ash, pieces of plastic, rusty circuit boards. The ship tried to lift off, but for some reason it couldn't. The force of the flames pushing through its own rockets was literally tearing it apart.

There was a horrendous sound like Godzilla scraping his nails on a chalkboard, and the ship actually keeled to one side. The crowds shied away now, drawing back into the shelter of the trash piles.

And then there was a shattering explosion, like nothing I'd ever heard before. Blue flames, blowing gaping holes in the sides of the spaceship, shot into the air about a half mile.

When the smoke cleared, I could still see the ship, looking more like a used firecracker now. And pouring out of hundreds of holes was its cargo.

The "fuel" that Beta was sending home wasn't oil, or coal, it turned out. It was, well, everything I loved about Terra Firma, stuffed into a cold metal container. Lush green trees, with their trunks, leaves, branches, spilled out onto the ground. Mixed in were what must have been hundreds of tons of flowers, bushes, grasses of all kinds.

And then I saw the passengers.

I could see rows of cages, with animals of all kinds imprisoned inside--dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, foxes, horses. And then there was a cacophony of sound coming from inside the damaged metal shell.

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