Chapter 7

The trees were a blur, Green and brown melded together. The ground disappeared before them. They breached the sound barrier smashing it with absolute certainty. The little hovercraft, weighed down by Lilo and Stitch: was bound for the lighthouse. A ten minute walk at least, but distance and speed were meaningless in the craft. In seconds they were at the Kauai lighthouse. It was worse now than it was before. The heated metal infrastructure had bent when the winds blew. It was now lopsided bent like the 'leaning tower of piza'. But the analogy was lost under the layer of shock. Lilo and Stitch parked the hovercraft in the a glade close by to hide the craft. Running up to the lighthouse, she felt the wind blow toward them, it brought a smell like a broken down car, melted metal. As she came close to the disfigured building she reached out for the door.

"Wait!" a man had seen them, Lilo was too focussed to notice as her hand came close to the metal door a spark leapt from the door to her hand. She jumped back with a scream. Stitch instantly, and instinctively, jumped to attention, he growled. The door sparked.

"I told you to wait." A small plump man had grabbed her by the hand."The whole thing is electrified. We think it was some freak storm. lightning bolt hit the tower, light goes ka-bloom. I said it would happen, I always said it would," he began leading her over to where marquees had been pitched. "It happened at the worst time. Poor man. It gave him quite a shock I tell you. He's spouting gibberish about some oversized yellow rat."

Instantly Lilo turned to Stitch with incomprehension they shared.

"An 'oversized yellow rat'… can we meet him please." Lilo was concerned, no doubt he was not talking gibberish. He was in fact talking about Sparky. Stitch read the signs as well. He started to sniff out a trace on Sparky.

"I suppose so, but you won't get anything out of him, Big yellow rats, ha!" He pointed at a man, who was clearly the one he was talking about, he was wearing clothes that looked borrowed, parts too big and parts too small. he was still wearing a pair of sunglasses, but the lenses had popped out, and he was staring concernedly at the lighthouse- as if waiting for it to grow legs and hunt him. Lilo approached slowly:

"Hello?" she asked, and when an answer didn't come she asked, "I am Lilo." again nothing." You saw a friend of mine, do you know where he went?" But he just sat staring unblinkingly at the lighthouse. Lilo was about to give up when:

"No friends… Just demons," Without looking he pointed at a scorched and melted pair of rubber soled shoes. "A big one, yellow, he looked at me with twisted pair of eyes." He pointed at the lighthouse." The demon was twisted, the lighthouse is twisted, I am twisted now."

"Where did the… demon go?" Lilo asked hurriedly to keep him talking, He pointed toward the town. "The demon will find more things to twist."
Lilo had heard enough. Sparky wasn't a demon. He is just confused. She turned to leave, she saw Stitch trying to trace Sparky, he was by the path back to the town. He is probably in town right now she thought.

"I never even meant to go to this twisted place, I see now, the big grey demon told me to- made me,"

"What did you say, 'Big, grey'." Lilo asked. But he said nothing. Just sat and kept staring at the lighthouse. But he held out his hand. In it was a notebook, charred at the edges. Taking the book she opened it to the latest entry. She read the complaint. This man had complained to Sparky? Why?

Lilo turned and ran back to the hovercraft, calling Stitch. Sparky needed help. She knew he wasn't bad, he seemed happy enough whenever she visited before. Before she left for two weeks. Then something occurred to her. He had been alone in the lighthouse for two weeks without a visitor. Then this man comes along and complains. She remembered how the light had kept sporadically changing brightness. Then the next day she was with the new guy Trilby. Then this happened.

"Stitch we need to get to the town now!"

"What happened?"

"I'll tell you on the way, but I think Sparky may be bad again."