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    Daisy Weal and the Monster
    Daisy Weal and the Monster
    Daisy Weal and the Monster
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    Daisy Weal and the Monster

    By Robert A.V. Jacobs

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    The second book in the Daisy Weal Series
    Daisy Weal was gifted with extraordinary powers. Her early years were spent learning how to control them, learning how to fit in and learning how to be Human.
    But now Daisy is ten and as her knowledge of the universe expands, she discovers a monstrous being from another reality that is a serious threat to Humanity. Can her understanding of it be enough to prevent disaster?
    Would she have enough time to deal with this threat, before a second emerges that was trapped in another dimension. How can she know that the gateway has been inadvertently opened by a curious scientist and that the fate of the entire universe now hangs in the balance?
    Despite all of her efforts to maintain a front of normality against these impossible odds, she was eventually noticed and recruited into a secret service specifically for her special talents. Would those talents be enough to enable her to deal with one monstrous being, one dimensional horror and at the same time stop a madman from destroying London.
    Must she finally face these threats alone and make the final sacrifice to save reality itself?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert A.V. Jacobs
    Release dateFeb 28, 2012
    ISBN9781466108882
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      Daisy Weal and the Monster - Robert A.V. Jacobs

      Daisy Weal and the Monster

      Also by Robert A.V. Jacobs

      Children’s fiction, ten years of age and upwards:

      Daisy Weal

      Daisy Weal and Sir Charles

      Daisy Weal and the Last Crenian

      Dauntless

      The Adventures of Daisy Weal (Omnibus edition, containing four of the books in the series)

      Grandpa’s Shed

      Short Stories in the Daisy Weal series:

      (Available as ebooks):

      Daisy Weal and the Grelflin

      Daisy Weal and the Weenies

      Daisy Weal and the Millions

      Daisy Weal and the Face

      Daisy Weal and the Secret

      Daisy Weal and the Disaster

      Daisy Weal and the Ghost

      Daisy Weal and the Figment

      Young Adult and Adult Fiction:

      The Lost Starship

      The Star Queen

      Speaker (A collection of 29 short stories)

      The Yellow Dragon

      The Diamond Sword of Tor

      Cardoney (Omnibus edition containing both The Yellow Dragon and The Diamond Sword of Tor)

      Adult Science Fiction:

      As a Consequence

      Taldi’na

      Adult Detective/Murder Mysteries:

      Dexxman

      The Disappearance of Natalie Firth

      Time to Die

      A Promise to Doreen

      Almost Enough

      Non-fiction:

      Sudoku, Food for the Mind

      Robert A.V. Jacobs

      Daisy Weal and the Monster

      Daisy Weal and the Monster

      Third Edition

      Copyright 2011 Robert A.V. Jacobs

      Published by

      Robert A.V. Jacobs

      Cover background image by Richard K Green

      This is the second book in the ‘Daisy Weal’ series

      Smashwords edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is written in ‘English’ English, so there may be some differences in spelling to other international forms of English.

      This book is a work of fiction and all characters are fictitious or are portrayed fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental

      Internet sites quoted in this book were active at the time of writing. No responsibility is taken for web sites that cease to exist or discontinue the stated articles.

      Whether any of my scientific statements bear any relationship to actual fact is most unlikely.

      Suitable for Children from ten to infinity

      Table of Contents

      Also By

      Acknowledgements

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Chapter One: The Invasion

      Chapter Two: The Old Library

      Chapter three: Trespassers

      Chapter Four: Captain William Dauntless

      Chapter Five: The Gateway

      Chapter Six: The Fall of the Vana

      Chapter Seven: Queen’s Operative

      Chapter Eight: Just a Small Thing Really

      Chapter Nine: Pricilla and the Policeman

      Chapter Ten: Touch and Go

      Chapter Eleven: Farewell Felicity

      Chapter Twelve: Does Time Notice You

      Chapter Thirteen: The Raid

      Chapter Fourteen: The Hero of the Moment

      Chapter Fifteen: Remember Me

      Chapter Sixteen: A Daisy Chain

      Chapter Seventeen: Kidnapped

      Chapter Eighteen: Justice for Charles

      Chapter Nineteen: Moonbase Daisy

      Chapter Twenty: Plain Old Daisy

      Chapter Twenty-One: A Part of the Whole

      Why not write a review?

      List of Characters

      Daisy Weal and Sir Charles

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      In my acknowledgement in book one, I explained how that book had come into being, and had stretched over a number of years. Book two was somewhat different, in that it seemed like no time at all before it was finished. So much information was swirling about in my brain, that even before it was finished, the ground work for book three had been laid.

      So, after you have read this, and if you like it, keep your eyes open for number three, an excerpt of which is at the end of this book.

      All of the acknowledgements in the first book still apply, but I must take the time to say special thanks, to two very special people.

      To My sister Mooneen, and yes that is her name, for reading my books and not being too nasty bout them. She was the main instrument in passing them to Ethan and Bethany to read.

      Most importantly though, grateful thanks go to my wife Kim for her considerable support and encouragement, and without whom none of it would have been done.

      In addition to the apologies shown in book one, I also have to apologise to those people in the European Space Agency who are not French, for suggesting that they were. I also apologise to the French, for implying that the British Prime Minister does not like them, and for making a large part of them speak English.

