The Flock of Fury by Tom Sniegoski

Author:Tom Sniegoski
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375892233
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

The Friday-night movie had done its trick, sending Billy’s parents deep into dreamland. His father was snoring so loudly that he sounded like a chain saw going to town on a redwood.

Billy had snuck into the house, grabbed his costume from the book bag in his closet and headed back out to the garage without anybody being the wiser.

“We should get ready to haul this stuff over to the mausoleum,” Billy said, looking around the garage. He found a wheeled suitcase, unzipped it and began to load the science fair stuff inside.

“Be careful with those!” Halifax screamed, running for cover as Billy picked up the potatoes.

Victoria giggled like a crazy person, picking up a potato of her own and chasing Halifax around the garage with it.

“We can’t use the mausoleum entrance,” Archebold said, helping Billy load the suitcase.

“Why not?” Billy asked. “Didn’t you guys get here that way?”

The goblin shook his head. “No, we were ambushed on the shadow paths by the Sassafrases, and they blew up the stairway pretty good. It might be all right, but I’m not sure if it—”

Something crashed in the background behind them, and Billy flinched. Victoria was giggling all the louder now, and he didn’t want to look.

“So how did you get here?”

Archebold pointed to where Billy had found them. “We used one of the unmapped paths.”

“Unmapped?” Billy echoed.

A breathless Halifax joined them, glancing over his shoulder to make sure he wasn’t about to be attacked with a potato.

“Sure,” the troll said. “Did you think the only way to get from Monstros to Earth was in the Sprylock mausoleum?”

“Well, kinda,” Billy said with a shrug.

“There are passages in the darkness of Monstros that can take you all over the world,” Archebold chimed in.

“We were wicked lucky to find one to your garage,” Halifax added.

“Wicked lucky to have a firefly with an awesome sense of direction with you,” Walter added from his perch atop the handlebars of an old bike.

“Yeah, there was that,” the troll conceded.

“Yaaarrrrgh!” Victoria screamed, shoving the potato into Halifax’s face.

The troll promptly fainted and Victoria laughed so hard that she doubled over.

“I’m gonna pee,” she screeched between bouts of hysteria.

“Don’t you dare!” Billy warned, moving her across the garage. “You’ve got to get ahold of yourself if you’re gonna help me with the bad guys,” he told her.

“You sure she’s a good idea?” Archebold asked, helping a moaning Halifax up. “Are we forgetting her last visit to Monstros, when she was used as a tool of destruction by the bad guys? She made an awful mess.”

“I know,” Billy agreed as Victoria started to calm down. “But I think her powers will come in really handy.”

“Did you see him fall down, Billy?” Victoria giggled. “I showed him the potato and he went like this.” She pretended she was Halifax and crashed to the floor, where she rolled around, laughing crazily.

“Nice,” Halifax grumbled. “You humans are all twisted.”

After a few moments, they finally got Victoria calmed down; then they were ready to leave.

“So

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