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hot red glow of the deep Tiki eyes.
    All the people in Grover’s Mill rushed around the kids. They looked afraid. “We need some answers!” someone in the crowd shouted. Liz looked into their faces. They were people she had known for a long time. She knew what they were feeling. She felt it, too. The sense of total doom.
    Liz stepped forward. “The Tiki men are doing this with their weird powers,” she told them. “They turned back time and brought the ancient jungle back. And now these Tiki heads want only one thing. To destroy us.”
    â€œIsn’t that just a little weird?” someone asked.
    â€œYes!” Liz pleaded. “It’s a lot weird! It’s totally and absolutely weird! It’s—”
    ZZZZ — BLAM! A fiery red beam shot out of the Tiki men’s eyes and exploded nearby.
    â€œYikes!” screamed Mike, gripping his bat tightly. “I think we get the message!”
    â€œRun!” cried Mr. Duffey, snapping his bullwhip— ka-fwap! “Those mighty heads are up to no good! If one of them loses his balance, we’ll be smushed!”
    BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! All the heads fired at the crowd. The jungle lit up with the huge blasts.
    â€œTo the vines!” Mike shouted.
    In a flash, the five kids ran along the jungle floor and leaped up. They each grabbed hold of a long vine hanging from the trees above.
    Whoosh! From one vine to another, they swung in the trees, trying to stay ahead of the big heads.
    ZZZZ—BLAM! A grove of palm trees burst apart near Jeff and Sean. The explosion sent them swinging off in another direction.
    â€œEverybody meet on the hill!” yelled Holly swinging after them.
    Liz swooped up into a tree and waited for Mike to catch up. He swung up next to her.
    ZZZZ! The jungle lit up with the sizzling eyes of four Tiki men crashing swiftly after them.
    â€œIt’s just you and me again, Mike,” she said.
    â€œYeah, the odd team.” He smiled. “But the big heads are getting closer, so maybe we should escape to play another day.”
    Liz nodded. “Watch out for head number five! He’s hiding somewhere.” She grabbed a vine and jumped.
    â€œI’m right behind you!” yelled Mike, gripping his bat tightly in one hand and a vine in the other. He pushed off after Liz.
    Whoosh! Swoop! Whoosh! Liz made her way from vine to vine. But as she swung down quickly to a dense clump of trees, a dark shape with bright eyes appeared among the branches.
    â€œUh-oh!” she cried. “I think I found hiiiiiiim!”
    THWAPPPP!
    â€œOw!” Liz yelped. She smacked the dark shape hard, let go of her vine, and felt herself scraping down a rough, rocky surface.
    â€œHelp!” she screamed. “I’m on a Tiki man!”
    THWAPPP!
    â€œSo am I!” yelped Mike, tumbling across the top of the same Tiki head.
    â€œMike, I’m slipping! I’m going to be crushed!” Liz shrieked, sliding down the giant nose toward the ground just as the giant head took a step.
    In that instant, her foot caught on the Tiki’s jutting chin. She clung fast to the tip of the nose and swung from it, looking up into its deep, dark, and very big nostrils.
    â€œWhoa!” she cried. “Do Tiki heads sneeze?”
    â€œI don’t think so,” Mike yelled down from above. “But then, they aren’t supposed to walk or talk either!”
    The Tiki head lowered its glowing eyes.
    â€œUh-oh! He’s looking cross-eyed at me!” Liz shouted. “I think he’s going to fire his eyes!”
    â€œI never did like those eyes!” Mike sprawled flat on the head and extended his bat. Liz reached. Her fingers grasped the tip of the bat and Mike pulled up with all his strength just as the Tiki man’s eyeballs flashed.
    BLAM! The jungle ahead of them charred black instantly.
    â€œI don’t think he likes us up here!” Mike cried.
    â€œTough!” Liz snarled,