The Raptor Experiment

Chapter 17 - Calling All the Monsters

Carter

"So... that's all of them stuck under this part of the building?" I asked.

"Yeah. Hopefully." Ron said.

A dog howled.

"Never mind." Ron muttered. He sprinted over to the huge column that was collapsed on top of a small pup the size of my hand. He slid his hand under the concrete thing and tried to push up. It unsurprisingly didn't work.

"A little help, you two?" Ron finally asked.

"Well..." I looked around. There weren't much people around, and it seemed that all the security cameras here were already off, considering that the wizards/witches probably didn't need a camera taking a film of them disappearing from their phone booths. I smiled. "How about a big help?"

"Whatever." Ron said. I summoned the Horus avatar.

"Chicken man." Ron and Sadie said in unison. They did a high five. I facepalmed, which, I found out, was quite dangerous in the avatar. It was like a person wearing hulk buster punching himself. I nearly knocked myself out. When I shook myself out of the shock, and when Ron and Sadie stopped laughing, I stepped towards the pup, and kicked the column off of him/her.

"Nice." Ron said.

"Thanks." I answered as the pup scampered off. He/she was a white fox terrier, and up close, it was...

Snowy?

"How'd he get here?" I asked.

"I have no idea." Ron scratched the back of his head. "Snowy followed Baylee really well, but he didn't like the rest of us. So why did he follow us, out of all people, and get pinned down?"

"Whoa. The columns were already collapsed when we were here." Sadie pointed out.

"So Snowy got onto our last failed mission, rode the plane, and got himself beamed up in the UFO? Then later ran out the chance he got, but got pinned down here?" I asked.

"You know what? We should skip the how and why and get straight to the what," Ron said. "So... I'm guessing that if Snowy's here, so is Tintin. He's probably close. Do we call them?"

"Yeah," I said, shrinking back to my original form. "Sadie, do you have the phone?"

"Yeah. It's here." Sadie answered, reached out into her pocket, and took out the phone she'd picked up from the floor. "What was Annabeth's phone number again?"

I recalled it. Sadie typed it in. Just as Sadie turned the speakerphone mode on, something hit her across the back and she collapsed face first into the hard concrete ground.

"Rude!" Sadie shouted, and would have turned the flying object into a banana slug if she had her magic. She didn't, however, so she got up with the phone tight in her hand.

"Which direction did it come from?" Ron asked.

"Eleven O'clock." I answered, and tried to summon my avatar. But even before I could do that, another Egyptian avatar knocked me to the ground.

"Sorry. Sorry. Sorry." the guy inside the avatar said, and I sighed. So we meet again, Tintin. 

Any help now would be good, I told Horus.

What do you think I'm doing? But there's some wizard magic that's blocking me and god-proofing you, Horus answered.

Well, at least Walt isn't here, I muttered. So you really have nothing?

Horus didn't answer. Either he was scared, or was already god-proofed out of me.

My mind stopped racing and started to register the pain in the back of my head. And I knew pretty well from experience that if a person in the avatar tried to kill you, they would have done it already.