The Mystery at Ebey's Landing by Eldritch Black

Author:Eldritch Black
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Young Adult, Magic, Action & Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Boys, Friendship
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2021-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

19

What Goes Up…

The golden light sparkled all around us. It felt as if we’d been caught in a beam of sunshine that was as warm as a steaming hot bath. We rose higher and higher, gripping our handlebars. Our feet pedaled like mad but we weren’t getting anywhere. We were trapped.

“What are they doing?” Zach cried.

“Taking us aboard their ship!” I shouted back.

Our voices were slowed and sounded like they were coming from far away. I gulped as I glanced down to the treetops below. Mr. Draven’s house shrank away, growing smaller and smaller beneath my feet. I felt nauseous as I realized how high we were.

And then we shot up through a circle in the bottom of the UFO, right into the ship.

We floated there as if we were under water. I glanced around dumbly at the pure white walls lined with towers of flashing colored lights.

Three aliens, who were just as fearsome as the one we’d seen back at Draven’s house, glanced up at us. Two wore gray uniforms and clutched silver guns, while a third, dressed in white robes, studied us. His antennae flickered with irritation as he pointed at me and said something that sounded like Hullahuzzarooba!

“What?” I asked. I didn’t want to make him angrier, but I had no idea what he was saying. “I don’t understand!”

One of the others passed the robed alien a metallic rod which he pressed to the side of his scaly throat. When he spoke again, I understood him perfectly, “Who are you? And why were you spying on the High Chancellor?”

“We…” Zach began. “We weren’t spying. We lost our football.”

“Football?” He glanced at our sneakers. “Your feet aren’t round, and you have two each and they’re right there!”

“No,” I said. “You kick footballs and everyone chases after them.”

He shook his lobster-like head. “Why?”

“For fun,” Zach said.

“What’s fun?”

“This is going to take forever!” Zach said. “Look, can you let us go? We don’t want to cause any problems. We’re simple.”

“Simple?”

“Simply minding our own business,” Zach said.

“Who are you?” the alien demanded.

“I’m Ebenezer Eggplant.” Zach gestured at me, “And this is my friend… Dyl… Jiminy erm, Jimkins.”

“What?” The alien turned to face me.

“Jiminy Jimkins.” I patted my chest and nodded like Zach’s ridiculous name was perfectly legit.

“Look,” Zach said, “let us go, and we’ll be on our way. I’m sure we’ll forget the whole thing. You don’t even have to mess with our minds or anything.” He glanced through the circle to the forest far below us. “And when I say let us go, I mean closer to the ground, if possible.”

“A lot closer to the ground,” I added.

Zach nodded. “As in right on it, gently, seeing as we don’t have wings…”

“Wings!” The alien screeched. He prodded Zach’s back. “You don’t have wings. You lie!”

“No, I said seeing as we don’t have wings!” Zach’s borrowed face was growing red with irritation. How long before our real features returned? If they saw that happen…

The aliens gathered together, chattering in their strange language and then spun back to face us.

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