Secret of the Toads.

 Toadville. It's one of the strangest places you'll ever see.  A old desolate town with two stone statues making the entrance to the town. The statues were giant toads with one tongue wrapped around the other.  Our whole class got a one week trip to Toadville. Luckily I was in a cabin with my best friend, Blake. Also luckily the girl I dreamed about was going to be in my cabin. Not so luckily a bully, Chad to be precise, was also in our cabin!  With Halloween a day away, I didn't think Chad could ruin it. Boy was I wrong! The next day (or should I say night) I was trick or treating in my awesome vampire costume when  a hand clamped over my mouth.  It was Chad. He was spray painting the statues. "Listen reject," he said, " you're going to help me spray-paint this statue. GOT IT?"
"Ggg..Got it."  Then I accidentally dropped the can on the statue. It burst into a billion pieces. Standing where the statues were stood Two giant toads. A tongue flipped out and wrapped around Chad. Then he was gone. Another tongue came towards me. I ran to the kitchen but, the tongue caught my leg.  I desperately reached out to grab on to something. My hand grasped the deadly cleaver. I whirled around and sliced off an eye. The toad howled in rage and pulled me down it's throat.  The toad hadn't realized the fact that I would still be alive in his stomach.  The cleaver blade slashed through his belly. I stepped out in time to see the other toads tongue grab Cindy and Blake. I only had one chance. If I missed I would lose my friends. I threw the cleaver at the toads chest. I missed and instead it cut off his tongue. My friends ran towards me. The toad instantly grew a new tongue. It slapped me through a wooden wall. I landed hardly on a metal object. I picked it up.  I couldn't believe my luck. I was holding a rifle!

To be continued......
 
 
 
 
 
 

            Secret of the Toads.
    Part 2
 
When I got outside I saw the toad making a loud squawking sound. I looked around. There are ten cabins in Toadville, a lake, a tennis court, a basketball court and a field. In front of each cabin there is a giant toad. There is a giant toad beside the lake. One beside the tennis court., One beside the basketball court and one beside the field. There is also one in the grave yard. That makes fifteen all together. They all cracked open as the first toad made that awful squawking sound.  Quickly I shot the first toad in the heart.  A different toad's tongue grabbed the gun and flicked it away.  I searched around for an axe. I couldn't find one so I got panicky until I saw the sledge hammer. I picked it up and smashed it right through a toads brain. Then a tongue sent me flying through a tool shed.  Blake picked up a pair of needle nosed pliers and threw it through a toads eye. I found something more interesting...... a chainsaw! I picked it up and sawed through ten toads. Then the chainsaw was pulled away by a tongue. I watched the tongue throw the chainsaw over the lake.  A counselor ran out of the kitchen with a carving knife. Only to be swallowed!  All of the sudden Blake was caught by a tongue. So was Cindy! I could only save one of them. I looked down and saw the carving knife. I threw it at one toad and ran to the other.  I grabbed a stick from the fire pit I stabbed the toad holding Cindy and it burst into flames.  I waved another fiery stick at a toad on the edge of a cliff . He took a step backwards  and plunged onto the rocks a mile down!  There was only one toad left. To our horror she sang that terrible squawking sound!  The last giant toads in the world came out of the lake. All together there were nine.  I ran into the kitchen and got a frying pan and a cheese grater. One tongue grabbed the frying pan and tried to swallow it, choking itself. eight toads left. I scraped the grater across a toads face. It screeched in pain and stepped into the fire. Seven left. Cindy found some scissors and plunged them into a toad's heart. Six more. One toad killed itself by trying to swallow a vacuum cleaner. Five toads left. A toad broke the last building supports on the mess hall and was crushed when the building collapsed. Five down four to go.  I grabbed a handful of nails and drove them into a toads scull.  Three.                I found the sledge hammer again and crushed a toads stomach with it.  Two. Blake grabbed a tongue and tied it to a knife shelf. The toads pulled his tongue back and the knives slashed through it. Then the toads pulled  his tongue into his mouth and tried to swallow the  knives. Suddenly the knives cut through the skin around the neck. The last toad pulled Cindy into his mouth and swallowed.  Then he just died.  Cindy ripped out his heart she explained later.  We won the battle!

