Chapter Nine: Research

Tess and Kyle walked to the CrashDown.

Kyle tried to pull the door open.

"Push, genius." Tess said pushing the door easily with a disbelieving look.

She walked in shaking her head and sat at the counter.

"What do you have?" Michael asked as they sat down next to him, Maria, Alex and Isabel.

Tess reached into her backpack and pulled out a stack of papers.

"Whoa Tess," Maria said taking the stack of papers. "When you get into something you get into really something."

Max and Liz walked out from the back and sat down at the counter.

"Wow." Liz said.

"Can you just give us the cliffnotes version?" Maria said as Liz began to lookj through the papers.

"Well basically," Tess said. "I was right this is the same monster that Nasedo told me about. He told me that the monster came around three-hundred years ago, to be more specific 1501."

"And look at this." Kyle said getting up and looking through the papers and taking out a few pictures. "This was a painting from the library."

There was a color picture of an old painting.

"This was dated 1551." Kyle said. "Look in the background." He pointed to the picture.

The painting had a picture of Roswell there were people walking and talking wearing old clothes and then all the way in the back so small you could barely see their was a clown. The Clown to be specific.

"The same artist painted this." Tess said. She had taken out a laptop while they had been talking and then she opened a file.

The file opened and a close-up of the monster appeared on the screen.

"He died later after he painted it." Kyle said. "The same way the kid from school did."

"Tess," Liz said. "Did this guy paint anything else?"

"Yeah." Tess said getting up and showing her on the computer.

"But what about the three finger, five finger thing?" Alex asked.

"Well apparently he lost them when he came down to earth in various fights and things. Now back to what I was saying-" Kyle said.

"Wait how do you know all this?" Michael asked.

"I've been helping Tess." Kyle said simply. "Now if you don't mind I did alot of research and I'm very proud of everything I found out so put up or shut up."

"Put up?" Isabel asked.

"He means if you have any info you can come foward." Tess said her and Liz still looking at the screen.

"Now like I was saying. Look at this other picture we found about a hundred years ago." Kyle took showed another picture.

This time it was of a sign that said: ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO. Next to the sign was the clown (much nicer looking) on a unicycle entertaining a group of children.

"This thing crash landed here and hasn't left since." Maria said.

"Oh my god!" Liz and Tess said at the same time.

"Ok people!" Liz said to everyone in the resturant. "Time to go!"

"But I'm still eating here." Said a customer.

"Well then take it." Liz said "It's on the house."

Everyone started getting up and leaving.

"People you don't have to go home, but you got to get the hell out of here!" Liz yelled. "Thank you. Thank you!" Liz said as the last person left.

"What is this about?" Isabel asked.

"Look at this." Tess said as she took sheets of paper and put paintings on them by passing her hand over the papers.

As Tess finished them she handed them to Liz who layed them down on the floor.

Tess finished the last one and said "These were all painted in between that town painting and his death."

All the paintings were twisted and turned to the middle.

It looked as if the monsters face had been drawn but painted over in some spots to create the number 5.

"What does this mean?" Maria said.

"I don't know." Michael said putting his arm around her. "But it can't be good."