Chapter 54 Something Must Have Happened

"What's going on?" someone shouted. "What happened?" another asked. The members of Flame Speed Racing stumbled out of their bunks one after another, and soon half the campground lights flicked on. At that moment, Tina's two young apprentices ran out of their tent. One clutched her swollen eye, while the other grabbed her backside. "There's a snake!" one screamed. "There's a toad!" the other wailed. With the lights blazing, everyone finally saw them. One girl's eye was swollen shut, leaving only a thin slit. She looked half-blind. The other clutched her rear and sobbed, as if the pain might kill her. Some of the braver crew members grabbed tools from the maintenance shed and went into the tent to check. It would have been better if they hadn't looked. Inside, they found not only snakes and toads but also rats. It was obvious someone had planted them there on purpose. Tina, woken by the uproar, stepped out with a dark expression. She had sent her two apprentices to slip those