The Beast with 1000 Eyes

Author:Laura Dower
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

CHAPTER 9

“RIVE RIT RACK!”

San San’s apartment building lobby was empty when we ran inside.

The doorman was not at his post.

I pressed the UP button and waited nervously. I figured that, at any moment, the Eyeball Beast would come bursting through those beautiful glass doors! I sent San San a text message: We’re on our way up. Open the door!

When the elevator opened on the penthouse floor, San San was waiting. “Quick! Inside! All of you!” She led us inside and triple-quadruple-locked the door behind her.

“Whoa! Look at this place!” Lindsey cried when she saw all the art on the walls and photographs on the tables. Lindsey snapped off the lens cap on her camera and took a few photos. Even in the midst of a B-Monster crisis, that girl had her camera ready.

“What’s going on?” San San asked.

“It’s amazing. You guys really do look exactly alike,” Lindsey said as she snapped a photo of San San and me.

I guess movie star looks just run in my family.

“Why are you all out of breath?” San San asked.

“Something large and scary sounding was chasing us down Main Street,” Damon said.

“What?! What did it look like?” she asked.

“We never got to see it,” Lindsey answered.

I pulled the amulet out of my jeans pocket. It wasn’t glowing anymore.

I held it up and asked my aunt, “Where did you get this . . . exactly?”

“I told you. It was a prop in the movie,” she explained. “I used it for a good luck charm.”

“How come you never told me that it glowed?” I asked.

“I never knew! It glows?” she asked.

“The amulet glows at certain times,” Jesse said. “And its temperature rises, too.”

“It gets hot? I’ve had that for years,” San San explained. “It never glowed or got hot for me . . .”

“Never?” I asked. “Ever?”

“Oh dear! I never should have taken it! Give it back to me now and I’ll make sure that it gets thrown away—”

“No,” I said, holding up the amulet. “We need this charm more now than ever! I think this amulet may be a way to help lead us directly to the Eyeball Beast!”

Jesse explained calmly. “On the way over here, we heard these crazy sounds coming out of a row of bushes,” he said. “At the same time, the amulet started to glow like crazy. It was as if the glowing stone and the sound from the bushes were connected.”

“Then the beast started to scream at us,” Damon said.

San San looked confused. “You heard the beast speak?”

She grabbed the scrapbook from The Beast with 1000 Eyesand flipped through the pages as if she were looking for clues.

“Oswald Leery never finished the film,” San San explained. “But there was a full script. I have it right here.”

She fingered through the script.

“Aha!” San San cried.

She read from a scene that had never been filmed. In the director’s notes, there was a line: As the monster runs through the streets, the loose eyeball should glow.

“So it was B-Force!” Jesse cried.

“Hey, I’d want my eyeball back, too, if it fell out,” Lindsey said.

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