     The End!
 
 

Secret Of the Toads 2
    A lost world.
 

 Cindy, Blake and I (Peter Hatcher) Were walking Home from the horror of Toadville.  We were happy being alive. We decided to sit on the beach. Cindy decided to swim. A giant squid decided to pull her  under. " So much for 'it's safe to go back in the water'" I commented as Blake and I plunged into the water.We dove lower and lower. Deeper and deeper. Suddenly the giant squid appeared  I saw an old harpoon on the bottom of the sea I grabbed it and shoved it into the squid then Blake and I took Cindy up to the land. Later that day, after we all recovered, we walked along the road. Instantly I was  aware of a sound that was like godzilla singing opera. Over the hill came thirty Gigantic toads. "RRRUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!" I screamed  We ran three blocks then ducked into a gun shop. Just then I noticed that the town was deserted. We were on our own!   I smashed the glass counter and gave a machine gun to Blake and a lazer to Cindy. Luckily this store sold illegal weapons. I pulled a bazooka out from the other side of the counter. I ran out side and blew up twenty toads. Blake and Cindy each shot five. More and more toads came until we were out of ammunition. The toads pushed us to the edge of  the Birch harbor wharf there we each put on scuba gear and we each took a Harpoon gun. I took two. we plunged down into the briny deep. Then we saw a horribly terrible sight. A huge toad. The mother of all the toads we were told later. We each shot our harpoons at the toads heart. then we strained until we had pulled the heart out. On a stranded boat we swam to a man gave us three flame throwers and we destroyed all the toads (we think.) But don't be surprised to see Secret of the toad #3.

The End.

     Sasquatch:
The missing link.
 

   Six years had past since the toad incident.  I, Peter Hatcher, Blake Edwards and Cindy McAndrews never thought about how close we came to losing our lives.  It was summer vacation and the three of us were going to a summer camp in Oregon.  I expected it to be like, Camp haunted hills,  a summer camp in 'Some of my  Best Friends are Monsters' by Bruce Coville.  As we stepped off the bus I had an eerie feeling I was being watched. I was watched by the counselors, but it was more than that. It was like I alone was being watched. Blake told me he and Cindy felt the same way.  I looked in the woods and caught a glimpse of metal in the woods. Just then Someone or something Burst out of the woods Screaming. I screamed too. It was just a prankster named Sean.  When we went to cabins I found out I was in a cabin with Blake, Sean and a kid named Chris. That night I heard claws scratching at our door. I looked around. Sean wasn't in his bed. Nice try,I thought. I opened the door only to see a 8 foot creature with long damp fur and glowing red eyes. I screamed so hard I bet I woke the whole camp. The sasquatch picked me up under one armpit and Blake in the other. Then it ran into the woods. About a mile from camp the Bigfoot threw us into a deep pit. Then another sasquatch threw Cindy in beside us. I looked in horror at the Bigfoot who was pulling off his Face!
To Be Continued......
 

Secret of the Toad ]I[
Continuation of Sasquatch.
 

