by Tim O'Rourke
‘Zach Black!’ he hissed, drops of black bile spraying from his lips and blistering the floor beneath him. ‘I’m coming to get you!’
Chapter 41
‘What happens now?’ Marshal Goth asked, dragging his hands in the sand.
‘What do you mean?’ Zach said.
‘Are we still enemies?’
‘I don’t want to be anyone’s enemy. I just want to save my sister.’
‘So we have a truce then?’ Goth asked, holding out his enormous hand for Zach to shake.
Zach nodded in agreement and gripping his hand, he said, ‘we have a truce.’
‘Where are you heading now?’ Goth asked.
‘The Rusty Volcano,’ William cut in, joining them at the shoreline.
‘Then I will come with you,’ Marshal Goth insisted. ‘As you know I’m not too bad in a fight. I might be of service to you.’
‘No,’ Zach said.
‘No? The road to the Rusty Volcano is a dangerous one. No one has ever returned.’
‘I appreciate your offer of help, but your people need you more than I do,’ Zach said.
‘It won’t take Throat long to work out what happened here tonight. Then he will hunt me and my people down. Where should I take them?’ Goth asked.
‘Take them to the Snowstorm Mountains,’ William told him. ‘My people are there. You’ll be safe with them.’
‘I will come with you Norsori,’ Henry the Cathedral Knight roared, swooping around them. ‘My fellow Knights and I will no longer be safe in the Grey-yard.’
‘And what about me?’ Captain Bom said brushing sand from his overgrown eyebrows.
‘Why, you’re coming with us!’ Neanna beamed. ‘You’ve got my back – remember!’
With an uneasy smile tugging at the corners of his lips, Captain Bom said, ‘I can’t wait to get going.’
With an hour of darkness before the blistering sun rose above them, they split into two groups and walked away in opposite directions along the shore. The Norsori and the Cathedral Knights unlikely allies as they raced towards the safety of the Snowstorm Mountains like a trail of refugees.
With the key to the box, Zach and his friends began the long and dangerous journey across Endra to the Rusty Volcano. Although to the passing stranger, they looked like a rag-tag group of misfits, all but one of them had a common goal; to save the Queen and her reflection and restore peace to Endra. The other? They wanted something else altogether.
To be continued in ‘The League of Doorways’.
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Other Books
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41