The New Evil by R.L. STINE

Author:R.L. STINE
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: POCKET BOOKS
Published: 2003-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

THE EVIL COMES FORWARD

“Keep chanting,” Debra whispered. “Don’t stop. It’s working.”

Corky and her two friends lowered their faces to the book and continued the chant. Their voices were a low murmur against the rush of wind over the ice.

A soft rumbling made Corky glance up.

What was that sound? she wondered.

Thunder?

A candlestick toppled over as the ice began to shake.

Deep cracks spider-webbed over the surface.

“Hey—the ice!” Corky shouted.

The rumbling grew to a roar. The ice trembled, tilted, shook.

Corky heard a crack. Like a board breaking.

The candles fell onto their sides. A hard tremor shook the book from Debra’s hand. Corky saw the fear on her friends’ faces as the ice at their feet split open.

Is it an earthquake?

That was Corky’s last thought as the roar grew louder, louder—until it drowned out all thinking.

A searing pain shot through her head as the deafening roar rattled her eardrums. She pressed her hands to her ears. And shut her eyes—as the explosion tossed her back.

Blown off her knees, she shot backward. She opened her eyes in time to watch Kimmy and Debra tossed back beside her, tossed by the force of the invisible blast.

Her arms shot up helplessly. She landed hard on her back. Felt the power of the explosion roar over her.

Struggling to breathe, Corky stared as the ice split open farther, rumbling, roaring. A swirling mass of thick black smoke funneled up from beneath the surface.

The smoke rose up, spinning, spinning like a cyclone, and a sour stench filled the air. Corky gasped as the sickening odor swept over her.

She grabbed on to Kimmy and watched in horror as the black smoke whirled up, up from the depths of the river, and swept over the shore.

A malodorous blanket of black fog, it blew over the shocked skaters, over Ivy, standing alone, over Jay and his friends, huddled on the ice, over Heather and Lauren at the cider table.

The sour smoke darkened the ice, blackened the sky. Corky heard the frightened cries of birds as they fluttered off their tree perches, the shrill shriek of the ducks and geese around the river’s curve.

The ice blistered and burned. The smoke spewed up thicker, faster, swirling up over the shivering trees, up to the clouds.

“What have we done?” Corky cried, still sprawled on the ice clinging to Kimmy.

“The evil—it wasn’t in Ivy!” Kimmy wailed.

“We were wrong! We were wrong!” Debra shouted over the roaring smoke. “It wasn’t in Ivy!”

“Our chant called it up!” Corky realized. “We brought the evil to life! We’ve unleashed it!”

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