Underneath the furry mask of a Bigfoot came the horrible face of a huge Toad!  Then I said something intelligent like " Waggle frugal maw?!?!" ( I have no idea what that means!)  Fifteen counselors ran up to the pit. " Yes! We're saved" I cried. The counselors grabbed their heads and pulled them off. Now there were sixteen toads around us. Three of them aimed their tongues at us. I frantically searched around and saw a hole going down.  Luckily the toads turned around to discuss something. Blake, Cindy and I started widening the hole. When it was large enough Cindy jumped in. Then Blake jumped. Then quickly I slid in just before the toads turned around. As I was falling I saw that each of the toads had a gun. "Oh nnnooooooooo!" I cried as I plunged down into a river connecting with  the lake. I saw a sign floating on the water. It said 'Welcome to Toadville'.  I looked up and saw an underground shed. I opened it and saw an axe, a chain saw, a saw, a sledge hammer, nails, plywood, pliers,  scissors and knives. Cindy took a jack knife, Blake took a carving knife and I took a dagger that had a little pocket you could strap to your leg. I put it on and led the way out. One toad was guarding the water. I didn't see him in time. Before I knew it I was in his belly.  My dagger shot out of his stomach. I stepped out and told Cindy and Blake to follow me. A toad sitting on the roof started shooting his machine gun at us. Cindy gave me her knife and I threw through the toads heart just before he could shoot me. Cindy picked up a sharp stick. A frog jumped out at us but Blake was too fast for it. He stabbed the frog through his brain.  Another toad came out of the bushes but Cindy drove the stick into his abdomen.  Then a tongue flicked the knives and the stick out of our hands. I ran and  jumped on to the roof with the dead toad. I picked up the machine gun and shot the toad. A frog landed behind me so I whipped around and shot it in the head. I picked up his shotgun and threw it to Blake. Cindy picked up a revolver. A toad with a rocket launcher shot at me and I jumped off the roof just before the house I was standing on exploded  in a huge fireball. We shot at him but he dodged the bullets. He shot at Cindy but she threw herself down and the missile hit a frog behind her. I grabbed the frog's chain gun and fired. The toad went down but he was all out of missiles. Then a giant rat came out with a flame thrower. He singed my shirt so I picked up a knife and threw it into his back pack. The next time the rat tried to shoot she blew herself up.  I ran towards another rat and shot it. Blake got a battery powered fan. He took off the front and  turned it on. Then he shoved it into a mouse's snout slicing the mouse apart. Cindy learn karate three weeks ago so she spin kicked a giant ant and then I broke it's neck.  All of the sudden we were surrounded by toads, frogs, wasps, ants, mice, rats, spiders, lizards and praying mantises. All of them were as big as basketball players. Suddenly red and green and yellow eyes glowed out from the woods. Then about twenty real sasquatch ran out they killed all the animals but ten sasquatch were killed.  Our new friends let us tend to their wounds. But to my horror the ground started to shake. I looked up there above us was a lion the size of a T. Rex ! The sasquatch started fighting. Then I had an idea. Blake, Cindy and I ran to the pit and jumped through the hole. After that I grabbed the chain saw, Blake took the sledge hammer and Cindy took a Battle Axe. We ran to the lion and saw the only Bigfoot left was a baby. With Cindy on one side, Blake on the other and me in the back I turned on the chainsaw and cut through one of the lions legs. The lion roared in pain and furry. When he turned around Blake broke the lions other hind leg and Cindy chopped off another. Then I climbed onto the lions head and sawed three feet into his scull.

 We were safe for now. Just then a missile blew up a house behind us. I looked back and saw a rat still alive. She made that horrible squawking screech that brung death and despair.  Just as she died, the water in the lake started to bubble and boil! Dozens more animals emerged. Worse than that they were robotic. They had built in jet packs, rocket launchers, flame throwers, harpoon guns, rifles, revolvers, machine guns,  lasers, bazookas, chain guns and knifes. I ran to a cabin and saw a control panel. I pressed a button that said robots inoperative. Then Cindy and Blake crushed them. I found a button that said help so I pressed it. The lake erupted and five toads came out. Super powered toads I realized as one shot a ball of electricity. There were different kinds of power. Fire, water, ice, electricity and muscle. I found a ninja throwing star and threw it in the water toads head. Just before he died he flooded the camp.  Blake burst out of the water holding two revolvers. He shot ice toad and just before ice toad died he froze the water into huge spikes. Cindy stabbed electricity with a knife she had in her pocket. Just before that toad died, it Electrified the ice spikes. Blake and I pushed over a spike and it electrocuted the fire toad who put a ring of fire around the ice. Now it was just muscle toad and us. He picked up a spike and threw it. The spike grazed my shoulder taking  some flesh with it. Then he charged at Cindy who jumped out of the way just in time. Muscle toad disappeared into the fire. A man walked over us "Hello," He said, "My name is Andrew Brown. I'm a detective.  I'm sure you've heard of me. If not I'd just like to say aarrrrgggggg.!"  At that moment the muscle toad had plunged a spike through his body! " I thought he was dead!" I cried. The toad took a step forward and slipped on the ice. When He fell he landed on the spike in Andrew's body.
The End
 
