Chapter Seventeen

“Must be a Monster nearby,” he said, switching on the application. I shook my head at him, but pulled out my phone as well.

As soon as I looked at the screen, I nearly dropped my phone in surprise. A Legazeus was nearby. Normally, this wouldn’t have meant a single thing to me. But Tommy had been talking about this particular Monster for weeks now, pretty much since the game came out.

He said the Legazeus was one of the rarest Monsters. They only ever showed up in special places, and nobody ever knew when or where that will be. I remembered him saying that the last one to appear was in Central Park and caused a major traffic jam due to people stopping to catch it.

“These are rare, right?” I asked, not believing what I was seeing on the screen.

“Insanely rare,” he said. He grinned at me. “Let’s catch it.”

We held up our phones and lined the camera up with the cartoon looking character. It looked like a Centaur. It jumped around on the screen as I attempted to catch it with the Monster C