Authors: Peter Bently
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Chapter 1
A Night at the Fair
BEEP! BEEP!
Miss Gargoyle looked around at her class of young vampires. “Okay, everyone!” she said. “The school bus is here. Let's all make our way out in an orderly line!”
Lee Price stuck his hand up.
“Miss Gargoyle,” he asked eagerly. “Why do we have to take the bus to the county fair? Why don't we just
fly?”
With a sudden
POP!
Lee turned into a bat and fluttered around the room.
“Yes, Miss Gargoyle, flying would be much quicker than the bus,” chimed in Bella Williams.
“And
better for the environment,” added Billy Pratt. “Bats don't make smelly fumes.”
“Except when they've had beans for dinner,” quipped Lee.
The class burst out laughing. Even Miss Gargoyle couldn't help grinning. She was looking forward to tonight's school trip to the county fair just as much as the children. When she was a little girl, her dad had worked on the ghost train. She used to ride for free until her dad got fired for being too scary.
“We're taking the bus because it's dark and I don't want anyone to get lost on the way,” she said. “Besides, I don't think it's a great idea if twenty-five bats land in the middle of the fair and suddenly turn into a bunch of little vampires, do you? You know what Fangless folk are like. Now come along, the bus is waiting.”
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Based on an original idea by Chris Harrison
Text copyright © 2010 by Peter Bently
Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Chris Harrison
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