Chapter Fourteen – A Bad Time To Switch Places
At 5:00 AM, Dylan, Jacob, Victor, and Tanjit got out of bed, got dressed, ate a quick breakfast of Recess Puffs cereal, grabbed their pre-packed luggage, and headed to the train station. By 6:00, they were on a train heading north!
Jacob yawned.
"I know buddy. We're on the train now, you can go back to sleep." Dylan told his mamodo, who conked out almost immediately.
"How could he sleep while we're on such an exciting trip?" Tanjit asked, amazed by the train.
"Well he did have that tough battle last night." Victor recalled.
"If we could just make it through one day without getting into a battle, I bet we could get fully rested!" Dylan complained.
"I don't know…we feel pretty good." Victor stated, "But we haven't really been in a full battle since that Elkey kid."
"Be careful what you wish for." Dylan cautioned.
"I just want to learn a new attack already!" Tanjit complained.
"It shouldn't be too much longer, man." Victor told his mamodo.
Sooner or later, quite a big city came into sight outside the windows. The train slowed to a stop and people started to make their way out of it.
"I guess this is our stop." Dylan said, "Jacob, get up."
"Ice cream!" Jacob shouted, jumping up out of his dream.
The four of them walked to the nearest hotel and rented a room. There, they dropped off their luggage and walked back outside to find something to do.
"Well this is kind of boring…" Jacob remarked.
"Whoa!" Tanjit yelled, running over to a poster hung on a brick wall.
"What is it?" Victor asked.
"Come and catch our newest exhibits in the local Art Museum." Tanjit read the poster, "Open from 8:00 AM till 7:00 PM."
"Awesome!" Dylan exclaimed, "We should go!"
The four walked towards the address the poster had given them. It wasn't long before the smell of food filled the air. Jacob looked around for something that could be making the smell, but found nothing. Faint music could also be heard.
"Wonder what's going on…" Victor stated.
"Oh! Oh it's that!" Jacob said, jumping up and down, "Look over there!"
Jacob was pointing at what seemed to be a large festival down the hill.
"Can we go? Please!" Jacob begged.
"Well, I suppose we could…but I really wanted to see that museum…" Dylan said.
"Me too!" Tanjit added.
"How about Jacob and I go down to the carnival, and we'll meet you guys back here after you leave the museum?" Victor suggested.
"Great plan, man." Dylan said, "See ya later, Jacob. Stay right with Victor, okay?"
The two had already taken off down the hill.
"Let's go!" Tanjit continued walking to the museum.
When Dylan and Tanjit reached the museum, they were amazed by all of the incredible work inside it. There were beautiful paintings, detailed sculptures, and even some artists working on their newest pieces for all to see!
"Wow!" Dylan said, staring at a very colorful sculpture of a dragon.
"Whoa!" Tanjit exclaimed, checking out a quite large model of a plane.
The two met in the middle and became speechless when they saw a huge spider made out of carved rock!
"Look at the detail on this thing!" Tanjit said.
Then, as if it were a living thing, the spider lifted one leg and stomped the floor! Dylan and Tanjit jumped out of the way.
"Did you see that?!?!" Tanjit screamed.
"We need to get Victor and your spellbook!" Dylan yelled, running with Tanjit out of the museum.
Meanwhile, Victor and Jacob were eating corndogs and walking down the carnival. They were passing a stand that sold various trading cards when suddenly, the cards started to float in the air!
"Whoa!" Jacob said, stopping to look at the cards.
The cards then began to one by one fire themselves at Jacob! Three of them hit, he dodge the rest.
"Ow! What's going on?" Jacob yelled.
Then, the stand that had been holding the cards lifted into the air and flung itself at Jacob! Jacob jumped into the air and dodged the shelf. Behind where the shelf had been was a mamodo and it's partner!
"Oh man! We've gotta go get Dylan!" Victor said, grabbing Jacob and running out of the carnival, the two enemies in close pursuit.
Dylan and Tanjit had just reached the spot where they had all split up earlier when Victor and Jacob got there.
"Big…rock…spider…" Tanjit said, panting from the run.
"Looks like…we're both having…some problems…" Victor panted.
"Oh no!" Dylan yelled as he saw the spider walking towards them – this time with a mamodo riding on top!
"Come on, Tanjit. There's trouble down there, too!" Victor said, running down the hill with his mamodo.
"Let's do this!" Jacob said, running to Dylan's side.