Legend of the Lost Legend (Goosebumps Series #47) by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine [Stine, R. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Horror & Ghost Stories, Children's Books, Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 9780590568845
Google: njlMQwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0590199560
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1996-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

“DEAR KIDS,

KEEP LUKA WITH YOU, AND YOU WILL PASS THE TEST. DO NOT LET HIM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT. BE CAREFUL NOT TO LOSE HIM—OR YOU ARE DOOMED.”

17

Marissa and I made our way slowly back to the clearing. The grass swayed under a soft breeze. Our boots crunched over the large nuts in the grass.

I still held Ivanna’s note in my hand. I glanced over it one more time, hoping it didn’t say what it said. Then I angrily balled it up and tossed it away.

Marissa trudged along beside me. The sun beat down on us. We were both sweating.

“Maybe if we wait here, Luka will come back,” Marissa said.

“He isn’t coming back,” I groaned. “He is probably miles away, still chasing after that squirrel.”

“Then what do we do next?” Marissa demanded. “How do we pass the test?”

I let out an unhappy sigh. “We can’t pass the test. You heard what the note said. We’re doomed.”

“Well, we can try,” she insisted. She started across the clearing. I followed her.

We had taken six or seven steps when I heard a startling sound. A loud snap, like a pencil being broken in two.

Then a crack—soft at first, and then louder.

I stopped and whirled around. I expected to see Luka come bounding out of the forest.

But I saw only the tall, white trees. No one there.

I heard another sharp snap. Then another. And another.

And then I heard cracking all around.

The earth is cracking open!

That was my first thought. I pictured the ground splitting apart. A dark hole opening up. And Marissa and me falling, falling down into it.

The Pit With No Bottom!

I wished Dad had never told us that story!

Now Marissa grabbed my shoulder and pointed down. “Justin—look!”

I gazed down. The ground hadn’t split open. But the snapping and cracking echoed all around.

Louder. Louder.

“Ohh!” I let out a frightened moan as I realized to my horror that the grass was moving.

I could feel it move under my feet.

“What’s happening?” Marissa cried, still holding on to me. “That sound—!”

The cracking grew louder, rising up from the ground. Now it sounded as if all the trees were cracking apart.

The grass swayed and bent.

“It’s—the nuts!” I cried to Marissa. “Look! They’re all cracking open!”

I covered my ears against the sound.

And stared at the nuts, bouncing and trembling all around our feet.

Cracking open. Splitting apart.

Hundreds and hundreds of them. The whole clearing. The ground shaking as they all cracked apart.

Cracked into pieces. Crumbled around us.

We stared in amazement at the cracking nuts. And then, Marissa and I both screamed in shock when we saw what came climbing out.

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