Elliot and the Goblin War (Underworld Chronicles 1) - Page 26

As it turned out, getting detention probably saved Elliot’s life, because while he was at school, Fudd used his Pixie magic plan. When Elliot came home later that afternoon, he noticed one very different thing about his house. His room was gone.

It wasn’t simply that everything in his room had disappeared, although that was true. It was that where he once had four walls, a door, and a window, there was nothing.

Elliot patted on the hallway wall where he used to have a door to enter his room. But it was only solid wall.

He walked outside and stared at the new shape of his home, which now looked as if it were missing a piece, right where his room had been.

“What’s wrong?” Wendy said, walking outside.

Elliot pointed at where his room wasn’t. “My room is gone.”

“Hmm, you used to have a room there. How strange.”

“Strange? Do you think?”

Reed came out to join them. “What are you looking at?”

“Our room is gone,” Elliot said. “Look.”

“Oh, bummer,” Reed said. “I had a new pair of shoelaces in there.”

Elliot threw up his hands. “Everything was in there!”

“No need to get so angry,” Wendy said. “So what if your room disappeared? Did you ever think about the poor kids in this world who never had their own room at all?”

“It doesn’t strike you as odd?” Elliot asked.

“I already said it was strange, didn’t I?” Wendy said. “But look at Reed. He lost his shoelaces and he’s not complaining.”

“I’m complaining a little bit,” Reed pointed out. “I really liked those shoelaces.”

Wendy and Reed entered the house, fighting about who had to call their parents at work and let them know that there was one less bedroom in the house.

“Consider it good news,” Cole said. Elliot jumped. He hadn’t realized the twins were behind him.

“What’s good about this?” Elliot asked.

Kyle shrugged. “We were home when it disappeared. It happened right after you usually get home from school. If you had been in your room when it happened, you would’ve disappeared too.”

“So you saw it?”

Cole shook his head. “I don’t know if you can see something disappear. It’s just that we were in your room looking at that shiny bracelet you had, and then your room started to shake. So we ran out really fast. We shut the door and turned around, and the door was gone.”

“Where’s Agatha?” Elliot asked. Maybe one of her curses had worked. Could she do that? Did she have that much magic?

“Agatha hasn’t been here all day,” Cole said. “She said she was tired of cursing our family and wanted to curse some of the other people in town for a while.”

Elliot’s shoulders slumped. He had hoped this would have been Agatha’s doing. Because if it wasn’t her, then the Goblins were already trying to kill him again. It was a warm Friday afternoon, the start of what should have been a nice weekend. He’d gotten all of his homework done in detention, and wherever in the universe his room was, he’d already cleaned it this morning…so he was really looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

But as you well know, Dear Reader, nothing ends the fun of a weekend faster than someone trying to kill you all the time.

“Anyway, you’re going to be in trouble when Mom comes home,” Kyle yelled to Elliot as he and Cole ran away.

“What for?” Elliot yelled back.

“Remember that time we lost our gloves at school? We were grounded for a week. But you went and lost your whole room!”

As soon as his brothers had left, Elliot turned and shouted, “Mr. Willimaker!”

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