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Authors: Perry Moore
Tags: Fiction, General, Science-Fiction, Gay Studies, Social Science, Juvenile Nonfiction, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Social Issues, Fathers and sons, Heroes, Superheroes, Homosexuality, Legends; Myths; Fables, Self-acceptance in adolescence, Gay teenagers, Self-acceptance
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attention to us, if I could get up, I knew I could take the driver, I just knew it. An old man in the seat behind me began to hyperventilate. I managed to lift my arm up, reach back, and place my hand on his shoulder. I felt my hand burn as his wheezes subsided.
But my toes started to twitch.
Phantom Girl, Karate Kid, Dream Girl ... I had to calm down. I could do this.
My leg muscles tensed, but I couldn't fire off the right signals in my brain to make them work.
Ultra Boy, Element Lad, Colossal Boy ... I yanked my butt off the seat like I was pulling myself off flypaper and stood in the middle of the aisle.
Transvision Vamp and Ssnake were leaning out the window in the back, and Snaggletooth's attention was fixed on the road ahead of him. I struggled to put one foot in front of the other as I made my way up the aisle toward the driver's seat.
The lady in the muumuu covered her mouth with her hand to stifle a scream, and her eyes bulged as she shook her head at me. I kept going.
Matter Eater Lad. . . Light Lass . . .
I was just a few feet behind Snaggletooth now. I looked at his reflection in the rearview mirror, and I could see the panic in his eyes as he blazed the bus forward. With a little luck, he wouldn't look up in the mirror and see me. A few more seconds and I'd be on top of him.
"I found the trail!" Transvision Vamp shouted from outside the speeding bus.
"Oh God, where does it lead to?" Snaggletooth stammered, his eyes still on the road in front of him.
Star Boy . . . Shadow Lass ... I took another step forward and raised my arms to strike.
Then something caught my attention through the front windshield.
"Hold on, I'm following it now!" Vamp shouted, the urgency increasing in her voice.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit." Snaggletooth smacked the wheel in a vain effort to make the bus go faster.
I squinted and looked carefully through the windshield. A pair of eyes, a piercing gaze, stared into the bus from the darkness outside, like someone was hanging from the top of the bus. The eyes darted around, surveyed the scene as fast as possible.
Then the piercing eyes locked on to mine and I froze, standing there in the middle of the aisle, my arms raised ready to strike.
"I said, where does the goddamn trail lead-—?" Snaggletooth shouted.
Transvision Vamp shouted frantically from the back of the bus. "The roof, he's on the roof!"
Snaggletooth turned his head around to look up at the roof. And he saw me.
I let out a small gasp of air, and I could hear him growl as his muscles tightened, ready to pounce. Snaggletooth sprung at me off his hind legs, claws aimed at my eyes.
Suddenly the front windshield burst into a thousand jagged fragments, and a man dressed in black swung himself into the bus. With lightning speed he leaped forward and tack¬led Snaggletooth before he could sink his claws into my pupils.
The Man in Black, who had just saved my life, rose before Snaggletooth could catch his breath and began to land a flurry of staccato kicks in Snaggletooth's gut. Snaggletooth wheezed for air. The bus swerved back and forth, and the passengers screamed as we were thrown from side to side.
Ssnake slithered between my legs, his body gyrating forward in a swift, liquid line to the front of the bus. He popped up and resumed human form in the empty driver's seat and grabbed the steering wheel, which had begun to drift dangerously out of control. The bus smacked into a small Honda and sent it spinning into the guardrail.
The Man in Black delivered a devastating final kick to Snaggletooth's chin, knocking him up into the air. He landed face-first on the floor, and chipped off the end of his fang.
I stood up, wanting to help. A laser beam of light whizzed in front of me and blew a hole through a succession of seats. It stopped me in my tracks, and the passengers dove in all directions. I followed the beam back to Vamp's smoking eyes. She fired repeatedly at the Man in Black, who flipped from seat to seat,
But my toes started to twitch.
Phantom Girl, Karate Kid, Dream Girl ... I had to calm down. I could do this.
My leg muscles tensed, but I couldn't fire off the right signals in my brain to make them work.
Ultra Boy, Element Lad, Colossal Boy ... I yanked my butt off the seat like I was pulling myself off flypaper and stood in the middle of the aisle.
Transvision Vamp and Ssnake were leaning out the window in the back, and Snaggletooth's attention was fixed on the road ahead of him. I struggled to put one foot in front of the other as I made my way up the aisle toward the driver's seat.
The lady in the muumuu covered her mouth with her hand to stifle a scream, and her eyes bulged as she shook her head at me. I kept going.
Matter Eater Lad. . . Light Lass . . .
I was just a few feet behind Snaggletooth now. I looked at his reflection in the rearview mirror, and I could see the panic in his eyes as he blazed the bus forward. With a little luck, he wouldn't look up in the mirror and see me. A few more seconds and I'd be on top of him.
"I found the trail!" Transvision Vamp shouted from outside the speeding bus.
"Oh God, where does it lead to?" Snaggletooth stammered, his eyes still on the road in front of him.
Star Boy . . . Shadow Lass ... I took another step forward and raised my arms to strike.
Then something caught my attention through the front windshield.
"Hold on, I'm following it now!" Vamp shouted, the urgency increasing in her voice.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit." Snaggletooth smacked the wheel in a vain effort to make the bus go faster.
I squinted and looked carefully through the windshield. A pair of eyes, a piercing gaze, stared into the bus from the darkness outside, like someone was hanging from the top of the bus. The eyes darted around, surveyed the scene as fast as possible.
Then the piercing eyes locked on to mine and I froze, standing there in the middle of the aisle, my arms raised ready to strike.
"I said, where does the goddamn trail lead-—?" Snaggletooth shouted.
Transvision Vamp shouted frantically from the back of the bus. "The roof, he's on the roof!"
Snaggletooth turned his head around to look up at the roof. And he saw me.
I let out a small gasp of air, and I could hear him growl as his muscles tightened, ready to pounce. Snaggletooth sprung at me off his hind legs, claws aimed at my eyes.
Suddenly the front windshield burst into a thousand jagged fragments, and a man dressed in black swung himself into the bus. With lightning speed he leaped forward and tack¬led Snaggletooth before he could sink his claws into my pupils.
The Man in Black, who had just saved my life, rose before Snaggletooth could catch his breath and began to land a flurry of staccato kicks in Snaggletooth's gut. Snaggletooth wheezed for air. The bus swerved back and forth, and the passengers screamed as we were thrown from side to side.
Ssnake slithered between my legs, his body gyrating forward in a swift, liquid line to the front of the bus. He popped up and resumed human form in the empty driver's seat and grabbed the steering wheel, which had begun to drift dangerously out of control. The bus smacked into a small Honda and sent it spinning into the guardrail.
The Man in Black delivered a devastating final kick to Snaggletooth's chin, knocking him up into the air. He landed face-first on the floor, and chipped off the end of his fang.
I stood up, wanting to help. A laser beam of light whizzed in front of me and blew a hole through a succession of seats. It stopped me in my tracks, and the passengers dove in all directions. I followed the beam back to Vamp's smoking eyes. She fired repeatedly at the Man in Black, who flipped from seat to seat,
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