 
 
 

 What you have just read, were myths.  Lies if you will.  An attempt to cover up the horrors of Toadville.  To cover up the truth.  I was there.  I am Andrew Brown, or as you know me, Peter Hatcher.  They changed our names to 'protect' us.  Yeah right! They were just protecting themselves.  When I say they I mean the government of British Columbia.  I am hear to tell you the  truth about Toadville.  No cover ups.  Here we go.
       -Andrew Brown
 
 
 

   Truth Of The Toads
 
 

 It all started the day we left for our class trip to 'Toadville'.  The real name of the place was Timberline ranch, but even the locals called it Toadville.  There were statues,  but they were  Polished marble statues of famous cowboys.  They were all by the entrance to Toadville.  There were Pecos Bill, Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp  and some others I didn't recognize.
I was bunking with my friend,  Justin Beile and a boy I didn't know.   another part of the myth that has some fact in it, was about being at a camp with a girl, I admired.  Her name was Courtney  McPherson.
Anyway we were all getting settled down that night, which was no where near Halloween, when I heard a spraying sound.  I walked suspiciously out of my cabin, and saw a lone figure by the statues.  I walked up slowly and saw the boy I didn't know spray painting a statue, trying to be cool.  The only thing that was cool out here was the breeze.  It was dusk by that time, and sometimes I wish it had been pitch black, because then I wouldn't have seen the  wild, crazy look in his eyes.  It looked as if he were a ventriloquists dummy,  as if he had no control over himself.   His odd, almost laughable expression never changed as he spoke in a strange raspy voice.
"You.... come help me?  The statues... they move.  You help me kill statues?"
His eyes rolled in his sockets a minute, and he dropped to his knees.
"Help.... me....kill?  Help.... kill me!"  He fell silent and I noticed a puncture in the skin above his right ankle.  I was totally creeped out by the whole thing and was glad when the camp nurse came and told me to run into my cabin.   I lay on top of the bunk bed, that Justin and I shared, shaking and sweating.  What had happened?  Had he gone insane and died of...... of what?  A heart attack?  Was it possible?  Where had he been, before.  Around six he'd said he was going to look for frogs, and tonight he had mud on his shoes.  Plus that puncture.  Was it connected to his madness?   Only one way to find out.  I'd look tomorrow.  If I lived to see the day.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I did live to the next day, and after noon I started out, careful to wear heavy socks.  When I had searched the whole campsite  I was disappointed.  There were no lakes here, there was a swimming pool but there wasn't any dirt beside it.  No dirt anywhere.  It was just a huge grassy field.  It wasn't wet yesterday, or the day before.  Where did the mud come from?  Slowly I turned my head towards the woods.  No light entered through the thick armor made of redwoods.   After a couple minutes I willed my jello legs to move.  Slowly I gained  a couple of feet towards the woods.  Justin walked up beside me, pale-faced.  I had told him everything after lunch and he was ready to go.  We walked in a straight line towards the woods and all to soon reached the edge of the great Toad woods.(As I thought of it)  After about ten minutes, we reached a large, black pool of water.  I couldn't see anything under the surface.  We stood there a while, who knows how long,  but soon I thought that the darkness was playing tricks on my eyes, but there they were.  The first thing I noticed was a foot-print in the mud, by the water.  The next think I saw was a silhouette in the water.  It was human shaped, but I knew it couldn't be human.  I was about to tell Justin when I saw colour appearing in the pond it was greenish-gray and it filled the silhouette.  Suddenly a gray hand rose up from the water like a bullet,  I felt suction cups pin to me like glue, and sharp nails tore at my skin, I felt myself get pulled under and saw something amazing.  Underneath, the water was perfectly clear You could see out of the water too.  I was pulled down a metal tube and saw Justin get pulled in by another.... thing.  They were a sleek, slime green mixed with clay gray.  They had strangely thin arms that had five fingers with suction cups at the end.  On top of each cup was a sharp claw.  The creatures had big slits across their chests which I soon realized were gills.  They had huge eyes and an odd nose which seemed to have seven nostrils.  On  top of each arm was a skin sack which had the sharp tip of a needle poking out.  I  felt like I was about to die from lack of oxygen when we suddenly rose into  a tank with no lid.  Around me walked  dozens of people in lab coats, and even more in security uniforms.   I saw tons of the creatures running around.  It was then I realized that the creatures use to be human but were genetically altered.  When you saw them move you could tell what the other DNA strand was.  Toads.
 