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to my Aunt and Uncle, Pam and Alec Gale, I don’t see them as much as I would like to, but I dedicate this book to them in appreciation of all the childhood encouragement that they gave me.

      Foreword

      Daisy Weal, book one in the series

      Daisy Weal lived a normal life, right up until the moment she was born. Then things went downhill...

      Now one little girl must face the reality that she can do things that others can't and discover how dangerous it could be if they found out. So her early years were spent learning to control her gifts, trying to fit in, to be human. It wasn't easy. There were mistakes... big mistakes, some of which couldn't be made right.

      But she isn't as alone as she thought. She forms an inseparable bond with a very large dog named Bruce. Together they will face the world and discover that as much as Daisy has tried to fit in, it might ultimately be impossible.

      Should she accept that she was not completely human or fully embrace the part of her that was?

      And the story continues, with Daisy Weal and the Monster...

      But now Daisy is ten and as her knowledge of the universe expands, she discovers a monstrous being from another reality that is a serious threat to Humanity. Can her understanding of it be enough to prevent disaster?

      Would she have enough time to deal with this threat, before a second emerges that was trapped in another dimension. How can she know that the gateway has been inadvertently opened by a curious scientist and that the fate of the entire universe now hangs in the balance?

      Despite all of her efforts to maintain a front of normality against these impossible odds, she was eventually noticed and recruited into a secret service specifically for her special talents. Would those talents be enough to enable her to deal with one monstrous being, one dimensional horror and at the same time stop a madman from destroying London.

      Must she finally face these threats alone and make the final sacrifice to save reality itself

      Chapter One

      The Invasion

      In about nine months Daisy would be eleven, and was blossoming into quite the little lady. She was much too beautiful for a child of her age, and it was becoming apparent that when she reached her teens there would be queues of young men prepared to do almost anything for just one glance of approval, or even the slightest nod of recognition from her. She had not quite reached that stage yet, besides which she always had a very large boxer dog walking beside her, and not far away there would be Alfie.

      Alfie was the same age as Daisy and at the moment was convinced that he was completely in love with her. At his age he should have been playing football or rugby, but was so hopelessly smitten, that he was rarely anywhere else but with her. His parents just thought he was being silly, after all, how could he possibly be in love at his age. He probably wasn’t really, but even at ten those huge green eyes had sucked him in, and his soul was lost, if not forever, then for the moment at least, to one Daisy Weal.

      This was the week that the world was invaded, but what was worse was that the whole thing was Daisy’s own fault. However, she was not to know that until much later. It was quite a small invasion as invasions go, because there was only one being in the first wave.

      I call it a first wave, even though it was only one being, because this one being was pretty huge, and had forty-two arms, forty-two legs, and forty-two eyes. It did only have one mouth, but in that mouth were forty-two very sharp teeth, and a large number of tongues. There may have been forty two, who knows? I for one was not going in there to count, so the true number is anyone’s guess.

      Big bold, terrifying, and totally confused it was, as anything would be if it was only able to look in forty-two directions at once. Where it came from things were different and there was no confusion, as each single way was forty-two directions. Oh, and I almost forgot, it was one hundred and forty-two foot square, which for those who know no better is approximately 43 Metres. He was also a male of his species.

      He wasn’t actually square, but if you were able to squash him into a cube, then that would be his size. It has to be admitted, that he was a little overweight as, in accordance with the prevailing precedents, he should only have been 42 metres square. Unfortunately though, this monster was rather fonder of his food than most of his brethren, and was consequently a little overweight.

      I know that such a beast is impossible, and it’s very presence flies in the face of known science. However, I suppose you could say that of the centipede, which I believe has far more legs that it is entitled to. But this monster, not only did have forty-two legs and arms, it was also a garish purple and red, with a yellow underside. Its red fingers, on black arms, matched perfectly with its bright red eyes, which made it look a lot like a cartoon character. If anything, its appearance was the more terrifying for it.

      You could say that, with its arms and legs combined, it was an octagintapede, that’s eighty legs in Latin by the way, with an extra four tagged on for luck, but what made it more impossible was its head, which was literally covered with eyes. More peculiar though, was its diet. It had tried a human shortly after arrival, but had spat it out before even taking a bite, because it had tasted so awful. Then it had discovered road signs, and proceeded to wander towards Bishops Ashton, popping them into its mouth like lollipops on the way. But I am rambling, so let’s get back to the story.

      ******

      It started as quite a normal day, with Daisy being awoken by an impending feeling of doom, which turned out to be Bruce in suffocating mode.

      I might have to sleep in a protecting field, she thought, or I’ll wake up as that corpse I promised this silly dog.

      "Who are you calling a silly dog?" asked a still half asleep Bruce.

      You, you half wit, said Daisy aloud. You have to be more careful, you are really big, and I am only little.

      "And that is my fault how?" He asked.

      Your size is not your fault, retorted Daisy, but how you use it, is.

      She looked at him sternly,

      Now get off the bed, and let me clean up in here.

      She brushed her teeth at the little wash basin beside the bed, delighting in the fact that she could do it without using her hands, and then went into the bathroom across the hall.

      You have ten seconds to get out, she shouted back over her shoulder, before I wave me magic wand.

      "You don’t have a magic wand," protested Bruce.

      Wanna bet?

      "No," thought Bruce, making it to the safety of his

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