Suddenly I heard loud squawks, “Ding-dong, door nail dead. Ding-dong, door nail dead.”
I glanced up. Gypsy was frantically fluttering around, her red tail quivering as she pointing to a couple of specks in the water. The captain and I side stroked over and found the Kidd knocked out cold, bobbing around on his belly with Mason behind him trying to flip the boy on his back. The captain jumped into the air and preformed a Judo level hip throw shift so quick that by the time he splashed down into the sea the Kidd was on his back coughing and batting his long lashes.
We drifted toward the wheel and hung on as we floated across the lilac water until Gypsy who was standing on the Kidd’s shoulder shouted, “Over there. Land ho!” …show more content…
“Gordok summoned that monster from the deep to murder you.”
“Right.” My throat felt dry. “Who’s Gordok?”
The Captain turned to me with anger ablaze in his bloodshot eyes. “He’s an evil goblin whose soul is as dark as tar maybe even darker. He has a desire for power that can’t be quenched. And if he gets his way, he’ll brutally seize and lord over our kingdom.”
I gave Mason a nudge.
“What?” he chimed in. “Why would he want to waste Aiden? I mean I am his best friend and we do spend a lot of time together, and yeah I’ll admit there have been times when I wanted to ring his neck, but I’ve never thought about murdering him.”
“Because Aiden has the power to spoil the goblins evil plans.”
I frowned. “Power? What kind of power?”
“You are from the clan of the seventh in the line of seven with a heart as pure as sunshine,” the captain explained. “It will allow you to communicate with the centaur mind …show more content…
“I mean do they have tails and hooves?”
The captain nodded.
I smiled. “Ah . . . so that was a centaur in my room. Where can we find them?”
“You’ll have to follow that path,” he boomed, pointing to a trail in the sand. “It’ll lead you into the forest and then out toward Shadow Mountain. But for now we’ll catch at least forty winks. The rest of our crew needs sleep too. The Kidd’s eyes are puffy from the salt and Gypsy’s wings look droopy.”
I curled up on the sand and I couldn’t sleep. I lay there wide-awake listening to the Kidd snore and mutter something about cauliflower with cheese. But it wasn’t just the itchy sand in my pants nor the noisy boy that was keeping me up, I couldn’t stop wondering about the rage that had flashed through the captain’s eyes when he mentioned the goblin. Or the other stuff bouncing like ping pong balls off the walls of my brain. For instance, is this truly the Kingdom of Sirethiel or somewhere else, another ancient, distant world, far away? And why would these all-powerful centaur mind readers what help from me? For all I knew they could be man-eating beasts that thought I would make a first-rate
I glanced up. Gypsy was frantically fluttering around, her red tail quivering as she pointing to a couple of specks in the water. The captain and I side stroked over and found the Kidd knocked out cold, bobbing around on his belly with Mason behind him trying to flip the boy on his back. The captain jumped into the air and preformed a Judo level hip throw shift so quick that by the time he splashed down into the sea the Kidd was on his back coughing and batting his long lashes.
We drifted toward the wheel and hung on as we floated across the lilac water until Gypsy who was standing on the Kidd’s shoulder shouted, “Over there. Land ho!” …show more content…
“Gordok summoned that monster from the deep to murder you.”
“Right.” My throat felt dry. “Who’s Gordok?”
The Captain turned to me with anger ablaze in his bloodshot eyes. “He’s an evil goblin whose soul is as dark as tar maybe even darker. He has a desire for power that can’t be quenched. And if he gets his way, he’ll brutally seize and lord over our kingdom.”
I gave Mason a nudge.
“What?” he chimed in. “Why would he want to waste Aiden? I mean I am his best friend and we do spend a lot of time together, and yeah I’ll admit there have been times when I wanted to ring his neck, but I’ve never thought about murdering him.”
“Because Aiden has the power to spoil the goblins evil plans.”
I frowned. “Power? What kind of power?”
“You are from the clan of the seventh in the line of seven with a heart as pure as sunshine,” the captain explained. “It will allow you to communicate with the centaur mind …show more content…
“I mean do they have tails and hooves?”
The captain nodded.
I smiled. “Ah . . . so that was a centaur in my room. Where can we find them?”
“You’ll have to follow that path,” he boomed, pointing to a trail in the sand. “It’ll lead you into the forest and then out toward Shadow Mountain. But for now we’ll catch at least forty winks. The rest of our crew needs sleep too. The Kidd’s eyes are puffy from the salt and Gypsy’s wings look droopy.”
I curled up on the sand and I couldn’t sleep. I lay there wide-awake listening to the Kidd snore and mutter something about cauliflower with cheese. But it wasn’t just the itchy sand in my pants nor the noisy boy that was keeping me up, I couldn’t stop wondering about the rage that had flashed through the captain’s eyes when he mentioned the goblin. Or the other stuff bouncing like ping pong balls off the walls of my brain. For instance, is this truly the Kingdom of Sirethiel or somewhere else, another ancient, distant world, far away? And why would these all-powerful centaur mind readers what help from me? For all I knew they could be man-eating beasts that thought I would make a first-rate