 
 

 I was hoping no one would notice us, but all to soon a tall man in an armani suit walked up to us and stared at us suspiciously.
"Who," the man started, "are you?"
"Uhhh...... We were just delivering your pizza?  Extra anchovies right?"
We were immediately  taken to an empty room, which I guess could have been a jail cell.  At least I thought it was empty.
"Who you are?"  the voice traveled from the dimmest corner of the room.  I froze in horror as I stared at the Frogman (I am not being sexist, for the thing in the corner used to be a man) in the corner.
"Who you are?" he repeated.
"I am Andrew and this is Justin," I said in a quivering voice, "Are you going to eat us?"    The thing looked at us in an odd manner and then laughed  in a watery voice.
"I am a prisoner, like you," he told us, "I was outraged when I woke up to find myself like........ this!" he shouted pointing at himself.  "I have found a way out, but I cannot use the exit because of these infernal hands!  I need you to pull those to blocks of cement out of the way so we can escape.  After that I will find the mind controlling devise and smash it, therefore freeing my species."
 

 It took us an hour of grueling scraping and pulling, but we finally  got the blocks into the room.  When the cost was clear, we slid through the gap and walked down towards engineering.  A man saw us, but  I guess he thought the thing was taking us hostage.  Then we came upon the devise, and an armada of frog-people under mind control.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Our battle was short and to the point.   The Frog-people destroy the frogman,  they try and destroy us, we destroy the mind control thingy, all hell breaks loose.
 
 

  We hadn't reckoned on the want of revenge on the  part of the frog-people.  They wanted to destroy the men that did these things to them.  Unfortunately they thought we were involved.   We ran, screaming, down the hall as the things bounced after us.  A group of army men came to stop us, but they just stared in shock, and horror at the sight of the  frog-people running loose.  I didn't turn around to see what happened, but Justin did.  Suddenly he ran to a closet and was sick inside.   I ran until I thought I would die of exhaustion. Until my lungs felt as if they would collapse.  Then we saw the tank ahead of us.  We jumped in just as a machine    exploded behind us.   I  didn't waste time looking at the fireball above us, but instead just swam and hoped we could make it out.  After a while we reached a  dead end.  There was an outline of a door above us, and as we struggled to get it open, I realized that we must be in a different tank.  Luckily it wasn't heavy and we swam up to the surface just before we would have lost consciousness.  I looked around and noticed that we were in the swimming pool, surrounded by other kids.  I looked to the bottom of the pool and thought,   Everybody out of the pool.
 
 
 
 

 I jumped out of the pool and quickly yelled "GET OUT OF THE POOL!"
Everyone looked up at me and Justin.  I grabbed Courtney under her arms and hoisted her out of the pool.  "Dry off" I told her, "Now!"    She didn't argue, and she was back in her normal clothes as the water exploded in a furry of splashes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Most of the people in the pool had gotten out because I told them someone was drowning and the lifeguard couldn't find them.  They were mad as hell when they realized I was lying, but they forgot it when the frog-people came into the pool.
 
 

 There were a lot of casualties, but only three deaths including the one I had discovered by the statues.    The government had gotten rid of all the creatures there were.   I was sure that some of the kids here would need  phsyciatric help when they were older.
 
 

 Later  as we were being bussed home, Courtney turned around in the pool and said, "Thank you.  For getting me out of the pool."
"You're welcome" I answered.  Courtney and I never dated or anything but even up to this day, she, Justin and I are the best of friends.
 
 
 
 

   The  End  (so  far)