The Bog Beast by Ellen Potter

Author:Ellen Potter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

10

Prank

“You did it!” Boone cried.

“We did it,” Gigi agreed with happy astonishment.

But once they looked around for the Voyajer, their happiness turned to dismay. The poor boat was lying on the island with its hull bashed in.

“Oh, Boone, I’m so sorry,” Hugo said. He felt an ache in the pit of his stomach. The Voyajer was like a friend to them. She had taken Hugo and Boone on their best adventures—finding an Ogopogo, sailing to the haunted Craggy Cavern.

Boone walked up to his beloved boat and knelt beside her. He ran his hands over her injured hull.

“Can you fix her?” Hugo asked.

Boone hesitated. “Maybe,” he said, but Hugo thought he didn’t sound very hopeful.

“How did you wind up here, anyway?” Gigi asked Boone.

“It was all Roderick’s idea,” said Boone as he plopped himself down beside the Voyajer glumly. “The whole time we were bimbling, Roderick wouldn’t even talk to me. Then he got really annoyed because I was the one who found our ‘something healing’ and our ‘something useful.’ All we needed was our ‘something tasty.’ That’s when I spotted the huckleberry bushes on this island.”

The mention of huckleberries reminded Hugo of the five acorn butter–and–raspberry cream sandwiches in his backpack. His stomach rumbled. But he told himself that this probably wasn’t the right time for a snack.

“There was a big tree on the riverbank that had fallen over,” Boone continued. “It was so long that it reached across the water and onto the island like a bridge. Roderick said that if I crossed it, he would hold it steady for me. So I did. I collected loads of huckleberries. But when I was ready to go back to shore, Roderick gave the tree a shove, and it floated away. He just stood there and laughed at me like it was a great prank. But then he must have spotted something in the woods that scared him, because suddenly he screamed and ran away. I haven’t seen him since.”

“Maybe something happened to him,” said Gigi ominously.

“Maybe he ran into a Human,” Hugo suggested.

“Or maybe he ran into a Bog Beast,” said Gigi in a strange voice.

“But you said Dr. Feathergill never mentioned Bog Beasts in his book,” said Hugo.

“Maybe Dr. Feathergill doesn’t know everything,” Gigi replied, squinting at the water and frowning.

Hugo and Boone looked, too. Something was floating in the river. Something big and green and slimy. At first Hugo thought it was a large clump of weeds. But then he saw a pair of clawed hands paddling at the water.

The Bog Beast was headed right for them.

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