Hazel was worried. Normally once you had killed something it ether lay politely still on the ground or evaporated into a pile of dust. It did not normally reappear within three minutes of you killing it only to get hit with a baseball bat for the second time that day and disappear into another pile of dust, but hey everyone loves surprises right?
Actually as it turned out not everyone liked surprises or ones of those natures anyway. A sort of sinister silence settled on the boat after the monster was gone, affecting everyone except coach hedge who wondered below deck to watch who would win if… a ridicules TV show where some violence obsessed idiots pitted random animals against each other to fight to the death so for a while all anyone could hear was couch shouting things like go get im froggy! Or oh no you don't duck duck!
Hazel was fine with the silence though, it gave her time to think. Why would a monster come back from the dead? True a couple of months ago monsters did come back for a while but they had rescued death and put it all right again. Hadn't they?
It was Leo who eventually broke the silence.
"Soooooo who's up for dinner?"
The food at dinner was always really awesome because the ship was kitted out with these magic plate things that let you eat whatever you wanted today though Hazel's plate remained firmly empty based on the fact that she didn't particularly feel like eating anything.
Coach Hedge appeared in the doorway attempting to swagger but only succeeding in walking in circles after, a while he seemed to notice that his swagger wasn't working and continued moving in his normal fashion. Piper scowled at him as he sat down.
"How can you be so cheerful? Monsters have just started coming back from the dead again and you come in here doing a wonderful impression of a drunk round- about! Not to mention the fact that the program you were watching must break at least fifty animal rights laws!"
If coach was surprised by this outburst he didn't show it.
"Well my dear settle down and I shall tell you. Number one: monsters coming back from the dead mean more monsters to kill. Number 2: it is not a drunk round- about but is in fact a very accomplished and sophisticated swagger. (Hazel smirked at that) Number three: that program is awesome and number 4: its bed time kids and im really hungry."
Hazel doubted that she would be able to go to sleep but reasoned that it would be better to be in her room that in the middle of another blazing argument between coach hedge and piper about the quality of various television programs.
She was incredibly wrong.
