The Dead of the Night - continued

Ellie, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Fi have reached the end of the creek. They journey through some paddocks to find another camp called Harvey's Heroes. They stay with them for a while but Major Harvey starts to get on their nerves. The plan that Major Harvey wants to do is go and blow up one of the enemy's abandoned tanker while many people of the camp sit safely and watch. It was actually an ambush and everyone starts to run everywhere as soldiers come out from everywhere. Ellie, Robyn, Homer and Fi meet at a big tree that helps them get to Hell but no one can find Lee. Worse, a soldier was following Fi. Ellie knocks him hard on the head with a big rock and he falls over and is slowly dying. Ellie, Homer, Fi and Robyn have guns but they can't bring themselves to shoot him. Finally Lee turns up and they greet him welcomely and Lee then sees the soldier. Lee picks up a knife and stabs the soldier. everyone is appalled but he says that they would've done that if they had seen what he had seen. They then journey back to Hell but Chris is not in Hell and they can't find him. They stay in Hell and it keeps raining. They then get sick of the rain and go into town to see if they can find Chris. They stay for a while in town and find out that colonists are going to live in all the houses. They decide that they have to do something. They decide to go and look at Fi's house to find that it is the headquarters. They have a vantage point from the church and one day an expensive car arrives and important soldiers get out. Also they see another man and it is Major Harvey. They decide that they should do something spectacular again and they collect more information from watching the soldiers. They gather that when the sentry duty has to change the soldiers make a procession up the mountain. They think that that takes about 5 minutes and then they make a plan. Their plan is to blow up all the houses as they are obviously important to the enemy. Ellie, Lee, Robyn, Homer and Fi go around and find toasters and timers. They join them together so that when the timer goes off the toaster will give a spark. They all take a house each. When the sentry duty changes they all run into one house each and find a gas heater. They turn the gas on and start the timer. Then they quickly run away from the house. A big explosion then occurs as all the houses blow up. After that Ellie, Robyn, Homer, Lee and Fi go to a house to get supplies. As they are driving away Robyn sees something and it is Chris. They find the land rover on its side near the dam and Chris's body. There were also empty beer bottles. Chris had been drink driving and crashed the ute, killing himself.

That is the end of the story. The next in the series is, 'The Third Day, The Frost'.